Singapore Garden Festival (SGF) is the only show in the world to gather the world's top award-winning garden and flowery designers under one roof. This ''must-see'' event will impress you with a wide range of displays and activities that have been planned specially for you. An experience of a lifetime awaits at the Singapore Garden Festival for you and your family. Mark your calendar today!
Jacob Ballas Children's Garden
Worry that your child is bored? Sign him or her up for a guided tour in Jacob Ballas Children's Garden. It will stimulate a sense of wonder in your child as it promises a unique discovery and provides interesting learning experiences in a garden setting. Let your child explore and play so that they will learn to take care of plants and the environment while you admire the exhibits with a peace of mind.
Far East Organization Children's Garden
Your child can have a fun-filled day with interactive games, water play features and educational programs in an abundant natural setting at Far East Organization Children's Garden! The play zone contains play such as a sway (摇摆) bridge and stepping springs, and the Fish Fountain with an interactive landscape of water tunnels and different fish-Shaped sculpture.
Marine Cove Children's Outdoor Playground
Come and bring your child to the 3500-square-metre playground suitable for children of various ages! It is located next to the beach, offering users open spaces and a good view of the sea. Your child can also join in the fun at a play area with talking tubes, fun mirrors and a drum set! The playground also has play equipment for children who have disabilities to play together. This includes special needs equipment such as sensory play panels.
The Right Thing
"Hi, Mrs. Grady," said Mark when their neighbor opened her door. "Would you like us to shovel your sidewalk and driveway?" Shoveling was Jamie's idea, a way to earn enough money for the new Ocean Kingdom video game that came out the next day .Mrs. Grady was happy, "That would be wonderful, boys. I think the job is getting to be too much for me.
"It will cost 10 dollars," Jamie said." If that's OK ", Mark added.
"Oh dear, "Mrs. Grady said disappointedly, "I haven't been able to get to the bank. I can offer homemade cookies, but I realize that's not what you had in mind."
Mark was going to say that Mrs. Grady could pay them another time, but Jamie cut him off. "We'll come back later."
Mrs. Grady doesn't look like the person who'd come to his rescue last summer when Mr. Dunn's collie, Goldie had just wanted to play, but Mark didn't feel comfortable around big dogs. He wanted to call for help, but his tongue seemed locked behind his teeth. Then Mrs. Grady's front door had flown open. She must have seen him from across the street. "Hold on, Mark. I'm coming!" "Goldie" she'd called. As soon as Goldie had turned her head, Mrs. Grady had slipped between Mark and the dog. She wasn't much taller than Mark, but she'd stood firm as a rock in front of him. "Goldie, go home!" Then she'd swept her broom to hurry the dog along." Get!" Goldie had obeyed.
When Mark showed thanks to Mrs. Grady, Mrs. Grady laughed. "It was nothing. Good neighbors watch out for each other, don't they? "
And now Mrs. Grady needed Mark as much as he'd needed her last summer. He smiled and waved at Mrs. Grady, then his shovel deep into the snow.
"Hey!" Jamie shouted. "What are you doing?" Mark couldn't explain about Goldie and watching out for neighbors." I like Mrs. Grady's cookies," he said.
In most parts of the world, as far back as anyone can remember , there has been a puppet (木偶) tradition. Although some of us think of puppets as children's entertainment, they were—-and often still are used to tell serious stories to adult audiences. Even in these days of special effects, the puppet the atre still has a special place in many cultures.
The best known puppet characters in Britain are Punch and Judy, glove puppets with woodenheads. In summer, one basic play of about half an hour is performed on beaches all around Britain .Mr. Punch, who has an enormous nose and wears a curved hat, gets into trouble and has arguments with his wife, Judy. A policeman, a crocodile, and a hangman, and all of them run after Mr. Punch. He, of course, invariably manages to survive to fight another day.
In Belgium wooden puppets first appeared in the 1820s in cities like liege. The liege puppets are in fact string puppets without strings！They have a single rod (棒) attached to their heads, which means the puppeteers aren't able to raise the arms and legs, but can move the body up and down and the head from side to side. Many of the stories used to be historical or religious but it is Tchantches, a comic character with patched trousers and a big black hat, who is the best loved character today. Like Mr. Punch, he is a simple man who is also greedy, quarrelsome and lazy. He makes fun of everyone, but is often warm--hearted and tender.
Ask a teacher to name the most annoying invention of recent years and they will often mention the mobile phone. Disturbed by the problems they create, many head teachers have ordered that pupils should keep their phones switched off at school. Others have told pupils to leave them at home.
However, education researchers at The University of Nottingham believe it is time that phone bans were reassessed, because mobile phones can be a powerful learning aid, they say. Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young and her colleagues have reached this conclusion after studying the consequences of allowing pupils in five secondary schools to use either their own mobile phones or the new generation of 'smartphones' in lessons.
During the nine-month experiment, 14 to 16-year-old pupils used the phones for a wide range of educational purposes, including creating short movies, setting homework reminders, recording a teacher reading a poem, and timing experiments with the phones' stopwatches. The smartphones, which could be connected to the Internet, also allowed pupils to access revision websites, log into the school email system, or transfer (转存) electronic files between school and home.
The research involved 331 pupils in schools in Cambridgeshire, West Berkshire and Nottingham. “At the start of the study, even pupils were often surprised at the thought that mobile phones could be used for learning," Dr Hartnell-Young said. "After their hands-on experience, almost all pupils said they had enjoyed the project and felt more inspired."
Some teachers found that pupils who lacked confidence gained most from the project. However, they recognized that greater use of mobile phones in schools could cause problems.
Is it necessary to learn when we are 50s, 60s or even 70s? Most people consider when they get retired, they are supposed to be completely laidback, do something fun, or hang around. It's particularly important to the elderly.
Through learning, we know how to think, how to memorize, how to ask questions and even how to interact with others. According to a study, while we are learning, "the brain creates neural(神经)pathways" that make us smarter. The more we learn, the mote new neural pathways develop in our brains.
When it comes to learning, it doesn't mean we must load ourselves with lots of knowledge. What we need to do is just learn something we like day in and day out. Everyone learns from bottom to up. If we have an interest to learn, that desire will naturally push us to move forward.
As we feel worn out from learning, don't be discouraged. An old saying goes, "Birds of a feather fly together." As long as we have partners to learn all together, our learning excitement will come alive again. On the contrary, if we don't learn, and choose to distance ourselves from other, we might be getting dumb, and slow; eventually, we lose energy, and life passion. Instead of being bored, dumb, why don't we keep learning?
More importantly, learning explores our life horizon, helps us build up our confidence; gradually, it leads us to a way of finding a sense of value and ach.
A. It's never too old to learn.
B. Don't worry if we cannot learn well.
C. You should set a high learning target.
D. Learning makes us understand how potential we are.
E. Look for a partner who has the same common interest as you do.
F. In other words, our brains are active as we learn something new.
G. However, the truth is that learning makes us energetic, and self-fulfilled.
Our 13-year-old son won a local "Hoop (篮球) Shooting" competition and entered the regional competition. So on Saturday morning we 1 our bags and headed down to Green Bay, Wisconsin to 2 many other basketball shooters for an 3 to move forward to the state championships.
In the competition, my son 4 waited his turn. Nearly an hour later, he went to the hoops. His first basket was a 5 . We could see the frustration (沮丧) in his eyes. He tried 6 to shoot another hoop. Then another failure -- he shook his head in 7 . But he continued. Finally, he 8 to shoot a few balls and scored 20 points. My son 9 from his hoop, frustrated and disappointed, being 10 that he didn't make it because there were several guys getting over 40 points, already 11 his.
If it had been up to our 12 son to decide, he would have left before watching the game and 13 himself in our hotel. Instead, we took this chance to help him 14 this life disappointment: giving him time for frustration and then sharing our opinion on this 15. We told him: It's because of his earlier 16 that we were able to watch this game; it's 17 to fail. We all fail at some point in our lives. We were proud of him though he didn't 18 the prize.
In the end, we 19, watched the game, and had a great time! When you are 20 by life, don't let it keep you down. As the old saying goes, "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!"
It's reported that great many Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners in the Bay Area in the US state of California are working together (support) TCM among Chinese communities and beyond.
"TCM(offer) a good alternative medicine for the American society, and another choice for patients besides Western medicine," Chu said.
Li, is to officially take office on the seven-member board after a ceremony next Monday, said he hoped all the TCM practitioners in the Bay Area would work together to have more Americans and members of all communities to benefitTCM treatment. The board will work together with licensed TCM practitioners to make future plans to launch education (program) aimed at training young people to carry on the heritage of TCM.
Prof. Art Johnson, (teach) physician health care at Stanford University, said that TCM is part of the family medicine program of Stanford School of Medicine.
"TCM (refer) to quite a bit by family medicine doctors," he said.
He(strong) supports the promotion of TCM and health medicine to a (large) area, which will bring benefits to more people that suffer pains from disease. "TCM opens up a new understanding about healing system," said Johnson.
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删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
As we all know, over seventy percent of our planet are covered by sea, where is rich in salt as well as fish. What's more, there is a great deal of oil or gas under the sea. In other words, the sea is the place with so many important things we live in. However, with the world population increased rapidly, overfishing has become a serious problem. Every day a lot of rubbishes and waste water are poured into the sea, so the sea is bad polluted. As the result, the number of fish has obviously decreased. Besides, some are dying out or have been died out.
Therefore, it is time for everybody protect the sea.
1）简述该导游的不当行为（例如：说话粗鲁；强迫游客购物等）；
2）要求道歉。
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2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
