Beauties of women are not just about their appearance or costumes. Their beauties also come from good personality and contribution to family and society. And of course, they are deserved to receive love and respect from everyone. On the coming International Women’s Day, UTS would like to give our honest thank to UTS’ women for their dedication in the nurturing and growing journey of future talents. Wish mothers, women teachers and staffs happiness and lots of memories with UTS    

  Nowadays, with the development of technology, we are familiar with convenient applications on smart phones. However, is the idea generation and development of such applications possible for our students? Let’s join the English lesson of Class 6.3 to see how they generated innovative ideas! By actively researching, thinking, UTS-ers suggested many modern as well as familiar ideas for applications such as homework solving app, fashion consulting and direct purchasing app, or lego assembling instruction app, etc. These rough ideas were just express on the paper, but students showed their dedication in planning detailed operation way, interface design or distribution on online app platform. Moreover, all contents in these applications were built in English, aiming to develop them on a global scale. Hope that UTS-ers will always maintain the creative energy and make these interesting ideas become real in the near future!

Today, 4th of March, activities of “World Book Day 2021” is happening in UK, Ireland and Wales. At this special occasion, kids in these countries are given discount coupon to buy books, which encourages them to read and share the reading hobby to each other. In Vietnam, reading habit is not very popular in society. According to the statistical data from 2017 to 2019 of Vietnam Department of Publication, on average, each Vietnamese only reads 1 book per year. This figure is not worth good values that books bring to us: According to researchers of University of Sussex, with just 6 minutes reading per day, we can reduce 68% of stress. While reading books, we only focus on useful knowledge. The stressful issues will be temporarily forgotten so that we can replenish positive energy. Researches have shown that reading help brain improve memory. While reading, we need to see through and remember chain of data, plot or important information. It creates remembering habit for readers. The more we read, the better our memory improves. Reading book is a healthy entertainment activity which brings to us many benefits. However, Parents and students shall notice these advices when reading books: – Choose good books which are suitable for students’ ages and thinking skills. – Safe distances for reading books are 30 – 45 cm (adults) and 20 – 25 cm (kids). – Read books at comfortable and good lighting places. Hereunder are meaningful and appropriate books for ages and thinking skills of kids: 1. Sans famille (Without Family) – Hector Malot 2. Coure – Edomondo De Amicis 3. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle 4. Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 5. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol 6. Charlie và the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl