Bush boosts testing

President George W Bush signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) into law on 8 January, releasing the most significant federal education reforms in a generation to the states for implementation under the banner "No Child Left Behind". Signing the bill at a high school in Hamilton, Ohio, Bush     

聚焦伊拉克

Bush Ready to Declare War布什准备发动战争 President George W.Bush will announce that he intendsto depose Iraq’S ruler,Saddam Hussein,by force,setting thestage for a war in the Gulf this winter.     

Globe Worries as Star Wars Go Ahead（高二适用）

Eyeing nuclear developments in other countries and the presidential election in 2004,US President George W.Bush has made a new decision that wins him the name “Son of Star Wars”.     

在巴黎受气的美国人

说文解字1、嘿、服务员,来个汉堡包!2、我们没有汉堡包,美国猪!3、那么来杯咖啡吧,青蛙佬!4、加点糖吧!5、我们没有糖!We are in a streetside resaurant in Paris,the"Bistro Chirac",where the tall,haughty waiterwith his nose stuck up in the air looks a bit like the president of France himself.An American tourist(Pat Oliphant's standard marionette-like caricature of"lightweight"George W.Bush)impolitely demands a hamburger;both his tone and what he asks for are an insult to the waiter;and of course,being a typical American,he automatically uses a very colloquial American English.Not speaking French is bad enoughin Paris,but just to assume,without apology,that everyone there speaks English is...unpardonable!The waiter replies in heavily accented French-English:"We do not serve the hamburger."At the same time,without for an instant losing his cool,he adds the words"American swine"in French and makes a very rude gesture.Clearly this is not a waiter looking for a tip.Bush,now upset,demands coffee instead.Again he uses the very colloquial"gimme"for"give     

苏格拉底咖啡馆--品尝新鲜哲学味

lt is a Monday night in Washington,D.C., and ChristopherPhillips has come to a bookstore to read from“SocratesCafe.”When he’s finished,he invites listeners to take part intheir own Socratic discussion.As always,he begins with aquestion and asks,“What do you think insanity is?”Someone responds by saying.“I try to avoid terms likerational(理性的) and irrational,but for the moment let mejust use the term.Irrationality(非理性)that leads to the harm of other people would certainly be one definition.”More people soon join the discussion.Christopher Phillips says it is a process that always leaves him     

The Influence of Macro and Micro Contexts on Teaching and Learning in the Classroom

This paper is based on three observations and independent thinking of the classroom teaching of the author’s colleagues.It attempts to examine how macro and micro contexts affect teaching and learning in the classroom.The author focuses the discussion on three aspects:(i)the present EFL contextual setting in China;(ii)the influence of the evaluation system on both teachers and students;(iii)his own beliefs as a teacher.Finally,he comes to the implications that teachers should often reflect on their teaching by means of observing other teachers’teachings;In order to bring more effective teaching and learning to the class,Teachers should change their class from a teacher-centered one to a students-centered one.     

Exploration and Practice of Improving College Students’ Speaking Competence through Group Discussion

The aim of English teaching is not only to make the students learn new words and grammar, answer multiple-choice questions to get good scores, but also to enhance the students’abilities of the integrated application of English, speaking and listening in particular. The ultimate goal of learning English is to use English to communicate with others in the future jobs and real life. However, the non-English majors have great trouble speaking English in class and in real life. Such ways as Socratic dialogues, cause analysis and questionnaire are used to investigate the reasons. In order to improve speaking ability, group discussion is used in class. In consequence, the students have more interest, motivation, courage and confidence in speaking English. Meanwhile, they have also established the concept of using what they learned in class, in practical work and real life.     

The Best and the Worst

Jack:Who is the bestin your class?Tom :It’s m e.I don’t ask any questions in classJack:W ell,who is the worst?Tom :It’s our teacher.H e always asks us m any questions,and he knows nothingThe Best and the Worst@May     

I''''m Number Twenty Now

Tom's father wants to know how his son is getting along(进展) in school.One day he asks Tom,"Tom, how are you getting along in school?What is your place in the class?"Number twenty-one,father,"And how many students are there in your class?"Twenty-one."     

Notes For The Teacher On Developing Fluency In Reading

In this article I‘m pointing out some notes on developing fluency in reading you wili need to remember, no matter what kind of class you nave. The notes should be considered and conducted for the purpose of improving students reading comprehension. The following notes are offered to the teacher in the hopes that they will stimulate discussion and thinking about this field of language learning that is of getting importance to the advancing student.     

Teaching in Small Classes

Small-class teaching has seemed to become one of the trends of education reforms worldwide as professional associations and school boards struggle to provide quality education. Many countries have implemented small-class teaching for many years. And therefore it has become a challenging activity for teachers to teach in small classes. This paper mainly focuses on the characteristics of small-class teaching, planning and skills needed for group management, small class discussion techniques and strategies of what to do when things go wrong in group sessions.     

The Incarnated Narrator as a Character in Middlemarch

Sympathy is one of the essential themes that George Eliot discusses in her novels. She uses various effective narrative strategies for the emergence of that theme. This paper, based on a close reading on the passage from Middlemarch, explores one of them——the incarnation of the narrator as a character. In Middlemarch, the narrator, as a character, both shows sympathy to the characters and asks for sympathy from the readers. To show his sympathy to the characters, he provides his comprehensive analysis of the characters and authorizes his characters to present their opinions. To ask for the sympathy, he directly addresses to the readers, uses free indirect speech in the narration, and expresses his own emotions. By the strategy of incarnation of the narrator as a character, Eliot clearly presents the readers her purpose of writing.     

On Teachers’ Role in Spoken English Class

The paper analyzes the characteristics of the spoken English class and proposes the suggestions to the teachers in term of how to design the spoken English class, organize and administrate the class and assess the learners’ oral English ability. The paper introduces the various classroom activities and how to conduct them in teachers’ teaching process as well.     

乔治与恶龙

Once upon a time,there was a brave 1)knight called George.George travelled by horse across many lands. One day,he came to a small village and met a man who lived in a cave.The man told the knight about the awful things about the village.A terrible dragon had come to live in the lake and attacked the village every day.     

阅读理解一则(英文)

Welcome to the Website for the 2005 National Book Festival.This is the fifth annual National Book Festival and once again we have anoutstanding group of authors who will be joining us on September 24 on the NationalM all in Washington, D .C . to talk about and sign their books.The festival is organized and sponsored(资助) by the Library of Congress and hosted by Laura Bush. It is free and open to the publicand this year features more than 80 award-w inning authors appearing in “Fiction…     

阅读理解大比拼(英文)

(一)Colors Lisa is twenty this year. She works in a clothes store. She has a small red car. One day, she goes home in the car. At a crossing, the engine(发动机)dies and she can't start the car. A lot of cars stop behind her car and the traffic lights(交通灯)turn from red to green, from green to yellow and then red again. Lisa has a look at the cars behind hers and feels very sorry. Then a policeman comes and asks kindly, "Which color do you like, Miss?"     

The Application of Task-based Language Teaching to Oral English Class

Task-based language teaching(TBLT) refers to an approach based on the use of tasks as the core unit of planning and instruction in language teaching.The present research aims to explore the correlation of TBLT and students’ oral proficiency and the effectiveness of TBLT.During a one-term experiment,the author chooses 82 English majors in two natural classes as the controlled class and experimental class.With the help of qualitative approach and quantitative approach,it proves that TBLT is effective in improving students’ oral proficiency.     

The analysis of the Distinction of NSs and NNSs and its Significance in ELT

The distinction of’native speakers’(NSs) and’non-native speakers’(NNSs),and their roles in English teaching has led to great discussion in the field of EFL and ESL recently.Despite the limitations of this distinction,it is meaningful in the field of language teaching when both groups of speakers’potential advantages and disadvantages in language teaching are equally recognized.The distinction of NSs and NNSs English teachers tells about the background information of the two groups,and therefore enables the teachers and professions to assess the pros and cons of them in real teaching practice,so as to initiate possible cooperation or to design reasonable syllabi for teacher training programs.     

阅读理解3篇(英文)

(A)Even at school there had been an unhealthy competition between George and Richard.I'll be the first millionaire in Coleford! Richard used to boast.And you'll be sorry you knew me, George would reply, because I'll be the best     

The Implementation of Task-based Language Teaching Approach in EFL Oral English Teaching in Art Academy

Present English learning and teaching in colleges especially in Art Academy is far from satisfactory.English,as one of the most important international languages,plays a more and more important role in the international communication.In this paper,the author tries to apply TBLT(Task-based Language Teaching) to oral English teaching.The experiment chose 102 freshmen of two classes in College of Broadcasting and Hosting in CUCN(Communication University of China,Nanjing) as subjects,lasting 16 weeks all together.In the experimental class,the participants are taught with the new method with the aid of TBLT,while in the controlled class,the traditional approach was utilized.By means of data analysis and daily observation of teaching experiment,with the help of the software SPSS and MATLAB,the comparison of both class and of the EC before and after the experiment has verified that the new method with the aid of TBLT has a more positive effect in improving students’oral proficiency,es pecially for students who had a poor performance in speaking before.