Yesterday I heard the news story on the radio. I was very impressed and have been planning to tell my students the story.
http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_MAIN_ID=12&f_SUB_ID=31&f_ART_ID=260521
麵攤小子洗碗邊K書 如願上台大
【聯合報╱記者張祐齊／台北縣報導】2010/07/20 (more…)
Today we are in Yamay (月眉育樂世界). The students must be exhilarated enjoying all the recreational facilities in the park. Guess whether I’ll take any exciting ride? I won’t ride the roller coaster. That’s for sure.
This entry was kept on Tuesday, June 22, too.
Perhaps today’s best news is that our fellow countrywoman Chen Shu-chu’s being one of the 100 most influential people listed by the TIME magazine. Ms. Chen was enlisted in the category of Heroes. The article written by the famous Taiwan-born director Ang Lee is quite easy and touching.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984949_1985237,00.html (more…)
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…)
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…)
The following report on adolescents getting more sleep can be found in yesterday’s UDN:
http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT5/5187514.shtml
Today in Class 214, we did group discussion again. This time, I had the students find the collocations in the example sentences of the vocabulary in Lesson 4, for example, “make a close examination of,” “hold on tight to,” “be diagosed with,” etc. (more…)
Today, I asked the students in Class 210 what English expressions they had learned in paragraph 5 in Lesson 1, an activity I often do after students finish pair reading. A male student said, “Wanna see my skirts?” I was puzzled and so were the other students. Immediately I knew where the problem was. Then looking puzzled, I drew a skirt in the air and repeated his sentence, hoping that he could correct the mistake himself. Realizing what caused the confusion, he gave the correct sentence right away. ”Wanna see my scars?” he said. At this point, the whole class burst into laughter.
A cute pronunciation mistake, isn’t it?
