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生活中各种一直在变化，唯有【地道英语】没变。

英语这种东西，需要用的时候，才发现不够用。书到用时方恨少。

英语这种东西，不是提前准备几天就能有用的，要提前好多才行。

平时不忙，不是那么需要英语的时候，要好好的对待英语。该学就学，该读就读，该写就写。不要害羞等到最后一刻才学习。英语不是数学，不是做一道题，做对了就掌握了。英语是十分输入，一分输出。能说出来，能写出来的，只有学习过的十分之一。

并且是不自觉地流露出来的英语，是大脑已经从你学会的东西里面自然而然的东拼西凑出来的英语。

也就是说，越自然地道的英语，越要求看的多，读的多，听的多。

So, let's start. 地道英文on the way ～

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「adj.+n. 形容词+名词」的总结，快来看地道的表达啦～

千万不要错过 (^з^)-☆

01. Arts Program in Poor Performing Schools Helping Students

an art program: 艺术项目、艺术科目

poor performing schools: 表现不佳的学校

02. An arts program is helping students at some of the lowest performing schools in the United States.

low performing schools 表现不佳的学校

03. The program, called Turnaround Arts, aims to help improve low performing schools by adding music and the arts to the usual study program.

the usual study program 日常学习项目

04. Turnaround Arts was launched by Michelle Obama, the wife of former U.S. President Barack Obama. Some money for the program comes from the federal government.

05. For the students at participating schools, the programoffers a kind of safe haven from city neighborhoods. Many of the children comefrom areas with high crime rates.

participating schools 参与的学校

city neighborhoods 城市社区

high crime rates 高犯罪率

06. The Turnaround Arts program is part of the curriculum at the Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary School in Los Angeles, California. Test results showed the school performed in the lowest five percent in the state.

elementary schools 小学

07. Florence Griffith Joyner serves families from Watts, an area known for gang violence. Akida Kissane Long, the head of the school, says Wattsis a difficult neighborhood for students.

gang violence 帮派暴力行为

a difficult neighborhood 不平静的街区

08. "High crime, high poverty, very multi-generational families in public housing. There's gun violence," she explained. "We see a lot of helicopters and we have lockdowns regularly and so, the thing is, all associated with poverty – that really traumatized students, so many of our students come to school with symptoms of post-traumatic stress."

high poverty families 普遍贫困的家庭

multi-generational families 家庭中多代人生活在一个屋檐下，这指没钱搬出去住

public housing 公共住房，公租房，廉租房

gun violence 枪支暴力

post-traumatic stress 创伤后压力

09. Long noted how when she started working at the school five years ago, there was "willful disobedience ... fighting (and) destruction of school property." She said there were "267 suspensions on record, as well as 1,167 classroom suspensions."

willful disobedience 故意违抗，故意不听话

school property 学校财产，destruction of school property破坏学校的财产

classroom suspensions 课堂停课，上课捣乱老师不让继续上课了

10. Putting what students love into the class

Turnaround Arts is a partnership between the federal government and private businesses. Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary is one of 68 schools in the U.S. participating in the program.

11. Teachers receive special training and look for ways to add music and the arts into all the classes.

special training 特殊的培训

12. Turnaround Arts schools partner with musicians and actors who work with the students. Performers have included Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah Jessica Parker, Elton John and Cameron Diaz.

13. School principal Long noted "The children were so excited and have been so excited because it's not just about – ‘Go to the board. Do the problem. Turn the page. Read the book.' It's about acting and impersonating artists and historic figures."

historical figures 历史人物

14. She noted how some students got the chance to act out the process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.

15. The program has been popular with students, too. "I like to act and I like to sing and I like to dance," said 10-year-old Kayla Driakare.

16. Seeing results

Long said that Turnaround Arts is only in its first year at the school, and already teachers are already seeing results.

17. "We've probably suspended one kid this year. That's amazing," she said. "Parents are getting phone calls to come to...family arts night, and it's not just the naughty calls home. It's for them to come and learn more about what their children are learning. So our parent engagement goes up."

familyarts night 家庭艺术之夜

18. Around the country, participating schools are reporting fewer disciplinary actions, better attendance and improved performance intesting. A three-year long study found that Turnaround Arts schools performed better than other schools that received special grants for school improvement.

disciplinary actions 惩罚学生的行为

improved performance 有进步的表现

19. The findings come at a time when President Donald Trump is proposing to cut government spending on the arts. Some policy makers are pushing for more attention to subjects like mathematics and science in U.S. education.

government spending 政府开支

policy makers 决策者

20. "Art speaks to everyone," Akida Kissane Long said."It is part of what makes the curriculum rich and exciting and motivating."

21. At the end of the three-year program, she wants Los Angeles school officials to make Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary into a magnet school for visual and performing arts. That way the school could get financing to support its arts programs.

visual arts 视觉艺术

performing arts 表演艺术

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收获了很多地道表达吧～考试无忧～

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【世纪方舟雅思课】精彩推出：

雅思写作7.0分，8.0分直达。

雅思口语7.0分，8.0分直达。

课堂教学 & 网络教学。

Hailey老师写作8分，口语8分。

6年教学经验。

雅思写作一针见血，各种7分8分到手哈哈哈哈哈哈哈。