【推荐1】Giving a speech in front of your class can be challenging. However, you can do something to make it a success.

    1     For example, choose a topic about something you like, such as something that interests you or someone who is close to you. Once you’ve chosen your topic, try to find useful information about it online or from the library. Write down the information that supports your ideas in a valuable way.

    2     For this, you’d better write the script （讲稿） just like talking to your friends. Keep your script simple. Use interesting examples and stories to show your ideas. After finishing the script, read it out loud to yourself and remember it.     3     Finally, practice it in front of something or someone until you don’t have to look at your note card.

In the end, it’s time to give the speech.     4     This will show that you are confident. Pause（停顿）after finishing a sentence, or after saying an important point. It will allow you time to collect your thoughts.

If you speak too fast, you may be out of breath.     5     While talking, look at your listeners, like friends. What’s more, if you don’t remember the next word or line, pause for one or two seconds to look at your note card. Before you start your speech again, take a deep breath, smile at your listeners and then go on.

【推荐2】When things get busy, we all have tasks we put off. If you always put off doing things to a later time, maybe you have procrastination (拖延症). Do you know how to overcome it?     1    

Write something on the notice board

Notice board is considered to be the best way to excite you in difficult situations.     2     This way, you’ll be able to see this set of plans hundred times a day.

Start doing smaller things

Sometimes we take up challenging jobs at the very beginning and feel upset if something is wrong. Not to get in such a difficult situation, start doing small things and then move to the next level and deal with more challenging ones.     3    

Plan your day

    4     As a result, they have a possibility to do more tasks making their common days more valuable. When having a plan, the main thing is to follow it and be sure that everything would be on your timetable. Try to focus(关注) directly on the task you need and don’t let anything trouble you.

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An early riser is sure to be in luck and it’s usually so. If you have difficulties rising up early in the morning, you should cheer yourself up to do it by all kinds of ways. In 21 days you’ll get used to such a timetable.

So always keep your most important tasks front-and-center where you can see and act on them now.

【推荐3】Transplant is easy and often costs less. If you are new to this kind of gardening, don’t worry. A garden expert, Lee Reich, can give you his advice.

Reich suggests starting with flowers or vegetables that are easy to grow from seeds（种子）. However, Reich warns that some vegetables should not be grown as transplants. Root vegetables（根类蔬菜）like carrots, can’t be transplanted easily. It can hurt the roots.

To get started with transplants, you will need a container and soil. The container should have one or more holes in the bottom. In this way, some water can run out. Garden soil, even good garden soil, says Reich, will not work because water can’t run out quickly. Our expert suggests using a special mix called potting soil.

Then plant three or four seeds in each container. Cover the seeds with the soil. The most important thing for seeds’ growth is a proper temperature. How much warmth needed is different from plant to plant. A good average temperature for just about all seeds is about 24℃. Most seeds do not need light to grow. Cover the seeds with clear plastic to prevent them from drying up.

Now for the exciting part—waiting to see little, green sprouts（新芽）! Clean up all but the strongest sprout from each container. Just be careful not to hurt the roots of the sprout that remains.

Your goal now is to grow sprouts strong enough to survive after they are moved to the outside garden. In a month, they will be ready to go into the garden!

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【推荐1】Children across the world are taking pictures of their school meals. They are sending these pictures over the Internet to a young girl in Scotland. Then she shares the pictures and stories with people around the world. The girl’s name is Martha. She likes to write. So Martha decides to start her own blog （博客）. Every day, she writes on the Internet about the meals she eats at school. She also takes pictures of the food.

Martha is very honest about the food. She does not just describe the food. She judges the taste of the food. She also judges how healthy the food is. Sometimes she likes the food, and sometimes she does not. Now, other people send pictures to Martha. Students around the world share their pictures of their school food！

Martha also starts her blog for another important reason. She begins to raise money for the organization Mary’s Meals. Mary’s Meals works in the East African country of Malawi. It provides food for children in schools. Martha encourages her readers to send money to Mary’s Meals to help build a kitchen.

Martha hoped to raise about 10, 000 dollars. But the total reached 100, 000 dollars and still keeps on growing! Martha’s blog has also helped to improve meals at her school. Martha and her school friends have found their meals improved since she started writing her blog.

No one knows what will happen to Martha’s blog in the future. But this girl has already helped to change the eating experience of many children just by sharing pictures of her school meals.

【推荐2】The conflict (冲突) between Russia and Ukraine (乌克兰) itself may be a questionable topic, yet it is the people who suffer the most. More than 4 million Ukrainians had fled from their homeland one month after it began. It was the biggest migration (移民) wave since World War Ⅱ.

I wanted to help by being a volunteer. However, it was difficult because I don’t speak Russian or Ukrainian. Luckily, after searching on the Internet, I was finally able to sign up to volunteer in a modern gallery called Svetova.

The gallery is owned by an overseas Chinese in Prague, Czech Republic, and had over 40 volunteers to provide 24/7 aid to the Ukrainian refugees(难民). During a two-week intensive (集中的) aid program, the gallery provided a place to live and food for up to five people for free and also served as a safe and interesting space for children, where English classes, games and other fun activities were organized.

Due to my busy school and work schedule, I was only able to volunteer there twice. But, besides the owner and his family, I was the first Chinese volunteer. My role was to help the refugees fill out registration (登记) papers. Sometimes, it was difficult with the language barrier, but there were translators to help.

I was so impressed by one Ukrainian mother and her two kids, who still had such kind smiles and bright eyes, although they must have experienced all the awful things. Some other people may not be able to easily understand their feelings, but I really valued this chance to be with those people in need, doing what I could. Because we are all humans, we should come together in difficult times.

【推荐3】Wan Zuocheng and his wife Xiong Gengxiang had run a restaurant near a cancer hospital in Nanchang, Jiangxi since 1993. They later set up a breakfast stall (摊) after the restaurant was closed.

In 2003, a woman whose child was suffering from bone cancer went to their stall asking to borrow their stove to cook food. She said her kid wanted to eat food cooked by her. From then on, more and more families of patients began coming to their stall to cook. The “cancer kitchen” started in the same year.

The couple allowed people to use their cooking tools for free. With the costs of water, electricity and coal rising, people started paying. However, the couple only accepted 0.5 yuan for each dish cooked, and rose to l yuan in 2016.

The son of the couple once tried to stop them serving the patients, worrying the tiring work would affect their health. But the couple think that helping the patients makes them happy.

Having seen too many deaths over the years, the couple have found their meaning of life. “For us, without the patients, we would feel lonely, and for the patients, they would face difficulties without us.” said Wan.

The elderly couple has been honored as “People Who Moved China in 2020” for their kindheartedness. However, they were absent from the award ceremony (颁奖礼) because they wanted to keep providing kitchen services for the patients during the Spring Festival holiday.

【推荐1】Ben, 14-year-old boy, used to be a lazy boy. In his own words, he hardly did any housework. But now things have changed. Washing dishes, cooking and making his bed … all of these chores have become a part of his daily life.

This big change is the result of a new program at his school. Starting from last term, No.1 Middle School has made housework part of its students’ homework, in order to improve their life skills.

At the beginning of each month, every student gets a list of housework to do every weekend. Their parents help them keep track (轨迹) of their performance. Some of the tasks are quite specific, such as cleaning out bookcase, washing cups and cooking food. On holidays like Mother’s Day, students are asked to prepare gifts for their mothers.

Wang Yixi, 13, has learned several life skills through the program, including cooking. “I used to be afraid of fire,” she said. But she tried her best to surmount her fear and finish cooking tasks.

At the same time, she also learned how tired her mother gets after doing housework every day. On Mother’s Day, she made a cake for her mother to show her thanks. “I’ve begun to better understand my parents and want to help them more,” she said.

The materials of a product are usually our first focus (关注). What is it made of? Are there any harmful chemicals in it? Green products are made of more natural materials which are free from harmful chemicals, so they can be good for our physical health.

Packaging is important. How is a product packaged? Is it over packaged? We’d better choose glass, metal and paper packaging, as these can be reused or more easily recycled (回收利用). We can also look for less packaging or even choose unbagged products whenever possible.

Location (地点) matters. Where was a product produced? Where are we buying it? Think about how much energy was used to get it to us try to choose local products. When it comes to food, it is a good idea to order directly from local farmer, shop at markets and buy fruits in season. Buying from stores near our houses is also a good choice, because we can go there without driving a car.

Look into what the company tells us about their product. It’s easy to say that a product is “green” or “all natural” but the words may be too good to be true. So, much of the information about a product should be taken with a grain of salt. After all, companies try to make us believe that their products are environmentally responsible.

The greenest thing is certainly the one we don’t buy. Things like food and clothing are necessary for life. But many others are not. Better than buying is choosing to leave an unnecessary product in the store and doing without. It sends a message to the producer, keeps money in our pockets, reduces (减少) waste and keeps the planet healthy.