Summer reading
FindingJunie Kim
by Ellen Oh
Middle schooler Junie Kim is facing bullying (欺凌) at school, but she keeps quiet. Then, for a school project, Junie interviews her grandparents, who grew up in Korea during wartime in the 1950s. In their story of struggle, Junie finds the courage to speak up. The book will encourage any kid who has ever been in Junie's shoes.
Simon B.Rhymin'
by Dwayne Reed
Simon is starting fifth grade and wants everyone to call him Notorious D.O.G. because he wants to be a famous rapper (说唱歌手). But he's shy about using his voice to express his thoughts. When a teacher asks the class to give a talk, Simon must face his fears. Simon B.Rhymin' is a great book that will give confidence to readers who are going through similar struggles.
A Shot in the Arm!
by Don Brown
A Shot in the Arm! is a novel about the history of vaccines (疫苗). Readers learn how vaccines have been used throughout history to fight disease. The author also introduces people around the world who helped with the development of vaccines. A Shot in the Arm! is an exciting read that uses colorful drawings to pull the reader in.
The One Thing You'd Save
by Linda Sue Park
If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Writer Linda Sue Park explores different answers to this question in poems that show the different voices of a middle school class. Some choose baseball cards or toy animals. One picks a sweater that was passed down for generations. The book is illustrated (给……作插图) with black-and-white art. Readers of all ages will like this book. It helps you realize what matters most.
In the live-streaming channel of Yang Weiyun, no singing or dancing is performed, nor are products sold. Yang teaches Pinyin, reading and writing, something that has been most familiar to her for the past 50 years. The difference is that her students are mostly adults.
The 74-year-old, an experienced and respected educator, had taught Chinese in an elementary school for 50 years. In retirement, Yang also wanted to do something meaningful. The rise of short video platforms gave her the idea of continuing her education attempt through live-streaming online. She opened her live-streaming account in May 2021 and offered free Pinyin courses designed for kindergarten pupils about to attend primary schools. However, she gradually learned among her viewers there were a lot of adults who could not read. Yang said she found many illiterate(不识字的) adults lacked confidence. They were afraid to go to new places, worried that they couldn't teach their children or read their boss's instructions. " Many illiterate adults didn't have the chance to go to school when they were young. They are the ones in urgent need of becoming literate. I want to give them a new starting point," Yang said.
To better meet their needs, Yang added targeted content. Considering the schedule of most adult students, she even held two sessions every day, starting at 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Yang's live-streaming channel offers an easy and private way to those who want to overcome adult illiteracy. Now she has nearly 400,000 followers on the short video platform.
Yang said students learning through her live-streaming channel each have their own demand. So she always prepares her classes carefully after concluding a live-streaming session. She has tried her best to figure out in what ways the students can learn and remember better, and her biggest wish now is to see these students graduate from her classes.
When I mentioned to some friends that we all have accents, most of them proudly replied, "Well, I speak perfect English/Chinese/etc." But this kind of response misses the point.
More often than not, what we mean when we say someone "has an accent" is that their accent is different from the local one, or that pronunciations are different from our own. But this definition of accents is limiting and could give rise to prejudice. Funnily enough, in terms of the language study, every person speaks with an accent. It is the regular differences in how we produce sounds that define our accents. Even if you don't hear it yourself, you speak with some sort of accent. In this sense, it's pointless to point out that someone "has an accent", We all do!
Every person speaks a dialect (方言) , too. In the field of the language study, a dialect is a version of a language that is characterized by its variations of structure, phrases and words. For instance, "You got eat or not? " (meaning "Have you eaten? ") is an acceptable and understood question in Singapore Oral English. The fact that this expression would cause a standard American English speaker to take pause doesn't mean that Singapore Oral English is "wrong" or "ungrammatical". The sentence is well-formed and clearly communicative, according to native Singapore English speakers' solid system of grammar. Why should it be wrong just because it's different?
We need to move beyond a narrow conception of accents and dialects—for the benefit of everyone. Language differences like these provide insights into people's cultural experiences and backgrounds. In a global age, the way one speaks is a distinct part of one's identity. Most people would be happy to talk about the cultures behind their speech. We'd learn more about the world we live in and make friends along the way.
Learning anything by sitting in the comfort of your own home can be very easy and at the same time, there will not be any pressure to complete some tasks or anything like that.Then there are many ways to learn it comfortably by sitting at your home.
Watch English movies and shows. Watching English movies can help you a lot in improving your spoken English skills. Observe the expressions of characters, which is an excellent way to improve your English conversations in daily life.Observe them when they speak every single word. This will help to improve your vocabulary.
Record your voice. Recording your voice can be an easy way to understand how you speak. This method can help you in understanding your accent (口音) and your pronunciation. You will be able to understand your mistakes when you speak. Then you can correct them. It may sound uncomfortable at the beginning..
Grasp(掌握) grammatical concepts. Having basic grammar knowledge is crucial (至关重要的).If you don't have any grammar knowledge, you may find it difficult to construct proper sentences and it can lead to a lack of confidence whenever you speak. You should take related classes to improve your grasp of basic grammatical concepts and also try practicing various grammatical exercises.
This can be an effective way to understand the way you speak including your facial expressions. Practicing your speech in front of a mirror can help encourage your confidence. This method is effective if you don't have a speaking partner or if there is no one to judge you.
A. Speak in front of a mirror.
B. Speak English with yourself.
C. It helps in forming correct sentences.
D. Similarly, maybe you are planning to learn English at home.
E. There is a lot of fun in the process and you will also enjoy it.
F. You can also watch English interviews of successful people.
G. But over time your accent and pronunciation will be improved by practicing.
On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have1 the course earlier than she did. Her 2 came because she was carrying a3 across the finish line.
As reported by a local newspaper, Bailey was more than two-thirds of the way through her4 when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She5 to help her fellow runner, Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with6 She couldn't. Bailey then7 to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line, then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get8 attention.
Once there, Lenoue was 9 and later taken to a hospital, where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme10 to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey's help.
As for Bailey, she is more11 about why her act is considered a big12 . "She was just crying. I couldn't 13 her," Bailey told the reporter. "I feel like I was just doing the right thing."
Although the two young women were strangers before the14 they've since become friends. Neither won the race, but the15 of human kindness won the day.
Thanks to a series of protection(measure), the Dabry's sturgeon(达氏鲟), an endangered species under China's first-class national protection, can now be spotted again in the Yangtze River.
The Dabry's sturgeon is also known as the Yangtze sturgeon, (name) after its habitat ,the upper Yangtze River. Since 2000, it had lost its natural ability to reproducea result of over fishing and water pollution, among other factors. The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the species extinct in the wild in July 2022.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, underwater cameras have recently shot the natural spawning (产卵) of the Yangtze sturgeon, (indicate) that mature individuals in the artificial Yangtze sturgeon population have the ability to reproduce in the wild.
Overfishing was once a serious challenge, endangered the Yangtze sturgeon and other fish species in the Yangtze River. (recover) the biodiversity along the river, China(carry) out a full fishing ban (禁令) in 332 conservation areas of the Yangtze River basin in January 2020.
(surprising), many fishermen have now become protectors of fish in the Yangtze River. Zhang Song, who had depended on fishing forliving since 2000, volunteered to become a member of the fish protection team in Wanzhou District. The Yangtze River Protection Law came into force on March 1,2021. With this law, Zhang's work became much(easy) than before.
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Our Wonderful Club Culture Festival
To(provide, varied school life), our school held the first Club Culture Festival last week on campus.
Starting from January 5th, the week-long festival, whose theme was " Varied Life", presented our campus culture. The literary society recommended many good books,(encourage, pleasure, reading). The most thrilling experience came from the Chinese kung fu club. The club members, (performance), which won loud applause.
Through this festival, not only(pass on, culture), but(school life, enrich). And we all enjoyed it.
Thick snowflakes swirled (旋转) around my car. Everything around me was white. The light was fading (变暗) as the sun set over the rocky peaks.
I was driving up a mountain pass on what was supposed to be a four-hour trip from Red River, New Mexico, to Durango, Colorado, I drove slowly along on a winding, unfamiliar road in a snowstorm. I was on my way to meet my friend Jane, who was in Durango. I was so excited about the weekend that I left without checking the weather.
Thirty minutes into my drive, the snow had started. Gentle snow at first. I thought about turning around. But it hardly looked threatening, so I continued. Now I regretted that decision. But it was too late. The road was too narrow and icy for me to turn around. The snow was bad, getting worse. The only way out was forward, higher and higher into the mountains. The last bit of sunlight disappeared, and I couldn't see anything beyond the few feet lighted by my headlights.
My cell phone had lost service as soon as I'd entered the mountain. I couldn't call for help. The clothes were in my luggage. Maybe I could find a place to pull over and wear more clothes until morning. Would that be enough to keep me warm all night? How long would it take for someone to find me? "Everything will be fine," I whispered.
Then I noticed a pair of lights seemed to glow dimly (朦胧地) through the snowstorm. I opened my eyes wide hard and then looked ahead. There they were. Tail-lights! There was a car in front of me! At least someone was here with me. Focus on the lights, I told myself, not your fear. I followed my guide for at least another half hour as we continued to pass the mountain.
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Finally, I felt the road start to level down gradually.
……
At the base of the mountain, I spotted the tail-lights.
