WeChat ESL Class on Jan, 16, 2016 The First People Disobeyed God.

A. High Lights of your week

B. Breaking News in the world

C. Short Story: Cat and Dog Discuss Humans

The cat and the dog were talking. The cat said, "Humans treat us better than you. If we turn up our nose at the cat food they serve us, they buy us another brand. If we're sleepy, we can sleep on the pillows in their bed." The dog said, "But humans take us out for walks. They throw Frisbees for us to catch. They put us in their tub and give us baths." The cat said, "They don't take us for walks because there's a litter box in the house. If we want to catch something, we catch birds or mice. They don't give us baths because we clean ourselves. And one more thing—they respect our independence. They don't put a chain on our neck and a leash on the chain." The dog said, "I'd rather have a leash than have their kids pulling my tail all the time."

D. American Idioms

1. Back Seat Driver
2. Back To Square One: 
3. Back To The Drawing Board: 
4. Baker's Dozen:
5. Barking Up The Wrong Tree: 
6. Beat A Dead Horse: 
7. Beating Around The Bush: 
8. Bend Over Backwards: 
9. Between A Rock And A Hard Place: 
10. Bite Off More Than You Can Chew: 

E. Use the simple present tense. Put the following words into a sentence.

1. a / fix / mechanic / cars
2. at / the / cry / night / baby
3. east / the / rise / the / in / sun
4. eat / she / breakfast / for / carrots
5. her / children / worry / always / about / she
6. brush / breakfast / his / he / after / teeth
7. speak / students / the / the / classroom / English / in
8. people / lawyer / a / in / defend / trouble

F. Bible Lesson

Lesson Two: The First People Disobeyed God 

A. Discuss the following questions before reading. 

1. Was the Garden of Eden a nice place to live? Who lived there? 

2. In your opinion, where is the nicest place to go for vacation? 

3. When you go to that nice place, are there things you can and cannot do? 

4. Who decides what you can and cannot do? 

B. Read the following passage. 

The snake was sneakier than any of the other wild animals that the Lord God had made. One day it came to the woman and asked, “Did God tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?” The woman answered, “God said we could eat fruit from any tree in the garden, except the one in the middle. He told us not to eat fruit from that tree or even to touch it. If we do, we will die.” “No, you won‟t!” the snake replied. “God understands what will happen on the day you eat fruit from that tree. You will see what you have done, and you will know the difference between right and wrong, just as God does.” The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too. Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves. Late in the afternoon a breeze began to blow, and the man and woman heard the Lord God walking in the garden. They were frightened and hid behind some trees. The Lord called out to the man and asked, “Where are you?” The man answered, “I was naked, and when I heard you walking through the garden, I was frightened and hid!” “How did you know you were naked?” God asked. “Did you eat any fruit from that tree in the middle of the garden?” “It was the woman you put here with me,” the man said. “She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.” The Lord God then asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The snake tricked me,” she answered. “And I ate some of that fruit.” 8 So the Lord God said to the snake: “Because of what you have done, you will be the only animal to suffer this curse—for as long as you live, you will crawl on your stomach and eat dirt. You and this woman will hate each other; your descendants and hers will always be enemies. One of hers will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.” Then the Lord said to the woman, “You will suffer terribly when you give birth. But you will still desire your husband, and he will rule over you.” The Lord said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food. Your food will be plants, but the ground will produce thorns and thistles. You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.” The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live. Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife. The Lord said, “These people now know the difference between right and wrong, just as we do. But they must not be allowed to eat fruit from the tree that lets them live forever.” So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made. Then God put winged creatures at the entrance to the garden and a flaming, flashing sword to guard the way to the life-giving tree. Genesis 3:1-24 (CEV)

C. Answer the following questions by writing a complete sentence. 

1. What did the snake want the woman to do? 

2. How did the snake trick the woman? 

3. Why did the man and woman hide from God? 

4. What will it be like for the man and woman outside the garden? 

5. How long will the man and woman live outside the garden? 

WeChat ESL Class on January 9, 2016 The First Man and the Garden of Eden

A. High Lights of your week

B. Breaking News in the world

C. Short Story: Colds

 a). Reading 

Pedro has a cold. His nose is stuffed up, he coughs a lot, and he has a sore throat. He felt fine last night, but now he is very sick. Pedro wants to go home and rest, but he can’t. He is an accountant and payroll is due today. He needs to print and sign payroll checks so the employees get paid on time. Pedro’s boss went on a business trip to Springfield, Illinois. He won’t be back until next week. Before he left, he asked Pedro to take care of the office. There are twenty office workers, and they are all very busy. Hopefully, they won’t catch Pedro’s cold. If the employees catch colds, they might take several days off work. 

 b). True or False 

1. ________ Pedro is sick. 

2. ________ All twenty office workers are busy. 

3. ________ Pedro’s boss is on vacation. 

4. ________ An accountant needs to be good at math. 

5. ________ Employees get payroll checks. 

 c). Yes or No – Share your opinion. 

1. ________ Pedro should stay at work. 

2. ________ Pedro should go home immediately and eat chicken soup. 

3. ________ The employees should avoid touching their nose, eyes, and mouth. 

4. ________ Pedro should cover his mouth when he coughs. 

5. ________ It’s okay if the employees get paid late. 

d). Writing – What do you do when you have a cold? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

D. American Idioms:

 1. Add Fuel To The Fire: 

 2 Against The Clock: 

 3. All Bark And No Bite: 

 4. All Greek to me: 

 5. All In The Same Boat: 

 6. An Arm And A Leg: 

 7. An Axe To Grind: 

 8. Apple of My Eye: 

 9. As High As A Kite: 

 10. At The Drop Of A Hat: 

E. Bible Story: Genesis 2:4-25

The First Man and the Garden of Eden

4 This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky. 5 This was before there were plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because theLord God had not yet made it rain on the earth, and there was no one to care for the plants.

6 So water came up from the earth and spread over the ground. 7 Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing. 8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden. 9 Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.

10 A river flowed from Eden and watered the garden. The river then separated and became four smaller rivers. 11 The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah. 12 (There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.) 13 The name of the second river was Gihon. This river flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river was Tigris. This river flowed east of Assyria. The fourth river was the Euphrates.

15 The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to work the soil and take care of the garden. 16 The Lord God gave him this command: “You may eat from any tree in the garden. 17 But you must not eat from the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil. If you eat fruit from that tree, on that day you will certainly die!”

A Companion for Adam

18 Then the Lord God said, “I see that it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the companion he needs, one just right for him.”

19 The Lord God used dust from the ground and made every animal in the fields and every bird in the air. He brought all these animals to the man, and the man gave them all a name. 20 The man gave names to all the tame animals, to all the birds in the air, and to all the wild animals. He saw many animals and birds, but he could not find a companion that was right for him. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply. While he was asleep, God took one of the ribs from the man’s body. Then he closed the man’s skin where the rib had been. 22 The Lord God used the rib from the man to make a woman. Then he brought the woman to the man. 23 And the man said,

“Finally! One like me,
    with bones from my bones
    and a body from my body.
She was taken out of a man,
    so I will call her ‘woman.’”

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. In this way two people become one.

25 The man and his wife were naked, but they were not ashamed.

#### Match the following words with their meanings. Write the correct letter on the line. 

1. exclaim                                a. used to being with humans 

2. suitable                                b. curved bone near the lungs 

3. tame                                    c. say with excitement 

4. rib                                       d. but not 

5. except                                  e. good, right, acceptable 

Use the words above to complete the following sentences. 

1. God told the man to eat from all the trees __________one. 

2. The man gave names to the _____________ animals. 

3. God took a ___________ from the man‟s side.  

4. God made a ________________ person to live with the man.  

5. The man _________________ that he liked his new partner

#### Answer the following questions. Then discuss your answers. 

1. What was the world like in the beginning? 

2. What did you learn about God in this lesson? 

3. What did you learn about people in this lesson? 

4. What did you learn about the relationship between God and the first people in this lesson? 

5. How do you define a marriage? What is a suitable helper?

WeChat ESL Class on January 2, 2016 We Must Be Born Again.

A. High Lights of your week

B. Breaking News in the world

C. Short Story:  The Ugly Sister

Lisa grew up in a huge family. She had six older sisters. All of them were very beautiful. This made Lisa feel very bad. She knew she looked nothing like them. Lisa had even heard people say she was the ugly sister.

As teens the girls spent every weekend out on dates. Lisa always stayed home alone. Her sisters spent their days combing their hair and putting on makeup. Lisa spent her days reading and studying. Her sisters laughed at her a lot.

As adults, all her sisters got married young. They all had handsome husbands with no brains or jobs. Lisa went to college. She became a rich scientist and traveled the world. She was the one laughing now.

D. Idiom - Fill in the blanks

1. Lisa broke Michael's _________ when she refused to marry him.

2. Wow! It's raining ______  and ________ today! I wish I'd brought my umbrella to school!

3. Jean: How did you know it was my birthday today?

    Susan: Oh, a little ___________ told me!

4. When I told my mom I would be home around 2 am, she had a ______________!

5. Frank: Why didn't your brother ride the roller coaster with us?
    Sam: Oh, he's such a scaredy ___________! He won't get on any fast ride.

6. He was all ____________ when his boss talked.

7. He is a ___________ off the old block.

8. His comments threw a wet _____________ on the discussion.

9. The house fire meant we had to start from ______________.

10. They were __________ after three days of hard work.

11. Can you give me a ________ figure of what this project will cost?

12. The gangster told the cops they were ________ up the wrong tree in thinking he was responsible for the robbery.

E. Bible Story - John 3:1-21

You Must Be Born Again

1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered him,“Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you[f] do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

For God So Loved the World

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

A. Write T (true) or F (false) on the line next to each sentence. 

 1. Nicodemus was a Jewish leader. 

 2. Nicodemus came to see Jesus at noon. 

 3. Nicodemus knew that God sent Jesus to teach the people. 

 4. Jesus said that Nicodemus must be born a second time. 

 5. Only God's Spirit can change a person into a child of God. 

 6. Nicodemus has gone up to heaven. 

 7. God loved the people of the word and sent his only Son. 

 8. Everyone who has faith in God's Son will be condemned. 

 9. People who do evil things love the light and come to the light.

B. Answer the following questions by writing a complete sentence. 

1. When did Nicodemus come to see Jesus? 

2. What did Nicodemus think about Jesus?  

3. What did Nicodemus need to do before he could see God‟s kingdom?  

4. Who will have eternal life?  

5. What did God send his Son into the world to do?  

6. Who is the light? 

CovFel ESL Class on Nov. 5th, 2014

1. High Light of Your Week

2. Write a report on "Banking" in general, "Banking System in US compared with that in your own country", or "What do people do with their extra money?" "How should we be a good steward of our possession?"
3. Crossword Puzzle -
http://bogglesworldesl.com/files/Verbs_II.jpg
http://www.kidslearningville.com/countries-capitals-crossword/
4. A Short Story - Provider Overbills Customer


Simon got a monthly bill that he didn't like. His Internet service provider, Wink, automatically withdrew $15 from his checking account each month. This was called direct payment. It made things simpler for him because it meant one less check to write each month.

In fact, Simon had direct payments with his gas company, his phone company, and his electric company. So that was four fewer checks that he had to write each month.

This month, instead of $15, Wink had withdrawn $75. Simon went online and looked at his account. Part of the increase was because he had switched from a slow dial-up connection to a fast DSL connection. Wink charged him $45 just to make that switch.

Simon thought that this charge in itself was ridiculous. It probably took them about five seconds to make the switch. But any time a corporation can gouge you, they will.

In addition to the $45, Wink had charged him $15 for his dial-up account, but had also charged him $15 for his DSL account. This was a double-charge, since a computer uses dial-up or DSL, but not both.

We'll see about this, Simon thought, as he searched for Wink's 800 number. 

5. Bible Story - Esther 8

Esther Saves the Jews

1 On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. ² And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

³ Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. ⁴ When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, ⁵ Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. ⁶ For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” ⁷ Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows,^[a] because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. ⁸ But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked.”
⁹ The king's scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language. ¹⁰ And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud, ¹¹ saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods, ¹² on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. ¹³ A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. ¹⁴ So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.
¹⁵ Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. ¹⁶ The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor. ¹⁷ And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

Lesson Three for March 15, 2014: Beijing Time 8:00-9:00 AM

1. Talk about your week, or pick a topic to report
2. Following link is the 10 most popular national parks in U.S.: - pick one of them and report your research http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/most-popular-national-parks.htm

• Imagine you are a park ranger at a national park. Pick one of the most popular U.S. National Parks and give your classmates a tour of the landmarks and wildlife.
• Why are national parks important?

The Gospel of Mark Chapter 4

 The Parable of the Sower

³ “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. ⁵ Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ⁶ And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. ⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. ⁸ And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

A Lamp Under a Basket

²¹ And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? ²² For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light. ²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” ²⁴ And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you. ²⁵ For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”

The Parable of the Seed Growing

²⁶ And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. ²⁷ He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. ²⁸ The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. ²⁹ But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

³⁰ And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? ³¹ It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, ³² yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
³³ With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. ³⁴ He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Jesus Calms a Storm

³⁵ On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” ³⁶ And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. ³⁷ And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. ³⁸ But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” ³⁹ And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” ⁴¹ And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

Q&A

Homework:

Lesson Two for March 8, 2014: Beijing Time 8:00-9:00 AM

1. Talk about your week

2. Discuss the Home Work
    a. How do you get well?
    b. How do you stay well?

3. Study Mark 3:7-30

Many Follow Jesus

⁷ Jesus went away with his followers to the lake. A large crowd of people from Galilee followed them. ⁸ Many also came from Judea, from Jerusalem, from Idumea, from the area across the Jordan River, and from the area around Tyre and Sidon. These people came because they heard about all that Jesus was doing.
⁹ Jesus saw how many people there were, so he told his followers to get a small boat and make it ready for him. He wanted the boat so that the crowds of people could not push against him. ¹⁰ He had healed many of them, so all the sick people were pushing toward him to touch him. ¹¹ Some people had evil spirits inside them. When the evil spirits saw Jesus, they bowed before him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!” ¹² But Jesus gave the spirits a strong warning not to tell anyone who he was.

Jesus Chooses His Twelve Apostles

¹³ Then Jesus went up on a hill and invited those he wanted to go with him. So they joined him there. ¹⁴ And he chose twelve men and called them apostles. He wanted these twelve men to be with him, and he wanted to send them to other places to tell people God’s message. ¹⁵ He also wanted them to have the power to force demons out of people. ¹⁶ These are the names of the twelve men Jesus chose:

Simon (the one Jesus named Peter),
¹⁷ James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee (the ones Jesus named Boanerges, which means “Sons of Thunder”),
¹⁸ Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon, the Zealot,
¹⁹ Judas Iscariot (the one who handed Jesus over to his enemies).

Jesus’ Power Is From God

²⁰ Then Jesus went home, but again a large crowd gathered there. There were so many people that he and his followers could not eat. ²¹ His family heard about all these things. They went to get him because people said he was crazy.
²² And the teachers of the law from Jerusalem said, “Satan is living inside him! He uses power from the ruler of demons to force demons out of people.”
²³ So Jesus called them together and talked to them using some stories. He said, “Satan will not force his own demons out of people. ²⁴ A kingdom that fights against itself will not survive. ²⁵ And a family that is divided will not survive. ²⁶ If Satan is against himself and is fighting against his own people, he will not survive. That would be the end of Satan.
²⁷ “Whoever wants to enter a strong man’s house and steal his things must first tie him up. Then they can steal the things from his house.
²⁸ “I want you to know that people can be forgiven for all the sinful things they do. They can even be forgiven for the bad things they say against God. ²⁹ But anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. They will always be guilty of that sin.”
³⁰ Jesus said this because the teachers of the law had accused him of having an evil spirit inside him.

4. Read the Story : U.S. National Parks
   More than 200 million people visit U.S. National Parks every year. These parks protect the wildlife and landmarks of the United States. Each park is different, and each one is beautiful.
   At Yosemite, in California, you can take a nature walk with a park ranger. You'll see waterfalls, redwoods, and the deer there.
   In south Florida, you can take a ferry to Dry Tortugas. It's great to snorkel around the park's coral islands.
   There are 113 caves at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. The deepest cave is 830 feet below the desert! You can take a tour of these beautiful caverns.
   There are 391 national parks to see. Go online for information about park near you.  
5. Talk about it.

Following link is the 10 most popular national parks in U.S.:

http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/a/most-popular-national-parks.htm

1. Why are national parks important?
2. Imagine you are a park ranger at a national park. Pick one of the most popular U.S. National Parks and give your classmates a tour of the landmarks and wildlife.

Lesson One for March 1, 2014: Beijing Time 8:00-9:00 AM

1. Talk about your week

2. Discuss the Home Work from last week
    a. What are some problems in your community? How can people help?
    b. Imagine you are Marta. What do you say in your speech to the city council?

3. Study Mark 2:1-17

Jesus Heals a Crippled Man

2 A few days later, Jesus came back to Capernaum. The news spread that he was back home. ² A large crowd gathered to hear him speak. The house was so full that there was no place to stand, not even outside the door. While Jesus was teaching, ³ some people brought a paralyzed man to see him. He was being carried by four of them. ⁴ But they could not get the man inside to Jesus because the house was so full of people. So they went to the roof above Jesus and made a hole in it. Then they lowered the mat with the paralyzed man on it. ⁵ When Jesus saw how much faith they had, he said to the paralyzed man, “Young man, your sins are forgiven.”
⁶ Some of the teachers of the law were sitting there. They saw what Jesus did, and they said to themselves, ⁷ “Why does this man say things like that? What an insult to God! No one but God can forgive sins.”
⁸ Jesus knew immediately what these teachers of the law were thinking. So he said to them, “Why do you have these questions in your minds? ^9-10 The Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins. But how can I prove this to you? Maybe you are thinking it was easy for me to say to the crippled man, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’ There’s no proof it really happened. But what if I say to the man, ‘Stand up. Take your mat and walk’? Then you will be able to see if I really have this power or not.” So Jesus said to the paralyzed man, ¹¹ “I tell you, stand up. Take your mat and go home.”
¹² Immediately the paralyzed man stood up. He picked up his mat and walked out of the room. Everyone could see him. They were amazed and praised God. They said, “This is the most amazing thing we have ever seen!”

Levi (Matthew) Follows Jesus

¹³ Jesus went to the lake again, and many people followed him there. So Jesus taught them. ¹⁴ He was walking beside the lake, and he saw a man named Levi, son of Alphaeus. Levi was sitting at his place for collecting taxes. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” Then Levi stood up and followed Jesus.
¹⁵ Later that day, Jesus and his followers ate at Levi’s house. There were also many tax collectors and others with bad reputations eating with them. (There were many of these people who followed Jesus.) ¹⁶ When some teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with such bad people, they asked his followers, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
¹⁷ When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “It is the sick people who need a doctor, not those who are healthy. I did not come to invite good people. I came to invite sinners.”

4. Talk about "Taking Care of Your Health"
    a. Types of Health Problems: vision problem, hearing loss, pain, stress, depression
    b. Help with Health Problems: optometrist, glasses, contact lenses, audiologist, hearing aid, physical therapy, physical therapist, talk therapy, therapist, support group
    c. Ways to Get Well: seek medical attention, get bed rest, drink fluids, take medicine
    d. Ways to Stay Well: stay fit, eat a healthy diet, don't smoke, have a regular checkup, get immunized, follow medical advice

5. Read the Story
Once a month the Fadool Health Clinic has a health fair. You can get a low-cost medical exam at one booth. The nurses check your blood pressure and check your pulse. At another booth you can get a free eye exam. And an acupuncture treatment is only $5.00.

You can learn a lot at the fair. This month a doctor is giving a lecture on nutrition labels. There is also a demonstration on sugar-free cooking. You can learn to do aerobic exercise and yoga, too.

Do you want to get healthy and stay healthy? Then come to the Fadool Clinic Health Fair.