A Film Recommendation Letter Dear X, I can’t wait to share you a romantic comedy, The Postman, telling the story happening in an insular Italian island, where a poorly-educated postman befriended the famous Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. With a series of relaxing and humorous plots, I promise the film will suit your tastes and arise your heartfelt laughs. More profoundly, it also features as romantic love, poems, and utopia and relates that how Neruda spiritually led the postman on the way for idealism and how poems became the fortune of the poor guy. Although the film is not a commercial success, it receives mostly positive reviews from film critics. Wish you enjoy this movie. I am looking forward to your reply.

Family Education There exists a phenomenon that some parents set very bad examples in children’s growth. Adults behaviours, always neglected by some elderships, play so important a role in shaping children’s habits and outlooks, both in study and in life. For example, if parents are watching low-level TV programs or entertaining while their kids are studying, it will not only disturb their focusing on study, but worse, give them an implication that they can act as their parents, thus developing a distraction habit in the concentration-need occasions, let alone study. From my perspective, although school and teachers serve as the main function of education, it can’t be oversimplified that the moderate guidance and a healthy atmosphere of family also matter. Taught by verbal instruction as well as a positive role model, children are more encouraged to develop the habit of single-minded learning.

Daily Writing Dear Freshmen, On behalf of the Students’ Union, this email is written to express our warm-hearted welcome to all of you, and acquaint you with some tips in both study and daily life. Most importantly, you should first check your detailed information on the Educational Administration System to assure your successful registration. To punctually accomplish the learning requirements, you are advised to discuss your courses schedule with your tutors in advance. Besides the academic tasks, the extracurricular activities and communities are so plentiful in the university that you can choose and participate in what you’re fond of, where you can make friends with local students and better immerse in the campus life and culture. For other detailed suggestions, please refer to our website. We sincerely hope you all enjoy the study and life at our university.

Attitude Towards Difficulties: A Cartoon Comment As is vividly and symbolically conveyed in the drawing above, confronted with the same situation that a water bottle is knocked over, one man is expressing his disappointment that “there is none left”, while another man is eager to pick up the bottle, saying “it is lucky that there is still some left”. Obviously, the cartoon is trying to shows that the different people have different outlooks towards difficulties, which will determine their way to cope with them. Possessing an optimistic attitude, people in the dilemma always bear hope in mind and summon up courage to find the way to conquer the obstacles. Take the great blind and deaf American author, Helen Keller, for example, it is her positiveness, gratefulness and courage that leave her out the crippled body and to explore the world where she existed. However, when facing difficulties, the pessimistic person only focuses on the negative side and exaggerates the worst situation. They choose to give up quickly and then brood over their loss or failure, which in turn will throw their life in the vicious circle. From the above discussion, we come to know that the optimism is more desirable in such bad circumstances like the cartoon, especially in the current highly competitive society, where we always encounter one setback or another. Only if we obtain a positive attitude, can we be bound to live a life of happiness.

An Invitation Letter Dear professor, On behalf of the Students’ Union, I cordially invite you to attend our English contest as one of the judges. The contest, having successfully been held for five consecutive years, will be falling between 9 to 12 a.m. on December 30th, in the Lecture Hall. More than 500 students have been attracted into the preliminary contest, and 10 of them emerged as the most impressive speakers for the final. Their speech topics vary from historical figures, technical life and so on, which will lead audience to stunning audio-visual feasts. Enclosed are the detailed regulations and arrangement of the contest. I will be much obliged if you can take my invitation into consideration and reply at your first convenience.

A Letter ( Thanks for your correcting) Dear president, I’m writing to put forward some conducive advice on enhancing the students’ physical state. Always immersed in a bulk of academic tasks, almost students, particularly those without habits of exercises, appear exhausted and over stressed, which need be attached great importance to. To tackle this state of affairs, most importantly, a mechanism should be quickly found to inspire participating in sports, for example, extracurricular sports scorecards, stadium reservation system, etc.. In addition, departments concerned have responsibility to maintain and remove damaged sports facilities scattered in the campus, so as not to cause students’ physical injury when exercising. Last, if some optional courses on health education are offered, this will have a positive impact on raising their health awareness. Physical health is essential to all students and I shall be obliged if you can take my suggestions into consideration.

A Book Recommendation Dear friends, I’m the host for the forthcoming reading session and I’d like to share a book with you, Discipline and Punish, written by one of the most influential French philosophers in 20th century, Michel Foucault. The book is considered his most satisfactory work according to Foucault himself. As you take a first read of the book, you will be attracted and shocked by its challengeable, passionate and literary expression. Telling with and commenting on the history of cruel torture reduction from 17th -19th century, Foucault aimed at examining the truth and mechanism of power in modern society, and he compared it to a huge prison and concluded that people became tamed and unfree. Wish you enjoy this book. If you need any further information about it, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Yours sincerely, Li Ming

A Library Notice For better serving the new-coming international students, a notice is released here to provide necessary information about the library. Firstly, the library regularly opens from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., except some holidays and other special circumstances, and we will notify you on the library’s official website (www.library.com) in advance. Secondly, the admission into the library and qualifications for borrowing books depend on a library card, which, at first, should be activated in the University Service Centre. Finally, the food and drinks, for example, hamburger, coffee, etc., are not allowed to be taken into the library, for the fear of disturbing other’s reading and working. For other detailed regulations, please refer them on our website. And if you have any questions or suggestion, you can leave a message on the website. We sincerely hope you all enjoy the study and life un our university.

An tourist attractions introduction to a newly-arrived foreigner Dear Mr. Cook, I am writing to introduce you some typical and well-known attractions in the city of Guangzhou. Firstly, I would recommend the Lingnan Impression Park, which is famous for its unique and traditional south China culture, located in the Higher Education Mega Centre. Plenty of Lingnan style architectures are seated in the park, embellished with exquisite carvings, statues, paintings, and ornate scrolls. Also, if you are interested in the modern life and local food, Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street, I think, is a perfect choice to get a first taste of Guangzhou. Last but not least, Sun-Yatsen University is worthwhile visiting. It is considered as one of the most beautiful university campuses in China, with variety of more than 100-year old buildings and plants. I hope that my recommendation would be helpful and if you need further information or assistance, please revert. Yours sincerely, Li Ming