Ontario has 15 types of licences and each licence certifies (证明具有某种资格) you to drive a specific type of vehicle. To drive a car, van or small truck, you will need a G class licence. Here's how you get one.
Apply for a driver's licence
To apply for a driver's licence in Ontario, you need to.
● be at least 16 years old
● pass an eye test
● pass a written test about the rules of the road and traffic signs
Where to apply
To apply and take the required written tests, visit:
● a DriveTest centre
● the ServiceOntario Bay and College location in downtown Toronto
Due to higher than normal volumes (量), you must book an appointment online in order to complete a written driver's licence test.
Study for the knowledge test
Ontario's Official Driver Handbook will help you prepare for your written knowledge test. It covers rules of the road and practical driving tips. You can buy the handbook:
● online through ServiceOntario
● at a DriveTest centre
● from many retail stores
Cost: $14.95 plus $0.7 taxes
Learning to drive: graduated licensing
Once you pass your eye and written tests, you get a G1 licence. Before you can get a full G licence, you have to:
● finish two learning levels: G1 and G2
● pass two road tests
This process is called "graduated licensing" which is designed to give new drivers time to practice and gain driving experience over time.
You have up to five years to finish the whole process. After five years, if you do not get your full G licence, you will need to start over.
My name is Thomas: My belief began when I was just a kid. I dreamed of becoming a doctor.
My mother was a servant. Through her work, she observed that successful people spent a lot of time reading. She announced that my brother and I had to read two books every month and submit our book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks. Years later we realized her marks were a trick. My mother was nearly illiterate; she had only received a third-grade education. Although we had no money, between the covers of those books, I could go anywhere and be anybody.
When I entered high school, I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student and then to a C-student, but I didn't care; being cool was enough for me.
One night my mother came home from work and I complained about not having enough Italian shirts. She said, "Okay, I'll give you all the money I make this week, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything left over, you can have all the Italian shirts you want." I was very pleased with that arrangement. But once I got through allocating money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial talent to be able to keep a roof over our heads and feed us with the food on the table. I also realized that immediate satisfaction was going to get me nowhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A-student again, and eventually I realized my dream and I became a doctor.
My story is really my mother's story — a woman with little formal education who used her position as a parent to change the lives of her children. There is no job more important than parenting. This I firmly believe.
Several weeks ago, I pulled an old road map-out of the glove box and passed it to my children. They had never seen the province of Ontario laid out like that before. They stared at the map, asking about all the towns, parks, and other landmarks we'd visited, and I pointed them out on it.
Google Maps and GPS are modern wonders that have gotten me out of many contusing places, but paper maps still have a role to play in our lives. Most of us adults learned to read them out of necessity, but it's up to us to pass on that skill to children whose need may not be so obvious, but who still stand to benefit from it.
As Trevor Muir wrote in an article on this topic, "When kids learn how to create and use paper maps, they are doing more than just learning how to get around. They are actually developing fundamental skills that they will use for the rest of their lives. Map skills still belong in today's classroom."
As a child I had National Geographic maps taped to my bedroom walls. This aroused my curiosity and imagination about those places and thus made me eager to remember my geography and history lessons because they were tied to places I'd "seen". Even now as a mother of four, I've also spared time to travel to many of the countries whose maps I studied as a child.
Additionally, in this fast-changing world, unexpected events can rapidly influence one's usual way of life. When GPS satellites or Internet connections are affected, this old-fashioned skill can get you out of a mess without requiring a smartphone. Last but not least, paper maps arouse "big picture" thinking, showing kids that there's a much bigger world out there and helping to direct them within it.
So, now is a good time to pull out those dusty old maps and lay them on the kitchen table.
When parents ask, "What grade did you get?" there is a common follow-up question: "So who got the highest grade?" Many educators select and publicly announce "the best student" in a class or school. Adults praise children for outperforming others. Sports tournaments award those who surpass others. The practice of making social comparisons is so common in daily life that the negative effects caused by social comparisons are usually ignored.
One well-known strategy to get rid of social comparisons is to provide children with participation awards, which means children get the same prize despite their performance. Such awards, however, may not abolish social comparisons. High-performing children may feel unfairly treated and look down on the latter group. More generally, those who receive unwarranted (无正当理由的) rewards may come to believe they deserve to receive the recognition.
How, then, can we make children feel proud of themselves and motivate them without the unwanted side effects? A better approach is to use temporal comparisons — encouraging children to compare themselves with their past self rather than with others.
Researchers recently conducted a study, where 583 children were asked to do a reading and writing exercise designed to influence the kind of comparisons they would make: social comparisons or temporal compared. Results showed children who compared themselves with others said they wanted to be superior to such people, while those who compared themselves with their past self said they wanted to improve rather than be superior. Temporal comparisons changed children's goals away from a desire for superiority and toward self-improvement.
What, then, can parents and teachers do with this knowledge? Parents and teachers can praise children's improvement over time to let them know they are making progress. Also, teachers can create learning contexts that track children's own progress over time, such as report cards that display their changes in learning and performance.
Of course, temporal comparisons are not a panacea (万灵药); we should never push children too much to improve themselves. The road toward self-improvement is paved with struggles and setbacks. Rather than making children feel bad for those failures, we should encourage them to learn from their imperfect past self — and thus help youngsters become better than before.
Washing soda is a kind of chemical that can be used to remove stubborn stains (污点) from laundry. It also has many uses around the house. And it is used in a range of industrial applications as well. Washing soda should not be confused with washing powder, which is a powdered soap used as a detergent (清洁剂).
Washing soda (Na2CO3) is also known as sodium carbonate (碳酸钠). It is a salt of carbonic acid, a chemical that produces a wide range of salts known as carbonates. One common source of washing soda is the ashes of plants. Sodium carbonate can also be created from what is known as table salt.
It helps remove a range of stains, and unlike other detergents, washing soda does not usually stain. It is also used to treat hard water, so that clothing will come out clean, without any stain. Sodium carbonate is also used to help fabric (织物) have a longer lasting color.
Around the house, washing soda can be used to wash things like coffee machines and bathroom floors which may accumulate mineral deposits as a result of exposure to hard water. It can also be used for other touch cleaning jobs like cleaning the stove. That's because it can damage your skin.
Many markets carry washing soda, typically with other laundry products. After purchasing washing soda and bringing it home, store it cautiously. Sodium carbonate can be dangerous in large quantities. So keep washing soda out of the reach of children pets, and clearly label the container to indicate its harm.
A. It also differs from baking soda.
B. For this reason, it is sometimes called soda ash.
C. Sodium carbonate is also preferred by fabric artists.
D. In laundry, washing soda accomplishes several things.
E. You should wear gloves when cleaning with washing soda.
F. Washing soda is one of the most popular detergents in the market.
G. For example, it can cause stomach pain if a large amount is swallowed.
Behind an "unruly" child at school, there may often be a social, creative and active child. For this reason, we must never judge by 1, because the truth could be quite different.
Joe Whale, a 9-year-old boy, was repeatedly 2 by his teachers because he drew sketches (素描) and images 3 following the lessons in class. Joe had been 4 as an "unruly" student, but his parents didn't think so. They knew their son had strong 5 skills from the earliest years of his life. His 6 is the so-called "Doodle Art", that is to say, drawings with simple lines that show real elements (元素) or elements that are 7 in his mind.
His drawing teacher also noticed the boy's 8 creativity and shared his drawing on Instagram. And from there they were noticed by a restaurant owner in England. He contacted the boy to 9 a wall in his restaurant. Joe immediately set to work and in 12 hours he had 10 filled the wall with his beautiful "doodles". Joe's dad pointed out, "As parents, we should encourage our children to 11 their passions and dreams." Drawing for hours might be a long and 12 job, but for Joe, it was pure joy to give free expression of his 13.
Many parents, when their child has received negative assessments at school, tend to blame them even further. The fact is that every child has a 14 and schools and parents should work together to 15 and encourage it.
Emotional eating is that people use food as a way to deal with feelings. In other words, eating (use) by some people as a way to express as a way to express their emotions. We've all been there, finishing a whole bag of chips out of boredom or eating cookie after cookie while (study) hard for a big test.
Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings. However, understanding what drives emotional eating can help people take steps (change) it. One of the (big) arguments about emotional eating is that it is caused by negative feelings. People often turn to food they're lonely, sad, bored or stressed out. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing dessert Valentine's Day or the celebration of a holiday feast.
Emotional eating (pattern) can be learned. A child who is given candy after a big (achieve) may grow up regarding candy as reward for a job well done. A kid who is given cookies as a way to stop crying may learn to link cookies with comfort (easy).
Growing up, we didn't have much money. Actually, we had very little. We lived in a small house with holes in the floor. We wore old clothes and had little food. With three little mouths to feed, my daddy worked as a gatekeeper in a middle school and then farmed our own small field until dark. Daddy provided the best he could for us and mama made our clothes on her old sewing machine. We could have easily applied for welfare, but my parents wouldn't think of it. Our family was full of love and proud of hard work.
Then I was in the third grade, in Mrs Harper's class. One day, Mrs Harper brought a huge box or toys to school to give to "poor" children. Everyone was invited to bring some of his or her own toys from home to put in the box. Needless to say, I had hardly any toys of my own to offer.
My eyes got big the next day when I looked into that box. It was like a dream world to me — so many colorful toys! Clearly, Mrs Harper saw the curious look on my face, and although I never asked with a smile, she let me pick out two toys for myself from the box. I was so thankful and thought that I was the luckiest girl in the whole world!
When I got home, I couldn't wait to show mama what I brought from the school. She admired the toys and asked where I got them. I told her about the box for the poor children and that Mrs Harper had let me pick two toys from the box! Mama thought for a few seconds and said in a very sweet way, "No ... no, you can't keep these two toys."
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Mama explained to me that those toys were for "poor" children. Mrs Harper said she understood what mama meant. |
