EDUCATION REPORT - Educational Camps

EDUCATION REPORT - Educational Camps
By Nancy Steinbach

Broadcast: Thursday, July 15, 2004

This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report.

Millions of American children attend summer camp. Most summer camps teach swimming and sports. But some are designed to teach special skills.

One of these is Concordia Language Villages camp in the state of Minnesota. Campers there learn to speak a foreign language without the use of books or teachers. The counselors¹ speak the language all the time and show the campers what to do. The campers learn the language by watching and hearing the words. One student at the German camp said she experienced what it would be like to be in Germany.

Colleges and universities organize other learning camps. Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois offers a week long experience called "Summer Wings Camp." The camp is held at the Southern Illinois Airport. Campers learn about the history of flight and experience what an airplane pilot does.

At Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, students can take part in a two-week camp that teaches astronomy. They observe sunspots, for example, and study the motion of planets and stars.

The Pennsylvania State University offers many summer programs. One camp this summer taught about what it is like to be a weather expert or meteorologist. Students at Weather Camp learned how tornadoes² form. And they learned how to present weather information on television.

Another Penn State summer program was Nursing Camp. Students in this program took part in different emergency situations and learned how to treat injuries. The students carried out first aid skills on life-like dolls in a laboratory. They also learned cardio pulmonary resuscitation³, how to start a heart that has stopped beating. And they learned how to help people in a medical emergency.

Another skills camp is organized by businesses. Camp CEO is a one-week program in the state of Arizona for fifty teen-age girls. At the camp, they link with successful businesswomen who are chief executive officers in different industries. The girls build a business. They also take part in a special outdoor exercise to develop communication and trust. Officials at Camp CEO say the experience is unlike any other kind of camp operating today.

This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. This is Bob Doughty⁴.

1 counselors   

n.顾问( counselor的名词复数 )；律师；（使馆等的）参赞；（协助学生解决问题的）指导老师

参考例句：

• Counselors began an inquiry into industrial needs. 顾问们开始调查工业方面的需要。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• We have experienced counselors available day and night. ) 这里有经验的法律顾问全天候值班。） 来自超越目标英语 第4册

2 tornadoes   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
• Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网

3 resuscitation   

n.复活

参考例句：

• Despite attempts at resuscitation,Mr Lynch died a week later in hospital.虽经全力抢救，但林奇先生一周以后还是在医院去世了。
• We gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage.我们对他进行了口对口复苏救治和心脏按摩。

4 doughty   

adj.勇猛的，坚强的

参考例句：

• Most of successful men have the characteristics of contumacy and doughty.绝大多数成功人士都有共同的特质：脾气倔强，性格刚强。
• The doughty old man battled his illness with fierce determination.坚强的老人用巨大毅力与疾病作斗争。