Weather influences health, intelligence and feelings.
In August, it is very hot and wet in the southern part of the United States. In the Northeast and the Middle West, it is very hot at some times and very cold at other times. People in these states have more heart trouble after the weather changes in February or March.
For example, in a recent report by scientists, IQ of a group of students was high when a very strong wind came, but after the strong wind, their IQ was 10% lower. The wind can help people have more intelligence. Very hot weather, on the other hand, can make it lower. Students in many schools of the United States often get worse on exams in the hot months of the year.
Weather also has a strong influence on people's feelings. Winter may be a bad time for thin people. They usually feel cold during these months. They might feel unhappy during cold weather. Generally speaking, at about 18℃, people become stronger and better.
Low air temperature may make people forgetful. People leave more bags on buses and in shops in cold days.
sometimes, it may be the weather's problem.
A， The weather can also influence intelligence.
B， So, different weather makes people feel different.
C， But fat people may have a hard time in hot summer.
D， Are you feeling sad, tired, forgetful, or unhappy today?
E，Warm weather can have a bad effect on health.
F， People there have heart trouble and other kinds of health problems during this month.
G，people may have more intelligence when low air pressure comes.
Joe is interested in getting exercise and competing (竞争) on a team. He reads about the events at the local pools and finds the perfect activity.
Swimming Programs
Summer Swim Team
Join a Summer Swim Team and compete with other swimmers! The program is offered at eight different local pools for youths to 17 years old. The season runs June 21-August 21. Practices are daily (Monday through Friday) throughout the summer. Cost: $50.00.
Buckman | 2-3 P.M. | Montavilla | 8-9 A.M. |
Creston | 7-9 A.M. | Peninsula | 4-7 P.M. |
Dishman | 8-9 A.M. | Pier | noon-1 P.M. |
Grant | 8-10 A.M. | Sellwood | 7-9 A.M. |
Junior Swim Instructor (少年游泳教练)
Two weeks, 20 hours of instruction, two hours per day for children 11-14 years old. Pre-training for youths interested in becoming swim instructors ($45 per child).
Junior Lifeguard (救生员)
Two weeks, 30 hours of instruction, three hours per day for children 11-14 years old. Pre-training in lifeguarding, and customer (消费者) service ($45 per child).
Junior Swim Instructor & Junior Lifeguard Training Dates
June 28-July 9 | August 9- August 20 |
June 12-July 23 | August 23- September 3 |
June 26-August 6 |
Special Offer
Anyone who takes part in both junior swim instructor and junior lifeguard programs at the same time need only spend $75 instead of $90 for 50 hours of training.
Register(注册) Online
You can now register online! Visit our website at //www.example.com. You can choose an area of town, a specific local center, a program, or search for classes which can meet the needs of students of different ages. Just visit our website, and you're on your way!
Many parents would like to teach their children English at home, but don't know how to start. It doesn't matter if your own English is not perfect. The most important thing is that you give your children lots of encouragement and praise. They will need some time to learn the language.
Make it a rule
Try to do certain activities at the same time every day. For example, you could read an English story with your children before bedtime. Repetition (重复) is important — children often need to hear words many times before they say them themselves.
Playing games
Cards are a great way to teach words and there are many different games which you can play with cards, such as Memory and Happy Families.
Using everyday situations
The advantage of teaching English at home is that you can use everyday situations to practice the language naturally. For example:
Talk about clothes when your child is getting dressed (＂Let's put on your blue socks＂, etc.).
When you go to the supermarket, give your child a list of things to find.
Using songs
Songs are a really good way to learn new words. Songs with actions are especially good for very young children because they are able to join in.
A. Fifteen minutes is enough for very young children.
B. Children learn naturally when they are having fun.
C. Teach food words when you are cooking or going shopping.
D. The actions often show the meaning of the words in the song.
E. With younger children, there is no need to teach grammar rules.
F. Don't worry if your child doesn't start speaking English immediately.
G. Children feel more comfortable and confident when they know what to expect.
Jenna had graduated from her middle school and was lucky enough to be admitted to Westwood College. She was ready for new 1 at the college and filled with confidence. 2, she didn't expect it that college life was quite3. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts for cheerleaders. She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be 4 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 5 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 6 as the list ended without her name. Feeling 7, she walked back to her dormitory carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
Arriving at the dormitory, she started with 8. She had always been a good math student, but now she was 9. She moved on to English and history, and was 10 to find that she didn't have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 11 math for the time being.
The next day Jenna went to see Mrs Biden about being on the school 12. Mrs Biden wasn't as enthusiastic as Jenna. “I'm sorry, 13 we have enough 14 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we'll talk then. ” Jenna smiled 15 and left. “Why is college so different? ” she sighed.
Later in math class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 16. By the end of the class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she'd 17 to try to fit in with her new school. She wasn't sure if she'd 18, but she knew she had to try. College was just as her mom had said, “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 19 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the 20 fish you can be. ”
The movie a real-life incident.
Country life is quite city life.
This is a good chance that you can to improve your spoken English.
A tiny Alaska village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time on land than on Arctic sea ice.
More than 2,000 people visited the northern Alaska village of Kaktovik in 2018 to see polar bears in the wild. The far north community lies in an area where increasingly higher temperature has sped up the movement of sea ice, the primary habitat (栖息地) of polar bears. As ice has gradually moved to deep water beyond the continental shelf, more bears are remaining on land to look for food.
Polar bears have always been a common sight on sea ice near Kaktovik, but villagers started noticing a change in the mid1990s. More bears seemed to stay on land, and researchers began taking note of more female bears making homes in the snow on land instead of on the ice to raise their babies. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists began hearing reports of the increasing number of polar bears in the area in the early 2000s. As more attention was given to the plight (困境) of polar bears about a decade ago, more tourists started heading to Kaktovik.
The village had fewer than 50 visitors annually before 2011, said Jennifer Reed, of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "Today we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of visitors, many from around the world each year," Reed said. Most tourists visit in the fall, when bears are forced toward land because sea ice is farthest away from the shore. Bruce Inglangasak, a local hunter who sometimes offers wildlife viewing tours, said he's been offering polar bear tours since 2004. Most of his clients (客户) are from China and Europe, as well as from the lower 48 U. S. states. Many tourists stay several days in the village, which has two small hotels. The villagers have benefited a lot from that. In turn, they provide more effective protection for polar bears with financial support from tourism development.
Nowadays, time travel is just about everywhere you look, films to TV shows and even literature. Our society has become obsessed with the idea of traveling through time.
However, that wasn't true just 150 years ago. The gate was opened by H. G. Wells' novel, The Time Machine, which (publish) in 1895. In this book, Wells describes a man who builds a machine that enables him (move) throughout the course of history and into the future. The story is important because it views time as something (flow).
Before this book came out, time was (basic) viewed as a oneway street. You could only go forward, and only at one speed. In this way, Wells' (create) account transformed the way people viewed time and time travel.
It was so successful largely because it came out at the end of 19th century when tremendous change was in the air. As the (twenty) century dawned, people were becoming incredibly excited for the future. It was a period of huge technological as well as scientific (grow) and, for the first time ever, people were living in a way that was dramatically different from generation before them.
In other words, it was the first time that the past, future and present would be entirely different. This simple historical moment is made time travel so fascinating.
Like other languages, English has changed greatly, so that an English speaker of 1300 would not have understood the English of 500 nor the English of today. Changes of every sort have taken place in the sounds and in the grammar. Although the pronunciation of English has changed greatly since the 15th century, the spelling of English words has changed very little over the same period. As a result, English spelling is not a reliable guide to the pronunciation of the language.
The vocabulary of English has naturally expanded, but many common modern words are derived from the vocabulary of the earliest English, e.g. bread, good, and shower. French words, such as castle, began to come into English shortly before the Norman Conquest in 1066. After the Conquest, Norman French became the language of the court and of official life, and it remained so until the end of the 14th century.
During these 300 or more years English remained the language of the common people, but an increasingly large number of French words found their way into the language, so that the French element in the English vocabulary was very considerable. Most legal terms and words denoting (表示) social ranks and institutions (such as duke), together with a great number of other words that cannot be classified readily, e.g. honor, courage, season, manner, study, and poor, belong to this period of French influence.
Since nearly all of these French words are mainly derived from Late Latin, they may be regarded as an indirect influence of the classical languages upon the English vocabulary.
The direct influence of the classical languages began with the Renaissance (the period in Europe in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries when there was a new interest in art, literature, and science) and has continued ever since; even today Latin and Greek roots are the chief source for English words in science and technology. English vocabulary has also been greatly expanded by the blending (混合) of existing words (e.g. smog from smoke and fog) resulting in a new word, usually with a related meaning.
