山东省烟台市2012中考英语试卷书面表达
假如你们学校正在开展研究性学习(exploring learning strategies)，请你根据下表提供的信息，写一篇短文，让更多的学生了解你校开展研究性学习的一些情况。
注意：1. 短文应包括表格提示的所有内容，可适当发挥；
2. 词数：100词左右。开头已给出，但不计入总词数。
Great changes have taken place in our studies since our school began to carry on exploring learning strategies. _________________________________________________________________
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One possible version:
Great changes have taken place in our studies since our school began to carry on exploring learning strategies. In the past, teachers kept on explaining the language points in class. We students just listened and took some notes. So we didn’t have enough time to think about problems by ourselves /independently. We had to do much homework after class. But now teachers show the problems to us first, then we discuss them for a while in pairs or groups. We try to find out the ways of solving problems, through which we’ve learnt how to work/ study/ cooperate with others. After class, we can have different activities. For example, we can read books we like, go to the library or surf the Internet for useful information and so on.
In a word, now we are the owners of our study and we’re happy.