### Daylight Saving Time ### What is Daylight Saving Time? Daylight Saving Time(DST) is a method that people try to save energy in Summertime. If a country tries to use DST. All the people in that country will adjust their clock one hour forward in Spring and will turn it back one day in Autumn. ### How does the DST save energy? - Explained Picture  During Summertime the daytime will be longer than that in wintertime in the northern hemisphere area on earth. People come out with a method that requires everyone to adjust the clock one hour forward so that people could get up and go to bed an hour early. The expected result is that we could save some energy by turn off the lights early. ### What is the history of DST? According to Wikipedia, George Hudson is the first person who proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895. German Empire and Austria-Hungary are the first countries to implement the DST starting on April 30, 1916(WOW during WWI???). ### Controversy of DST Adjusting the time may cause timekeeping problems and can affect travel, record keeping, and sleep patterns. Especially in the computer system, people may be confused by the automatic adjusting time The supporters of the DST said it could reduce energy consumption because people will go to bed earlier. But there are big disputes about the actual effect of DST implementation. **DST in China** China experimented with DST from 1986 but abandoned DST from 1992 onwards.

Fan BingBing is about to pay huge taxes and fines(Translated from a VOA news) China’s officials demand “X-men” actress - Fan Bingbing to pay about 130 million dollars taxes and fines. That explained why she’s disappeared from public for about 3 months. Fan Bingbing is one of the most famous actors in China. In 2016, Forbes recognized her as one of the highest paid actresses in the world. China state news agency - Xinhua says Fan Bingbing would not be charged for the crime of tax-avoiding if she can pay the taxes, fines and the late fees which are about 900 million yuan (130 million dollars) Xinhua reported that Fan Bingbing signed a secret 20-million-dollar performance contract with the movie “unbreakable …” to avoid paying tax. In China’s show business, it is a common thing that an actor signs a public contract with low pay and a secret contract with much higher pay. The report says the investigation gives a warning to all show business stars in China. Fan Bingbing apologize in Weibo, “ I’ve let down the trusty of the society and let down the fans” She wrote that she will accept the punish decision of tax officials. And will “do very best to overcome the difficulty to raise fund and pay the tax and fines” Fan Bingbing performed in many movies and TV series in China. Her most famous international works are “X-men” and “iron man”. Before she disappeared, she was about to show in the Hollywood movie “365” with Penelope cruize. And She also has a part in the upcoming movie “Airstrike” with Bruce Willis.

National Holiday of China National holiday passed quickly. In China, generally, the time of national holiday is between Oct. 1st to Oct 7th. Actually, the real holiday is 3 days. After adding two weekends, the holiday becomes a big 7-day national wide vacation. Many people use this opportunity to travel, on vacation domestic or abroad, or maybe just go back to their hometown visiting parents or friends. In Beijing, lots of people from all parts of China come here to visit famous tourist attractions. The result is thousands of people crowded in the Great Wall, Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, etc.

How to express something will happen in the future? Example: What do you want to say to yourself after ten years? I think the sentence above is not very good. Is it should be : What do you want to say to yourself in ten years? Or What are you going to say to yourself in ten years? Which one is the correct sentence?Or is there any better expression?

j’ai nagé aujourd'hui j'ai nagé à midi aujourd’hui. En general, je vais à piscine avec mes colleges à pied. Mais cet jour nous sommes y allé en voiture. Il fait moins de temps que y aller a pied. Au premier abord. J’ai nagé la brasse deux cents metre. Ensuite , J’ai nagé la natation libre. Mais Elle est très difficile pour moi. Je ne pouvais pas la nager bien. J’ai besoin de pratiquer plus.

She was completely healed. During the national holidays(the first week of October), my wife and I with our son went back to my hometown to see my parents. One evening I found that my wife did not look well. I asked her what’s going on. She told me that she might had caught a cold. she had a sore throat, she coughed sometimes and she had a running nose . I took the temperature of my wife. The thermometer indicated 37 ° C. According to the symptoms and temperature, I thought she might had a little fever and a throat irritation. Because my wife was nursing our baby, she could not take any antibiotics. So I bought a tablet of 桂林 西瓜 霜 for her. And I asked her to drink lots of water. After we returned to Beijing, she was getting better gradually. A few days later, I was pleased that she was completely healed.

elle a été complètement guérie Pendant les vacances nationales (la première semaine d'Octobre), Ma femme , notre fils et moi sont retourné à ma ville natale pour voir mes parents. Un soir Je ai trouvé que ma femme n’a pas eu bonne mine. Je lui a demandé ce que n'a pas allé bien. Elle m’a répondu que elle a peut-être attrapé un rhume . Et elle a eu la malade à la gorge, elle a toussé , elle a eu le nez qui a coulé. J’ai pris le température de ma femme. Le thermomètre a indiqué 37°C. D’après les symptômes et la température, J’ai pensé que elle a eu un peu de la fièvre et elle a eu une inflammation de la gorge. Parce que ma femme allaiter notre bébé, elle ne pouvait pas prendre ses médicaments anti-inflammatoires. Donc j'ai acheté une tablette de 桂林西瓜霜 pour elle. Et je lui a demandé boire beaucoup d’eau. Après nous sommes rentrés à Pékin, elle a été de mieux en mieux progressivement.Quelques jours après, C’était un vrai plaisir que elle a été complètement guérie.

Un Voyage À Phuket(I) La semaine dernière ma famille et moi sont parti en vacances sur l’ile de Phuket qui se trouve le sud-ouest de la Thaïlande. C’est moi qui a decide de prendre la vacance en Phuket. D’abord ma femme voulait aller au sud de Taiwan. Mais je pensais que ce voyage ne est pas convient pour notre quatre-mois bebe. Plus tard, je lui proposais de aller a Okinawa au Japon. mais ma femme trouvais que c’est très cher. Ensuite ,je pensais que si nous pouvons faire une croisière en mer . Mais il a besoin de a Shanghai ou Tianjin pour embarquement, c’est aussi très ennuyeux. Donc a la fin, j’ai decide prendre un vol direct de Pekin a Phuket pour quelques jours vacances.

A greedy dog review of my last session: A dog rushed out of a butcher with a bone in his mouth.The butcher got very angry, he expressed his anger with shaking his fists.He was shouting out laud very angrily. In fact , the dog stole the bone from the butcher. He has stolen the bone few minutes ago. Then the dog was passing a bridge ,when he was standing in the middle of the bridge. He found another dog with another bone in his mouth. Actually it's the reflection of himself in the water. The greedy dog wanted to steal the bone two. so he began to bark to the another dog in the water. Unfortunately as soon as he began to bark , the bone in his mouth dropped into the water. So the greedy dog lost his only bone. He got nothing now!