Royal Engineers Museum

Events

    The summer holiday is coming. Try to take some time off from school and have fun. Here are some ideas for planning your summer holiday.

    First of all, joining a club is a good idea! You can join a music club, a sports club or an art club, it's good for your future and the teachers in the club can give you some good advice (建议). You can also make some new friends.

    Doing something good for society (社会) is also great. There are many volunteer programs(志愿者项目) for you to choose, such as looking after the____①___or the young, cleaning the streets, planting trees or keeping the traffic(交通) in order. You know that students can also make the world better.

    Did you ever live with another family? You can join in a program___②____"Meeting a New Family" .Two families exchange their children for some time so that they can learn how to get on well with others.

Summer camps are still popular today. An English summer camp can be a good one. You can not only make friends but also learn English.

Dear Simon,

Thanks for telling me about your problems!

I do hope all the advice can be helpful to you.

Yours,

Joy

 The Pleasanton Partnerships in Education Foundation (PPIE), an organization in America, was started in 1987 to raise money for local schools. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(最近), it hosted a running event for the community. To date, it has raised $1 million for the school district.

" We have {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(多于)3,000 runners, volunteers and spectators, said Mindy Louie, the manager for PPIE. This year's event had races of two miles, five kilometers and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (十) kilometers. The BURN Youth Development(B. Y. D.),a{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(当地的) runners' group, joined in it as well.

" The B. Y. D. was born in 2020 to help keep kids positive in life," explained Jerry Wu, its{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(领导者) and coach. The B. Y. D. has since grown to include more than 100 young {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(成员) and 30 of them ran in this year's PPIE event." Watching them running makes me{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(微笑) every time," said Jerry Wu.

 So far, Jerry Wu has {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (教) students valuable running skills for about three years. Eighth grader Ollie Gu is one of his excellent students. He completed the race in 40 minutes and 46 seconds and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(赢) first place in the 12-15 age group.

" What an {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(有教育意义的) race!" Ollie said."I'm looking forward to it next year."

Socrates was a scholar, teacher and philosopher, who was bon in ancient Greece. He is c{#blank#}1{#/blank#} as the main source（来源）of Western thought. 

Socrates had his own way of teaching. To help his pupils s{#blank#}2{#/blank#} a problem, he would break it down into a series of questions. He was c{#blank#}3{#/blank#} that, by answering the questions, the pupils would find out the t{#blank#}4{#/blank#} by themselves. One of his famous sayings is "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."

Socrates was sentenced（判决）to death for corrupting（使堕落）youth with his teaching. He could have saved himself. His pupils tried to get Socrates out of prison. However, Socrates refused their help. He chose to o{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the sentence of the law. He drank poisonous wine（毒酒）and died.