ISG 0614 看You Tube學英文

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janet12tw
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ISG 0614 看You Tube學英文

文章 janet12tw »

Once I surfed on the internet and I found an interesting blog called "看You Tube學英文".
The author is a Taiwanese who immigrated to Australia when he was in high school.
He thinks watching TV is the best way to learn English, especially advertisements,
because the pronunciation is clear and the content is close to every day life.
Here is the website:

http://www.wretch.cc/blog/yyteacher

Share the vocabulary or phrases you have learned from the website and make a sentence of it.
If you like, you can also write a summary about a speech that you heard from the website.

Questions for Discussion:

1. Which is the most interesting advertisement you saw on the website? Why?
2. Which is the most meaningful speech you heard from the website? Why?
3. Do you think watching the advertisements help you learn English? What are the other useful ways for us to learn English?
4. What is your favorite American TV series? Why?
5. Can you share some interesting websites you have visited before? Why would you recommend them?
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文章 Luis Ko »

no doubt the website is good. my English will definitely improve a lot by reading it's stuff but, the point is, i have to be persevering enough first haa :mrgreen:



by the way, this one is really very funny.. http://www.wretch.cc/blog/YYteacher/8468030
i might be a cynic and, a sceptic as well but, i'm definitely not a bad person!!
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The University of Derby AD
(summary)
This University Ad tries to build an image that the University of Derby is a place where students could comprehend knowledge, achieve degrees, and access to career connected training. This image is sending a message that an University can offer more than just degrees. It can have strong connection with both life and career.

Voca:
Go into
To undertake as a profession or course of study (From the free Dictionary)(從事)
Ex01: She's going into medicine.
Ex02: Will Ciso go into the smarphone business this year? (news headline)
Ex03: Should Christians go into politics? (article title)

British accent is so challenging to me.
The script: "A chance to experiment."
What I heard was: “A train serve experiemtnt”
:ccry:
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文章 technobabel »

Not everybody whom wishes to improve their English has the discipline to watch only those video clips with more challenging contents. People tends to take on the path of least resistance. Especially when the result of improvement is uncertain or not immediatly apparent. But then again, the question should've been... Must one always take on more challenging materials? The short answer is: Not really, that would be like biting off more than you can chew. Mentally, a more sensible alternative approach is, just to ease into it. When comes to difficult contents, often, the only thing you need to fear is fear itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_of_least_resistance
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I think these 3 are great.
1. A girl introduced and demonstrated her favorite beanies.
2. A British teaches you how to make sushi.
3. Jamie Oliver (a famous cooker on knowledge channel) shows his secret talent, which is ping pong. (but actually it's not him)

words and pharases:
1. Banana Republic (n) a brand name 香蕉共和國
2. dress up (verbal pharase) to dress formally
ex: It's a really great hat if you wanna dress your ourfit up a little more.
3. bamboo mat (n) 竹蓆
4. season (v) to flavor
ex: Season rice with sushi rice vinegar.
5. a giving person (n) a generous person
ex: I'm a giving person.

And I recommend this website. You can visit our prvious discussion for detailed info.
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chiron 寫:
words and pharases:
1. Banana Republic (n) a brand name 香蕉共和國
4. season (v) to flavor
ex: Season rice with sushi rice vinegar.
Please note that "Banana Republic" is more than just a brand.
It is also a "loaded" political terminology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_language

Unlike how we might say it in Chinese...
When comes to food description, the verb that represents the pre-process is almost always in form of past-participle, which has the function of adjective.
For example: Chopped, smoked, cured, grilled, marinated, skinned...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poached_egg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shredded_Wheat
http://www.recipetips.com/glossary-term ... -olive.asp
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"Breast aware" made me laugh.
As the end of the video mentioned : checking out your own breast isn't quite as much fun",
so they used a fun way to publicize the serious issue of breast awareness.
The lovely assistance "Tommy" with intensive muscle illustrating his naked body to show how to check the breast by your own did attrace more attention.

vocabulary
1. rash
A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance or texture
2. dimple
A slight indentation on any surface.

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"Latch system" built a trustworthy atmosphere by using heartwarming music and slow motion effect to introduce Latch is a safe product for kids

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"Veggie therapy" promoted the importance of vegetables in a cute way.
The adv spersonified the vegetables as patients to go to the doctor for psysical therapy.
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The one I picked is a speech delievered by Randy Pausch on time management. http://www.wretch.cc/blog/YYteacher/10092306 Here is a summary for the first 23 minutes of the speech.

The speaker, Randy Pausch, approached the topic of time management from a pragmatic aspect and in a structural way. The speech covered from how to set goals, ways to avoid a waste of time, upward management, to delegation. Beside principles, practical tools and skills were offered that help us make better use of our time.

At the beginning of the speech, Randy pointed out the importance of dealing time as a sparse commodity. It is worth trading money for time whenever necessary, which is especially true to parents with young children. He further stated that we should budge time instead of money, as the money we've spent can be earned back later, while in no way can we get the elapsed time back.

Living in modern society, we are no stranger to time famine – always having too many things to do in a finite time. It has become a systematic problem affecting all aspects of our lives, and we need a systematic solution to address it. That is, we need to fundamentally change the way we are doing things.

The first step of the change is goal setting. We should work for fun, not for money. We should maximize our fun, not our money. Randy encouraged the audience to make dreams and pursue them relentlessly. It is important to understand the 80-20 rule and only zero in on things that really matter.

After setting goals, we should do planning on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis and then break things down into small steps, that is, our own TO DO list. Things on your TO DO list can be categorized into four group: important and due soon, not important and due soon, important and not due soon, and not important and not due soon. Everyone knows that important things that are due soon need to be done first, and they do so. Randy, however, pointed out that most people mistakenly gave the second priority to things that were not important but due soon. Instead, Randy said, what they really should do is to do things that are important and not due soon, so that the things never have chance to turn into something that are important and due soon. Having ourself not do important things at the last minute can dramatically reduce our stress level and make us feel better. In order to prioritize important things that are not due soon, we have to learn saying no to trivial things.
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文章 Sherry Liao »

I've done this one:
Time Management -- Randy Pausch
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/YYteacher/10092306

This speech was given by Randy Pausch, who is well-known for his speeches as well as his book "The Last Lecture", and also famous in the field of computer science. He suffered from pancreatic cancer and at the time he made the talk, he was expected to have only a few more months to live. However, the lecture was delivered in an optimistic mood, and the content of the topic "time management" was pragmatic, systematic and to the point. Also, I was greatly inspired by Pausch's viewpoint on the "reasons" to manage time, which were "fun" and "love". For example, Pausch pointed out that maximizing use of time is just the means, not the end. The end is maximizing fun. So the overall goal of time management is "fun". Also, at the end of the speech, he said if the lecture was going to made any change on the audience, it would make them "probably have a lot more time to spend with the ones you love".

In the speech, Pausch provided some essential concepts and a lot of tips on how to save time. The following are what impress me most:
- View the shortage of time as "The Time Famine", which provides a concept that the shortage is a systemic problem, so we have to manage it with systemic solutions.
- Ask why we are doing those things on our To Do List, which helps us decide which ones are important. The priority order: "Important and Due Soon" -> "Important and Not Due Soon" -> "Not Important and Due Soon" -> "Not Important and Not Due Soon".
- The power of dreams drive us to take actions to accomplish our goals. It might not be always true that "If you can dream it, you can do it"; but "If you refuse to allow yourself to dream it, I know you won't do it".
- Use paper or computers or other stuff to help us schedule the plans instead of putting all the things in our brain. Put documents in the right places, and a filing system is absolutely essential.
- If we spend time on something not valuable, we can never spend it again on something else that's really important. So we have to learn to say "No" to others.
- Time management is a collaborative thing. Try to make everyone in the group more efficient.
- Time management is not only about efficiency. We also have to consider the effectiveness. That is, sometimes some decisions may cost more time, but if they have better overall outcome, they are worth doing.
- Deadlines are important and procrastination is expensive. Set up fake deadlines to help things done faster. There's always a deep psychological reason behind the procrastination behavior. Find out the reason and find some way to get back into our comfort zone.
- We can accomplish a lot more things if we get help. The tips for delegation are respecting others (do the hardest jobs ourselves), giving specific instructions and communications have to be clear, giving people challenged jobs and telling them what to do instead of how to do, and reinforcing behaviors by thanking and praising those who help us.
- The other tips: Kill the television; hire someone to do the chores if don't have enough time; eat and sleep and exercise (sleep deprivation would make everything fails.)
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文章 Sherry Liao »

big on something: believing that something is good or important.
Ex. He's very big on jazz.
Ex.: She's not big on sales and marketing and all that.
Mind-blowing: very exciting, impressive or surprising
Ex.: a mind-blowing horror story.
Ex.: Watching your baby being born is a mind-blowing experience.
fall apart: to have so many problems that it is no longer possible to exist or function
Ex.: Their marriage finally fell apart.
Ex.: The deal fell apart when we failed to agree on a price.
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文章 janet12tw »

Vocabulary:

1. waffle or waffle on: mainly Br E informal talk or writing that uses a lot of words but without saying anything important or interesting.
Ex. Stop waffling.

2. fold under pressure: to back off from or fail under the pressure.
Ex: We can't fold under pressure every time when we face some difficulties.

Also, some interesting clips I saw are as below:

http://www.wretch.cc/blog/YYteacher/10055414
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/YYteacher/8925596
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technobabel 寫:
chiron 寫:
words and pharases:
1. Banana Republic (n) a brand name 香蕉共和國
4. season (v) to flavor
ex: Season rice with sushi rice vinegar.
Please note that "Banana Republic" is more than just a brand.
It is also a "loaded" political terminology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_language

Unlike how we might say it in Chinese...
When comes to food description, the verb that represents the pre-process is almost always in form of past-participle, which has the function of adjective.
For example: Chopped, smoked, cured, grilled, marinated, skinned...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poached_egg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shredded_Wheat
http://www.recipetips.com/glossary-term ... -olive.asp
Quite clear, thanks for your explanation!
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chiron
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Kooper 寫: The first step of the change is goal setting. We should work for fun, not for money. We should maximize our fun, not our money. Randy encouraged the audience to make dreams and pursue them relentlessly. It is important to understand the 80-20 rule and only zero in on things that really matter.
In my opinion, I think we should work for both fun and money. If impossible, we should work for money first, and then work for fun as opportunity is mature.

I remember what my previous coworker says: Work hard, and play harder.
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