ICE CREAM PARTY. Thanks Carlos. ^_*

This photo is Captial city of Taiwan, Tapei night.

Touch my heart of the films

This film touch my heart. Susan Boyle , she is incredible perfect.
And her dream come ture, now she is 47years old.

Susan Boyle sang a song. I Dreamed a Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izucgB-lBaI

24th May 2009 She got a champion.
Susan Boyle - Memory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti90N5yWEus

Thanks for your comment
I never saw another people's performance.
But I think they would be prepare long time and hardworking.
Everyone have different talents, but they try to show in TV.
In the furture, they have many chance to show their talents.
I also hope they have good furture in their life.

The language of presentations

The subject of this presentation/talk is...
I'm going to talk about...
My topic today is...

I'll be happy to answer any questions
afterwards
If you have any questions, I'll answer them at the end
Perhaps I'll clear up one point before I start
To clarify things..

I'm going to deal with three aspects of this subject.
First I'll talk about...
I'm going to divide my talk into four sections.
I intend to cover..

Let's first/now consider
The next aspect I'd like to consider is...
Moving on now to...
Turning next to...
I'd now like to turn to...
That brings me to my next point....

As you can see from the chart...
The graph shows that...
If you look at the map, you'll see that...
In this diagram...
It is clear from the chart that...

For example
For instance

In summary
So, to sum up...
In conclusion...
I'd like to sum up by saying...
So, to remind you of where we began this morning...
We've looked at/ We've seen...

Homework- Manners in the UK and in my country

Each country has different culture manners. When I came to England, I had never lived in another country. I came from Taiwan, and now I live in England. I'll compare two countries about the West and the East cultures of my experience. There are so many different cultures about life style. For instance, Taipei is Taiwan capital city, and London is England capital city. Taipei is similar to London. Both Taipei and London have convenient transportation, crowded population, air pollution, large shopping area, main train sation, and busy night life. Now I have lived Nottingham city for eight months in England. Taiwan and English are unlike, education, holiday, Weather, Diet, Buliding, Environment, and culture of politeness.

Firstly, I'll talk about Education. Primary school of England is smaller than Taiwan. English pupils are relaxed to study, no big bookbag, no much homework, they always take a lunch bag to school, and pupils always have many school holiday. Pupils in Taiwan work hard. They always take a big bookbag , many textbooks, everyday homework. They also eat big meal in lunch time, and pupils haven't many school holiday. English have longer hoiliday during the year. They have three long vacations, Chrismas, Easter, Summer holiday. Pupils have three sessions and each sesion has one week school holiday. If it was stronger snow, schools could closed. My view is English pupils happier than Taiwan pupils, and English parents needed to take care of children all the day.

Secondly, I'll talk about weather, and food. I felt crazy aobut English weather. In my opinion, there are different kinds of weather types during a day, sunshine, windstorm, raining, icerain, and snow. I never saw snow in my country city, but we often have typhoon. When typhoon came to Taiwan, we often have typhoon holiday. Typhoon always have intense windstorm, strong raining, nobody can go outside. Taiwan food is incredibly delicious and cheaper than English. We can buy anything in store on the street, or night market. And we also have 24hours convenient stores on the street. If we want to eat any thing, we can go the store to buy food and the articles for daily use. Besides we can book different city's speacial snacks online, and moring book afterwards the specacial snacks will arrived afternoon.

After this, I'll talk about buliding, and environment. When I came to Nottingham, I saw English Buliding always had a garden and chimney. I have never seen a chimney and garden house in Taipei. Our builing are flats and large buildings. Following that I walked on the street in Nottingham, I often saw many big rubbish bin in front of the houses. That looks strange. In my country, the city dustmen drive the clean car through each street every day at the same time. We needed to wait dustmen on the street at the same time. And this time we also can see many neighbours standing and waiting the clean car, that's interesting.

Finally, I'll talk about culture of politeness. My feeling is that English more polite than Taiwanese. When I came to England, I often heard "sorry". English always say sorry. In my opinion, I can take my bag to large supermarkets, libraries. Large supermarkets and libraries in Taiwan, usually customer can't bring big bag inside. I think English really respect everyone. So there are many different manners in the UK and in my country. Different countries have different cultures. We need respect different country's cultures.

update: 4th Jun 2009

Many thanks, Petra.

Dear friends:

We always enjoyed our Lunch Time. You can keep your photo.

We come from 5 country. That's interesting. ^_*

Hi~ eveybody
I really enjoyed prensations, you're so great.

Homework- what do you think of office gossip?

Office gossip can promote relationship of colleagues. All the bosses always don't like their staffs waste too much time for office gossip. Nowadays technology is improve quick, their staffs can use computer to gossip with colleagues. So many companies have to make a rule. Their staffs mustn't use MSN during time of work.

In my opinion, my job was always busy. I haven’t more time to gossip with colleagues. Sometime I tried to gossip with my colleagues, but they often talked too much about bad news. I really don't like office gossip. When I gossiped too much, afterward I didn't finish my job.

I think office gossip sometimes is important, but office gossip sometimes waste too much time. And I also don't like my colleagues to gossip all the day. I don't understand that how they can finish their job. If my boss knew someone gossip all the day, I think they would be no job tomorrow.

Homework- Take a present when you visit

Take a present to visit your friend, it's polite. In my country, if you are invited to dinner at your frend's house. You should take a present, because your friend prepared some dishes for you. You don't have to buy an expensive present. You can buy anything, such us a chocholate box, a basket fruit, a cookie box, etc. If you forget to take a present to visit your friend, that's impolite. Maybe your friend will not like you. That's too bad.

For Dear Teacher Petra

Dear Petra
I must take next week days off. I promised my children to go Disneyland in Paris. I really enjoy our English class. If you will give us any homework next week, I will be finish next weekend in my blog. Thanks for your teach. See you soon.
Nina

Homework--Prenst Perfect often use adverrbs

Present Perfect
S. +has / have + V (past particsiple) + O.
1)Finished actions in a time period that continus up to now. Eg. Today
2)to talk about something that happened in a period of time, up to now but the time is not know. Use: never, ever , already, yet, just, for, since, been to, how long...
3)talk about experience

Prenst Perfect often use adverrbs
For example
I’ve already finished my homework.
My parents have never taken an airplane go aborad.
Have you ever visited their house?
My son have just eaten an apple.
I haven't had time to do it yet. (negative)
I have taught for ten years.
My patents have met in 1974. (state verb)
My patents have married since 1974.
How long have you lived in Nottingham?

Thanks, Teacher Petra.

Simple Past & Grammar timeline

I wrote about simple past tense and Grammar time line. Thanks
update: 5th May 2009

Useful Websites

http://www.voanews.com/english/podcasts.cfm
http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html
http://www.justvocabulary.libsyn.com/
http://www.flowenglish.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/languageleader/
http://en.yappr.com/welcome/Welcome.action

Followed are a number of websites that you may/may not find interesting.Pronunciation
1.http://www.spokenskills.com/student-activities.cfm
2. http://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/progs/prog1.shtml
Grammar
1. http://english2share.blogspot.com/
2. http://www.isabelperez.com/grammar.htm
3. http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/
Online dictionaries
1. http://www.visuwords.com/
2. http://193.133.140.102/JustTheWord/
Videos
1. http://www.videojug.com/
2. http://www.videojug.com/
Reading
1. http://www.readingsoft.com/
Listening and writing
1. http://www.listen-and-write.com/audio
2. http://www.esl-lab.com/

Homework- English class in the future

More technology will be using in English class. Many students will be studying English language online. Many English teachers will use websites to teach in the English class. In fact, students will take their small laptops in the school. And teachers will teach them by any technology in the class. While students after school, where they can use interactive websites to learn and practice their speaking or listening with another country's people. They also can use their laptops to write and read all essays. In the future, teachers will probably work at home, who can use interactive websites to teach different country students in the world.

Many Thanks for Teacher Petra. ^_*

Learn 4X Faster Rules

I find one American website, the teacher share how to learn English faster.
I share you about 7 rules. Enjoy it.

Rule1: Learn Phrases
always study and review phrases, not individual words.
always write the complete phrase.

Rule2: Don't study Grammer
if you focus too much Grammer, you always worried about your setence.

Rule3: Focus On Listening
you need listen more live English, eg. TV, Radio, websites...
learn English with your ears not your eyes.

Rule4: Learn Deeply
Repeat a lot English

Rule5: Use Point Of View Stories
try to write down points on the paper

Rule6: Use Only Real English Materials
don't use your conutry's English dictionary, use reall English

Rule7: Use Listen & Answer Stories
not listen and repeat, you can use Mini-story
After listen story, and answer the question, not repeat the story's words.

Part 4- Liverpool and Chester for two days

We visited our best English friend’s mother in Liverpool. We have known Raja for three years. He is our English teacher, and we are also best English friends. He has taught English and lived Taiwan for 11 years. He loves everything in Taiwan, seafoods, people, inculding Taiwan’s pretty girls. He is a crazy foreigner. Now he is still single in Taiwan.

My husband decided to study Master at English University, we found the English teacher to teach English each weekend at our house. We were meeting every weekend morning, and we also was eating breakfast and lunch together. He told about his life and teaching experience. He always said I looked like his homemother, cooked delicious dinner for him, and take care of him. We really like him, he is lovely foreigner.

Now we live Nottingham, his mother has lived in Liverpool. We had two weeks Easter holiday, and we decided to meet his mother, Anna. We never saw Anna, but we contacted many times by mails and telephone in England. When we met her, she was kind to us. She drove her car to pick us up , we went to Anglican Cathedral , Liverpool dock, two birds building, and ate lunch together to talk about Raja’s life. She took Raja’s photos and told us his child stories. We enjoyed her stories.

She is friendly, kind, and gorgeous person. We really like his mother, we know she really misses her son, Raja. When we go back to Taiwan, we still take care of our best friend, Raja. We also share our England experience and show our photos to his mother. That’s would be interesting.

Last year we visited Edinburgh, we met a Taiwan friend, who suggested us to go to Chester. Now we had a chance, Chester is near Liverpool. We went to Chester city after we had met Anna. We just took one hour by train to Chester City. That’s great idea.

Chester City has many different buildings that are 4 hundred years old. Many building were decorated with white and black lines, and the old traditional building’s first floor has a long hall. Many shops open in ground floor and first floor, that’s special building. There are lots of rudiments in there. The Chester City wall is completely perfect, we walked around one circle on the wall. When we walked on the wall, we also can sightseeing all Chester City. I enjoyed in four hundred years ago England traditional City. That’s fantastic.

-THE END-

Sightseeing on Easter holiday in the UK- Part 3

Part 3- The trip in Lake District for 4 days

I really love Lake District in the UK. When I wanted to come England, my friends suggested me to go Lake District. I watched a film, Miss Potter, in English TV programe. This film is Miss Potter’s autobiography , who is a famous British writer and painter , and created a series about Peter Rabbit stories. Her story touches my heart. This movie shows Miss Potter’s house in Lake District, that is a beautiful countryside.

Let me tell her story of life. When Miss Potter was young, she always had many creative ideas about animal stories. She drew pictures about her creative ideas and wrote down many animal stories. She loved animals and talked about her creative stories with her friends, but her parents didn’t like it. Miss Potter never gave up her drawing. When she grew up, she wanted to publish her creation. Peter Rabbit’s story was groundbreaking for her.

First she published a drawing masterpiece, the Peter Rabbit’s drawing novel was popular. She fell in love with a young publisher, but her parents didn’t like it. She still decided to marry him. At the moment, the young publisher got a terrible pneumonia and died. She was sad and decided to leave her parents, but she worried about money. When she checked her account in the bank, she got a breathtaking answer. The banker told her “ Miss Potter, your account has adequate money to buy many lands.” Then she decided to live the Lake District in England, and continued her drawing.

She loved the Lake District, this place has natural and beautiful view. She bought many Lake District lands, and environmental protection of her lands. When she died, she donated all her land and house to her country, the UK. Now everyone can go sightseeing and see beautiful natural views in the Lake District. I think Miss Potter is an incomparable and environmental artist, who is a writer. Her outstanding creation, Peter Rabbit is still popular all over world.

I love this story and this beautiful place. When we went to Lake District, I told many stories about Miss Potter and Peter Rabbit to my children. I hoped they can understand many Miss Potter lovely stories. We went hiking of the mountain, walking on the Lake side, saw Miss Potter’s house, Peter Rabbit’s world, took a lake cruise on the river, rode the Steam-train , saw Castlerigg Stone Circle, lived four star B&B house and ate English breakfast every morning. We enjoy our four days travelling in Lake District.

Sightseeing on Easter holiday in the UK- Part 2

Part 2- London sightseeing for 5 days

We first time went to London, we were so excited. When we arrived we saw lots of people in the crowded Tube, who went outside we saw many people bring suitcases on the street. The England capital city, London, there are busy people, traffic jam, convenient Tubes, and famous buildings.

We bought the original tour’s tickets, took sightseeing buses and Thames Cruise on the river all day. We saw many famous places, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, Tower of London, Birtish Library, Natural History Museum , China town and the hyde park.

My children especially liked Natural History Museum, because my son is a dinosaur’s fan. There are many big dinosaur models in the museum. Finally I bought dinosaur’s shoes for my son. My son had carried dinosaur shoes box all day. Last day, we took trains to go home at King’s Cross sation. I heard about Platform 9-3/4 at King's Cross has significance in JK Rowling's famous Harry Potter book series. Unfortunately, this platform 9-3/4 was closed. That’s terrible. I can’t believe it.

Sightseeing on Easter holiday in the UK-Part 1

Part 1 03rd April 2009

My family and I had two weeks during Easter holiday. We were so exicted and planned sightseeing in England. Firstly, we went to London, that is British capital and there are many famous places around the world. Secondly, we went to Lake District, there are many Peter rabbit’s stories and there is a British National Park. Thridly, we visited our best Taiwanese English friend’s mom in Liverpool. Finally, we went to Chester, there are building hundred years old. We enjoyed our English life.

Coming to England, we were not only studying English language but also travelling in the UK for six month. Now we have been to Scotland and England. Our next goal is Wales and France. Then we will the end of our traveling in the UK in August. We will take over ten thousand photos of one year during our traveling. When I go back and continue my job, I will be telling my students about my experience in the UK. There are many great memories and experience for me.

Generally, I write down each travelling experience. That can improve my writing skill and record my travelling. We went to London for five days by train. This is our first time to go. When we arrived at Euston sation in London, there are many tourists in there. I think maybe thousands of tourists in London. The tourists usually bring big suitcase to walk on the Road. Similarly, we bring two big suitcases. Beside we need to take care of our two children. That’s a challenge for me.

homework- Present Simple & Continuous

How to transform word file to picture file.

If you want to make it, you need use word2007 transform to .pdf file.

Then you use Photoshop system transform to .jpg file.

You can post to your blogger. Try to do it.

Homework- Describing a person- close friend

I tell you about Katherine, who is over 30. I have known her for 10 years, when we studied the same university. She has been married for 3 years. She has a 2 years old boy. She is a secretary in a international company. When we was young, we often went out climbing mountains , shopping, talking about our secrets, traveling to different cities, and took many photos in our memories. We enjoyed our free time, when we were young.

I think she is independant, friendly, reliable, extrovert and sociable. She has lots of friends, and she can do anything by herself. Now we are busy mothers, we must be responsible of our family by ourself. In fact, we haven't as much free time to go out, when we didn’t have children. We were usually chatting by MSN, because we live in different cities now. We especially talk about our lovely children, because we want to become perfect mothers. That's funny, perfect mothers are difficult for us. Each child has some different problems, we are also worried too much.

She likes going out, reading novel, studying English, seeing films, making handicraft and drawing some pictures. We have the same hobbies. Normally, when Chinese New Year was coming, we used to handmade cards by ourself to send to our friends. We shared our best blessing to our friends. That's lovely, we enjoy it.

The only negative things I think we always worried too much about our families. She worries about her and her husband's parents relationship, and so do I. Her husband is the only boy in her husband's family. So she must be responsible for her husband’s parents in the future. Unfortunately, she has the worst mother-in-law, and I have a bad-temper father-in-law. We always have lots of stresses in our life. At least we are best friends, we support our life. We can share our good things and bad things together.

Homework- My future family

Many younger people don't like taking care of children now. So they don't want children in their life. Certainly I have two children in my family,because I like children.

When I have children, my life is busy all day. Sometimes I really hope my parents can help me. In the future, if I have grandchildren, I perfer taking care of them. That's can close our relationship.

Phrasl Verbs

eat out: you want to eat dinner in a resturant, not at home.
takeaway: someone buy food from the resturant , but they want to take food to out or home.
heat up: make cold food become to hot
make it up: become friends again
give up: you want to do something, but you can't do it.
give away: you don't need any thing, or give you have to someone.
set up: creative a new company or shop.
turn up: appear
look after: someone take care of children
throw away: put your paper in the bin
warm up: you doing sport before you need do it