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。
Most primary schools finish today although a few finished yesterday or the day before. High school students finished earlier. Junior high school students Years 9 and 10 usually finish school in the second week of December while senior high school stu...
A Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules flew to Antarctica on Saturday evening to drop emergency equipment to the Russian ship Sparta. The ship hit ice on Friday morning and got a 30cm hole in the side. The crew tried to fix the hole but were not succ...
The floods in Nelson from the rain on Wednesday and Thursday are still causing problems. Some roads are still closed including the road to Cable Bay, just 15 minutes east of Nelson. Supplies of food and fresh water were dropped by helicopter; boats a...
Christchurch had a number of earthquakes today. The first big one was 5.8 on the Richter scale just before 2pm. It was 20km north-east of the city and 8km deep. Then this was followed by another big one which was 6.0 on the Richter scale. This was cl...
As the year comes to an end, the Department of Statistics puts out some figures for the year. One surprising figure is that just over 2m New Zealanders went on an overseas trip during the year. This is surprising because our population is only 4.4m....
Samoa is moving the International Date Line and will become the first country in the world to receive the sun instead of the last one. When you cross the International Date Line going east, you go back one day. When you cross going west, you add anot...
The New Years Honours list was announced today. Twice a year, the Queen awards honours to people in the Commonwealth countries. These people are those who have done something good for the country. Most of the honours go to people who have worked as v...
362,400 people aged between 18 and 64 are on welfare benefits. (June 2010 figures). The Prime Minister, John Key, said today that if National is re-elected, there would be changes to the benefits. Sole parents who have children aged 14 and over will...
A two-year-old toddler drowned in a river in Gisborne yesterday. He is the 13th pre-schooler to drown this year. A number of fishermen drowned at the end of October. Some were fishing from boats or diving for fish while three men were net fishing fro...
Listen to Guy Fawkes 2010 to hear about fireworks celebrations last year and Guy Fawkes 2009 to hear the history of Guy Fawkes celebrations. Tonight once again, people will celebrate Guy Fawkes with fireworks. Many cities have free public displays. H...
What does this mean? The books means the budget or the money that we earn and spend. If we balance the books we have enough money coming in to pay for what we spend. The same happens with our government. However, at the moment New Zealand has a very...
A referendum is a vote for a policy or idea, not a vote for a person. When we vote for an MP on 26th November, we will also vote in a referendum about the voting system. Part A asks you to vote for one of these: Do you want to keep MMP? Do you want t...
ACT party member John Banks had a cup of tea with Prime Minister John Key this morning in a caf in the Epsom electorate in Auckland. Although John Key cannot say, Vote for John Banks, he said that if Banks wins, the National Party will be happy to ha...
Most of the oil has now been pumped out of the ship, the Rena, which hit a reef on October 5th. The ship carried 1700 tonnes of heavy oil. 350 tonnes leaked into the sea. This oil killed more than 1300 sea birds and polluted the sand and rocks around...
Statistics New Zealand collects population numbers every year from 1st October to the end of September. The latest figures show that New Zealands population on September 30th was 4,414,400. This is equal to 0.06% of the worlds population. We have 33,...
