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听力文本
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report.
More and more Africans are using text messages, e-mail and social media to communicate. In Senegal, educators are using new technologies to teach women to read. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, launched the program in Senegal two years ago. But UNESCO officials are now expanding it to as many as six other African countries.
Mariama Daffe sits in front of a television at her home in a community near Senegal's capital Dakar. She is learning to write and work with numbers. Ms. Daffe started this home-study program a year ago. She was 39 years old at the time.
The Ministry of Education joined with UNESCO to create these training modules for literacy -- reading and writing. The program appears daily on state television. Women taking part say these lessons have made them more independent.
Mariama Daffe says, "These days I have my mobile telephone, and I can read messages and I can send messages, too."
Ms. Daffe finishes her lesson and starts preparing dinner for her husband and three children. She says the TV programs are convenient. She studies three modules a week, yet she has a full-time job and travels two hours by bus every day.
At-home study programs are easy to operate and not costly. That makes them especially useful for a place like Senegal, which has limited money to teach literacy.
But some women prefer the classroom experience.
Ten minutes down the road from Mariama Daffe's home, women write on a chalkboard at the local elementary school. Thirty-nine-year-old Astou Keita says it is never too late to learn.
She says, "My kids laugh at me. They think it is funny that I started learning at this age."
Mamadou Diallo is a teacher. He uses a laptop computer and a projector to prepare an interactive display wall. The students use the wall while a class in mathematics is taught.
Mr. Diallo says the first time the women saw the interactive display wall, they became very interested. They could not wait to try it. He told them, "First, we need to work on the chalkboard before we can start the math."
He asks a student to read a word problem and do the work with numbers.
She then answers the mathematical problem on the wall.
And that's the VOA Learning English Education Report. I'm Jerilyn Watson.
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词汇解释
1.literacy n. 读写能力；精通文学
Of course, literacy isn't the same thing as intelligence.
当然，识字和智力是两码事。
2.module n. [计] 模块；组件；模数；(航天器的) 舱
A rescue plan could be achieved by sending an unmanned module to the space station.
营救计划可以通过向空间站发送一个无人舱来完成。
3.interactive adj. 交互式的；相互作用的
This will make computer games more interactive than ever.
这将使电脑游戏比以前更具交互性。
内容解析
1.First, we need to work on the chalkboard before we can start the math.
work on 影响，对…起作用；继续工作；从事于…；设法说服
The scientists are still working on inventing new methods of reaching outer space.
科学家们仍致力于发明到达外层空间的新方法。
The doctor told him that this kind of medicine may work on him.
医生对他说这种药对他可能有效。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
越来越多的非洲人靠发短信、电子邮件和使用社交媒体来交流，在塞内加尔，教育者使用新技术来教妇女们学习阅读。联合国教科文组织(UNESCO)两年前在塞内加尔发起了这一项目，但该组织官员现在将项目推广到另外6个非洲国家。
马里亚玛·达菲坐在家里电视机前，她家在塞内加尔首都达喀尔附近一个社区，她在学习写字和数数。达菲一年前开始这个在家学习的项目，当时她已经39岁了。
教育部加入联合国教科文组织并发起了这个扫盲培训，该项目每天都出现在国家电视台上。参加学习的妇女们说这些课程让她们更独立。
马里亚玛·达菲说，“现在我有了手机，我能看短信和发短信。”
达菲上完课程，就开始为丈夫和三个孩子准备晚饭。她说电视节目很方便，她每周学习三个模块，她有份全职工作，每天坐两小时公交上班。
在家学习项目很容易操作，且成本低。这对塞内加尔这样扫盲资金有限的地方来说尤其有用。
但有的妇女更喜欢在课堂上学习。
从马里亚玛·达菲家出来走路10分钟，有一所当地小学，妇女们在黑板上写字。39岁的阿斯托·凯塔说学习永远不会晚。
“我的孩子们都笑我，他们觉得这个年龄开始学习很搞笑。”
马马杜·迪亚洛是一名教师，他使用笔记本电脑和投影仪来准备一面互动展示墙，学生们上数学课时要用到这面墙。
迪亚洛说妇女们第一次看到这面互动展示墙时很感兴趣，她们等不及要用这片墙了。他告诉她们，“首先，在开始数学课之前，我们需要做黑板上的题。”
他让一名学生读一道题并计算。
她回答了墙上的数学题。
这就是美国之音慢速英语教育报道，我是杰瑞琳·沃森。
