Kew Gardens
Discover the world of science behind our collections of over 50, 000 living plants in Kew Gardens.
Tickets and prices
·Adult PEAK （February 1 to October 31） £15. 00
OFF-PEAK （November 1 to January 31） £11. 00
·Child（4 to15） PEAK （February 1 to October 31） £5. 00
OFF-PEAK （November 1 to January 31） £4. 00
·Child under 4 Free
Opening time
Weekdays 10am-7 pm （last entry 6 pm）
Weekends 10 am-8 pm （last entry 7 pm）
Directions
Plan your journey to Kew Gardens with our suggested routes to our easy-to-reach gates.
☆By bike
We welcome cyclists to our Gardens. There are bicycle racks （自行车停车架）at all four gates. At Elizabeth Gate and Victoria Gate, the racks are inside the gates. Bikes left outside our gates are left at your own risk. We do not allow bicycles, tricycles, roller skates, skateboards and scooters into the Gardens.
☆By bus
Route 65 stops close to Lion Gate, Elizabeth Gate and Victoria Gate.
Route 110 stops near Kew Gardens station and Elizabeth Gate.
Routes 237 and 267 stop at Kew Bridge station.
☆By car
Parking at Kew is extremely limited. First come, first served. Please plan ahead if you are considering driving to Kew, as we cannot guarantee （确保）an available space in our car park.
☆By boat
Thames River Boats run a special service from Westminster Pier to Kew Pier. The easiest entrance for visitors coming from Kew Pier is Elizabeth Gate.
My husband Robert and I had volunteered to help build an irrigation （灌溉）system for bananas in Zambia. The Heart of Africa Mission is run by local Zambians, with a focus on community development. We were there to share our agricultural （农业的）experience and knowledge with the African farmers.
We left snow-covered Alberta, Canada in January. We spent the next four weeks working side by side with the local Zambians in a banana plantation （种植园）. The banana plantation would help make the Heart of Africa Mission self-supporting. It would also teach banana farming to the students there. Students would go on to teach others. It has done that and more. Through the jobs created, several families now have food, education for their children, and enough housing. The plantation is producing well and is a source of great pride for all who work there.
My husband worked hard at building the irrigation system. But the story he tells most often is of the young man who stopped us on one of our walks somewhere. He pointed to his bike, and laughing widely, told Robert, "Look, look, it still works." Robert had repaired it for him. A bike in Zambia is like a truck in North America-necessary transportation for people and produce. Robert's small effort made a big difference in this man's life.
"We sure appreciate （感激）your sacrifice （牺牲）, ＂our organizer often says. For us it was never a sacrifice, only an honor to have the chance to work in a place so far from our own, to be able to exchange ideas and thoughts. All this happened while living in a beautiful sunny country in the green of the rainy season, while at home in Alberta, the snow would cover the landscape（风景）for months. No, the volunteer work was never a sacrifice. It was only an honor.
A Midsummer Night's Dream may be one of Shakespeare's most performed plays-but its latest version from the Royal Shakespeare Company will be unlike any seen before. Titled Dream, the 50-minute online production will let audiences remotely guide the leading character Puck through a virtual forest.
In 2016, the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Tempest used high-tech to create a 3D digital image that was projected above the stage. The difference this time is that everything in the play-the performers and their surroundings-will be shown virtually.
Seven actors will perform in a specially-built studio. They will be surrounded by a 360-degree camera set, made up of 47 cameras with every movement almost immediately presented digitally, which is presented to viewers online. With its much-reduced characters, Dream is not a complete production of A Midsummer Night's Dream; rather, it is a story inspired by it, focusing on Puck and the fairies（精灵）.
Up to 2, 000 audience members for each performance can become part of the show and will be invited to guide Puck through the forest. On screen, the chosen audience will appear as a cloud of tiny fireflies （萤火虫）. By using their mouse or finger on the screen of a smart device, they will be able to move their firefly across the screen, and Puck will be at their beck and call to go through the virtual space. For viewers watching at home, the virtual fairies moving through a digital forest will look more like a video game than the average Royal Shakespeare Company show.
"Without the fireflies-the audiences-Puck wouldn't be going anywhere, "said E. M. Williams who plays the role." The audiences are very much the fuel and the energy of the show. "
Schoolchildren spend most of their time surrounded by their peers（同龄人）. They spend a lot more time with classmates, teammates and fellow club members than with adults in their lives. Peer pressure can have a huge influence on the lives of children in grades two through twelve.
From birth through age six, the family shapes a child's sense of identity （个性）. Parents and brothers and sisters affect（影响）a child's likes, dislikes, tastes in clothing, food and music and, perhaps most importantly, values. Once children enter school, they form connections to the larger group of their peers. This group brings new ideas and experiences. Peer pressure happens when a student's actions are influenced by this group. The "pressure" happens when peers suggest or demand actions different from the child's normal behavior and values. Peer pressure leads to some disturbing negative （消极的）behavior in schoolchildren. In the USA, about 75％ of high school students have tried alcohol（酒）offered by their friends in middle or high school. According to a survey, students felt pressured by their peers between 35 and 49% of the time. The power of peer pressure can result from a schoolchild's growing desire to fit into a group.
Thankfully, peer pressure can also be positive（积极的）. For example, wanting to join an athletic group of friends may force a student who has been sitting for a long time to try out for the soccer team. In a survey on peer pressure, 51% of teenagers felt that peer pressure was sometimes positive. One teenager responded, "Sometimes it can help you gain confidence. "Other examples of positive peer pressure include students encouraging a classmate to run for school president, or friends suggesting that that a talented peer try out for a talent show.
Self-esteem （自尊）is the opinion we have of ourselves. When we have healthy self-esteem, we tend to feel positive about ourselves and life. If we have low self-esteem, we may feel anxious and look down on ourselves.
Low self-esteem often begins in childhood. Our teachers, friends and parents send us positive and negative messages about ourselves. , Besides, stress and difficult life events can have a negative influence on self-esteem. Personality can play a part, too. Some people are just more likely to have negative thinking.
If you have low self-esteem, you may hide yourself away from social situations, stop trying new things, and avoid things you find challenging. You may also develop unhelpful habits, such as smoking and drinking too much.
To improve your self-esteem, you need to find out the negative beliefs you have about yourself, and then challenge them. . Write down these thoughts. Next, start to write some evidence that challenges these negative beliefs, such as "I'm really good at cross words" or "My sister calls for a chat every week". You could also write down other positive things about yourself on the list and add them to the list regularly. Then put your list where you can see it. .
You can also learn to be assertive （果敢的）to improve your self-esteem. One trick is to look at other people who act assertively and copy what they do: . It's picking up tips from people you admire and letting your true self come out.
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A. Low self-esteem affects people negatively. B. It's not about making others believe you're someone else. C. That way, you can keep reminding yourself that you're OK. D. Those beliefs come from negative messages you once received. E. People with low self-esteem have their unique way of dealing with the problem. F. For some reason, messages meaning that you're not good enough often stay with you. G. You may think you're too stupid to get a new job or that nobody cares about you. |
After realizing students at his primary school were going hungry, PE teacher Jason Watson got an inspiration.
"I grew up in Frazeysburg, a 1, 300-person town, "said Jason."It's a community where people1one another. "
During the 2020 COVID, Jason and his wife, school librarian Anne, bought a used2, and for the past two summers, the couple, both 39, have delivered hot3lunches to kids in need in Frazeysburg, with the help of their own kids Pax, 12, Skye, 11, and Lily, 14. They4about 70 meals a week and so far they have given out about 1, 500 lunches on5" Upon seeing our truck, they come6,"said Jason. "To see their faces, there's nothing7. " added Anne.
The family prepares all the meals themselves. "We love8. "Jason said. "We try to actually cook a really good meal, like grill hamburgers or chicken sandwiches, things that they just wouldn't9be able to get, to treat them a little bit."
"We've received lots of10, "said Anne. "And we've been11.to do more. Our dream is to possibly open a free cafe where we12.people in for a hot dinner. Then we can sit down and share13 together. "
In addition to helping children in need, the Watsons are excited they have found an activity that14.their entire family. "It's15. It's our favorite thing, "Jason said.
Everyone knows that bees are busy. There is even saying in English that one can be" as busy as a bee". However, little （know）about how bees play. Now scientists from Queen Mary University of London have made an amazing （discover）. In their study, the researchers found that bees could relax after a busy day making honey-they play with balls. The insects particularly enjoyed （play）with small, wooden balls. According to the researchers, the way bees play is simpler that we humans do. Younger bees rolled more balls than older bees, while adult males spent （long）playing with balls than adult females. The ball-rolling bees are the first known insects to"play".
The researchers （experiment ）on 45 bumblebees in a specially designed test area. The bees were given two choices. The first was to fly （direct） to get a sugary treat. The second was to get to the treat by going around different coloured wooden balls. Most of the bees decided to play with the balls and then get their treat, showed that bees are more thoughtful than people believed. "Bees are a million （mule） from the mindless, unfeeling creatures they are traditionally believed to be, "said one of the researchers.
Elephants are known to have an excellent memory. According to studies, they could still recognize and remember a face, whether it is a human or another elephant. An elephant's memory is important to its survival. Elephants livingin a rainforest need to remember the place where they search for food.
It's always joyous to watch elephants getting reunited（重聚）with felow elephants or people they came across in their lives. And just like humans, elephants take note of the faces they see and recognize them like we remember our family, friends, and hundreds more of people. And when they see a familiar （熟悉的）face, you'd know how happy they are.
A veterinarian （兽医）recently had a heartwarming reunion with an elephant he saved. Pattarapol Maneeon saved a wild elephant named Plai Thang in Rayong, Eastern Thailand 12 years ago. Plai Thang was then suffering from a disease called Trypanosomiasis. Without proper treatment, the disease could cause an elephant's sudden death. It can also be contagious （传染）to other animals. Elephants that suffer from Trypanosomiasis tend to go farther out of the area since they are weak and can't fight.
Dr. Maneeon noticed that Plai Thang was very ill and it had very little chance to survive. The poor creature was struggling to eat or drink water, and it could hardly stand on its feet.
It took a while before the elephant allowed Dr. Maneeon to approach it. He shared that it was also challenging to find and reach for treatment. Plai Thang was so clever to be hiding farther from usual to avoid possible predators（捕食者）, so it was no easy task to take it to treatment. Anyway, with the help of a team of volunteers, the veterinarian eventually managed to take Plai Thang to a nearby zoo.
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Then, its treatments began.
They reunited last month when Pattarapol visited the area during Thailand's National Elephant Day.
