THE STORY OF TWO EGGS

A resident in a posh hotel breakfast room called over the head waiterone morning and said with a wonderful and cheerful smile. “Good morning sir.What a wonderful morning!I’d like two boiledeggs,one of them so under cooked it’s runny,and the other so over it’stough and hard to eat! Also,grilled bacon that a bit on the cold side:     

完形填空专练（2）

The Inspector of Schools arrived yesterday morning, and he spent the whole day examining the classes. The headmaster had told us a few days 1 that he was coming. I think the headmaster was very 2 about it, for every day, he came to all the classes, 3 the teacher over and over again what they must do and examined the boy himself to see 4 they were ready for the Inspector. He told us in our class that we were all fools and would be sure to 5 him lose face before the Inspector.     

Stories About Scientists

正A One morning Newton got up very early and started to work on a difficult problem.Then he felt hungry.His servant wanted to boil an egg for him,but he wanted to do it himself and said,"You can leave the egg with me and I will boil it.It is very easy."The servant said,"You must boil the egg for ten minutes and then it will be ready."Then she left the room.     

What's Wrong with Us?

The final examinations draw nearer and nearer. One day after dinner I went to the self-study room to fi nd a seat as usual. I supposed it would be likely that the seats would be in shortage during this period.     

A Wrong Seat

An interesting film is shown in a cinema.Mr Baker got two tickets on his way to his office this morning.It was going to be at seven in the evening.He called his wife and told her about it so that the supper could be ready at ten past six.     

Effective teaching approach employed by primary school science teachers

Teachers are often urged to use a variety of modes of instruction to ensure that diverse student interests and abilities can be accomodated. Yet teachers can be limited in the instructional modes they can use because of insufficient background or knowledge about a specific instructional mode （Dawson, 2004）. Teaching approaches are various in purposes such as to trigger students＇ interest in science, to discover through inquiry approach, to build students understanding through constructivism approach or to introduce a concept through demontration approach. Every approach has the strength and weakness in its use. Although inquiry may not be the only way to teach science, many science educators believe that it may be the best way for students to learn science （Audet ＆ Jordan, 2005）. According to Woolfolk （2001）, constructivism is a mode of instruction that emphasizes the active role of the learner in building, understanding and making sense of information. Demonstrations by teacher can be used with students of all ages and across all subjects. The teacher is not only knowledgeable about the topic but also uses a variety of aids to ensure that students understand what is being demonstrated （Marsh, 2004）. By studying their teaching approaches and methods, the actual practices could be analysed and the effectiveness status of their effectiveness could be determined. Specifically, this study aimed to answer these questions in terms of three approaches namely inquiry, constructivism and demonstrations; how far is this approach effective in terms of teaching and learning, and what is the correlation between these three approaches. Data were collected from primary school science teachers （N=239） and the results shown that the teachers were agreeable with the three approaches, inquiry approach （mean=3.74, SD=0.27）, demonstration approach （mean=3.61, SD=0.27） and constructivism approach （mean=3.86, SD=0.30）. The results also showed that there are significant correlations among inquiry, demonstration and constructivism approach. This finding showed that primary school science teachers not depend only on one type of approach and apply variously in teaching science. There are also positive and significant correlation between that approaches used by primary school science teachers.     

Effective teaching methods-- Project-based learning in physics

The paper presents results of the research of new effective teaching methods in physics and science. It is found out that it is necessary to educate pre-service teachers in approaches stressing the importance of the own activity of students, in competences how to create an interdisciplinary project. Project-based physics teaching and learning seems to be one of the most effective methods for teaching science for understanding. It is necessary to provide in-service teachers instruction （seminars） and prepare sample projects with proposals how to develop, run and evaluate interdisciplinary projects. Projects are important ＂real-world＂ physics modules, modern physics and everyday life problems can be integrated into the high school curriculum. Examples of projects that were worked out are presented.     

Teaching science to visually impaired students： A small-scale qualitative study

Students have long regarded science as a difficult subject because of hard and abstract concepts. Traditional science teaching has been depended mostly on visual instruction. This makes it difficult for visually impaired （VI） or partially sighted students included in regular classrooms to learn the concepts. Blind students on the other hand, have no visual input at all. They need to learn using other senses such as touching and hearing. Classrooms should be adapted and instruction should be adjusted for better science teaching to VI students. The purpose of this study was to investigate how VI students learn science. The results of the data obtained via interviews and observations revealed that VI students need instructional and environmental accommodations to learn science. They need more tactual and audio experiences than visual instruction. Suggestions and implications about teaching science to students with visual impairments are discussed.     

My Bedroom

This is my bedroom. It's not very big, but it's bright and tidy. The room faces to the sun and the window is very big. I can enjoy sunshine in my bedroom in the morning. Can you see the windowsill? There are some flowers on it. The wardrobe is near     

Fire

Fire can help people in many ways.But it can be very harmful(有害的).Fire can make water hot and the house warm,give light and cook food.Butfire can burn things,too.It can make trees,houses and other things catch fire(着火).If some people can’t run away from fire, it can kill them.This can be     

Needs Analysis and Syllabus of English Teaching:A Case Study

The foundation of any teaching program should be the needs of the students.A syllabus can be successful only if it meets the needs of the particular group of students for whom it is intended.However,close needs analysis has been absent in some English classes.The present study aimed to solve the problem of the possible mismatch between English learners and teachers especially in the intensive English training class.To identify the English students’ needs in an intensive English training class,the questionnaires designed by the researcher were administered to the students.It was found that the English teaching would be based on real communication.Finally,the tentative syllabus was designed for English teaching based on the result of the need analysis.     

阅读理解专练

A Gina Amaro Rudan is a genius.That is, she wrote a very well-received book called Practical Genius that was endorsed(认可) by Seth Godin.But Gina wasn’t always a genius. She wasn’t even considered smart. One day when Gina was in third grade at her Catholic grammar school,some children were pulled out of the classroom and taken to a much nicer room with beautiful windows and potted flowers.This new and improved room had been designed for the gifted students in the class,and Gina waited for her name to be called.It never was.     

五粒豌豆的故事

Spring came,and one morning early the sun shone brightly through the little window,and threw itsrays over the floor of the room.Just as the mother was going to her work,the sick girl looked at thewindow-“Mother,”she cried,“what is the little green thing in the wind?”The mother went to thewindow and opened it.“Oh!”she said.“There is a little pea which has taken root and is putting out itsgreen leaves.How could it get into this crack?Well now,here is a little garden for you.”So she moved thebed of the sick girl nearer to the window,that she might see the budding plant.Then the mother went outto her work.     

Wild Soul

There’s a wild soul inside me waiting to show its self to the world There‘s a wild soul inside me with fire in it’s eyes, and danger in it’s claws. There’s a wild soul in side me with a voice that no one can’t hear and a presence no one can’t feel There’S a wild soul inside me waiting for me to let it run to let it turn into, wind,fire,and rain There’s a wild soul inside me that is coming ou to ignight a fire in us a11 it will spread like a brush fire. My wild soul, Your wild soul, a flame that can not die....     

Russia Faces a Shortage of Cosmonauts

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. On the way to the room, the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people, so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person.     

Using Extraction Experiment as a Tool for Teaching Scientific Process Skills

Laboratory work educates students about the ＂processes of science＂. But it is suggested that students＇ learning level is low because of limited application of science processes in their laboratory work. Extraction experiment was chosen as the topic since it allows students to apply many of their basic chemistry knowledge, and it can be readily to gain understanding of scientific proceses required for an investigation. This study has been carried out with 40 students who are in the first year of Science Teaching Division at Trakya University, Faculty of Education. These students were divided into two groups of the experimental group and the control group, each group containing 20 students. The students of the experimental group were given knowledge about basic scientific process skills, and a procedure in detail to follow was given. But the students of the control group was given a standard procedure. The students of both groups were asked about what and why they did while they were performing the laboratory investigation. We observed that the experimental group students used the basic process skills, understood the extraction experiment, and realized what and why they did from this activity better than the control group students. The control group students did not know why they did laboratory work and they tended to focus on completing the task rather than learning from it. We considered that the experience would be helpful for students to improve scientific process skills if the students successfully acquired procedural understanding. Students＂ scientific processskills will develop as long as they use the skills.     

An Analysis of Three Dimensions in EFL Teaching

After analyzing the three dimensions(teachers,students and classroom activities) in EFL teaching,it can be found that rapport and delivery are of great importance to a teacher;a quality teacher should comprehensively understand his students and always keep individual differences in mind and modern teachers should also grasp many skills of managing classroom activi ties.In order to activate students’motivation and at the same time keep a high teaching efficiency level,classroom teaching should be carefully shifted from teacher-centered to student-centered when possible.In this process,class activities can greatly reinforce a student-centered class.     

Wild Soul

There’s a wild soul inside me waiting to show its self to the world There's a wild soul inside me with fire in it’s eyes, and danger in it’s claws. There’s a wild soul in side me with a voice that no one can’t hear and a presence no one can’t feel There’S a wild soul inside me waiting for me to let it run to let it turn into, wind,fire,and rain There’s a wild soul inside me that is coming ou to ignight a fire in us a11 it will spread like a brush fire. My wild soul, Your wild soul, a…     

A hybrid neural network model for consciousness

INTRODUCTION The goal of understanding the brain and making artificial minds has propelled many scientificfields greatly. In a sense it may be the final goal othe whole science. It is impossible that one unifiedtheory will be sufficient for explaining the brain’functionality because of its unimaginable complexity. Multi-discipline combinations havebrought about so many achievements towards thigoal. Taylor (1994) introduced the “relationamind” approach in …