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"

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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]

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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.