You have been familiar with the learning environment in your middle school, and it feels like home. So it is not 1 easy to say "bye" to middle school.
After entering high school, you may face some new 2 . The schoolwork may become more difficult and require greater skills. Most students need support. Teachers and parents may give you a hand. However, you can't 3 others all the time. What can you do？Here are some suggestions：
Understand what kind of 4 you are. Do you need silence to focus？Then make sure the TV is not on when you are studying. Provide yourself with a 5 learning environment at home. Some students focus better in the morning, but others at night. Find the right 6 so that your efforts will work well.
Learn to be better organized. It might be helpful when you get used to making a to-do-list of all your schoolwork, and checking each item off when it is completed. Try to 7 your work. This will create smaller, more manageable tasks out of the larger ones. Big projects seem less 8 if they are done step by step.
Form good reading habits. Read every day—the more, the better. It doesn't matter what you read. Reading newspaper regularly is a good choice. Newspapers provide plenty of details and background. 9 , information you get from newspapers is usually official and true.
High school life can be enjoyable. Old friendships might come undone and new ones will 10 . Hope you will feel confident and perform well in high school!
My problems started after I went to a boarding (寄宿) school. I was only 14, and at first I missed my family a lot. I often called them and cried on the phone. But after two weeks, I found I enjoyed being with my classmates at school. I had many friends who were boys. I thought of them as my best friends—but only friends. I never guessed my friendships with boys would become a problem.
Then, three months later, my friends told me that some teachers and girls said I was hanging out with boys all day long in order to get more attention from them. Seven months after that, the head teacher Mr Wang asked the class to choose some students to join the Student Union. I thought I could win for I was doing well in school. I'd already won prizes for the best Maths and English exams. A week later, the list came out and it didn't include me. I was sad.
Mr Wang came to me and said,"Don't be sad. I know you're excellent! Maybe you are a little distant from the girls in our class. They don't know much about you, so some of them didn't choose you. It doesn't matter. Do your best to get along well with everyone and I think you'll make it next time."
You have lots of things you'd like to do. But sometimes it's hard to get to the finish line—just like your goal. How can you break your bad habits and develop good ones? Here are a few opinions we often get from kids, followed by ideas that might help.
● I can't get away from screens.
If you usually spend time lying on the sofa and watching TV programmes or a video when you're bored, go somewhere else instead. Take a book to your room or your violin to the backyard. Or ask if you can help cook in the kitchen.
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Start with "showing up". Then take one small step or do one tiny task, followed by another and another. For example, how do I practise the piano? First sit at it. Then play one note at a time.
Starting with a super-simple step often helps. Why? It's easy, quick, and gets you in action.
● I have no time.
Take a look at the choices you make about how you spend time. Do those choices show what's important to you? Can you spare 10 minutes a day to work on a goal? Let's suppose you want to be a singer. Talk with a parent about why your goal counts. Discuss whether you can let go of something less important to free up time to achieve it.
A. Then keep taking steps.
B. I can't start such a huge goal.
C. And how can you try to reach your goals?
D. To change a habit, try changing where you spend your time.
E. Is it more important to practise singing than play video games?
F. Making a plan is necessary to take actions.
