WALK YOUR WAY TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
Einstein once said, “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Philosophers and scientists from Aristotle to Einstein have known throughout history that walking in nature can boost creativity.

When we walk our heart rate increases, pumping blood and oxygen into our brains. The rhythm of our feet stimulates our minds. And because walking requires little mental energy, our thoughts are free to wander in new and creative ways.

Walking, and especially walking in nature, doesn’t just stimulate our creativity. According to recent research, it also makes us healthier and happier.

Yoshifumi Miyazaki of Chiba University studied the effects of nature on stress. He organized two groups of volunteers. Eighty-four of them walked in nature and eighty-four of them walked in a city. After just a 15-minute walk, the nature walkers demonstrated lower levels of stress. Their blood pressure fell by 2 percent, their heart rate decreased by 4 percent, and their levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, dropped by 16 percent. Miyazaki thinks that humans have evolved to be more relaxed in nature.

Stanford University Professor, Greg Bratman, is also researching the connection between walking in nature and health and happiness. He specifically focused on rumination, which is a cyclical focusing on negative thoughts. Most people have had the experience of getting into a negative funk. Whether we are worrying about the future or beating ourselves up over past mistakes, it isn’t always easy to shake negative thoughts. According to Bratman’s research, the antidote to these negative states could be simple.

Bratman sent 38 volunteers to walk in nature and another 38 volunteers to walk in a city. Before the walk, they filled out surveys about their emotional states. Bratman also scanned the volunteers’ brains to measure blood flow in the prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain associated with negative thinking. After returning from their walks, the nature-walking group reported fewer negative thoughts and their brain scans backed them up. Bratman believes that nature positively influences where we put our attention.

While most of us don’t need science to tell us that nature is healing, perhaps it can nudge us to step away from our screens and spend more time outdoors.

WALK YOUR WAY TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

Within 1 minute, tell people about one of your most interesting things you experienced over the last week or last month. Examples are: Meet again an old friend, spend your summer vacation
 today i want to tell you a story. yesterday, when i went to school i saw a beautiful action. A boy took an old woman acrossed strees. I felt admirable him. Beautiful actions still exist in our life. I think everyone should do good deeds so that our life become better and better. Thank you for listening!

Bài Tập

B : Did you finish your homework for English class?
G : Homework? There wasn’t any homework.
B : We had to finish reading a book and then write a 200-word essay on it.
G : I don’t think Ms. Jones gave us any homework. I always write what I have to do in my notebook.
Did she really tell us to write an essay?
B : Yes. Look, here’s my essay. See?
G : Oh no! What am I going to do? We’ve only got 10 minutes before class starts.
B : I don’t know. Maybe Ms. Jones will let you hand it in tomorrow.
G : Hey, let me copy your essay. I’ll change a few words. Ms. Jones will never know.
B : No, I’m sorry. That’s not the right thing to do.
G : Oh, come on! I thought you were my friend.
B : I am your friend. That’s why I’m not letting you copy my work!

Where Is Your Homework

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Question: Talk about a holiday or vacation you spent in a group of other people.
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Sample Answer 1: 
Today I am going to tell you about a holiday I spent in a group of other people. I will tell you when I had it, where I went, some of what I did and how I felt about having a holiday with other people.
When I knew I was coming to Vietnam, I was a little nervous. I knew the country would be very different to the UK, so I thought before I started work at the University, it would help me to settle in more easily if I took a holiday in Vietnam first. So, a few weeks ago, I booked a ten day tour with a company that would start in Hanoi and finish in Ho Chi Minh City.
There were 16 people on the trip including me, and there was a Vietnamese tour guide as well. I was the only British person in the group. The others were from Australia; America; Canada; Switzerland and Greece! The tour was really good, but very fast! We often spent only one or two nights in each place. I was very lucky, because we saw many beautiful places and did many interesting things. We spent time in Hanoi, Hue, Hoi An on the way to Ho Chi Minh City.
We did many activities together on the tour. As well as laughing, eating and exploring together, we took trips on bicycles and on the back of motor bikes. We visited beautiful pagodas and we even went on a boat trip overnight to Halong Bay.
I felt very lucky to go on this trip. It was the best holiday ever! The people I met were all really friendly and happy. None of us had visited Vietnam before, so we all enjoyed discovering this beautiful and interesting country for the first time together. I was really sad when I had to say goodbye to my new friends and traveling companions. I think it is sometimes more fun to share new adventures with other people. I hope you will all have a chance to travel and explore new places in the future!
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Homework4 - Lý Thu Hiền

Hello! My name is On. I'm from Thailand. My question is: what are my goals in life?

I have many goals in the future that I would like to accomplish, but my goal of life in general would be to get a good job and be successful and then to be able to have good family, and just live happily, with the love, from the people around me, to be able to give love to other people at the same time.

What Are Your Goals

hello! My name is Hien, I am from Thaibinh. My question is: What are my goals in life?
I have many goals in life, that I would lịke to accomplish, but my goal of life in general would be to improve my master of E, and to get a good job, and be successfull, and then to be able to travel many places.
Thanks for listening!

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