2009年11月27日 星期五

Good for what ails you

A. Vocabulary
*constipation:a condition of the bowels in which the feces are dry and hardened and evacuation is difficult and infrequent
*diarrhea: looseness of the bowels

B. phrase
*stuffy nose
*body aches
*develop awareness
*Theory informs/develops practice and practice informs/develops theory

2009年11月25日 星期三

Eco-tourism

Vocabulary:
* pristine: pure, clean
* myriad: numerous, countless
e.g. The tool has myriad uses.
* industrious: diligent, hard-working
* well-worn: well-trodden
[註:well-trodden有negative的意味,但well-worn則為中性字。trodden來自tread]
* aboriginal people

Phrase
* hustle and bustle: busy
e.g. ...... experience the hustle and bustle of the now modern cultural capital.
* Eco travel
* buget travel

Sentences
* We went on bike.

2009年11月17日 星期二

Intonation and stress & The American school environment

A. Vocabulary
*determiner: the, an, am, a few...
*auxiliary: may, was, can, were...
*preposition: opposite, before, next...
*pronoun: they, she, us...
*stay put
*guinea pig

B. Sentence
*What's the layout of the land?/What's the situation?
*That's what Sth are for!

C. Mistake correction
*a lot of Ns
*pay attention to double last tense
*make me boring→make me bored

Discipline dilemma

A. Vocabulary
* been there, done that: you have experienced something to the point of boredom
*acronym: an abbreviation consisting of the first letters of each word in the name of something, pronounced as a word
* resort to: to do something that you do not want to do because you cannot find any other way of achieving something
*in the heart of moment
*power struggle
*set limits
*test limits