为了方便那些要留学新西兰的同学和想了解新西兰文化的英语爱好者，在线英语听力室的小编特地整理了一套新西兰英语，希望对大家的学习有所帮助。
新西兰是一个独一无二的国家。新西兰的景色使她同世界上的其他国家相区别，而她的人民则以友善，强壮和独立而出名。新西兰景色美丽多变，生活方式和文化多元化。从翻滚着绿浪的农场到贫瘠的火山沙漠地带，从有着清澈的蓝色海水的金色沙滩到壮丽的白雪覆盖的山峰，新西兰提供了这样一种范例：即在一个相对很小的国土内有着每一种可能的景观。
It is one year since that terrible earthquake and tsunami hit the North East coast of Japan, killing 19,000 people. Today people in Japan remembered this in silence at 2.46pm. New Zealanders also remembered this day. In Auckland the Japanese consul h...
The workers at the Ports of Auckland are still on strike and the workers at Affco meat works are also on strike. The workers at the Ports of Auckland are called watersiders, stevedores, dock workers or wharfies. Their union has been negotiating with...
The Otago Rugby Football Union (ORFU) is 131 years old but it is in financial trouble. It owes $2.35m, some to the Bank of New Zealand (the BNZ), the Dunedin City Council (DCC) and local businesses. For the last two weeks it seemed it would be in liq...
A 12 metre fishing boat with nine people on board capsized in Foveaux Strait on Wednesday night around midnight. This was only an hour after it left Bluff near Invercargill. Nobody realized that the boat had capsized and sunk until 2pm on Thursday wh...
Northland has had heavy rain and strong winds for the past 24 hours with flooding in some areas. About 200mm of rain fell last night and it is still raining. Some farm land is flooded. Some roads and schools are closed and the police said that people...
In October 2007, the police arrested 18 people from the Maori iwi, Ngai Tuhoe, in Te Urewera. The police said that these people were training in secret for possible terrorist activities like kidnapping. The police had taken secret videos showing thes...
Tickets for The Flight of the Conchords went on sale today and sold out in a very short time. The Flight of the Conchords is a comedy show with songs written and performed by two young New Zealand men: Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie. They became f...
Two road rules changed at 5am today. The first one is that traffic turning right must give way. The second one is at a T intersection. Often there is a Give Way, or Stop sign at these intersections so there is no problem. However, if there is no sign...
King George Tupou V of Tonga died last week in a Hong Kong hospital. He had been visiting the UK and was on his way home with his brother when he became ill. Although he had kidney surgery last year, he seemed to be in good health this year. His deat...
Daylight Saving time finishes on Sunday April 1st, at 2am. It is time to put your clock back one hour. To help you remember which way to change your clock, you can say, Spring Forward, Fall Back. Fall is the American word for Autumn. The verb to spri...
During the weekend, Auckland celebrated the end of the Chinese New Year with a Lantern Festival in Albert Park. A big crowd of people attended. Next weekend, Christchurch will celebrate the Lantern Festival in Hagley Park. The Lantern Festival is usu...
This year, Queen Elizabeth celebrates 60 years as Queen of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Her father, King George VI, died on February 6th 1952. Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, were visiting Kenya at the time, on their way to Canada. T...
Much of New Zealand has been very cloudy and cool so far this month. However, some inland places, especially Central Otago, have had hot weather. Usually February is our hottest month so the cool temperatures and winds for most of us are disappointin...
The Royal Commission on the Canterbury Earthquakes has been trying to find out why some buildings collapsed on February 22nd 2011. Their report last week was about the CTV building, which killed 115 people when it collapsed and fire broke out. After...
First, listen to Coast-to-Coast Race to hear more about this race. Neelusha Memon, aged 27, was always keen on sports. In the year 2000, at the age of 16, she fell ill with a serious disease and was in a coma for four months. When she woke from the c...
