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.