心,乃家之所在

Astring quartet plays in the background as I listen to a famous New Age guru perform a wedding ceremony on a Malibu cliff. The guru is marrying two friends of mine who met in an acting class last year. She turns to the groom and launches into a spiel about how from now on, he's going to make the bride's "heart his home." That's when I start to lose it, I feel the Malibu sun warming my shoulders and melting all my cynicism into a pool of mush. I grip my girlfriend's hand for support but she's doing worse than I am, wiping her teary eyes on a scarf.     

Teacher training: it''''s a trivial pursuit Students reveal sub-standard courses

STUDENT teachers have used a website to expose the trivial and sub-standard training they are receiving at their col leges. The whistleblowers complain that they are being lectured on "pop psychology"and have become experts in "cutting out and glueing" instead of being taught how to give lessons or control pupils. One claims:"If I hear anything more about 'global education' I am going to scream." Another comments: "I know all about how to incorporate Chinese students, every theory on the causes of bullying that there is and even how to teach Spanish. I'm not saying some of this stuff isn't going to be usful but I'll be with a year one class [five-year-olds] initially. I haven't learnt a thing about teaching children to read or add up, nothing about the national curriculum."     

特殊奥运会

A couple of years ago, when I was going tocollege, I volunteered to be a finish-line "hugger" atthe Kentucky Special Olympics held in Richmond1.Because I was studying to become a special-educationteacher, I was very interested in the games and thepeople and wanted to be more involved.The day of the event dawned dreary, wet andgray. I arrived early and watched as the participantsarrived with their families, friends and school groups.Even though it started to rain and a cold wind blew,I didn…     

The Perpetuation of and the Challenge to the Stereotypes of Irish Women

I Introduction Eavan Boland in her"Outside History"states that:The nation(Ireland)is an old women and need to be liberated.But she is passive,and if she stops being passive and old,she becomes young and ornamental.So if you take a woman in a town which no doubt is strongly influenced by its Catholic past,where women were counseled patience and silent virtues,a woman who suddenly says,’Now I’m going to express myself,’that the society is not going to give her the same     

迈克尔·欧文

Michael ?-" I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score. "Michael Owen is 21. That fact needed checking yesterday and it quietly surprised in the way a familiar picture on the wall at home can suddenly take on a different look when moved or seen from a fresh angle. Owen is only 21, yet he is as established (确定的)a figure(象征) in the national psyche(精神,灵魂) as the woman     

三月疯狂

It’s funny how friendships begin. One day on a basketball court in Philly I was chasing after a loose (losing)ball,and the opponent going after it with me swung an elbow that caught my lip. I wiped away the blood with the shirt-tail of my jersey,but I wanted payback.With 15 seconds remaining in the game and the score tied     

钓鱼的艺术--《大河之恋》观感

Norman,the hero of the movie,is the son of apriest.He was born in a middle—class fami-ly.He and his families live in a town,not farfrom a clear stream and a waterfall.His father is apious(虔诚的),who takes belief to the hearts andsouls.Norman is good at learning,and going to be-come a professor in the University of Chicago.Theonly libertine(浪子)of the family is his little broth-er,Paul,who is a journalist in a newspaper inMontana.Though the two brothers and their fa-ther are quite different persons,they like fishing     

Competing with the students

Istill remember the first day in one privateschool in Jordan.It was a funny experiencefor me.I was interested and enthusiastec toteach English to adults students.It was alistening class where I had to take the studentsto the computer lad. I took the key from theprincipal and informed him that we had a listeningclass.     

珀里斯特拉

Peristeri means a clove in Greek. It's also the name of the area I was staying while I was visiting my grandmother's family in Athens, Greece. Surrounded by a myriad of unfamiliar faces, jetlagged and exhausted, I tried to make sense of all the buzzing conversations going on around me. Sitting on the veranda of my grandmother's sister's home in Peristeri, I studied the faces of my relatives; I barely knew any of them at the time, and the newness of my surroundings captivated me, regardless of my knee-trembling sleepiness.……     

What I Learned While Teaching

I arrived in China on November 1 st, 2002.I was teaching in Anhui, a town with 2million people and at the time 6 foreignersincluding my roommate and I. It took me abouta day to adjust to the time difference and thenit was time to work. I was in a class full ofmiddle school students, who were staring at mecuriously. I learned later that they had never seen     

教你正确用(三十)(英文)

Sports and Sportsmanship—体育和体育道德Recently I received a few letters from our readers asking about sports in America.Well,today let’s talk about some of the popular sports played here.C1osely related to playing sports is"sportsmanship".So,we’ll also touch on how sports should be played.Of course,what I’m telling you are the kinds of sports that I think interesting.There are many types of sports people play in the different parts of the world,and here I’m only going to mention a few that I think I know how to play.     

Skinny Dog

I’ve been saving money for a new guitar.It took me over a year,but now I have enough to buy the one I want.Nothside Music has a Pindari Super Twanger on sale this week and I'm going to buy one tomorrow.I can hardly wait! I think the guitar is really going to help the sound of our band.We call the band Skinny Dog because of the skinny dog that lives near our practice hall.Our band sounds very good now.Mr Walton,the music teacher,heard us practicing today at school,and he came in to listen for a while.He seemed to enjoy it.When we finished,he said we should try to have a gig at a party or something.     

教你正确用(十二) 一首爱之短诗(英文)

The first year in college,our whole class fell in love with a little poem: The life that I have is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours. The love that I have Of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours.     

I have a dream

"I plan to interview Phelps as a reporter during the Beijing Olympics". As soon as I opened my mouth, everyone burst out laughing in a class meeting about summer plans. But I do swear I was serious.Swimmer Michael Phelps is very great and he is my idol.     

完形填空小练笔

I remember as a small child when we would havethese gatherings where someone would come up andask,"What are you going to be when you grow up?"Well,it(?)being a cowboy or some super hero.Later it was a fireman, policeman, lawyer…As Igrew older my dreams of the future(?)When,atlast,I was in college,I made up my(?)to become apeacher(牧师)as my father.(?)I studied and pre-pared for that life.I reached(?)in the end and I waspreaching nearly full-time for much of my adult life.However,for many, there is a"thief"which goes     

完形填空精选四则(英文)

A Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us 1 about a creature called the cattywampus, an animal that was 2 during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull(头骨) as he talked. We all took notes and 3 had a test. When he returned my paper, I was 4. There was a big red "X" through 5 of my answers. I had failed. There had to be some mistake I had written down what Mr. Whitson said. Then I 6 that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened﹖"Very s…     

Freedom Belongs to All!

Yesterday I was going to have lunch when my dad came in, with apaper box in his hands. No sooner had he stepped into the sitting roomthan he said excitedly, “Dog, dog. I’ve bought a baby dog.”Hearingthis, both my brother and I rushed to the box,     

My Plan for the New School Year

How time flies!A school year has nearly passed and a new school year is coming.What am I going to do in the new school year?Just as the old saying goes,“Well begun is half done”.So I’m going to make a planfor the new school year so that I can do better.As we all know,“No pains,no gains”.The harder you work,the better result you willget.I will try to be the best I can be.I know,for a middle school student like me,we stillcan not do much for our country now and the only thing we can do …     

阅读理解三则(英文)

(A) I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one class was the most important. It happened last term just after I had got a bad result in an exam. I was sad and had lost my confidence ( 信心). I decided to go to a class which can tell me how to be successful. The speaker walked into the room. But she did not start talking like a teacher. In- stead, she held up a 20 yuan note! “Who wants this?”she asked. Unsurprisingly, everyone in the class held up …     

阅读理解专项训练(下)(英文)

A August has always been difficult for me .It is the time when I realize that the books my English teacher as-signed to me are not going to read the mselves and that I have a difficult month in front of me .