【推荐1】FSPA Music Lessons

Summer is the great time to take music lessons. Lessons can be given around a student’s vacation plans. Music lessons are one-on-one teaching based on each student’s skill level. Our teachers teach nearly every instrument and voice — whether you are a beginner or you have experience and want to improve your skills.

Music lessons are given on nearly every instrument and in voice and music theory （理论）. Call the FSPA office at 810-238-1350.

【推荐3】①Since last September, primary and junior high schools have offered labor courses. That has made students realize the great importance of labor education, encouraging students to do activities such as cooking, decorating houses and volunteer work. Some students in China were given specialized homework during the winter vacation.

②Xue Youmei, a Grade 7 student, spent the winter holiday in Guangxi doing her specialized homework. Everything about village life was novel to Xue who was used to city life. She joined her family to work in a farm field planted with Chinese water chestnuts (荸荠). Xue, wearing a pair of gloves, helped her father pick up water chestnuts in the field.

③For Yang Liqiao, a Grade 6 student, the past winter holiday gave her a new identity (身份) — rubbish sorting guide. Yang wore a volunteer’s T-shirt and recorded the situation of the rubbish sorting work at her community. Yang also invited her classmates to walk around the park nearby to pick up rubbish on the ground. Yang’s father found labor activities offered students a chance to get knowledge, which was not caught at class.

④Here are two more examples about the specialized homework. To let students enjoy play-based learning, some students were asked to work with parents to decorate their homes with New Year paintings. The purpose of the task was to develop students’ new thinking and creation. And some were required to collect physics-related Chinese poems, make an analysis (分析) and draw a conclusion.

【推荐1】Have you heard of the word “hygge”? It’s a Danish (丹麦的) word, as well as a lifestyle practiced by Danish people. There is no English word for the exact meaning of hygge, according to Oxford Dictionaries. It might be translated into being comfortable, safe in English, but it is more than that.

Enjoying beautiful music or having a movie night is hygge. Lighting candles or making real tea in china cups—that’s hygge too. There’s nothing more hygge than sitting around a table with your family or friends, discussing the big and small things in life. Hygge focuses on the idea of making ordinary daily activities special or meaningful, according to the BBC.

For Danish people, hygge is a way of fighting the cold winter.In Denmark (丹麦), there can be up to 17 hours of darkness a day in winter, and the average temperature is around 0℃, according to the BBC. As a result, people spend more time indoors and focus on home entertaining.

Now the idea of hygge is traveling abroad and becoming popular in the world. In the United Kingdom and the United States, there are more and more hygge-themed cookbooks and lifestyle guides, as well as Danish restaurants, cafes and bars. “The rest of the world seems to be slowly waking up to what Danes have been wise to for ages,” Helen Russell, author of The Year of Living Danishly, told the BBC.

A country cannot live without young people, and young people cannot live without awakening.

-Li Dazhao, 1927

In 2022, the Communist Youth League of China (the CYLC) is turning 100 years old.

In 1922, the Youth League held its first national meeting in Guangzhou, which marked its birth. Twenty-five members were chosen for the meeting from 5, 000 members across the country. Because of their belief in Marxism（马克思主义）, they started the meeting on May 5th-the birthday of Karl Marx. After that, the organization changed its name to the Communist Youth League of China in 1925.

As a pioneer（先锋）of China’s youth movement, the CYLC now has more than 73.7 million members nationwide aged 14 to 28, and about 43.8 million of its members are students. Young people are the future and hope of a country and the CYLC always unites young people, bringing them closer together to work for China’s development.

Liu Lijia, a student at Beijing Normal University, said that as a Youth League member, she is always thankful to the Party and the Youth League for helping with her development. She has signed up to become a volunteer teacher in the country’s western areas. “I want to use what]have learned at the university, go to the places where I am needed the most, and devote（奉献）myself to bridging the educational gap between different areas. ” Liu said.

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【推荐3】As an ancient country with a history of more than 5000 years, China has had hundreds of traditional musical instruments, which interest the Western people too much. Here’re four to enjoy!

【推荐1】Good afternoon, parents and teachers. Thank you for attending this meeting.

Last weekend, one of our students went to hospital. The student played computer games on the Internet all day Saturday without stopping to drink, eat or sleep. Finally, he became very ill.

Some students play computer games for too long. This is a serious problem. In the past, students used to play outside more often, but now they spend more time in front of computers. This is bad for their health.

Tomorrow we’ll have some experts here to talk to the students about the bad effects of playing computer games. They’ll also give some advice on how to use computers for studying.

I hope we can all work together to stop students from spending too much time playing computer games. Thank you for your time.

Today is Sunday. It’s 7:00 in the evening here. I’m writing to tell you something about my family’s life. My mother is cooking in the kitchen. My father is watching CCTV news. That’s his favorite program. My brother is playing computer games. My dog Baby is taking the hat to me. He wants me to put it on and go out for a walk with him. What a clever dog! My little sister is practicing playing the piano. It sounds beautiful today. Outside, I can hear cars and buses coming and going quickly. Also there are some boys playing ball games. It’s really a noisy (嘈杂的) but happy evening. Do you think so? What are your family doing? I know the time here is thirteen hours ahead of (提前) that in New York. Are you up? Please write to me soon.

Best wishes!

Yours,

Dave