【正文】 寫(xiě)作實(shí)踐 ? 例文 : How College Students Spend Their Leisure Time ? 相關(guān)鏈接 Writing Activities Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a position on the topic: How College Students Spend Their Leisure Time. In your position, you should use at least six words or phrases from the box below: leisure activities popularity personality gender pursuing entertaining relaxation limited take one’s mind away appeal to bury one’s head in piles of books Writing Activities How College Students Spend Their Leisure Time When we take a look at leisure activities of college students, we find the popularity of pastimes varies according to personality, gender, and financial situations. Some students like to spend their leisure time pursuing their hobbies indoors. Others look for outdoor relaxation, even taking part in such adventurous activities as rock climbing or bungee jumping. Writing Activities Generally speaking, male students are fond of participating in sports, playing puter games, surfing on the Inter, and watching kungfu movies, while female students love chitchatting, shopping, watching soap opera, and knitting （ 編織 ） . If they can afford it, some students will go to pop stars’ concerts, take piic, or invite some friends over for a dinner or a party. Writing Activities All these activities are entertaining and appealing to students because of their curiosities and their desires to escape from the limited world of the classroom. As a form of relaxation, leisure activities take their mind away from academic pressure. As an English proverb goes, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” After recreational activities, students usually will feel relaxed, more refreshed, and ready to start stressful school work. Writing Activities However, for some students, learning is a fulltime job, and they even invest their leisure time studying. They like to bury their heads in piles of books, ignoring everything else. They have a sense of achievement from reading novels, working on papers, preparing for tough tests such as the Graduate Entrance Exam, GRE, TOEFL, GMAT or IELTS. Though these students have no time for entertainment, they believe spending leisure time studying is a pleasure of mind. Writing Activities I. [ TOEFL作文題目 ] Directions: You will have thirty minutes to plan and write an essay on the topic given below. Use the first few minutes to read the topic carefully and think about what kind of essay you will write. You may use the space immediately below the essay topic to make notes. Write your essay on the lined pages that follow. You will have enough space if you write on every line and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size. Some students participate in school activities such as clubs and sports. Other students do not take part in such activities because they spend more time on their studies. Tell why you think the two groups of students spend their time differently? Which type of students do you prefer to be? Writing Activities II. [ IELTS作文題目 ] You should spend no more than 40 minutes on this task. In the United Kingdom some parents have decided not to have a television in their home. They believe it can encourage their children to use the leisure time more creatively. You should write at least 250 words. You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience to support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence. Writing Activities III. [ GRE作文題目 ] The following is a memo from the principal of Academia High School. “Academia High School should abolish its afterschool performingarts programs and replace them with putertechnology programs. When nearby Techno High School did so last year, total enrollment in all of its afterschool activities remained about the same. Moreover, on entering college, many Techno students chose a major directly related to their afterschool activities. On the other hand, last year only 10 percent of Academia39。 分清主次：重點(diǎn)在于找準(zhǔn)簡(jiǎn)單句的主干、 并列句的側(cè)重點(diǎn)及復(fù)合句的關(guān)系性質(zhì)。 You will have a general idea from the handout which you have in front of you of how this city originated, which had once been one of the world’s four famous civilized cities and into which an investigation is going to be made。 注意 漢語(yǔ)長(zhǎng)句的特點(diǎn) 漢語(yǔ)長(zhǎng)句字?jǐn)?shù)較多，結(jié)構(gòu)較復(fù)雜，含有多層意思。 Ding Cong is a master of word play. 丁聰是位調(diào)皮話大師。 有些人比別人更有幽默感，就像有些人更有音樂(lè)天賦一樣。 appeal to human curiosity。 Afterclass Reading: ? Passage 1: 1. Do you like to read detective stories? Are you familiar with Poirot(波羅 ), Holmes（福爾摩斯） , Conan（柯南） or any other famous detectives? 2. Comprehension questions of the passage: a. what is the attraction of Agatha?s books? b. What was the setting and background of her novels? c. 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