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Every year thousands of young people leave school for a few weeks or months and enjoy an unusual type of educational program. What they learn during this time does not come from b. They learn new skills by living in a different country and doing unusual jobs. There are several organizations that help students to find the e they are looking for.

One interesting possibility is helping elephants in Thailand. Most people think of elephants as animals in zoos or circuses. However, many elephants in Thailand are no longer kept in captivity. Now, hundreds of them are h. These gentle animals are often found on the streets as they do not have o to care for them. Although they may look well, they are often in poor health and don't have enough to eat.

One center in Thailand cares for these elephants. It provides a safe and natural living s for them. When they are at the center, they stay in a building but are f to walk around. Students come from all over the world to help here. The student helpers work with the elephant keepers. These keepers t the students in caring for the elephants. In the morning, they go to the forest together and lead the elephants to the center. They clean them and give them food. In the afternoon, they take the animals back into the forest for the night. Helping at the center is interesting and the young people learn a lot.

Don't1 each word while you read. Practice reading in phrases—groups of words that go together.

Engage your2.

Good readers visualize what they are reading. They create a movie in their heads of the story they are reading. As you read, try sharing with a partner the kinds of pictures that you create in your mind.

3 subvocalization.

Subvocalization means quietly saying the words as you read. You might be whispering the words or just silently saying them in your mind. Your eyes and brain can read much faster than you can speak. If you subvocalize, you can only read as fast as you can say the words. As you read, place your finger on your lips or your throat. Do you feel4? If so, you are subvocalizing. Practice reading without moving your lips.

Don't worry about understanding every word.

Sometimes, as readers, we think we must understand the meaning of everything that we read. It isn't always5 to understand every word in a passage in order to understand the meaning of the passage as a whole. Instead of interrupting your reading to find the meaning of a new word, circle the word and come back to it after you have finished reading.

Enjoy your reading.

Your enjoyment of reading will develop over time. Perhaps today you do not like to read in English, but as you read more, you should see a change in your6. The more you read in English, the easier it will become. You will find yourself looking forward to reading.

It's Sunday afternoon. The last hours of the weekend before school starts again. This time is valuable, but I'm sitting here with nothing to do and no money to spend! So I need ideas for things to do. Important: they need to be fun and free. I'm asking for help because time is running out!

Austin 08 (5 minutes ago)

Go for a walk. I always go for a walk on Sunday. I like going on my own. It's the perfect time to think about all the things I don't normally have time to think about and I never think about things I need to do. I like forgetting all about them just for a few hours every week.

Monster Munch 4342 (20 minutes ago)

I'm writing my weekly poetry blog post. Well, I was—now I'm writing to you. I upload a post every Sunday. At the moment, I'm finishing poem number 15. Five more to go! Maybe you don't want to write a poem or even a blog, so try a story. Go on—use your imagination!

Cool 656 Carl (25 minutes ago)

I'm lucky. I live in Liverpool and we have the best museums and they're all free. They're too big for just one visit, so one Sunday every month I go and check out a different room. Today it's the insect room—I want to see what unusual bugs they have!

Silly Milly (32 minutes ago)

Read something. Sunday is my reading day. I read for at least four hours on a Sunday—books, magazines, websites, newspapers—anything. It's free and best of all—you can do it anywhere. And sometimes, when I'm really lucky, Dad brings me a drink, too.

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Dafne Almazán, from Mexico, was a gifted child. She learned to read and write—without help—by the age of 3, finished high school by 10, became the youngest psychologist in the world at 15, and completed an advanced degree from Harvard University by 18. These accomplishments are so impressive that Forbes magazine her one of the 50 most powerful women in Mexico. According to the magazine, her lies in her ability to inspire others, such as the students at the CEDAT institute for gifted children in Mexico City. At CEDAT, Almazán teaches Mandarin and psychology. Her passion for teaching is important because gifted children sometimes to fit in. If this happens, they may not reach their potential. She hopes to inspire these children to make Mexico a better place.

Canadian Ann Makosinski says she started inventing simple things when she was a young child. Her hobby quickly became a passion. Before she reached her teens, for example, she won a prize at a local science fair for a radio that used heat from a for its power source. When Makosinski's friends in the Philippines that they couldn't do homework because there was not enough light to study after dark, she wanted to help. She invented a flashlight that uses body heat as a source of power: Hold it and the heat from your hand makes it light up. Her design won a prize at the Google Science Fair just before her 16th birthday. Makosinski's is to bring the flashlight to market so it can help people all over the world. She's also coming up with new inventions such as a cup that uses the heat from tea or coffee to a phone.