【推荐1】Tom, Jim and Ted are cousins. They study in the same school. They usually go to the countryside to see their grandparents at weekends.

Their grandparents have a farm. Last weekend, Tom, Jim and Ted went to the farm to see their grandparents by bike. They met at Tom’s home on Saturday morning and started at 2:00 in the afternoon. It is a long way from Tom’s home to the farm. They took a lot of food and drinks such as bread, water, eggs, bananas and so on.

They got to their grandparents’ farm after three hours. Their grandparents were happy. The next day, Tom, Jim and Ted helped with the farm work in the morning. They kept the chickens and then they watered the vegetables. At noon, their grandmother cooked fish and many vegetables for them. She cooked well. Jim didn’t like vegetables at all in the past. But now, those vegetables were so nice and he liked them a lot. In the afternoon, their grandfather helped them to fly kites. Their kites flew high. What a nice country life! They all had a wonderful weekend.

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【推荐2】After the Double Reduction policy（“双减”政策）begins, many students in China change（改变）their after-school activities. They usually had homework after school and at weekends before. But now they have lessons and do activities about their hobbies. Here are the timetables of two students on Saturday.

【推荐2】Sally is an English girl, but she is in China with her grandparents now. She is a middle school student in Beijing. Her friends ask her some questions and here are her answers (回答).

♦What do you eat for breakfast?

I have milk and eggs. They are my favorite food for breakfast. I think they are healthy. I don’t like bread.

♦Do you eat lunch at school?

Yes. I eat chicken and rice at school. Sometimes (有时) I eat salad for lunch. I don’t like eating hamburgers because they are not good for my health.

♦What fruit do you like?

I like bananas, apples and strawberries very much. I eat fruit every day. Fruit is important to me.

♦Do you play sports every day?

Yes, I do. I play ping-pong with my friends every day. I think it’s interesting and relaxing. Sometimes I play volleyball but it is difficult for me.

【推荐3】Many textbooks are not written in the kind of English that we speak every day. In fact, sometimes the reading is so difficult that it almost seems like a foreign language. In a way, it is — the language of science. You should not expect to be able to read a difficult science passage the same way you read an interesting story; you should not expect to read it easily and all at once. Instead, you may have to read it several times through, catching on the meaning of difficult words, going back over difficult sentences, and finally putting the whole thing together. Do not be discouraged if the whole passage don’t make sense to you at first. You need to pick it apart patiently until you can understand it.

These are the steps to follow when you are reading something difficult:

1. Start to read normally until you run into a sentence that doesn’t make sense to you.

2. When a sentence doesn’t make sense, go back and read it again more slowly.

3. Look for any word you don’t know in the sentence. Try to understand their meanings using word parts and context clues(上下文线索). If necessary, look them up in the dictionary.

4. Look at the next few sentences to see if they explain more about the sentence you are working on. Do not read very much farther ahead until you understand what is being said.

5. Finally, read the sentence again. Try to put it into simpler words.

6. Read through the passage once. Try to understand all the hard parts well. Then read the whole passage once more at a usual speed. This helps you to put all ideas together.

The stops sound a lot harder than they are. It is really just the normal way good readers understand anything that is difficult to read. After you have done the best you can this way, you should always feel free to ask for help from your teacher, if you have one.

【推荐1】People in the UK spend their free time in different ways. They usually use it to relax. They spend a lot of their free time at home. The most popular activity is watching TV. People in the UK watch TV for about 25 hours a week. They often record (录制) programs, so they can watch them later. Reading is also a popular way of spending free time. People in the UK spend a lot of time reading newspapers and magazines. Many people in the UK have pets. They like playing with their pets in their free time.

In summer, gardening (园艺) is popular. And families often have a “day out” on the weekend. They often go to a festival or see a show. Young people like to go to clubs, and people of all ages like to go to the cinema.

In winter, “do-it-yourself” is popular. People often spend their free time repairing (修理) houses.

Some free time activities are with friends. Asking friends for a drink or a meal at home is the most usual one. Sometimes people and their friends have dinner in a restaurant.

On the weekend, people in the UK like to spend their free time doing sports. The popular kinds of sports are soccer, horse racing, swimming, tennis, skating, climbing and hill walking.

【推荐3】People enjoy different indoor and outdoor activities in Britain(英国). A European(欧洲的) survey(调查) found that people in Britain spend about 45% of their free time watching TV. They spend 24% of their free time doing social(社会的) activities, 22-23% on sports, and 10% on other popular activities. Other popular activities are listening to the radio, listening to music, reading, gardening, eating out and going to the cinema.

Television

The most common activity in the UK is watching TV. People often spend 25 hours every week on TV. Almost every family has at least one TV at home. In 1999, 13% of families had satellite TV. And 9% cable TV (有线电视).

People in Britain listen to about 15 hours and 50 minutes of radio every week.

Entertainment

About 1.23 million British people went to the cinema in 1998. It is one of the most popular activities in the UK.

Another popular activity in Britain is visiting friends or playing with friends eating out.

More and more British people like to eat out. In 1999, every British person spent ＄5.63 every week.