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“Giving things up often brings greater benefits than holding in to them.” ““What are you doing for others?” According to Martin Luther King, an essential leader of the American Civil Right movement, that is life’s most urgent question.” ~By Beth Bowyer~I read some articles in the Studio Classroom these days. Two of them mentioned the “Sweet sacrifices” and “The courage to sacrifice”. The most impressive story is about Professor Liviu Librescu. On April 16, 2007, a gunshot case in the campus of Virginia Tech. This 76-year-old professor blocked the classroom door to give his students enough time to jump out of the second story windows. But he couldn’t withstand for long and was shot to death. His action really touches me. I felt so proud of him. He must be a person who is always nice to others, especially to the students. After I read them and had a deep thought. I asked myself some questions. “Would I do the same reaction to protect my students as the professor if I am in the same situation?” “What I can do to help other? Though I just a student right now, I want to do something.” I don’t know what I should do or what I can do, so this is my goal. I knew this goal might be too far for me, but as the Mona Purdy who is collecting shoes and send them all around the world said “I always thought I was too busy to help others, then I started this and found myself wondering [what I’d been doing] all my life.” There is always enough time to help, if you want. So here, I just want to share the story and to prompt more and more people to help others. Not only the “World peace”, but also let this world full of love. My name is Alice. My goal is “sacrifice”.
【Talk about school】Anniversary celebrations in Lishan!
Hi everybody! Today is . My name is . The weather is getting pretty chilly these days, so everyone should add a cozy coat. Today, during this session, we will talk about the anniversary celebrations in Lishan Senior High School this year. It was held on November 3rd. If you missed it this year, don’t forget to join us next year. We will be waiting for you. This year there were a lot of activities, including the singing competition, the relay race, the class fairs, shows by other schools and the science and literature activities which are a characteristic of our school. In the science and literature activities, the students competed against each other when teachers from different subjects asked questions. For example, in the English Subject competition, groups were given vocabulary words and were asked to describe the word without saying it out loud. A member of the group had to guess the word while the other tried to describe it in English. Everyone had fun participating in this competition. This is the first time we held this ‘subject competition’, but I believe that it will become a trend, so when you visit us next year, you may also be able to participate in it too! Don’t you think that is so exciting? Well, our school anniversary this year was very successful and everyone sure had a blast!
That is all for our “Talk about School session”. And now, the next part is……chat room!
【Chat room】
Today, I want to share a book. I know most students don’t like to read, or do not have time to read. But it’s good for you to read some novels or poems in English sometimes. Oh~ ok~ but it’s not my point today!! Let’s get back to the book which I want to introduce , “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”.
It was written by Lynne Truss. She is a writer and journalist. She was writing about the punctuation in the article. Through sloppy usage on the Internet, in emails, and now in the text messages, we have poor skills at using punctuations. And a lot of net-speak popped up suddenly. Lynne dares to say, in her humorous, witty and very English way, it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. Not only scholars but everyone should pay attention to it. Punctuations are an everyday thing, causing us to make mistakes easily or forget them.It’s a different direction now that we can see the English literature. From a British writer, we can consider the problems that the foreign scholars care about in their culture. I want to put everybody up for reading this “Eats, shoots & leaves”. Though it might take you a lot of time to read it and also have to do a lot of hard work looking up words in the dictionary, but it’s worth it. Believe me! This is the first show of “Lishan Insight”. I hope you liked it and learned something from it. Please feel free to give us suggestions, and you’ll see improvement next time. Please send an email to us, or give us a reply on our blog. The email address is lishaninsight@gmail.com and our blog is http://www.lishaninsight.wordpress.com . We appreciate it very much, and will reply to your suggestion soon. Be sure to tune in next time!
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