I love watching TV very much. When I was little, I always watched a children’s program on TV when I arrived home from school. Now I still enjoy turning on the television in the evening after work to watch a drama or a talk show. I think watching TV is an excellent way to learn a foreign language.

When you are learning a language, you can choose to watch some TV series(连续剧) in a foreign language. The series can be a drama, a comedy or whatever you like. Watching the series is a fantastic way to improve your listening skills. It is also very useful for you to learn what you can’t learn in a textbook but is often used in real life.

If you are a beginner, it can be a good idea to start by watching the program with subtitles (字幕) in your mother language. Then, as you become better, you can try watching the TV series with foreign language subtitles or even with-no subtitles at all. It doesn’t matter if there are many new words. You just need to carefully work out the meaning of the new words from the context (语境). Although it can be difficult at first, it is important to keep going!

【推荐2】What can you do when someone hurts you? Most people may be angry or even fight with the one who hurts him or her. But it's not a good idea. The best way is to forgive them.

Although it is not easy for us to forgive people who hurt us, it is possible, "forgiveness makes you hopeful. And it is good for our health," says Fredric, Ph. D. the writer of the book called Forgive for God.

But how can we forgive others?

First, think of something beautiful and try to get yourself happy.

Second, don't wait for others to say sorry to you. If the people hurt you, he or she won't say sorry to you. They may just want to hurt you or they just don't see things the same way.

Third, try to see things in others' shoes. You can write a letter to yourself from the offender's point. That can make you understand others better and make yourself happier.

At last, don't forget to forgive yourself. For some people, forgiving themselves is the biggest challenge. And it also makes you more confident.

【推荐3】Creativity（创造力）comes from imagination. When you imagine a new way of doing something and then take action to do it, you are being creative. Generally, there are three steps to be creative.

Step 1 Getting knowledge and skills of how things are done.

Strong knowledge and skills help you understand how to do something. Knowing when and how to apply（运用）this knowledge comes from studying how others deal with the same situation. Think about learning to play the piano. In this step, you learn how to read music and where the keys are on the piano. You also practice playing.

Step 2 Learning to copy the way that people do those things.

Practicing how others do something will bring what you have learned. Repeating other people’s skills will create a lot of experience and increase understanding. So your next step in playing the piano would be seeing how other good musicians play, and copying their songs and styles of playing.

Step 3 Exploring new and maybe better ways of doing things. Knowing the rules, and then using or breaking them in your own style is the basic creativity. At this point in playing the piano, you are experimenting with your own styles of playing; you might play songs in new ways; or even write your own songs and music. Make time to think about different ideas. Sometimes you need to be brave enough to try new things.

Being creative is the useful ability to help solve problems in many different situations. Being able to come up with new ideas will make your life more successful, more enjoyable. So start being creative today!

【推荐1】Venus (金星) has long been one of the most misunderstood planets. Like the Earth, Venus has its own atmosphere. However, the atmosphere is much thicker than that of the Earth, which makes it difficult for modern scientists to study. There is much we still do not know about what this planet like. However, using special machines, scientists have unlocked many of the long-hidden secrets in recent years.

Venus is in many ways the Earth’s sister planet. It is almost the same in size and chemistry as the Earth. In other words, Venus is made up of almost the exact same types of materials as the Earth, in about the same amounts.

In the early days of Venus’s 4-billion-year-old life, it would have appeared very similar to the Earth. The two would have been almost the same. However, over a period of a few million years ago, Venus lies much closer to the sun than our planet. It has made Venus terribly hot.

Since it is closer to the sun, Venus’s temperature should be a little warmer than that of the Earth. As the planet warmed, water which can be used to form oceans, lakes and rivers, evaporated (蒸发). This increase in water vapor (水蒸气) began a cycle of global warming. Water vapor is a very effective greenhouse gas. It caused the temperature to rise and more water to evaporate. The temperature then climbed still further. Today it is likely that all of Venus’s water has evaporated into the atmosphere. This atmosphere effectively keeps the sun’s energy and makes the surface to burn much hotter than it naturally would.

If you happen to find a way to survive the extreme heat on the surface of Venus, you will quickly notice something strange about the days. Venus rotates (旋转) very slowly, so that a day on Venus actually lasts longer than a year. Instead of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, the sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east when you are on Venus.

People use colour expressions to show their feelings and describe the world. Many colour-related phrases（词组）are common in our speech. Let’s see where they came from.

•The Blues

The phrase is a short form of “the blue devils（魔鬼）”, which also stands for sad feelings. This expression is also used to describe a type of jazz（爵士）music that became popular in the south of America in the 1940s.

•Black Sheep of the Family

The phrase refers to（指的是）a member of a family or a group who is unacceptable. In the old days, the black sheep were sold at a lower price than the white ones at the market, because their fleece（羊毛）could not be coloured. This made the black sheep an unwelcome member of the group.

•A Red-letter Day

A Red-letter Day is a day when something really exciting and memorable（难忘的）happens. It came from the practice of marking special western days, holidays, or other festivals in red on the calendar. Today, some calendars still use red numbers for special holidays, even weekends.

【推荐2】Trying to find the perfect present is about as easy as trying to read someone’s mind. Few people will actually tell you what they want for a special occasion and most of the time your loved ones will insist that they don’t need or want anything! So, what to do? Here are some tips that could help.

Start Early

Starting your shopping early can have many (1) ________. For example, it gives you enough time to come up with ideas for what you should buy your friends or family members. Moreover, the closer it gets to holidays, the higher the prices go up. So, save your money by being an early bird.

Make a List

Here, you can write down everything your friends or family members love. This can include food, hobbies, experiences, and more. Then try to determine how to use this information to find a gift that perfectly suits them. If you are lucky, you should be able to find good ideas in one of these lists.

Think outside the Box

Often, the reason why you get stuck for gift ideas is that you only focus on the same kind of presents. If you are still coming up empty, it is time to get creative. You can find something your friends or family members can use every day. When in doubt, you can simply put smaller presents together to make up a larger, more meaningful gift.

Gift an Experience

In case you are still feeling a little stuck, go a head and find something that the two of you can do together. It may be a class, or anything else where you can enjoy each other’s company (陪伴). In short, you will be able to give them the gift of friendship.

Scientific (科学的) exercising is important to us. Here are some tips about how to exercise well.

Warm up. It is important to warm up before you exercise. You need to stretch your legs, arms, back and neck before you do some difficult activities like running.

Find good places to exercise. You do not need to spend a lot of money exercising. You can run or play sports in a park or in your school gym. You don’t need to buy exercise equipment for your home. Just get your body moving!

Don’t work too hard. Choose a sport that you are interested in and then your exercise will be fun instead of work. Also, you only need to exercise a few times each week. If you exercise for 30 minutes each time, you will stay healthy.

Drink enough water. It is important to drink water when you exercise. Your body needs the water for energy and for keeping cool.

Be careful! If you hurt yourself while you are exercising, rest until you feel better. Exercising when you are hurt is bad for your health.

Daniel likes his school very much. He goes to school at seven twenty after breakfast. He has lessons at eight ten. He’s good at Maths. He loves English too. He eats lunch at school at eleven forty. He does after-school activities at four twenty in the afternoon. He plays football, badminton and volleyball. Sometimes he swims.

Daniel goes home at five o’clock. He eats dinner at six forty. Then at about seven o’clock, he watches TV. He likes watching TV because he wants to learn more about the world. At eight he does his homework. He goes to bed at nine o’clock.