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#21 My understanding of text reading_________________________ When students try understanding a text, it is just like climbing a mountain. There will be many obstacles on the road, mostly language barriers and cultural differences. So what can the teacher do to help students while they are “climbing a mountain”? I think mainly there are two steps. Firstly, it is necessary for the teacher to lay down steps in the mountain so as to help students climb it more easily. That is to say, sometimes we need to adapt the text in accordance with students’ language levels, so that they can better understand the writer’s ideas. Secondly, it is necessary for us teachers to design a path in the mountain along which students can enjoy the beautiful scenery. That is to say, we need to create some learning activities and tasks for students, helping them “get over the high mountain” and deeply understand what the writer really wants to say in the text. With teachers’ help, students can finally understand what the writer is trying to express and share the same feelings with each other. In a way, students and the writer are combined, just like “yin” and “yang” in the “ba-gua”. Here, let’s take the second step---designing the teaching. 【】Decisions are shaping your⑴destiny every second. They are a cause being⑵set in motion. From the moment you wake up until you sleep you are making decisions. Everything that happens in life both the⑶thrilling and the challenging began somewhere with a decision. Anthony Robbins says it best, “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” How are you shaping your destiny today? What decisions have you made⑷get you where you are today and what decisions are you making today to give you a better tomorrow? You may be thinking but I didn’t make any decisions to get me⑸to where I am now. I didn’t decide this for myself. Not making a decision is a decision. And through that somebody else ends up making the decision for you, so⑹ultimately tha