How are you spending your next vacation? No plans? Then {#blank#}1{#/blank#} going to an English language school, in the United States or the United Kingdom? Many schools have short lessons for {#blank#}2{#/blank#} of all ages, from seven to seventy years old!

    Foreign students can stay in school buildings or with {#blank#}3{#/blank#} there. Living with a family can be fun and can really help you learn.

    Just think you'll get two hours a day of breakfast and dinner conversation with English-speaking people! That will help you {#blank#}4{#/blank#} your English a lot.

    Classes are usually small with eight to ten students. For most afternoons you can go swimming, play soccer and do{#blank#}5{#/blank#} outdoor sports. You'll have fun at the same time!

    For most of us in China, we only have to turn on the tap to get clean water. We seldom think twice about where it comes from.

    Day after day, thousands of children in poor countries have to{#blank#}1{#/blank#}hours walking for miles to collect water. What's more, the water is dirty and can cause serious diseases, such as diarrhea(腹泻). It's hard to believe, but every 20 seconds a child dies as a result of a water-related disease.

    The international water-aid charity called Just a Drop{#blank#}2{#/blank#}clean water to some of the poorest areas in the world, by building wells, pipelines(永管)and toilets. The charity has helped about 1.5 million people {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

    Betty, from Uganda, is just one of the people who have been helped by Just al Drop. 11-yearold Betty had to walk two miles every day, carrying two heavy cans{#blank#}4{#/blank#}dirty pond water before Just a Drop placed a well in her village. "I used to get sick from the water. Now, I don't have to walk long distances and I feel much safer with this clean water."