【推荐1】Literary festivals are held annually in many corners of the globe and attract large numbers of readers, writers, playwrights (剧作家) and publishers.

Miami Book Fair

For eight days each year in November, the campus of Miami Dade College hosts over 500 outstanding authors during the Miami Book Fair. The fair offers young writers a unique opportunity to attend creative writing courses and workshops. Readers can listen to famous international authors talk about their latest books. Most of the events are offered free of charge to encourage a love of literature across all income groups.

Cheltenham Literature Festival

The festival runs for 10 days every autumn in Cheltenham. It’s the world’s first literature festival, leading the way in celebrating the writ- ten and spoken word. The fair offers something to everyone-you can attend reading activities and debates, and bring your children to see their favorite storybook characters brought to life.

Paraty International Literary Festival

It’s held each year in the city of Paraty, Brazil. Visitors can meet many local and international authors, poets and playwrights, and attend literature workshops. As part of the festival, Flipinha is mainly for children where young readers can meet writers and relax with a book in a special space. A further arm of the festival is called FlipMais. A series of free events about live theatre, music and cinema are held throughout the city of Paraty.

Edinburgh International Book Festival

The festival lasts for over 16 days every August and usually features around 900 events where you can meet your favorite authors, and bring your children to attend magical story-telling sessions and special workshops for children with learning disabilities. In most years, the festival attracts over 1,000 authors, poets and educators.

【推荐2】Typing.com is an online typing tutor for students of all ages. Typing.com’s proven curriculum helps students from beginners to advanced learners, focusing on technique, accuracy, and speed. The following are some frequently asked questions about typing on our website.

An average student without learning differences will learn to touch type within eight to ten hours. They may be touch typing at a very slow speed (8-15 words per minute).

Yes. Not only does it prevent you from practicing your fingering, but it also slows you down and makes you type less accurately. It's far more difficult to notice mistakes when you're not looking at the screen.

The most important technique to learn to type faster is touch typing. This is a technique based on developing muscle memory for your fingers.

Focus on accuracy rather than speed. Use the entire keyboard correctly. Learn some keyboard shortcuts. Practice every day.

Arrange your fingers properly. The most important step in improving your typing speed is ensuring that you place your fingers correctly on the keyboard. Rest the index finger (食指) of your left hand on the “F” key and the index finger of your right hand on the “J” key.

Typing.com is a free online typing tutor and digital literacy (读写能力) platform used by millions of students and education professionals around the world. We aim to provide valuable learning tools to as many school teachers and students as possible.

【推荐3】From page-turning thrillers to comic novels—here are our picks of the hot lest new books for a great escape.

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

A fragile, wealthy young man looks for love in the 19^th century New York filled with discrimination...The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love.

Companion Piece by Ali Smith

Coming on the heels of Smith’s seasonal quartet(四重奏), Companion Piece boldly captures the spirit of the times, our pandemic-infected world, describing a broader story about loneliness, sadness, isolation, and freedom...

Amy & Lan by Sadie Jones

A special child’s eye view of an experiment in living, in which city families join hands to setup a rural farm, deep in English villages. The kids alteratively describe their lives over several years, focusing as much on the animals as on the people.

Homesickness by Colin Barrett

It’s been eight years since the prize-winning Young Skins, but this second short-story collection is worth the wait. Shocking and slow-burning, eight character-driven tales of misadventures are written with a casual grace, each showcasing Barrett’s unique black humor.

I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait

Toxic mothers, absent fathers, angry sisters, and mad brothers—this sharp, wise comedy is full of ups and downs and severe mental health realities, describing in great accuracy and detail the process of a breakdown and how it impacts the individual family member.

【推荐2】The best online language classes for kids

We’ve researched the best language classes for kids and provide a list of them below.

Preply

Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Arabic, Chinese

Ages: No age limit

Preply is an online platform that connects children to over 140,000 tutors (私人教师) for 1-on-1 language classes. Because Preply tutors set their own prices, you can find someone to fit you with hourly rates starting from just $10.

Bilingual Bebe

Languages: English, French, Chinese and Spanish

Ages: 3-12 years old

Bilingual Bebe offers small group online language classes for kids. The instructors use various methods to attract students: playing games, singing songs, reading books and socializing with classmates. All classes are 45 minutes long, and pricing ranges from a monthly subscription of 1 class per week for $149 to5 classes a week for $745.

Language Workshop for Children

Languages: French, Italian and Spanish

Ages: 2+

The Language Workshop for Children provides 1-on-1 private language lessons to students either online or in person. For private lessons, parents can buy a set of 10, 20, 30, 45, or 60-minute classes. Tutoring ranges from $110 to $125 an hour.

Duolingo

Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Russian

Ages: 3+

Duolingo is a free app for language learning. It offers a wide variety of language courses broken down into bite-sized lessons focused on reading, listening, and vocabulary.

【推荐1】Wednesday’s TV and radio highlights

Combat Chefs

Five, 8:00 p.m.

In tonight’s series, Harry Lomas returns to the studios’ kitchen in an attempt to attract his new members with enthusiasm for home cooking: quite a challenge when they have an average age of just 18 and are extremely short on training.

Jack: a Soldier’s Story

BBC 3, 9:00 p.m.

In Helmand. Jack Mizon was a hero. Back in Aldershot, he’s a troublemaker. This excellent program by B. Anderson, broadcast early on BBC 3, follows Jack as he returns from Afghanistan. Mizon appears as an interesting. attracting and disordered character, whose quickness to fight sees him facing incarceration (关押) in a civil prison.

Right to Die

Sky Real Lives/SRLHD, 9:00 p.m.

John Zaritsky’s program deals with the controversial question of whether people should be able to choose to end their own lives. Zaritsky focuses on the Swiss Organization Dignities, which helps people with incurable illnesses commit suicide.

The Essay: John Milton

Radio 3, 11:00 p.m.

Radio 3 has just begun a major celebration of John Milton. The Essay all week discusses his essays how they relate to the revolutionary current of his times and of his own career. Areopagitica, his great essay on the freedom of the press and of thought, is discussed tonight by Andreas Whittam Smith, once of this newspaper, founding editor of The Independent, latterly president of the British Board of Film Classification.

【推荐2】A lot of your childhood was probably spent in an ordinary classroom with old desks and chairs. That's because you went to an average school. So whether you loved your school or wished you went to one of the following now, you'll never think of schooling the same way again.

Train Platforms as School Rooms

Now, most children have to take a bus or train to school. However, they don't usually stop on the platform and learn maths. In Orissa, India, in order to try to lower the chances of children quitting school, one woman decided that she would bring the school to the kids and it certainly worked!

Floating School

Each year in summer, the rivers in Bangladesh flood. And kids are left without a way to school. However, one clever town decided to have lessons on 100 boats instead as well as health care centre and homes. With the internet access, computers and a library it's a pretty high tech school!

Elf School

In Iceland there are a lot of stories about elves. According to the school there are different types of elves that have a variety of uses. The school generally trains people in the practice of elves in the hope they can somehow help the government. The Icelandic police have been known to ask for an elf's help when meeting trouble.

Real Life Clown School

The Ringling Brothers set up a number of courses and schools around the United States to teach the students the art of clowning around. Imagine wearing a bright red nose while kids are laughing around you for a balloon animal.