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现将十一月份英语俱乐部活动主题预告如下：

日期：2016年11月2日（周三）晚18:00

Topic: Shopping Online

Shopping on the Internet, or shopping online, is being more and more popular. More and more people are using the internet to buy something.

The November 11th is coming, it is one of the most important festivals for online shopping, on which many products will have a discount. People, especially girls begin to browse web page to find their favorite things several weeks before the big day.

Questions:

1. Are you a shopaholic?

2. What will you buy on November 11th ?

3. What do you think of the phenomenon?

主持人：沈会霞

日期：2016年11月9日（周三）晚18:00

Topic: Physical Education

Physical education, also known in many Commonwealth countries as physical training or PT, is an educational course related to the physique of the human body. It is taken during primary and secondary education and encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting to promote health. P.E. is very important to students health and overall well-being. Quality Physical Education programs have many benefits to the lifestyles of young people. Good Physical Education programs provide structure for students to improve students fitness, positive choices, and sett and reach goals. We have much stress as we grow up, it may be from study, family, work and society. So it is very important for us to find a good way to relieve our pressure.

Questions:

1. Do you have any pressure?

2. How do you relieve the pressure?

3. How do you think of PE?

主持人：连一晗

日期：2016年11月16日（周三）晚18:00

Topic: Gap Year

A gap year is a year before going to college or university and after finishing high school or taking a year off before going into graduate school. During this time students may engage in advanced academic courses and non-academic courses, such as yearlong pre-college math courses, languages studies, learning a trade, art studies, volunteer work, travel, internships, sports and more.

Questions:

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a gap year?

2. Do you think it is suitable for Chinese students based on China's national conditions ? Why?

3. Would you choose an entirely different path, like gap year? Why?

主持人：席梦君

日期：2016年11月23日（周三）晚18:00

Topic3: Procrastination

Procrastination seems to be a popular word in recent years. Many people feel that, it’s hard to concentrate on a task at the beginning of work. Only when deadlines are coming will they feel anxious and stressful, and then try hard to complete it on the final day. If there is no deadline, the accomplishment may even be unforeseeable. Many evidences and personal experiences have showed that procrastination could be a source of long-term unhappiness and regrets.

Questions:

1. Are you a procrastinator or non-procrastinator?

2. Tell us what procrastination had done to your life?

3. How to reduce procrastination in our works?

主持人：杨鸣莺

日期：2016年11月30日（周三）晚18:00

Topic: Peer Pressure

We all know that the work environment has an effect on us. For example, if all the people around you do not concentrate on their study and are content with what they have achieved, then you maybe be affected by them and have a similar attitude towards your life. But if you do not behave like them, you might be regarded as an asocial person. So when feeling the pressure, how do you deal with them ?

Question:

1.Have you ever felt peer pressure? And how do you cope with them ?

2.Everybody has his own value towards life, so we just set our goals and try our best to achieve it. It dies not matter what your classmates have done, just take it easy and let the pressure go, do you agree with it ?

主持人：刘新然