美語情景對話 第571期:Computers in Class 電腦進課堂
Tom: Do you have computers in your classroom?
湯姆：你們教室裏有電腦嗎？Martin: No and I wish we did I think it would help out a lot of the teachers and a lot of the students to have more of an interactive experience and be able to research things as teachers are talking. What do you think Tom?
馬丁：沒有，我希望有，因爲我認爲電腦可以使學生和老師有更多的互動體驗，而且可以研究老師所講的內容。湯姆，你怎麼想的？Tom: I'm surprised that you want them. I think they're a terrible idea. I think they distract students they mean that the point of the lesson is lost that the teacher loses their control over where the class should go. I think it's ridiculous this drive to get computers absolutely everywhere.
湯姆：你希望教室裏配備電腦，這真讓我感到驚訝。我認爲這是個糟糕的主意。因爲我認爲電腦會分散學生的注意力，學生們可能會錯過課程的重點，老師也會失去對課堂的控制。將電腦推廣到所有地方的做法非常荒謬。
Martin: Oh but don't you think it adds to giving a hands-on-experience especially with accounting or other business related applications that if the teacher is expressing it, if you don't have a computer you can't really have a hands-on experience and a lot of the lesson might be lost without actually doing it in the classroom and being able to check your work.
馬丁：哦，你不認爲電腦能提供實踐經驗嗎？尤其是那些與會計學和其他與商業有關的應用程序，老師講解以後，如果你沒有電腦你就無法獲得實踐經驗，許多課程可能因爲沒有在課堂上進行實踐和檢驗而無法理解。Tom: A lot of what you say is correct but I don't think you need to do it in the classroom. You can do all of that stuff at home and I think a computer is a very personal and individual activity. I'm not sure it's suitable for a classroom.
湯姆：你說的許多觀點都是正確的，但是我並不認爲你有必要在課堂上做這些事情。你可以在家裏完成，我認爲電腦是非常個人化的活動。我不清楚電腦是否適合在教室裏使用。Martin: I still think though hat it adds a lot to it and that they're able to express themselves and utilize the information that is expressed in the classroom then and there and they know they understand it versus if they go home and use it in a more personalized context.
馬丁：我仍然認爲電腦有很多用途，與回家在更個性化的環境中使用電腦相比，電腦可以幫助學生在課堂上表達自己，而且學生能立即應用在課堂上獲得的信息，這樣他們就知道他們已經掌握了這些信息。
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重點講解：
1. help out 幫助…做事；借錢給…；
例句：A good dictionary will help out in one's reading.
一部好的詞典對閱讀是有幫助的。
2. hands-on （經歷或工作）親身實踐的，實際操作的；
例句：Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
現在99%的小學生都親手操作過電腦。
3. be suitable for 合適的；適宜的；適當的；
例句：Not all men are suitable for that kind of work.
不是所有的人都適合從事那類工作。
4. add to 添加；增加；摻加；
例句：They have add two new product to their range.
他們給產品系列增添了兩個新產品。
5. then and there 立即；立刻；
例句：A friend of Pip's invited them then and there to his college ball that night.
皮普的一個朋友當時就邀請他們參加他當晚的大學舞會。
