Tan Yujie, Class 2, Senior 1, Shenzhen Xin’an Middle School Instructed by Yang Liuqing, Tang Ying 深圳市新安中學（集團）高一（2）班 譚雨潔 指導老師：楊柳青 湯穎 We had a lesson on “Highly Effective English Learning Strategy Training” in the geography room last month and we enjoyed it very much. First, some students took turns imitating Obama’s speech, “Why should we go to school?” After each student gave the speech, the whole class made comments and suggestions on how to improve. Then, our teacher organized a very good activity to get everybody involved and speaking English. She started a story with the sentence, “One day, I got up early, had breakfast and took a bus to school...” and asked us to make up the rest of the story as creatively as possible by using our rich imaginations. We listened very carefully, took a very active role in continuing the story and had a great time together. The following is the story we made. One day, I got up early and went to school after breakfast. I went to school by bus and on the way there was a traffic accident. I got off the bus and decided to walk to school. While walking along, I saw a girl in a tree. She was about to fall down when a man caught her. I felt relieved for the girl because she was not injured, and I walked on. Near the school gate, I met the girl again, and we walked together. Suddenly, an unidentified flying object (UFO) came down from the sky and landed on the school’s playground. An alien came out of it and walked towards us to catch us. I was so frightened because I thought we were going to die. I wanted to escape, but there was no place for us to hide. I immediately took the girl’s hand and ran to the UFO, hoping to find a place to hide. We went into it and watched carefully. To my joy, we found there were many delicious snacks, a big comfortable bed and many interesting things in one room. I looked back and found the girl was missing, so I went to look for her. Suddenly, I saw an alien holding the girl. At this time, a lot of aliens were coming, and I felt very scared. I fought with them, but I was not as strong as them and I was defeated. However, when they weren’t watching us closely, I ran away with the girl, but we were soon caught. We fell down from the sky. Suddenly I woke up and found I was still at home and realized it was a dream. I looked at the clock. I was late, so I took a bus to school. | 