Assignment#5:How do you like ESL Randall's Cyber Listening Lab as a language learning resource?

Taiwan’s traditional education is very bad. Why I say this?

Because I am a living example. When I study elementary school, junior high school, my English teacher always use Spoon-feeding teaching, and never let me think how to say English or listen English. I practice English just for test, and careers.

NOW, ESL Randall's Cyber Listening Lab appear. This website really surprise me, because in NTCB PTF have the graduation threshold: TOEIC 450 up, and my English speaking and listening ability is poor.

I have thought about tutoring, but my family economic is not allow. I also have thought about ordering English magazine, but just think not to achieve it. So, I am very happy when the teacher say : if you listen theme twice a day , your English listening ability will improve.

I really listen every day , and I always listen repeatedly let me really know what the dialogue speaking.

English proficiency is required for long-term accumulation, so I will never give up.

Assignment #4: Two clips from Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

1.   Dinner Time:

    adaptation(noun): a change or modification to     something, revision- Sometimes it takes time to adapt to the customs and language of another culture.

    mess up (phrasal verb):  (1) to make a mistake or (2) make something untidy or cluttered- If you take your eyes off that boy, he might mess up your entire house.

   yuck or yucky: expression showing strong displeasure or dislike for something(informal)- Oh, Dad. I don't like this yucky soup.

   starving (verb): hungry, famished - Many deer will starve to death in the mountains because of the harsh winter.

   Recipe(noun): a set of instructions that tells you how to cook something and the ingredients (= items of food) you need for it- a recipe for chicken soup

2.  Leisure activities:

      catch a movie (verb): watch - Let's catch a movie this afternoon after school is over.

      cram (verb): study hard - I had to cram all night for the final text in my biology class.

    blast (noun): fun time - Thanks for inviting me to the party yesterday. It was a real blast.

  throw a party (verb): have- My parents are throwing a big party for my brother who just got married.

  midnight (adverb): 12 o'clock at night, the middle of the night- I have to be back home by midnight. It's a family rule.

Assignment #3: Concordancer Exercise

1.    What are more than ten women doing in the temple, not sleeping but deftly tying the dumplings?

2.    According to the custom of Taiwan and southern Fukien, families in mourning are not supposed to make nien-kao or tzung-tzu for the holidays, but they can be given some as a present by their neighbors.

3.    At festival times, they add chicken, onions, tomatoes and spices to the corn flour, wrapping it all up in banana leaves to create an Indian version of the Chinese "zong-zi," a sticky rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves.

4.    "I've waited eleven years!" said Mr. Chen, who lives in Kaohsiung, as he viewed the scenery and ate his tsung tzu (a large dumpling of glutinous rice).
He waited from his youth until middle age to fulfill one wish, to complete this railroad journey.

5.    To pay off a debt of NT$1 million to a cooperative loan club, these women sell rice dumplings and give the proceeds to the club; this money is then used to do good deeds.
The club was started up and is led by Chen Chou, head of Yuching Temple's Lianghsien Hall.