【推荐2】Vocabulary is important to English beginners. The following are some ways that can help students learn words much faster.

Flashcards（抽认卡）

To make flashcards, you just need cards and colourful pens. You write the English word on one side of a card and draw a picture that explains the word on the other side. For foreign language students, you can write the word in their first language on the card. Students can play memory games with flashcards or have others test them until their vocabulary increase.

Grouping games

Grouping games help students develop their vocabulary skills. By grouping English words together, students use the association（联系）between different words to remember more information.

It’s better for beginners to start with common word groups, such as food, body parts or things at home. If the students can’t remember a word, other words in the same group may help.

Reading

Reading can help students learn more vocabulary by using different words to make sentences. Often reading different kinds of books, magazines or newspapers that the students are interested in can help them to keep reading and learning.

Word games

There are hundreds of word games that help students learn vocabulary. Boggle, for example, works well for beginners, while Scrabble is good for students with a big vocabulary.

【推荐3】Do you know how to make friends wit a group of people? Let me tell you the steps and maybe it’s helpful for you.

First, you need to know what kind of group they are. If people of the group are shy, never ask them “Why don’t you talk?” “Why are you quiet?” or “Why do you look shy?” They don’t like such questions.

Next, remember that each group is different. They may use different words, like different things or have different ways of “hanging out”.

Then, the important thing is that you should try to be outgoing. If you are outgoing, you would become very popular. Remember, nobody wants to make friends with a shy person.

Finally, find a right topic to talk about with the group. For example, you can talk with them about the weather, the news, their hobbies or their school life.

【推荐1】Sometimes the most difficult thing about feelings is sharing them with others.     1     It also helps you get closer to the people. They care about you and you care about them. However, before you share them with someone, you have to know what feelings you have.

Making a list of your feelings can help you. You can do this in your head. You can also write them down on a piece of paper or even draw pictures.     2     Then you can say, “I felt unhappy when I lost the basketball match.”     3    

The way a person feels in the deep heart is important. It can be really hard to tell others that you’re feeling worried or unhappy.     4     But when you talk with someone who cares about you, you will feel better.

Your mom and dad want to know if you have problems, because they care about your life.     5     Maybe this person can help you talk with your mom and dad about your problems.

【推荐2】There is an old Chinese saying, “If someone gives you a little drop of water, you should return a spring of water.” That means if someone helps you a bit, you should remember it and thank them gratefully（感激的）in return.

We should live in a world of gratitude. We should prove it with actions, not just words. We thank people who hurt us, because they teach us important things. We thank people who give us up, because we learn how to be independent. We thank people who are selfish（自私的）, because we learn the importance of being kind. Of course, we should thank people who help us. We should thank people who teach us. We should thank people who care about us.

We thank our parents. They work hard all the time in order to give their sons and daughters a better life. They cook meals for us, they do the chores for us. They always give us food and clothes. They teach us what is right and what is wrong.

We thank our teachers who give us dreams. They teach us a lot of things but they ask for nothing from us. We are well-educated of them.

There are a lot of people that we should be grateful to in our life. We should find a way to thank them.

【推荐1】The “White”, our student newspaper, reports that most students go to sleep at 1:30 a.m. Even that’s an exaggeration(夸张), it’s close to the truth. Scientists say teens should sleep nine hours each night. But that’s hard to do.

Some even “pull all-nighters”. These are lazy students who have homework due(到期) the next day that they haven’t done. In the morning, they don’t look healthy and you can tell who’s been doing it.

One of my classmates did a survey on the problem. She found that most kids pull all-nighters to finish homework, but some do it for other reasons, such as playing computer games!

Maybe our lack(缺乏) of sleep is because of laziness — I think I’m a quite lazy student or — maybe it’s because we have too much to do in American high schools.

I usually go to bed around midnight. If I stayed up past 1:30 a.m., I wouldn’t get any work done. I’d be falling asleep at my computer. My classes begin at 7:30 a.m. I’m partly awake in my first class. By the second, I’m a little tired and sleepy. By my third class, I’m sleepy. By midday I am finally wide-awake. But by 3:00 p.m., I’m slowing down again. Yet I get more sleep than others.

Most American high schools seem to have such a problem.

High school classes start at 7:30 a.m., so students have to wake up one and a half hours before that to get ready and catch the bus. It’s believed that lack of sleep can damage(损害) both grades and health. Some schools are paying attention. Classes in those schools start at 8:30 a.m.

【推荐2】It’s every teenager’s nightmare (恶梦): exam time. During the last three days of the term, we had six exams.

My easiest exam was maths. All of its questions were from earlier exams.

The biology exam was hard. At first, I thought I had failed it. It asked lots of things we never studied in class, so we could use our textbooks. But there wasn’t enough time to check every question. I guessed on many of them. But my teacher said I did well.

On the career (职业)planning and computer applications (申请)exam, we had a lot to do: a PowerPoint presentation (展示), a book report and a class evaluation (评估). I felt like I needed more time, but some of my classmates didn’t think so much. They just quickly wrote down some answers and then played games.

I don’t think I did very well in the English exam. We had to write an essay (读后感)about books we’ve read in class. But I didn’t study enough.

At our school, we can “Test out” of some classes. That means students can study by themselves and then take a class exam. If they pass, they don’t have to take the class, I tested out of both computer and health classes.

Studying for those exams was terrible. Those classes go for six months, but I had to teach myself everything in three weeks. Also, I had to do three big projects at the same time. I watched no TV for almost three weeks! I am so glad it’s all over, and now it’s the summer holiday.

For my classmates, it will be two and a half months of fun without school or homework. But I’m a Chinese, and you know what Chinese parents do with their kids’ free time: still more homework.

【推荐1】Beijing Opera is famous to us. It has a history from 1790. Its music and singing come from Anhui and Hebei. There are four main roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. Beijing Opera is full of famous stories, beautiful facial(脸部的) paintings, wonderful clothes and fighting. Some of the stories are mainly from history books, but many of them are from famous novels(小说). The people in the stories usually can’t agree with each other. They became angry, unhappy, sad and lonely. Sometimes they are frightened and worried. Then they find a way to get on well with each other. Everyone is usually happy in the end.

Beijing Opera is an important part of Chinese culture. In the past, it was popular with old people while young people didn’t like it. But now, more and more young people are becoming interested in it. At the same time,more people around the world are learning about Beijing Opera.

【推荐3】With the development of technology, WiFi is becoming more and more popular and important in people’s daily life. But have you ever experienced it? Just imagine what life will be like if there is no Internet. Maybe you won’t be able to talk with friends, play video games or search for information for your homework on the Internet.

But in fact, only one third of the world’s population are able to get information on the Internet. The rest（其余的）are too poor to buy WiFi access（使用权）or they live in remote areas（偏远地区）. As a result, they live without the Internet.

Google and Facebook, two world-famous technology companies, have decided to do something about it. Google’s Project Loon will try to send balloons（气球） which are 15 meters wide into our Earth’s stratosphere（平流层）in 2016. The balloons are made of a special material（材料）that is three times thicker than the plastic bag we use every day. Each balloon will carry a minicomputer（小型计算机）and a WiFi radio. The WiFi radio will send the Internet over the areas it is floating over. Then people can get up-to-date（最新的）information on weather or news.