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。
Steve Williams is a New Zealander who was Tiger Woods caddie for 13 years until last month. Tiger fired Steve and got a new caddie. Steve got a new boss, an Australian Adam Scott. Adam Scott won the World Golf Championships at Bridgeston three days a...
Nancy Wake, born in New Zealand in 1912, died today in London aged 98. She was famous for the work she did for the French Resistance during the Second World War. She was a spy for the British and a fighter for freedom against the Nazis in France. She...
From today, it is illegal for drivers under the age of 20 to drink any alcohol at all. Previously the limit was 30mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. Now the law says teenagers may not drink at all if they are driving. If they break this law, they will...
The Kiwi dollar was 88.3 cents against the US dollar a few days ago but by 5pm today it had dropped to 83.7 cents. This is still too high for exporters. New Zealand exports dairy products, meat, wool, timber, fruit, wine and many other products which...
First, listen to June 25th 2011 for background to this story. The Emperor Penguin found near Wellington six weeks ago is now well. He has been called Happy Feet which is the name of a dancing penguin in a movie. He was taken to Wellington zoo when he...
Schools opened again today after two weeks holiday. For some high school students in Christchurch, it was back to their own school for the first time since the February earthquake. Many high schools have been sharing a school site, with the host scho...
More than 100 architects and other designers spent 48 hours designing a new Christchurch city. It was a team competition. Five zones in the central city were chosen. Each zone had three or four teams working on it. Each team had five or six people. T...
New Zealand has many doctors from other countries who could not find work here. Sometimes this is because their English is not good enough or because in the past we had enough doctors. Now we have a shortage of doctors, especially in rural areas. The...
Two bus drivers in Auckland did not let two women from Saudi Arabia get on their bus. This happened on two separate occasions. Both women were wearing a burqa full length body covering, head covering and face veil. Both bus drivers said they were ner...
Two schools have closed buildings because engineers said they would not be safe in an earthquake. Last Friday Golden Bay High School in Nelson closed one classroom block. It was built 60 years ago, before the 1973 earthquake standards for buildings....
Snow finally came to the mountains and ski fields in both the North Island and the South Island. Queenstown had their winter festival two weeks ago without snow. The ski field was not open. Now the snow is on the mountain and in the town. On the othe...
For background to the Pike River Coal Mine disaster, enter the word coal in the search box. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the disaster at the Pike River Mine started this week. Twenty-nine miners died in the explosion at the mine. The Inquiry...
The Labour Party said today that if elected in November, they would bring in a Capital Gains Tax CGT on profits from selling property. For many years now, house prices have been increasing fast. If a landlord buys a house for $200,000 then sells it f...
The photo of a French rugby player with a moko design on his face and back, upset many Maori. The moko is a tattoo on the face and other parts of the body. Originally, it was done with a chisel, not a needle, to make grooves in the skin. Soot from bu...
In 2003, the Labour government voted for a charter for TVNZ. In return for $15m a year, TVNZ had to provide programmes which showed New Zealand culture and way of life. The charter gave a list of things that TVNZ had to do. It had to show Maori cultu...
