【推荐2】Do you help your parents with housework? Can you cook for your family? In order to let students know the importance of working hard, our country calls for labor (劳动) education. Students should learn some life skills (技能) and get good labor habits through such education.

But this has not been important in these years. Many teenagers do not know the importance of working hard and aren’t interested in doing so. Some people did a study among 3, 000 students. Only 22% of the students help with everyday housework.

Schools play an important role in labor education. Primary and middle schools should open labor classes every week. Schools can also have activities to give students real-world work experience. For example, schools can teach children how to plant trees on Tree-Planting Day.

As children’s first teachers, parents should also teach children how to do housework at home. Students should learn one or two life skills every year. These skills can be cooking, washing their own clothes, and so on.

【推荐3】①Earlier this year, China’s education system announced a new “Double Reduction” policy (双减政策). “Double Reduction” refers to a reduction in the total amount of school homework and a reduction of after-school training programs.

②“The policy really helps me.” Shen Yuzhe, a 13-year-old boy from Beijing said. He is happy that he has less homework than before and he can finish it at school with no need to take it home, “I’m also happy to find there are fewer exams. Besides, teachers now teach at a much slower pace so that we have enough time to understand what we have learned. We don’t need to buy workbooks any more and the exercises are mainly from the textbook.” Shen Yuzhe said.

③“The best thing about the ‘Double Reduction’ is the increased time in after-school activities such as dancing, volleyball and drama.” Zhang Hangming from Tianjin is also excited. He has joined a group called “leadership development” learning all kinds of useful skills. He likes it because teachers are also giving them more chances to learn from real life. For example, they went to research plants in a field during a science class. He believes that is a much better way to learn than just hitting the books.

④Some people welcome the policy while others are still worried. Yu Zhiyue, a middle school student in Jiangsu still feels tired. “With the Double Reduction, I have really got less homework to do. But my mother is worried that I will lose the chance to review what I’ve learnt in class without enough homework. So I have lots of after-school classes. Since I can only take these classes on weekdays now, weekdays have become especially long and tiring for me. From Monday to Friday, I need to take online classes at home after I come back from school.” she said. “My parents told me the policy had changed but the competition had not gone away.”

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Helen	Hello, my name is Helen Brown. Welcome to my room. There are many (许多) things in my room — a bed, a desk, a chair, a sofa and a bookcase. My English book and my quilt are on the bed. The school ID card and the schoolbag are on the sofa. My tape player and some tapes are in the bookcase.
Mike	My name is Mike Miller. This is my classroom. There are 42 chairs and desks in my classroom. One set of desk and chair is my teacher’s. My books are on my desk and my schoolbag is under my chair. There is a basketball under my chair, too. It is not mine. It’s my friend Bill’s.
Kate	My name is Kate Green. This is our library. Our library is very big (大的) and it has five floors (层). Each (每) floor has many desks, bookcases and some rooms for reading (阅读). Each floor has five computers and we can find what we need on it. It has many books. I always read books with my friends after class in the library.

【推荐2】School Rules