出国留学英语口语实用情景对话:见导师
(2014-07-11 15:59:06)
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Meeting Your Personal Tutor /Adviser见导师
personal tutor既可以给你提供学习上的指导,也可以跟你讨论你的社会和个人问题。即使你的personal
tutor不能帮助你,他或她至少可以告诉你应当向谁求助。
论你的职业计划(career plan)。总的来说,学生和导师之问的关系是非正式(
informal)和个人化的(personal)。
On the Phone
Neil: Hello, could I speak to Dr. Foster, please?
Dr. Foster: Speaking.
Neil: Hello there, my name's Neil Zhao. I was told that you're my
personal tutor. Is
that right?
Dr. Foster: Let me see... what did you say your name was,
again?
Neil: Zhao, Neil Zhao. Z-H-A-O.
Dr. Foster: Ah yes, Mr. Zhao. What can I do for you?
Neil: Well,I'd like to arrange to see you so that we can discuss my
dissertation.
Dr. Foster: Right. How does tomorrow morning at 9.30 sound to
you?
Neil: Er... OK, then.
Dr. Foster: My office is on the third floor of the Eliot
Building... room E332.
9:30
Dr. Foster: Oh, hello, Mr. Zhao... do come in... please sit
down.
Neil: Thanks.
Dr. Foster: I hope you enjoyed our English weather this
morning.
Neil: To be honest, sir, I am not very impressed.
Dr. Foster: Hehe... I don't blame you, Neil. It will get better
soon... I hope. Now,
it's the dissertation you wanted to talk about, right? So, tell me,
which modules are
you doing on this course... apart from the core ones?
Neil:
EDUC57tk1M, International Educational Management: Effective
Development of Policies
and Plans for Change, erm... let's see... EDUC5t137M, Citizenship
Education: Principles
and Practice,
Marketplace... that's in addition to the compulsory modules...
elm... Critical Approaches,
Lifelong Learning, Fundamentals of Educational Management and...
erm the dissertation.
Dr. Foster: Some excellent choices there. As for the dissertation,
do you have
anything in mind?
Neil: Well, I've been thinking about this for a while... I'm quite
interested in looking
at the organisational culture of Chinese middle schools compared to
that of British
secondary schools.
Dr. Foster: Uuuhu…and what is it in particular that interests you?
I mean…it sounds quite general....
Neil: Well, I'd like to look at the culture of leadership in
Chinese and British
education, do a comparative study....
Dr. Foster: That sounds very interesting. Have you read Deal and
Peterson on
leadership cultures?
Neil: No, I haven't actually.
Dr. Foster: Well, I'd recommend it. It's very interesting. OK…1
need you to
prepare a short proposal for this. So, what you need to do is to
write down a list of
about twenty questions that spring to mind about leadership culture
in Chinese
education... then you can work out an overarching question that you
want to use as the
basis of your dissertation. Shall we meet again in two weeks'
time?
在电话里
尼尔:你好,我能找一下福斯特博士吗?
福斯特博士:我就是。
尼尔:你好,我的名字叫尼尔·赵。有人告诉我您是我的导师。对吗?
福斯特博士:让我查查。你说你叫什么来着?
尼尔:我姓赵.尼尔·赵,Z-H-A-O。
福斯特博士:啊,是的,赵先生。我能为你做什么?
尼尔:我想要安排个时间跟您见面.谈谈我的论文。
福斯特博士:好的。明天早上9:30怎么样?
尼尔:哦.好吧。
福斯特博士:我的办公室在艾略特大楼的3层,E332号房。
9点30分
福斯特博士:噢.你好,赵先生。请进,请坐。
尼尔:谢谢。
福斯特博士:我希望你喜欢今天早上的英国天气。
尼尔:说实话.先生,我没什么太好的印象。
福斯特博士:呵呵.我不怪你.尼尔。天气会好起来的,我希望会好的。言归正传,你要跟我讨论你的论文,对吧?那么.告诉我,你在这个课程里者畔了什么课,除了必修课以外。
尼尔:我选了EDUC5715M,学校管理和领导;EDUCS704M,国际教育管理:在变革中有效的发展政策与计划;嗯,让我想想,EDUC5037M.公民教育:原则与实践;还有…...
EDUC6666iM,教育市场的公私合作……此外,我还学了批判性方法、终身教育、教育管理概论……那么.该说论文了。
福斯特博士:选得很好。至于结业论文,你目前有什么想法吗?
尼尔:嗯,我已经考虑一段时间了。我对研究中国的中学和英国的中学在组织文化上的差异比较感兴趣。
福斯特博士:哦,那么你具体对什么感兴趣呢?我的愈思是.这个题目听起来很宽泛。
尼尔:我想研究领导文化在中英教育中的作用.做一个比较研究。
福斯特博士:很有趣。你读过迪尔和彼得森关于领导文化的书吗?
尼尔:我还没有读过。
福斯特博士:那么,我建议你读一读.非常有意思。我需要你写一份简短的策划。你需要做的是写下大约20个你能随便想起来的关于中国教育领导文化的问题,然后你可以筛选出一个具有概括性的问题作为你论文的基础。我们两个星期之后再见一面,怎么样?