Spring

Of all the seasons, I think that spring is the loveliest and most pleasant season when the weather is neither hot nor cold. Everything seems to be fresh and wakening. It is a time for us to go on a picnic. It is also the time when we have the greenest festival--the Spring Festival, according to ourcountry＇s custom.     

An Unforgettable Teacher

Time and tide wait for no man.It is not long before the school started and it is sad for me to think of leaving the school and the teachers soon.In the past three years,I have had a very great time.I won’t forget his loud voice in class.He was the first one to arrive at the classroom.He always spent his free time finishing his task and teaching us knowledge.He gave us suitable homework every weekday.He was never late for class.He was very responsible to us.And he never gave up on     

Reaction to Reading The Age of Exuberance

Up till now only a few papers have been found to analyze The Age of Exuberance. It is extremely interesting for us to read The Age of Exuberance:backgrounds to eigh-teenth century English literature by Donald Greene, who tries to see the eigh teenth century from a different perspective, observing it as an exuberant, luxuriant age full of variety. It is the eighteenth century that witnesses the emergence of many news things.     

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

SHAKESPEARE:I’m donemy theater.The playhouse is fordreamers.Look what the dreambrought us. VIOLA:It was we,our-selves,who did that.And for mylife to come I would not have itotherwise.     

Ways to Help the Students Comprehend Better

The ability to read is vital. It paves the way to success in school, which can build self-confidence. it is power, key to personal growth. Through reading, we generate learning power that helps us know ourselves better and others as well. It also helps us understand past, present and future more clearly. So it is necessary for the teachers to find ways to improve students＇ reading ability. In this paper the author will give some advice about the ways to help the students to comprehend better.     

CHINESE NEW YEAR

The Chinese New Year is coming.It is very popular(受欢迎的)in China,because we can have a long holiday.But we must do many things to get ready for(为……做准备)it.First,we will clean our house.It will sweep away(扫去)bad luck.Second,we will have a big dinner.The dinner is delicious and we often eat dumplings.Eating dumplings will bring us good luck.Third,we will make wishes for the     

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…     

Our Choice

Whatever comes on our way,whatever battle we have raging inside us,we always have a choice.My friend Harry told me that he chose to be the best of himself.It is the choice that makes who we are and we can always choose to do what is right.     

The Library

A library is a collection of hooks, and the person who looks after it is called alibrarian. A library may be quite small or it may be large, like the library of theBritish Museum in London. It has about 7,000,000 books. Libraries, both big andsmall ones, are there for us to use. You may be lucky enough to have a class library. If so, your teacher will tellyou how to use it. Your school may have its own library. Again your teacher will tell     

Every Cell in My Body Has Waken Up

It is a great honor to be a Chinese for everyone of us at this very period, for me have chancesto witness so many important events that havestirred and will stir the world, one of which beingthat the“The 2008 Olympic Games”will be heldin Beijing, the capital of China. When the wordBeijing”came out of Juan Antonio Samaranch,president of the International Olympic Commit-tee, we all swept with happiness, running hereand there, jumping up and down, for a dream thathas rooted in us so long h…     

A Warm Reading of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock(1869-1944) is one of the founding parents of Canadian letters and literature. In the early 20thcentury, his reputation as a humorist and a political economist was not limited by the boundaries of Canada but spread around the world. As one of his works, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town has attracted world-wide admiration. It is a series of vignettes dramatizing the comedy of day-to-day life in Mariposa. It is bathed in the warm sunshine for all of us to laugh at as one of us remembers the little towns we might have known or come from. As a matter of fact, Leacock employs several techniques in his writing for humorous effect. This paper elaborates on the auther and the work, and makes an analysis on the character—Smith.     

Mercury(1)

1.Mercury is the planet closest to the sun.It is thefastest moving planet.And it is the second smallestplanet in our solar system. 2.Mercury is very difficult to see.Its orbit isbetween us and the sun.So,we have to look toward thebright light of the sun to see it.The sunlight usuallyhides Mercury.When we can see it,it appears as a fuzzyball.     

不定式复合结构中for与of的选择

一般情况下,不定式的逻辑主语常常省略。例如:It is nice to see you again.It is not easy to realise the four modernizations.有时为了使不定式所表达的意思确切些,得在不定式前加上其逻辑主语。例如:It is necessary for me to learn a new language well.It is kind of you to help us so much.     

Happy Teacher''''s Day

This is Teachers’Day and a time to be grateful to all teachers.Our beloved teacher,the love and care you have given us will encourage us to go through a long and arduous journey.On the voyage of life,you have kindled the light of hope for me. What you have done enriches my mind and broadens my view. On this day I honour you sincerely.Thank you for making learning not a dull thing but a great joy.You have been a qualified teacher and even a better friend.We wish to show our gratitude and th…     

Problems and Countermeasures in Oral English Teaching in Senior Middle Schools

The English language is widely used now and there is no need for us to talk about its importance.English teaching is aimed to enable students to obtain basic English knowledge and to have the ability to use it in communication by the training of listening,speaking,reading and writing.In middle schools,oral English teaching is usually neglected by teachers and students.This article tries to find out the problems and then give us some countermeasures so as to improve oral English teaching.     

20 Ways to Save $100

It is a shortcoming many of us share: we don't save enough money. According to a Merrill Lynch-sponsored study, the average baby boomer is saving only 35.9 percent of the amount needed for a comfortable retirement. Meanwhile credit-card debts and other loans hang over us like a sword.     

一句多译

1.掌握好英语对我们学习科学知识有很大帮助。To master English helps us a great deal in the study of science. Knowing English well is very helpful for us to learn science. To have a good command of English is a great help to our studying science.     

How to Keep a Friendship Alive

A friendship network is absolutely crucial for our well-being. We have to do the hard work of building and sustaining the network. There are some ways for accomplishing this. My dear friends: do you have any good ways to share us?Let go of your less central friendships. Many of our friendships were never meant to last a lifetime.     

It works in practice

More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETρreaders. Try them out for yourself - and then send us your own contribution.All the contributors to It Works in Practice in this issue of ETρwill receive a free copy of The Language Teacher's Voice by Alan Maley, published by Macmillan. Macmillan have kindly agreed to be sponsors of It Works in Practice for the coming year and contributors will be given copies of books in their Teacher Development Series.     

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.