Thursday, May 31, 2007
Paraphrase and Summarise
Original text:
Taiwan will ban fishing of whale sharks,the largest living fish specise, starting next year, the Fisheries administration under the Council of Agriculture(COA) announced on Friday.
Fisheries administration Director Hsien Ta-wen said the year's quota of 30 whale sharks was reached on March 27 and that no more fishing would be allowed from March 27 until December 31.
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Starting from next year, the fishing,selling,importing and exporting of whale shark will be banned completely, he said.
Paraphrase:
On Friday, the fisheries administration under COA announced that fishing for the largest living fish species, whale sharks, are going to be banned from next year.
Taiwan will ban fishing of whale sharks,the largest living fish specise, starting next year, the Fisheries administration under the Council of Agriculture(COA) announced on Friday.
Fisheries administration Director Hsien Ta-wen said the year's quota of 30 whale sharks was reached on March 27 and that no more fishing would be allowed from March 27 until December 31.
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Starting from next year, the fishing,selling,importing and exporting of whale shark will be banned completely, he said.
Paraphrase:
On Friday, the fisheries administration under COA announced that fishing for the largest living fish species, whale sharks, are going to be banned from next year.
Hsieh Ta-wen ,the Fisheries Administration Director said we won't allow any fishing from March 27 until December 31.Because the year's quoto of 30 whale sharks was already reached on March 27.
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He said the goverment will ban the fishing, importing and exporting of whale sharks completely from next year.
Summarize:
Starting from next year,Taiwan goverment will protect whale sharks on fishing, imports,exports and sales with a ban.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Types of Children English Teaching
Children learning English is very common and also necessary in nowadays society. Therefore,more and more children English cram schools are established. Children can learn English not only in their schools but also in cram schools. In this situation, English teachers must change their teaching methods to make more competitive in order to have more students. Thus,children English teaching is already totally different from the way brfore. It became more variety,interesting,and popular. However, you can't use one set to teach any groups of students. What kind of teaching method is suitable ,it depends on your students' types. Children English teaching can be classified into three types according to the age range of the pupils :pre-school English teaching ( for ages 2-6) ,primary school English teaching (for ages 7-12), and junior high school English teaching (for ages 13-15).
The first type is pre-school English teaching.The children in this stage is still very young,but most of them are very interested in learning languages,no matter it is Chinese or English.Every time ,before you go to the class, you have to dress up,put on a strange or a super big hat, a mask ,special or colorful clothes. Let yourself look like an acter or even a monster to catch childrens' attention. When you go into the classroom to teach,don't forget to exaggerate your expression and body language, and vary your sound and tone to give children deep impression.This way can help children to remember what you taught. As to the textbooks, the children don't need any one. You just prepare some story books to tell and sometimes teach them nursery rhymes.That is already enough to them.
The second type is primary school English teaching. The students in this stage are getting like to read the words ,so they need textbooks.However,textbooks are not the most important part in the class.The most important part is how the teachers present the lesson.Every time,before you teach them,you must do the lesson plan.You should divide a class into three sections:warm- up(5 minutes), presentation(20-30minutes), conclusion(5-10minutes). In the first section :warm-up,let students do an activity , sing a song, or have a listening test to warm up the children's learning feeling and recall their memory. Then,present today's lesson.In this section,you have to prepare some games,let children" learning by playing". Sometimes,you have to divided students into two teams to compete each other.The last sectionis is conclusion.In this part,you have to review today's lesson and ask students:"What did you learn today?"After that ,don't forget give them some homeworks.
The third type of English teaching is teaching in the junior high school. Teaching the students of this stage,the textbooks and tests are much more important. They have an entrance examination when they graduated from school.Therefore,theching them has more pressure than teaching the other two types of students. There are a lot of quizzes for students every day.Teachers have to spend lots of time setting examination papers even on the off day.In addition,teachers must emphasize the key point of the lesson ,especially the grammar.We all agree that grammar is very boring, however, being their teacher, you have no choice but to explain it very carefully and interestingly.Besides,the students are really hard in studying every day,teachers sometimes have to tell jokes or funny stories in the class in order to release pupils' pressure.
Facing the students of different types must have different teaching methods.Their learning experience and the development of cognition ability are totally not the same.Your teaching methods must adapt to your students.Then,you will be an effective English teacher.
The first type is pre-school English teaching.The children in this stage is still very young,but most of them are very interested in learning languages,no matter it is Chinese or English.Every time ,before you go to the class, you have to dress up,put on a strange or a super big hat, a mask ,special or colorful clothes. Let yourself look like an acter or even a monster to catch childrens' attention. When you go into the classroom to teach,don't forget to exaggerate your expression and body language, and vary your sound and tone to give children deep impression.This way can help children to remember what you taught. As to the textbooks, the children don't need any one. You just prepare some story books to tell and sometimes teach them nursery rhymes.That is already enough to them.
The second type is primary school English teaching. The students in this stage are getting like to read the words ,so they need textbooks.However,textbooks are not the most important part in the class.The most important part is how the teachers present the lesson.Every time,before you teach them,you must do the lesson plan.You should divide a class into three sections:warm- up(5 minutes), presentation(20-30minutes), conclusion(5-10minutes). In the first section :warm-up,let students do an activity , sing a song, or have a listening test to warm up the children's learning feeling and recall their memory. Then,present today's lesson.In this section,you have to prepare some games,let children" learning by playing". Sometimes,you have to divided students into two teams to compete each other.The last sectionis is conclusion.In this part,you have to review today's lesson and ask students:"What did you learn today?"After that ,don't forget give them some homeworks.
The third type of English teaching is teaching in the junior high school. Teaching the students of this stage,the textbooks and tests are much more important. They have an entrance examination when they graduated from school.Therefore,theching them has more pressure than teaching the other two types of students. There are a lot of quizzes for students every day.Teachers have to spend lots of time setting examination papers even on the off day.In addition,teachers must emphasize the key point of the lesson ,especially the grammar.We all agree that grammar is very boring, however, being their teacher, you have no choice but to explain it very carefully and interestingly.Besides,the students are really hard in studying every day,teachers sometimes have to tell jokes or funny stories in the class in order to release pupils' pressure.
Facing the students of different types must have different teaching methods.Their learning experience and the development of cognition ability are totally not the same.Your teaching methods must adapt to your students.Then,you will be an effective English teacher.
