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Au Pair
“Au pair”is an arrangement under which a gial who is not less than seventeen years old comes to the United Kingdom prinarily to learn the English language and to live for a while as a member of a resident English-speaking family. She receives her keep, entertainment and pocket money(£5 to £7 a week is not unreasonable)and is expected to help with the housework and the care of any children. The relationship between the girl and her hostess is a personal one depending for its success both on the willingness of the hostess to help the girl in her studies and amusement,and on the readiness of the girl to play her part in the life of the household.
The“au pair”girl should be told what tacilities will be afforded her for learning English at part-time classes, or under private tuition, and about the amount of time she may expect to be able to set aside each day for study and amusement.
The reasonable maximum time during which an“au pair”guest may be expected to perform domestic tasks, or to be on call for household duties (including baby-sitting and the care of children )is about five hours daily; and she should be given at least a day a week free. It is important that the “free time”should be really free, that the girl should be at liberty to meet her friends and to go sight-seeing and to concerts, cinemas, etc, and that she should have the time and opportunity for religious observance.
In return for keep and what the host family does, an“au pair”girl is expected to help her hostess with household duties on a partnership basis, and to do her share of any kind of housework which the hostess herself does. Where however the hostess employs other help for heavier housework, she should expect the“au pair”girl only to help with such jobs as bed making, washing up, tidying and dusting, baby-sitting, taking children to and from school and looking after them in the house; she should not in that case be asked to do heavy housework.
The “au pair”guest will normally expect a bedroom to herself. She should be treated as a daughter of the house, taking her meals with the family and sharing their amusements. Under a proper“au pair”arrangement the relationship between the hostess and the girl involves acceptance of social equality and is not founded on a mistress-servant basis.
Where the “au pair ”arrangement is made with a girl who is still abroad, she should be given precise traveling directions and should wherever possible be met on arrival.
交换生
“交换生”是指不超过17岁的学生到英国学习,他们寄住在英国的某个家庭并作为一名家庭成员,她接受他们的照顾、娱乐以及零花钱。

而她们仅仅需要做的只是帮忙做些家务和照看小孩。

而这位女孩
与其所谓的“主人”的关系需要她们个人的努力才会融洽。

这既需要这些“主人”同意帮助女孩的学习和娱乐,也要女孩愿意扮演好家庭主妇的角色。

这些交换生应该知道将会承担她参加业余班学习英语,或请家教,而且她将会有时间每天进行学习和娱乐。

她没星期至少有一天的时间休息,最重要的是“休闲时光”是真正意义上的自由,女孩应该有权利会见她的朋友,去旅行或去礼堂、影院等等,他应该有时间和机会去进行宗教活动。

为了回报寄居家庭对她的照顾,交换生应该帮助主妇们做基本的家务,还应该做那些只能她们自己做的家务。

主妇们雇佣一些人帮助她们做沉重的家务,她希望交换生能去做那些例如:铺床、打扫、清洁、照顾婴儿、接孩子上下学并照顾她们。

她不会让她们做太正的工作。

交换生将有一个属于她们自己的卧室,她应该得到女儿般的爱护,和家庭成员一起吃饭并共同分享快乐,交换生与主妇的关系真正体现到了社会的平等而不是主仆。

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