第一篇：英語周記1

The Sports Meeting of Academy

Last Sunday,our academy held a magnificent sports meeting.As for me,it was my first time to become an athlete on the sports meeting.I felt happy and never.I took part in two match.One is the match of 1500 meters, the other is the match of 4×400 meters.Because I usually like to have a long run in the afternoon,I think that I can make a good jod in the match of 1500 meters.Unfortunately,during the competition,I have no any experience,in the last 50 meters,I couldn’t have any energy to make a spurt and I had to see helplessly other athlete to catch up me and to supass me.Fortunately, I was not the last one in my group.Even though I didn’t have any energy,I still stick to the macth.In the afternoon, I took part in the match of 4×400 meters accidentaly.Because my classmate who should take part in the the match of 4×400 meters had some important things to do,he had to gave up the match.In order to make more sports meeting grades for my class,I had to replace my classmate.To my surprise,in the first circle,I was the NO.1 in my group.It was the first time that I found I am good at the short run.What an exciting sports meeting!I never forget this sports meeting!It is very exciting to look forward to next sports meeting.

第二篇：初中暑假英語周記 1

初中暑假英語周記 1

初中暑假英語周記 1

①Dear John Brown，How's it going? I'm Zhang Hua.I'm a student in No.1 middle school.I have been studying English for 4 years.And I can talk to a native speaker in English.In the school, I always talk to my classmates in English.You know it's good for my English speaking.Of course, I try to listen to the teacher carefully.After school, I often read some English magazines newspapers.Sometimes I learn some English songs.It can improve my English grades.Except this way ,I hope I can try another way to improve my English.So I want to take part in the summer camp.So I want to ask you some questions.Could you tell me when the summer camp will start where the summer camp hold? Then I want to know how money I should pay for the summer camp? At last ,could you tell me some requirements?

Good luck to you.Yours

Zhang Hua

第三篇：英語教師實(shí)習(xí)周記1

英語教師實(shí)習(xí)周記1 這一周從學(xué)生轉(zhuǎn)型到老師，我感觸極深，受益匪淺。

面對第一次上臺(tái)授課，既期待也有少許緊張。為了上好第一堂課，僅僅一個(gè)版面的內(nèi)容，卻奮身備戰(zhàn)到凌晨一點(diǎn)！第一堂英語課大獲好評，第二堂課班主任石老師微笑地對我豎起大拇指。

先稍稍總結(jié)我的實(shí)習(xí)表現(xiàn)：精心的設(shè)計(jì)了教案，臺(tái)風(fēng)不錯(cuò)，教態(tài)自然大方，不慌不忙，親切近人，自信，語言連貫緊湊，應(yīng)用現(xiàn)代教學(xué)手段“多媒體”進(jìn)行教學(xué)，有較好的課程導(dǎo)入方法，獎(jiǎng)評制度吸引學(xué)生目光，能與孩子們交流思想，平時(shí)知道他們的作業(yè)解題及批改，具備教師優(yōu)良的道德情操，嚴(yán)格履行了教師職責(zé)??

大家一直這么評價(jià)：第一次上臺(tái)教課，這種水平已經(jīng)是非常不錯(cuò)了。指導(dǎo)老師夸我很老練，讓我稍稍有些成就感。缺點(diǎn)：英語課因不能很好地掌握時(shí)間分配，前部分講解太多，導(dǎo)致內(nèi)容重點(diǎn)不夠突出，及一些小的細(xì)節(jié)問題等。依照班主任石老師的話就是：如果理論知識(shí)再稍講慢一些，就很好了。

英語教師實(shí)習(xí)周記2 我在教室口語上還有待提高。對某些單詞的發(fā)音還要多加練習(xí)，注意如“the”在元音音素前和在輔音音素前的發(fā)音是不同的，還有在發(fā)出課堂指令時(shí)要簡潔明了。因?yàn)槲覍φn堂指令操作時(shí)還存在著問題，如有時(shí)候會(huì)說一半英文一半中文，顯得不熟練。導(dǎo)師建議我要找點(diǎn)專門的資料要反復(fù)背，以熟練。我決心要勤奮苦練，做到更好。

實(shí)習(xí)期間讓我深深體會(huì)到教師的艱辛和責(zé)任感。亦忙亦累，累的甚至在回家僅十五分鐘距離的公交車上都睡著了。有一天上午差不多上了三節(jié)課，嗓子都疼得有些嘶啞。但看到那一張張熱情笑臉，看到孩子們跑到我身邊問我電話號(hào)碼和QQ號(hào)，看到孩子們拉著我去打羽毛球，看到孩子們樂呵呵的和我合影，看到孩子們期待我為他們的運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)加油，聽到孩子們親切的呼我林老師?既欣慰，也感動(dòng)。

實(shí)習(xí)使我們教育浪漫之旅的第一步，我們只是走出了第一步，對于這步，我還是比較滿意的，將來的路還很長會(huì)遇到暴風(fēng)雨雪，也許會(huì)遇到我們的燦爛，明媚的陽光，但是無論怎樣，我們都要勇于面對現(xiàn)實(shí)，接受挑戰(zhàn)，努力去做好個(gè)好老師，路漫漫其修遠(yuǎn)兮，吾將上下而求索！相信我們一定能行的，將來我們一定會(huì)成功的！

英語教師實(shí)習(xí)周記3 課后我走到學(xué)生中間去，問他們是否聽得懂，有么有什么疑問，有沒有什么意見和建議。他們的反映基本上都說聽得懂，只是說中文說太多了，應(yīng)該先說中文在用英文解釋。因此我下次上課時(shí)就盡量先說中文再用英文解釋。

以后的每次上課我都會(huì)備好課：備教材、備課標(biāo)、備學(xué)生。我先自己寫好教案，與其他組員一起討論，試進(jìn)。同時(shí)在臨睡前，第二天去實(shí)習(xí)學(xué)校的公交車上，以及上課前五分鐘，我都會(huì)在腦子里回顧下將要上的課的基本步驟。到實(shí)習(xí)學(xué)校我都會(huì)將要上的課的教學(xué)目標(biāo)，教學(xué)重難點(diǎn)，以及教學(xué)步驟和導(dǎo)師說下，讓導(dǎo)師給我意見和建議。我覺得這點(diǎn)是很重要的。特別使我們對學(xué)生的認(rèn)知水平不了解。這個(gè)時(shí)候到時(shí)就會(huì)告訴我：這個(gè)知識(shí)點(diǎn)學(xué)生學(xué)過了，只要復(fù)習(xí)下即可，或?qū)W(xué)生還是新知識(shí)，需要詳細(xì)講。同時(shí)導(dǎo)師們都比較有經(jīng)驗(yàn)，他們了解學(xué)生，知道什么樣的知識(shí)學(xué)生易于接受。所以我每次上課前都會(huì)先請教導(dǎo)師然后上講臺(tái)。

上完課我都會(huì)與導(dǎo)師與其他實(shí)習(xí)生交流，讓他們給我評價(jià)。再回學(xué)校的車上，我也會(huì)反思下今天的教學(xué)以及和導(dǎo)師，和學(xué)生的相處情況，回到宿舍寫下反思日志，反思并總結(jié)一天的情況。反思自己課堂上做得好的地方以及不足之處并想出解決辦法。第二天上課時(shí)我就特別注意提醒自己不要犯同樣的錯(cuò)誤。

英語教師實(shí)習(xí)周記4 我經(jīng)常去聽其他組員的課，把自己的課與他們的進(jìn)行比較，找出值得自己學(xué)習(xí)的地方。此外我也參加了英語組的集體備課活動(dòng)。在備課工程中我也積極發(fā)表了自己的一些設(shè)計(jì)想法。有些想法也得到了導(dǎo)師的認(rèn)可和采納。當(dāng)然在與導(dǎo)師的交流中，有時(shí)也會(huì)出現(xiàn)自己的想法和導(dǎo)師的發(fā)生矛盾。這是我就會(huì)仔細(xì)地分析矛盾的根源，分析導(dǎo)師的觀點(diǎn)，然后盡量把兩者的精華相結(jié)合。如在上unit11備課時(shí)，我將有一個(gè)活動(dòng)分成兩個(gè)表格進(jìn)行，且中間加入別的活動(dòng)，導(dǎo)師師認(rèn)為這樣破壞了活動(dòng)的連貫性，因此就要求把這兩個(gè)表格合并到最后總結(jié)時(shí)再做。上課是我講解的不是很充分，導(dǎo)師通常會(huì)叫一個(gè)好的學(xué)生向我提問，把這個(gè)知識(shí)點(diǎn)補(bǔ)充完整。

導(dǎo)師很注意板書的有序性。他說因?yàn)閷W(xué)生只有了解了教師的習(xí)慣后，才能更快地吸收知識(shí)。記得有兩天，我因?yàn)槭绿α耍瑐湔n不充分，上課時(shí)出現(xiàn)了一些錯(cuò)誤，導(dǎo)師很嚴(yán)肅的給我指出來，從那以后我每次上課前就是熬夜，也要把課準(zhǔn)備充分之后才休息。總之對于導(dǎo)師的意見我都會(huì)虛心接受的，我從來不會(huì)表現(xiàn)出厭煩或不滿的情緒。

英語教師實(shí)習(xí)周記5 在教學(xué)過程中，我會(huì)可以記住每個(gè)學(xué)生的名字，并叫出他們的名字，因?yàn)閷W(xué)生會(huì)覺得如果老師能記住他們的名字，說明老師重視他們。而且對于每個(gè)學(xué)生的性格、特點(diǎn)我都了如指掌。不管是上課提問還是下課交流時(shí)，我是叫他們的名字。

班上有一位學(xué)生只有英語不好，其他都很棒，通過和班主任了解，我發(fā)現(xiàn)他是由于不喜歡英語，所以就學(xué)不好英語，因此對自己就沒有了信心。于是，我利用晚自修的時(shí)間留下來給他補(bǔ)課，并引導(dǎo)他慢慢的主動(dòng)學(xué)英語，中段考試他的成績提高了十幾分。他自己也很高興，在留言中他希望我繼續(xù)關(guān)心他的學(xué)習(xí)。在幫助他的同時(shí)，也有許多其他本來不愛學(xué)英語的學(xué)生也主動(dòng)來辦公室要求一起學(xué)習(xí)。導(dǎo)師都說現(xiàn)在學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)興趣提高了，并且成績也有了進(jìn)步。

另外，我發(fā)現(xiàn)學(xué)生對老師的評語是很重視的。而且我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己在課堂上只會(huì)說：very good!這種評價(jià)學(xué)生根本不知道自己的優(yōu)點(diǎn)在哪里，甚至對老師的表揚(yáng)產(chǎn)生聽覺疲勞，“麻木不仁”，久而久之也就不當(dāng)回事了。因此每一次表揚(yáng)一定要從具體的一點(diǎn)出發(fā)，確確實(shí)實(shí)抓住學(xué)生的閃光點(diǎn)進(jìn)行表揚(yáng)。因此我就盡量用各種方式表揚(yáng)學(xué)生。如批改作業(yè)時(shí)，有進(jìn)步的學(xué)生我會(huì)給他們一個(gè)笑臉，或?qū)懀河羞M(jìn)步哦！繼續(xù)努力！無論如何我都會(huì)想辦法找出他們的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，給予及時(shí)表揚(yáng)，并對錯(cuò)誤進(jìn)行正面反思。而且在改作業(yè)的同時(shí)，我會(huì)把學(xué)生容易犯的知識(shí)點(diǎn)記錄下來，反饋給導(dǎo)師，好讓自己和導(dǎo)師在后面的授課中都能注意這些問題，強(qiáng)化他們的知識(shí)的薄弱點(diǎn)。這在教學(xué)過程中是十分重要的。

英語教師實(shí)習(xí)周記6 課余時(shí)間我還和他們一起出版報(bào)，布置教室，打掃衛(wèi)生。教室里處處都有我的足跡，兩個(gè)月里我與全班近2／3的家長都有直接交流，并和他們交換意見，幫助引導(dǎo)學(xué)生正面發(fā)展。“每天早出晚歸，一天的批改作業(yè)，備課，坐班等工作”這就是我們的實(shí)習(xí)生活，真的很辛苦，大家都說我瘦了。而我所經(jīng)歷的還只是實(shí)習(xí)而已，與真正的老師相比，我們的工作量還遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠。可是辛苦歸辛苦，還是有人為這份工作廢寢忘食，這又是為了什么呢？因?yàn)榻處熓翘柕紫伦罟廨x的職業(yè)，因?yàn)檫@份工作帶給我們的快樂遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)大于它帶來的辛苦。看著學(xué)生能夠靈活地運(yùn)用自己所教授的知識(shí)，心中地位成就感油然而生。聽到學(xué)生簡單而真誠的“老師好”，看見他們張張燦爛的笑臉，我所有的疲憊好像都消失了。他們有時(shí)是小壞蛋，有時(shí)又是小天使，而我們就是他們的天堂。總之這次實(shí)習(xí)讓我收獲頗多。

理論和實(shí)踐還是有很大的差距你，因此我不僅要不斷學(xué)習(xí)理論知識(shí)，還要在實(shí)踐中不斷的學(xué)習(xí)。同時(shí)對于老師的概念我又有了進(jìn)一步的理解。以前導(dǎo)師說過，老師既要是一個(gè)小學(xué)者，又要是一個(gè)藝術(shù)家，一個(gè)演員。陳主任在看望我們時(shí)，也說過課成功了前所有的準(zhǔn)備都是讓學(xué)生更好地接受你教的東西，你能讓他們喜歡你這堂課你就成功了。這些觀點(diǎn)和盧梭說過的應(yīng)該是同樣的道理吧：教學(xué)的藝術(shù)就是使學(xué)生喜歡你教的東西。我覺得老師們說的都很有道理。從某種角度來說，我覺得老師更應(yīng)該是一只潘多拉的盒子，引誘學(xué)生來打開，激發(fā)學(xué)生有無窮的求知欲，當(dāng)他們打開時(shí)，知識(shí)就源源不斷的涌出；教師更應(yīng)該將知識(shí)變成一座迷宮，帶著學(xué)生去尋找出口，給學(xué)生無盡的動(dòng)力。

2011年大學(xué)生實(shí)習(xí)總結(jié)報(bào)告

作者：林爽{西安歐亞學(xué)院統(tǒng)專英教0901} 【實(shí)習(xí)目的】：培養(yǎng)和鍛煉我們綜合運(yùn)用我們所學(xué)的基礎(chǔ)理論、基本技能和專業(yè)知識(shí)，提高實(shí)踐動(dòng)手能力，進(jìn)一步提高教育教學(xué)質(zhì)量，培養(yǎng)合格人才積累經(jīng)驗(yàn)。【內(nèi)容提要】：2011年實(shí)習(xí)總結(jié)報(bào)告：武威市培訓(xùn)中心，實(shí)習(xí)的內(nèi)容包括兩部分：課堂教學(xué)和班主任工作，基本情況如下：

1、課堂教學(xué)：完成教案數(shù)為六份，試講次數(shù)為六次，上課的節(jié)數(shù)為六節(jié)，我被分到一班進(jìn)行實(shí)習(xí)。批改作業(yè)五次監(jiān)考十場，自習(xí)輔導(dǎo)十二課時(shí)。

2、班主任工作：組織一次主題為“網(wǎng)絡(luò)的利與弊”的班會(huì)；組織本班學(xué)生和實(shí)習(xí)老師之間的籃球賽兩場；找學(xué)生單獨(dú)談心，了解情況十一人次。

時(shí)間過得真快，一轉(zhuǎn)眼時(shí)間就要結(jié)束了，這段經(jīng)歷對我對于教師的看法，對以后的工作態(tài)度，都有著很大的影響。

到學(xué)校報(bào)道后，我的帶教老師教學(xué)經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富，待人很好。學(xué)校里的老師都說他的課講得很好。學(xué)校領(lǐng)導(dǎo)說應(yīng)該多向他請教。之后的時(shí)間還來不及適應(yīng)新的環(huán)境，我就被導(dǎo)師領(lǐng)到了班級(jí)，當(dāng)時(shí)想到就要面對四五十個(gè)學(xué)生，不免還是有些擔(dān)心和緊張。

實(shí)習(xí)老師是個(gè)很特別的存在。還記得第一次被班級(jí)里的學(xué)生叫“老師好”的錯(cuò)愕。漸漸適應(yīng)，然后自如反映，點(diǎn)頭示意。開始的一個(gè)禮拜日漸習(xí)慣起學(xué)校的生活，仿佛重回小學(xué)校園一般。用一種全新的角度來看待學(xué)生，以老師的角度來要求自己了，這種感覺挺奇妙。以往覺得高高在上的老師，突然間成了身邊的同事。身份的轉(zhuǎn)變是實(shí)習(xí)階段第一個(gè)要跨的坎吧！

首先我請導(dǎo)師給我一份名單，因?yàn)槲抑烙洸蛔W(xué)生的名字，看似小事，其實(shí)它在學(xué)生眼中是很重要的，如果記不住學(xué)生的名字，學(xué)生就會(huì)覺得自己在老師心中沒有地位，覺得老師不關(guān)心自己，甚至?xí)a(chǎn)生隔閡。而后我便找了個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)認(rèn)識(shí)同班同學(xué)，下課后同學(xué)們都圍著我唧唧喳喳的說：“老師，你怎么才來就知道我們的名字啊？好多老師教了我們一年都不知道我們的名字。”這是我明白了溝通是一種重要的技巧和能力，時(shí)時(shí)都要巧妙運(yùn)用。認(rèn)識(shí)一個(gè)人首先要記住對方的名字。了解一個(gè)人則需要深入的交流。而這些都要主動(dòng)去做。聽課。這是實(shí)習(xí)的必經(jīng)階段，聽課不僅能夠?qū)W習(xí)帶教老師的教學(xué)方法，也能熟悉自己將要教學(xué)的班級(jí)。小學(xué)階段的英語課程與大學(xué)里大不相同，他們要的不是文章的思想內(nèi)涵，而是一種聽、說、讀的技能。帶教老師的教態(tài)很好，課程安排上面相當(dāng)嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)，備課很充分。聽第一節(jié)課時(shí)就覺得整節(jié)課早已經(jīng)規(guī)劃好了似的，大部分學(xué)生都知道了這節(jié)課要完成的內(nèi)容。就算有突發(fā)狀況的發(fā)生，老師學(xué)生也都能自行控制好時(shí)間。學(xué)校規(guī)定的聽課是十節(jié)左右，我基本上能去聽的課都去了，為的是想了解整個(gè)章節(jié)上課的完整過程，每個(gè)部分都有上課的不同手段和形式。這些都是值得我學(xué)習(xí)的地方。大學(xué)里所學(xué)的英語教學(xué)法課程，提及不少英語教學(xué)的教學(xué)方法，不過感覺大部分都是紙上談兵。真正坐在教室后面聽課的感覺很不一樣，教學(xué)的內(nèi)容就算一樣，方式也可以有很多種，老師自己授課可以讓學(xué)生回答問題，可以結(jié)合練習(xí)加深印象。而對于學(xué)生的回答，老師的鼓勵(lì)也可以有很多種，比如：good!g r e a t!e x c e l e n t!等等。與此同時(shí)還要注意自己是否漏掉了一些沒有專心聽講的學(xué)生，適當(dāng)?shù)某樗麄兓卮饐栴}，以便讓他們集中精力。

板書的排版也不能天馬行空，而是要讓學(xué)生一看就明了。這導(dǎo)師很注意板書的有序性。他說因?yàn)閷W(xué)生只有了解了教師的習(xí)慣后，才能更快地吸收知識(shí)。記得有兩天，我因?yàn)槭绿α耍瑐湔n不充分，上課時(shí)出現(xiàn)了一些錯(cuò)誤，導(dǎo)師很嚴(yán)肅的給我指出來，從那以后我每次上課前就是熬夜，也要把課準(zhǔn)備充分之后才休息。總之對于導(dǎo)師的意見我都會(huì)虛心接受的，我從來不會(huì)表現(xiàn)出厭煩或不滿的情緒。這些都是書本上很難學(xué)到的東西。一周的聽課時(shí)間下來，作為實(shí)習(xí)生的我感觸都很深，除了以上提到的這些，光是“sit down please!”這一句，一個(gè)老師一節(jié)課就要說十幾遍，教學(xué)的內(nèi)容固然重要，學(xué)生與老師間基本的尊重也是我們教學(xué)中要應(yīng)該注意的地方。

寫教案。教案是教學(xué)前的重頭戲。導(dǎo)師讓我回憶他上課的步驟并結(jié)合我在學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)的知識(shí)來寫教案。起初我有點(diǎn)傻眼，但真正開始寫的時(shí)候我只是寫了部分重要的知識(shí)點(diǎn)和一些課堂用語到教案里去，就怕自己展現(xiàn)上講臺(tái)的時(shí)候忘詞。對于那些細(xì)節(jié)部分則在自己的本子上注明。提醒自己以防漏掉了什么。就連上課需要的口語部分也是盡量背下來，記好。

試講。正式上課前導(dǎo)師讓我試講。剛開始還以為只有他一個(gè)人在教室來聽我的課，但是當(dāng)我邁進(jìn)教室時(shí)才發(fā)現(xiàn)還有其他的老師。當(dāng)時(shí)的心撲通撲通直跳！可以想到倒是平時(shí)的話語和自己做得充分的準(zhǔn)備就不是那么害怕了。試教的時(shí)候，剛上課那會(huì)兒，班里的學(xué)生都很迷糊，幾乎連提的問題都答不上來。后來不知是他們的求知欲望，還是那種活潑的氣息，讓他們開始活躍起來。一個(gè)個(gè)把小手舉得老高說：“l(fā)et’s me try!”那一瞬間對學(xué)生的積極勁兒很是感動(dòng)。

興趣是學(xué)習(xí)入門的階梯，興趣孕育著愿望，興趣溢生動(dòng)力，因此要激發(fā)學(xué)生的興趣，其實(shí)這不僅是學(xué)生的問題，老師也要有激情和耐心，就像火與冰，看似兩種完全不同的東西，卻能碰撞出最美的火花。其實(shí)不管在哪個(gè)行業(yè)，激情和耐心都是不可或缺的。激情讓我們對工作充滿熱情，愿意為共同的目標(biāo)奮斗；耐心有讓我們細(xì)致的對待工作，力求做好每個(gè)細(xì)節(jié)，精益求精。激情與耐心互補(bǔ)促進(jìn)，才能碰撞出最美麗的火花，工作才能做到最好。

實(shí)習(xí)的時(shí)候，我上了一節(jié)活動(dòng)課，帶學(xué)生去操場上去玩，其中一個(gè)同學(xué)捉了一只蛤蟆給同學(xué)們看，那些女孩子嚇得直叫，說實(shí)話當(dāng)時(shí)我很害怕，我從小就怕蛤蟆。我就用命令的口氣說：“放下那個(gè)丑東西！”小男孩震了一震，腦袋一撇，眨眨眼睛問我：“老師它很丑嗎？”我試著和他說：“是的，你看它那恐怖的樣子，會(huì)嚇到人的！”他似懂非懂的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)頭，放下了那只蛤蟆。不一會(huì)他又滿臉疑惑的過來問我：“老師。它真的很丑嗎？外婆還說它是益蟲呢！”我的笑容頓時(shí)僵在了臉上，原來這些小動(dòng)物在孩子眼中竟如此美麗。而我與他之間存在著成年與幼年、純真與世俗的眼光的差距。于是，我便帶著全班同學(xué)去看那只蛤蟆，并讓他們討論那只蛤蟆是丑還是美？我沒敢再說蛤蟆丑，因?yàn)椴煌膶徝烙^面前，美丑是無從計(jì)較的。我也因此而想，其實(shí)蛤蟆并不是很丑，只是我用丑的眼光去看它，而孩子卻用美的眼光去看它而已。同時(shí)，我也從孩子眼中看到了一股可貴的純真，在孩子的眼中的世界是最純真的，最美的。

這次實(shí)習(xí)令我感受頗多。一方面我深感知識(shí)學(xué)問浩如煙海，使得我不得不晝夜苦讀；另一方面我也深深體會(huì)到，要想成為一名優(yōu)秀的教師，不僅要學(xué)識(shí)淵博，其他各方面如語言、表達(dá)方式、心理狀態(tài)以及動(dòng)作神態(tài)等也都是要有講究的。每上完一節(jié)課后我最大的感受就是：當(dāng)好一名老師真不容易啊！試教工作開始以后，我每天的工作就是聽優(yōu)秀教師的課----寫教案---試教---修改---試教，這樣反復(fù)練習(xí)，完善。直到把一節(jié)課要講的內(nèi)容練到爛熟于心為止。即使這樣，在我第一次深入課堂時(shí)，我還是遇到了許多在學(xué)校里沒學(xué)過，事先也沒有料到的難題。畢竟試教的時(shí)候和正式去教室上課的時(shí)候心態(tài)是不一樣的。教學(xué)生知識(shí)如果我們僅僅只懂得書本上的知識(shí)的話，那是遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠的。俗話說得好：“要給學(xué)生一碗水，自己就要有一桶水”。上好一堂課不僅要求我們能夠旁征博引，而且平時(shí)學(xué)生也會(huì)提一些書本上沒有的知識(shí)，這時(shí)候你不僅要自己對這些知識(shí)點(diǎn)有所了解，而且更為重要的是你要能夠以學(xué)生容易理解的平實(shí)的語言將它表達(dá)出來。通過這次的實(shí)習(xí)，我深感不能以自己的思維來揣度學(xué)生的思維，自己認(rèn)為很簡單的問題，對于剛剛涉及這一知識(shí)的人來說，很可能是一個(gè)無法理解得到地方，這時(shí)候我們以何種方式將此知識(shí)點(diǎn)向他們表達(dá)清楚就顯得尤為重要了。于是，在以后的備課過程中，我就不再像以前一樣只要自己弄清楚了就了事，而是更加側(cè)重于如何將知識(shí)的來龍去脈向?qū)W生表達(dá)清楚。我的這一舉措果然收到了良好的效果，學(xué)生聽完這節(jié)課后普遍都說我講的比較清楚。這讓我感到很欣慰。

我親身經(jīng)歷了批改試卷之后，才開始理性看待分?jǐn)?shù)，我覺得孩子們壓力非常大，老師和家長的嚴(yán)格要求又讓他們找不到合適的傾訴對象。所以我會(huì)一邊聽課一邊當(dāng)起“知心姐姐”，很受學(xué)生的喜愛和信任。在當(dāng)實(shí)習(xí)班主任的過程當(dāng)中，我從他們原班主任那里學(xué)到了很多關(guān)于班級(jí)管理的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，確實(shí)讓我受益不少。比如如何與學(xué)生談心，如何幫助后進(jìn)生轉(zhuǎn)化成為先進(jìn)生等等。雖然這些經(jīng)驗(yàn)都是十分寶貴的，但我也沒有完全照搬，第一是我覺得我的身份畢竟與他們不同。第二是我覺得我與學(xué)生年紀(jì)相仿，不像原班主任一樣與他們或多或少存在一些代溝，這是我的優(yōu)勢所在應(yīng)該加以利用。所以在與學(xué)生的長期交往中，我漸漸形成了一套既有自己風(fēng)格，又吸收了原寶貴經(jīng)驗(yàn)的行事方法，而且還受到了較好的效果。比如說我和我們班上一位學(xué)生談心的時(shí)候，她告訴我我她讀以前成績很好，幾乎每次考試都是班上的第一名，數(shù)學(xué)成績尤為突出，用她自己的話就是“那時(shí)候?qū)W數(shù)學(xué)就是一種樂趣”，但是現(xiàn)在情況完全不同了，不僅整體成績直線下降，就連自己的強(qiáng)項(xiàng)數(shù)學(xué)也到了岌岌可危的地步。當(dāng)我問及其中的原因時(shí)，她告訴我由于期中考試的失誤她現(xiàn)在失去了信心，再加上課程越學(xué)越難，使她的成績更加后退了，以至于現(xiàn)在對讀書失去了信心，想一心從事自己的愛好去學(xué)聲樂算了。而這些她都沒有和原班主任說過，原因是班主任“太兇了”。我聽了之后并沒有直接反對她的觀點(diǎn)，而是從客觀條件、學(xué)習(xí)條件以及以后的前途等方面和她分析了她這種想法，使她明白了學(xué)習(xí)和愛好之間誰輕誰重，并引導(dǎo)她自覺地把心思放到學(xué)習(xí)上來。可喜的是，現(xiàn)在她的成績已經(jīng)有所提高了，更為重要的是，她又重新找回了對學(xué)習(xí)的興趣和信心。類似于這樣的問題我是經(jīng)常遇到的，而我也經(jīng)常站在他們的立場去思考這些問題并最終解決這些問題，所以我和同學(xué)們建立了很好的感情，這是一種建立在互相信任互相幫助的基礎(chǔ)上的感情。而絕對不能有自己只是一個(gè)實(shí)習(xí)老師，反正干不了多久就要走的想法。別看這幫學(xué)生人小，其實(shí)他們心里什么都明白！當(dāng)了三個(gè)星期的班主任，我最大的一個(gè)感受就是一個(gè)字：“累”！可是我喜歡這種幸福的勞累，和同學(xué)們在一起我感覺很充實(shí)很開心。

實(shí)習(xí)期間讓我深深體會(huì)到教師的艱辛和責(zé)任感。亦忙亦累，累的甚至在回家僅十五分鐘距離的公交車上都睡著了。有一天上午差不多上了三節(jié)課，嗓子都疼得有些嘶啞。但看到那一張張熱情笑臉，看到孩子們跑到我身邊問我電話號(hào)碼和QQ號(hào)，看到孩子們拉著我去打羽毛球，看到孩子們樂呵呵的和我合影，看到孩子們期待我為他們的運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)加油，聽到孩子們親切的呼我林老師?既欣慰，也感動(dòng)。

我知道一個(gè)優(yōu)秀的教師時(shí)刻應(yīng)該用“愛”去開啟學(xué)生的心靈，很多時(shí)候我們的一個(gè)笑容，一個(gè)課余誠懇地交談，優(yōu)勢是一個(gè)眼神，一句鼓勵(lì)的話，都會(huì)對學(xué)生產(chǎn)生長久的影響。愛的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)也會(huì)得到愛的回報(bào)，但我們細(xì)想一下，能真正用心體會(huì)老師的學(xué)生有多少，但真正能感悟到老師愛的學(xué)生，絕對孺子可教也。常有的事你對他的寬容增加了他的放縱，這在實(shí)習(xí)中我也是有所體會(huì)的。今天我們面對的不是幾個(gè)學(xué)生，而是四五十人的班級(jí)，沒有嚴(yán)明的紀(jì)律，如何有良好的班風(fēng)？在我們的教育中懲罰也是教育的一種手段。當(dāng)然懲罰一定也要慎重，我認(rèn)為當(dāng)我們懲罰學(xué)生時(shí)，應(yīng)該注意以下幾個(gè)方面：一首先要尊重學(xué)生的獨(dú)立人格，保護(hù)好學(xué)生的自信心，自尊心，好的就是好的，錯(cuò)的就是錯(cuò)的，不要一錯(cuò)百錯(cuò)，全盤否定:；二懲罰的目的是警示學(xué)生什么不可以做，做了會(huì)有什么后果，不是為懲罰而懲罰學(xué)生，而是為教育學(xué)生而懲罰學(xué)生，換句話說懲罰是手段，教育是目的；三是要教育其改正錯(cuò)誤，關(guān)鍵不是懲罰，關(guān)鍵是接受教訓(xùn)，改正錯(cuò)誤。

在進(jìn)行實(shí)習(xí)的這段時(shí)間里，我學(xué)到很多育人之道和做人之道，也懂得了人與人之間----你們之間是一種什么關(guān)系-----都要互相尊重，才能建立起真正的恒久的友誼。

我把我的實(shí)習(xí)階段的感受，可以比喻成煉金的三個(gè)階段，即黑金、白金、赤金。有些煉金術(shù)的經(jīng)典談到轉(zhuǎn)變過程時(shí)，會(huì)以黑、白、紅三種顏色代表長期反復(fù)自我冶煉的三個(gè)階段。黑色階段也就是真正轉(zhuǎn)變的開始階段，它代表進(jìn)入沖突的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，遭遇重創(chuàng)、低潮，而且沒有行動(dòng)方向。煉金高手在此階段的座右銘是“讓黑的更黑吧。”換句話說，我沒必須留在那個(gè)沖突中，并且應(yīng)向它、進(jìn)入它。我明白了作為一名教師，她也有渺小、弱點(diǎn)、無能為力的時(shí)候。我們不能神話老師，不能神化自己，我們這些實(shí)習(xí)教師剛來到實(shí)習(xí)學(xué)校時(shí)，心里猶如一個(gè)發(fā)光的球體，盡情發(fā)射光芒，帶著完整、絲毫無損的自我的所有能量。但是要不了多久，自我的某些部分并不為外界所接納，于是我們開始藏起自己不被接受的部分，將那閃閃發(fā)光的自我放進(jìn)一個(gè)“長長德黑袋子”，拖在背后，于是我們急需進(jìn)入內(nèi)心深處的儲(chǔ)藏室。然后到了我說的白金階段，我們可以看到自我的沖突其實(shí)并不在工作的種類，而是工作的方式。到這里我們會(huì)有一種恍然大悟的感覺，原來這些不起眼的感受才是最主要的，于是我對教師生涯的概念就轉(zhuǎn)變了。最后是赤金階段，它代表自我擴(kuò)張、真正贏得勝利的最后階段，處在這個(gè)階段中，一個(gè)人能發(fā)揮自己的全部能量。也就是我們的實(shí)習(xí)要交的最后答卷，你是否順利的完成實(shí)習(xí)任務(wù)就在此了。

最后縱觀我與我學(xué)生們的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴，讓我更加領(lǐng)會(huì)到一名合格的人民教師的擔(dān)子有多重。而且我與所在班級(jí)的學(xué)生和指導(dǎo)教師結(jié)下了深厚的友誼，我的實(shí)習(xí)觀摩課內(nèi)容充實(shí)，形式新穎，結(jié)構(gòu)合理，氣氛空前熱烈，得到了同學(xué)和指導(dǎo)老師以及實(shí)習(xí)隊(duì)其他實(shí)習(xí)老師的好評。盡管聽了無數(shù)次“老師好！”，但每每回應(yīng)的時(shí)候我依然帶著欣喜的笑容。每當(dāng)站在講臺(tái)上，被一雙雙純凈的眼睛聚精會(huì)神地望著時(shí)，作為一名教師的價(jià)值感和成就感就油然而生了。

在實(shí)習(xí)中我還發(fā)現(xiàn)，有些東西不可以去選擇，有些東西卻可以選擇。份內(nèi)的工作當(dāng)然要認(rèn)真完成，但勇敢的主動(dòng)請纓卻能為你贏得更多的機(jī)會(huì)。只要勤問、勤學(xué)、勤做就會(huì)有意想不到的收獲。回顧這段時(shí)間，我是用心的，但用心并不等于成功，我畢竟是一名實(shí)習(xí)生，在知識(shí)的構(gòu)建上還存在一些斷章，還缺乏教學(xué)經(jīng)驗(yàn)，甚至因?yàn)樽x錯(cuò)了某個(gè)英文單詞或某個(gè)字后，學(xué)生把錯(cuò)誤指出來而無地自容、羞愧幾天的事也有過。

在為人師的這條路上，我邁出了第一步，接下來還有第二步、第三步??但不管怎樣，我都會(huì)以人為本，把實(shí)習(xí)中學(xué)到的一切加以融會(huì)貫通，帶到今后的事業(yè)中去，我會(huì)以我的真心去呵護(hù)學(xué)生，因?yàn)槲颐鎸Φ氖且活w顆純真的心。總之，教育是一個(gè)互動(dòng)的過程，老師只要認(rèn)真投入教學(xué)，孩子就會(huì)積極配合。這種過程是很開心的。實(shí)習(xí)就像進(jìn)入了社會(huì)大熔爐一般，千淘萬漉雖辛苦，就算被磨練的遍體鱗傷，也要摩拳擦掌，做好又一次投入熔爐的準(zhǔn)備。我在實(shí)習(xí)中逐漸變得勇敢。雖然開始也會(huì)有顧忌，怕主動(dòng)出擊會(huì)招惹不知天高地厚的蔑視。但事實(shí)告訴我，應(yīng)該對自己有信心，應(yīng)有勇氣去嘗試。即便在嘗試中失敗，也能讓自己成長，沒有鍛煉的機(jī)會(huì)談何積累和成長？而這一切只能靠自己去爭取。等待只能讓你在沉默中消亡，只有主動(dòng)才能為自己創(chuàng)造良機(jī)。實(shí)習(xí)陪伴我經(jīng)受了挫折，也經(jīng)受了歡樂！

實(shí)習(xí)使我們教育浪漫之旅的第一步，我們只是走出了第一步，對于這步，我還是比較滿意的，將來的路還很長會(huì)遇到暴風(fēng)雨雪，也許會(huì)遇到我們的燦爛，明媚的陽光，但是無論怎樣，我們都要勇于面對現(xiàn)實(shí)，接受挑戰(zhàn)，努力去做好個(gè)好老師，路漫漫其修遠(yuǎn)兮，吾將上下而求索！相信我們一定能行的，將來我們一定會(huì)成功的！

實(shí)習(xí)生活結(jié)束了，我學(xué)會(huì)了很多，回頭看一下我在那里留下的腳印，我相信那不會(huì)是我旅途的歸宿，而是我充滿挑戰(zhàn)和希望的開始。從學(xué)生的眼睛里我感受到了當(dāng)年的自己，感受到了辛勤培養(yǎng)我的老師的片片苦心。一名教師的幸福就是那種桃李天下的欣然與快慰以及那張張飄然而至的小小卡片。

第四篇：英語周記

A few day of ago, Miss Hu asked some of us who were going to have the interview to write a PPT which as an introduction of ourselves.Although I didn’t write it, but I still got a lot of inspirations from it.I think that most of us, including me, still have to adjust to the new role now.I think we are lack of learn ability.We are not conscious of the importance of innovation ability.We can’t rich ourselves just when it is needed.It occurred to me that when we first got to NanChang city, we are criticized by the Manager.The reason was that he asked us to learn how to install and use the software but we just ignored it and did something else.We thought that it was the same as to what we did in QingDao city.We thought we just need to sit in the room and wait for someone to teach us.In fact, we took it for granted.It was just a tiny example.We must try to find the best way to enhance our efficiency.It was our duty.We know that Miss Hu was so anxious for seeing the improvement of us.We can see that from what she said in the QQ and what she wrote in the sina Weibo.We also want our department to become stronger and stronger.Beside the hard work, I think communication is also important and necessary.We open our heart to each other and discuss together.The GSC department does not belong to a single person.Its development depends on us.

第五篇：英語周記

Passage 16 New York May Never Win Its War on Rats Video of rats scampering across a New York City restaurant floor may have disturbed viewers worldwide but some experts say the rodents are less dangerous than other creatures drawn to restaurants — humans.The video broadcast on television a week ago showed rats running wild at a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant just one day after the outlet had passed a city Health Department inspection.It took a bite out of the share price of parent company Yum Brands Inc.and forced a city Health Department shake-up that removed the inspector who conducted the review from duty and led to 13 more restaurant closures on Thursday.The owner of the KFC/Taco Bell franchise, ADF Companies, has closed 10 of its restaurants until they pass inspections, and the city closed three other restaurants because of unsanitary conditions or mice, the Health Department said.Yum Brands on Friday hired an urban pest control expert to review standards at its New York City restaurants.The Health Department warned that greater threats to public health include restaurant employees who fail to wash their hands or food stored at improper temperatures.One epidemiologist agreed.Still, the incident reinforces New York’s reputation of having a more severe rat problem than other big cities.New York’s crowded quarters force restaurants to store trash indoors until it can be collected, providing rats with an indoor food source.In addition, New York’s real estate boom means construction is pervasive, scattering rats to a wider geographic area.Passage 17 Beauty Industry With a bit of “physical preparation” — artificial breast implants, a nose job and a little trimming of fat from the hips — you too can aspire to be Miss World.So says Venezuela’s latest candidate for the world beauty contest.Andreina Prieto admitted that were it not for the help of cosmetic surgery, she probably would not have made the line-up.The raven-haired 19-year-old was chosen from among 40 other contestants to represent the South American country at the Miss World competition in South Africa.Prieto, wearing a blue bikini, told reporters that prior to entering the competition, she had three separate operations: one to improve the shape of her nose, a liposuction to remove fat from her hips and breast implants.“If it wasn’t for that, I probably wouldn’t be here,” she said.She displayed a brilliant smile, but did not say if that too was the result of surgery.Oil-rich Venezuela takes the beauty industry very seriously and has gained a reputation as a “factory” of international beauty contest winners.Venezuelan women have won five Miss World titles and four Miss Universe crowns.A private company, the Miss Venezuela Organization, specializes in preparing candidates for the Miss World and Miss Universe contests, and spends around $72,000 on each contender, in clothes, diets and, of course, cosmetic surgery.Passage 18 Population Growth The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom.On the contrary, demographic history offers evidence that population growth has not been at all constant.According to paleoecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous changes.The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B.C., followed the innovations of tool-making and tool-using.But when the new power from the use of tools has been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable.The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when mankind began to keep herds, plow and plant the earth.Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated.These two episodes suggest that the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when, or if , technology begins to yield fewer innovations.Of course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end.Either way — contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth — population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity.And when one takes this view, population growth is seen to represent economic progress and human triumph rather than social failure.Passage 19 Food and Health The food we eat seems to have a profound impact on our health.Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat.Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon.Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.That food is related to illness is not a new discovery.In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer.Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things in the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful.The additives which we eat are not all so direct.Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows.Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons.The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market.Although the Food and Drug Administration(FDA)has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.Passage 20 UK Urged to Update Copyright Laws The UK is currently using copyright laws that are more than 300 years old.Ministers in the United Kingdom are being urged to modify copyright laws to allow users to be able to legally rip CDs and DVDs for personal use.The Institute for Public Policy Research(IPPR)wants users to have a “private right to copy” digital content.The IPPR acknowledged that the music and film industries are justified in battling illegal file sharing.But the IPPR argues that making copies for personal use does not have significant impact on copyright holders.Millions of Britons are violating current copyright laws by ripping CDs onto their MP3 players and /or PCs.Currently, Britons are violating an outdated 300-year-old law when copying CDs and DVDs.The British Phonographic Institute has already stated that it will not pursue its rights to bring private copying cases against users if the copying truly is for private purposes only.An independent research study reports that around 59 percent of Britons believe copying CDs and DVDs to other devices is legal.The chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee inquiry admits that he and his children are in violation of the law.“My own view is that the current laws are unsatisfactory as it is difficult to say to consumers that this bit of the law matters and this bit doesn’t matter,” Conservative MP John Whittingdale said.Passage 21 A Growing Number of American Men Get Alimony Across the country, a growing number of divorced men are getting alimony from their former wives.While far more women receive alimony than men, divorce lawyers estimate that 5% to 10% of their male clients now get such payments, up from only 3% five years ago.Men seeking financial support from the rich and famous ex-wives have made headlines in recent years.But the ranks of ex-husbands getting alimony from their former spouses now are as likely to include the guy around the corner who gets a monthly check from an ex-wife whose bank account is fatter than his.“Women are getting better, higher-paying jobs at the same time that men’s wages are decreasing,” says Kathryn Rettig, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota, explaining why the number of men receiving alimony is increasing.She adds，“If women want equality under the law, they have to take the responsibility for supporting dependent spouses.”

Like women, men are being awarded alimony for a few years as compensation for putting their wives through college or graduate school or for following transferred spouses around the country.And, like women, men are persuading judges to award them alimony indefinitely if they are sick or disabled or have stayed home to raise children.In out-of-court settlements, high-income women are even agreeing to pay alimony to their ex-husbands instead of giving them some property because alimony is tax-deductible.Passage 22(92)Rainbow I wonder if there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow in the sky.It is so beautiful!There is a fairy tale saying whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold.Of course, it is not true.Neither could you find the pot of the gold, nor could you ever find the rainbow’s end.No matter how far you run, it always seems at a great distance.A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower.It is not solid, for it is only the effect of light shining on raindrops.The light from the sun shines on the rain as it falls to the earth.The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colors which we see.It is called a rainbow because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow.That is also why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky.We see a rainbow only during showers or storms, only when there is still rain in the air and the sun still shines brightly through the clouds.Every rainbow has many colors which are arranged in the same order.The first or the top color is always red, next comes orange, then yellow and green, and last of all the blue and deep blue or violet.A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.Passage 23 Gratuitous Gratuities Everybody loathes it, but everybody does it.A recent poll showed that 40% of Americans hate the practice.It seems so arbitrary, after all.In America alone, tipping is now a $ 16 billion-a-year industry.Consumers acting rationally ought not to pay more than they have to for a given service.Tips should not exist.So why do they? The conventional wisdom is that tips both reward the efforts of good service and reduce uncomfortable feelings of inequality.The better the service, the bigger the tip.Such explanations no doubt explain the purported origin of tipping.In the 16th century, boxes in English taverns carried the phrase “To Insure Promptitude”(later just “TIP”).But according to new research from Cornell University, tipping no longer serves any useful function.The paper analyses data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants.The correlation between larger tips and better service was very weak: only a tiny part of the variability in the size of the tip had anything to do with the quality of service.Customers who rated a meal as “excellent” still tipped anywhere between 8% and 37% of the meal price.Tipping is better explained by culture than by economics.In America, the custom has become institutionalized: it is regarded as part of the accepted cost of a service.In Europe, tipping is less common.In many Asian countries, tipping has never really caught on at all.How to account for these national differences? Look no further than psychology.According to Michael Lynn, the Cornell paper’s co-author, countries in which people are more extrovert, sociable or neurotic tend to tip more.Tipping relieves anxiety about being served by strangers.Passage 24 Football Team’s Only Game Was Drugs They looked like a real football team — with snarling coach included.But the 10 men arrested at the weekend in Spain’s southern province of Cadiz were not going to play a match, despite their yellow and blue kit.They were drug traffickers who used their footballs, knapsacks and club strips, emblazoned with the team name of a local town, Guillen Moreno CF, as a ruse to fool border police as they passed from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in North Africa, to Algeciras, on the southern Spanish mainland, a police spokesman in Cadiz said.The fake team would usually cross the Straits of Gibraltar into the province of Cadiz on Saturday afternoons with the hash tucked beneath their jerseys and stage a drama to enhance their credibility before border agents.The supposed manager, 49, would carry a roster in his hand and continuously bark at the young men “Everybody pay attention, everybody stay right here!” and “Come on, follow me!”.The players would cross back to Ceuta on Sundays after the fictional match and actual drug sales in Spain.Police do not know how long the fake season lasted before a tip spurred an investigation.The game ended when officers stopped their cars in Cadiz and found a total of 16kg of hash hidden beneath the men’s strips in little pellets taped to their bodies.Passage 25(93)Sleep Sleep is a part of a person’s daily activity cycle.There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles.If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows.When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, and your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow and become quite regular.Your brain waves slow down a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves predominating for the first few minutes.This is called stage 1 sleep.For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through stage 2 and stage 3 sleep.The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be.Then about 40 to 60 minutes after you lose consciousness you will have reached the deepest sleep of all.Your brain waves will show the large slow waves that are known as the delta rhythm.This is stage 4 sleep.You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night long, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your brain activity level will increase again slightly.The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves.Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids.This period of rapid eye movement lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep.It is during REM sleep period that your body will soon relax again, your breathing will grow slow and regular once more, and you will slip gently back from stage 1 to stage 4 sleep — only to rise once again to the surface of near consciousness some 80 minutes later.Passage 26 Face and Fortune Recently, at the instigation of my publisher, I had some photographs taken.I do not enjoy the process of being photographed.However, after I compared the new photograph with one taken twenty-five years ago, my feminine vanity suffered.My first instinct was to have the prints “touched up”.As I thoughtfully considered the photographs, I knew that a still more important principle was involved.A quarter century of living should put a great deal into a woman’s face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.In that length of time she has become intimately acquainted with pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, life and death.She has struggled and survived, failed and succeeded.She has lost and regained faith.And, as a result, she would be wiser, gentler, more patient and more tolerant than she was when she was young.Her sense of humor should have mellowed, her outlook should have widened, and her sympathies should have deepened.And all this should show.If she tries to erase the imprint of age, she runs the risk of destroying, at the same time, the imprint of experience and character.I know I am more experienced than I was a quarter century ago and I hope I have more character.I released the pictures as they were.Passage 27(94)Readers Reveal Stuff of Dreams Psychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams.A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history of the crusades.People with a taste for fiction experienced dreams that contained more improbable events, and their dreams were more emotionally intense.The survey also found that people who read thrillers were no more likely to have nightmares.But those with a weakness for science fiction were rather more likely to wake up suddenly with a cold sweat.According to Mark Blagrove of the University of Wales, the study is perhaps the first experiment to determine a link between the waking world and dreams.Dr.Blagrove and colleagues distributed 100,000 questionnaires about sleep patterns and literary tastes, and got more than 10,000 replies.They found that 58% of all adults had experienced at least one dream in which they were aware they were dreaming — and that women could recall more dreams than men.Older people seemed to dream less and have fewer nightmares.About 44% of children said their dreams were affected by the books they had been reading.Children who report reading scary books have three times the number of nightmares as children who don’t.Passage 28 Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, known, as the king of steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America.His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society.He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves.“He who dies rich, dies disgraced, ” he often said.Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history.He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.Other philanthropic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts.Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie’s generosity.His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.Passage 29 Princess Diana What was it about Diana, Princess of Wales that brought such huge numbers of people from all walks of life literally to their knees after her death in 1997? What was her special appeal, not just to British subjects but also to people the world over? A late spasm of royalism hardly explains it, even in Britain, for many true British monarchists despised her for cheapening the royal institution by behaving more like a movie star or a pop diva than a princess.To many others, however, that was precisely her attraction.Diana was beautiful, in a fresh-faced, English, outdoors-girl kind of way.She used her big blue eyes to their fullest advantage, melting the hearts of men and women through an expression of complete vulnerability.Diana’s eyes, like those of Marilyn Monroe, contained an appeal directed not to any individual but to the world at large.Please don’t hurt me, they seemed to say.She often looked as if she were on the verge of tears, in the manner of folk images of the Virgin Mary.Yet she was one of the richest, most glamorous and socially powerful women in the world.This combination of vulnerability and power was perhaps her greatest asset.Passage 30 A Greek to Remember Diogenes was a famous Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C., who established the philosophy of cynicism.He often walked about in the daytime holding a lighted lantern, peering around as if he were looking for something.When questioned about his odd behavior, he would reply, “I am searching for an honest man.”

Diogenes held that the good man was self-sufficient and did not require material comforts or wealth.He believed that wealth and possessions constrained humanity’s natural state of freedom.In keeping with his philosophy, he was perfectly satisfied with making his home in a large tub discarded from the temple of Cybele, the goddess of nature.This earthen tub, called a pithos, and formerly been used for holding wine or oil for the sacrifices at the temple.One day, Alexander the Great, conqueror of half the civilized world, saw Diogenes sitting in this tub in the sunshine.So the king, surrounded by his countries, approached Diogenes and said, “I am Alexander the Great.” The philosopher replied rather contemptuously, “I am Diogenes, the Cynic.” Alexander then asked him if he could help him in any way.“Yes,” shot back Diogenes, “don’t stand between me and the sun.” A surprised Alexander then replied quickly, “If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”