Module 1 How to learn English

Dear Helen,

I am writing to give you some advice about how to learn English well. First, You should always speak English in class because it can improve your listening and speaking. How about listening to the English radio, watching English film or listen to real English songs ? Talking about the films or songs with your friend is also important. Why don’t you look for a pen friend and write email messages to each other? At the weekends, you may take part in an English corner .At first, you may be shy when you speak English, so before you begin, take a deep breath and smile. Smile always helps. Next, You should read English every day because it’s good for your reading and translation , but try not to translate every word.

Then it’s a good idea to check your vocabularies and phrases notebook every day. Try to remember eight or nine words or phrases a day. Write them on pieces of paper and place them in your bedroom. Say the words and phrases when you see them , and change them every day.

Finally you should write down the correct spelling and grammar next to the mistakes,and you should revise them carefully before a test. Best wishes, Language Doctor

Module 2 Experience

写作任务:就人们的经历进行一次问卷调查。 Dear David,

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I’m having a wonderful time in China. I’ve done so many things.

I’ve always wanted to go to Beijing, but I have never been here before. Last month, one of my pen friends, invited me to stay with him for the summer holiday. So, I began my exciting tour. The plane I took took off from London airport on Monday morning and landed in Beijing Capital Airport on Monday evening. It took me 16 hours to get here.

I have been intrerested in music, so I watched Beijing opera on Wedesday afternoon.I noticed there are thousands of beautiful stone animals on both sides of the streets, so I taken lots of photos of them. Beijing has been famous for delicious roast duck, so I have eaten one happily. I knew from newspaper and magazines that Beijing is an old big city with a long history of 3000 years, so I was intereted in its history and culture and visited the Palace Museum and the Summer Palace.

There is only one thing I havn’t done yet: I haven’t climbed up the Great Wall. Bye for now, Rob

Module 3 Journey to space

写作任务：写一份关于太空旅行的海报

I have just made a great model of the space station for my space travel homework because Ms James wants it next week. I have just heard a latest news: some scientists have sent a spacecraft to Mars.It has taken several months to get there。 To my sad, there aren’t any astronauts in the spacecraft and the spacecraft have not discovered life on Mars either。To my surprise, lots

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of astronuts have worked on the space station. They take the space shuttle and go there and back. To my joy, a spacecraft has recently reached the moon . From the rocks the spacecraft brought, scientists have found out that there are three different kinds of water on the moon. I know a little about space travel, so I decide to study hard to learn further about the universe, galaxy, solar system, star , planet, Mars and so on.

Module 4 Education

写作任务：写一张为希望学校筹钱的传单。

Today in class our teacher told us something about the Hope Project. We heard that many children in the countryside had to drop out of school because of family poverty or family illness. Some needed to helped their parents to work on their farms which they depended on, others needed to look after their family who were ill. To our happy, in the last 15 years, Project Hope has raised money and paid for the education of 2.5 million poor students in the countryside. With the help of Project Hope, many students left old schools with no electricity and only a few books and went to new schools with big classrooms and lots of books. Because of Project Hope, thousands of children have better lives and brighter future.After class, I thought that it was necessary for me to give money to help the country children who longed（渴望） to go to school.So I went to the post office to sent my pocket money to Project Hope to help those students who had stopped going to school.

Module 5 Western music

写作任务

谈论你最喜欢的音乐家及其音乐

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Different people have different ideas about musicians and their musics. For me, I like Johann Strauss the younger best. He was born in Vienna in 1825, the capital of Austria. Strauss the younger is one of the most important composers all over the world. He was even more successful and popular than his father-Johann Strauss the elder. He wrote more than 400 waltzes in his life and his most famous one was The Blue Danube. He wrote it in 1876 at the age of 55.

He not only wrote a lot of waltzes, but also played many waltzes. They are lively and good to dance to. He took his band around Europe and gave concerts in many cities. In addition, he was also famous for a violinist. He died in 1899 when he was 72.

Module 6 A famous story

写作任务:就某人过去的经历写一个短故事。

I’m reading a book about a girl called Alice. The name of the book is Alice’s Adventure in wonderland which every boy and girl in Britain has read.

One day she was sitting with her sister by a river. Her sister was reading a book. While she had nothing to do. Once or twice she looked into her sister’s book without pictures or conversations in it. She was thinking of making a daisy chain when suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran past her. It was running because it was late for a tea party with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and a mouse. And there also was a king, a queen and a Cheshire Cat. The queen was playing in the garden, the king was sitting on the grass and the Cheshire Cat was sitting in a tree and was smiling at everyone.

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She didn’t think it was strange when she heard the rabbit say that it would be late. But when the rabbit took a watch out of its pocket and looked at it, she got up , ran across a field and went down a large rabbit hole under a hedge after it without thinking about how she was going to get out again.

Module 7 Feelings and impressions

写作任务:描述某个人。

My best friend Lingling is 14 years old. She looks quite tall, slim, and pretty. She has short fair hair, and she wears a pair of golden glasses. She is often wearing lovely jeans and a T-shirt for a journey, but she is also carry his warm coat with her.

She spends a lot of time with the school orchestra, but she also like dance music-she love dancing. She enjoy sports as well, especially tennis. She is the captain of the school tennis team-I’m very proud of him. She likes making quite delicious pizzas and really sweet chocolate cookies.

She often feel a bit sad when she leave his mum and dad for a few days, and she is quite shy when she was with strangers. She always feel nervous when she speak English to a foreigner, but she’ll be fine after a few days. She always feels sorry when she do something wrong. She’s often afraid of flying, but she is very excited about going abroad.

Module 8 Around town

写作任务:指出城镇周围的方向

Welcome to this short Tour of Beijing. In Tian’anmen Square we are standing in the center of Beijing. On the left, over there, is the Great Hall of the People. And on the right is the National Museum of China. The Chairman Mao

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