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1 Philip finds French films very violent.

2 Very few fines feel fair.

3 Попа Philips never gives fitness advice to fresh fruit fanatics.

RecordingSteve:

We don't have a lot of rules in the United States really. I mean we don't have to do military service and we don't have to have identity cards. You can drive when you're 16 and you can even buy a gun when you're 21!

But some things aren't so easy. You have to be 21 to go into a bar or a nightclub, and smoking is difficult - you can't smoke in offices, shops or restaurants. And of course we have to pay when we see a doctor or go to hospital.

Recording Interviewer: Nicole, tell us about the

educational system in New Zealand. For example, how long do students spend in the system? Nicole: Oh,... a long time! Usually about 17 or 18 years if they go to university. Interviewer: When did you start school?

Nicole: At the age of five.

Compulsory education is twelve years - from five to about sixteen, but a lot of children in New Zealand go to pre-school classes, you know, kindergartens. I went to a kindergarten when I was four and after a year I went to primary school.

Interviewer: How many years were you at primary school?

Nicole: Five years - from five to ten.

Interviewer: Where did you go after primary school?

Nicole: Well, then I went to an intermediate school, from ten to twelve. Then at twelve we start at secondary school.

Interviewer: Mmm. When can students leave secondary school?

Nicole: Well, we can leave secondary school at sixteen, but most students stay till they're eighteen.

Interviewer: Do a lot of students go on to higher education?

Nicole: Yes, I think about fifty per cent of students go into higher education - that's universities, polytechnics, colleges of education...

Interviewer: Which type of institution did you go to?

Nicole: I went to a college of education because I wanted to be a teacher. I became a primary teacher, so I studied for three years and finished when I was twenty-two.

Interviewer: Do you have to pay for your higher education studies in New Zealand?

Nicole: Yes. we have to pay some of the costs, but not all.

Interviewer: How much does a student have to pay?

Nicole: Oh. it depends. It can be 2,000 dollars or it can be 20.000.

Interviewer: Well, thank you. Nicole.

That was very interesting...

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1 What did you do there?

2 Was it interesting?

3 Who did you see? 4 Did you like it?