关于reading的作文
Reading makes a full man
It is a world of knowledge, no one can fulfill his original dreams without continually learning. And there are various methods to obtain useful knowledge, actually, those methods more or less are relative to reading and reading itself undoubtedly a good method for one to learn something useful efficiently.
Reading is not only a learning method but also an interesting way of entertainment. If one were tried of work, reading would act as a way to relax. Meanwhile, if one read newspapers or magazines during his lunch break or spare time, his horizons would be greatly broaden. As it is stated above, reading may entertain oneself, but it is of great significance to choose the materials for reading. Some person may affection to read martial novels and argue that martial novels are also a separation of literature. But they neglect that they may be absorbed to the world of martial arts.
As far as I’m concerned, often do some reading is good for us not just for learning some but for entertainment. To speak further, if we often do some reading and may obtain something, our knowledge may be greatly enriched gradually, and we may find that we can work more effectively and efficiently. So reading makes a full man.
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Reading英语阅读小诗
Reading, My Love! Reading is a teacher 阅读是一位老师 Teach me more knowledge 教会我更多的知识 Reading is a kind of enjoyment 阅读，是一种享受， Open the window 帮我打开心灵的窗户 Led me into the colorful world 让我走进那个五彩缤纷的世界 Reading is a guide 阅读是一位向导 Led me walk out of confusion 引领着我走出困惑和迷茫 Reading is a ray of sunshine 阅读是一束阳光 To shine on my long life 照耀着我漫长的人生道 Reading are colorful flowers 阅读是一朵朵五颜六色的鲜花 Dress up my colorful inner world 装扮着我五彩斑斓的内心世界 Reading is clear spring 阅读是清澈的泉水 He watered my heart 浇灌着我的心田 Reading is a treasure bo，x full of wisdom 阅读是一个装满 智慧的宝盒 Help me when I'm in trouble 在我遇到困难时暗暗帮助我
Walking into reading 走入阅读 I went into my world 就走入了我的世界 Reading makes me happy Reading makes me clever Reading makes me confident I will read! Everyday!
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英语reading重点句子word版本
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While-reading教学设计26
Pre-reading: When we talk about ‘Great books’, what words will come to your mind? Confucius (about 551-479BC) was a Chinese _______ (教育家), ________ (思想家) and philosopher (哲学家) of the ________________________ (春秋时代) of Chinese history. He is ___________ (著名的) in many countries. William Shakespeare (1564－1616) He was an _______ (英国的) poet, playwright (剧作家) and actor. And he was widely regarded as the _________ (最伟大的) writer in the English language. His works are still _____ (阅读) by many people today. Mark Twain (l835～1910) America's short story writer, novelist Humorist (幽默作家) America's _________ (著名的) literary figure Literary giant While-reading: Task 1: 见课本P57 ③ Task 2: True or false. 1. Both Betty and Mr Jackson think that Confucius and Shakespeare are great. 2. Confucius and Shakespeare lived long long ago, so people are influenced little by them now. 3. Mr Jackson dislikes the book, The adventures of Tom Sawyer. 4. Betty wants Mr Jackson to join the Internet group to discuss great books. Task 3: 见课本P57 ④ Post-reading: Quiz I. 根据句意及汉语提示写出正确的单词。 1. — Tom Cruise is a(n) __________ (众所周知的) actor, isn’t he? — Yes, he is.
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I Owe You for a Float Mr Smith worked in a post office and three years ago ,when he was sixty ,he retired .Now he and his wife stay at home and his children work in another city .The old woman does all housework and he has nothing to do at home .He likes neither reading nor watching games .At first he didn’t know how to spend the spare time .Mr Hunt who was two years older than him asked him to go fishing with him . “It’s a good sport ,”said Mr Hunt .“I’m sure you will soon be interested in it .” “But I cann’t fish at all ,you know .” “That’s easy .Go fishing with me tomorrow morning and I’ll teach you .”Mr Smith decided to try his luck .The following day the two old friends came to a river and began to fish .Suddenly Mr Smith said ,“How much do those little red things cost ?” “You mean the floats ?Oh ,they are cheap .What made you ask me such a question ?” “I owe you one .Mine has just sunk .” Something Is Wrong with Your Cars Robert was a clever young man and got on well with his classmates .They all liked him and played with him though he often boasted .He was strong and often had sports .He hoped to join the army when he left the middle school .Bad luck !His leg was hurt in a traffic accident and he couldn’t walk .He had to go to his home village and help his father to manage the farm .He read a lot of books on farming and did well in it .He got much money and bought a few farms next to hs and ten years later he became the richest farmer in his village . Once Robert met several friends in the capital .Some of them were famous in their country .They knew nothing about their lame friend .It made him unhappy and he asked them to visit his farm .They agreed and went there with him .They saw a beautiful house with a big garden when they got there .They found he had a lot of sheep ,pigs and cows .Robert and his family warmly received the guests from London .The next morning he took them to his farm .It was so large that they couldn’t see the other end and it surprised them all . “It’ll take you two days to reach the other end of my farm by car !”Robert said happily . “I think something is wrong with your cars !”one of the guests said with a smile .
选修六unit3reading-教案
U n i t3A h e a l t h y l i f e Ⅰ.教材分析 本节课的教学任务是人教版选修六Unit 3 A healthy life 中的Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending 部分。Warming up部分主要围绕健康问题展开讨论，并提供了几个有关健康的话题（cigarette smoking/Drinking alcohol/Drug taking/Physical fitness/Sexual health/Stress）,同时展示了几张图片，使学生能联想现实中的健康话题，更好引入阅读。Pre-reading部分通过看标题预测文章大意的方式，激发了学生的阅读兴趣。Reading部分分为两部分，首先是爷爷写给孙子的一封信，信中82岁的爷爷以亲身体会向孙子介绍了上瘾的原因、抽烟的危害和戒烟的方法，告诫孙子把烟戒掉。第二部分是有关戒烟的网页，详细列举了戒烟的六种方法：l．制订计划；2．下定决心；3．破除旧习；4．学习自我放松；5．必要时请求帮助；6．坚持不懈。Comprehending 部分设计了三个练习，讨论部分可以激活学生在读前部分学过的内容，以便对抽烟这一话题作深入讨论。表格填空主要帮助学生加深对课文内容的理解和巩固，并通过角色扮演让学生们学会运用本节课所学短语，句型，是一种很好的复习方式。 II. 教学设计思路 本课设计以“A healthy life”为课堂教学材料，以学生现实生活为出发点和归宿点，旨在培养学生阅读能力及其发展学生的语言实际运用能力。本设计以学生为中心，运用了图片展示，采用了学生预测文章内容、复述、讨论、学生自读及教师指导阅读等形式，使学生由浅入深，理解课文，同时又提高了学生各方面的能力。 III. 学习任务分析 本单元的中心话题时“健康生活”，在阅读这部分，主要谈到了爷爷通过自己抽烟及戒烟的亲身经历对孙子提出很多建议。讨论部分：我们在日常生活中能做些什么去保护非抽烟者免受二手烟的侵害，尤其是妇女和儿童，又会遇到什么困难，也是学生较为感兴趣并且很想了解的东西，而文章正式给我们解释了这一问题，而且阅读的难易程度适中，学生有一定的学习热情。 IV. 学习者分析 教学对象为高中二年级学生，他们已经完成了高二2个多个模块的学习，部分学生渐渐适应了本套教材的学习，也习惯了我的教法。且智力发展趋于成熟，基本能用英语获取信息、处理信息、分析问题和解决问题。但由于课外语言活动环境不够丰富，对阅读的重视也不够，学习中还存在一定的问题。 V.Teaching goals 1.Target language目标语言
我会做家务500字作文：3篇
我会做家务500字作文：3篇 我会做家务500字作文篇一：以前喝的豆浆都是妈妈在市场买的，不知道豆浆是怎样做出来的，也没有想过要学做豆浆。但是今天，我学会了，喝起来比市场买的甜多了，香多了，心里很有成就感。 早上的时候，婶婶问我会不会打豆浆?想不想学打豆浆?诗诗姐姐会打豆浆，如果我想学的话，让诗诗姐姐教我，我连忙说好。 终于到了打豆浆的时候了，我兴奋地把诗诗姐姐叫来，让她教我打豆浆。准备的工具有：装豆浆的大杯子、黄豆、一双筷子、白沙糖，最后还有一样很重要的东西豆浆机。 首先，黄豆用水清干净，装进装豆浆的大杯子里，之后把豆浆机清理干净，把黄豆装进豆浆机里，盖上盖子，插上电源，大约20人分钟就可以了。就在等待的时候，把一勺白糖倒进装豆浆的杯子里，20分钟过去了，豆浆弄好了，把热腾腾的豆浆装进大杯子里搅拌均匀，一杯香甜的豆浆就出来了。 自己亲手做的豆浆果然很好喝，我学会了自己做豆浆，真开心! 我会做家务500字作文篇二：在寒假期间，我帮外婆做了一件家务事。 我在外婆家度寒假。有一天，外公外婆不在家。我做完作业，想起了在街上听到的大人们的议论声：“现在的孩子吃的好，穿的
好，都不爱劳动，个个像小公主、小王子一样!”我可不想做小公主，我也要学着帮外婆做些事。我想：“我能帮外婆做点什么事呢?”我开始四处寻找，忽然，目光落到了玻璃窗上，只见玻璃上有许多灰尘。于是，我决定擦玻璃。 首先，我准备好抹布、旧报纸，再用脸盆盛满水。一切准备就绪，我就开始擦玻璃。 我看着窗户上的灰尘，心想：这些灰尘，用干抹布、湿抹布擦都不行，用什么呢?我忽然看见了阳台上浇花的喷壶，何不先用喷壶喷喷水呢?说干就干，我双手紧握着喷壶，用力的喷向玻璃，玻璃上落满了水雾。一会儿，灰尘都湿透了，我就把抹布浸湿，拧干，在玻璃上一上一下按顺序擦。湿抹布擦完以后，灰尘虽然没有了，可玻璃上却留下了一道道水迹。我赶紧拿来报纸，全面认真地干擦一遍。干擦完之后，水迹就完全消失了。 玻璃终于被我擦得干干净净，看着自己的劳动成果，心里特别高兴。外婆回来后，看见屋里的玻璃，都被擦得干干净净，也表扬了我。 家务劳动虽是一件小事，却能够体现我们敬老爱老的思想。今后，我要做出更多敬老爱老的实际行动来! 我会做家务500字作文篇三：星期天早上，爸爸上班去了，妈妈出去买菜，我一个人呆在家里挺无聊，心想：我还从来没做过家务，今天学着做吧。 我先在水龙头下接了半盆水，把毛巾浸湿，再拧干，就开始擦了。先擦客厅的擦几，电视机电视柜，再擦饭厅的饭桌。然后，又把毛巾洗干净擦卧室，我把爸爸妈妈房间里的床头，床头柜，
Unit-3-On-Reading说课材料
U n i t-3-O n-R e a d i n g
ON READING W. Somerset Maugham 1. The first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course, there are many books that we all have to read, either to pass examinations or to acquire information, from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We are reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will enable us to get through them without tedium. Such books we read with resignation rather than with alacrity. But that is not the sort of reading I have in mind. The books I shall mention in due course will help you neither to get a degree nor to earn your living. They will not teach you to sail a boat or get a stalled motor to run, but they will help you to live more fully. That, however, they cannot do unless you enjoy reading them. 2. The “you” I address is the adult whose avocations give him certain leisure and who would like to read the books which can without loss be left unread. I do not address the bookworm. He can find his own way. I wish to deal only with the masterpieces which the consensus of opinion for a long time has accepted as supreme. We are all supposed to have read them; it is a pity that so few of us have. But there are masterpieces which are acknowledged to be such by all the best critics and to which the historians of literature devote considerable space, yet which no ordinary person can now read with enjoyment. They are important to the students, but changing times and changing tastes have robbed them of their savour and it is hard to read them now without an effort of will. Let me give one instance: I have read George Eliot’s Adam Bede, but I cannot put my hand on my heart and say that was with pleasure. I read it from a sense of duty; I finished it with a sigh of relief. 3. Now of such books as this I mean to say nothing. Every man is his own best critic. Whatever the learned say about a book, however unanimous they are in their praise of it, unless it interests you, it is no business of yours. Don’t forget th at critics often make mistakes — the history of criticism is full of the blunders the most eminent of them have made, and you who read are the final judge of the value to you of the book you are reading. This, of course, applies to the books I am going to recommend to your attention. We are none of us exactly like everyone else, only rather like, and it would be unreasonable to suppose that the books that have meant a great deal to me should be precisely those that will mean a great deal to you. But they are books that I feel the richer for having read, and I think I should not be quite the man I am if I had not read them. And so I beg of you, if any of you who read these pages are tempted to read the books I suggest and cannot get on with them, just put them down; they will be of no service to you if you do not enjoy them. No one is under an obligation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous literature which is classed as belles-lettres. (I wish I knew the English term for this, but I don’t think there is one.) He must read them for pleasure, and who can claim that what pleases one man must necessarily please another?
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Harley-Davidson-- King of the Road 哈雷戴维森——公路之王 The Davidson brothers and William Harley crafted their first motorcycle using the best available tools they had - mostly their hands and their ingenuity. 戴维森兄弟和威廉哈雷用自己的双手和智慧制作了第一辆摩托车。 The adventurous American could ride for hours, the fuel tank accepting even the lowest grades of fuel to provide surprisingly economical motoring. 大胆的美国人可以 开那种接受最低等级燃料的燃料槽提供的令人惊讶的经济汽车。 The Great Depression almost succeeded in devastating the entire motorcycle industry. Only two manufacturers survived the slump. 大萧条几乎成功地破坏了整个摩托车行业。只有两家厂商在衰退中存活。 Harley-Davidson was one of them, thanks to a strong dealer network, police and military use, and conservative business management combined with strong exports. 哈雷戴维森是其中之一，归因于一个强大的经销商网络，警察和军队对他们产品的使用，以及保守的管理与强大的出口相结合。 In 1965, Harley-Davidson ended family ownership with a public stock offering, merging with the American Machine and Foundry Company (AMF) shortly thereafter.哈雷戴维森用公开发行股票的方式结束了家族所有权，此后不久，与美国机械铸造公司合并。 1965，But then huge numbers of low-priced motorcycles were imported from Japan, flooding the American market, the ferocious competition causing a severe financial strain for the Wisconsin company. 1965年，但大量从日本进口的低价摩托车充斥美国市场，这种激烈的竞争，给威斯康星州的公司造成了严重的财政压力。 This encouraged 13 members of the Harley-Davidson management team to purchase the company from AMF in a leveraged buy-out. Harley-Davidsons have thus become big business. 这鼓励了哈雷戴维森管理团队的13名成员从AMF杠杆收购该公司,此后，哈雷戴维森企业成为大财团。But they are also an important and prestigious part of biking lore, for yesterday, today and tomorrow. Harley-Davidson is not just a motorcycle; moreover it is a real American icon, which represents the individual, a triumph of non-conformity, a free way of life.但他们也是摩托车传奇中重要并且享有声望的的一部分，昨天如此，今后亦如此。哈雷戴维森不仅仅是一个摩托车制造商；而且是代表个人，非整合，以及自由生活的真正美国偶像。