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LOI English—English Conversation Classes

Take English conversation classes with native English - speaking teachers from the United States, Ireland and Australia, live, 1 - on - 1.

This is by far the best way to improve your real spoken English and listening abilities and get to a level where you can use it in real - life situations. Our teachers mainly carry on conversations about work in different fields, such as business, finance, politics and travel. However, if you like, you can have normal day - to - day conversations about events, weather, etc. If you would like to learn some grammar during conversation, we can do that too!

Our English Conversation classes ：

• Your conversations will always be with a native English speaker.

• You can choose the time, day and teacher for each class.

• The classes are made for each student individually. They will be at your level, studying what you need and what interests you.

Packages

10 Classes Package $ 229.90

Interested in taking 10, 55 - minute conversation English classes?

Schedule a first free class with LOI English and talk to the teacher about it. After that, you can arrange to take our 10 - class conversation English course.

20 Classes Package $ 439,80

Interested in taking 20, 55 - minute conversation English classes?

Schedule a first free class with LOI English and talk to the teacher about it. After that, you can arrange to take our 20 - class conversation English course.

One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem inability to read.

In the library, I found my way into the "Children's Room." I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle. Without opening the book—Amos, the Beagle with a Plan ,1 borrowed it from the library for the summer.

Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

My mother's call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book.

I never told my mother about my “miraculous” experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the words has held.

The health benefits of staying active are already well-known. It can help you manage weight, keep blood sugar levels down and reduce risk factors for heart disease.

Now, a new study suggests that regularly playing sports, especially badminton or tennis, is not only healthy but also reduces your risk of death, at any age, by approximately 50%. This is a big scale population study to explore the health benefits of sports in terms of death rate. The study evaluated responses from 80, 306 adults aged 30 and above in England and Scotland, who were surveyed about their health, lifestyle and exercise patterns.

After adjusting factors such as age, sex, weight, smoking habits, alcohol use, education and other forms of exercise besides the named sports, the researchers compared the risk of death among people who took part in a sport to those who didn't. The percentage of reduced risk of death was found to be: 47% for racket（球拍）sports, 28% for swimming and 15% for cycling.

In addition to this, the study didn't find any significant reduction in the risk for sports like running and football. The findings also exposed that over 44% of the participants met the guidelines for the recommended exercise levels to stay fit and healthy, which amounts to 150 minutes of moderate(适度的) physical activity in a week.

Does this mean you stop running or playing football and switch to tennis instead? Every kind of sport and physical activity has different physical, social and mental benefits attached to it. The apparent lack of benefits of running and football could result from several variables that were not taken into account.

Being active helps you feel happier and live longer. So, the most important step is to take part in any kind of sport that you are likely to enjoy and follow in the long term.

How would you feel if you had to give up your smartphone for nine days? In 2018, and again in 2021, philosophy professor and writer Ron Srigley offered extra credit to those who would give him keeping of their phones for nine days and write about the experience.

"What they wrote was remarkable, and remarkably consistent (一致的)," Srigley wrote. At first, all the students felt confused and frustrated. ,

They paid more attention to the people around them.

For one thing, they observed, for the first time, how much other people were using their phones, for example in the middle of a face - to - face conversation.

" , but yet again, I find myself guilty of this sometimes because it is the norm(常态), " one student wrote. Another noted that as she walked by other people, they tended to pull out their phones "right before I could gain eye contact with them^".

They had better face — to — face conversations with family.

Two of the students were accustomed to using their phones to repeatedly message with their family members throughout the day, and they felt deprived (剥夺)of this contact. But when the students spent in - person time with their parents, .

They were more afraid

Some of the students reported that they were fearful of having no phones, wondering what they would do if they were kidnapped or attacked or had to call an ambulance for some reason. Srigley noted," What's making known is that these students considered the world to be a very dangerous place^”.

. The city in which these students lived has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and almost no violent crime of any kind, yet they experienced a common, undefined fear."

"Without cellphones, life would be simple and real, . "That's probably truer for all of us than we would like to admit.

A. This action is very rude and unacceptable

B. their conversations were constantly interrupted

C. Cellphones were seen as necessary to combat that danger

D. but we got things done quicker without the smartphones

E. but we may not be able to cope with the world and our society

F. But after a few days without smartphones, they began to notice other things too

G. the parents were mostly pleased because they suddenly had their children's undivided attention

I just thought I would share with you all something that happened to me one day when I was driving 1 from work. There was a guy riding his motorcycle Harley Davidson behind me. I didn't think2 of it until I turned off the highway to head toward home and he 3 , too. Then I turned into another street leading to my newly-bought house and he 4 me again.

All of a sudden, I realized that someone was following me. I was starting to feel a bit nervous 5when I turned into my own street and he followed me there, too. I pulled into my driveway and he pulled up on the street in front of my house. I was feeling quite 6 by then.

He was all dressed up in his bike gear and I 7 what was going on. He came up to me and said that my indicator wasn't working and he was 8 me and wanted to make sure I got to my 9 safe and wanted to make me know about the 10 , so I could get them 11 .

I thanked him for his 12and he got back on his bike and drove off. I learnt an important 13 that day: not to be so quick to 14 people. He might have looked 15 but he had a heart of gold.

There's no electricity or water and even no textbooks either! I'm still trying (adapt) to these conditions. However, one thing is for sure, I've become more (imagine) in my teaching. Science is my most (challenge) subject as my students have no concept of doing experiments. In fact there (be) no equipment, and if I need water I have to carry it from my house inbucket! The other day I (show) the boys the weekly chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling over everywhere! The boys had never come across anything like this before started jumping out of the windows. Sometimes I wonder how relevant chemistry is these students, most of whom will be going back to (they) villages after Year 8 anyway. To be honest, I doubt whether I'm making any difference to these boys' (life) at all.