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Yvonne: This is "6 Minute English", I'm Yvonne Archer and thanks to William Kremer
for joining me again today. Hello William!
William: Hello Yvonne.
Yvonne: William, what type of stories would you say we generally hear about the
country Sudan?
William: Umm – not very positive stories. We hear a lot of stories about the war and
about refugees in Darfur.
Yvonne: ...But not everyone in Sudan is involved the conflict or the war. So in today's
programme, we hear about something different!
William: Yeah!
Yvonne: Yes. I met - during a British Council trip to Nigeria – a gentleman who's a
volunteer at a very special school in Sudan
William: Right, so what's special about the school? Is it that it's open even though there's
a war?
Yvonne: Well that's part of it, but as we'll find out, there's even more to it than that. But
first, you'd better answer today's big question. William. Are you ready?
William: Yes.
Yvonne: Okay. What age was the world's oldest student when she got a college degree
in the United States? Was she
a) 91
b) 95 or
c) 101
William: I'm going to go for one hundred and one.
Yvonne: I like that age too, but - we'll find out whether you're right or wrong later on!
Now following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan,
some ex child soldiers – people who used to be soldiers when they were
children - were disarmed. Their weapons were taken away so that they could
become a part of society again. And this included going to school, something
they hadn't done during the country's twenty-one years of war.
William: Gosh.
Yvonne: Hmmm. Santo Khamis is a volunteer teacher at a primary school in Sudan
which was specially set up in 2006 for ex-child soldiers. He describes his
students as 'aggressive' and 'stubborn' when they first begin school. William,
what does he mean by that?
William: Well, someone who is described as 'aggressive' behaves in an angry and
forceful way – and a way that makes other people feel threatened,
uncomfortable, maybe even afraid sometimes. So being 'aggressive' is a
negative quality.
Yvonne: And 'stubborn'?
William: That's another negative quality – to be 'stubborn'. Someone who is described as
'stubborn', continues to do or believe exactly what they want to even if they're
wrong. So a stubborn person can be really annoying and difficult to deal with
because they refuse to change their mind.
Yvonne: Thanks William. Now as we hear from Santo, try to find out how long it takes
before the students at his school begin to change.
SANTO KHAMIS
You get them aggressive in the classes. There are times, (they) threaten teachers because they
are used that military life where things are done by command. They will (be) so stubborn and
very hard to approach but after a year, they change for the better and I'm proud of that.
Yvonne: The students at Santo's school, who are between 25 and 40 years old,
sometimes threaten the teachers if they don't get what they want. But how long
does it usually take before students change for the better?
William: Well, it only takes about a year – which isn't very long at all. So Santo is quite
rightly proud of that.
Yvonne: Santo and the other teachers spend time talking with and questioning new
students to help them. But they also talk about what students will learn, how
going to school will help them become a part of society again and bring peace
to Sudan. But they also talk about the great future students can have!
William: And what subjects do they learn at the school, Yvonne?
Yvonne: Santo told me that the students really enjoy history, geography and
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