2xOline Class Notes (Mike)

Your town or a town near you is a tourist destination. What improvements would you make to attract even more tourists? Write an essay and include three ideas. Give reasons for your choices and say what effect the improvements would have on tourist numbers.

–  say what the most important improvement would be
–  choose two more improvements to make
–  explain how these things would affect tourists.

What is the likelihood of you having someone who looks just like you? Would it be a good thing? And if you did have one, would you want to meet them?

Consider how often your facial features are used to identify you. Your passport, ID card and driving licence all bare your face. To enter your workplace, you likely need to be recognisable. You may need your face to unlock your smartphone and possibly even need it to exclude you from being present at a crime scene.

The word ‘doppelganger’ refers to a person who looks the same as you, essentially sharing your features; those that you thought were unique to you and your identity. Not an identical twin, as a doppelganger has no relation to you. The idea originated in German folklore. A doppelganger was said to be a spirit-double that replicated every human and beast on earth.

So, let’s get real. What are the chances of you having one in the first place? There’s said to be a one in 135 chance of an absolute dead ringer for you existing anywhere in the world, so the chances are pretty low, despite folk wisdom promising you otherwise. And the chances of meeting? The mathematical certainty of finding this particular person is supposedly less than one in a trillion!

That said, these statistics may be a good thing. Historically, having a double hasn’t always been a positive. Back in 1999, an innocent American man, indistinguishable from the real criminal, was sent to prison for robbery, where he stayed for 19 years. In the end, it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. In a different case, a woman in New York was accused of trying to poison her doppelganger with deadly cheesecake so that she could steal her identity!

And, why are people interested in finding their possible doppelganger anyway? It may be helpful to look to the past when facial resemblance indicated kinship.

Maybe one day you’ll meet your lookalike, but we understand that, after this, you possibly don’t want to!

Imagine you’ve just visited your French penfriend in Paris. Write an email to your English friend in which you:

–  describe your penfriend’s house.
–  describe a crime you saw taking place in Paris.
–  say how you and your friend reacted to the crime.
–  ask for some information.

Last month,I visited my French penfriend Bob’s house in Paris.The house is white,  there are three storey and basement. There is a garage in the first floor.There is an attic in the top of house.I like the attic, because the top is a skylight.After visiting house, we took walk in neighborhood. We saw a burglary that a man with black cloth burst Bob’s next house. We are scared, and call 17. After police was come, took away the man. Can I visit you next month? What should I prepare?

Last month, I visited my French penfriend Bob’s house in Paris. The house is white, there are three stories and a basement. There is a garage on the first floor. There is an small attic on the top of house. I like the attic, because the top has a skylight. After visiting the house, we took a walk in the neighborhood.

When we were walking, we saw a man in black broke into Bob’s neighbor’s house/He broke into the house next to Bob’s. We were scared and called the police. After the police came and took the man away.

Can I visit you next month? What should I prepare?

Hey Chen,

Hope you are well!

I visited my penfriend’s house in France last month and had a great time there. 

His house is in the countryside. It has 3 floors and a large basement. The garage is a separate building next to his driveway.

My favorite part of the house is his attic because it has a bright skylight.

After visiting the house, we took a walk around the neighborhood.

A   Crocosaurus Cove, Australia

澳大利亚鳄鱼湾

If you think adventure is synonymous with wild animals, then you should try the Cage of Death at Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, Australia, where you can swim with crocodiles for fifteen minutes! Visitors climb into a cage made of glass walls that are four centimetres thick and are then lowered into a pool where an enormous ‘croc’ (six metres long and weighing eight hundred kilos) is waiting! It’s an unforgettable experience are you’ll be telling your friends about it for years to come

如果你想和野生动物冒险/如果你觉得野生动物就是冒险的代名词，你应该尝试在澳大利亚达尔文的死亡之笼鳄鱼湾，你能和鳄鱼一起游泳十五分钟！游客钻进一个四厘米厚的玻璃墙笼子并降低到一个六米长重八百千克的巨大鳄鱼等在哪儿的水池。今后很多年你将告诉你的朋友这段令人难忘的经历。

B   Talmei Elazar, Israel

以色列Talmei Elazar

A relaxing massage at a spa is the perfect way to chill out and escape the overcrowded tourist zones. However, this spa in northern Israel employs unusual staff members to give the massages: snakes! The owner, Ada Barack, asks clients to lie on the massage table and then drops six snakes onto their backs! Visitors say they expect the snakes to feel wet, but in fact they are cool, dry and smooth. You may feel a little tense at the beginning, but you’ll be leaving the spa feeling more relaxed than you have in a long time!

一个令人放松的消息是水疗是放轻松的完美方式并且可以逃避过于拥挤的游客区域。然而，在北方以色列的水疗雇佣不寻常的员工成员来提供消息：蛇！店主Ada会让顾客躺在按摩椅上，然后放6条蛇在他们背上。游客预期的是蛇会很湿，但是实际上很凉，干燥平整。你也许在开始感觉一点紧张，但是你离开水疗后长时间感觉更放松！

C   Mount Huashan, China 中国华山

Seeing the sights at the top of Mount Huashan in China is not for people who don’t like heights! After climbing the hundreds of steep steps that are cut into the rock, visitors have to walk along the ‘Changong Zhando’. This is the name given to the terrifying walk along two narrow pieces of wood on the side of the mountain which are only forty centimetres wide. There is just a seven-hundred-year-od chain handrail fixed into the rock to stop you from falling over two thousand metres to your death! You’ll have lost a few kilos through exercise and worry by the time you reach the top!

在中国华山的顶部看风景不是不喜欢高的人！爬了数百个岩石削的陡峭的台阶后，游客必须沿着Changong Zhando走。这个地方因其令人害怕的在山的边缘沿着两个仅仅四十厘米宽的狭窄的木段而得名。700年的链子扶手固定在岩石中防止你摔200米而死亡！你通过达到顶部的时间的运动和担心将减去一些体重!

With our already busy lives, finding time to exercise can feel like one more thing on our ‘to do’ list. So maybe it would help if there was ‘a best time’ to exercise? Could exercising at certain times help maximise our fitness goals? The answer is ‘yes’, but it’s easier than you think – no matter who you are, or when you like to work out.

在我们早就繁忙的生活中，找时间运动感觉像在我们要做的清单中还有一件事。因此，如果有好时间去运动也许它将帮助我们？在确定的时间运动能帮助充分利用我们的健美目标吗？这个回答是‘是’，但是比你认为无论你是谁或者你喜欢什么时候制定计划是容易的。

There are clear benefits to exercising in the morning. Many of us have more free time compared to later in the day, and it may therefore be easier for us to stick to a morning workout routine. A study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that participants who exercised in the morning, increased their physical activity throughout the day, were less distracted by food, and slept better. Exercising on an empty stomach before breakfast could also burn more fat and increase metabolism, which means you’ll continue to burn calories throughout the day.

在早上锻炼有一个清晰的优点。对我们大部分人来说相比这之后有更多自由时间。因此坚持早上常规锻炼对我们来说是容易的。

一个医学研究表明科学的运动和锻炼发现在早上锻炼的人增加了他们一天的身体活力。

一项出版在《体育锻炼的中的医学和科学原理》上的研究表明，那些早晨参加锻炼的人，每日的身体运动会增加，更不易受食物的吸引，并且睡得更好。

….会增加脂肪燃烧，加速新陈代谢…..

So, good news for early birds, but what if you’re not a morning person? Working out in the afternoon or evening also has benefits, just different ones. For example, your body’s ability to perform peaks in the afternoon, according to a 2010 study by the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. Also, in the afternoon and evening, your reaction time is quickest, and your heart rate and blood pressure are lowest, which reduce your chance of injury while improving performance.

因此，对于早起的鸟是好消息，但是如果你不是一个早起的人呢？在下午或晚上锻炼也有不同的优点。例如，根据2010年的一个北欧医学杂志和运动的科学的研究，在下午你的身体活力表现峰值。在下午和晚上你的反应速度最快，你的心率和血压最低，在改善性能的时候减低你的受伤机会。

But does any of this change depending on whether you’re a man or a woman? Our bodies are different, after all, so the best time to exercise may be different too. A 2022 study from Skidmore College, New York, looked at exactly this question and the results showed that there are some differences. Want to reduce your blood pressure and you’re a woman? Exercise in the morning. Want to improve your heart health and you’re a man? Evening is better for you. But, ultimately, the study found that there are clear benefits for both sexes to exercising at either time of day.

这些改变取决于你的性别吗？我们的身体是不同的，毕竟，最好的锻炼时间也许也是不同的。2022年纽约Skidmore大学的一个研究表明这个问题和结果确切的显示有一些不同。你是一个向降低血压的女性吗？在早上运动。你是男人在早上运动想改善你的心脏健康吗？晚上对你来说更好。但是，最终，研究发现对于男女在一天两个中的任一时间运动都有清晰的优点。

So what time is best? It seems the answer is: whatever time is best for you!

因此什么时间最好？答案似乎是：任何时间对你来说都是最好的！

Vocabulary

break into (v)
burst into

separate
(v) 分开，道别，分离
Let’s separate them.
I separated with her.
I separated with my friend in the airport.
Separate the yolk from egg white. 
(adj.) 分开的
We have separate rooms. 我们有单独的房间

lie (v) 撒谎，躺

massage (n/v) 按摩
My mom massaged my back.
message (n) 信息

except
expect (v) 期待，预期 – expectation (n) 预期
My parents have really high expectations on me.

cool (adj.) 凉爽

work out (v) 健身，锻炼
I worked out this morning.
workout (n) 锻炼
My morning workout is usually from 10-11.

twist (v) 扭伤，弯曲，歪了，拧，编织

sprain (v) 扭伤

ring (n) 环形
First ring road

Grammar

动词短语:
Phrasal verbs

put/take/make/do….. + up/on/with/down/in/

turn on/off
turn up/down