对话文本
Peyton: when do most children start school in your country?
Thomas: In America, most children start primary school at the age of five.
P: How much time do primary school students usually spend at school every day?
T: Kindergarten students usually only go to school for about four hours every day, but after that, they spend about eight hours in school every day.
P: do they have to go to school on Saturdays?
T: no, most children in America only go to school Monday through Friday.
P: how many subjects do they have to study?
T: In most schools, they study about nine subjects.
P: do students have to wear uniforms in schools in America?
T: some private schools require their students to wear uniforms, but public schools don't.
P: did you go to a public school or a private school?
T: I went to a pricate school for elementary school and university, but went to a public school for high school. What about you?
P: I went to a boardinbg school from nursery school to senior high school.
T: did you have to wear uniforms?
P: yes, they were horrible. We had to wear green every day!
T: at least you didn't waste time thinking about what you were going to wear every day!
P: that's true!

参考翻译
你们国家的小孩一般都几岁上学?
在美国,小孩通常都是5岁上小学.
小学生每天要在学校上多长时间的课?
幼儿园的小孩每天一般就在学校待4个小时.但是上了小学之后,他们得在学校待8个小时.
周六还要上课吗?
不用,大多数美国小学生都是周一到周五上课.
他们要上几门课?
一般都有9门课.
美国学生上学要穿校服吗?
有些私立学校要求学生穿校服,公立学校就不要求.
你上的是公立学校还是私立学校?
我小学和大学都上的是私立学校,中学上的是公立学校.你呢?
我从幼儿园到高中上的都是寄宿制学校.
你们要求穿校服吗?
要求啊,那校服难看极了.我们还得整天都穿着那身绿衣裳.
至少你不用每天花时间琢磨要穿什么去上学.
那倒是.

核心词汇词组
subject:an area of knowledge studied in a school, college, etc. 学科;科目;课程
Biology and English are my favourite subjects.
生物学和英语是我最喜欢的两门课.

uniform:the special set of clothes worn by all members of an organization or a group at work, or by children at school 制服;校服
a military/police/nurse's uniform
军装;警服;护士制服
soldiers/sailors in uniform
穿制服的士兵／水手
The hat is part of the school uniform.
帽子是校服的一部份.

elementary school:小学

boarding school:寄宿学校