晓柚崽崽！
在学习、工作或生活中，大家都跟作文打过交道吧，通过作文可以把我们那些零零散散的思想，聚集在一块。相信很多朋友都对写作文感到非常苦恼吧，下面是我帮大家整理的英语话题作文8篇，仅供参考，欢迎大家阅读。
Since we go to school, we have to learn English, it has been one of the main subjects. As we have learned English for a very long time, we will complain about it, we always make the joke that the foreigners should learn Chinese. Now, it is not the joke anymore, the world’s watching China, more and more foreign people are interested in Chinese, they have learned Chinese. When we open the TV, we can find that a hot show called Chinese Bridge, it is a competition for the foreign students to show their Chinese. I have seen the show, I was very impressed, the foreign students spoke Chinese so well, they knew our culture, they had enthusiasm, which made them enjoy learning Chinese. We should learn from the foreign students, they show us the way to learn a language well.
从我们上学起，就要学习英语，英语已经成为了主要的科目之一。由于我们要学习英语
很长一段时间，总会抱怨，我们会开玩笑说老外应该学习中文。如今，这不再是个玩笑了，全世界都在关注中国，越来越多的外国人对中文感兴趣，他们已经开始学习中文。当我们打开电视，可以发现一档热门的节目叫“汉语桥”，这是给外国学生展示汉语的竞赛节目。我看过节目，印象深刻，外国学生能把汉语讲得很好，我们了解我们的文化，有热情，这使得他们乐于学习汉语。我们应该向外国学生学习，他们给我们展示了学好一门语言的方法。
Everyone knows that April 5th is the Qingming Festival. Yes, today is the Qingming Festival.
My grandfather and I went to the ground first to granny, and grandpa granny swept the grave. We put on the tomb of grass pulled out, pulled out in the tomb planted on several willow and then burned paper money tender. After that, Grandpa asked my grandfather to knock three heads. I wonder, "why do you have to knock three heads?" Grandpa couldn't answer it, and said, "go back and look up the computer by yourself!"
Back when we eat some cold food. I do not understand to ask: "why Qingming to eat cold food? "Grandma told me about the origin of the cold food:" spring and Autumn period, Jin has trouble Xian Chen Jie called, when the monarch after jinwengong in secluded, in a day before Qingming, jinwengong sent to forced meson launch Hill set the mountain on fire, an official, Jie want to be burned down the official results. In the mountains, jinwengong regret, so in second days (Qingming) ordered a national ban on fireworks, only eat cold, after every year, they formed a folk custom of eating cold food in Tomb-sweeping Day." I can't help but wonder, "there was a story like that!"
It's a lot to harvest today.
1. 出国留学有很多好处
2. 出国留学也会遇到很多难题
3. 你的选择
出国留学的好处：
接触到全新的想法和趋势，增加知识，拓宽视野
Being exposed to entirely new ideas and trends，they can enrich their knowledge and expand their horizons.
在国外生活，更快地掌握外遇
by living and studying in a foreign country, one can improve his foreign language much faster than at home.
减少对父母的依靠
A great gift a parent can give is to let a child spread his /her wings and be independent
Reduce their dependence on their parents
出国留学遇到的困难：
语言难，沟通难
learning a foreign language and communicating smoothly with the local people is far from an easy thing at the outset for most people.
适应当地饮食，习俗，思想和气候
It also takes time for students to adapt themselves to a new diet， custom，set of ideas and even the climate
写作教学一直是高中英语课堂教学中较为棘手的问题。本文以一次主题写作活动教学环节为例探讨英语主题写作活动与学生运用单元目标语言的能力之间的关系，以下是“英语话题作文教学设计”希望能够帮助的到您！
一、研究背景
我国中学英语写作教学一直是令师生感到头痛的问题。尽管教师和学生在写作方面做了很多努力，但英语写作仍然属于薄弱环节。究其原因，一是教材编排问题。在现行的教材中，写仍然体现为巩固听、说、读的手段，没有作为知识在教材中系统阐述。实际上写作不仅是巩固和强化知识和技能的手段，其本身还具有知识体系属性。而这种知识体系在教材设计中没有得到重视，使得写作总是处于边缘化状态。二是不少教师对写作训练的认识存在误区，认为写作训练仅是一种巩固与练习的手段。绝大多数教师认为英语写作教学“高耗低效”，对短期快速提升学生的英语学习成绩贡献不大，觉得英语写作教学可有可无，对此不够重视。教师的教学思想和行为无形当中会影响学生对英语写作的态度、观念和评价，致使学生普遍对英语写作缺乏热情、信心和积极性。三是写作知识学习和技能训练缺乏有效的教学策略和模式）。大多数教师的教学模式是：教师布置写作任务――学生课外独立完成――教师独自批改――教师念范文――学生背范文。教师对学生习作的反馈往往只是一个分数，有时也画出学生的语言错误，但大多数学生只关心分数的高低，对教师的反馈往往看一眼就塞到书包里去了，类似甚至同样的错误在以后的写作中依旧出现。
二、主题写作活动的定义及概述
主题写作活动是以一定的话题为中心，以单元目标语言为依托，围绕单元目标词汇和语言结构展开的话题性写作活动。在课堂教学实践中，主题写作活动是以拓展单元目标语言为出发点，以培养学生的英语写作能力为重点，以提高学生的英语写作能力为重点，以提高学生的综合语言运用能力为目的的写作活动。
主题写作活动是检验学生是否理解和内化单元目标语言知识的重要而有效的途径之一，也是实现语言交际和语言运用的途径之一。主题写作不仅是基础性的更是能力性的，要求学生对单元目标语言进行再理解、内化、提取和综合，最终转化为综合语言运用能力。在这个过程中，教师要给予方法指导，帮助学生再次理解、巩固单元基础语言结构，全面提升语言运用能力。
三、主题写作活动的意义
确立正确的英语写作教学观念，改变中学英语写作教学的薄弱状况，是主题写作活动的意义所在。在高中英语写作教学中，发展学生的主题写作能力，有利于培养学生思维的广阔性、深刻性和创造性，全面提高学生的综合语言运用能力，为学生的终身学习和全面发展奠定基础。教师要从教学实际出发，寻找方法和突破口，改进写作教学的方法和技巧。教师要善于对课程资源进行挖掘，以顺应不断更新的课程要求，让主题写作成为巩固和促进基础语言学习、提升学生写作能力的有效途径。
（一） 确立正确的英语写作教学观念
英语写作具有动作技能和智力因素相融合的.学习认知属性（Reid, 1993）。学生的英语写作能力必须有写作知识的指导，让学生知道如何写，并在写作过程中将知识转化为能力。许多教师认为，只要学生动笔写作就能提高写作水平，因此一味地要求学生练习写作，但又不教给学生写作知识。学生经过一段时间的努力写作能力仍没有明显提高时，往往会失去写作兴趣。还有些教师认为，学生语法学好了，词汇量大了，阅读面广了，写作水平就会提高，因此在英语教学中花在写作知识学习和训练上的时间远不如听说和阅读的训练多。这些是误导英语写作教学的错误观念。英语写作是动作技能和智力因素相融合的学习结果，在教学实践中二者不可偏颇。
（二） 弥补中学英语教材写作部分的不足
目前绝大多数英语教材在知识学习和技能训练方面都比较关注听、说、读的活动设计，写的活动通常作为巩固环节安排在每个单元或者模块学习之后。写作活动只是要求学生根据课文内容以及提供的相关句型和词汇写作，然而这种写作任务实际上是要求学生对课文进行机械模仿。为什么要这么写？这么写的知识要求有哪些？这些关键性的问题教材没有涉及。这就需要教师补充相关知识。为了弥补教材设计的不足，教师应根据不同的写作教学目标要求，结合写作内容、写作方法、写作文体，补充相关的写作知识和写作策略。在布置写作任务之前或者在写作训练当中，先进行相关的写作知识指导。
四、主题写作活动应遵循的原则
要让主题写作活动发挥最大功效，学生就必须有一定的语言知识积累，才能在写作中提取相关语言素材，为主题写作提供最基础的语料，为系统而持续的主题写作活动打好坚实的语言基础。
（一） 话题内容相关性原则。
要利用单元话题来活跃学生的思维，话题的选择就要有一定的针对性。主题写作要贴近学生的生活，与学生的学习经验、能力和水平相当。教材为学生进行主题写作提供了语料和方法策略指导，有很强的指导性和示范性，脱离了单元话题的写作难以提高学生的写作能力，也就达不到巩固单元目标语言的效果，更无法全面提升学生的综合语言素质。
（二） 趣味性原则。
由于中学生正处在求知欲最旺盛的年龄段，往往对自己熟悉或感兴趣的内容比较关注，因而教师要善于利用各种活动和形式，激发学生对主题写作的兴趣。当学生的兴趣被激活时，学生写作才有内驱力和创造力，才能发挥最佳水平，写出好作文。
（三） 思维创新性原则。
要让习作体现学生独立的思想、语言和风格，不被教材提供的语言素材所限制，教师就需要在主题写作教学过程中注意培养学生的发散性思维，培养学生对语言的灵活运用及准确表达的能力。创新的过程也是综合语言素质全面提升的过程。
（四） 方法多样性原则。
在确定了写作主题后，写作活动不仅是在教材范文基础上的模仿写作，还可通过多种方法推进，如翻译语句、连句成段、选词填空等。写作完毕，教师可引导学生进行班级大讨论，推荐优秀习作，同学在欣赏学习优秀习作的同时进行小组讨论并质疑，提出改进意见，说出自己对话题的理解，从而培养学生积极的思维能力和语言运用能力（杨文娟，20xx）。
五、主题写作活动课堂实践案例探析
（一） 教材分析
目前笔者所在地区采用的是新编北师大版高中英语教材。这套教材一大优点在于其语言材料的组织都是围绕某个主题展开的。每单元有一个主题，下面每一课都有自己的话题，对于这些话题学生都较感兴趣，有话可说。这样的教材编排特点适合开展主题写作活动。每个单元的前三课或四课是单元话题下的基本词汇、短语、句型和语法项目的学习，Communication Workshop是对单元知识的扩展和综合运用，通常有基于单元话题的写作指导及任务。学生获得的单元基础语言知识以及他们运用语言知识的准确和熟练程度，完全可以通过话题写作活动来检验和强化，而且主题写作活动可以体现语言学习的价值和意义。
（二） 主题写作教学实例
下面结合新编北师大版高中英语教材第7模块，第21单元的主题写作教学案例进行探析。
本单元的话题是人类生物学，通过单元学习，学生应能够流利地运用单元目标词汇和基本句型来讨论有关人类科学的相关话题。食物、健康和医学是人类生存和发展中永恒的话题。学生对人类科学有较为浓厚的兴趣，所以此单元话题下的写作围绕人类发展展开，贴近学生的生活，易于激发学生的写作兴趣。学生对单元主题词汇和基础语句已经有了一定的掌握和积累，能够用单元基础语言材料组织语句，表达自己的想法。教师在指导学生进行主题写作时，完全可以依托单元话题语料。
克隆人是在人类生物学发展到今天无法回避的话题，但具有极大争议性，这种本身有争议的话题正适合本单元Communication Workshop的写作要求Learn to write a discursive essay，此文体要求学生第一段介绍话题，第二三段分述反面观点及正面观点，最后一段给出个人观点。但由于克隆人在现实世界中还没有出现，同时又远离学生生活，因此为了给学生带来更直观的感受，教师最好课前布置所有同学回家观看电影《逃离克隆岛》，这部电影探讨了科隆人及其引发的道德问题。
课堂上教师首先利用大量的与主题相关的图片、电影片段等创设谈论克隆人的氛围，让学生用英语表明自己对克隆人这一科学话题的态度。这一活动激活了学生写作所需的话题词汇，可以作为写前的热身。从交际功能的角度讲，这样的听、说形式的语言活动，不但不会冲击主题写作活动，反而与主题写作教学是相互统一、相互促进的。
在完成上述活动后，教师引导学生通过小组合作写一段话介绍克隆人话题并过渡到Should Human Cloning be allowed?这一主题上。这一活动调动了学生的写作积极性和主动参与意识，在轻松活跃的氛围中强化了其对概括技巧的理解和运用，学生的语言储备和发散思维得到充分激活，他们更加愉悦和主动地参与主题讨论，为下一步的写作活动做好前期准备。
在完成上述活动的基础上，通过课本P99的Writing Help引导学生通过小组协作完成a discursive essay的后三段提纲，要求第二三段分别写出中心句及至少两个论据。基于小组活动的写作练习实际上帮助学生搜集有说服力的论据并克服对写作的畏难情绪，让他们有信心完成写作。这种形式的写作训练强化了学生的语言运用技能，帮助学生初步完成单元写作要求，培养学生的写作思维和写作能力。
教师可以要求学生在写完提纲后，同伴间相互交换检查，检查内容包括拼写、用词是否准确，句式是否准确，语法是否准确，语言表达是否流畅、丰富等。互评可以鼓励学生间健康向上的竞争，激发竞争意识，促使每个学生尽力提供最好的作品，并且纠错之一的过程有时语言知识的再现和再复习过程，能够使学生在交流中得到更多的帮助，收获不同的语言思维和语言表达方式，补充和丰富自己的语言学习。
在提纲写作的基础上，引导学生利用Writing Help中的格式要求(正式与中立的风格)，以及Communication Workshop中的连接词（although, even though, however, therefore, while）独立完成写作任务。此写作活动充分强化了有关连接词的理解即运用，提高了学生的写作能力。
学生最终完成习作后，将学生的作文张贴在教师里，让学生互相批阅。学生互相批阅能激发他们主动寻找差距的意识，也是对单元目标语言再理解、再巩固的过程。学生从另外的角度反思自己习作中的语言运用，强化语用意识和语言运用能力。教师在学生批阅完后，可再作进一步检查。这属于指导性主题写作。通过教师不同程度的引导和帮助，学生将自己要表达的思想通过一定的逻辑组织后用文字表达出来。
这种主题写作练习可以是独立完成，也可以是小组合作，方式可以灵活多样。指导性主题写作是介于模仿性写作和自由写作之间的过渡性写作，学生在进行大量的模仿性写作练习和指导性写作练习后，才能掌握一定的写作技巧，从而进行自由写作。指导性主题写作可以帮助学生从原始的模仿性单元语料学习过渡到具有创造性的基础语言运用，提升综合语言运用能力。
六、结束语
随着课程标准对学生写作技巧要求的提高，写作教学的地位越来越重要，每一位教师都在摸索写作教学的可行方法。有些教师认为，写作就是让学生坚持不懈地写；有些教师认为，写作就是要套用各种范例；还有些教师认为，学生必须多背才能写好作文。这些方法都有一定的可行性和效果。提高学生的写作能力必须建立在一定的基础上，如学生的写作兴趣、写作愿望、成就感等。要想满足学生的这些心理需求，教师就必须从挖掘课程资源入手，设计主题写作活动，让学生在轻松活跃的写作氛围中主动运用单元目标语言，同时教师要善于发现学生习作中的闪光点和不足之处，让学生在展现自我的过程中提高英语写作能力。
Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic : Information Security. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese.
1. 信息安全问题日益重要
2. 信息安全事故可能导致的危害
3. 如何做到信息安全
【范文】
Information Security
The human beings are stepping into the information society. The information industry develops very rapidly, so do the hackers, trick-playing teens, exploring children, fraudsters, and serious white-collar criminals. Thus, information security becomes an impending important issue.
In case of information breach, the victims-----government department, an organization or an institution, or a company will inevitably suffer great or small loss. Government may be threatened with national security. Companies may lose opportunities to develop new projects. And the public’s and users’ confidence will be damaged.
Then how to deal with this issue? Technology is only a partial solution to information security. What’s more important is that organizations and companies should promote the awareness on information security to its staff. However, since no system can ever be 100 percent secure, a prevention-only approach to information security management is not enough. Companies and organizations should adopt a dual approach to information security management by combing prevention and detection techniques.
With the development of the society, people pay more and more attention to education. As a result, thousands of students take part in various examinations. However, some students have been found cheating on their exams. Some of them copy from each others, some took out their textbooks or reference books to copy, some copied from small pieces of paper on which they had prepared for the exam, still some used the modern communication tools such as BP, mobile phone as a way to cheat on exams.Then, what’s the effect of cheating on exam? There are three factors for this. First, it results in an unfair competition and will destroy the creativity of those bright students. Second, it will ruin the students’ self-confidence in the long run. Third, under that kind of circumstances, the students graduated from the schools will not be the one who can meet the need of the society.
However, how to stop cheating on exam? In my opinion, there are two ways we can adopt. First, a severe punishment should be put into effect to prevent students from cheating. Second, great effort should be made to make students understand what kind of person the society needs and try to improve their self-confidence.
One Sunday afternoon, I casually adjust the TV channel. All of a sudden, disastrous scene into my line of sight: a peasant who was holding a piece of iron hammer, turned out to be a butcher is a not how big head of pig slaughter.
I saw all this. Found that pig's fate was so miserable! Is this fate arranged? Or pigs caused by past delicious lazy? I found the "people" are so cruel. Oneself have so long pig, cruel to kill it. Ah, I found that at the moment I was so sad, so sad, so lost, so helpless. In nature there are many more miserable than this things are happening, perhaps this is fate, it is inevitable in the growing of a test.
Not often say that animals are friends of human beings? Not often say that people for the ethical treatment of animals, protect the earth? Maybe this is just for those rare animals! Those animals that almost nearly perish! Pigs in a country of the world, one city, a town, a village, or even a home, a person can see. Pigs are a lot of, is not worth to treat? Pig also is to have life, and human beings, it also know pain, also have feelings, also know how sad. People for the ethical treatment of animals! The animals as their friends, for they give a little love!
Animals are friends of human beings, like humans, are the people of the earth. Let us hands reach out, to protect, to help those who need help human friends!
一个周日的下午，我漫不经心地调着电视频道。突然，惨不忍睹的一幕进入我的视线：一个农民模样的人正拿着一根铁棍敲打什么，原来是一群屠夫正在屠杀一头不怎么大的小猪。
我亲眼目睹了这一切。发现猪的命运竟是这么悲惨!难道这是命运安排好的吗?还是猪前世的好吃懒惰造成的?我发现“人”竟是那么狠心。自己养了这么长时间的猪，竟然狠心杀掉它。哎，我发现此刻自己竟是那么的伤心，那么的悲痛，那么的迷惘，那么的无奈。大自然中还有很多比这更悲惨的事情正在发生，或许这就是命运，这就是在成长中不可避免的一次考试。
不是常说动物是人类的朋友吗?不是常说善待动物，保护地球的吗?可能这只是针对那些稀有的动物罢了!那些几乎将近灭亡的动物罢了!猪在世界的某个国家，某个城市，某个城镇，某个村庄，甚至某家某户都可以见到。猪是很多，多到不值得善待?猪也是有生命的，和人类一样，它也知道痛，也有感情，也懂得伤心。善待动物吧!把动物当成自己朋友，对它们付出一点爱吧!
动物是人类的朋友，同人类一样，都是地球的子民。让我们伸出双手，去保护，去帮助那些需要帮助的人类的朋友吧!
Reading---A good Habit
Reading is a very good habit. I like reading very much. In my eyes, I think that forming a good reading habit is necessary for us. It can not only improve our knowledge but also make us to think over more different things efficiently.
Besides, we can do some reading every time when we are free. For example, I often read some of my favorite books in my spare time both at home or in the library. What I like most are story books because most of them are quite interesting. Now I often buy my favorite books on line for its big discount.
Finally, I like to share my favorite books with our family or my classmates. Since reading can benefits us a lot, it’s time for us to have our good reading habit now!
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在平凡的学习、工作、生活中，大家或多或少都会接触过作文吧，作文根据体裁的不同可以分为记叙文、说明文、应用文、议论文。相信许多人会觉得作文很难写吧，以下是我整理的英语话题作文9篇，欢迎大家分享。
My Views on Bicycle-sharing
Presently, in big cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou, bicycle-sharing system has becomeincreasingly popular. A large number of shared bikes can be found and rented at a low price. Moreover, you can park the bike almost anywhere you like. Urban transportation has thus been made much more convenient and even revolutionized.
However, along with its rapid development, bicycle-sharing system also brings some problems, including random parking, vandalism and possession of shared bikes, etc.
To solve these problems, there are some measures for the authorities to take. Firstly, the government could implement more strict laws and rules to regulate the operation and management of bicycle-sharing system.Secondly, the public should raise their awareness of using shared bike reasonably. Lastly, urban transportation system should be upgraded and improved to accommodate automobiles, bikes and pedestrians.
To conclude, a sensible attitude should be held toward bicycle-sharing program. With effective andefficient measures taken, and efforts made by those involved, it can be expected that bicycle-sharing system will play a contributive and constructive role in urban public transportation.
When we were children, we often say that I want to grow up, or I want to be an adult. As children, we cannot do many things, while after we grow up, we can. However, we often complain that I don’t want to grow up when we become adults actually.
当我们还是小孩子的时候，我们常说，我要长大，或者我想成为大人。作为孩子，有很多事情我们都不能做，但是长大后，却可以做。然而，当我们真的长大之后，我们却常常抱怨不想长大。
Firstly, growing up means more responsibilities. We should make a living by ourselves or we should support our parents when they can’t earn enough money to make a living. Secondly, after graduation, we need to work instead of accomplishing nothing. We should have a target and work for it, so we have pressure on jobs. After that, when we meet with the right person, we will get marry with him or her to build a family. That is to say, we have heavier burden because of our family. Building a family and keeping it harmonious is not easy. In a word, there are many problems waiting for us once we grow up.
首先，成长意味着更多的责任。我们要自己谋生，或者在我们父母无法养活自己的时候，要赡养父母。其次，大学毕业后，我们需要工作而不是什么都不做。我们应该有目标，并朝着它工作，因此我们有了工作的压力。之后，当我们会遇到合适的人，我们会和他或她结婚并一起建立一个家庭。也就是说，因为我们自己的家庭，我们的负担加重了。组建一个和谐的家庭并不容易。总之，一旦我们长大了就会有很多问题在等着我们。
Every coin has two sides. Grow up can also broaden our horizon, offer us an opportunity to know more about our world, love and protect the important person in our life. Don’t be afraid of growing up, just be a better person and enjoy our life.
每个硬币都有两面性。长大了可以拓宽我们的视野，使我们有更多的机会地了解我们的世界，爱和保护我们生命中重要的人。不要害怕长大，那只是让你成为一个更好的人，并享受生活。
1、（福建宁德）健康饮食关系到青少年的身心健康成长。请根据以下提供的内容和提示词，以"Healthy Eating"为题写一篇作文.
提示：1.健康饮食的重要性（important, energy）; 2.良好的饮食习惯(keep a balanced diet); 3.健康饮食的益处(make…..stong)
Healthy eating is important for us in our daily life. Food can give us energy and help us build up our body. What and how should we eat to be healthier? First, we should have enough clean food each meal. Second, it's important to keep a balanced diet. Different kinds of food provide us different nutrition we need every day. Third, we should have a regular meal. In this way, we'll be strong and healthy, and we'll do well in our study.
2、根据中英文提示，写出内容完整、意思连贯、符合逻辑的稿件。（字数不少于60词，英文提示词供选用）
有写学生不爱吃学校的午饭，常到校外去吃他们所喜欢吃的食物。但有些食物并不利于他们的身体健康。"英语角"打算针对这个问题展开讨论。请你准备一篇讨论稿，谈谈你的看法和建议。
参考词汇：not like, go out of school, be afraid, be back, more delicious, offer
范文：
We know that some of our students do not like eating lunch at school because the food isn't delicious. So they often go out of school to buy something they like to eat. But I'm afraid it's bad for their health to eat lunch outside because some of the food they buy isn't healthy enough.
In my opinion, if our schools want more students to be back and enjoy lunch inside, they should make the food more delicious, and also they should offer our students a larger choice of food as well.
幸福是否可以用金钱购买？不可能！但是不是钱多一点我们就会更开心一点呢？对此，大多数人一定微笑赞同。我们相信，收入的富足与舒适的生活感受之间有着某种联系。几乎所有人都会说，是的，我希望变得富有。而目前有四分之三的美国大学生都认为，过上“十分富裕”的生活是“非常重要”和“必不可少”的。钱的作用的确不小。
Does money buy happiness? No! Ah, but would a little more money make us a little happier? Many of us smirk and nod. There is, we believe, some connection between fiscal fitness and feeling fantastic. Most of us would say that, yes, we would like to be rich. Three in four American collegians now consider it “very important” or “essential” that they become “very well off financially”. Money matters.
但是，富人就一定更快乐吗?研究人员发现，在一些贫穷的国家，相对而言比较富裕确实会使人过得更幸福一些。我们需要食物、住所、休息和社会关系。然而，人们惊讶地发现，在那些几乎所有人都衣食无忧的国家里，财富的增加所产生的效果微乎其微。收入与幸福之间的关联“惊人得微弱”。一旦生活舒适，钱所带来的收益便呈现递减趋势。得到的第二笔十万美元就像吃到的第二只派，尝起来永远都不如第一只那么美味。即使那些彩票得主和福布斯排名前一百的富人们也并没有比一般的美国人更开心多少。飞黄腾达只能带来暂时的喜悦。从长远来说，财富就像健康一样，失去它的人定会感到不幸，而拥有它的人却未必一定幸福。
Well, are rich people happier? Researchers have found that in poor countries, being relatively well off does make for greater well-being. We need food, rest, shelter and social contact. But a surprising fact of life is that in countries where nearly everyone can afford life’s necessities, increasing affluence matters surprisingly little. The correlation between income and happiness is “surprisingly weak”. Once comfortable, more money provides diminishing returns. The second piece of pie, or the second $100,000, never tastes as good as the first. Even lottery winners and the Forbes’ 100 wealthiest Americans have expressed only slightly greater happiness than the average American. Making it big brings temporary joy. But in the long run, wealth is like health: its utter absence can breed misery, but having it doesn’t guarantee happiness.
按系统论的观点，外语教学是一个系统，写作教学是其中的一个子系统，与听、说、读等教学共同构成一个科学的大系统，它是由英语词汇、语法、主题及其写作手法等互相依赖、互相作用的诸要素组成的有机整体。在小学阶段，大部分老师都非常注重学生的听、说和阅读能力的培养和训练，往往忽视了写作能力的训练，认为这是中学的要求，或者是因为觉得写作教学难，教师批改学生作文也难，因此一般对阅读理解较重视，而对写的重要性认识不足，忽视学生写的能力培养。我认为英语写作能唤起学生对所学或所掌握的语言的感觉；其次，每一次单元测试和期末考试，写作(写话)也占了一定的比例。因此，在小学高年级，英语的写作训练与听、说、读的训练同等重要。
一、小学英语话题写作的概念
小学高年级的英语写作是指学生能在教师指导下，围绕一个主题自觉运用所学的单词、句型起草一篇短小的习作或一两段话，初步能注意英汉的差异，能使用正确的英语表达法。
二、英语写作教学的目的
1、提高学生综合运用语言的能力；
2、发展学生从口头表达转向书面表达的能力；
3、让学生主动地整合所学的语法、句型等知识点，把它们变成一个有机的整体。
三、英语写作的常用模式
1、填空式写法
英语语音教学强调模仿，但英语写作教学却忽视模仿的作用。写作起步阶段可多进行摹仿写。填空式写作是保留文章或对话的主干，适当地调换内容让学生换上其它人、事和物进行填空。其优点是既降低写作难度，激发学生写作兴趣，又可加深对课文的理解，特别是新旧单词的综合运用；缺点是学生有可能忽视语法、时态问题，在培养学生创造力方面有欠缺。通常可以在每学完一篇课文或对话后，让学生进行填空写作。
2、仿例写法
学完一个完整的单元，为了帮助学生系统归纳、整理语言知识点，教师根据本
单元的教学要点，围绕一个人、一件事或一个动物写一篇短文，要求学生注意模仿例文的时态和语态仿写。通过仿写训练，能引起学生对英语时态和语态的重视。例如一般现在时主语是第三人称单数，动词加“s”或“es”,这是学习的难点。我让学生先写一写自己一天的生活，然后调查一个朋友或亲人一天的生活，模仿例文仿写。通过对比，使学生对同一时态不同人称动词的运用有了更深刻的理解，而不仅仅停留在记忆的层面上，也可免去老师重重复复的讲解和提醒。
3、启示式写法
前两种写法的缺点是局限较大，不能发挥学生创造力，习作不能体现学生个性。启示式写法是在学生有了一定习作基础和语感上，稍高层次的写作训练。师生共同围绕一个话题讨论写作内容，列出写作提纲，然后学生根据提纲自由发挥起草一段话。例如，师生围绕“zoo animals”这个话题进行讨论，得出可从“外形、能力、生活习性，来源国”等几方面进行描述。学生自由发挥，写出颇具个人特色小文章。此法的优点是既可体现学生个性，也避免学生跑题等现象的发生。
4、命题式写法
此写法给予学生更大创意空间，难度也更大。教师只给予题目或主题，学生通过启动自身知识体系的搜索引擎，自主地搜集相关资料进行写作。例如写“Seasons in Guangzhou”,学生仔细浏览我设计的相关网页，选取某一个季节中一两个感兴趣的主题来表述，如“气候、衣着、食物和活动”等等。选题要与学生生活密切相关，并能激起他们写作的欲望；切忌主题过大，会让学生无所适从或无从下手。
四、注重写作策略的指导
1、“联系”和“迁移”
在写作课“zoo animals”上，我让学生讨论这个主题可以涵括的'内容，要求学生在已有的词汇、句型中进行分析，提取相关信息，再综合运用。实际上就是要求学生联系所学知识，是对学生分析综合能力的训练。这时候，学生认为这足以能指导完成写作了，他们的思维通常到这个阶段就停滞不前了。但教师还应该培养学生迁移的能力，即把这种思考方式迁移到其他内容的写作上去，做到举一反三。
2、注意英汉差异，正确使用英语表达法
许多学生写英文短文，都习惯用汉语去思考。结果写出来的句子，读起来很拗口，句意生硬，令人费解。其原因就在于学生不明白英汉两种语言表达上的差异。例如，汉语中没有时态和语态的复杂变化，只借助于助词“着，了，过”；而英语则有复杂的时态和语态变化。再如，英语中名词分（1）可数名词———单数名词———复数名词--规则名词复数的变化；不规则名词复数的变化（2）不可数名词：water furniture , advice （3）名词单复数相同：sheep , deer , fish （4）既能可数又不可数的名词：hair , wood , pa?鄄per , rain , sand 。动词短语，介词短语等一些固定搭配，动词与其主语的一致，称谓的一致，等等。这些差异只要通过不断的积累和运用，才能逐步达到恰到好处。英语写作才能更规范，更标准，更符合英美人的表达习惯。
3、充分利用小组合作学习的力量。
通过小组成员相互鉴赏阅读，学会欣赏和借鉴别人的好词好句。
五、培养自改作文的能力，发挥学生主动性
我们总碰到这种现象：学生写完作文不经修改就交给老师，对老师形成依赖心理。在写作的初级阶段，可采取师生共同改一篇习作，指出学生普遍性错误，提醒学生注意；鼓励学生同一个意思用不同的表达方式。我认为修改阶段是反馈机制下的一个开放性过程，是通过师生信息互动，使学生的作文逐步完善的过程。采取反馈和同伴间互相阅读作文的方法，也可以形成一种语言意识。学生既是作者又是读者，他们通过批评性地阅读别人的作文，可以学到更多的写作知识和技巧；他们时刻留心语法及用词错误，写作时开始想到的是读者（而非教师）。学生作文经教师批改后，修订工作是通过个人作业和小组活动相结合进行的。这种做法能使学生学得更深、更广、更活，还能培养学生总结归纳的能力。
总之，学生英语写作能力在教师有计划的组织、有序的训练和耐心帮助、正确引导下，通过学生自主、积极密切的配合是能够得以逐步提高的。
The Spring Festival is very important to Chinese people. In the past，people could not often have meat，rice or other delicious food. They could only eat these during the Spring festival. So every year they hoped that the Spring Festival would come soon. Now， although people‘s life is much better，and we can eat the delicious foods everyday. People still like the festival. Because most people can have a long holiday，and we are free to go on a trip or visit our friends or have parties with our family. In the evenings，we can have a big meal in the restaurant or stay at home with family and watch the TV programs.
过年对中国人来说非常重要。在过去，人们往往没有肉，大米或其他美味的食物吃。他们通常只能在过年吃到这些。所以每年他们都希望过年可以快点来。现在，虽然人们的生活好多了，我和家人每天都可以吃美味的食物。人们仍然喜欢的过年。因为大多数人可以有一个很长的假期，我和家人可以自由地去旅行或拜访我和家人的朋友或与我和家人的家人聚会。晚上，我和家人可以在餐厅大吃一顿，或与家人留在家里看电视节目。
I like the Spring Festival very much. How wonderful the Spring Festival is！
我非常喜欢过年。过年是多么的美妙啊！
Dear Peter,
I remember you told me you were interested in China. Our school is looking for an English teacher, whose mother tongue is English. You will teach some courses to senior high students. They, who have at least three years of English learning experience, are going to learn the following four courses： speaking, writing, Britain Today and America Today. If you would come here, you have the chance to choose three of them for teaching. You need teach 12 hours a week. If you get the job, you are supposed to work as an advisor to our students’ English club or our school’s English newspaper. That is to say, in spare time you will select some articles, which are fit for the students from English papers, English magazines and the Internet, and edit the articles from students.
If you are interested in the job or have any question, please let me know. I look forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
With the fast development of our society, life-long learning has become very important for everyone. This is because one needs lo acquire new knowledge continuously in order to meet the needs of his work.
There are several ways for one to learn life-long. One way is to take a part-time education program. That means, one is studying part time while he is working. The program could be at undergraduate level or graduate level. The second way is to study by yourself. You can learn whatever you need for your work on your own. You can learn from books, from TV programs or from radio.
I think that life-long learning is very necessary to us. We can choose either of the two ways mentioned above, It depends on your personal preference and interest. I prefer the first one because this kind of learning is systematic and formal. With the help of the teachers, it is easier to learn and quicker to get what you need for your work.
With the development of the society, people pay more and more attention to education. As a result, thousands of students take part in various examinations. However, some students have been found cheating on their exams. Some of them copy from each others, some took out their textbooks or reference books to copy, some copied from small pieces of paper on which they had prepared for the exam, still some used the modern communication tools such as BP, mobile phone as a way to cheat on exams.Then, what’s the effect of cheating on exam? There are three factors for this. First, it results in an unfair competition and will destroy the creativity of those bright students. Second, it will ruin the students’ self-confidence in the long run. Third, under that kind of circumstances, the students graduated from the schools will not be the one who can meet the need of the society.
However, how to stop cheating on exam? In my opinion, there are two ways we can adopt. First, a severe punishment should be put into effect to prevent students from cheating. Second, great effort should be made to make students understand what kind of person the society needs and try to improve their self-confidence.
