Hi John

Dear John,

Have you ever wondered how much you weigh? If not, you should. Your weight is highly related to the food you take.


The amount of food you eat can have a lot of effects to the weight of your body. Some foods are good and some are bad for your body. Chips and fatty foods are high calories food. They add more weight than the other kinds of food.

My advice is that not to eat too much chips and oily food; but to eat things like vegetbles, potatoes, tomatoes, and grains .


If you follow my diet advice I think you'll be healthier.

Love
Sam

Calories and Body Weight

Calories is defined as a unit of measurement for the amount of energy that is released from food upon oxidation by the body.

According to the calories calculatorhttp://pediatrics.about.com/library/bl_calorie_calc.htm , I need 1,800-2,200 kilocalories per day. In order to keep my weight, I must not eat food more than about two thousand kilocalories.

I try to calculate my calories intake with the calories calculator, http://www.caloriescount.org/cgi-bin/calorie_calculator.cgi
For example, I eat the following types of food today.

1. chips



2. chicken



3. rice



4. bread

So, I can conclude that I take more/less than I need. So I will gain/ loss weight if I keep my eating pattern for some time.

New Train Service

I would like to introduce you to the fast train to Beijing and Shanghai.

It's like a hotel on wheels. It takes about 20 hours to Beijing or Shanghai from Hung Hom. The direct train service has a lot of facilities. The facilities includes in-room toilets, wardrobe spaces, safes, flat screen TV sets, muti-standard electrical sockets, and interal telephones.

The new train can carry 346 passengers on the beijing route and 376 on the Shanghai route. The train was made in Nanjing and can travel 167 kilometers per hour.

Three travel agents have aranged the train bookings to Beijing Olympics. Mr Leung, the MTRC manager of intercity marketing, said that the MTRC would increase capacity depending on demand.

What do I do to improve my vocabulary skills?

1. I would study vocabulary words when I read daily. I enjoy reading stories, so I will learn new vocabulary from the stories.
2. I would look up the meaning of words that I don't know from the context before I consult the dictionary. When I read a story I can guess the meaning of the words that I don't know. If I still can't get the meaning from the context, I will check in the dictionary.
3. I would learn that vocabulary by studying its collocation. If the vocabulary is a noun, I will learn its collocated adjective and adverb. If the vocabulary is a verb , I will also learn its collocated adverb and noun.
4. I would use the vocabulary in my speaking and writing. I would use the vocabulary word to speak to someone or on a writing project.
5. I would never give up even I may feel bored. Sometimes I feel like English is just a waste of time, but I would never give up learning new vocablary words.