The following is an article found in today’s Liberal Times. It is about how we should look upon ourselves. Though its intended readers are salespeople, everyone can learn something precious from it.
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2009/new/oct/21/today-work1.htm
用鑽石的眼光看自己
文／張秀滿 圖／張芸茵 (more…)
This afternoon, I have a group of special visitors. They are 16 students from NTNU led by Prof. Feng (馮和平教授), coming to observing my teaching. (more…)
A long and good article I found in today’s UDN.
I especially love two parts in it. (more…)
According to the following news report, in the 5th National English Vocabulary Contest held yesterday, the high school stuents who won the top three prizes performed as well as the winners in the college group .
http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=217580
【聯合報╱記者張弘昌／台中市報導】2009/10/18 (more…)
This evening, I spent two hours on YouTube and picked some watchable videos of the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series Championship in 2004, which broke the Curse of the Great Bambino. The moment of the final out in Game 4 was so thrilling that I, though not a baseball fan, was moved to tears.
The following is the list of the videos, with their URL, play time, title, number of viewers, rating, and description provided by the producer.
Before you watch any of the videos, remember to thank YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aem_VmGTBa8&NR=1 1:15
The Final Out, Game 4 of the 2004 World Series 58,971 5
Recording history… The final out of the 2004 World Series! (more…)
Today I got a text message from a former student who graduated this summer, asking me if the sentence “I only like to stay with you” is grammatically correct. (more…)
In today’s class, to build or activate Class 209 students’ schema for the baseball part in the reading of Lesson 5 “Every Day Is a New Opportunity,” I invited Sao-chen (王少宸) to give a talk on the MLB. Since the purpose was not to teach English but to help the students to have a clearer idea about the MLB, I allowed Sao-chen to talk in Chinese. He did a marvelous job, introducing the MLB, the Division Series, Wild Card, the ALCS, NLCS, and the World Series. He even told two interesting stories about Babe Ruth. Everyone in the class learned a lot from him. (more…)
This is an article in Monday’s UDN. It’s not only about how to improve writing but also how to really live.
http://udn.com/NEWS/OPINION/OPI4/5188591.shtml
I have been wondering what “call to prayer” is since I first came across this expression when listening to Studio Classroom on October 1. Entitled “Magical Marrakesh,” that article mentioned that the haunting call to prayer from Koutoubia Mosque can be heard five times a day. While listening, I paid undivided attention, hoping that I would hear the teachers’ explanation of this phrase. However, the teachers didn’t clarify the term. (more…)
The following report on adolescents getting more sleep can be found in yesterday’s UDN:
http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5187514.shtml