Home to students from all over the world, IH London offers a truly international learning environment with English courses available for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners. If you want to advance your English, there is a wide range of courses that you can choose from.
One-to-One English
English level: Minimum A1
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This course is perfect for complete beginners and advanced learners alike because everything is tailored for your needs. You will define your learning outcomes with your teachers and they will create lessons based on your learning goals.
General English for over 30's
English level: A1 and above
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This course is designed for international adults aged 30 and over who want to learn or improve their English while exploring London and making new friends from all over the world. Lessons are based on a range of relevant and motivating materials. London is used as a resource with learners putting their language into practice regularly while exploring London.
General English 20 Lessons
English level: A2 and above
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This is an intensive course for all levels to improve your English with extra focus on speaking. Students will work together to explore and review grammar in context through role plays, discussions and presentations. Topics, language areas and materials will reflect the interests and needs of the class.
English for Future Learners
English level: B2 and above
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This course encourages students to explore contemporary leadership skills such as debating, critical thinking and teamwork. Students work in groups with a mix of nationalities and will be split into project management groups to work through seminars and business challenges. If you would like to know more information, please contact us at sales@illondon.com.
The tomato leaf miner moth (潜叶蛾) originates from Peru and is common throughout South America. However, it has spread through Europe since 2007 and has become one of the largest pests in Mediterranean regions, threatening food supplies. Experts around the world are currently struggling with new ways to battle the moth, but it has developed resistance to pesticides (杀虫剂), leaving farmers helpless to stop the damage. A new study from the University of Portsmouth has shown that the answer may lie in the tropical tent web spider.
Scientists carried out laboratory tests and found that the spiders banded together to form webs that easily caught the flying insects, which they then ate. Dr Lena Grinsted, the lead author of the study, said, "The tropical tent web spiders operate in large groups and can create giant joined-up webs capable of catching insects in the air. This could potentially lead to a reduction of reliance on chemical pesticides, resulting in less pollution in soils, waterways and food chains in the future."
Crop damage is also caused by the larvae (幼虫), which directly attack the tomato fruit, making the crop ugly and thus unmarketable. Larvae live inside the leaf until they begin the process of turning into a moth, making them difficult to control. However, scientists expect that targeting the adult moth population will reduce the number of eggs being laid. In addition, the spiders build the biggest webs during the summer, which can benefit the tomato planting and growing season in May and June.
The researchers said the study would "open doors for the use of group-living spiders to control agricultural pests" but warned that more work was needed to check the spiders did not change the ecology of regions. "Future studies are needed to investigate whether the spiders may negatively impact crop pollination (传粉) by also catching bees and other key pollinators." Dr Grinsted added.
A recent study in Japan has revealed that a wearable soft robot, named Reliebo, can improve the experience of patients in medical treatments, such as injections (注射) and other unpleasant therapies. The purpose of the robot is to help ease pain and defend people against anxiety. The study, led by researchers at the University of Tsukuba, was inspired in part by the numerous needles people had to endure while being vaccinated (接种疫苗) against COVID-
19. Some people felt an intense dislike for these needles, which led to fewer people getting vaccinated.
The robot is soft and covered in fur. It contains small airbags internally that inflate (膨胀) in response to hand movement. Participants in the study who wore the robot while subjected to a medium heat stimulation, experienced less pain in the test than those who did not wear the robot. The test proved that the pain and anxiety being felt could be reduced sharply by lessening the experience of pain through using the robot.
The research team checked the effectiveness of the wearable robot while being handled by participants under certain conditions, based on the clenching (攥紧) of the hand. The team placed painful heat stimulation on the other arm that was not holding the robot. They then measured cortisol levels from the participants' saliva (唾液) samples, suggesting levels of stress hormones.
The pain felt by the patients was given specific ratings and was also recorded using an assessment scale. The people in the study were given a survey test to assess their fear of injections before and after the experiment with the wearable robot was completed.
The study proved that holding the robot can ease the experience of patients who were receiving injections. The research team hopes to use this study to advance the robot for use during painful situations. such as getting medical shots or similar conditions.
As AI art generators take the world by storm, some people wonder if their works should count as art at all. The technology is still developing and has some wrinkles to iron out (消除), which means there are indeed flaws to consider alongside the incredible artwork a good artificial intelligence can produce.
Art is classed as the product of imagination, skill, experience, and emotion, usually meant to represent something for the public to enjoy. Artists spent time and effort putting their inner worlds onto these works. Machine intelligence also puts a lot of work into sorting through tons of data, linking someone's prompt (指令) to datasets, and trying to represent it as best as possible. The difference is that the AI is driven by commands instead of an emotional desire to express itself.
AI painters can produce over 1,000 original works of art with every tap of the enter key on a keyboard. But a mass-produced print of the Mona Lisa is worth less than the actual Leonardo da Vinci's painting. Why? Scarcity — there's only one of the original. Should anyone pay for these things? And if an artist puts AI masterpieces up for sale, what should the price be?
AI art involves a program mimicking (模仿) the work of existing artists to create a new piece according to the request of a human. But who made the artwork, the machine or its user? And can the original artists sue for (控告) copyright violation? Such questions complicate the merging of artificial intelligence and the art industry, while fueling arguments against recognizing AI-generated art as marketable artistic products.
Once we've answered those questions, we can tackle the really big one: When an AI-generated painting wins an award, who gets the prize?
As university doors opened in September for a new year, an estimated six million people across the world took to the streets in a historic week of climate action. For freshers starting a new chapter at university, deciding how to live your life is vital.
What you put on your plate matters. Meat and dairy consumption results in excessive (过度的) land use, industrial emissions, water use and deforestation. Therefore, a meat-free diet has been recommended as the "single-biggest way" an individual can reduce their impact on the planet.
Keeping your clothes for as long as possible has more than just monetary value. In the UK, clothing has the fourth-largest environmental impact after housing, transport and food. So recycle your clothes or mend them.
Change your habits. There are simple ways you can change your habits to live sustainably. Wash your clothes at a lower temperature, and choose a bamboo toothbrush or more eco-friendly sanitary (卫生的) products. If you're planning a weekend away with friends, try to travel by train or bus.
Individual actions matter, as they demonstrate commitment and provide an alternative to how we can live. But campaigning is important, too. If you don't know where or how to start, see if there are any societies at your university. Students of the Fossil Free campaign, for example, have brought on huge changes by calling on their institutions to stop using fossil fuels.
A. Forget fast fashion.
B. Behave yourself in public.
C. While shopping, turn up with your own container.
D. University campus can be a perfect place for this.
E. Cutting out meat is an easy way to reduce your carbon footprint.
F. Here are some ideas about how you can be sustainable as a student.
G. For freshers, living alone means doing your own washing, cooking and cleaning.
Two hundred years ago the English poet William Wordsworth wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, a poem that was inspired when he came across a field of daffodils (水仙花). It 1 a basic spirit of early English Romanticism (浪漫主义).
What makes this poem a(n) 2 of Romantic thinking? It isn't that Wordsworth 3 to write about a natural scene: it is the way he describes the scene as if it had human 4 . For him, nature is not only a neutral (无感情色彩的) 5 of scenery, colors, plants, rocks, soil, water and air. It is a 6 force that feels joy and sadness and even tries to educate us human beings and show us the beauty of life.
Wordsworth's home is now one of the most popular 7 in the Lake District. You can go on a tour of the garden where wild flowers still 8 now regardless of the change of the time. The place, where Wordsworth saw the daffodils, is at the southernmost end of the lake. When you are walking in the 9 of William from two centuries ago, the first group of daffodils appear, but they aren't tall yellow trumpets (小号状的花) 10 swinging in the gentle wind as described in Wordsworth's 11 . They are just tiny wild daffodils grouped around individual trees rather than 12 together. But as you look north, from beside a huge ancient oak tree, you realize this is what 13 Wordsworth: group after group of daffodils, spread out to left and right but coming together in your sight so that they 14 a beautiful, pale yellow carpet. What you're seeing at last is nature transformed by human sight and 15 .
Many Chinese cities and provinces, including Beijing, Chongqing, Tianjin, Henan and Shandong, (experience) burning heatwaves caused by global warming and the El Nino phenomenon since the start of this summer. As a result, it's common to see people fully (equip) with sun protection gear as they brave the heat outdoors.
Sustained high temperatures have driven the country's "sunscreen economy" growth. Meanwhile, the consumer groups for sunscreen products are gradually diversifying, (expand) from traditional female consumers to males and children, leading to (continue) growth in sunscreen market for the latter groups. Apart sunscreen products, the high temperatures have also boosted the sales of summer cooling and refreshing products. Meituan Waimai, a major food (deliver) platform in China, has seen sharp increase in the sales of iced beverages, beer, ice cream, fans, and other cooling products during the hot weather season.
Because of the high temperatures, traveling (escape) the summer heat has also become popular for many travelers, are attracted to some cool destinations across the country, and travel (agency) are offering diverse tourism products to cater to this growing trend.
"Why she let out my secret? Why she did that to me?" I vividly remembered that day when I was confused at the knowing looks everyone gave me. That terrible experience was impressed on my mind. I couldn't forgive the person with whom I had shared my secret. She lost all my trust and friendship.
Five years back, Sally was a new addition in my class. I didn't know what but there was something sticky about her that attracted me towards her. She was the most friendly person I knew. We started as classmates but after a few months, we were like best friends. We did homework together and dreamed of going to the same university one day. We hung out and went to the movies on weekends. That was a sweet time.
Nevertheless, I couldn't expect such an enormous betrayal (背叛) from her. I didn't know what made me tell Sally about my personal life. I felt much regret to myself. She exaggerated (夸大) the matter, added her own spices to it and made it the hottest topic in school. It was like someone had stabbed (戮) a knife in my back. After she let out my secret, everyone at school started laughing at me and gazing at me wherever I passed. I was like a pond in which someone had thrown a stone and it had been spilled up. It was the most embarrassing time I had gone through. Soon afterwards. I left school and shifted to another one because I thought no one had the right to laugh at me. Sally called me many times, but I didn't answer. My heart was broken because the person whom I trusted most cheated me.
I made efforts to remove the scar from my heart. I started a new life, leaving all the bad memories behind because they made me a person who often thought about the past experiences. Five years later, with the life going on, I met new friends and seldom thought about the past.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150词左右；2. 请按如下格式在以下位置作答。
Paragraph 1: But one day I met Anna, my former classmate, in the market, who told me shocking news.
Paragraph 2: I immediately called Sally in order to explain the misunderstanding.
