To help lost people reunite (团聚) with their family, a woman from East China’s Shandong Province has become a self-taught “dialect master (方言大师) ”.
Tan Yinghuan is a 43-year-old woman from Dezhou. She has taught herself a lot of dialects from different areas in China over the past nine years. And she has helped more than 300 people reunite with their lost loved ones.
In 2014, Tan joined a chat group that shares information on families looking for lost loved ones. She met a girl named Xiao Jiang. The girl grew up with her adopted (领养) parents. By studying the dialect and childhood memories of the girl, Tan found the hometown of the girl. One year later, the girl went back to her hometown and reunited with her birth parents. That was the first time she felt what she did was really helpful. Since then, Tan has spent all her free time helping people look for their family.
As those people are from different parts of the country, Tan finds it difficult to understand what they say. If she doesn’t understand it, she would record it and listen repeatedly (重复地) , sometimes for days or weeks on end.
“I am glad to use what I have learned to help others,” Tan said. “I don’t want anything in return.”
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| Information card | Name: Tan Yinghuan |
| Age: 43 | |
| City: Dezhou, Shandong Province | |
| What she likes to do: Helping people reunite with their | |
| Tan helping others | In 2015, Tan helped a girl find her birth parents and made her |
| Since then, she has joined | |
| She is happy to help others and asks for | |
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1. How did Madison Glinki raise money for the children's hospice?
2. Who supported her idea in her family?
3. How long has she played the violin?
4. What did she do to help the children in Africa a few years ago?
5. What do you think of Madison Glinski？
【推荐2】Pay It Forward
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In the process, they hope to become part of good deeds that will grow and grow.
The idea to “pay it forward” became popular in 2000. But the concept is at least as old as Ben Franklin. In 1784 he helped a young man by giving him some money. After that, he wrote the man a letter. He told the man that he refused to be paid back because he wanted the man to help someone who needed money in the future.
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1. What does “pay it forward” mean?________________________________________________
2. When did the idea to “pay it forward” become popular?
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3. Why did Ben Franklin refuse to be paid back?
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4. What can kids do to pay it forward at school?
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5. What does the writer want to tell us?
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| When he was born | In 1899 |
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I have been a teacher all my life, and I want to be an English teacher again in my next time.
——Chen Lin
A master of English education in China, Chen Lin just celebrated his 100th birthday in April. 1
In 1950, Chen started teaching at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). 2 He always put importance on “standing up” and “speaking up” in his classes. He always stood to teach and talked loudly. When class was over, he would “shut up” at once.
3 Li Jinzhao, one of Chen’s students and a teacher at BFSU now, said Chen likes role-playing and singing to make the class active. It was different from the “teacher speaks, students listen” style of the time. He also encouraged students to speak more and practice more.
In 1999, Chen led experts to make English curriculum standards (新课程标准). Before that, English teaching goals from primary school to university didn’t connect well with each other. But the standards changed it. Then, English education worked like “one package (一条龙)”. 4
After leaving his job, Chen keeps on working. He reads and writes about how to improve English teaching.
A. Chen’s good teaching “impressed (使印象深刻) students”
B. He was known as the “Professor of Three Ups”
C. Chen has spent his whole life on English education
D. He managed to make his class lively and interesting
E. He also wrote the first set of textbooks to carry out the new standards
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5. What can we learn from the English master Chen Lin? (不少于 5 个单词)
