Archive for October, 2009

View Yourself as a Diamond

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

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…)

Teaching Demonstration

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

teaching demonstration

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…)

Listen to Speeches and Set a Lifelong Goal–彭宗平 朱樹勳 滿腔熱血當業師

Monday, October 19th, 2009

A long and good article I found in today’s UDN.

http://www.yzu.edu.tw/index.php/component/option,com_alphacontent/section,2/task,view/id,2558/Itemid,236/

I especially love two parts in it. (more…)

The 5th National English Vocabulary Contest

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

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

英文單字賽 高中生達大學級

 

【聯合報╱記者張弘昌/台中市報導】2009/10/18 (more…)

Videos of the Boston Red Sox Winning the 2004 World Series Championship

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

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…)

A Grammatically Correct Sentence Is not Necessarily a Right Sentence

Friday, October 16th, 2009

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…)

A Warm-up Activity for Lesson 5 “Every Day Is a New Opportunity”

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Sao-chen giving a talk on MLB

 

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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…)

Learn to Live Before Learning to Write

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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

 

廖玉蕙:看見生活裡的繁花盛景

 

【聯合報╱廖玉蕙】2009.10.12 04:04 am (more…)

What Is “Call to Prayer”?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

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…)

Get More Sleep

Monday, October 12th, 2009

The following report on adolescents getting more sleep can be found in yesterday’s UDN:

http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5187514.shtml

 

科普達人卡爾:孩子少睡23分 成績A掉C

 

【聯合報╱記者李承宇/台北報導】

2009.10.11 02:29 pm

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