An experience of talking with a foreigner Today,we was having a history class on the sports filed while the foreign teacher in our school was sitting himself alone in a few distance away.It's about 5:00p.m.and the sunshine was so gently.I guessed he was enjoying it.All of us noticed him,and I felt so excited that I couldn't focus on my class,hoping it could over as soon as possible.(I don't know why every time I meet foreigners I always feel so.) Fortunately,our history teacher was unwilling to give a class too.The class was over soon.Honestly speaking,I have been thinking several times how to start a conversation with the foreign teacher. I even dreamed about him.In the dream,I finally made the first step,with encourage filled,having a talk with him.but he was very unfriendly in the dream,which made me feel upset.When I woke up next morning, I was in a bad mood.After all,it's a bad dream,right? Okay, Let's go on to the things that happened in the evening.At that time,I set my mind and was about to head for him alone,to ask if I could have a talk with him when my classmates requested our monitor to invite him to come here and have some games together.And he accepted the invitation.We were sitting in circle,so the monitor asked him to sit in the center.He rejected the proposal because of his shyness.He can't speak Chinese,even a little,and our spoken English is poor as well.So we had language barrier between us so that he couldn't understand the rule of the game we wanted to play with him.Eventually,the monitor and a couple of my classmates and I surrounded him,asking him some questions,for example,we asked him if he could tell us something about his hometown England.But he only told us where was he from,and then said nothing.We had to ask more questions to keep the conversation.But he always answered only one word or as brief as possible.For example,when other student were left.He said yes in response to my question if he wanted to learn Chinese.And I asked further:"so I am wondering if we can make a language exchange.He answered "Maybe".Can I suppose it unlikely that we can make one? And when I was talking with him,he always looked other places,making me feel that he wasn't listening to what I said.Before saying good bye,I said directly I didn't think he was a good talker,he answered he had a headache.At that moment,I understood why he said not much.But I still felt that he was not very friendly,just as what I had dreamed.Do you think so?

modal verbs "can" "could" "may" "might" "must" "ought to" "should" "will" "could" when they mean "possibility",is there any difference？ For example: "He may/might/could be in the library" "He can be very friendly at times" "We must be back by ten o'clock" "He ought to be home by now" "It 's ten o'clock.The football game should begin now" "It's ten o'clock.Janet will be paris now" "It would be about ten when he left home" They are so similar,right?

There have.. I saw a sentence in my grammar book,which made me puzzled. “There have been demands that they be given more free time.” I remembered that my English teacher had told me “there” cant be used with "have" together. Thank you very much

Lessons of "Titanic" Today,I want to share a reading material I read in my English exam with you.It's about some lessons the writer learned and some truths of life she concluded from the movie "Titanic". The writer saw a little girl wearing a T-shirt with the word "Titanic" written on the front when she was dropping her son at school,which led to her thinking.At the beginning,realizing the girl should belong to a class team called "Titanic",she felt puzzled why the students would name thier team "Titanic" and expect it to be successful.She concluded some truths of life by analysing the reason why Titanic sunk.In her view,the ship sunk due to a combination of many reasons.To start with,the owner of the ship assumed his ship was too modern and too solid to sink.This was the first mistake.And then she led to the first truth of life.In life,nothing is guaranteed.Life can change in the twinkling of an eye and however prepared you are,you might need to cope with the possibility of a sinking ship .Mistake number two was that the ship had more people on board than the lifeboats on the ship could carry.From this mistake,the truth of life is that never bite off more than you can chew--like somebody said:"Nobody looks attractive when spitting it back out." At the last,she made a final conclusion and light the topic:the lessons we can learn from"Titanic"also go for relationship:Those overconfident attitudes and lazy tendeneies are icebergs waiting to hit and sink your ship.Keep in mind that confidence is good but overconfidence always drops the ship down in the end. To be honest,I never think we could learn other things from"Titanic" expect romantic.Therefore,when I finished my reading,I thought I learned a lot from this article:Not only the truth of life she mentioned,but also how to understand things from new and different angle. Thank you very much