Unit 1 Starting out Inside viewConversation 1Porter Good afternoon. Janet Good afternoon. Porter New student?Janet Yes.Porter Welcome to Hertford College. Janet Thank you.Porter Can I have your family name, please? Janet Yes, its Li.Porter Er, L-double E? Janet No, L-I.Porter And whats your first name, Ms Li?Janet Janet.Porter Janet Li... ah yes, there you are. Here are your keys. Janet Wheres my room?Porter Youre in Staircase 6 Room 5. Janet Who am I sharing with?Porter Nobody. You have your own room. Er...theres a Ms Santos in the room next to you. Janet Oh. My own room? In China we usually have several people in a dormitory.Porter Well, here you dont have to share with anyone.Janet Thank you Sir.Porter No need to call me sir, Ms Li. Everyone calls me Stewart. Janet Please call me Janet!Porter OK, Janet, um, can you just sign for your keys, please?Conversation 2Kate Hi, have you just arrived too? Janet Yes!Kate I guess were neighbours. My names Kate Santos. Janet Im Janet Li. Where are you from?Kate From New York. How about you?Janet Im from Anshan in China. Kate Is Janet your real name?Janet No, its my English name. My Chinese name is Li Hui. Is Kate your full name? Kate No, its short for Catherine.Janet So do I call you Catherine or Kate?Kate Everyone calls me Kate. Janet Nice to meet you.Kate OK, Janet. See you later.Janet Bye!Conversation 3Kate Hey! This is awesome! Look at the size of this dining hall. Janet Is this where we have all our meals?Kate I guess.Mark You just arrived? Girls Yes!Mark Me too. By the way, Im Mark. Nice to meet you. Kate Hi, Im Kate.Mark Hi Kate, I guess youre from the States.Kate Right! How can you tell? Youre British, huh? Mark Yes, Im from London. And you are ...?Janet Im Li Hui. Im from China. But you can call me Janet. Mark Hi Janet. Welcome to England. What are you reading? Janet English.Mark How about you, Kate? Kate My major is law. And you? Mark Im studying PPE.Kate Thats a special Oxford subject, isnt it?Outside viewJulie My names Julie Dearden, and Im the Director of International Programmes here at Hertford College.Eugene My names Eugene Berger, I studied here in Oxford for four years er, studying modern languages at Somerville College.Julie Oh, there are many Oxford traditions. Oxford is a very old university, the oldest English-speaking university in the, in the world. And so there are many traditions which are associated with the colleges, with the times of the year, and with sport, and with eating, for example.Eugene Each college is very different um, from um, the others, and it has its own character. Some colleges are very conservative, and some are much more liberal and have a tradition of um, kind of liberal politics. But there are also some specific traditions.Julie Formal Hall is when we all eat together here in college, the professors and the students. Usually it takes places at seven oclock in the evening, and the professors sit on high table which is the table over here, and the students sit on common table, whichare the tables here. But everybody eats together. Its a very beautiful evening because there are, theres a special meal and weeat by candlelight.Eugene I think er, the traditions that make Oxford so unique are firstly the Oxford Union and er, secondly, May Day. The Oxford Unionbeing a debating society where speakers come from all around the world to address the students and even allow themselves to be questioned by the students, making it a very interesting forum.Julie My favourite is er, May Day. And May Day is the first day of May, and we have a tradition called May Morning, and on May Morning everybody gets up very early and the students have a celebration. There is a choir which sings on top of the tower at Magdalen College and all the people of the town and all the students go to listen to the singing. So its very nice.Eugene The tradition that er, was most important to mewas probably SummerEights. I was a rower. And SummerEights is a rowing competition, held in May in the summer term. And in this competition, each college is trying to improve its place which it won the previousyear and gradually work its way up the river.Julie When the students take exams, they must go to a special building and its called Examination Schools. And also they must weara special uniform, so they wear E. gown like mine, a black gown, and they wear a white shirt, arid the men wear a white tie and black trousers. The women wear a white shirt and a black skirt or black trousers. And they must wear this uniform, which has aLatin name - sub fuse — and they must wear this uniform in order to take their examinations.Eugene I think the Oxford traditions lend character to the place and its such an old institution, it should have traditions, butthey can be very inconvenient. For example, sub fuse. 。