20090928 -- Creative Ways to Thank Your Teacher (1)

Creative Ways to Thank Your Teacher

Show appreciation to the teachers in your life

They spend innumerable hours planning lessons, grading papers, and encouraging and challenging students. Don't let your teacher's work go unnoticed. Say "thank you" in a creative way!

Create a book
Present your teacher with a one-of-a-kind book made especially for him or her. Each student in the class can create a page showing his or her thanks. On that page, they can draw a picture, write a poem, or express gratitude through a letter. Finally, have all of the pages bound inexpensively at a copy shop.

Surpirse with a personalized basket
Everyone enjoys a surprise, and teachers are no exception! Surprise a teacher in your life by putting together a basket of all of his or her favorite things. If your teacher loves to read, include books and magazines. If it's sports that catch your teacher's eye, include tickets to a sporting event in your teacher's basket with other sports-orientd gifts. Or, fill the basket with necessary classroom supplies like pens and paper clips.

Plan an event
Organize a fun, after-school event in honor of your teachers. Invite them to join students, parents, and administrators for a time of games and refreshments together.

However you decide to say thanks, it will make your teacher's day.


innumberable adj. 多到數不清的/無數的
=> a very big number
eg: Elvis Presiey had innumerable hit songs in the '50s and '60s. Even today, his CDs still sell many copies worldwide.
eg: When you're the owner of a business, you'll have to solve innumerable problems.
eg: Innumerable fans' calls poured in to inquire about the singer's next concert.

bind v. 裝訂
bind bound bound
eg: Before he handed in his thesis, Jim had it bound at the university print shop.
eg: In the past, people used leather to bind books.
eg: I found a beautifully bound journal in the attic(閣樓).

except n. 除此之外
exception n. 例外
eg: The special effects were the one exception to the disappointing movie - they were great!
eg: Most women like fashion, but Hannah is the exception.

no exception 也不例外
eg: His books are always best-sellers, and this one is no exception.


make one's day 讓某人非常開心
eg: It made my day when I learned that I had won a free trip to Hong Kong!

catch someone's eye
=> get one's attention

administrator n. 管理者

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don't make your teacher's work go unnoticed

go 變成/處於某種狀態
=> here means "come to be" or "continued to be" in the certain condition

go hungry 變餓
go mad 變瘋狂
go bad 變腐敗
go bold 頭髮變禿
go gray 頭髮變白

go v. 被稱為
=> to be called
eg: you go by Ken
eg: He goes by Jimmy. 一般人稱他為Jimmy
eg: William often goes by Bill. William一般都叫Bill

go v. (口語)說(通常用來敘述一件事)
I go 我說
she goes 她說

no-go 無效/無法達成
eg: The trip is a no-go(無法成行) due to the bad weather.


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Don't let your teacher's work go unnoticed.
=> Don't let your teachers' work continue on with nobody showing any appreciation for it.

go unnoticed
=> continue on with no one paying any attention

eg: This is a serious problem; how could anyone let it go unnoticed?
eg: It's hard to imagine that Vincent Van Gogh's paintings went almost unnoticed during his life time.