Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are working, or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?

If you do, you need to take control of your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry with people can make you lose friends.

Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teenagers how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. Getting angry is not a natured(本性的) way to act. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily—all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.

When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching it. Like a baby, you should only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three:

★Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.

★Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.

★Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!

Top Tips for the Flu Season

【小题1】 It’s coming. I can feel it in the air. On the subway every time someone coughs, I look up to see if I can move a little further. As I exit the train, I immediately reach for hand wash to remove any of the dirt on my hands.

【小题2】 If you are elderly, have medical problems, or are a young child, you may not be so lucky. Each year more than 200,000 people are staying in hospital due to the illness. Depending on the year, between 3,000 and 49,000 people die.

【小题3】 You may have heard about a new study on flu vaccines (感冒疫苗), and it found that the flu vaccine didn’t work as well as we thought or would like. However, it still offers considerable protection. For adults, the vaccine is 59 percent protective on average. For children the result is better. Clearly, we need better vaccines but it’s still a really good idea to get vaccinated.

【小题4】 You may have an arm pain or a little fever, but the injection does not contain a live virus and cannot give you the flu. If you got the flu shot last year, do you need it this year? It isn’t clear how long the protection lasts and if the vaccine protects against different flus for only one year.

【小题5】 First, if you have the symptoms (症状), call your doctor early to see if he wants to prescribe (开处方) some medicine. Then, stay at home until your fever has been gone for at least 24 hours. That will reduce the number of people you give this to. Also, cover your coughs and sneezes (打喷嚏). And don’t forget to keep your hands clean.

Best wishes for a safe fu season!