ESL的考试题目，通常都是非常生活化的。比如我们的一个学生上周刚刚通过3级，她的口语题目就是：你通常都在pizza上放什么食材？因此，准备ESL的时候，也不需要过于fancy的单词，只要用已有的词汇，流利地表达出你想表达的意思，就够了。阅读也是同理，扩大生活中的阅读量，把重复遇到的单词着重记住，对于大多数学生来说，这就是最有效的记忆方式。

再送上一篇短文，请同学们读完之后，用其中出现过的单词，填好下面的crossword游戏。

A Haircut

It was time for a haircut. Lenny didn't even have to look in the mirror. Even though he was going bald, he knew that he needed to cut his hair every two weeks.

He had a "tongue" of hair on the top of his head. His hair was thinning at the crown. He still had plenty of hair on the sides and back. It was what they call "salt and pepper," a mixture of gray hair and dark brown hair. It was only a few years, he figured, until the salt and pepper became just salt.

He never let his hair grow for more than two weeks. The longer it got, the worse it looked, he thought.

He spread a newspaper over the bathroom sink so that no hair went down the drain. He plugged in the clippers and started cutting his hair. He started at the back of his head, went to the sides, and finished on the top. Every minute or so, he had to clean the hair out of the blades with an old toothbrush.

Finished, he picked up a hand mirror to check out the back of his head. Everything looked okay. He carried the newspaper back out to the kitchen and shook the hair clippings into the trash can.

Then he took a shower.