My Dream Home

My dream home is near the sea.It has 2 floors and there are 10 rooms in it.It has a big living room and five nice bedrooms.I have a big study of my own.Behind the house,there is a big football field.I can enjoy playing football with my friends there.And I also like walking on the beach with my parents after supper every day.     

Mother＇s Love

Mothers are always kind to their children and take good care of them. So does my mother.
My mother is a good mother. She looks after me well. She is strict with me. When I do something wrong, she will angry①. But I know she loves me very much.
Last week, I had a bad headache. I felt very terrible. My mother was worried with ② me and took me to the doctor＇s at once. After going home, she asked me to take medicine and cooked delicious food with me. She asked me to stay in bed and brought the food to me. At that moment, I felt her deep love and there were tears in my eyes.
My mother is such a strict teacher and nice friend of mine. She is the greatest mother in the world. I love her with my heart!     

The Olympic Games and I

On a hot summer night,I went downstairs to cool off myself under the tree after I played basketball with my friends. I felt a little bored and sleepy. Then I turned on the radio. The program was about the news of the Olympics Games in 2008. I tearnt that …     

ON MY BIRTHDAY

The day after tomorrow is my birthday,So I will invite my relatives and my friends.I‘m the host,and they are the guests.First I shall book seats in a restaurant.     

慢慢长旅

I started to feel bored after I got aboard the connecting flight to Vancouver.It would be a 13-hour flight and I was sitting by the aisle,changing the channels on the small TV set mindlessly.There were many options on the TV,you could play games,watch TV shows,listen to music,etc.After quickly browsing through the channels Ⅰ was absorbed in a very hilarious comedy.Soon after the end of the comedy I reclined my seat,leaned against it with a blanket and fell asleep.I had no idea how long I had slept until I was awakened by a nice soft voice from a stewardess:"Mind your head,Miss!" she said.As I began to regain consciousness I jerked back my body,sat upright quickly and realised that my head had leaned sideways so far that the cart couldn't go past."Time for another meal" I thought to myself.A short while after lunch,there came the announcement reminding us of the upcoming landing in Canada.     

My Childhood

My childhood has gone and will never come back.Yet I still cannot forget those happy days of my childhood. I was brought up by my grandmother.She loved me very much.Every night,I sat by her after supper and listened to her fascinating stories.How I liked those tales! They always brought me to a different world.When I fell sick and had to be in bed,my grandmother took good care of me and made all kinds of delicious food for me.We also kept a little cat.He loved to run in the yard and play with a ball.I was glad that I had a friend to play with every day.     

我有个弟弟?

I met my little brother when I was eight and he was four-our first 1)encounter since the day of his birth.Due to family circumstances,my brother had been left in Korea with my grandmother until my parents and I had settled in the U.S.We were reunited with him a few months before I started second grade.My parents had planned a quiet party and invited a few of their close friends.I had no idea why we were hosting a celebration,but I accepted the notion 2)wholeheartedly.     

How I Began to Learn English

My name is Zhang Rui.As my parents are both English teachers, I showed great interest in English even when I was a very little girl.Whenever my father was reading English, I always sat at the desk listening to him quietly. His reading sounded so interesting to me. Soon they began to teach me English and I learned quickly and happily. I studied English even harder after I got a chance to talk with an American. That took place when my father took me to the city of Jinan where I happened t…     

My First Part-time Job

Everyone, I wonder, may cherish a dream when he or she was in the childhood. To be a policewoman, attiring in an imposing uniform and arming with a polished sword and an exquisite pistol, was such a dream that I yearned for at that carefree and wishful age. And it never occurred to me that I could become an English teacher by profession after graduating from a major which is totally unrelated to language. It was my first part-time job while I was on campus that intrigued and inspired me to take up teaching as my lifelong career.     

我的房间

My room is small,but it is very clean. There is a yellow bed,a red chair,a pink desk and a big bookshelf in it.I usually do my homework sitting on the chair.I sleep with my sister on my bed.I like drawing.I put my pictures on the wall in my room.It looks very beautiful.I like my room very much.     

完形填空练习(英文)

Isn't it amazing how one person, sharing one idea, at the right time and place can change the course of your life's history? This is certainly what 1 in my life. When I was 14, I was hitchhiking from Houston, Texas, through El Paso on my way to California. I was following my 2 , journeying with the sun. I was a high school dropout with learning 3 and was set on surfing the biggest waves in the world, first in California and then in     

完形填空精练(英文)

I watched attentively as my little brother was caught in the act.He sat in the corner of the living room,a(an)1 in one hand and my father’s hymnbook in the other.As my father walked into the room,my brother cowered(畏缩)slightly.He 2 that he had done something 3.From a distance,I saw that he had opened my father’s brand-new book and scribbled(乱写)across the length and breadth of the entire first page with a pen.Now,staring at my father 4,he and I both waited for his punishment. My father …     

On Being a Minolity Of One

When I first went to China to teach English I was at a rural school in the south. The closest city was Conghua, with about eighty-five thousand people. I liked to go there on my one day off each week to buy fruit and other things to have in my dorm at the school. Sometimes, I would go with one of the other foreign teachers but many times I would go alone and I would be the only westerner in the city, a minority of one.     

七月翻译擂台翻译稿及点评

We crossed the river and arrived at the station, where I bought tickets while he busied himself seeing to my luggage. There being quite a bit of luggage, we have to pay the porters some money, only after that could we pass. Then he was also busy haggling with the porters over the price. How smarty I was in those days that I frowned upon the way father was bargaining. I was about to cut in a few words when he finally finished wrangling and agreed on the price.     

First Day Demons——Most teachers share the fact that the first lesson of a teacher is often unforgettable.

I remember getting into the class with the feelings of a beginner teacher: nervous, cautious, tense, etc. The school I started my first lesson in was reputed to hold the most troublesome students in the city. With this in mind, my feelings were more nervous than they should've been. But I tried my best to pump myself with courage and     

A Trip to Qingdao

Last summer,I went to Qingdao with my parents.We took a high-speed rail and after an hour we got to Qingdao.It was a beautiful city.The sky was blue and the air was clean.On the second day after we got to Qingdao,we went to one of the most famous beach1.I was so careless that I lost our camera on the bus.We were very worried,so we got back2the bus station to look for it.To our surprise,we found a young man stand3beside the bus,with our camera in his hand.We were so thankful.     

我的邻居是最棒的

JANE I am a single mom of three.As I work long hours and don't get home until right after six or seven p.m.most days,it seems like I just get home in time for my kids' homework and to prepare a late dinner for my family.I have the sweetest neighbors in the world,whether it is a friendly smile from them,or a warm stop and say hello to ask me how my days have been.My wonderful neighbor takes it upon himself to help me by cutting my grass each and every time he cuts his own 1)lawn.He even 2)trims around my 3)sidewalk with kindness and care.My family all live very far away,but when you have such great neighbors,coming home just feels sweeter,and they are just like family right next door...Thanks for making my world happier.     

My English Learning Experience

This essay is aimed at reflecting my English learning experience,which is divided into three stages:The first six years’of study as a junior and senior high school student,when I always got high scores in the exams.I thought I was a sucessful English learner at that time.Four years as an English major in a teacher’s college,where I found my English was as other people called "Chinglish".No matter how hard I worked I couldn’t talk freely with native speakers.As time went on,I got to know the phenomenon belonging to interlanguage fossilization of English learning.Two years later after I graduated from the university,I went to University of Canberra to study my Master degree,there I found the essential factors that could help me get over fossilization through enhanced motivation,increased comprehensible input and production of communicative output.     

Digital teaching and analogue learners——Sam Shepherd suggests some solutions for students who can''''t cope with computers.

I have often heard teachers say 7 always ask the students if I have a problem with the computers'. So, imagine my surprise when a student in my pre-intermediate class put her hand up and explained to me slowly and carefully (with diagrams) that she was     

完形填空实战练习

A Directions:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C,and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. The other day I drove to South Columbia to meet my friends in my used car.Though I had only been there once 1 and did not know the way very well.I was on the 2 after I had made some inquiries(询问).