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My dear friends,
Good morning every,my name is sam,it’s my honor to give you a speech,today i am going to tell you a story about mother love,and the topic of the story is the child’s guardian angel.
Once upon a time there was a child really to be born.so one day he asked god ``they tell me you will send me to the earth tomorrow but how am i going to live there being so small and helpless.''
God answered:“among the many angels,ichose one for you.she will be waiting for you and will take care of you.”
“in heaven,i don't do anything else but sing and smile,that's enough for me to be happy.”
“your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you everyday,and you will fell your angel's love and be very happy.”
“and how can i understand when people talk to me.”the child continued.
God patted him on the head and said: “your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words ,and will teach you how to speak.”
“I'v heard there are many bad men on the earth, who will protect me?”
“Your angel will defend you with her life.”
At the moment there was much peace in heaven,but voices from the earth could already be heard.the child know he had to leave very soon.he asked god one more question softly, “oh,god, iam going to leave now, can you tell me my angel's name?”
God touched the child on the shoulder and answered: “your angel's name is not hard to remember,you will simply call her mommy.”
I will never forget this story,today i told it to more people and i’d like to point out :in the world,the greatest love of all is mother love.let us care about mother love and care about our life，i hope we all could live happily.
That's all,thank you very much for your attention.
各位家长伴侣大家好，很兴奋又和大家见面了。只是这一次见面已经大不同了。开学时候，我们的珍宝们还是稚嫩可爱的准一班级同学，现在的确名副其实的学校生了。两个月的时间，孩子们的进步很大很大。
那下面我就这两个月的英语学习对我们的孩子做一个总结。
第一，课堂常规已经初形规模，开学时候，许多孩子上课动来动去，也不知道老师的课堂口令是什么意思，现在课堂常规较好，孩子们跟着我，一个口令一个动作，清晰明白什么意思，公开课的时候我们班的英语课堂常规受到其他老师的全都好评。
其次，家庭学习到位。开学之初，很少有孩子回去会听光碟或是按时听光碟，现在许多孩子家庭学习特别棒的，每天回去按时完成我布置的作业，有的`小珍宝还提前就学习了下一单元，我在早晨晨间英语才一放下单元内容，许多珍宝就已经会唱了，让我特别惊讶，家长协作特别好。
第三，学习英语爱好深厚。许多孩子从开头不明白什么是英语课，到现在的深深爱上英语课。课前我才进到教室，孩子们就已经换好桌位，摆放好学习记录本，等待老师进来。课上我点名小组上来讲台展现的时候，要是没点到其他组，他们就会有些绝望，都恨不得老师每次都点他们组，可见孩子们的学习爱好是很深厚的。还有好多好多的优点我就不一一举例说明白。
下面来说说还存在的一些问题，第一，部分孩子英语每日一句弄丢了，请家长询问孩子并尽快拿同学的去复印并过塑，以免耽搁英语早读。其次，周寄宿的孩子周末回家作业许多没有完成，盼望家长回去周末让孩子仔细听读光碟，仔细说英语，玩嬉戏，然后给孩子签名。其次，还是作业问题，我们班大部分孩子完成作业比较好，部分家长没有监督好，间或签名间或又不签，我一检查学习记录本我就会知道的，所以请家长协作好我们的工作。现在我们总校的五班级就是从一班级开头学，到三班级转常规课，整体孩子们的听说读写力量要比三班级起点学英语的孩子要好许多，所以平常家长要监督到位，每天听光碟，说英语，玩嬉戏也好，这些都要协作好孩子完成，这是一个日积月累的工作，请我们急躁对待。
最终请家长协作我完成以下几点：
一、每天监督孩子学习英语，至少非常钟；
二、签名，并写上一些对孩子鼓舞的话语；三、请鼓舞孩子大声读英语，错了没关系，肯定张嘴说。
各位家长：
你们好。首先欢迎你们来参加家长会。感谢你们在百忙之中来到学校，共同来关注学生的学习情况，关心学校的发展。下面我把学校及近期学生的一些情况向家长做以下汇报。
首先，向各位家长汇报一下学生近来的学习、纪律等各方面的情况。
自从新学期开学以后，学生的精神面貌和学习习惯等方面都有了较大的进步。比如601班的郑丰、602班的彭良等同学在纪律、学习、行为习惯等方面都有了很大的变化。每个班都表现出良好的班风。但也有个别学生行为习惯不太好，如：上课有做小动作的习惯、课堂上不能大胆表现自己、说话随便等问题。不过，我相信在以后的日子里这些不良的习惯他们会自觉改掉的。希望每一位家长时时处处看到自己孩子的成长和进步，多表扬、激励，让每个孩子都看到自己优势，认识自我、表现自我，从学习活动中获得成功的快乐。
一、共同关注的几个问题：
这一时期的学生发展具有以下特点：
7—14岁年龄段上，教育学和心理学把这一阶段称为“少年期”这段时间上，心理和生理变化比较迅速，身心各方面都比较矛盾。父母要高度重视对这一关键期和危险期的监护和把关。这一时期他们精力充沛，好奇心强，任何事总想试一试，但他们的愿望与自己的实际能力是有很大的矛盾的，他们的独立性增强了，总想摆脱对教师和家长的信赖，总认为自己不是孩子了。有事不愿和父母及师长交流，处于一种半封闭状态，和同龄人诉说又冒着曝光的危险，所以他们感觉没有朋友没有人可以理解他们，他们的情感很脆弱，最容易冲动，做事也很莽撞，后果意识能力差，好奇是他们一生中的高峰。他们虽达不到辨析是非的能力，但很自信，自我抑制能力在这段时间最低。所以父母和老师，一定要加强教育和引导。
以下问题，我们已经强调过几次，但学校对学生的安全非常重视，所以，我们仍要常抓不懈。
1、安全问题：
主要存在两大方面：
首先，交通安全。在校内，要求学生单人靠右上下楼，不准并行。不准在楼梯内逗留、拥挤、奔跑、打闹。保证学生的安全。我们学校从领导到每一位教师都非常关注学生的安全，采取了许多措施尽量保障每一位学生安全。放学时，每班的正副班主任都把学生送到接送区。学生虽然在学校里的安全得到了保障，但是，学生在路上也可能出现问题。这就要求我们学校和家长共同教育，共同努力。比如：每天学生回家后可以问一问学生的情况。我们老师会经常教育学生遵守交通规则，保证自身的安全。
其次，是饮食安全。学生乱买零食吃饮食安全也存在隐患。一些小商小贩只顾自己赚钱，不顾食品卫生和孩子的健康。孩子比较小，对于食物的选择不加考虑，愿意吃什么就吃什么。一些孩子喜欢吃一些油炸食品，长期吃这种食物会造成身体的伤害。我们老师们经常教育学生注意饮食卫生，希望家长在家也嘱咐孩子要注意饮食卫生。孩子回到家，多让孩子吃些水果。
3、学生上网问题。
4、学生的.家庭教育。
我们在家庭内要关注学生的健康发展。这次家长会，我主要谈怎样针对六年级学生的年龄特点来进行教育和沟通。比如，在我校有的同学不听家长和老师的劝告，上网吧去打游戏成瘾，老师苦口婆心劝说多次，但无济于事，学生与老师形成了对立。这就说明，现在的孩子有和父母、老师对着干的趋势。所以，在教育上就要有较好的方法才行。
a。从语言上，不要说一些伤害学生自尊心的话。
比如：严厉苛刻类的话—“你不该这样做！”“难道我没有告诉你？”冷嘲热讽类的—“你一点也不好”“你笨得像头猪”一概否定类—“没出息的东西”“一辈子你也做不好”人身攻击类—“你有神经病”威胁恫吓类—“再不听说，我就打死你”漠不关心类—“随你便”。这些类似的语言都会极大地伤害学生的自尊心，把孩子引向你的对立面，与你对着干。
b、不要打击孩子的自信。
c、理智爱子的问题
大文学家高尔基曾说过一句话“溺爱是误入孩子口中的毒药，如果仅仅是为了爱，连老母鸡都能做到这一点。”溺爱是一咱低本能的爱，真正的爱是理智高尚的爱，吃喝拉撒睡是爱，教子吃苦教子成材更是爱。
孩子在同样的年龄段里，同时走进同一所学校，在同样的班级里就读，授课的时间是相同的，教化环境是一致的，教则教规是一致的，然而接受教育的效果则是区别很大的，这种大优大劣分化的原因。并不在于学校教育质量，而在于家庭教育的配合上。所以只强调学校教育质量，而不检查自己家庭教育配合的家长，一定是教育知识空白的家长。如果这样比喻，老师好比医生，父母好比护士，学生好比住院的病人，医生的主要任务是下药，父母的护理是十分重要的。
建议家长建立平等的和谐的民主家庭，通过今天的分析交流能够明白了家庭教育的重要性。最后以给家长十条建议的方式结束会议，也算是一个总结。
一、尽量表扬孩子，孩子具有一定的自信心，才会肯去学习，要使孩子每天都感觉到他在学习上取得了一定的进步，哪怕是改正一个缺点。
二、多关心孩子的学习内容和实际进步程度，家长要多询问孩子最近学习了什么掌握得如何等。
三、经常给孩子制订几个容易达到的小目标，这样可以使孩子感觉到能够做到，树立孩子自信心，从而有利于孩子发挥出潜能。象摘果了一样。
四、刺激孩子的学习欲望，要抓住生活中的各种机会让孩子练习。特别是做人的道理。
五、帮助孩子树立责任心，让学生学会洗碗，洗自己的衣服，整理自己的床铺，用具，尽到自己的那份责任。
六、孩子面前做表率。参考一些内容：
七、尽量不要在孩子面前议论老师，尤其不要在孩子面前贬低老师。
八、订下家庭学习规矩，并且自始至终执行，以形成良好的学习习惯，作息习惯。
九、引导孩子提出问题，要培养孩子多问为什么。
十、要使孩子重视上学，尽量避免孩子缺课的情况发生。
I’m proud of being a teacher Wenyang Central Primary School Wu Jianjian Dear ladies and gentlemen,It’s my honor to stand here to make a speech topic today is “I’m proud of being a teacher”.
This summer I was lucky to take part in the summer English training for primary school of of my foreign teachers T.J. impressed me y morning and afternoon before classes,he always asked us to say “Teachers are the greatest profession in the world.”It influenced me very be a teacher may be not a good job,but I don’t regret my choice.
I always remembered a message from one of my happened on a spring student made rapid progress in the final sent me a said,“Dear Ms Wu,you treated me like my out your help,I could not make so much ks for your help.I love you forever,Ms you be happy every day.”I was excited to receive the my opinion,I just encouraged him often and taught him some learning it helped him a it,I knew my choice of being a teacher was right.I’m proud of being a teacher.
So, in my opinion, we teachers must pay more attention and patience to children and above all——love them. If you give a little love to children，you will get back a great deal.
So,I will try my best to put all my heart and soul in the teaching.I’ll regard every student as my own use I’m a hers are the greatest profession in the world. I’m proud of being a teacher. That’s k you.
no young man believes he shall ever die. it was a saying of my brother's, and a fine one. there is a feeling of eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. to be young is to be as one of the immortal gods. one half of time indeed is flown-the other half remains in store for us with all its countletreasures; for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes. we make the coming age our own the vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us.
death. old age. are words without a meaning. that paby us like the idea air which we regard not. others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them-we "bear a charmed life“, which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. as in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!
and see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations. nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. we have as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever. we look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseleprogress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it, and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things, decline into old age, and drop into the grave. it is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedneof our feelings in youth, that (so to speak) identifies us with nature, and (our experience being slight and our passions strong) deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it. our short-lives connection with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. as infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more-objects prearound us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of deat
Someone said “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of abook, whose pages are infinite”. I don’t know who wrote these words, but I’vealways liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want it tobe. We are all in the position of the farmers. If we plant a good seed ,we reapa good harvest. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.
We are young. “How to spend the youth?” It is a meaningful question. Toanswer it, first I have to ask “what do you understand by the word youth?” Youthis not a time of life, it’s a state of mind. It’s not a matter of rosy cheeks,red lips or supple knees. It’s the matter of the will. It’s the freshneof thedeep spring of life.
A poet said “To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. Severaldays ago, I had a chance to listen to a lecture. I learnt a lot there. I’d liketo share it with all of you. Let’s show our right palms. We can see three linesthat show how our love.career and life is. I have a short line of life.
What about yours? I wondered whether we could see our future in this way.Well, let’s make a fist. Where is our future?
Where is our love, career, and life? Tell me.Yeah, it is in our hands. Itis held in ourselves.
We all want the future to be better than the past. But the future can gobetter itself. Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. From thepast, we’ve learnt that the life is tough, but we are tougher. We’ve learnt thatwe can’t choose how we feel, but we can choose what about it. Failure doesn’tmean you don’t have it, it does mean you should do it in a different way.Failure doesn’t mean you should give up, it does mean you must try harder.
As what I said at the beginning, “we are reading the first verse of thefirst chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. The past has gone. Nothingwe do will change it. But the future is in front of us. Believe that what wegive to the world, the world will give to us. And from today on, let’s be theowners of ourselves, and speak out “We are the world, we are the future.”
一些人说“我们正在读一本无穷的书中的第一章的第一节。”我不知道谁写了这些话，但是我一直很喜欢它，因为它提醒了
我，我们能够创造我们想要的未来。
我们都是农夫。如果我们播下好的种子，我们将会丰收。如果我们的种子很差，有很多草籽，收割的将是无用的庄稼。如果我们什么也不播种，什么收获也没有。
我们是年轻的。“怎样度过青春?”这是个有意义的问题。为了去回答它，我首先要问“从‘青春’这个词中你能理解到什么?”青春不是人生的一个时期，而是精神的一种状态。青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，。青春是生命的深泉在涌流.
一位诗人说“从一粒沙看世界，从一朵花看天堂，把无限放在你的手掌，永恒在一刹那里收藏”。几天前，我有了一个听讲座的机会，从中我学到了很多东西。现在，我想把这些与大家共享。让我们伸出右手，我们可以看到手掌中的展示我们的爱，事业和生活的三条线。我在生活方面这条线很短，那你们的呢?我想知道我们是否可以用这种办法去看我们的未来。好的，让我们一起握拳。我们的未来在哪儿?我们的爱、事业和生活在哪儿?告诉我!是的，它们就在我们的手中。它们被我们自己掌握着。
我们所有人都希望未来能比过去更美好，但是未来能自己变得更好。不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。从过去来看，生活是艰苦的，但我们是更坚强。我们知道我们不能选择感觉，但是我们能选择和它相关的东西。失败并不意味着你不拥有成功，它只意味着你应该用另一种方式去做这件事。失败并不意味着你应该放弃，只意味着你应该更加努力。
正如我在前面所说的“我们正在读一本无穷的书中的第一章的第一节。”过去的已经过去，无论我们无力改变，但是未来却在我们前方。相信“我们给了世界什么，世界也将给我们”。并且从今天起，让我们一起做我们自己的主人，一起大声说出“世界是我们的，未来是我们的。”
Distinguished parents: good afternoon ladies and gentlemen thank you for your time to attend today's symposium today to attend the parents of the child belong to different degrees of obesity children's parents. Hope that through today's lecture help parents and children. As people living standard unceasing enhancement parenting and children's dietary structure changes nutrient rich combined with the only child's special status and unscientific feeding incidence of childhood obesity is gradually increasing. We are beginning to realize that: childhood obesity is not a lovely sign obese children in the study character and life and so on various aspects will have a lot of inconvenience. Thick Samuel therefore we should not rain completes the relevant publicity and education work take the necessary preventive measures in order to effectively control the occurrence ji. Kindergarten is important place the growth of preschool children's life so make good FeiPanEr project management and the prevention and control work is our kindergarten care teachers bounden duty.
In order to reduce and prevent children get fat we together with parents to discuss several problems: such as: what is the simple obesity? Simple obesity causes? Standards of obesity? Obesity can bring what harm? How to treat and so on. 1 what is the simple obesity? Obesity is due to the heat energy metabolic disorders the consumption of calories more than heat cause the body fat accumulation.
Childhood obesity has two season:
(1) infancy (that is within one year of age). In infancy the activities of the child is small have a long sleep eat nutritious food and some parents give their children eat don't control children eat a cry to him so it is easy to cause obesity. In infancy is fat children in two or three years later with the increase of children range range expansion obesity can be improved. But there are also children continue to get fat has maintained into adulthood.
(2) the early school age (i.e. 5-8 years). Moderate above simple obesity of children age began to get fat is mostly in the 5 s the obesity of children this period is mainly caused by bad way of life: on the one hand the traditional diet habits in affects children if eat and drink too much eating and drinking; On the other hand the western dietary patterns are interfered with domestic children's diets such as too much sweet food and western fast food drink soft drinks cause excessive intake of calories and exercise less over a long period of time. As a result the extra calories to fat obesity. In obese children in China we found that obese children love to eat all kinds of meat sweet love to drink good appetite eat fast don't want to eat vegetables. Cause the cause of obesity in addition to the thermal energy intake too much too little exercise meditation time too long wait for a reason genetic endocrine disorders can also cause obesity.
2 simple obesity causes?
(1) genetic factors. According to the relevant information the parents have the obesity the possibility of children obesity has 32 ~ 34%; Both parents are obese the incidence of child obesity increased to 50 ~ 60%. On the other hand 72% of fat children parents have at least one person also have obesity. And now have found a variety of genes associated with obesity.
Diction is eating too much and overnutrition. Obese children tend to eat a lot of high fat food sweet food especially the unlimited access to eat snacks and drink sweet drinks and these can cause obesity.
(3) movement. Parents were busy with work no time to accompany children play together always let the children stay at home such as TV children can not get enough exercise gradually becomes less physical static activities more and more such as watching TV playing video games and so on these can make children reduce activity fat growth. Fat kid inactivity inactive children become more fat the result is a vicious circle.
(4) parents have the wrong idea. Especially the parents of obese children think children as long as can eat is a good thing so the easiest way to produce a obese children.
(5) the poor eating habits. Investigation shows that the more the more obese likes to eat meat don't like to eat vegetables such as child piddle parents aren't paying attention. In addition children inadvertently desperately eat more snacks get into the habit of snacking so poor eating habits will appear fat. So for children's obesity should be in many ways to find the reason targeted for treatment.
hi! judges and friends,i’m very glad and excited that i have a chance like this to share my own experience of teaching with you.
the topic of my today’s lecture is better to teach a man fishing than to give him a fish ----cultivating good studying habits of students in english teaching.
school education is very important and useful. the students not only learn knowledge but also get an education. yet, no one can learn everything at school. the scientists, such as edison, newton, galileo and einstein, did not learn everything at school. they learned a lot of knowledge outside school or practice by themselves. a teacher, even he knows a lot, can’t teach his students everything. our job is to show our students how to learn, how to read and how to think. a good teacher with rich experience in teaching can teach his students the methods (ways) of study. through these methods the students are able to learn and get a lot of things by themselves.
since i became an english teacher over ten years ago, i have had a definite teaching thought: i teach my students not only english words and grammar but also methods of studying english by making full use of teaching materials so as to enable them to develop good studying habits bit by bit.
then, what are good studyi(请你继续关注本站)ng habits of students? in my opinion, they should include the following at least: the habit of previewing actively before class; the habit of listening intensively in class; the habit of reviewing carefully after class; the habit of completing homework independently; the habit of thinking deeply and actively; the habit of making notes during reading out of class; and good habits of reading aloud, memorizing, reciting, etc. those habits should contribute to assimilating english knowledge they have learned into their own ones, and promoting their abilities of listening, speaking, reading, and writing all round. so, as english teachers, we must be good at cultivating good studying interest of students, enable them to develop good studying habits and make english studying continue for their life.
the first is how to preview before class. i call for my students to preview well before class which will be learned next class. for new words and phrases in text, students should not only practice spelling but also understand their meanings according to sentences and context. for texts and dialogues, students may understand them through the use of notes, reference books or dictionaries at hand, searching topic paragraph or sentence, then try doing exercises after class. of all these can help them to find problems or questions as well as master the points that are important and difficult in text, which might lighten the pressure of students in new classes. this is a kind of good studying habit and of method available of training the ability to teach themselves. we should call for our students to last for practicing in a consistent way. in doing so, good studying habits can be developed ultimately.
the second is how to listen to class. teachers should make students develop good habits of concentrating on listening to class and questioning actively in class. only if listening to class in earnest, can students settle questions found when they previewed before class; only if raising doubts actively, can they develop abilities of thinking independently and innovating boldly. mr. ye shengtao once said, “a man should raise doubts when reading books, and settle doubts when running into them.” aristotle also said, “ doubts and curiosity precede thoughts.” and li zhengdao holds the similar idea, “to quest knowledge edge demands learning and questioning; to learn the answer is not the substance of knowledge.” so we can see, it is important to question actively and raise doubts boldly for studying. this is like sunshine and rain to the trees, little trees cannot grow into big ones without them. therefore, whether in class or after class, we should actively encourage students to question, to raise doubts, to have discussion, stimulate them to analyze questions and to seek approaches to settle them, and cultivate their spirits of thinking independently and innovating boldly.
the third is how to review and summarize. i always call for my students to go over what they have learned that day so as to have deeper impressions of the key contents, just like to see the film in their brains. it is very useful to strengthen the memory and the knowledge they have learned. besides, after a week or a month, students should summarize the related knowledge, homework and analyze papers. this is also good habit of studying. only in this way, can the learned knowledge be completed. it is of great help to get different thinking abilities for students.
the fourth is attitudes towards homework of students. good attitudes towards homework should involve writing it earnestly and normally, and completing it independently during a definite period. we should consider the homework after reading and amending, not only find the mistakes, including the spelling mistakes, but also analyze the reasons. i also together my students set up archives for mistakes and sum up all different types in order not to make the same mistakes during studying. keeping on doing as that until they form a habit. it can not only improve the students’ practical english level, but also help them to analyze and solve the problems.
besides that, reading and reciting is one of the effective methods to english studying. as we all know, reading is a way to input the information. during the reading, the movements of mouth and tongue can be reflected in brain and become mechanical memory, which is very useful to memorize the words and expressions. in this way, we can not only train the instinctive feel for the language of the students, but also increase the process of turning the language accumulation into the language application. this is just the goal for input. so in my english teaching, i often guide the reading and reciting to make the students have good memorial habit and develop their abilities to read and write.
now i seriously want to thank you for that. i had to take that picture. my mother always took photos of me at every progress point growing up. shesquo;d show off those photos to everyone who came to our house, and she would be so proud that i am here at my old stomping ground with all of you.
so, now graduates, itsquo;s certainly your day, but president price already reminded us itsquo;s mothe’s day – but you know women never get enough love, never. so the one day we have here to offer a deserved salute to those who bore us biologically and those who stood in as surrogates for many of our needs and wants – deserve some more love. i want all the graduates to stand up and give their mothers and their surrogate mothers some love. thank you.
now this is my first mothe’s day without my own mother, who i lost last august.
and while shesquo;s not here physically, i can still hear her voice when i reach a significant milestone or face what appears to be an insurmountable obstacle.
and if she were here today, i know exactly what she would say to you.
in response to your achievement, it would, no doubt, be crisp and compelling a show of support: you did it! and she would offer you a huge smile and an even bigger hug.
but she would also keep it real with you like she always did with me. she would tell you that your future, like any of ours, is going to be hard work. i can hear her say: lisa, listen to me and hear me clearly. adversity is like the agitator in the washing machine. it beats the heck out of the clothes, but theysquo;re clean when they come out.
If you're middle-aged and your memory's not what it used to be, check thebathroom scale, researchers warned, suggesting overweight people tend to scoremore poorly on tests of memory than their thinner peers do.
The findings suggest that a heavier weight in middle age may mean a higherrisk of dementia later in life.
Reporting in the journal Neurology, the researchers speculated that higherrates of cardiovascular disease or diabetes might help explain the link. Butit's also possible that substances produced by fat cells, such as the hormoneleptin, have direct effects on the brain.
The study compared mental abilities to body mass index (BMI), a
measurement of weight in relation to height used to define overweight andobesity. A BMI of 25 or more indicates overweight, and 30 or more is obese.
The study also investigated the relationships between BMI and cognitivefunction in 2,223 healthy men and women between the ages of 32 and 62 in Francethrough the use of four cognitive tests.
The study found a higher BMI was associated with lower cognitive test scores.Results from a test involving word memory recall show people with a BMI of 20remembered an average of nine out of 16 words, while people with a BMI of 30remembered an average of seven out of 16 words.
In the summer recess between freshman and sophomore years in college, I wasinvited to be an instructor at a high school leadership camp hosted by a collegein Michigan. I was already highly involved in most campus activities, and Ijumped at the opportunity.
About an hour into the first day of camp, amid the frenzy of icebreakersand forced interactions, I first noticed the boy under the tree. He was smalland skinny, and his obvious discomfort and shyness made him appear frail andfragile. Only 50 feet away, 200 eager campers were bumping bodies, playing,joking and meeting each other, but the boy under the tree seemed to want to beanywhere other than where he was. The desperate loneliness he radiated almoststopped me from approaching him, but I remembered the instructions from thesenior staff to stay alert for campers who might feel left out.
As I walked toward him I said, “Hi, my name is Kevin and I’m one of thecounselors. It’s nice to meet you. How are you?”
In a shaky, sheepish voice he reluctantly answered, “Okay, I guess.”
I calmly asked him if he wanted to join the activities and meet some newpeople. He quietly replied, “No, this is not really my thing.”
I could sense that he was in a new world, that this whole experience wasforeign to him. But I somehow knew it wouldn’t be right to push him, either. Hedidn’t need a pep talk, he needed a friend. After several silent moments, myfirst interaction with the boy under the tree was over.
At lunch the next day, I found myself leading camp songs at the top of mylungs for 200 of my new friends. The campers were eagerly participated. My gazewandered over the mass of noise and movement and was caught by the image of theboy from under the tree, sitting alone, staring out the window. I nearly forgotthe words to the song I was supposed to be leading. At my first opportunity, Itried again, with the same questions as before: “How are you doing? Are youokay?”
To which he again replied, “Yeah, I’m all right. I just don’t really getinto this stuff. ”
As I left the cafeteria, I too realized this was going to take more timeand effort than I had thought — if it was even possible to get through to him atall.
That evening at our nightly staff meeting, I made my concerns about himknown. I explained to my fellow staff members my impression of him and askedthem to pay special attention and spend time with him when they could.
The days I spend at camp each year fly by faster than any others I haveknown. Thus, before I knew it, mid-week had dissolved into the final night ofcamp and I was chaperoning the “last dance”. The students were doing all theycould to savor every last moment with their new “best friends” — friends theywould probably never see again.
As I watched the campers share their parting moments, I suddenly saw whatwould be one of the most vivid memories of my life. The boy from under the tree,who stared blankly out the kitchen window, was now a shirtless dancing wonder.He owned the dance floor as he and two girls proceeded to cut up a rug. Iwatched as he shared meaningful, intimate time with people at whom he couldn’teven look just days earlier. I couldn’t believe it was him. In October of mysophomore year, a late-night phone call pulled me away from my chemistry book. Asoft-spoken, unfamiliar voice asked politely, “Is Kevin there?”
“You’re talking to him. Who’s this?”
“This is Tom Johnson’s mom. Do you remember Tommy from leadership camp?”
The boy under the tree. How could I not remember? “Yes, I do”, I said.“He’s a very nice young man. How is he?”
An abnormally long pause followed, then Mrs. Johnson said, “My Tommy waswalking home from school this week when he was hit by a car and killed.”Shocked, I offered my condolences.
“I just wanted to call you”, she said, “because Tommy mentioned you so manytimes. I wanted you to know that he went back to school this fall withconfidence. He made new friends. His grades went up. And he even went out on afew dates. I just wanted to thank you for making a difference for Tom. The lastfew months were the best few months of his life.”
In that instant, I realized how easy it is to give a bit of yourself everyday. You may never know how much each gesture may mean to someone else. I tellthis story as often as I can, and when I do, I urge others to look out for theirown “boy under the tree.”
在大一到大二之间的那个暑假，密歇根的一所大学主办一次中学学生干部夏令营，邀我担任辅导员。对于校园的多数活动，我都持赞同态度并积极参与，那次我同样欣然接受了。
头一天活动进行大约一个钟头，我注意到，开始活跃的营员们兴致浓厚，不太自然地互动起来，而树下却有一个孤零零的男孩。他身材矮小，瘦弱不堪，那明显的不安和羞怯使他显得不堪一击。在只有五十英尺远的地方，二百名充满激情的营员正在玩耍、开玩笑并互作介绍，而树下的男孩似乎除了想呆在原地，不想去任何地方。他流露出的极度孤独令我几乎难以靠近，但我没忘记资深辅导员们的提示：对可能感觉受到冷落的营员要保持警惕。
我走向那个男孩，对他说：“嗨!我叫凯文，是你们的辅导员。很高兴认识你，你好吗?”
带着颤抖的怯生生的声音，他勉强答道：“我想——还好吧。”
我平静地问他想不想投入到那些活动从而结识一些人，他轻声回答：“不，那不关我的事。”
我能感觉到他在面对一个新的环境，这种体验对他来说是全然陌生的。也不知为什么,我觉得强迫他加入也不妥当。他不需要鼓励性的讲，他需要的是朋友。几次沉默之后，我和树下男孩的接触就此结束。
第二天吃午饭的时候，我扯开嗓门，领着二百名刚认识的新朋友唱起了营歌。营员们都热情参与，我的目光游移于这群人，忽然那个“树下男孩”的样子吸引了我的注意：他孤零零地坐着，眼瞅着窗外。我几乎忘记了领唱的歌词。只要一有机会，我就会照旧用那些话问他：“你怎么样?你好吗?”
他的回答依然是：“嗯，我很好。我真地不想参与那种事儿。”
我离开自助餐厅的时候充分认识到，扭转这种状况所需的时间和所做的努力要比我想像的要多——即便是在能让他彻底“迷途知返”的情况下。
在当晚的全体工作人员会议上，我告诉了他们我对他的担忧。我向同事们说明他给我留下的印象，请求他们对他给以特别的关注，并尽可能花时间和他在一起。
每年我在营地度过的日子总是一晃而过，感觉比其它时间过得快。这次同样如此。我还没明白过来，星期三已成过去，露营的最后一晚来到了。我伴随营员们跳起“最后的舞蹈”。学生们都在竭力品味跟新“挚友”在一起的最后每一刻——他们或许以后再也见不到面了。
营员们共度这难忘的分别时刻，这时我突然目睹了我一生都记忆最清晰的一幕：那个曾透过厨房窗户茫然盯着外面的树下男孩，此时却成了不穿衬衫的跳舞奇才。他和两个女孩跳着摇摆舞，在舞池里到处舞动。我注视着他跟大家共享这亲密无间又意义深长的时刻，而仅仅几天前他却对他们连瞧也不瞧一眼。判若两人，让我无法相信。
我大二那年的十月，深夜的一个电话让我放下化学课本，一个柔和却生疏的声音彬彬有礼地问道：
“凯文在吗?”
“我就是，您是哪位?”
“我是汤姆?约翰逊的母亲，您还记得那个参加夏令营的汤米吗?”
树下的那个男孩，我怎么会不记得呢?
“我记得。”我说，“他是个很不错的小伙子，他现在情况怎么样?”
长长的反常沉默过后，约翰逊夫人又说道：“汤米这个星期从学校回家的时候，一辆汽车撞了他使他辞别人世。”我感到震惊，向她表示我的哀悼。
“我给您打电话，”她说，“只因为汤米好多次说起过您。我想让您知道，他今年秋季返校时有了自信心，交了新朋友，学习成绩提高了，甚至还出去约会过几次。我只想表达我的感激之情，因为是您改变了他。最后的这几个月是他度过的生命中最美好的时光。”
在那一刻，我意识到，你每天奉献出一点点还是容易得很，你可能永远都不知道你的举动对他人的影响有多大。我常常讲起这个故事，每当讲起的时候，我总是力劝别人也注意一下他们自己的“树下男孩”。
as we know, you have to learn how to fly much more independently instead of under your parents’ considerate protection when you get into college, which also means you will come across enormous questions that should be solved by yourself. from my point of view, those main problems can fall into three parts.
first of all, the complicated relationship. for one thing, you have to know how cultural differences function in your relationship and respect them. in addition, college students spend less time studying together owing to different courses’ choosing, which requires us to devote more energy to building relationship. for the other thing, it is also vital to communicate with your parents often by using mobile phones or other tools.
secondly, the temptations. the college serves us a more relaxed environment mixed with other temptations such as the internet, alcohols and so on. what’s more, the college teachers won’t compel you to study like before, you doze off or play cell phone in class, and you flee up the morning class because you get up too late. such too frequent behaviors will cripple your passion and enthusiasm towards life, so it is essential for us to resist these temptations and insist pursuing our own goals.
thirdly, the balance between study and work. most of us will choose to take a part time job to earn the extra money or just to exercise ourselves. but it is significant to keep a relatively balanced relationship between them since i always regard the study as our main task, so my principle is adjusting work to follow the schedule of study.
in conclusion, whatever issues we meet or miseries we suffer from, confront the hash reality head on, what we can do is remembering the past, living in the present and looking forward to the future.
My high school headteacher teaches my English. He is handsome. And he is very thin for hardwork. He is about forty years old. He looks serious. But in fact, he is kind, nice and warmhearted.
On the one hand, he is serious on study. Whoever doesn’t finish the homework or cheat in the exam, he will punish him or her badly. Sometimes he will let those students do doble homework or have another exam. Sometimes he will ask those students write reports on that behavior.
But when teaching us in class, he is so patient. It’s the same when asking him questions. On the other hand, he will play with us after class. Meanwhile, if anyone has any difficuty in study or daily life, he will give a hand without hesitation.
All in all, we love our headteacher, though sometimes he is serious. We like his responsibility. We also appreciate his spirit to work for students heart and soul.
i love english,it gives me a colorful dream.i hope i can travel around the world one day. with my good english, i can make friends with many people from different contries.i can see many places of great interests.i dream that i can go to london,because it is the birth place of english.
i also want to use my good english to introduce our great places to the english spoken people,i hope that they can love our country like us.
i know, rome was not built in a day. i believe that after continuous hard study, one day i can speak english very well.
if you want to be loved, you should learn to love and be lovable. so i believe as i love english everyday , it will love me too.
i am sure that i will realize my dream one day!
Miss Hou is my high school English teacher. Her English name is Jenny. She looks so weak that a strong wind may blow her away. She is not too tall, about 150cm. She is experiened of English teaching. She teaches me for three the other word, she is the only English teacher during my high school study. She is special.
She will show an English song to us before her class. A few days later, she will ask us to follow the singing on the tape. I can still remember some songs she taught us.
It is strang that she looks so weak, but no one in my class will against her word. I think maybe is because her own yone respects her. She is serious in work, so that our whole class’s English is good. Happily, she is our friend after class. She always palys badminton with us.
She is also ready to help us if we have any difficultiy. In my mind, a good teacher is more than a million books. And she will be my mentor forever. Jenny, my teacher, I love you.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese peopleand is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in theWest.
Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings totheir parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up inred paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, forbreakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the oldand ushering in the new".
That Chinese people pay more attention to be polite,while it is differentfrom other countries .And chinese culture is brilliant and they know how to usea brush to write
Now dragon is the symbol of the whole Chinese people.
Dragon is a animal worshipped by the Chinese people from the timeimmemorial. But what is it? No one knows.
Some people think that the Yanzi crocodile is the archetype of the dragon.However, most people hold that dragon is a combination of many animals. And theabilities of those animals have been collected to it. Wang Chong, once pointedthat the horn of dragon liked deer's one, the head liked camel's one, the eyesliked rabbit's one, the neck liked snake's one, the talon liked eagle's one, thepalm liked tiger's one and the ear liked cattle's one.
Never Give Up
“If I could reach higher, just for one moment to touch the sky…”---this is from my favorite song Reach.
When we are appreciating the passionate melody of Gloria Estefan, we could hardly imagine that she could return to the stage after her paralysis. In the year 1990, this Cuban singer was knocked down in a traffic accident, and the doctor declared that she might never walk again. But Gloria did not give up and kept up constant exercising. Just one year after the disaster, she stood up again and presented this encouraging song at the Atlanta Olympics.
Whenever I think of Gloria, I can’t help recalling my memory seven years ago, when I first entered university. Naturally shy, ordinary looking, average scores in study, just like an ugly duckling, I seemed to be the least outstanding one in my class. And the successive failures in the beginning led me into despair. “Am I destined to take the back seat to others?” Unwilling to submit to the fate, I paid more efforts on my study as well as many other activities, film dubbing, recital, drama… cause I just want to catch every little opportunity to prove myself. Constant effort yields sure success. Thanks to the competition, I received some awards and most of all, I gained the courage and confidence to face any difficulties in my life journey.
Life is just like farming, and what you can reap depends a lot on your sowing and dedication. Once you have a dream, don’t be hesitant. Your next difficult step may be the one to the top. Keep going forward, even in the toughest time, and never give up.
永不放弃
“如果我能到达更高的地方，哪怕只有碰触天空的一刹那…”---选自我所喜爱的歌曲《到达》。
当我们在欣赏葛罗莉亚·伊斯特芬那充满激情的旋律，我们很难想象她能从瘫痪中回到舞台。1990年这个古巴歌手遭遇车祸，医生说她可能再也没办法走路了。可是葛罗莉亚并没有放弃希望，坚持做恢复训练。在灾难后仅仅一年，她又站起来了，并且在亚特兰大奥运会上唱响了这首鼓舞人心的歌曲。
每当我想起葛罗莉亚的时候，我禁不住回忆起七年前我刚进入大学的时候。天性害羞，相貌平平，成绩一般，就像一只丑小鸭，我是班上最不起眼的一个。而且在刚开学时一连串的失败让我陷入绝望。“难道我注定要给别人当配角吗?” 不愿意向这个命运屈服，我更加努力的学习并且参加许多其他的活动，电影配音、朗诵、戏剧…因为我想抓住任何一个微小的机会来证实我自己。不懈的努力终会带来成功。我从竞赛中获得了一些奖励，最重要的是，我从中得到了面对人生一切困难的勇气和决心。
生活就像是耕耘，一份耕耘一份收获。一旦你有了梦想，不要犹豫。你艰难的下一步也许就是通往成功的阶梯。即使在最困难的时候也要勇往直前，决不放弃。
my simple teaching life
good morning ,teachers and students. my name is fuxian from songzhuang primary school. the name of my speech is >is my greatest honor to be here today. i would like to share my english learning and teaching experience with you .
i studied english educashion at my college. i chose this major just because its tuition was not high at that time. then half a year before my graduation i came to shandong to be an english teacher. far away from my hometown. then i have lived here for 7 years and taught for 7 years too. i love teaching. i love talking to my students.
how do i enjoy myself with my students? i don’t think i can express how i love my students in a few words. i just know, they are the future of china; they are infinity in my hand. what could i do with them? to wait, to be patient, to expect and to love. from them, every teacher must see their future, teaching and guiding them responsibly.
and then, as teachers, not only do we need to be friendly to them, but also all the time we have to be ready for helping them. once two girls in my class went out for wandering from home without telling anyone else including their patents. in fact, they just wanted to escape from the family, which was full of quarreling. it’s not hard to imagine how worried their parents were! but they had no way to communicate with them, nor find them. as class teacher, there was no time. i decided quickly to help the holpless parents. and i tried to contact with their classmates to make sure what they had talked about the going before. then i spent the whole night in looking for them with their parents in the city. after a long time searching, we found the girls . when they saw me, their class teacher, they cried loudly and sadly. everything was ok after they told me their complaints to parents. at that time, i knew, sometimes, the teacher was the very bridge between parents and their children. how important, how great to be a teacher is!
to me, my students are just like the wild flowers. can we see a world or heaven in them? the answer is definitely yes. if you want to enjoy yourself while teaching, respect and love your students as their friends; work hard with full responsibility.
so, what is responsibility? from my point of view, responsibility is accepting what you are facing -- and not complaining your students. responsibility is holding your students' hands and reminding them to watch both ways before crossing their road. when there is something difficult in front of students, responsibility is helping them over them. when your students are in a trouble, responsibility is being there on time to help and guide them -- even if that means you will miss your favorite things.
because i love my students, then i enjoy myself with full is why i together with you,try our best to be an excellent english teacher today!
thank you very much for your attention!
good morning, dear teachers and fellow students. it’s my great honor tostand here and share a happy morning with you. i am no. _____ . today my topicis “ so much to learn.”
hello! my dear friends !do you like reading books? i guess all of you willsay yes. am i right? thanks to books, we have got a lot of knowledge. on theother hand, tv is another way of getting knowledge. i still remember: last year,i watched an exciting speech on tv. it was given by american president obama, icould feel his great charm. i admire him. yeah, at that time i made a decision:i try to learn english well and some day i can have a talk with him. however,it’s a pity that my english is not so perfect. what can i do? how can i do it?ah, so much to learn. don’ t lose heart! just do it! i say to myself aloud. ifyou set up your mind to learn it, you will get much knowledge. i am sure youwill achieve your goal.
ok! so much knowledge for us to learn. we should do our best to learn it.we must try our best to learn it as much as possible. because knowledge can makeus be learned and wise; because knowledge can make our country develop veryfast; because knowledge can make our world be in harmony. ok! let’s keeptrying!
as you know, now i am a junior high school student. my school life is verywonderful and there are so many interesting subjects for us to learn, such aschinese, english, maths, history, and so on. ok, let me tell you something aboutmy school life. i hope you will enjoy it. in my chinese lesson, i can recite theold wise sayings: “ isn’t it a pleasure that friends come to see you from faraway?” “ what you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know.” thesewords are so educational. meanwhile, i like english very much. in my englishclass, i try to practice my oral english. ok, i have a dream that some day i cantravel around the world and make many foreign friends. all right! historylessons bring us much enjoyment, and i can have a talk with the great people inhistory, such as conficius, qinshihuang, dr.sun yat-sen, and so on.
at last, i would like to say, we shouldn’t waste time, life is limitedwhile knowledge is boundless. aha, there is so much to learn. maybe you likereading; maybe you like singing;… maybe you have a lot of other hobbies, itdoesn’t matter, if you like it, just learn it. just do it. don’t hesitate.knowledge is power. there is no choice but to learn. what’s more, you are nevertoo old to learn. am i right? my friends, open your eyes, can you see the flameof knowledge burning forever? yeah, i can see it. i can see it clearly. come on,boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen. let’s swim in the ocean of knowledge;let’s climb on the top of knowledge. at that time, you will be a learned personwith much knowledge. you will be the happiest person in the world.
We've all been taught that we should help people. It is the right thing to do and will make us popular with others. It may even win us favors in return. However, we must be realistic. We can't say yes to every request. If we did, we would fail or go crazy for sure. Sometimes we simply don't have the time to help. In this case, we must know how to say no politely.
There are several things you can do to project a good image in an interview. First of all, look like a winner. Dress conservatively and well, and you'll look like you're going to the top. Second, communicate clearly. C
When we need to say no, here is one method we can try. First, we should tell the truth. If we really can't do something, we should just say so. Second, we should remember to refuse requests politely. We must communicate clearly, but must also be sincere and sympathetic. A true friend will understand. Finally, we must not feel guilty about saying no. Sometimes refusing others is the right thing to do. It can save ourselves, and them, a lot of trouble. In short, we cannot please everyone all the time. Refusing favors is a part of life.
Hello everyone,
I’m happy to be here. I’d like to introduce myself.
My name is Yan Yuhan. My English name is Anita.
I’m 7 years old, I’m a student, I’m in class three grade one.
I am very glad to make a speech here! This time, I'd like to talk something about English. My topic is “I Love English”。
我很高兴可以在这里做一次演讲。这一次，我想谈谈英语。我讲的话题是我爱英语。
When I was young, my mother sent me to an English school. At there, I played games and sang English songs with others . Then I discovered the beauty of the language, and began my colorful dream in the English world.
当我还小的时候，我的妈妈送我到一间英语学校。在那儿，我和其它的小朋友们玩游戏，唱英文歌曲。我发现这种语言的优美之处，从那时开始就对英语有着色彩斑斓的梦。
Everyday, I read English following the tapes. Sometimes, I watch English cartoons.
每天，我跟磁带读英语，有时也看看英语卡通片。
I hope I can travel around the world one day. I want to go to London, because it is the birth place of English. If I can ride my bike in Cambridge university, I will be very happy.
我希望有朝一日我可以畅游世界。我希望我能够到伦敦去，因为那里是英语的故乡。如果我能骑着我的自行车去剑桥大学，我会很开心的。
I hope I can speak English with everyone in the world. I will introduce China to them, such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City。
我希望我能同世界上的每个人说英语，我将会向他们介绍中国。比如长城，紫禁城。
I know, Rome was not built in a day. I believe that after continuous hard study, one day I can speak English very well.
我知道，罗马不是一天筑成的。(成功需要日积月累。)我相信在持续不断的努力学习下，总有一天我可以拥有一口流利的英语。
I am sure that I will realize my dream one day!
我相信总有一天我会实现我的梦!
What I'd like to do today is talk about one of my favorite subjects, and that is the neuroscience of sleep.
Now, there is a sound -- (Alarm clock) -- aah, it worked -- a sound that is desperately, desperately familiar to most of us, and of course it's the sound of the alarm clock. And what that truly ghastly, awful sound does is stop the single most important behavioral experience that we have, and that's sleep. If you're an average sort of person, 36 percent of your life will be spent asleep, which means that if you live to 90, then 32 years will have been spent entirely asleep.
Now what that 32 years is telling us is that sleep at some level is important. And yet, for most of us, we don't give sleep a second thought. We throw it away. We really just don't think about sleep. And so what I'd like to do today is change your views, change your ideas and your thoughts about sleep. And the journey that I want to take you on, we need to start by going back in time.
"Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber." Any ideas who said that? Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Yes, let me give you a few more quotes. "O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee?" Shakespeare again, from -- I won't say it -- the Scottish play. [Correction: Henry IV, Part 2] (Laughter) From the same time: "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." Extremely prophetic, by Thomas Dekker, another Elizabethan dramatist.
But if we jump forward 400 years, the tone about sleep changes somewhat. This is from Thomas Edison, from the beginning of the 20th century. "Sleep is a criminal waste of time and a heritage from our cave days." Bang. (Laughter) And if we also jump into the 1980s, some of you may remember that Margaret Thatcher was reported to have said, "Sleep is for wimps." And of course the infamous -- what was his name? -- the infamous Gordon Gekko from "Wall Street" said, "Money never sleeps."
What do we do in the 20th century about sleep? Well, of course, we use Thomas Edison's light bulb to invade the night, and we occupied the dark, and in the process of this occupation, we've treated sleep as an illness, almost. We've treated it as an enemy. At most now, I suppose, we tolerate the need for sleep, and at worst perhaps many of us think of sleep as an illness that needs some sort of a cure. And our ignorance about sleep is really quite profound.
Why is it? Why do we abandon sleep in our thoughts? Well, it's because you don't do anything much while you're asleep, it seems. You don't eat. You don't drink. And you don't have sex. Well, most of us anyway. And so therefore it's -- Sorry. It's a complete waste of time, right? Wrong. Actually, sleep is an incredibly important part of our biology, and neuroscientists are beginning to explain why it's so very important. So let's move to the brain.
Now, here we have a brain. This is donated by a social scientist, and they said they didn't know what it was, or indeed how to use it, so -- (Laughter) Sorry. So I borrowed it. I don't think they noticed. Okay. (Laughter)
The point I'm trying to make is that when you're asleep, this thing doesn't shut down. In fact, some areas of the brain are actually more active during the sleep state than during the wake state. The other thing that's really important about sleep is that it doesn't arise from a single structure within the brain, but is to some extent a network property, and if we flip the brain on its back -- I love this little bit of spinal cord here -- this bit here is the hypothalamus, and right under there is a whole raft of interesting structures, not least the biological clock. The biological clock tells us when it's good to be up, when it's good to be asleep, and what that structure does is interact with a whole raft of other areas within the hypothalamus, the lateral hypothalamus, the ventrolateral preoptic nuclei. All of those combine, and they send projections down to the brain stem here. The brain stem then projects forward and bathes the cortex, this wonderfully wrinkly bit over here, with neurotransmitters that keep us awake and essentially provide us with our consciousness. So sleep arises from a whole raft of different interactions within the brain, and essentially, sleep is turned on and off as a result of a range of
Okay. So where have we got to? We've said that sleep is complicated and it takes 32 years of our life. But what I haven't explained is what sleep is about. So why do we sleep? And it won't surprise any of you that, of course, the scientists, we don't have a consensus. There are dozens of different ideas about why we sleep, and I'm going to outline three of those.
The first is sort of the restoration idea, and it's somewhat intuitive. Essentially, all the stuff we've burned up during the day, we restore, we replace, we rebuild during the night. And indeed, as an explanation, it goes back to Aristotle, so that's, what, 2,300 years ago. It's gone in and out of fashion. It's fashionable at the moment because what's been shown is that within the brain, a whole raft of genes have been shown to be turned on only during sleep, and those genes are associated with restoration and metabolic pathways. So there's good evidence for the whole restoration hypothesis.
What about energy conservation? Again, perhaps intuitive. You essentially sleep to save calories. Now, when you do the sums, though, it doesn't really pan out. If you compare an individual who has slept at night, or stayed awake and hasn't moved very much, the energy saving of sleeping is about 110 calories a night. Now, that's the equivalent of a hot dog bun. Now, I would say that a hot dog bun is kind of a meager return for such a complicated and demanding behavior as sleep. So I'm less convinced by the energy conservation idea.
But the third idea I'm quite attracted to, which is brain processing and memory consolidation. What we know is that, if after you've tried to learn a task, and you sleep-deprive individuals, the ability to learn that task is smashed. It's really hugely attenuated. So sleep and memory consolidation is also very important. However, it's not just the laying down of memory and recalling it. What's turned out to be really exciting is that our ability to come up with novel solutions to complex problems is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep. In fact, it's been estimated to give us a threefold advantage. Sleeping at night enhances our creativity. And what seems to be going on is that, in the brain, those neural connections that are important, those synaptic connections that are important, are linked and strengthened, while those that are less important tend to fade away and be less important.
Okay. So we've had three explanations for why we might sleep, and I think the important thing to realize is that the details will vary, and it's probable we sleep for multiple different reasons. But sleep is not an indulgence. It's not some sort of thing that we can take on board rather casually. I think that sleep was once likened to an upgrade from economy to business class, you know, the equiavlent of. It's not even an upgrade from economy to first class. The critical thing to realize is that if you don't sleep, you don't fly. Essentially, you never get there, and what's extraordinary about much of our society these days is that we are desperately sleep-deprived.
So let's now look at sleep deprivation. Huge sectors of society are sleep-deprived, and let's look at our sleep-o-meter. So in the 1950s, good data suggests that most of us were getting around about eight hours of sleep a night. Nowadays, we sleep one and a half to two hours less every night, so we're in the six-and-a-half-hours-every-night league. For teenagers, it's worse, much worse. They need nine hours for full brain performance, and many of them, on a school night, are only getting five hours of sleep. It's simply not enough. If we think about other sectors of society, the aged, if you are aged, then your ability to sleep in a single block is somewhat disrupted, and many sleep, again, less than five hours a night. Shift work. Shift work is extraordinary, perhaps 20 percent of the working population, and the body clock does not shift to the demands of working at night. It's locked onto the same light-dark cycle as the rest of us. So when the poor old shift worker is going home to try and sleep during the day, desperately tired, the body clock is saying, "Wake up. This is the time to be awake." So the quality of sleep that you get as a night shift worker is usually very poor, again in that sort of five-hour region. And then, of course, tens of millions of people suffer from jet lag. So who here has jet lag? Well, my goodness gracious. Well, thank you very much indeed for not falling asleep, because that's what your brain is craving.
One of the things that the brain does is indulge in micro-sleeps, this involuntary falling asleep, and you have essentially no control over it. Now, micro-sleeps can be sort of somewhat embarrassing, but they can also be deadly. It's been estimated that 31 percent of drivers will fall asleep at the wheel at least once in their life, and in the U.S., the statistics are pretty good: 100,000 accidents on the freeway have been associated with tiredness, loss of vigilance, and falling asleep. A hundred thousand a year. It's extraordinary. At another level of terror, we dip into the tragic accidents at Chernobyl and indeed the space shuttle Challenger, which was so tragically lost. And in the investigations that followed those disasters, poor judgment as a result of extended shift work and loss of vigilance and tiredness was attributed to a big chunk of those disasters.
So when you're tired, and you lack sleep, you have poor memory, you have poor creativity, you have increased impulsiveness, and you have overall poor judgment. But my friends, it's so much worse than that.
(Laughter)
If you are a tired brain, the brain is craving things to wake it up. So drugs, stimulants. Caffeine represents the stimulant of choice across much of the Western world. Much of the day is fueled by caffeine, and if you're a really naughty tired brain, nicotine. And of course, you're fueling the waking state with these stimulants, and then of course it gets to 11 o'clock at night, and the brain says to itself, "Ah, well actually, I need to be asleep fairly shortly. What do we do about that when I'm feeling completely wired?" Well, of course, you then resort to alcohol. Now alcohol, short-term, you know, once or twice, to use to mildly sedate you, can be very useful. It can actually ease the sleep transition. But what you must be so aware of is that alcohol doesn't provide sleep, a biological mimic for sleep. It sedates you. So it actually harms some of the neural proccessing that's going on during memory consolidation and memory recall. So it's a short-term acute measure, but for goodness sake, don't become addicted to alcohol as a way of getting to sleep every night.
Another connection between loss of sleep is weight gain. If you sleep around about five hours or less every night, then you have a 50 percent likelihood of being obese. What's the connection here? Well, sleep loss seems to give rise to the release of the hormone ghrelin, the hunger hormone. Ghrelin is released. It gets to the brain. The brain says, "I need carbohydrates," and what it does is seek out carbohydrates and particularly sugars. So there's a link between tiredness and the metabolic predisposition for weight gain.
Stress. Tired people are massively stressed. And one of the things of stress, of course, is loss of memory, which is what I sort of just then had a little lapse of. But stress is so much more. So if you're acutely stressed, not a great problem, but it's sustained stress associated with sleep loss that's the problem. So sustained stress leads to suppressed immunity, and so tired people tend to have higher rates of overall infection, and there's some very good studies showing that shift workers, for example, have higher rates of cancer. Increased levels of stress throw glucose into the circulation. Glucose becomes a dominant part of the vasculature and essentially you become glucose intolerant. Therefore, diabetes 2. Stress increases cardiovascular disease as a result of raising blood pressure. So there's a whole raft of things associated with sleep loss that are more than just a mildly impaired brain, which is where I think most people think that sleep loss resides.
So at this point in the talk, this is a nice time to think, well, do you think on the whole I'm getting enough sleep? So a quick show of hands. Who feels that they're getting enough sleep here? Oh. Well, that's pretty impressive. Good. We'll talk more about that later, about what are your tips.
So most of us, of course, ask the question, "Well, how do I know whether I'm getting enough sleep?" Well, it's not rocket science. If you need an alarm clock to get you out of bed in the morning, if you are taking a long time to get up, if you need lots of stimulants, if you're grumpy, if you're irritable, if you're told by your work colleagues that you're looking tired and irritable, chances are you are sleep-deprived. Listen to them. Listen to yourself.
What do you do? Well -- and this is slightly offensive -- sleep for dummies: Make your bedroom a haven for sleep. The first critical thing is make it as dark as you possibly can, and also make it slightly cool. Very important. Actually, reduce your amount of light exposure at least half an hour before you go to bed. Light increases levels of alertness and will delay sleep. What's the last thing that most of us do before we go to bed? We stand in a massively lit bathroom looking into the mirror cleaning our teeth. It's the worst thing we can possibly do before we went to sleep. Turn off those mobile phones. Turn off those computers. Turn off all of those things that are also going to excite the brain. Try not to drink caffeine too late in the day, ideally not after lunch. Now, we've set about reducing light exposure before you go to bed, but light exposure in the morning is very good at setting the biological clock to the light-dark cycle. So seek out morning light. Basically, listen to yourself. Wind down. Do those sorts of things that you know are going to ease you off into the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
Okay. That's some facts. What about some myths?
Teenagers are lazy. No. Poor things. They have a biological predisposition to go to bed late and get up late, so give them a break.
We need eight hours of sleep a night. That's an average. Some people need more. Some people need less. And what you need to do is listen to your body. Do you need that much or do you need more? Simple as that.
Old people need less sleep. Not true. The sleep demands of the aged do not go down. Essentially, sleep fragments and becomes less robust, but sleep requirements do not go down.
And the fourth myth is, early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Well that's wrong at so many different levels. (Laughter) There is no, no evidence that getting up early and going to bed early gives you more wealth at all. There's no difference in socioeconomic status. In my experience, the only difference between morning people and evening people is that those people that get up in the morning early are just horribly smug.
(Laughter) (Applause)
Okay. So for the last part, the last few minutes, what I want to do is change gears and talk about some really new, breaking areas of neuroscience, which is the association between mental health, mental illness and sleep disruption. We've known for 130 years that in severe mental illness, there is always, always sleep disruption, but it's been largely ignored. In the 1970s, when people started to think about this again, they said, "Yes, well, of course you have sleep disruption in schizophrenia because they're on anti-psychotics. It's the anti-psychotics causing the sleep problems," ignoring the fact that for a hundred years previously, sleep disruption had been reported before anti-psychotics.
So what's going on? Lots of groups, several groups are studying conditions like depression, schizophrenia and bipolar, and what's going on in terms of sleep disruption. We have a big study which we published last year on schizophrenia, and the data were quite extraordinary. In those individuals with schizophrenia, much of the time, they were awake during the night phase and then they were asleep during the day. Other groups showed no 24-hour patterns whatsoever. Their sleep was absolutely smashed. And some had no ability to regulate their sleep by the light-dark cycle. They were getting up later and later and later and later each night. It was smashed.
So what's going on? And the really exciting news is that mental illness and sleep are not simply associated but they are physically linked within the brain. The neural networks that predispose you to normal sleep, give you normal sleep, and those that give you normal mental health are overlapping. And what's the evidence for that? Well, genes that have been shown to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed, also predispose individuals to mental health problems. And last year, we published a study which showed that a gene that's been linked to schizophrenia, which, when mutated, also smashes the sleep. So we have evidence of a genuine mechanistic overlap between these two important systems.
Other work flowed from these studies. The first was that sleep disruption actually precedes certain types of mental illness, and we've shown that in those young individuals who are at high risk of developing bipolar disorder, they already have a sleep abnormality prior to any clinical diagnosis of bipolar. The other bit of data was that sleep disruption may actually exacerbate, make worse the mental illness state. My colleague Dan Freeman has used a range of agents which have stabilized sleep and reduced levels of paranoia in those individuals by 50 percent.
So what have we got? We've got, in these connections, some really exciting things. In terms of the neuroscience, by understanding the neuroscience of these two systems, we're really beginning to understand how both sleep and mental illness are generated and regulated within the brain. The second area is that if we can use sleep and sleep disruption as an early warning signal, then we have the chance of going in. If we know that these individuals are vulnerable, early intervention then becomes possible. And the third, which I think is the most exciting, is that we can think of the sleep centers within the brain as a new therapeutic target. Stabilize sleep in those individuals who are vulnerable, we can certainly make them healthier, but also alleviate some of the appalling symptoms of mental illness.
So let me just finish. What I started by saying is take sleep seriously. Our attitudes toward sleep are so very different from a pre-industrial age, when we were almost wrapped in a duvet. We used to understand intuitively the importance of sleep. And this isn't some sort of crystal-waving nonsense. This is a pragmatic response to good health. If you have good sleep, it increases your concentration, attention, decision-making, creativity, social skills, health. If you get sleep, it reduces your mood changes, your stress, your levels of anger, your impulsivity, and your tendency to drink and take drugs. And we finished by saying that an understanding of the neuroscience of sleep is really informing the way we think about some of the causes of mental illness, and indeed is providing us new ways to treat these incredibly debilitating conditions.
Jim Butcher, the fantasy writer, said, "Sleep is God. Go worship." And I can only recommend that you do the same.
Thank you for your attention.
(Applause)
同学们：
大家下午好！
今天由我来和大家探讨一下英语学习的方法。好之者不如乐之者，乐之者不如以之为乐者！学好英语在一般情况下可用如下规则描述：“动因+兴趣”——决心——持之以恒———见效。可见兴趣是学好英语最关键的问题。让自己喜欢上英语英语学习的效率才是最高的！那么怎么样才能建立起自己学习英语的兴趣呢？要想明白这个问题先要搞清楚你为什么不喜欢学习英语，根据这几年的教学经验，我总结了大概有以下几点：
第一，课堂英语枯燥乏味。在课堂上，教师比较注重生词与语法点，而对一些比较有趣的知识（比如中英文化差异）则只是一言而过，无法引起学生学习的兴趣，并且同学们开口机会少，这也是导致产生“哑巴英语”的因素之一；
第二，英语生词难以掌握，课后习题量过多。难背的英语单词让不少同学烦恼，而课后可怕的“题海”使同学们坠入一个个深渊。对英语不少同学都是敬而远之；
第三，缺乏英语学习环境与方法。好的环境会使英语教学质量大大提高，同时也能增加同学们的兴趣。打个比方：如果你身在英国，学习英语还会如此困难，如此痛苦吗？显然不会。而好的学习方法则可以避免同学走弯路，不致处处碰壁。
第四，英语无用论。一个无法忽略的现实是：中考要考英语，高考要考英语，考研也要考英语。世界上绝大多数的科学文献是用英语写成的，世界范围内不管是政治、军事还是经济最广泛使用的语言也是英语。有可能你现在学英语用不到，但是我可以负责人地说，你这辈子离不开英语，不管你在国内还是国外。
好的，既然我们知道了不喜欢甚至讨厌英语的原因，那么我们如何培养英语学习的兴趣呢？其实也很简单。
从简单的开始，我现在问一下同学们你们觉得学习英语最基本的原则是什么？有谁知道请举手……对了最基本的原则就是简单原则，举个例子，比方说有人问你：What’s your name？你回答：My name is jake。 I’m jake。很明显I’m jake。要远远好于My name is jake。这就是简单原则，越简单越好！英语学习不外乎就是听、说、读、写，都应从最简单的开始，只有从简单的开始，才容易入门，才容易产生"兴趣"，才容易把事情进行下去。简单原则有巨大的优点：1、造就成就感，培养自信。 2、增加兴趣。 3、语言朗朗上口。 4、易于学以致用。但是很学生对简单的语言往往不屑一顾，在学英语中最喜欢追求一个字——"难"。尽管学了很多难的东西，却不会用。而事实上，简单的东西如能灵活、准确地使用才是真正重要的。当然这并不是说"难的单词"和"复杂句型"一点儿也不能用，或者说没有用。学会容易的东西，并把容易的东西融会贯通地加以运用才是英语学习的关键所在。多学习一门语言，就是多了一对耳朵、一对眼睛和一张嘴。这个形容一点也不夸张。
下面我们就从听说读写四个方面来具体说一下英语的学习方法。
一、听力练习方法建议
1、根据个人英语掌握程度，选择难度适中，语速适当的听力磁带。
2、选择心情舒适的时候进行听力练习，效果更佳。听力最佳时间为早上9点至10点，下午4点至5点，晚上8点至9点，这些时段记忆力最好，工作效率最高。
3、挑选自己喜欢的英语磁带练习，建议选择趣味性强，故事性强的听力材料。比如：英语童话故事，世界名著（简单版）等。
二、口语练习方法建议
1、首先要掌握基本日常用语，词汇和短语，以初中到高中学习词汇为标准，大约6000词汇，300短语。另外这些只是最基本的词汇掌握量，若要脱口而出，还需掌握最少四级词汇。
2、一般买英语磁带都配有磁带读物，比如上面说到的英语童话故事和世界名著。磁带作为听力练习，读物作为练习口语阅读练习，配合磁带来纠正自己的发音，一举两得。
3。若有机会在城市碰到老外，可以邀请他们和自己留影，只要留影就OK了，如果词汇不足，不要深谈。这样可以锻炼胆量和口语呢。我和老外是这么说的：
M: Excuse me may I take a photo with you?
F: Certainly！（No problem!）（Of Course!）（OKplease do.）（Surego ahead.）
M: So I will make a good pose.
F: Wellonce again?
M: Suremy next pose is like this.
……
M: Thank you very much.
F: Don't mention it. Goodbyepretty girl.
M: Bye.
我的推荐：
关于口语练习，可以结合听力练习一起进行，这里我就不重复了，另外看英语电影也可以练习口语，以电影对话一句为单位，静音练习。这样效果很好，熟练之后可以看着电影说对话呢！
三、阅读练习方法建议
1、根据自己掌握的词汇量选择难度适当的英语读物，一般市面上有小学，初中英语读物。
2、阅读英语书籍，不要一目十行，不是当成小说来看，要本着学习的态度去看，除非英语掌握十分出色，那另当别论。
3、在阅读过程中遇到生词不要一一去查字典，这样费时又不容易把握故事情节。大部分生词重复率很高，根据上下文可以猜测它的词性和大概意思。譬如人名，地名等。其他生词若实在影响阅读，建议马上查，然后把它记在笔记本上，作为背诵词汇之一。
四、写作练习方法建议
1、经常写英语日记是最快最有效的写作练习方法，根据词汇量掌握多少，写出难度适中的日记，字数根据个人喜好调整
2、一些讲述写作方法的作文书和美文欣赏，可以买来供自己参考和借鉴。
我的小技巧：
注意观察四周一切有英语文字出现的地方。譬如路上的招牌，包装袋上的英文等等。总之时刻让自己接触英语，平时小事也不放松。
enjoy yourself with full responsibility
chongqing 49 middle shoolyangsen
good morning , dear judges name is yangsen ,and i’m from shilinmiddle shool,the name of my speech is >is my greatest honor to be here today. i would like to share my english learning and teaching experience with you .
i could remember english has been my favorite since my junior high school. at that time i had a dream that one day my job must be something that connects with r graduating from university, i started my job in teaching english. then i realized the true of being an english teacher. in addition, if knowledge is a bridge to success, then an english teacher must be a bridge for students to learn a foreign language, a bridge to aid students’ communication with foreigners, a bridge to share our chinese culture with others.
to me, my students are just like the wild flowers. can we see a world or heaven in them? the answer is definitely yes. if you want to enjoy yourself while teaching, respect and love your students as their friends; work hard with full responsibility.
how do i enjoy myself with my students? i don’t think i can express how i love my students in a few words. i just know, they are the future of china; they are infinity in my hand. what could i do with them? to wait, to be patient, to expect and to love. from them, every teacher must see their future, teaching and guiding them responsibly.
over three years passed by, the first day of new semester was coming finally. as a new teacher of the school, i had something in common with my students, who were new faces. sitting in the classroom, since both of us were nervous, i showed a smile to them. at last, they relaxed themselves, smile was passed on to next. then all of them were smiling. at that time, i began to introduce myself to them. so interested in me, they all listened to me with full heart. of course i had chance to know something about them. one of them even was so excited with red face when she knew she and i had the same birthday. when i made a joke on her about her red apple face, the classroom burst out of laugh. no matter how different they are, in my eyes, everyone of them is like a waiting flower----waiting for growth. from then on, i had been in good relationship with my students. how lovely and nice they are!
and then, as teachers, not only do we need to be friendly to them, but also all the time we have to be ready for helping them. once two girls in my class went out for wandering from home without telling anyone else including their patents. in fact, they just wanted to escape from the family, which was full of quarreling. it’s not hard to imagine how worried their parents were! but they had no way to communicate with them, nor find them. as class teacher, there was no time. i decided quickly to help the holpless parents. and i tried to contact with their classmates to make sure what they had talked about the going before. then i spent the whole night in looking for them with their parents in the city. after a long time searching, we found the girls in wangsheng. when they saw me, their class teacher, they cried loudly and sadly. everything was ok after they told me their complaints to parents. at that time, i knew,sometimes, the teacher was the very bridge between parents and their children. how important, how great to be a teacher is!
thirdly, to be a teacher we need to know what responsibility is. as everyone knows, the chinese boy, hong zhanhui is one of the man who moves china. he began to rear his little sister since he was 13, the age at which we enjoy mother’arms. without parents, he has to earn enough money for their life while he is studying at the same time. everyday, carrying his sister on his back, he went to school through miles path. when somebody asked him why he should kept doing this. he replied briefly:” this is my responsibility! ” from his story, we know that responsibility is not an easy thing. is only what hong zhanhui done can be called responsibility? of course no. everyone has his responsibility and responsibility exists everywhere in everyone’s daily life especially we teachers’.
so, what is responsibility? from my point of view, responsibility is accepting what you are facing -- and not complaining your students. responsibility is holding your students' hands and reminding them to watch both ways before crossing their road. when there is something difficult in front of students, responsibility is helping them over them. when your students are in a trouble, responsibility is being there on time to help and guide them -- even if that means you will miss your favorite things.
just imagine the world without responsibility. your students are the waiting flowers. tomorrow, whatever they will be, it all depends on their hard working and the teachers’ love. wonderful world, isn’t it? responsibility is not a burden if you are willing to shoulder it. the teacher who loves his/her students will not only succeed but also get a happy life and enjoy themselves.
because i love my students, then i enjoy myself with full is why i together with you,try our best to be an excellent english teacher today! thank you very much for your attention!
In order to create a strong atmosphere of learning advanced and striving to be advanced, the leading group of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee"s theme education of "never forget the original intention and keep in mind the mission" recently issued a notice to carry out learning activities from Comrade Zhou Yongkai in the theme education.
Zhou Yongkai joined the CPC in 1945 at the age of 17 and worked underground. After the founding of New China, he held a leading position. After his retirement, he resolutely chose to take root in Huacalyx Mountain, become a mountain keeper, engage in philanthropic public welfare undertakings, and also vigorously spread and promote the red culture.
There is no end to life and no end to struggle. Comrade Zhou Yongkai has always attached great importance to the cause of the Party and the people, and has striven for the cause of communism all his life. He has interpreted the original mission of the Communists with practical actions, demonstrated the political character of loyalty and clean responsibility of Party members and cadres, and displayed the vanguard image of the Communist Party members. His advanced deeds are a spiritual and spiritual baptism for the Communists. He is the representative of excellent Communist Party members, sets a learning benchmark for each Party member, and is an example for each Party member to learn.
Learning from Comrade Zhou Yongkai is of great significance for the Communist Party members to cultivate their political character of being loyal, clean and responsible, to carry forward the fine style of being practical and honest for the people, and to boost the spirit of doing things, starting businesses, and taking on responsibilities. Communists should learn from his revolutionary spirit and belief, keep in mind the identity of Communists at all times, stick to their original aspiration, be loyal to the Party, listen to the Party"s words and follow the Party forever. We should learn from his pioneering and exemplary spirit of taking on the mission, persevering in struggle, daring to face up to contradictions, brave to fight forward, working hard, pioneering and enterprising, knowing the heavy burden and overcoming difficulties. Learn from his feelings of serving the people wholeheartedly and selflessly, serving the people wholeheartedly, and consciously wanting and working with the people. Learn from his political nature of being indifferent to fame and wealth, honest in performing his duties, clean in life, clean in work, and pragmatic and honest for the people.
An example is a visible philosophy, and its deeds are the most persuasive. An example is the inexhaustible strength of our generations of Communists. We should firmly take the advanced model as an example, learn from the advanced model, tell a good story of the advanced model, and constantly carry forward the positive energy of society.
各位家长：
大家好！
今日主要跟大家聊聊孩子们五班级的英语学习状况。相对四班级开讲，有五分之三的家长会觉得孩子英语成果退步了。的确退步了，退步的缘由有很多，主要的缘由是：五班级内容比四班级多了，要做的事多了，考得难了。但是一个学期下来应当也适应了，仍旧不适应的同学是自己拒绝适应，要做的事情多了，他们就干脆不做了。不做是制约他们成果提高最大的敌人。
英语学习跟智力关系不是很大的，英语学习不像数学需要聪慧一点，规律思维力量强一点。英语也不像语文，课外阅读必需丰富，上次六班级统考语文，考试内容只有五分是书本上有的，其他的都是课外的。但是英语考试百分之九十是书本内容，另外的百分之十其实也是跟书本相关的就是阅读，平常也都教了方法的，所以英语考试是不会离我们课堂最近的，只要做好平常考试让做的事情，考试是很难考砸的。
听力30分，只要每次回家做《亮点给力》的听力，多听了自然就不会有听不懂，太快了，来不及这些话说不来了。可是每次批他们的《亮点给力》，我发觉有一部分的同学是不做，或者是懵的。
选择题10分就是和背诵课文内容有关的，背出课文就能做选择题。
词汇包括按首字母填空，按中文提示填空，还有句型中的翻译句子都是跟我们的默写有关的，默不出来怎么考的出来，当然也跟背诵课文相关，连词成句就是课文中的句子。
所以不要小看我平常说的背诵课文，单词表。但是背诵这种口头作业会被很多人忽视。第七单元我已经教了半个月了，课文一再督促，昨天才断断续续牵强过关。
词汇还有写出词的适当形式，句型还有改写句子，他们是跟每个单元的语法相关的我们也总结了让他们背诵，一条一条对着做就好了。我在他们四班级的时候就发了如何改写句子的方法，先后不止发了六次，但是有同学还是背不出来。
最终一题是作业，平常我们也有做。
但是，这些事情都是要在课后完成的。有部分同学不去做这些事，导致考试总是考不好。所以带来一个问题，我们怎么解决这个问题？
我们老师全都认为不自觉的孩子还是需要家长您的协作的.！举个例子，我们学校有个班级家长特殊协作，老师布置的事情，全班都能很好地完成的，不管是听力，背诵默写，我上次检查了他们班的作业，作业齐全，字迹工整，正确率高，还有家长签名。所以他们班的进度比其他班级都要快一个单元，每次考试成果也明显比其他班级高很多。
我们班为什么慢？默写回去不认真默，课上默写错一大推，要花课堂时间订正，课文过关又要花课堂时间，作业《亮点给力》订正又要花课堂时间，像拖头老黄年，很累，心更累！早上组长交作业4个班16个组长，每个组长都会说老师谁谁谁没带，谁谁谁遗忘做了，头真的很大，满满的负能量。
家长可以给孩子供应一个特地的桌子给他做作业，做完了把全部东西放进书包怎么会有遗忘带这件事？另外再麻烦家长检查一下，不是口头检查，而是过目一下，抄写默写不用懂的，对比着看一下。背书让他背一遍，不结巴就是对的，背不下去确定就不行的。
总而言之只要做好听录音，背诵课文单词表，写好作文，再加上课上认真听习题讲解
所以每次考试没有考好，我只能说你这个阶段不够努力。
爱因斯坦曾经说过：“我认为，对于一切来说，只有热爱才是最好的老师，他远远的超过了责任感。”一个人不论从事什么行业，首先必须热爱自己的职业。只有这样他才会全心全意的投入。而热爱自己职业的动力在于能在工作中得到快乐。
陶行知先生曾对教师职业特征做过这样的分析：教育者应当知道教育是无名无利没有尊荣的事，纯系服务的机会，贡献的机会。而无丝毫名利尊荣可言。现代的教师为适应当前社会的迅速变化，面临许多挑战，如知识结构的更新，教学技术的改进，新型教学手段的尝试，日益难以应付的杂事……为应付这些变化，教师必须付出代价，而付出的代价往往无法获得可见的收益。正因为如此，教师更倾向于从社会地位上而非经济地位上来获得尊严，这也是教师与其他许多职业不同的地方，教师在很大程度上是将自己的精神世界作为职业资源的，并不以实际的可被清点的收益来取胜。那么我们就更应该在工作中寻找快乐。 首先、爱岗敬业是乐教勤业的动力源泉。
教师只有在爱岗敬业，把学校教育工作的发展、国家教育事业的兴旺和自己命运紧密联系在一起的精神指导下，兢兢业业，勤于奉献，淡泊名利，默默的耕耘在三尺讲台之上，而且以苦为乐，甘于寂寞，勤勤恳恳，才能领悟从师的乐趣，才能以从师为荣，以师为自豪。在“爱岗敬业”这种精神支配下，教师也不会视平凡的工作为平凡，不会视琐碎的工作为琐碎，而是会认真对待教育，教学的过程的每一个环节，于细微处显精神，于小事上下。
Tomorrow will be better
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, I’m very happy to be making a speechhere. Today my topic is “Tomorrow will be better. ”
China born and China bred, I love China very much. I’m proud that I havegot the beautiful yellow skin, black eyes and black hair. I’m also proud that Ispeak the most beautiful language in the world——Chinese. When I heard thatChina, our motherland, would have a chance to hold the 20xx Olympic Games, Ifelt very happy and excited, and I hoped I could do something useful to buildChina into a beautiful and energetic country.
In the 21st century, the environment is becoming more and more important,so we have "Green Olympic" as a slogan. Of course a slogan is just a goal. Themost important thing is that we should do some things to make it true. Such assorting the trash, saving the energy and so on. We are still students now, so wecan't do anything really big, but if everybody does something good for ourenvironment, we could make our motherland more beautiful.
In fact, the things we can do are easy. Like not littering used batterieseverywhere, sorting the trash that we want to throw away, and also protectingthe animals and plants around us.
Luckily, I had a chance to take part in an activity, that is, we planted 5trees everybody in our campus. My classmates and I worked very hard. Thisactivity is not only about planting trees, but also contributing to ourenvironment. Look at the trees, I believe, tomorrow there will be more trees andflowers standing in our campus and giving Chinese people a beautifulenvironment.
We are all Chinese people, living on the earth. We have only onemotherland——China, just like we have only one earth. If we don't beautify ourenvironment, who will? Good environment depends on good human consciousness. Weshould say that protecting our surroundings is not easy, that's why I'm standinghere to summon people do it.
If we do this from the bottom of our hearts tomorrow, China will be morebrilliant, it will have blue skies, white clouds and cleaner rivers. Who doesn'twant China to become more and more beautiful? If we do our best, tomorrow willbe better!
Thank you for your listening! Thank you all!