Hello, Ximalaya, this is Lindsay from New York! I’d like to talk about an “advisory” program that has been just added to our school. It is a good concept theoretically, but I felt awkward from the first session.

大家好，我是晴川。Advisory是什么意思呢？先说Advise，劝告，给予意见，是个动词了，Advisor就是给予意见的那个人，导师，往往并非指特别任务类型的，Not task specific,but more cross function，也不那么好像上级一样有强制性。 那么Advisory就是一个名词，这样的一类给予意见性质的事情。来听听这个新的活动是干嘛的？

The school wants us to socialize with new people and branch out a bit more from our own comfortable ring of friends. They also want the older kids to help “advise” the younger kids, which I guess is why it is called advisory. The school creates a new homeroom, mushes all three grades, which 6 7 and 8, together into new homerooms.

在我们去年九月讲开学的那期节目里，我们说到了美国学校特别的HOME ROOM这个概念，这里再介绍一下。homeroom是学生一早来上...