Your nose has many important jobs, and is always busy.

Smelling

    Smelling helps you gather information about the world around you. A good scent (气体),like flowers, brings you pleasure. A bad scent, like smoke or sour milk, warns you of danger. Most things around you release scent particles (微粒) into the air. These invisible chemicals enter the nose when you breathe. Nerves in the nose send information to the brain to identify a smell. You are able to recognize thousands of smells.

Breathing

    Most of the air you breathe enters through your nose. The nose uses hair and mucus (粘液) to clean dust and germs (细菌) out of the air. The air that enters your nose contains oxygen. Your body uses oxygen to unlock the energy in the food you eat.  Even when you sleep, your body needs energy to keep your heart beating and your brain working.

Tasting

    Your nose helps you enjoy food. Flavor is a mixture of taste and smell. The smell of the food helps you identify what you are eating. The sense of smell contributes more to (贡献) food flavor than the sense of taste .When you are sick and have a stuffy nose, your food doesn't taste as good because without smell, food loses most of its flavor.

Smell memory

    Smells can bring back memories. Your brain uses a process to create a picture in your mind from the odors(气味)you smell. Smells can affect your feelings because the part of the brain that helps you identify smells is close to the area that affects your emotions, mood and memory. More smell memories are collected as you get older.

    Your nose has many important jobs, and is more than just a smeller!

    Jim is an English boy. he studies in No. 5 Middle School in Beijing. He gets up at 6:30 in the morning. And he washes his face and brushes his teeth. Then he goes to school by bus. He has four classes in the morning and two classes in the afternoon. He always helps his Chinese friends with English. He likes music, but he doesn't like math. He thinks it's difficult. He can play soccer and he is good at playing the piano and singing songs. On weekends, he usually goes to the zoo with his friends. He likes pandas because he thinks they are very cute.

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A. Hobbies: reading, listening to music and watching birds
    Purpose: asking for spare copies of textbooks, teaching materials or journals

B. Hobbies: reading, singing and traveling
    Purpose: learning about ideas of teaching professionals in the world

C. Hobbies! Role-playing, listening to music and collecting nice things
    Purpose: communicating with new friends among English teachers from the UK and USA

D. Hobbies: reading, and exchanging fancy gifts and ideas about local customs and conventions
    Purpose: exchanging ideas on teaching methods

E.  Hobbies: listening to western pop music, exchanging gifts and collecting things
    Purpose: making friends with both teachers and the students of English around the world

F. Hobbies: swimming, cycling and raising cats and dogs
   Purpose: finding pen friends all over the world and communicating in English

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Dear Editor,

    I am a secondary school teacher of English. I would like to have pen friends all over the world for my students. They are aged 15~19 and good at swimming, cycling and rising cats and dogs. If students in your country are interested in communicating with Turkish students in English, please tell them to write to my address. so that I can send their letters to my students who are willing to have friends and are in need of practice.

    Ms. Imbat

    81030, Istanbul Turkey

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Dear Editor,

    I am interested in talking with other TEFL teachers and researchers about professional development. I would like to share ideas with those teachers from English-speaking countries throughout the world. My hobbies are reading, listening to music and watching birds. Since I live in a rather isolated area, I would appreciate any spare copies if text books, teaching materials or journals that other teachers would be able to send me. .

    Ms. Juliana Sirait

    21214, Kisaran Indonesia

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Dear Editor,

    I am a 33-year-old secondary school teacher of English in Hungary. I would like to make new friends among English teachers mainly from English, the USA, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. I am interested in role-playing and team work. I would also like to communicate with teachers all over the world with the same hobbies as mine: collecting nice things, listening to music, reading and traveling.

    Mariann Nyari

    6724, Szeged, Tavaszl／B Hungary 21214, Kisaran Indonesia

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Dear Editor,

     I am a 23-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer teaching secondary English in Equatorial Guinea. This is my first experience teaching formally, so I would like to know some of the ideas of all you professionals Out there in the world. Letters do not have to be all business. When the school day ends. I would enjoy hearing from you. I enjoy reading, singing, traveling and so on.

    Kury W. Cobham

    Ap Box 456 Equatorial Guinea

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Dear Editor,

    I'm a 30-year-old teacher of English at a middle school. I'd be happy to make friends with both teachers and students of English around the world. I also wish to find pen friends for my students between 13 and 20 years old. My interests are letter writing, listening to western pop music, exchanging gifts, and collecting stamps, maps, picture postcards and coins.

    Mrs. Thevachandra

    47／1, Kalm Unai Sri Lanka

    The school trip is useful. It is one of the ways for students to be in the real life. But sometimes, it may not be good as you think.

    We had a terrible school trip yesterday. Some students were late for the early bus. Then we had to wait for the next bus. We waited for a long time but it didn't arrive. In the end. Our teacher took us to take the subway. 花了我们大约一个小时。 After we got off the subway, we walked and got lost. When we finally arrived at the zoo just at noon. We were tired and hungry. We wanted to see pandas, but there weren't any. There were some really smart elephants, but we didn't see the show because we arrived too late. We left our cameras (照相机)at school, so we didn't take any photos. Then it rained，and no one had an umbrella. We went for lunch. But there wasn't any restaurant in the zoo. My friends had some ice-cream. But I didn't have any, because I don't like it. We didn't see many animals because of the rain. We left the zoo at 5 p.m. when the rain stops. At last, we went back to school. We were really tired. I didn't enjoy my school trip at all.

Dear Mr. Zhang,

    Next week, a group of exchange students (交换生) from the USA will come to visit Taizhou.

    I make a plan for them. We will eat breakfast at our school first. Then we can take them to Mei Lanfang's Former House (故居) by bus. It takes only 25minutes. They can learn to sing Beijing opera there. In the afternoon, we will go to Tiandehu Park and take some photos there. In the park we can have a picnic as our lunch. Then we will go to the cinema to watch a new film. After that the girls can go to the shopping malls to buy things they like and we will take the boys to our school playground to play football for one and a half hours.

    In the evening we shall invite(邀请) them for dinner in a restaurant. They can try Chinese food. I' m sure they will have a good time in our city.

Yours love,

Tony