Crazy 10 days

I had a happy memory with everybody.

Assignmen 11:bbc

Discussion:
I think I can't.” and “I don't think I can.”.
Messages 1 - 2 of 2



Message 1 - posted by mandychang1022 (U14021045) , 17 Hours Ago
Excuse me! Can you tell me the difference between” I think I can't.” and “I don't think I can.”. They are the same meaning In Chinese.And I want to know is that a graceful refuse sentence.



Message 2 - posted by Robert J. (U2283314) , 17 Hours Ago
"I think I can't" = "I think that I cannot""I don't think I can".These have the same meaning; however, the latter is much more common.

Usually I had lots of question when I was studying. But now I don't know what question can I ask suddenly. So I find this question in the highest frequency of English mistake. There is a indistinct memory. It seems that teacher said“ I think I can't .”is a wrong sentence and tell us we should say “I don't think I can. ”. They are the same meaning when they translate into Chinese. So l want to ask this question.


The result is they are the same. He says that“I don't think I can. ”is much more common.

Assignmen 10:Academic Earth

Introduction to Ancient Greek History
http://academicearth.org/lectures/kagan-intro-ancient-greek-history
Overview:
Professor Donald Kagan explains why people should study the ancient Greeks. He argues that the Greeks are worthy of our study not only because of their vast achievements and contributions to Western civilization (such as in the fields of science, law, and politics) but also because they offer a unique perspective on humanity. To the Greeks, man was both simultaneously capable of the greatest achievements and the worst crimes; he was both great and important, but also mortal and fallible. He was a tragic figure, powerful but limited. Therefore, by studying the Greeks, one gains insight into a tension that has gripped and shaped the West and the rest of the world through its influence. In short, to study the Greeks is to study the nature of human experience.

Lecture Description
Professor Donald Kagan explains why people should study the ancient Greeks. He argues that the Greeks are worthy of our study not only because of their vast achievements and contributions to Western civilization (such as in the fields of science, law, and politics) but also because they offer a unique perspective on humanity. To the Greeks, man was both simultaneously capable of the greatest achievements and the worst crimes; he was both great and important, but also mortal and fallible. He was a tragic figure, powerful but limited. Therefore, by studying the Greeks, one gains insight into a tension that has gripped and shaped the West and the rest of the world through its influence. In short, to study the Greeks is to study the nature of human experience.

I choose a History course of Academic Earth. This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. After knowing this I think that Taiwan should also have that kind of website. Not only that college 's student can review the lesson, but also provide othere people learn the course from famous college. For foreign student it is convenient to learn native English.

Assignmen 9 :radio Country 107.7 WGNA -FM

http://www.wgna.com/Home/tabid/360/Default.aspx
RADIO LINK:http://radiotime.com/ProgramDetails.aspx?ProgramId=106932&StationId=29086

Language:English
Radio station's location:Albany, NY
Radio station's name: Country 107.7 WGNA -FM
Program's name: The Sean & Richie Show (Morning)
Host: Richie Phillips, Sean McMaster
Program:
Enjoy laughs, information, games and more. It's the perfect way to start each and every weekday.Hear news on the hour and half hour Monday through Friday. Listen to traffic reports and hear what Chris "The Producer" has to say!
Commemt:
I had a bed impression on Radio. It always has lots of interference. But now I try to listen to this radio. I surprised that I relax by listening to music. I can learn English not only by music,but also commercial. But It really speak so fast.

Assignmen 8:an English song and lyrics -“Can You Feel the Love Tonight?”

Music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim RicePerformed by Elton John
There's a calm surrender
To the rush of day
When the heat of the rolling world
Can be turned away
An enchanted moment
And it sees me through
It's enough for this restless warrior
Just to be with you
(Chorus)
And can you feel the love tonight?
It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far
And can you feel the love tonight
How it's laid to rest?
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best
There's a time for everyone
If they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope
Moves us all in turn
There's a rhyme and reason
To the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager
Beats in time with yours
(Chorus)
And can you feel the love tonight?
It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far
And can you feel the love tonight
How it's laid to rest?
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best

The lion king is one of my favorite cartoons. I remember this melody clearly but this is the first time I find out the lyrics.

A good commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RCBaYjC9DM


a duck tries to fly!?
and a deaf tries to play violin...
are you crazy?
why don't you learn something else
you are wasting everyones time

(sign language)
swagman:you still play the violin?
deaf:why am i different from others?
swagman:why...
swagman:do you have to be like others?
swagman:music
swagman:is a visible thing.
swagman:close your eyes
swagman:you will see




(classical music contest)




...you can shine
p.s. I like that hair.

Assignment 7:Find a talk, a commercial, or a presentation by youtube.

This commercial is about patient. The innocent little girl do the simple behavior to tell us that we should care the people around us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTn2iurL2cE&NR=1

It was a terrible food. really scared me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGtDPG4UfI&feature=related

Assignment 6:ESL Poscast 466 - Having a good or bad bedside manner.

Article:
Cho: I’m not sure I’m cut out to be a doctor.
Joy: I think you’ll be great. I’ve seen you with patients and you have a great bedside manner – not like Gregory.
Cho: Why? What’s wrong with his bedside manner?
Joy: I’ve seen him with patients and he can be really callous. For instance, I was in the room last week when he was telling one of his patients that she was taking a turn for the worse.
Cho: What did he say?
Joy: He just blurted it out. He told her the diagnosis, and he didn’t even try to soften the news when she asked about her prognosis. He did absolutely nothing to try to comfort or reassure her.
Cho: I feel sorry for the patient.
Joy: That’s the point. Gregory didn’t, and it didn’t seem to faze him that the patient was very upset and close to hysterics.
Cho: That’s terrible. I’ll try to remember to be more compassionate with my patients.
Joy: Don’t worry. It’s against your nature to be anything but considerate.

Keywords:
1.cut out - created to do something.
2.bedside manner - means that a doctor how to communicate with his patients.
3.callous - without considering anther person's feelings.
4.taking a turn for the worse - to be getting worse expecially health.
5.blurted it out - to say something without thinking about it first and how it will sound to the other person.
6.diagnosis - the doctors conclusion about the what the medical problem is.
7.soften - to make it nicer and easier to accept. Tell someone something in such a way that it doesn't upset them.
8.prognosis - is the doctor opinion about how your health will change in the future.
9.comfort - to make people feel better.
10.reassure - make them feel better about sth.(is similar to comfort)
11.feel sorry for - Sb. is to understand the person's difficulty or to empathize with someone.
12.didn't seem to faze him - you are surprise because someone else wasn't affective by something or didn't have strong reation to something that he should have reaction to.
13.hysterics - is when you have uncontrol emotions
14.compassionate - to be careing, to be kind, to be nice to someone
15.against your nature - it's not part of your personality,character and who you are.
16.anything but considerate - to be nice, to be nature, to be aware of other people’s feeling.

Assignment 5:Listen to 2 audio clips at your chosen level at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab.

Pizza Delivery

Level:medium
Topic:restaurants
Type:conversation
Speakers:man - young woman
Length:02:10

1.be a hit (verb): be popular
eg. Ordering pizza for the party was a hit.

2.care for (verb): have a preference or liking for something
eg. Would you care for anything else today?

make something out (idiom): understand or figure out
eg. I couldn't make out what the customer ordered because of the poor telephone connection.



Train Tickets


Level:beginning
Topic:transportation
Type:conversation
Speakers:man - woman
Length:00:50

3.nah: informal for no - Nah.
eg. I don't want to go, but thanks for asking.

4.not make heads or tails of (idiom): not be able to understand something at all
eg. I can't make heads or tails of this train map.

5.no problem: used after someone thanks you for your help, similar to "You're welcome"
eg. A: Thanks for helping me buy a train ticket.
B: No problem.

After practice, I found that If I am not very concentrate on hearing. I can't make out ~ty or ~teen. Here take down clearly. such as Well, Uh, Umm, Well, Oh, Ohhh, nah.. and so on. It can make us learn something native speaker's take. And when someone says "thanks you "to you. I used to reply"You're welcome", but now I learn new expression "No problem". So this is really a good listening site, I should take more time to practice my listening with Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab.

Assignment 4: Please comment on the corpus-based reference tools

Assignment 4: Please comment on the corpus-based reference tools, (i.e., concordancers and collocation retrieval systems). How do you like these tools? What are their strength and weakness, in comparison with a dictionary? What are the difficulties you encounter when you used these tools?


Corpus help me to understand more about the language and see how people use it when they speak and when they write.

For learner ,it is just like teacher give us lots of examples. I think that is the strength of these tools. But sometimes when I saw full of words in front of me. It makes me confused. So we must to select the right Corpus which is suit for us. I think CCRS is a good one for me because it shows frequency of the words. It is more clear and more convenient. Although Corpus can provide large information of words, it still has weakness. I think is that if you don’t know the really definition of the word. You can't use it. After all only dictionaries provide clear meaning and definition of the word.

The conclusion of these tool is Dictionary and Corpus are both good assistants. It needs use together.

The difficulties I encounter is when I used CCRS. I can't input of speech of KW and Part of speech of the associated word correctly.

Ip Man

I think this is a story of nationality.

And "gong fu" contains lots of Confucianism not only fight. It's worthy to watch.

Twilight

Isabella "Bella" Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona, to rainy Forks, Washington, to live with her father, Charlie. She chooses to do this so that her mother, Rene, can travel with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, who is a minor league baseball player. Bella attracts much attention at her new school and is quickly befriended by several students. Much to her dismay, several boys in the school compete for shy Bella's attention.
When Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed by her. However, over the next few days Edward warms up to her, and their newfound relationship reaches a climax when Bella is almost run over by a fellow classmate's van in the school parking lot. Seemingly defying the laws of reality, Edward saves her life by stopping the van with his bare hands.
Bella then becomes hellbent on figuring out how Edward saved her life, and pesters him with questions constantly. After tricking a family friend, Jacob Black, into telling her local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are vampires who drink the blood of animals instead of humans. Edward reveals that he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was so desirable to him. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love.

I finally watched this movie which came from a novel. It is wrote by stephenin mayer. This author is compete with J. K. Rowling. I don't like read books so i have to wait this continuation of the serial movie.

Assignments 3: "big" & "large"

Assignmaent3
Question: Is there any rule governing the use of "big" and "large"?
Yes, after I used concordance I discovered that “big” and “large” they are extremely different. For example,

“Big” is used to describe real things or something have a real form or size.
a Bid house
a big heart
a big man

“large” is used to describe what we measured such as quantity , number...,
a large amount of
a large sum of
a large number of
a large percentage of
a large proportion of
a large quantity of
a large volume of
a large part of

Maybe remember these example is more easy and useful to me.

CHANGELING

I watched this last week.

It is really a touching story.

Assignmen 2 :Dictionary Exercise

Sometimes synonyms of English words translated into same Chinese words. That will confuse me especially “demand” “request” and “ask for.”

de•mand /dmnd; NAmE dmnd/ noun, verb"
noun

1[C] ~ (for sth / that ... )
a very firm request for sth; sth that sb needs: a demand for higher pay demands that the law on gun ownership should be changed firms attempting to meet / satisfy their customers' demands (= to give them what they are asking for)

2 demands [pl.] ~ (of sth) ~ (on sb) things that sb/sth makes you do, especially things that are difficult, make you tired, worried, etc.: the demands of children / work Flying makes enormous demands on pilots. She shouldn’t always give in to his demands.

3 [U, C] ~ (for sth/sb) the desire or need of customers for goods or services which they want to buy or use: to meet the demand for a product There’s an increased demand for organic produce these days. Demand is exceeding supply. by popular demand because a lot of people have asked for sth: By popular demand, the play will run for another week. in demand wanted by a lot of people: Good secretaries are always in demand. on demand done or happening whenever sb asks: Feed the baby on demand. on-demand printing of books—see also supply and demand"

verb
1. to ask for sth very firmly: [vn] She demanded an immediate explanation. [v that] The UN has demanded that all troops be withdrawn. (BrE also) They are demanding that all troops should be withdrawn. [v to inf] I demand to see the manager. [v speech] ‘Who the hell are you?’ he demanded angrily. note at ask

2 [vn] to need sth in order to be done successfully: This sport demands both speed and strength.

re•quest /rkwest/ noun, verb"
noun~ (for sth) ~ (that ... )

1 the action of asking for sth formally and politely: They made a request for further aid. He was there at the request of his manager / at his manager’s request (= because his manager had asked him to go). The writer’s name was withheld by request (= because the writer asked for this to be done). Catalogues are available on request. She left her address with a request that any mail should be sent on to her.

2 a thing that you formally ask for: My request was granted. a radio request programme (= a programme of music, songs, etc. that people have asked for)"

verb~ sth (from sb) (formal) to ask for sth or ask sb to do sth in a polite or formal way: [vn] She requested permission to film at the White House. You can request a free copy of the leaflet. Call us now if you’d like to request a record for someone (= ask for it to be played on the radio). [vn to inf] We were requested to assemble in the lobby. You are requested not to smoke in the restaurant. [v that] She requested that no one be told of her decision until the next meeting. (BrE also) She requested that no one should be told of her decision. [also v speech]

http://www.oup.com/oald-bin/web_getald7index1a.pl

Actually I still can't Actually I still can't understand. I felt that demand is more serious than request only. So I went to knowledge of yahoo. Here are examples : 1.What do they demand? They demand their freedom 2. What is their request? More money and more days off are their request.
Maybe when I ask for abstract things, use “ demand.”
When I ask for matters, use “request.”

Assignment 1 :Brief introduction

Welcome to my blog! My name is Mandy. I come from Taichung.

I'm a sophomore student of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. My major is architecture.

Now I livein dorm. It’s very lucky because here is very convenient for me . And I also think it’s a good place to make good friends. I usually back to Taichung on weekends. It can help me relax myself. Maybe study in design is too tired for me. So I think if you want to learn design. You must be very interested in that. But actually it’s more fun than study textbook. I think studying architecture really let me not only love but also hate.

I watching movie and take a trip in my free time. It`s full of exaggerations that I watched 50 films in a month, and I still can’t improve my English. I hope this course can helps me to overcome.

about me

my name is mandy.