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志愿者的自我介绍英语(汇集20篇)

大家知道怎么用英语介绍自己的家乡吗?以下是小编分享的志愿者的自我介绍英语,一起来学习吧!

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新初一的英语自我介绍

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hello, everyone! my name is i’m a student in a very beautiful school called liangbing middle school and i am in class 1 grade 7.my hometown liangbing is also a beautiful town. i’m very happy and i like to make friends with others. i  also like singing but traveling is my favorite, i have been to  many interesting places in china but i haven’t been to other  countries. what a pity!

at school, i study chinese,math, english, history, politics  and so on. i like all of them. i often help my teacher takecare of my class and i think i am a good helper. i live with my parents and we go home on time every day.

when i am at home, i often help my mother do some housework and my

mother said i am a good helper, too. my mother is a barber.she cuts hair very well.she is kind.many people like her. she often teaches me the way of

learning well, if you want to learn english well, here is some of my advice. at first , you must read many articles and know many words, if you meet up with some new words, you can look them up in the dictionary, you should know their meanings, how to read them and spell them. if you keep working hard, you will be successful. then, you ought to speak english as much as possible. remember an old saying, nothing is impossible in the world if you put your heart into it.  that’s all, thank you.

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篇1:初中英语作文介绍朋友的Myfriend

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I have a lot of friends but Amy is my best friend.He is a boy. Both of us are good at English, so we often have a chat in English in our spare time. After school, we often play football together on the playground. He runs so fast that I can not catch up with him. He is an excellent student. He not only gets good marks in all subjects but also is very kind and modest. He loves popular songs and also classical music.

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篇2:新学期自我介绍英语

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My Chinese name is Huangzhuoqun. My English name is Rose. I’m a girl .I’m twelve years old. I’m from Ruian Xincheng Experimentation primary school.

I’m in Class two Grade six. I’m clever. I’m a good girl. I’m helpful. I often help classmates. My best friend is Caichenglai. He’s nine years old too. We eat play and read together. We learn each other.

I like swimming,roller-skating and computer games.

I swim everyday in the summer holiday. I ofen roller-skating on the weekend.

I like blue and red .

I like the blue sky. I like the red auturm .

There are three people in my family. They are my mother my father and I. My mother is thirty-seven years old. She’s an accountant. She likes to go travelling. My father is thirty-seven years old too. He is a teacher. He likes to reed books.

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篇3:外企英语面试的自我介绍

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My name is xxx, masters graduate. Worked for three years before the marketing and management, two-year teacher; I always believe that "gold, no matter where will sparkle." In the three years of marketing, I market planning and development, marketing, administration, personnel training and so forth have been a profound exercise, accumulated a lot of valuable experience in a lifetime.

I always believe that "gold, no matter where will sparkle." I could on its own intelligence and hard work in the field of non-professional to obtain gratifying results, in their own areas of expertise naturally not far behind, "perfect" the goal of my life chasing. Six months and two years of teaching assistant experience in training me confident calm, graceful temperament; as undergraduate research design experiment of the counselors, participation in aquatic Key Laboratory of pilot projects, such as tutoring not only the exercise of my independent research and development capabilities, and further reinforces my knowledge, experimental skills. As always uphold the "Learning" criteria, so I pay attention to social development and security grip pulse, based on reality, and strive to cultivate themselves into the market economic system needs both education and scientific research, market development and management generalists.

[外企英语面试的自我介绍

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篇4:介绍自己的英语作文

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I‘m twelve years old.I am a student of Class 1,Grade 7.I like playing

basketball and reading.My favourite fruit are banans and apples.Also,I like

eating hamburgers.I am a good student in my class.I like English and math

because they are interesting.Im friendly.I like sports.Do you want me to be your

friend?

I like this hotel management professional,because I like to live in a

strict order of the management environment.I have my professional

self-confidence and hope,as long as the efforts will be fruitful,this is my

motto.Since I chose this profession,I will follow this path,effort,perseverance

path.

Thank you teachers.I finished presentation.

这是今年十二岁的梅。我是1班的一名学生,7年级。我喜欢打篮球和读书。我最喜欢的水果是香蕉和苹果。另外,我喜欢吃汉堡。我在班里是一个好学生。我喜欢英语和数学,因为它们很有趣。我很友好。我喜欢运动。你想让我成为你的朋友吗?我喜欢酒店管理这个专业,是因为我喜欢生活在一个严格管理秩序的环境。我对我的专业充满自信和希望,只要努力,就会有收获,这是我的座右铭。既然我选择了这个专业,我会走这条路,努力的,坚持不懈的走下去。我的介绍完了。

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篇5:介绍故宫英语作文

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The the Imperial Palace in Beijing is a beautiful The Grand Palace. The the Imperial Palace is also called the Forbidden City. There are 24 emperors who have lived in the two dynasties of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The the Imperial Palace of the entire building beautiful decoration, magnificent, known as one of the worlds five palace.

When I entered, the first show in front of me is the lamps. The lamps are "living place, beautiful scenery here, green grass, flowers blooming like a piece of brocade. The Imperial Palace is the palace of ancient buildings Chinas largest and most complete, a total area of more than 720 thousand square meters, the temple palace has more than 90 million rooms, very spectacular.

Through the study to the palace, this is where the emperor on the morning, in front of the palace stood a gilded throne. The dragon carved on many dragons, some Shuanglongxizhu, some around each other is really vivid. I looked up and looked up, there is a large plaque on the wall, the plaque reads "open and aboveboard" four characters, four characters as if it is told ministers: "all things are open and aboveboard to do." I stand in the middle, also saw the emperor and ministers to negotiate the momentum of state.

Out of the Front Gate, I once again looking at the ancient palace, the grand vision is greatly! What a beautiful the Imperial Palace!

北京的故宫是个美丽的大皇宫。故宫也叫作“紫禁城”。这里居住过24个明清两代的皇帝呢!故宫的整个建筑金碧辉煌,庄严华丽,被誉为世界五大宫之一。

当我进去后,首先展现在我眼前的是坤宁宫。坤宁宫是皇妃住的地方,这里风景优美,绿草如茵,繁花似锦。故宫的宫殿建筑是中国现存最大、最完整的古老建筑,总面积达到72万多平方米,殿宇宫室有9000万多间,极为壮观。

穿过书斋就到了乾清宫,这是皇上上早朝的地方,乾清宫的正前方摆着一张镀金龙椅。龙椅上刻着许多龙,有的双龙戏珠,有的互相缠绕,真是惟妙惟肖。我抬头往上一看,墙上有一块大大的匾,匾上写着“正大光明”四个大字,仿佛这四个大字是告诫大臣们:“凡是做事,都要正大光明地做。”我站在这中间,也仿佛看到当时的皇上和大臣们商议朝政时的气势。

走出正门,我再一次遥望这座古老的宫殿,气魄宏伟令人赞叹不已!故宫真美啊!

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篇6:介绍大学校园的英语作文

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The first time I entered the campus as a freshman, I was deeply attracted by her cultural atmosphere and historical connotation. Fudan is a graceful lady who is accustomed to serenity but meanwhile each action of hers outpours her innermost tern perament. Apparently it is worth every effort to probe into her world for the sake of both physical and mental enrichment. Her humanistic spirit inspires me to care for everything around, even the most trivial one.

On the other hand, catching up with the times, Fudan is modern and smart. You see, the many age-old buildings here are actually great libraries and labs. Scientific and technological developrnent is easily smelt in the air,because she never lags behind the world.

Our university has first-level equipment and the most experienced teachers as well as the best students. My campus activities are rich and colorful.I consider it to be a honor that Ive got a chance to study here and I sincerely hope that we can live wonderful lives in our campus!

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篇7:自招面试英语自我介绍

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Good morning. I feel honored to have this opportunity for an interview.

Now I will introduce myself. My name is He Xiangyu, from Zhengzhou No.1 Middle School. I am a hard working student. I will try my best to finish it no matter how difficult the thing is. I love science, because both of my parents are engineers, they take good care of me. Their love and support have always been my power.

My hobbies are playing basketball and reading. I have been trained in the school basketball team and we are the champion in Zhengzhou. I am the center in our team. I have plenty of glorious memory on the playground. And I like Kobe very much. He is brave, confident and a team player. I have learned a lot from him. I think playing basketball not only builds up my body, but also helps me to learn to work in a team.

My favorite magazine is “News Weekly”. By reading the newspapers and magazines, I’ve learned what’s happening around the world and develop an interest in important issues.

The Northeastern (Hunan) University has a long history. And it’s famous in China. I am willing to study here.

That’s all.

Thank you.

Good evening, Sir/Maam, my name is XXX, I am a sophomore who major in English. I came from XXX province, which is a bit far from here. Generally speaking, I believe that i am an outgoing and easygoing girl/boy who always loves to make new friends.

As for hobbies, I do have a lot of them. Firstly, I am a huge fan of dancing and singing. My idol is Briteny Spears and I watch her music video every single day. In fact, my very wild dream is to become someone like her, someone who can rock this world! However, unlike

the first one, my second hobby is reading, which is sort of indoorsy, I suppose~(此处可笑一下)Reading makes this world become increasingly imaginable to me, that is why it could amuse me all the time!

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篇8:女生自我介绍英语翻译

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My name is Fang Yu, 11 years old this year, grade five.

I have long hair, thin eyebrows below the mosaic of a pair of glossy black eyes, slender figure. My hobbies are playing guzheng and painting. But my biggest hobby is reading and playing chess. Let me first talk about the book bar.

Books are an essential part of my life. I love reading, and sometimes Im crazy about it. Mom said I was a little bookworm. Once, I was reading a book, watching it, my mother asked me to go downstairs to buy sugar. I was seeing a joke and laughing. I later learned that my mother asked me to go downstairs to buy things, and I hurried to buy them. I bought a book again. Mother asked: How did you buy salt? I was so careless!

The next thing is to say chess. When I feel bored, I play chess with my brother. If a tie, I will come here again. If I win, I jump three feet high. If I lose, Ill go to the heart of my happy pet guzheng.

I should say my happy pet, I learned the guzheng for two and a half years, the play is good, the competition still won the two prize! Envy? Painting does not say.

Look at my self - introduction. Do you want to be a friend with me?

我叫方雨,今年11岁,上五年级。

我有长长的头发,细细的眉毛下面镶嵌着一双乌亮的眼睛,苗条的身材。我的爱好有弹古筝、画画。不过我最大的爱好是看书、下象棋。我先说说书吧。

书是我生活中必不可少的一部分。我爱看书,有时看的都着了迷。妈妈说我是个小书迷。有一次,我正在看书,看的津津有味,妈妈叫我下楼买糖,我正看到一段笑话,哈哈大笑。后来才知道妈妈叫我下楼买东西,我连忙去买。买回来我又去看书。妈妈问: 怎么买的是盐? 我真粗心呀!

下面该说象棋了,当我觉得无聊时,就和弟弟下棋。如果打成平局,我还要再来一次。要是我赢了,我一蹦三尺高。要是我输了,我就找我的快乐宠物古筝谈(弹)心去了。

该说我的快乐宠物了,我学古筝两年半,弹的还不错,比赛中还得了二等奖呢!羡慕吗?画画就不说了。

看了我的自我介绍,你想和我成为朋友吗?

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篇9:介绍我的朋友英语Myfriend

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Hi!My name is Eric.I have a good friend .Her name is Alice.She is 14 years old.

She is in No.2 middle school.She likes to learn English,and her English is very well.

She likes playing basketball with her classmates.

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篇10:关于自我介绍的英语作文

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My name  . There are 4 people in my family. My father  a Chemtry teacher. He teaches chemtry in senior high school. My mother  an Englh teacher. She teaches Englh in the university. I have a younger brother, he  a junior high school student and  preparing for the entrance exam.

I like to read Englh story books in my free time. Sometimes I surf the Internet and download the E- books to read. Reading E- books  fun. In addition, it also enlarges my vocabulary words because of the advanced technology and the vivid animations.

I hope to study both Englh and computer technology because I am interested in both of the subjects. Maybe one day I could combine both of them and apply to my research in the future.

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篇11:自我介绍的英语作文30字带翻译

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英语作文自我介绍翻译

To introduce myself(介绍我自己)

Hello,every one!(大家好)

My name is **** . (我叫****)

Im a 15 years old boy. (我是一个15岁的男孩)(具体情况自己改) I live in the beautiful city of Rizhao.(我住在美丽的Rizhao城)(你可以把Rizhao改成自己家乡的城市的名称的拼音)

Im an active ,lovely and clever boy.(我是一个活跃的可爱的聪明的男孩)

In the school , my favourite subject is maths .(在学校,我最喜欢数学)

Perhaps someone thinks its difficult to study well .(也许有些人认为这很难学)

But I like it.(但我喜欢他)

I belive that if you try your best, everything can be done well.(我相信每件事付出努力就会有害结果)

I also like sports very much.(我也很喜欢运动)

Such as,running,volleyball and so on. (像跑步、排球等等) Im kind-hearted.(我很热心)

If you need help ,please come to me .(如果你需要帮助,就来找我) I hope we can be good friends!(我希望我们能成为好朋友) OK.This is me .A sunny boy.(好了,这就是我,一个阳光男孩

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篇12:青奥志愿者自我介绍

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我是中国地质大学的一名大一学生,我名字叫吕洋,目前在人文经管学院管理科学与工程类专业学习。来到大学,我感觉一切都充满新鲜感,尤其是来到了首都,我充分感受到了那里浓郁的当志愿者的氛围,受其影响,我觉得志愿者活动是一件对己对人都很好的事情。

在我的家乡,虽然人们有一些对社会做贡献的意识,但是志愿者这样的活动并没有那么浓厚的氛围,因此自我也失去了许多参加社会活动的机会,看到电视上那些充满活力的志愿者们,我梦想着有一天这样的事情会发生到我的身上。如今,梦想照进现实,应对这样的一次志愿活动的机会,我不想错过。

在我看来,当一名志愿者并不是一种负担,在你选取他的时候,是出于自我的意愿并非他人强加,这就是一种担当,对自我的一次锻炼,是我们走向社会的第一步。透过志愿活动,我们了解了社会,增进了自我适应社会的潜力,有助于构成自我对这个社会的观点和看法,让自我能全方位的理解这个社会和自我的人生,引发自我对今后要走的很长的一段路的思考。对于社会,我们能够用自我的绵薄之力来推进这个社会的发展,用我们的奉献让世人明白,我们对于这个社会的价值不在于索取,而是透过奉献实现自我的价值。

以上就是我对于志愿者和志愿活动的一些看法,见解可能肤浅,但这都是我的真心话,期望我能有机会成为一名合格的志愿者。

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篇13:介绍元宵节的英语

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Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival,the first month of the Lunar New Year celebration of the fifteenth day.Lantern Festival is one of the largest festivals.A few days before the arrival of the Lantern Festival,people begin to make lanterns,animals,vegetables,fruits,all kinds of all,there are riddles.

The eve of the Lantern Festival,all the lanterns are hung.Lantern Festival,one look at the lanterns and riddles,wonderful folk performances,Dragon Dance and Younger.

元宵节是中国的一个传统节日,在农历的新年第一个月的第十五天庆祝。元宵节是中国最大的节日之一。在元宵节到来的前几天,人们就开始做灯笼,动物,蔬菜,水果,各式各样的都有,还有谜语。

在元宵节前夜,所有的灯笼都挂起来。元宵节这天,人们看灯笼和猜谜语,精彩的民间表演龙舞和秧歌。

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篇14:介绍家庭成员英语

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There are three people in my family.They are my father,my mother and I.

My father is an engineer,he is forty years old.He works hard.My mother is a nurse,she is 36 years old.She is kind.I am a student.I study hard.

I love my family.

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篇15:介绍家乡的初二英语作文

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My hometown is in Gansu Lixian, there are many mountains.

In the distance, the mountains look like a green planet surrounded by forests. The stone on the mountain dressed the mountain as a world of stone.

The trees grow more luxuriantly in summer and dress up as green cashmere. The mountain terraces like people walking the steps, also like the mountains in Grandpa smile.

The mountain became a yellow world in autumn, and the fruits and crops were ripe, and the mountain was like a magician, constantly changing crops and fruits for human beings.

In winter the mountains covered with a white dress, like an angel, in the fog, the mountains like a bottomless mountain, no matter how you cant see the mountain bottom.

This is the mountain of my hometown all the year round, I love it.

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篇16:英语求职自我介绍模板

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Good afternoon, professors !I am great honored to meet you here.Now allow me to give a brief self-introduction.

My name is xx, xx years old, born in xx city, xx province. I have been working for nearly xx years. I am open-minded, quick in thought and very fond of history. In my spare time, I have broad interest like many other youngers.

In year xx, I entered xx, major in xx. After my graduation, I entered xx University to study my postgraduate course, major in xx. In those 7 years study, I worked hard, and I gained scholarship for many times.

During 3 years study in xx University, under the strict guidance of my tutor, I have learned systematically the theory of xx. I benefit from working together with excellent colleague. xx University shares many same characteristics with xxx University. Both of them have a refreshing, scholarly atmosphere.

After my graduation in xx, I worked in xx. I got a position in xx. However, with time going on, the more I experienced, the clearer I realized that I am really interested in xx. I am eager to learn more about xx and I hope I can study further. I wish to find a way to solve the complicated problem in my daily work.

So I started the way to pursuing my studies in xx, and work hard for about half year. Now all my hard word has got a result since I have a chance to be interview by you. If luckily I got the chance to learn xx, I will work harder than before. Thank you!

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篇17:介绍我的爸爸英语

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He often do Beckham hairstyle, feet wear large shoes, love to play golf, who is he? He is my father. I tell you my fathers story!

National Day holiday, Dad took our family to do a very meaningful trip, the first stop, my father chose Shanxi Wutai Mountain, dad talked about an important allusion, Wutai Mountain is a Buddhist mountain, for the Manjusris temple, Manjusri Is the students of the first payment of God, in particular, Manjusri is the father and my patron saint, each of us will have a patron saint. Wutai Mountain in the road on both sides of the beautiful and beautiful autumn, full of mountains and plains are covered with golden white poplar, really beautiful, our family also a shadow it!

The second station went to the Great Wall of Beijing, wow! Here is like a dragon, many people are climbing the Great Wall, my father and I have climbed to a beacon, the father said: "The Great Wall is the emperor Built to prevent the Huns attack, the project with millions of migrant workers, spent decades to build. "This project is really great! See in the outer space see.

The third station, we went to Tianjin, visited the aircraft carrier, this aircraft carrier is Chinas former Soviet Union to buy the retired warships, people visit, really happy, our country has its own aircraft carrier, and can surround our great motherland, No longer be oppressed by the powers. We went to Tianjin famous antique snack street, my father he bought me a sugar with a dragon.

It was time for us to go home for a happy six-day trip. Ah, but I feel good to pack up a happy mood, ready to go to school slightly.

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篇18:英语学生自我介绍

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each examiner:

i call/**, come from shandong province。this year is 21 years old, , is a student who will soon graduate。

passes the foundation knowledge that the teachers guidance controled a calculator with personal effort firmly in the school。mainly studied c language at the software aspect。 c#。 java etc。 plait the distance language, the data structure, vf。 access etc。 database is applied, calculator operate system。studied the dreamweaver web page manufacture and the asp network to weave a distance also。studied the calculator network at the hardware aspect, the calculator construction with www。oh100。combine many times to attend to pack machine, set the fulfillment of the net operation lesson, make me control the work principle of the calculator and the set of the calculator network net process。

in addition, i attend various activities of the school organization to come to the oneself of 锻炼 actively and do various part—time to increase social experience。the teacher is divided into the group to us in the experiment and practice of the lesson remaining to complete mission, make we the deep comprehension arrive the importance of the team。the and the rise time acquires the school scholarship during the period of school, three staffs。

however necessarily limited at the knowledge that the school learn, therefore i would ready to take advice study in the later work, the backlog working experience, the exaltation work ability。hope your company to give me a displays an own opportunity!

this with the result that。

salute

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篇19:介绍家庭生活英语作文

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家是温馨的港湾,是我们这些扬帆出航的小船最好的归宿,下面是小编整理的介绍家庭生活英语作文,欢迎阅读。

介绍家庭生活英语作文1

My family has a father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, and my family.

My father is a humorous dad, he would often make everyone laugh, speak some jokes to me, sometimes joke some fallacies, mother will said Dad, what did you teach your daughter, daughter are bad. Dad said nothing, not. In fact, he is very concerned about me.

My mother is a good mother, is not "free" at home what are not the wife. Eleven hard-working and beautiful wife and mother, mother often give us to do good, that smell, taste really called the people saliva. Say, now eat. My grandfather is a hard-working grandfather, grandfather every day very early, every time we get up, Grandpa back to the ground clean, clean up, the rice is cooked, but also to the field to turn back.

My grandmother is a frugal grandmother, grandmother if you see good-looking clothes, she will look at the store for a long time, the way to see the clothes in the eyes, go home to buy a cloth to do one, you do not say that, compared to buy a little also not bad, but a lot cheaper. Although the beauty of her grandmother, but very frugal, but also often education I do not spend money. To use on the blade.

This is my family.

介绍家庭生活英语作文2

I live with my father and mother in a very big house in Dongguan. My parents are both very busy. They leave for work very early in the morning and don’t return home until late in the evening.

When I am home on weekends from school, we spend a lot of time together. We talk about my studies, my health and my school life. I love my parents very much.

My grandparents are still living, but they don’t live with us. Their health is good and they both do sports very early in the morning. My grandmother does gymnastics with elderly women her age in the park. Both of my grandfathers play basketball in the morning and sometimes they go swimming.

Chinese people eat rice for every meal, but I don’t like rice because I think it is tasteless! We eat meat, fish and vegetables. My family eats noodles and congee. My favorite is noodles.

I often play computer games because I like it so much. I often watch Japanese cartoon movies with my parents on the weekends. On long holidays we take trips, too.

That is my description of typical family life in China.

介绍家庭生活英语作文3

My mom and dad make up this family. There are lots of things happening together, because our family is full of laughter all the time. Naturally, there are many interesting things happen to our family. Let me tell you another one.

One day in the summer vacation, my father and mother said that I would take me to go fishing tomorrow. I was very glad to hear it. On the second day, we started off with fishing things! There, I saw a lot of people waiting for the fish to come. Suddenly, a fishing rod of an old man moved, he immediately pulled the fishing rod, and a big fish was caught. Then the old man got up again. I also learned his way, put the bait on the hook, put the water into the water, and was ready to "meet" the fish. So I do not know how long, then, the fishing rod, I hurried back, but could not pull up, mom and dad said: "Dad, mom, come and help, the fish is too heavy, I cant pull it up!" Mom and dad listened to and hurried over to help, finally pulled up, the I think that Everything is going smoothly., will catch a big fish, who knows, it is a bag filled with mud. Dad looked at it, and the belly of her laugh hurt, but I was very sad. My mother comforted, "dont give up, child. Failure is the mother of success. Who will succeed for the first time? Try again." I heard it, and I did it again. I did not take the effort. I caught a small fish.

It is the happiest time to be with your family. In fact, if you think about everything in your home, you will find it fun!

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The Double Seventh Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunarmonth is a traditional festival full of romance. It often goes into August in the Gregorian calendar.

This festival is in mid-summer when the weather is warm and the grass and trees reveal their luxuriousgreens. At night when the sky is dotted with stars and people can see the Milky Way spanning from the north to the south. On each bank of it is a bright star which see each other from afar. They are the Cowherd and Weaver Maid and about them there is a beautiful love story passed down from generation to generation.

Long long ago there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niu Lang (Cowhand). His parents died when he was a child. Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law. So he lived by himself herding cattle and farming. One day a fairy from heaven Zhi Nu (Weaver Maid) fell in love with him and came down secretly to earth and married him. The cowhandfarmed in the field and the Weaver Maid wove at home. They lived a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unfortunately the God of Heaven soon found out the fact and ordered the Queen Mother of the Western Heavens to bring the Weaver Maid back.

With the help of celestial cattle the Cowhand flew to heaven with his son and daughter. At the time when he was about to catch up with his wife the Queen Mother took off one of her gold hairpins and made a stroke. One billowyriver appeared in front of the Cowhand. The Cowhand and Weaver Maid were separated on the two banks forever and could only feel their tears. Their loyaltyto love touched magpies so tens of thousands of magpies came to build a bridge for the Cowhand and Weaver Maid to meet each other. The Queen Mother was eventually moved and allowed them to meet each year on the 7th of the 7th lunar month. Hence their meeting date has been called "Qi Xi" (Double Seventh).

Scholars have shown the Double Seventh Festival originated from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD220). Historical documents from the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD371-420) mention the festival while records from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) depict the grand evening banquetof Emperor Taizong and his concubines. By the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties special articles for the "Qi Xi" were seen being sold on markets in the capital. The bustling markets demonstrated the significance of the festival.

Today some traditional customs are still observed in ruralareas of China but have been weakened or diluted in urban cities. However the legend of the Cowhand and Weaver Maidhas taken root in the hearts of the people. In recent years in particular urban youths have celebrated it as Valentines Day in China. As a result owners of flower shops bars and stores are full of joy as they sell more commodities for love.

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