World Alert to the Spread Of Swine Flu

1.  How Many countries have found  confimred cases of the  epidemic?

2. What measures did the Mecixo government take to stop the spread?

3.  What preventive measures did the airport authorities take worldwide?

4. In world history, in which year did a flu pandemic cause the largest number of death tolls?

5. Is there vaccine for the virulent disease? Symptoms of the flu?

6. What good personal hygeine may help protect you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8020676.stm

Story-telling is a charming art! It is not a privilege only for the gifted; it can be fun for all who would like to give  it a try!

Now Try to read the story created by the following classmates and try to make an analysis of their stories.

08  Li-Shue and 09 Yi-Jie

10  Jiang Wan-Ting & 11 Yi Mong-ting

26 Hsie hsin-Ting & 27 Chian Yu-Juan

Story Analysis:

1. What is the setting of the story? When and Where?

2. Who are the major characters in the story and what are their major traits?

3. What is the major conflict or problem in the story? How is it solved? Or left unsolved?

4. Is there any question or points left undeveloped?  

5. What is the best part of the story?

Leave your comment as a reply to this post or the story post of the author.

Format:

Name: Mr. Yu     Number: 01

Story Analysis: String Puppet

1.  Modern times,  location

2.  ……

3. …….

4. …….

5. ……..

Before you get down to write down your advice for the freshpeople, you got to read and think how others have thought about this topic! Now the watch and read the following two speeches, and try to answer the questions. And think about what you have to say for your future lower classmates.

1. Steve Jobs’s commencement speech at Stanford Univeristy:

Read the speech and answer the following questions:

A. Please summarize one of Job’s three stories and the message he wants to share with the graduates through the story?

B. Where did he learn about the quote, “Stay hungry, stay foolish”? What does it mean to him?

youtube:

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

txt:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

(source of picture: http://www.macuser.com/images/jobs_stanford.jpg)

 

2. J K Rowling’s Commencement Speech at Harvard:

Questions to answer:

A. Ms. Rowling confessed to be extremely anxious preparing for the speech. But when she tried to recall the one she had in her own cereomony, she felt much relieved. Why?

B. What was the first lesson she shared with the graduates? How did she support her claim?

C. What was the second? What personal experience was cited to illustrate her point?

Text and Video on the Website:

http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination

(Source of picture: http://slowmuse.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/image0012.jpg)

 

Please link to the following website and look up three quotes from the play that you find inspiring or thought-provoking. Please give a brief account of the reason why you choose them.

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/g/gattaca-script-screenplay.html

Dear All,

For each of your Writing Assignment, please follow the following format.

1. Class, Number, and Name on the Top Left.

2. Topic Bold-faced &, Capitalized  in the Middle

3.  Double-Spaced for each line. (兩倍行高)

4. Font: New Times Roman 12.5~13.5

5. One Single Page-You may try, not necessary.  (Try to adjust the margin, Minimum 1.2 cm)

Some deduction on your score is inevitable if you fail to meet the top four requirements. Thanks for your cooperation.

30214 郭佳欣      Reading Afterthought: Judy Blume’s <Forever>

“Forever” is a book with great content and lovely cover written by Judy Blume. It’s about a story of teenagers. Katherine and Michael meet at a party. The attention between them is instantaneous. Attraction goes to love, and to an intense and exclusive relationship. When they decide that their love is forever they have sex. But the future is not as simple as they want it to be. For Katherine’ s parents insist that she and Michael spend the summer apart.

There are some sex scenes inside the book but not so intense. The point is that I found something extremely educational. Katherine goes to a doctor to ask for some advice before having sex with Michael. It goes without saying that having sex without preparing preventing measures and fundamental sense is sure of troublesome consequences.

In addition, I always believe that falling in love is magically like crazy. It resembles an eternal flame as if it is impossible to snuff out. But I am only at the age of seventeen, like the characters in the book. To speak frankly, I am not sure that I am ready for a love that is for good though I had some experience. It’s so ironic that Katherine and Michael says, “I love you forever.” to each other at every moments but end up breaking up.

“Forever” is not an easy word that should be underestimated especially for teenagers even adults. There are still various things we have to learn and experience. Because building an everlasting love or relationship is not as simple as we want it to be, is it?

Advice to Freshman (Expository) 給新鮮人的建議
As a senior, you will soon be graduating from your high school. What advice would you
give a freshman at your school to help them have happy, productive years in high school?
Write an essay detailing the experiences and advice you feel would be helpful to
someone beginning his or her high school years.

http://www.criterion.com.tw/image/criterion_topics_complete.pdf

Dear Pals,

After you finsih the writing, it is essential for you to proofread and edit it.

After all that, you can publish your work and share it with the world.

In addition to self proof-read, we often require other readers to help us revise our writing.

We can take advice from others to see if any changes or imporvement are necessary.

2 people work together to help each other’s essay. For example, No. 2 and No. 3, Number 4 and No. 5, so forth.

Help pick up mistakes and make corrections on sentence structure, word choice, punctuation, or spelling, and then give some comments on its content, organization.

Please give your comments in the following format.

Example:

Proofreader: 202 00 Chen Chien-chou, Joseph

1. Corrcetions:

It talks about the price of Troy, Paris, fall in lovewith the queen of Myceane, Helen.

falling in love

The love which was not allowable cause the war between two men and two countries.

caused

The war situation was so intense that both of the troops died too many soilders.

were killled

Intelligent Odysseus adviced a plain to defeat Troy

collocation dictionary: http://140.122.83.196/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~hjchen/colocation2/query.pl

suggested/proposed/devised a plan

2. Content and Organization:

Nice work! You have given sufficient details and examples to support your ideas, and the main idea is clearly expressed in one topic sentence. Well-Supported. Nice Work!

Please click the folowing website for the whole article.

http://www.ceec.edu.tw/CeecMag/articles/142-2.htm

(Cited from http://holmes001.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post_2058.html)

聽說讀寫
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab (英文聽力訓練)
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
http://www.esl-lab.com/
此網站可分為General Listening Quizzes, Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes, Long Conversations with Real Video以及Short Listening Exercises. 每一分類項目下又分為Easy, Medium,及difficult。
這是一個能夠密集訓練學生聽力的網站。它有滿詳細的測驗分類，包括: 一般聽力，計有初級、中級、高級，學術導向的聽力測驗，計有中級、進階、高級，長篇會話聽力測驗，短篇聽力測驗。
Wired for Books
http://www.wiredforbooks.org/
美國Ohio State University所提供的有聲書網站，可以直接點選收聽。
NPR National Public Radio News Arts World US
http://www.npr.org/
美國國家公共電台
The English Listening Lounge
http://www.englishlistening.com/contents.phtml
此網站分為以下的主題：Academic English, American English, International English及Narrative。有257個聽力練習供選擇，但是要申請入會員。

CNN SF Learning Resources
http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/
此網站可以聽到並看到CNN San Francisco bureau所提供的新聞故事。每一故事皆有腳本、聽力練習及影片播映。老師們也可以利用其練習題來測試學生們對內容的理解程度，難度頗高。

Ohio University – Listening for English Language Learners
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/listening.html#Other
這是一個綜合性的網站，分為聽力活動區（級數：All levels, Basic, Intermediate and Advanced）、聽力技巧區以及聽力教材區。
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一 線上字典
韋伯字典 http://www.merriam-webster.com/
多國語言字典 http://www.yourdictionary.com/
林語堂當代漢英字典 http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/
有趣的字源 http://www.word-detective.com/
多國語言翻譯 http://www.altavista.com/tr
British National Corpus語料庫 http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html
Collins Concordance and Collocations Sampler http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html

二 學習英文
電視影集、電影劇本 http://www.script-o-rama.com/
電視影集、電影劇本 http://simplyscripts.com./a.html
英文歌詞 http://www.lyricsfind.com/
迪士尼電影歌詞 http://www.fpx.de/fp/Disney/Lyrics/
童謠 http://worldkids.net/entertainment/music/lyrics/kidsongs/lyrics.htm
可聽可看的即時新聞CNN http://www.cnn.com/
BBC學習網 http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
紐約時報學習網 http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
美國之聲簡化版 http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/
聯合新聞網英文線上 http://udn.com/Cobrand/englishonline.shtml
雙語學生郵報 http://www.studentpost.com.tw/
中華郵政地址英譯 http://www.post.gov.tw/post/internet/f_searchzone/index.jsp?ID=190103

三 財經英文
英國經濟學人雜誌 http://www.economist.com./
英國經濟學人中文版 http://www.economist-chinese.com./
華爾街日報 http://online.wsj.com/public/us
華爾街日報中文版 http://chinese.wsj.com/big5/index.asp
投資人字典 http://www.investorwords.com/
商業書信格式範例 http://www.businessnation.com/library/forms/
字彙表 http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/glossary.stm
經濟日報英文評論 http://udn.com/BILLINGUAL/index.html

http://english.csie.ncnu.edu.tw/index.php?ct=icrt/icrt 暨大的英語資源，我練聽力的地方，ICRT英聽學習
http://www.esl-lab.com/ 依據程度不同等級的聽力練習
http://www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfm 美國之音慢速英文，算是比較慢的英文廣播電臺喔，是美要播給非英文母語人聽的，有時我用廣播當背景音樂聽
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/l…sh/newsenglish/ 英國BBC網瓷I

http://www.ncu.edu.tw/%7Ewenchi/english/index.html 中大英語學習資料庫，資料多多
http://www.cc.nctu.edu.tw/~tedknoy/ 交大外籍教師架設的網站
http://www.languagebox.com/TVEnglish.htm 多個英語系國家各國的新聞網頁，有興趣再看吧！
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/fyi/index.html 補個CNN學生新聞
http://home.t-online.de/home/toni.goeller/idiom_wm/ 線上英語片語字典，有需要的話~
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News http://www.chinapost.com.tw/ 台灣的TaipeiTimes 和 Chinapost
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ http://www.discovery.com/ 當然也不能少了國家地理頻道和discovery啦！
http://www.brainpop.com/ 很好玩的網站，有各方面的題材(科學、數學、醫學…)，用動畫的方式呈現，可以練聽力，但須註冊付費才能聽
http://aimovie.warnerbros.com/html/flash.html 就是那個可以跟電腦英文對話的AI，不過完過幾次就有點無聊http://www.encyclopedia.com/ 我個人覺得很讚的一個網站，讚到不行呀！英語的線上百科全書，網頁一開就是”歷