Sometimes, kids don't think their parents are fair to them. When you want to dress in a modern way, your mum doesn't like you wearing a 1. When you are2, they ask if you're speaking to a boy or a girl. Sometimes it seems that you're not as 3to your parents as you used to be. How can you changes such a situation?
Closing the Gap by the American author Jay McGraw gives advice on how to have a better4with your parents.
Both parents and children have needs. They need to feel they are 5and loved. You your parents your needs, and 6what their needs are. To get your parents to know what you're doing and what you want to do, you could talk about your school life now and your dreams for the 7. It helps your parents know more about you. Maybe you can think of a way to make 8of you happy.
The book gives ways to help teens understand their parents. When you think “my parents don't want me to have any fun”, it usually means your parents want you to be9. The book gives you lots of ideas, such as making time to talk, keeping a diary and showing your parents you are growing up. If you follow these steps, you will be able to make your 10a happier place.
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| A school in Hunan has changed its playground into a garden full of fruit and vegetables, so that its students can grow and eat their own food. So far the fruit and vegetables have been used in school meals. |
| A great coin collection is going on show in Guangzhou in July, 2018. The exhibition has more than 1,000 kinds of coins. It is said to have taken 10 years to collect. It will have a world tour in March, 2019. |
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Indoor Water Park | |
Opening time | ◆9: 00a.m.--6:00p.m. from Monday to Friday ◆8: 00a.m.- 10: 00p.m. from Saturday to Sunday |
Ticket price | ◆Adults: 150 yuan/person: 130 yuan/member ◆Children: above 1.2 meters, 75 yuan/person; 60 yuan/member under 1.2 meters. free |
Should not take | food, pets, knives, rings |
Things to remember | ◆Children under 1. 4 meters and old people above 60 should stay with other adults ◆You should follow the rules in the water park. ◆If you have some health problems and aren't suitable for water activities, you'd better not come in |
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You have been working hard to learn English. Do you know foreigners are trying to learn Chinese? According to a survey, one in four American young men would like to learn it. There will be over 150,000,000 people learning Chinese around the world in the early 2019.
"Because of Chinas fast development, Chinese has become more useful. More and more people begin to learn it. "said Scott McGinnis, a Washington language expert.
For example, in 2010, only 30 schools in America had Chinese lessons. This year, more than 300 schools there have Chinese lessons during school days. Last year, China gave 3,000 textbooks to a school in America because they had done a good job.
Although Chinese is becoming more and more popular, it is one of the most difficult languages to learn. Usually, an English speaker takes about 1, 320 hours to become good at Chinese. He needs only 480 hours for French, Spanish or Italian.
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Nowadays, phone calls and messages help us communicate with others more often. It means that we seldom write letters now. But a TV show. Letters alive, is bringing back this old habit.
Letters Alive invites famous actors and actresses but there are no funny jokes or different competitions. Instead, only one person walks up to a microphone and reads a letter. The letters were written by people from different times in history. For example, in one episode(集), they read a letter written by the famous writer Xiao Hong to her younger brother in 1941. The letter shows that Xiao Hong missed her brother so much and had great hopes for his future.
“Every letter opens another world for us, " said Guan Zhangwen, the director of the TV show. “It seems that we can experience the real lives and feelings of the writers". Since its first episode on December 5, 2016, Letters Alive has been widely praised. Many audiences(观众)say that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today's TV shows.
Besides Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have also attracted(吸引)Chinese audiences. They include the Chinese Poetry Conference, a traditional Chinese poetry competition and Readers, a program that invites people to read poems and articles they like or wrote. It suggests that cultural values and true feelings are becoming our interest.
Once a king got two nice falcons(猎鹰) from his son. He had never seen such beautiful falcons before. He loved them so much and he ordered the best falconer to train them to fly.
After several months, the king came to see how the training was going on. He found that one falcon had already been able to fly high in the sky, while the other one was staying on the branch(树枝) of a tree quietly without moving.
The king called all his falconers together and ordered them to try every way they could to make it fly. But none of them succeeded. One day, while the king was taking a walk in the forest, an idea came to his mind. He decided to find someone who knew the natural environment well to solve the problem. Then he sent for a farmer who lived in the forest into his palace to train it at once.
The next morning, the king saw the other falcon flying above in the sky freely. "It is unbelievable!" shouted the king. "How could you make it happen?"
The farmer replied, “It's very easy. I just cut off the branch where the falcon rested.”
It is always the same to humans. We all have "two flying wings in our hearts as well, but we often seem not to notice them and stay where we feel safe and comfortable. We won't realize we can fly so high and freely until the "branch" we are resting on breaks.
A: Hello,?
B: Yes. This is Lucy speaking. What's up?
A: I called you several times yesterday, but there was no answer. ?
B: I was shopping at that time. By the way, why were you calling me?
A: I wanted to ask you to see a movie with me.?
B: I like action movies.
A: ?
B: Jacky Chan is my favorite actor.
A: Me, too. The movie the Foreigner is on at the cinema. Why not see it this afternoon?
B: Sounds great.
A. OK. See you at 4 o'clock at the cinema.
B:.
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Teenagers often have lots of problems and . Sometimes they have problems with the schoolwork and sometimes with friends. How to deal with them?
I remember an example of a middle school girl, Nancy. She once her wallet and was afraid to tell her parents about it. she walked to school every day. A week , she couldn't stand it any more because it was too far from home. She had to talk to her parents. They were really understanding and told her to be next time.
In fact, the worst thing is not to do . You can't feel better unless you talk to someone. Problems are normal in life. You should not run away your problems. Instead, you'd better them with your parents or ask an expert for help, because they have more .
What You See | What You Do | What You Feel |
1）School: clean, tidy 2）Students: ◆blind, deaf ◆speak/read/write, difficult follow teacher, carefully | 1）play games learn paper cutting 2）give books, snacks, toys | …… |
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Dear Sandy,
Last Saturday morning, our class went to the Special Education School to have a volunteer activity.……
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Yours,
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