Spare time activities at the University of Victoria
Arts
There are many art galleries and ongoing displays on the campus of the University of Victoria (UVic). The Student Union Building lounge displays various local students' artworks. The Maltwood Art Museum Gallery, located in the main lobby of the University Center, features local, national, and international works. The McPherson Library Gallery located on the main floor of the library, features art produced by UVic students. To see ongoing art displays. you can visit the Fine Arts Building.
Movies
Cinecenta is the students' society's 300-seat movie theater, which always offers an excellent choice of movies. Take the time on a Sunday afternoon and catch a 2:30 matinee (午后) for only $3.75 or catch a midnight classic! Movies are only $4.75 for students with a-valid student ID—or buy a 10-movie pass and pay only $3.75 each. You can pick up a free timetable around campus.
Music
The music department on campus holds over 100 concerts a year. Everyone is welcome to attend student recitals (独奏会), held every Friday at 12:30 pm in the Phillip T. The Victoria symphony offers reduced price tickets to students if tickets. are purchased on the day of the concert.
Publications
Copies of the following publications can be picked up from campus publication boxes that are located in every building on campus. The Martlet, the official student paper of UVic, is funded partially through student fees and is produced by an autonomous collective of students and staff. A publication funded by UVic and produced by the women's center, the Women's Publication Network, which is available every other Thursday, is the oldest women student newspaper in Canada. The paper has a feminist (女权主义者) focus. Published monthly by CFUV (Victoria's campus & community radio station), Offbeat is your guide to CFUV's program schedule. The Ring, published every two weeks, is UVic's community newspaper for staff, students and off-campus readers.
The Australian accent developed because so many early settlers were drunk. Dean Frenkel, a communications expert at Victoria University in Melbourne, said that the first British arrivals to the country were such big drinkers that the distortion (失真) to their speech caused a verbal change that persists to this day.
Academic Mr Frenkel wrote in the Australian newspaper The Age, "Our forefathers regularly got drunk together, and through their frequent interactions added an alcoholic slur (模糊) to our national speech patterns. For the past two centuries, from generation to generation, the drunken Australian accent continues to be taught by parents to their children."
Mr Frenkel continued, "The average Australian speaks to just two-thirds capacity — with one-third of our speaking muscles always keep still as if lying on the couch. Missing consonants can include missing ‘t's (Impordant), ‘l's (Austraya) and ‘s's (yesh), while many of our vowels are lazily transformed into other vowels, especially ‘a's to ‘e's(stending) and ‘i's to ‘oi's (noight)."
The Australian accent has historically lacked regional variation because although the communities began as isolated (孤立的) settlements, there was a great deal of internal migration, particularly from Sydney where the first accent began.
The most common fear people have about the Australian accent is that it's becoming more Americanised. But Dr Felicity Cox, an associate professor of linguistics at Macquarie University, said that accents are remarkably resistant to change from factors such as social media, and as long as people want to be known as Australian, they will keep the distinctive Australian sound. It will always remain a strong marker of national identity.
One of the reasons I became a teacher was how much I loved the reading and writing process, and how excited I was to help young children develop as readers and writers. One day, I discovered a work of Vivian Paley, who developed a storytelling curriculum (课程) for young children, which involves writing down the contents of students' drawings and having their classmates act out these stories. I was immediately drawn to Paley's focus on drama.
One morning, as my students gathered in our classroom for our writing lesson, I told them that they could draw anything they'd like, imaginary or real. They discussed with one another what they liked to draw and some shared their ideas loud, which helped inspire those who weren't ready with their own ideas. For the next half hour or so, I observed that even my most hesitant and unwilling students were drawing with a sense of concentration and purpose.
Later, we sat in a circle and I explained that we would act out some of their stories. The writer would choose classmates to be the characters in the story, and I would tell the story. Then a student stood up to announce which characters she'd need. I watched as one student played a rabbit, another played a fairy, and another played a rainbow cloud. When the play was over, the actors and the "director" bowed, and the class clapped for them. The next "director" jumped to her feet, shouting, "My story is the next!"
After I taught in this way, my students began to write down their own stories, though I always provided aid in the writing process when they needed. The goal of these lessons is not to turn my students into fluent writers in kindergarten but to provide them with the chance to become writers, to see themselves as storytellers, and to experience the magical feeling when their ideas come to life.
They had a dozen children, six boys and six girls, in seventeen years. One reason Dad had so many children was that he was confident anything he and Mother teamed upon was sure to be a success.
Our house at Montclair, New Jersey, was a sort of school for scientific management and the removal of wasted motions — or “motion study,” as Dad and Mother named it.
Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could determine how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Each child who wanted extra pocket money put forward an offer saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract(合约).
Dad put process and work charts in the bathrooms. Every child old enough to write — and Dad expected his children to start writing at a young age — was required to sign their names on the charts in the morning after he had brushed his teeth, taken a bath, combed his hair, and made his bed. At night, each child had to weigh himself, mark the figure on a graph, and sign the process charts again after he had done his homework, washed his hands and face, and brushed his teeth. Mother wanted to have a place on the charts for saying prayers, but Dad said as far as he was concerned prayers were voluntary.
It was strict management, all right. Yes, at home or on the job, Dad was always the efficiency expert. He buttoned his vest from the bottom up, instead of from the top down, because the bottom-to-top process took him only three seconds, while the top-to-bottom took seven. He even used two shaving brushes to make his face smooth enough, because he found that by so doing he could cut seventeen seconds off his shaving time. For a while he tried shaving with two razors, but he finally gave that up.
“I can save forty-four seconds,” he complained, “but I wasted two minutes this morning putting this bandage on my throat.” It wasn't the injured throat that really bothered him. It was the two minutes.
Make the Most of Holidays
Holidays are a wonderful time to spend with friends and family, eating and sharing stories. These situations can give you great chances to learn English. Here are some ideas that you can use to improve your English over the holidays.
Blogs
The Learning English Broadcast is a 30-minute daily blog that features the audio (音频) from our main stories each day. Listening to the blog will help develop your ability to understand spoken English. Once you have finished a program, tell someone what you have learned.
Published materials
Buy an English- language publication to read it while you are waiting or spending quiet time at a hotel or in a home. Look at the images and read the lines below them. Even if you do not understand all the words, you can use the images to help you understand some of them. Later, you can use an online dictionary to look up the words you want to learn.
Conversation
While traveling, it is not unusual to see people from other countries. If you hear someone asking for information in English, you might offer to help or simply greet them in English to talk. A friendly chat is usually welcome as travelers share their experiences.
Writing about your day
Writing about your day is a great way to practice your English writing skill. Using English to describe how you spent your holiday will help you to put new words to use and make them stay in your memory longer. And you will have a wonderful record of your travel. It is a good reminder of your past holidays.
A．We hope you enjoy your travels this year.
B．You can read it long after the holiday is over.
C．They are also waiting or exploring a new place.
D．We have spent too much time at home the past two years.
E．And it can also keep you informed of news and information.
F．Airports and train stations often have stores selling published materials.
G．You may celebrate at home, wait at airports or spend time on trains, buses or cars.
Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new1 in high school.
2 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts for cheerleaders. She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be 3 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 4 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 5 as the list ended without her name. Feeling 6 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was7 . She moved on to English and history, and was 8 to find that she didn't have any trouble with those 9 . Feeling better, she decided not to10 math for the time being.
Later in math class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much11 . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she'd continue to try to 12 at her new school. She wasn't sure if she'd succeed, but she knew she had to 13 . High school was just as her mom had said, "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 14 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the 15 fish you can be."
When Han Jing was a senior student last, she was a little anxious. Since she wanted to make a good first (impress), she was rather worried about she could make any friends.
Having had (she) first maths class in senior high school, she realized though the class was difficult, most of her (classmate) and teachers were friendly and (help). And in the afternoon, her chemistry class in science lab was great, even though there was a guy who always made her not concentrate on the experiment.
All day long, Han Jing didn't feel awkward and (frighten) at all. She missed her friends from junior high school, but she believed she would make new friends soon. With a lot (explore) at senior high school, she felt more confident and (believe) that tomorrow would be a great day.
I was angry about my father in the first year of college, because he didn't care about my feelings all.
One day I had a serious quarrel with him. I was fed up with his direction and correction. How could he interfere with my life and my study plans? How could he understand the importance of my university activities? The only thing that he cared about was my academic performance! He didn't understand my world and I didn't understand his, either.
I stormed out and sighed all the way to school. Suddenly I realized that I didn't have the assignment that was due: a thought card. This class was taught by Dr. Sidney B．Simon. The thought card was the admission ticket to his class. He would return them to us with his comment.
My first thought card read, "All that glitters(发光) is not gold." He commented, "What does this quote mean to you? Is it significant?" Obviously, he was taking it seriously. I surely didn't want to reveal myself to him.
The week progressed. Dr. Simon's class was quite brilliant. He challenged us to think and come up with our own responses. But I had no handling strategies to deal with it.
The second Tuesday came. I wrote on my card, "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." The next day the card came back: "You seem to need a listener. Is this important to your life?" I couldn't remember a teacher caring personally about me since primary school.
With all these memories filling my mind, I raced to class. Just outside tho door, I took a card and wrote, "I have the most terrible Dad of the world!" Then I dashed in. Looking up at me, he reached out for the card, and I took my seat. The moment I sat down, I felt terrible. I didn't mean to let that out. That night I had difficiulty sleeping. What if he contacted my dad?
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On Wednesday morning I came to class with mixed feelings.
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I held the card tightly, thinking about his words.
