Helpful Hotline
A telephone hotline has recently gone viral (走红). It was created by students at West Side Elementary School in Healdsburg, California. People can call to get cheerful advice from students.
The hotline is in English and Spanish. Children with happy voices share positive (积极的) messages with callers. For example, by pressing “3”, you can hear a group of kids say, “You can do it! Keep trying! Don’t give up!” Pressing “4” triggers the sounds of children giggling (咯咯笑) and laughing—a sound certain to bring a smile to anyone’s face.
Most people agree that with concerns (担心) like COVID-19 and extreme (极端的) weather, recent years have been stressful (令人有压力的). “To hear the pure joy from kids is comforting,” Jessica Martin told local news website 10TV News. She teaches art at West Side Elementary School and worked with the students on this project.
The basic question she had for them was: “What could you say to help or encourage someone else?” Students thought of what they would like to say. Then Martin recorded each one and sorted out (分类) the recordings into different parts of the telephone hotline.
Pressing “1” brings up ideas for people who feel upset or nervous. Helpful suggestions include punching (击打) your pillow, doing flips (翻转) on a trampoline (蹦床) or getting a cookie.
Pressing “2” results in “words of encouragement and life advice”, like “The world is a better place with you in it.”
The hotline soon got thousands of calls an hour. Words of the hotline spread on social media. The hotline is popular with stressed adults, hospital patients, older people in nursing homes and others who just want to hear some happy voices.
Title: Helpful Hotline | |
| Introduction | Students from California created the project to give cheerful advice to people. It is both in English and Spanish. By |
| Background of the project | Worrying about COVID-19 and extreme weather, people face a lot of |
| The process of making the hotline | Think of what they would like to say to help Put the recordings into different parts. |
| If you press “1”, you can get helpful suggestions, If you Press “2”, you can hear children encourage or | |
| Influence of the hotline | The spread on social media |
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Playing doesn't become any less important once children start school. Many valuable lessons about life are learned on the school playground. Kids learn how to share, take turns and play by the rules.
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Recently, a primary school in Changsha, has put Virtual Reality (VR) technology (虚拟现实技术) to good use in an English class. When the students put on the VR glasses, it seemed that they were taken into a new world where they could see for themselves. They could enjoy the views along the way, allowing more knowledge to be kept in mind.
VR language learning is now starting to be widely used in many schools. Think of it like this. Now you are learning English in China, you don’t have enough chances to use English if you are not in English classes, but if you learn English in English-speaking countries like America or the UK, it’ll be much easier for you to make progress.
Nowadays, a lot of apps have also been designed to serve VR language learning. The app “House of Languages” is one of them. It is already available on the Samsung (三星) VR. It can sense your movement and the acts of your eyeballs, arms and hands.
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Virtual Reality is showing increasing promise in language education and the day isn’t far away when it will become one of the main media in education. What about you? Would you learn a new language in Virtual Reality?
1. Was it easier for the students in Changsha to learn English with VR?2. What can Samsung VR sense?
3. Why can the VR help students learn English better?
4. Besides English, what subject do you think you can use VR to learn? And how?
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It’s interesting how “flash mob” activities are planned.Without technology–the Internet or mobile phones,it would be impossible to organize so many people in such a short time.
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In the old days, people got the news from the radio. In China, almost every family had a big radio in the 1970s. They usually put the big radio on the table. ①对人们来说携带它是困难的。
People could listen to some interesting stories and cross talks on the radio. People enjoyed the stories told by famous storytellers, such as Shan Tianfang, Yuan Kuocheng and Liu Lanfang. The famous stories were Romance of the Sui Tang Empires, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Legend of Yue Fei. People could also know the weather report from the radio. The radio is very important in people’s lives.
②Now great changes have taken place. ③People carry pocket radios, have MP4 players. They can get news from the TV, the mobile phone and the Internet. They can also communicate with friends by email. What a wonderful life we have now!
1. 将文中划线的句子①译成英语。2. 将文中划线句子②译成汉语。
3. 在文中句子③划线处填写连接词, 使句子意思完整流畅。
4. What radio program was the most popular in the old days according to the passage?
5. The article mainly tells us about _____________.
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| A. Thank you for your suggestion. I think the best way to improve your reading is to guess the meaning of the word from the sentence where it is. Also, if you have an EnglishChinese dictionary, it's good to look up the new words and then write them down in your notebook. B. The best way for you to learn the different positions of a newspaper or magazine is to get a copy of English newspaper or magazine. And copy down the different positions, such as chief editor, reporter and photo editor. C. For more information about Yao Ming, you can look at the sports section at the website www.sina.com on the Internet. D. Yes, we do have several students who help us translate some of the articles in our magazine. If you are interested in being one of our translators, you can send us some information about yourself. E. There will be a great show in the Art Museum this weekend. Children under 12 years old can visit it without tickets. F. We're glad our newspapers are helpful to your students. It's our hope that our newspapers can help improve students' English. G. It's wonderful that you are good at drawing. You can send your resume to us and we will reply to you in one week. |
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The fifteenth century saw big progress in printing technology in the west. The progress brought a sudden rise of news business. Printers sold whatever people loved to read. In the sixteenth century, the first real newspaper appeared. People started to form the habit of reading newspapers. They liked to share their opinions on newspapers. The invention of telegraph (电报) machines led to another big step in history. News stories were sent to the papers in minutes instead of weeks.
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