,1 Great changes in my hometown,More than twenty years ago, my hometown was just a small , old and poor town. Most of people were farmers. There were few factories. The people didnt have enough food to eat and wore old clothes. They had a hard life .,Great changes have taken place in the past twenty years . The people have found a lot of ways of making money . Now there are many tall buildings . They are very beautiful . Roads are wide and clean . People can take buses or drive their own cars to go to work . Many people have cell phones and personal computers. Peoples living conditions have improved a lot . Thanks to the governments efforts . my hometown is becoming more and more beautiful .,2 Friendship,As we all know ,friendship plays a big part in our life,just like a home where you can get relaxed.Accroding to my experience,I think friends bring me not only trust,understanding but also warmth. Once on a weekend I fell badly ill.Unfortunately, I lived at school and my parents had no idea of my illness.I had thought about lying in bed all day.But one of my friends had me sent to hospital and looked after me without having a rest,which made me moved a lot. It is friendship that gives me a hand when Im in trouble.,Therefore, it is important for us to know how to get along well with our friends. In order to win lifelong friend,we should obey the following rules.To begin with,we should be honest with our friends. Lies will surely make them stay far away from us.Second,we should become good listeners as well so that we can have a good understanding of one anther. Third,wed better be modest. If we are too proud before our friends,we can hardly win their respect.,Finally,we should not be selfish and should be ready to help our friends whenever they are in trouble,for a friend in need is a friend indeed. In a word ,as long as we obey the rules that are metioned above,we will find it easy to get on well with our friends.,3 Should students made friends online?,With the rapid development of technology and the wide use of the Internet,more and more young people are trying to find some friends online.Shoud young people,especially young students,make friends online.,Some people say yes just because they think the Internet can help students make more friends easily.Besides,chatting online, students can express their feelings and ideas more freely and even get help with their language learning when they make friends with some foreigners.,However,other think it stupid to make friends online. They say that it is a waste of time,and they insist that young students should spend more time on their studies.Whats more, some young students are even cheated by their online friends.In my opinion,young students should be cautious about making friends online. It will be much better for them to make friends with their schoolmates or other people around them.,4.How to learn English well,If you want to learn English well, you must know why we have to learn English. English is an international language and it is the most widely spoken language in the world. Most business letters ,three quarters of the worlds books and newspapers are written in English. More than half of the information on the internet is English too! So it is quite necessary and very important for us to learn English well.,But how can we learn English well? First of all we should remember the important word “confidence”. That is ,no matter what we do, we should believe in ourselves, and once we have made up our mind to do something, we should try our best to do it well. Whats more, no matter what we may come across, we should never give up. Instead, we should keep on trying until we succeed.,Secondly, well have to find out an effective way. We know that language is for the exchange of ideas, for communication, so the purpose of our learning a language is to understand and to be understood. That is by developing listening, speaking, reading and writing. So wed better do more listening, speaking, reading and writing both in class and out of class.Remember:practice makes perfect,Thirdly, we must keep on learning as possible as every minute counts. Diligence is the mother of success. As long as we set our minds to learn English well, we can succeed in the end.,5,Last week,the Students Union in our school conducted a survey among all the students on whether we should learn English.As the survey shows,most of the students say yes,for they think learning English is one of the demands of modern society and will do good to our future career.However,others are against the idea,saying that learning English is useless and a waste of energy. Whats worse,they feel learning English is nothing but a burden.,In my opinion,we are supposed to learn English well because a good command of English means more opportunities in the future.From what has been mentioned above,we can draw a conclusion that we should not only learn English but also master it in the shortest time possible.,