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WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL
“Come back” means “return”
Brainstorm some verbs with the prefix “re” .
Recall some highlights in your summer .
CINEMA
Friends Gathering
Other highlights(高光时刻)
How to share highlights in your summer ?
CINEMA
Friends Gathering
Other highlights(高光时刻)
I. Focus on one specific event.
II. Describe 1-2 details.
III. Share the significance of the event.
IV. Reflect on what you’ve learned or the difference it has made.
Recall news headlines
Multiple machines beat human records at second World Humanoid Robot Games
Frontline report from Gyirong: Xizang rescue efforts continue amid challenging conditions
Shooting stars: Astrophotographers flock to Xinjiang for celestial light show
Shenzhou XXIII crew conduct first spacewalk
US-Iran talks still possible, says Pak envoy
'The Odyssey' sets IMAX records with strong China debut
A recipe for peace
Blockbuster film puts war as a side dish, as food becomes a symbol for connection and harmony
Multiple machines beat human records at second World Humanoid Robot (人形机器人)Games
The second World Humanoid Robot Games opened in Beijing on August 22, with 2,056 robots from 666 teams representing 16 countries, set to compete in 51 events through Wednesday.
In the first three days, robots broke multiple world records set by humans. A Chinese humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds in a preliminary heat (预赛), beating the human record of 9.58 seconds set by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.
The result was a sharp improvement over the first games last year, when robot Tiangong Ultra won the 100-meter race in 21.50 seconds.
Frontline report from Gyirong: Xizang rescue efforts continue amid challenging conditions
On Saturday (August 29), China Daily reporters arrived in Gyirong town, Xizang autonomous region, to report from the frontline of the debris-flow rescue operation. Multiple rescue teams are conducting searches in the hardest-hit areas, combing through mud and debris for those still unaccounted for. Search and rescue efforts are being carried out across land, water and air.
Shooting stars: Astrophotographers flock to Xinjiang for celestial light show
Long after sunset, sweltering heat still hung over the vast, remote Gobi Desert as hot winds swept across the wilderness. Suddenly and fleetingly, a blazing fireball streaked across the star-studded sky, leaving a long, glowing trail and drawing loud whoops of amazement from stargazers.
Astrophotographers stationed behind their tripods leaned forward to eagerly check their camera screens, hoping to have captured the fleeting moment. As the Perseid meteor shower peaked on Aug 12 and 13, observers and astrophotographers across China flocked to the Pterosaur-Yardang Dahaidao Scenic Area in Hami, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to witness the celestial event.
Shenzhou XXIII crew conduct first spacewalk
The Shenzhou XXIII crew successfully completed their first extravehicular activity on Friday (August 28), with astronaut Zhu Yangzhu making his second spacewalk three years after his first and Zhang Zhiyuan his first, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
Blockbusters in Cinemas
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Dear You
Once upon a time in the Middle East
Odyssey
Mystery of Chang'an
Introduce a film
Settings
Characters
Plot
Your interpretation
On Once upon a time in the middle east
by Mr. Tao Jiaya
The movie is set in 2003, during the Iraq War. It follows Xu Fu, a Chinese chef who travels to the Middle East to pay off his debts, and his manager, Ma Junsheng, as they run a small Chinese restaurant in a war-torn city. At first, they keep their heads down-cook, serve, survive. They want nothing to do with the chaos outside their kitchen walls. But then they encounter twenty-three orphaned children, destitute and terrified, who are about to be turned into “human bombs” by armed groups. Something shifts in Xu Fu. He cannot look away. He decides to shield those children, even if it costs him his own life. The film turns the kitchen into a frontline: instead of rifles, we see cleavers, woks, and steaming pots. The humble act of “eating well” becomes a defiant symbol of hope and humanity against the brutal machinery of war.
What struck me most was the film’s perspective. It does not mimic the usual Hollywood hero template-no lone super-soldier, no grand rescue mission with satellite maps. Instead, it shows the war through the eyes of ordinary Chinese civilians: cooks, waiters, and debt-ridden migrants. They have no superpowers, no drone strikes at their command. They only have their wits, their calloused hands, and their stubborn hearts. This made the story feel achingly real. Xu Fu navigates a foreign battlefield not as a conqueror or a saviour, but as a fellow human being who offers food and protection. It is a quiet, unglamorous kind of power, and perhaps that is the most honest kind.
Yet the film does not romanticise war. It shows modern missiles streaking down from unseen skies, reducing homes to dust in seconds. There is a harrowing scene where a schoolyard is hit-no warning, no clear target-and the camera lingers on scattered shoes and torn textbooks. Ordinary people die without ever knowing why. They are not soldiers; they are mothers carrying water jugs, old men selling tea, children chasing a stray ball. They die unclearly, unjustly, caught in a crossfire they never asked for. And the film makes it painfully clear that much of this chaos did not sprout from local soil alone. It traces the roots back to distant powers-America, in particular-that have, for decades, stoked conflicts here and there, arming factions, drawing red lines, and then walking away, leaving behind a landscape of rubble and orphaned cries. It is not a comfortable truth, but it is one that the film presents with quiet, unflinching honesty.
But amid all that darkness, the story finds its light in Xu Fu’s decision to save those twenty-three children. He does not do it for glory, or for a medal, or even for a reward. He does it because, when he looks into their hollow eyes, he sees his own daughter’s face. That choice-risking everything for strangers-is not logic; it is instinct. It is the bone-deep goodness that lives in ordinary people, the kind that does not shout but simply acts. When he wraps a shivering boy in his own apron, when he shares his last bowl of rice with a little girl who has not eaten in two days, I felt my own eyes grow hot. That is the humanity that no missile can destroy.
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