Diary 4/30

I have already wanted to write the English diary for so long time, but never truely do it.
Today , I'm going to brake this fence to write my first English diary. As for improving my english writing ability, I try to read as much as english article as I can. But it seems my level of English writing are still around there. No more, just there.
Because of that I make up my mind that I really need to push myself a little bit to catch up the appropriate level which I need.

Ok, after describing the reason why I choose to start to write the diary, I think it's high time to talk about what happened today.
Today, I did the presentation of CALL. It is something I have prepared for about four weeks, but Im still a little bit nervous when I present it in front of the Classmates. As I get nervous my speed becomes out of control. Faster and Faster........
Finally become crazy...........................
Then I go to the cram school and come home and Get my first Personal Laptop!!!
How nice it is, to be honest, That's also the reason why I start to write the diary because I can have the place to save the file I have writen. How perfect it is!!!!
Briefly speaking, Today is such a normal day with some excitement and HAPPINESS!!

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# Assignment 7 :Prime Minister Gordon Brown Address to Congress

Assignment 7: A speech on Youtube

British Prime Minister Brown addressed a joint meeting of Congress.

Golden Brown is the Minister of UK.
He delivered a speech in the Congress of US in 2009.03.04
In this speech, he talks that UK should be coporated with US to solve this crisis.


*Below are the link from Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W-AJRo5G4I

And

Here are the full text of this speech http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/04/gordon-brown-speech-to-congress It's a long speech, but the vocabulary he used was quite pretty and the grammar was good. In my opionion, this is a good speech for learning English.

Ps. because this video is around 150MB big, so I can't succeed in uploading it into the blog, I'm sorry for that~

#Assignment 6: Listen to ESL Podcast 466 again and post your note in your blog

ESL Podcast 466 – Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner
This is an article about doctors.What vocabularies might the doctors use to describe
the sickness.There are lots of new vocabularies for me. It really worth learning.

The content(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



Word bank

1. be cut out to be...
-->be created to do something that is good match to you.

2.bedside manner
-->How a doctor/nurse treat/communicate with their patients.

3.callous
-->Without considering other people's feeling. careless.

4.taking a turn for the worse
-->be getting worse especially in someone's health.

5.blurt it out
-->Say something without thinking about how other people will react.

6.diagnosis
-->the doctor's conclusion about what the problem with your health.

7.prognosis
-->The doctor's opinion about how your health will change in the future.

8.soften
-->make it easier to accept.

9.reassure
-->make them feel less worry/feel better.

10.don't seem to faze him
-->you're surprised that someone else was not affected by something or
didn't have a strong reaction to something.

11.hysterics
-->when you have uncontroled emotions when you can't stop crying
because the emotion is so strong in you.

12.compassionate with
-->to be caring, kind, nice to someone.

13.against your nature
-->it's something you can't do because it's not part of your personality it's
not part of your character.


*The website: http://www.eslpod.com/website/index.php

The Remaking of America

The speech of Obama.
The most excellent speech I have ever heard.


http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=186349

A website of IQ test

http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf

The test to see how high is your IQ~

The Statement of Purpose

http://cai.ucdavis.edu/sop/sopindex.html

the Statement of Purpose may be the most important document written during an undergraduate student's academic career.

國立教育廣播電臺

http://www.ner.gov.tw/index.php?code=list&ids=60

the website which offers the french courses online.

*Assignment 5: Two audio clips at at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

*The first Audio: Haven't we met before?

Level: Easy
Type:conversation
Topic:meeting people
Speakers: man and woman
Length:01:39

The expressions I learn from it:
1.on the tip of one's tongue -(idiom)
-->be at the point of remembering something
ex:Oh, what is her name again? It's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't remember it.

2.mull over -(verb)
-->think over
ex:My brother wants to mull over different job offers before he makes a decision.


*The second Audio:hotel check-in

Level:difficult
Type:conversation
topic:hotel reservation
speakers:two men
Length:01:50


The expressions I learn from it:
1.convention-(noun)
-->a large formal assembly or group of organized meetings held over several days
ex:Participants can receive a discount if they register early for the convention.

**According to the Cambridge learner's dictionary, convention has two meaning-the first is custom and the second is a meeting.Here it means a formal meeting.

2.renovation-(noun)
-->the condition of being restored to its former good condition
ex:The convention center is under renovation to repair damage caused by the tornado.

3.amenities-(noun)
-->things that make one comfortable and at ease
ex:My son had a difficult time adapting to life in the wilderness because of the lack of amenities he was used to.

**according to Cambridge learner's dictionary->amenty is something such as a swimming pool or shopping centre, that is intended to make life more pleasant or comfortable for the people in a town, hotel or other place.Ex: basic amenities are things considered to be necessary to live comfortably such as hot water.