#11 Ask a question on BBC

This is my question

Hi, teachersIf you do something really hard.but the result wasn't like your expected or the situation was even worse.How I describe this sentence in few words or a phrase.waiting for your reply.thank you!

This is the answer that BBC'S teacher reply.
"Boy, that didn't turn out at all like I expected it to."
"I didn't expect that."
"Darn! I worked really hard on that, and it didn't come out as I expected it to."
"Oh, well, 30 hours of hard work down the drain."

I think it's a little not like what I wanna know.
because I wanna some short phrase but they still answer me a sentence.
maybe there is no words or phrases mean what I ask.

#10 MIT Open Courseware

MIT Open Courseware

MIT is one of the best engineering schools in this world.
So, for a stuendt who study in engineering, this website is so precious.
Although we may not able to study at MIT,but we still can take a lecture by this site.

The website have a great classification of courses.
All courses had been classified by department.
you can easily find what you want.
Or you interest what lecture is the most popular.
It provides the link "Most Visited Courses" you can click.

Some of courses have video but some only have assignments or notes.
and you must have a great english level if you wanna learn through video.
because the professor speaks so fast and the transcript is separated form the video.
so if your english is not good enough, you have to spend more time on learning words.
and the professor may not a native speaker, the accent is also a problem.

Fortunately, some courses have been translated into chinese or some else language.
But part of courses only.
It quite is a pity.

#9RadioTime Listening Experience

I picked this radio station
1.FM - Top 40

Program:
Top 40-Pop from San Francisco, CA

As its title , was a station about hit songs from San Francisco.
I thought this station probably could stand for the fashion at San Francisco.
We could know what is the young people like to listen at there.
Even we never been there!
It had lots of songs and different types, POP,Rock,etc.
Not like the specific channel only had one kind of music.
And it had advertising time after they played severl songs.
Could be the other way to train our listening, because the conversation in advertisement usually more speedy and simply.
But it had a weakness, the station interface would not show the singer or name of the song which is playing.
So, if we heard some great songs, still have to try other way to find it out!

#8English Song

Unplayed Piano
Damien Rice & Lisa Hannigan

Come and see me
Sing me to sleep
Come and free me
Hold me if I need to weep
Maybe it's not the season
Maybe it's not the year
Maybe there's no good reason
Why I'm locked up inside
Just cause they wanna hide me
The moon goes bright
The darker they make my night

*Unplayed pianos
Are often by a window
In a room where nobody else goes
She sits alone with her silent song
Somebody bring her home

Unplayed piano
Still holds a tune
Lock on the lid
In a stale, stale room
Maybe it's not that easy
Or maybe it's not that hard
Maybe they could release me
Let the people decide
I've got nothing to hide
I've done nothing wrong
So why have I been here so long?

* *

Unplayed piano
Still holds a tune
Years pass by

In the changing of the moon

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This song is Damien and Lisa together compose for Aung San Suu Kyi.

Hoping Myanmar's government to release Aung San Suu Kyi who had been put under house arrest for many years.

Aung San Suu Kyi is National League for Democracy of Burma's Party secretary who also won the general election in 1990.

But the results were nullified by the military government.

And she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

By a wonderful piano wasn't played and placed in a stale room to describe the situation of Aung San Suu Kyi.

#7Youtube Exercise

First, I search the words "commercial" at youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/

Because I think this part is the most interesting.

But the results are too many.

So I add "funny" before "commercial".

Then I choose these two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwbLiPNVS2U

This is a funny commercial compilation.

Includeing several ads inside.

If you browsing that in youtube's site, you can click the related link over right side.

So you can spend a lot of time on these funny commercials!

You also can see there're so many ways to show our humor or imaginations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igQ5A-QBqiY&NR=1

This one is shorter than first.

Without dialogue, but still making me laugh for a while!

#6ESL Podcast 466-Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner

ESL Podcast website
ESL Podcast 466-Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner




Cho: I'm not sure I'm cut out to be a doctor.
cut out: talent, to be created to do something
(more often hearing this expression in negative)

Joy: I think you'll be great. I've seen you with patients and you have a great bedside manner – not like Gregory.
patient: people who're receiving a medical care or attention from a doctor or nurse
bedside manner: the way a doctor or nurse treat to the patient

Cho: Why? What's wrong with his bedside manner?
Joy: I've seen him with patients and he can be really callous. For instance, I was in the room last week when he was telling one of his patients that she was taking a turn for the worse.
callous: without considering someone else
for instance = for example
taking a turn for the worse: be getting worse, opposite be getting better, especially talking about someone's health

Cho: What did he say?
Joy: He just blurted it out. He told her the diagnosis, and he didn't even try to soften the news when she asked about her prognosis. He did absolutely nothing to try to comfort or reassure her.
blurt it out: say something without thinking it first
diagnosis: the doctor conclusion about what the medical problem is
soften: more easier to accept
"ex: soften the blow" blow: hit or punch
prognosis: doctor's opinions about how your health will change in the furture
comfort: make else comfortable
reassure: make the feel better about something

Cho: I feel sorry for the patient.
feel sorry for: to understand someone's difficulty

Joy: That's the point. Gregory didn't, and it didn't seem to faze him that the patient was very upset and close to hysterics.
didn't seem to faze him: be surprise because some else wasn't affected by something
hysterics: have uncontrol emotion

Cho: That's terrible. I'll try to remember to be more compassionate with my patients.
compassionate: to be caring/kind/nice to someone

Joy: Don't worry. It's against your nature to be anything but considerate.
against your nature: something you can't do because not part of your personality
anything but considerate: emphasize the next word by saying that definitely not ture

#5Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

the first topic I choose
A Healthy Lifestyle(Medium)
1. abandon the idea :give up the idea
2.out of shape :not in good phyiscal condition
3.physical :medical examination
4.build up your cardiovascular system :improve blood circulation system
5.I just love you, and I want you to be around for a long, long time. : sweet nothings

second topic
Job Hunting(difficult)
1.in a nut shell :summarizing something in clear way
2.Oh, yeah, sort of. :yeah,kind of.
3.paid vacation :vacation but with paycheck
4.booming/sprouting up :grow up rapidly/suddenly
5.drop out of college :to leave school/flunk out

#4Corpus-based Reference Tools

VLC Concordancer
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk
NTNU Concordancer and Collocation Retrieval System (CCRS)
http://140.122.83.246/cwb/

Both of these tools are helpful to me.
because I always put the words together but maybe in the wrong way
It can let me search the correct word or collocation before I use.

Compare with dictionaries
Corpus-based Reference Tools
the data of this are based on daily speak or writing.
So it include formal and informal usage both.
You have to differentiate the result maybe with other tools.
and you can choose information from a lot of database.
American or British,make your english more local.
The information of corpus may update more often than a dictionary

Dictionaries
The dictionary offer more detail than corpus.
The phonetic transcription,meaning,example and something else.
But the information have been compiled already.
Have little chance to be updated,
So it may contain some old fashion words.
If you notice the time of corpus collected,you can avoid this problem.
But you still better use a dictionary when you get a new word first time.

Using these tools
I think the problem is you have to conclude the result.
Just like the problem ever be mentioned,formal or informal.
It just help you listing all the words that people ever uesd.
But I also think it's not a big problem :P

#3Corpus Linguistics

I think the difference between "big" and "large"is
"big" used to describe something that have real form,actually exist or easily image.
for example
big band , big boy , big apple , big success
"large" to describe number,quantity or something that hard to show it.
just like
large sum , large proportion , large number of , large amount of

but not absolutely follow this rule.
sometimes these two words have the same meaning in usual life/informal.
big/large city , big/large sth.

#2 Dictionary Exercise

I choose some Very Easy words but have various usages.
It also a few confusing if you just start in learning English!
And I simplify the information about the words to easier figure out what's the difference between them.

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Refer to:

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

See(USE EYES)
verb
seeing, saw, seen
1 [I or T] to be aware of what is around you by using your eyes:
Turn the light on so I can see.

2 [T] to watch a film, television programme, etc:
Did you see that documentary on Channel 4 last night?


Watch(LOOK AT)
verb
watched,watched,watching
1 [I or T] to look at something for a period of time, especially something that is changing or moving:
I had dinner and watched TV for a couple of hours.

2 [T] to stay with something or someone such as a child for a short time to make certain that they are safe:
If you want me to watch the kids for a couple of hours while you go out, just let me know.


Look(SEE)
verb [I]
looked,looked,looking
to direct your eyes in order to see:
Look! There's grandma.

noun [C]
when you look at someone or something:
Can I have a look at your dictionary?

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Conclusion:
"see" is more like "看到" in chinese.
"watch" is "看"電視.
"look" is "看"那邊！,"看"著.
(I know this conclusion is awful,but I don't know why I still writing it down！)


The weather changing huge these days.
Watch out your health,don't catch a cold.
If you get a cold,you will have a bad look on your face.
And you should see a doctor immediately.
Ohh,I suddenly see my watch,it's time to see the movie that I've looked forward for a long time!
So,see you next time!

(I know this paragraph is terrible too. But look,how useful them are :PP)

#1 Simply Introduce Myself

Hello! Everyone,welcome to my Blog.
The first thing is let me introduce myself to you.
My name is Ivan,21 years old.
And my hometown is in Taichung,but we just moved to there about 2years.
I major in Electronic Engineering of NTUST,I'm a junior.

I'm a pretty silent guy if we don't know each other much.
But if we are familiar,you will see another face of me!
It sounds a little crazy,
and the real me is indeed crazy C:

Now I wanna talk about my interest.
I prefer to stay in static things then actives.
Like watch DVDs,TV,TextBook(not really :I)
I also very greedy(in food..).
If you wanna ask me out,just say
"I know something is delicious,do you wanna try?"

The last one is that I just start at playing guitar.
If you know it well,we could "Exchange" our experience when we had free time.
That's all.
Thank's for watching!
Have a nice day. ;p