6. So we've just talked about, your school is also face to Chinese students, not only the international students, why do you think it’s important to do so?
您的學(xué)校招收許多中國(guó)學(xué)生，而不是僅僅招收國(guó)際學(xué)生，您認(rèn)為這一點(diǎn)很重要嗎？

You mean why it’s most important to be working with Chinese students?
你指的是為什么招收中國(guó)學(xué)生很重要是嗎？

If you are going to study in the west environment, they have to prepare for it. For instance, if you go to a Chinese public school, and Chinese public schools at all, they do a very very good job in preparing students for Chinese university. Canadian and Western high schools do not prepare them to go to a Chinese university; in the same way, Chinese high schools don’t prepare them to go to a western university. Sure, they may get marks in the high school, and they write niles in the TOEFL, and they make it at 6.5. and I answer TOEFL is only a test. It’s not indicator of success. We have many students come out of Chinese public schools, and yes, they will do very well at university, get high marks, but what I hear from them and I hear from university representatives that kids will complain “I have no Canadian friends. All my friends are Chinese because I haven’t had opportunities when I was in public school to interact with foreigners. So I really don’t know how. ” and when it comes into interacting with professor, they don’t know how to do that either. In Canada and other Western places, students also have the opportunities to work while they got to the university and afterwards. And I’ve been told by employers that what happens to students in Chinese public high schools, although they may have very good marks, they do very poor at interviews. So they fear to interact with foreigners. We say kids come here at school like ours are likely to have it.You know what’s basically is that we have almost? 54 foreign teachers at our school, Canadian teachers. So they are interacting all day with foreigners and they get so used to it. I have kids coming into my office, say “hi, open up my candy jugs.”I keep the candy jugs in my office. It’s a community of candies to talk about it.
如果你想到國(guó)外去學(xué)習(xí)，那就要做好準(zhǔn)備。舉個(gè)例子，中國(guó)的高中為中國(guó)學(xué)生進(jìn)入中國(guó)大學(xué)做了充分的準(zhǔn)備，但是加拿大或者西方的高中不會(huì)為學(xué)生進(jìn)入中國(guó)大學(xué)做準(zhǔn)備。同理，中國(guó)高中也不會(huì)為學(xué)生進(jìn)入國(guó)外大學(xué)做準(zhǔn)備。所以，中國(guó)學(xué)生在高中的成績(jī)很好，托福的分?jǐn)?shù)也很高，但對(duì)我來說，托福只是一個(gè)考試而已，它不能代表什么。我們有很多中國(guó)的學(xué)生，在學(xué)校里成績(jī)很好，但我聽他們本人或者是國(guó)外大學(xué)的代表說，這些孩子抱怨他們沒有加拿大的朋友，他們的朋友都是中國(guó)人，他們?cè)趪?guó)內(nèi)沒有機(jī)會(huì)接觸到外國(guó)人。他們不知道如何和外國(guó)人打交道。這樣的問題，在和教授交流時(shí)也會(huì)發(fā)生。在加拿大和其他一些西方國(guó)家，學(xué)生們還有機(jī)會(huì)外出打工。這樣，就有些雇主跟我說他們感到很奇怪，為什么中國(guó)的學(xué)生在學(xué)校的成績(jī)那么好，面試的表現(xiàn)卻那么糟呢？他們害怕與外國(guó)人交流。到像我們這樣的學(xué)校來學(xué)習(xí)的孩子就會(huì)接觸到這些。我們有54位來自加拿大的老師，學(xué)生們整天都要和外國(guó)人交流，他們?cè)缇土?xí)慣了這樣。有一次，學(xué)生們跑到我的辦公室來跟我說，“給我開個(gè)糖罐頭吧”，我會(huì)在辦公室里放些糖罐頭，就是這樣一種輕松的氛圍。

That’s funny.
這個(gè)真的很有意思。

7. That’s the biggest advantage for students who go to the international high school also is going to be like the biggest problem for them first in run the school, like for kids who have been taught in Chinese public schools for last 12 years, and then they get into the international school. How they are going to face the first problem?
這就是讀國(guó)際學(xué)校的學(xué)生最大的優(yōu)勢(shì)，那么當(dāng)他們第一次進(jìn)入國(guó)際學(xué)校時(shí)，他們面對(duì)的最大的問題是什么呢？這些學(xué)生在中國(guó)接受了12年的教育，他們?cè)诘谝淮芜M(jìn)入國(guó)際學(xué)校時(shí)，是怎么面對(duì)這些問題的呢？

We do best stages like it depends a lot on students’ English level. If students have very good English, they can get ready to international program or Canadian program. If their English level is low, they are going to the foundation program. Once you get into the British Columbia program, our teachers are used to teaching Chinese kids, in all-years kids. Then they realized that every one of them is a second-language learner. So we need to take it slow and we need to gradually warm up. We are trying to get kids involved. First when you walk into a classroom, students say very little. So you do all kinds of things to break the ice and get kids involved. We have some really exceptional kids in our school turn out to be student leaders who also take a lot of things to get students involved. We have so many activities after school. We have all the traditional sports including hockey. We also have all kinds of clubs, yoga clubs; we have reading clubs, we have yoga clubs, we have horse-riding clubs, so something there for everybody. It doesn’t matter what kind students you are.
這要根據(jù)學(xué)生們的英語(yǔ)水平來定。英語(yǔ)水平好的學(xué)生就可以直接進(jìn)入國(guó)際項(xiàng)目或者加拿大項(xiàng)目學(xué)習(xí)，而英語(yǔ)水平欠佳的學(xué)生就要從基礎(chǔ)項(xiàng)目開始。一旦進(jìn)入BC?。ú涣蓄嵏鐐惐葋喪。┑慕逃?xiàng)目，我們的老師都是有過教中國(guó)學(xué)生的經(jīng)驗(yàn)的，他們教過各個(gè)年齡的學(xué)生。他們知道如何面對(duì)二語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)者，他們會(huì)慢慢來，循序漸進(jìn)。我們鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生多多參與。當(dāng)你剛走進(jìn)教室時(shí)，學(xué)生們很少說話，所以你要想盡辦法讓學(xué)生們參與進(jìn)來。我們有些特別優(yōu)秀的學(xué)生成了學(xué)生領(lǐng)袖，他們也會(huì)盡量鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生們多多參與。我們有很多的課外活動(dòng)。我們學(xué)校有所有的傳統(tǒng)體育項(xiàng)目比如曲棍球。我們還有各種俱樂部，閱讀俱樂部，瑜伽俱樂部，騎馬俱樂部等等，不管你是怎樣的學(xué)生，每個(gè)人都可以參與到這些活動(dòng)中來。

So can we say like students in your school, they basically get involved in a pure English environment?
所以，貴校的學(xué)生都是浸泡在純英語(yǔ)的環(huán)境中？

That’s right. And in fact, from 7:50 in the morning to 2:40 in the afternoon, they only talk to foreigners. English is the only language it’s used. So they are really immerged to it.
對(duì)的。從早上7：50分到下午2:40分，學(xué)生們的交流對(duì)象都是外國(guó)人，英語(yǔ)是唯一的交流語(yǔ)言，他們是真正地沉浸在英語(yǔ)之中。

Can we like after 6 years like the training there, they can basically speak fluent English?
那么，在貴校接受6年的學(xué)習(xí)后，學(xué)生們基本上都能說非常流利的英語(yǔ)咯？

Oh, yeah, in fact the exams they have to do in grade 10, there are 3 exams, one in grade 11, and in grade 12, they have been passed for 5 exams. But they are exactly the same exams they do in Canada, identical exams. What was amazing was last year, we outperformed other off-shore BC schools in China, but we also outperformed the BC schools back in Canada. So we’re really proud of our kids.
當(dāng)然。學(xué)生們?cè)?0年級(jí)的時(shí)候，要通過三門考試，其中有一門是在11年級(jí)測(cè)試，在12年級(jí)，他們還要通過五門考試。這些考試和在加拿大的考試是一模一樣的。去年，我們獲得了極佳的表現(xiàn)，我們學(xué)生的成績(jī)比中國(guó)其他BC學(xué)校的學(xué)生的成績(jī)都要好，甚至比加拿大的學(xué)生的成績(jī)也要更好。我真的很為我們的學(xué)生感到驕傲。