My Plan for the Summer Holidays

<正>Hello,everyone!I’d like to talk about my plan for the summer holidays.I’d like to visit some homes for the elderly.These old people live there without their children.They need more people to look after them.I’ll talk with them and I hope I can make them less lonely.And I would also     

Respect and Care for Our Parents

<正>Hello,everyone!Today my topic is"Respect and Care for Our Parents".Showing respect for parents has always been one of the traditional virtues of Chinese people.However,there are some students who often argue with their parents and don’t care for them at all.I think everyone must respect and care for his parents.No matter what happens,do not shout at them.Talk to them often,and then you will get to understand them better.What’s more,do     

How to Get on Well with Others?

<正>As we know,everyone wants to get on well with others.Because if we do so,we will have a lot of good friends,and then we will live more happily.But how can we get on well with other people?As a middle school student,I should help my classmates who need help.Helping other people also makes me happy.I’ll always be friendly and kind to others and     

Volunteer to Help the Old People

<正>Next week,our English teacher Miss Wang will take us to visit the Old People’s Home.It’s a good chance for us to learn to care for old people.A lot of old people are lonely.So we should cheer them up and talk to them.We can read newspapers for them.We also can sing English songs for them.We are going to help them clean their rooms     

Thank you,challenges

<正>A person may meet many challenges in his or her life.Some people think challenges are terrible.But I think they’re great.And I want to say,"Thank you,challenges!"For some people,it’s hard to face the challenges because they are afraid of failingin the end.However,it’s necessary for a person to face the challenges.Challenges aregood to you.If you beat them,your knowledge and braveness will increase.Beat them     

Ageing in Unsuitable Places

Much of the focus of ageing in place policy is concerned with the provision of support to enable older people to age in the community in residences adapted to their needs. There has been little examination of why older people make choices to age in particular places in later life. In this paper, we drew on 143 interviews with older people in New Zealand to examine the narratives older people use to describe their housing preferences in later life. Older people drew upon personal and public narratives to story housing in later life, and construct four identifiable identities: ‘practical planner’, ‘rugged pioneer’, ‘where I belong’ and ‘rooted in place’. This analysis demonstrates that some older people do narrate decisions to age in ‘sensible’ places with good access to services and have clear plans for change as their physical health declines. Other older people live proudly in unsuitable places and do not wish for support to move or accommodations made to their housing. These older people draw upon narratives of place as foundational to their identity, of relationships with people both living and dead as social relationships that bolster their identity and of housing as part of situated lifelong narratives. Both the situation of their home and the condition of the home provide the backdrop to alternative narrative identities that require them to remain in housing because of, or irrespective of, its unsuitability. To understand the limitations and the possibilities of ageing in place, we need to identify the multiple narratives that structure the lives of older people. By doing so, we can support ageing in place processes that do not disrupt the strong identities that have been developed in and through housing.     

Should Teenagers Do Housework?

<正>Recently I’ve had a discussion with my classmates about whether teenagers should do housework. Some students say that many parents don’t let their daughters or sons do anything,because they hope that their children have more time for lessons so that they can go to university and then have good jobs. Some of us think that it’s a waste of time. Some think     

Walking methods in landscape research: moving bodies,spaces of disclosure and rapport

Walking methods or accompanied visits are increasingly being used to investigate people’s encounters with landscape. Walking methods are often celebrated for opening up new spaces of disclosure, building rapport and generating new knowledge of landscape. However, stating these benefits of walking as a research method has now become somewhat of a methodological orthodoxy that risks ignoring the diverse contexts and cultural circumstances within which people walk and the relational qualities of landscape. Walking methods do not simply ‘uncover’ people’s responses to landscape, they open particular relational spaces of ‘people-landscape’. Furthermore, walking does not just open up research avenues, it closes them down too. This paper explores in more depth these propositions and the complex interplay between people (as social and embodied beings), walking and landscape. The focus is on examples drawn from walks utilised as method, walks for pleasure and walks for pilgrimage, where I propose some features of the walk and the cultural context of the walker’s body that should be given critical consideration when adopting a walking methodology. These include: the rhythm and style of the walk, the walk route terrain and distance, and the fitness and embodied dispositions of the walker. I then question further the presumed utility of ‘rapport’ that leisure walks and research walks are often thought to create. In so doing, this paper offers some critical insights for researchers of landscape who are considering adopting a walking methodology.     

A Special Summer Holiday

<正>This year’s summer holiday was the most unforgettable.I spent fifteen days at my grandparents’home in the countryside.Every morning,I went to the field to help my grandparents do farm work after have1breakfast.I learned a lot of agricultural knowledge from them.In the afternoon,I usually spent most of my time on the hill.My new friends and I ran after each other,picked fresh fruits and catch2butterflies together.There was always so many3fun.     

A Letter to Li Hua

<正>Dear Li Hua,I’m so glad to hear that you are coming to Beijing at the beginning of July.The weather here is hot.So you need to bring some light clothes.I will be free in July.You can stay at my home.I’m going to show you around the Palace Museum and the Summer Palace.We can enjoy the beautiful views and take some photos there.Next day,we can also visit Tian’anmen