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第一段
1 .Good afternoon. My name’s Mrs Carter and I run the before and after school extended hours childcare service.
下午好。我是卡特夫人，我负责课前课后的延长保育服务。
2 .I hope you’ve had a chance to have a good look around the school and talk to staff and pupils.
我希望你们已经好好参观了学校，并与教职工和学生交谈过。
3 .I know that many of you are interested in using our childcare service when your child joins the school, and perhaps you already know something about it, but for those that don’t, I’ll go through the main details now.
我知道，当你们的孩子入学时，你们很多人都对使用我们的托儿服务感兴趣，也许你们已经知道了一些，但对于那些不知道的那部分，我现在将把主要的细节讲解一遍。
4 .We offer childcare for children from the ages of four to eleven both before and after school.
我们为4岁到11岁的孩子提供学前和放学后的托儿服务。
5 .I know that many parents who work find this service invaluable.
我知道许多上班族父母觉得这项服务非常宝贵。
6 .You can leave your child with us safe in the knowledge that they will be extremely well cared for.
你可以把你的孩子安全地交给我们，他们会得到很好的照顾。
7 .We are insured to provide care for up to 70 children, although we rarely have this many attending at any one session.
我们最多能同时照顾70个孩子，不过通常不论在哪个时段，都并不会有这么多人。
8 .I think we generally expect around 50–60 children for the afternoon sessions and about half that number for the breakfast sessions.
下午时段一般都是50-60个孩子，而早餐时段只有这人数的一半左右。
9 .Although we currently do have 70 children registered with us, not all of these attend every day.
虽然我们目前有70名儿童注册，但并不是所有人每天都来。
10 .It’s ten years since we began offering an extended hours service and we’ve come a long way during that time.
10年前我们开始提供延时（托育）服务，我们已经走了很长一段路。
11 .When we first opened, we only had about 20 children attending regularly.
我们刚开业的时候，只有大约20个孩子定期来。
12 .We try to keep our costs as low as we can and we think we provide very good value for money.
我们尽量降低价格，我们认为我们的产品物有所值。
13 .For the afternoon sessions, which run from 3.30 until 6 p.m., it’s ￡7.20.
下午3点半到6点的课程是7.20英镑。
14 .But if you prefer, you can pay for one hour only, which costs ￡3.50, or two hours which costs ￡5.70.
但如果你愿意，你可以只付一小时的费用，是3.5英镑，也可以付两小时的费用，是5.7英镑。
15 .The cost of the childcare includes food and snacks.
儿童保育费用包括食品和零食。
16 .They’ll be given breakfast in the morning and in the afternoon, a healthy snack as soon as they finish school.
早上我们会给孩子们提供早餐，下午一放学，我们就会给他们提供健康小零食。
17 .At 5 p.m. children are given something more substantial, such as pasta or a casserole.
下午5点时，我们会给孩子们一些如意大利通心粉或者炖菜类的比较有饱腹感的食物。
18 .Please inform us of any allergies that your child might have and we’ll make sure they’re offered a suitable alternative.
如果您的孩子对于任何食物过敏，请告知我们。我们会为他准备别的食物。
19 .As you may know, the childcare service runs through the school holidays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
如你所知，在学校放假期间，托儿服务从早上8点到下午6点。
20 .We offer a really varied and exciting programme to keep the children entertained – we don’t want them to feel as if they are still at school!
我们提供了许多种类丰富且刺激有趣的项目让孩子们开心，（因为）我们一点儿也不希望孩子们在我们这儿的时候觉得自己仿佛还在学校。
21 .It will also feel different because they’ll get the chance to make new friends with children from other schools – spaces are available for them because a lot of our term-time children don’t always attend during the holiday.
在我们这儿是很不一样的，孩子们有机会去和来自别的学校的孩子交朋友。每个活动都有很多名额，因为不是所有孩子都会参加。
22 .In the past, parents have asked if children over the age of 11 are allowed to come with their younger brothers and sisters – but I’m afraid we’re unable to do this because of the type of insurance we have.
之前家长们有问11岁以上的孩子是否可以和他们的弟弟妹妹一起来，但由于我们的保险类型所限，我们恐怕不能这么做。
第二段
1 .So now let me tell you about some of the activities that your child can do during the afterschool sessions.
现在让我告诉你们一些你的孩子在课后可以做的活动。
2 .As well as being able to use the playground equipment, computers and the library, there is usually at least one ‘special’ activity that children can do each day.
除了可以使用操场设备、电脑和图书馆外，通常每天至少有一项“特殊”活动可以让孩子们做。
3 .For example, Spanish.
例如,学习西班牙语。
4 .We have a specialist teacher coming in every Thursday to give a basic introduction to the language through games and songs.
我们有一位专门的老师每周四来，通过游戏和歌曲让孩子们进行基本的语言学习。
5 .She does two sessions: one for the over 8s and one for the younger children.
她有两类课程:一个是针对8岁以上的孩子，另一个是针对更小的孩子。
6 .This is the only activity which we have to make an extra charge for – but it’s well worth it.
这是我们唯一需要额外收费的活动，但它物有所值。
7 .Once a week the children have the opportunity to do some music.
孩子们每周有一次玩音乐的机会。
8 .We’re very lucky that one of our staff is a member of a folk band.
我们很幸运，我们的一名员工是民谣乐队的成员。
9 .On Mondays, she teaches singing and percussion to groups of children.
星期一，她教一群孩子唱歌和打击乐。
10 .We do rely on parental support for this, so if any of you sing or play an instrument and would be prepared to help out at these sessions, we’d be delighted.
（这点上）我们需要父母的支持，所以如果你们中有人唱歌或演奏乐器且愿意在课程中帮助我们，我们会很高兴。
11 .Painting continues to be one of the most popular activities.
绘画依然是最受欢迎的活动之一。
12 .To begin with we weren’t keen on offering this because of the extra mess involved, but children kept asking if they could do some art and so we finally gave in.
起初，我们不想提供这个活动，因为它意味着又脏又乱。但是孩子们一直想要有艺术创作，所以我们投降了。
13 .Art is great for helping the children to relax after working hard at school all day.
艺术对于帮助孩子们在学校辛苦学习一整天后的放松很有帮助。
14 .Yoga is something that we’ve been meaning to introduce for some time but haven’t been able to find anyone available to teach it – until now that is.
瑜伽是我们一段时间以来一直想引入的东西，但一直没有找到任何人可以教它——直到现在。
15 .So we’ll see how this goes.
让我们看看这个活动效果如何。
16 .Hopefully, children will benefit in all sorts of ways from this.
我们希望孩子们能从各类活动中受益。
17 .Cooking is another popular activity.
烹饪是另一项受欢迎的活动。
18 .They make a different sort of cake, or pizza or bread each week.
他们每周做不同种类的蛋糕、披萨或面包。
19 .Although the younger children love doing it, we found that the mess was just too much, so we’ve decided to restrict this to the over 8s, as they are better able to clean up after themselves.
虽然年纪较小的孩子喜欢这样做，但我们发现（他们）容易搞的乱七八糟，所以我们决定限制在8岁以上的孩子，因为他们能更好地自己清理干净。