Helping your children to read and write at home will improve their skills and confidence—it will also make them get ready for learning in the classroom environment.

　     　 are needed by every child in every subject in every year of their life in or outside school. Students who improve their reading and writing skills will increase their vocabulary and their ability（能力）to use the English language correctly. As parents, you can play an important role in improving your children’s literacy（讀寫能力）. You can make a difference by listening, asking questions, giving information, and reading with your children outside school hours.

Here are 8 tips on how to help your children to read and write:

²   having everyday conversations with your children

²   trying to ask more “wh-” questions instead of easy “yes” or “no” questions

²   encouraging your children to talk about events you don’t know

²   reading to your children each night

²   listening to your children read

²   teaching your children how to use dictionaries

²   talking about your children’s writings

²   practicing filling in forms, writing letters, sending cards or emails

You can also encourage your children to join the Reading Challenge Club and discuss the books they are reading together. In the club, children must read 15 books from the Challenge book list and 5 more books chosen by themselves. There are over 1,000 books on the list. The reading must be done in one year. What’s more, it is a wonderful way to help your children to write. For example, you can encourage them to write diaries or book reviews. Remember to make positive comments as much as possible.

1.This passage is mainly written for __________.

A. children      B. teachers     C. parents      D. doctors

2.__________ is the best for the missing part in Paragraph 2.

A. “Listening and speaking skills”         B. “Reading and writing skills”

C. “Listening and writing skills”      D. “Reading and listening skills”

3.__________ is NOT mentioned in the 8 tips above.

   A. “Listening to the radio every day    ” 

B. “Listening to your children read”

   C. “Reading to your children each night”          

D. “Talking about your children’s writings”

4.In the Reading Challenge Club, children have to read __________ in one year.

A. 5 books          B. 10 books  C. 15 books            D. 20 books

5.Parents can help children to write by encouraging them to__________.

A. draw pictures or take photos         B. listen to pop music 

C. write diaries or book reviews            D. play computer games

Bayfield shopping Coupons(購物券)

1.If you spend 100 dollars or more, you can ____________.

   A. get a CD free              B. get 6 hours of free parking

   C. get some stamps free       D. get a car free

2.Buy one tie at Daniel's Menswear, you may get another _______free.

   A. cheaper tie             B. more expensive tie

   C. tie of the same price        D. tie of different price

3.You can get a 10% discount on any books if you _______ at the Book Store.

    A. buy some gifts       B. buy some tickets

    C. show this coupon      D. buy some books

4.If you want to have free soft drink, you can go to____________.

    A. Mike's Cafe  B. the Book Store  C. Daniel’s Menswear D. the Movie House

5.If John pays 10 dollars for a full-price movie ticket on Tuesdays, he can buy a second ticket for only____________.

    A. 5 dollars   B. 10 dollars   C. 15 dollars   D. 20 dollars

Making friend is a skill. Like most skills, it improves with practice. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing（樂意） to take some action. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends staying home alone.

Join a club or group, talking with those who like the same things you do is much easier. Or join someone in some activity.

Many people are nervous when talking to new people. After all, meeting strangers means facing the unknown. And it’s human nature to feel a bit uncomfortable about the unknown.

Most of our fears about dealing with new people come from doubts about ourselves. We imagine other people are giving an opinion about us-finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the same away. Try to accept(接受)yourself as you are, and try to put the other person at ease(不拘束). You’ll both feel more comfortable.

Try to keep self-confident(自信)even when you don’t feel that way when you enter a room full of strangers, such as a new classroom, walk tall(趾高氣揚(yáng))and straight, look directly at other people and smile.

If you see someone you’d like to speak to, say something. Don’t wait for the other person to start a conversation.

Just meeting someone new does not mean that you will make friends with that person-friendship is based on each other’s liking and “give and take”. They take time and efforts to develop. And there are things that keep a new friendship from growing.

1.If you want to meet people and make friends, what should you do?

   A. Join a club or group.      B. Talk with those who like the same things.

   C. Join someone in some activity.      D. All of the above(上面)

2.In the sentence “After all, meeting strangers means facing the unknown.”, the word “unknown” means _____.

   A. without somebody knowing      B. without somebody liking

   C. unfriendly                    D. unpleasant

3.How do you feel more comfortable when you are with new people?

A. Shake hands with others

B. Accept yourself as you are, and put the other as ease

   C. Don’t talk with those who don’t like.

D. Walk tall and straight.

4.If you’d like to speak to someone, what should you do?

    A. You should wait until the person says something.

  B. You should stay home alone.

    C. You should cough until the person notices you.

 D. You should say something at first.

5.Friendship is based on______

    A. meeting for the first time    B. each other’s liking and “give and take”

    C. keeping self-confident      D. facing the unknown

根據(jù)首字母及漢語提示，完成下列單詞的拼寫，使句意明確，語言通順。

1.If you get your ears ________(穿孔) , your head teacher will be angry with you and you will break school rules.

2.What about reading aloud to practice p____________(發(fā)音)？

3.As a teacher, you must c____________(全神貫注) on your work .

4.The air pollution in this area caused the ________(死亡) of many trees.

5.He is t________ （害怕）of speaking in public.

假設(shè)你叫李華, 你的英國筆友Linda 將作為交換生(exchange student)來中國學(xué)習(xí)，她報名參加了漢語培訓(xùn)學(xué)習(xí)漢語。請根據(jù)下列提示和你學(xué)習(xí)英語的體會給Linda寫一封回信。

        注意：（1） 回信需要包括全部要點(diǎn)；（2） 開頭和結(jié)尾已給出，但不計入總數(shù)；（3）字?jǐn)?shù)在60以上。

Dear Linda,

        I’m very glad that you’ll come to China as an exchange student. I know it isn’t easy to learn Chinese, but I have some ideas that may help.

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Best wishes and looking forward to meeting you in China.

Yours,

Li Hua

 -- Who is ____man in a black hat?

-- It’s Jim Black. We often play _______ baseball together in our free time.

--Memorizing the words of pop songs ______one of the greatest ways to learn more English.

--Yes. And I’ve learned _______that way.

A. is, a lot of      B. are, a lot of       C. is, a lot       D are, a lot

 -- I don’t know _____________.   -- In about ten minutes, I think.

 --How did you help him ___over the difficulties?

--I made it by_______ him never to give up.

—Must I finish my homework right now? 

-- No, you ___, you ___finish it tomorrow morning.