Everyday English Question 4

What's the difference between past tense and past participle tense?

Because last week I went to the table tennis game, I asked for a leave. Since that, I asked Angie to use her recording pen to record the whole class so that I can take the course by another way. But she didn't put the recording pen on the right position. It's not close enough so the files I listened are not clear at all. Another reason is the class next to us was so noisy. I'm now writing the homework given two weeks ago. On textbook page 12, part 9, It says that using past participle tense, but I think I can use the past passive tense. What the differences?

Everyday English Question 3

Are there any laws or regulations that you take issue with? Explain.

I don't agree the high school's Chinese class in Taiwan. Or, to be more exact, I don't understand why did we need to learn the classical Chinese. So far in my life, I haven't had a chance to say so esoteric language. In my three year's high school period, I try my best on it. And now, I almost can't remember anything about it. Why do we need to waste time on the language? If we abolish it, the world will be better...

Everyday English Question 2

Is there anything that you have seen or heard that you think is nonsense? Explain it to the class.

Yes, I have. Many of my friends like to play a game on the Facebook called Mafia. At first, I also join with them. Afterwards I think play Mafia is nonsense because you don't know why to do it. You just click and click every day. You waste your time and life, and finally you get nothing.

Everyday English Question 1

Q: How do you feel about cosmetic surgery?

In these days, more and more people like to do cosmetic surgery. It can make girl more pretty by suitable surgery. I think do it is not a bad thing. But there is different result, if some bad guys use it to crime or escape.

Missing DNA promotes childhood obesity

Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of DNA, which kicks their hunger into overdrive, researchers report.

The British researchers checked the DNA of 300 children who'd become very fat, on the order of(大約) 100 kg by age 10. They looked for deletions or extra copies of DNA segments.

They found evidence that several rare deletions may promote obesity, including one kind they studied further and found in less than 1 per cent of about 1,200 severely obese children.

That deletion, on chromosome(染色體) 16, apparently causes trouble because it removes a gene that the brain needs to respond to the appetite-controlling hormone leptin(瘦素), said Sadaf Farooqi of Cambridge University.

In her study, children with a chromosome 16 DNA deletion 'have a very strong drive to eat', said Farooqi, who co-led the research.

From News

Atlanta

Swine Flu on The Wane?

Health officials in the U.S. are reporting that the current wave of H1N1 swine flu appears to have peaked. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups, new infections are declining in most states, though the virus continues to spread in Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as remote parts of the U.S. Experts also caution that H1N1 might return later this winter. The virus has killed at least 6,700 people worldwide since April.

From Time's Briefing

California

NO BAILOUT(財政援助) FOR HIGHER ED

The University of California regents board(校董會) voted Nov. 19 to hike(調漲) education fees 32%, spurring(鼓舞) student across the system to barricade(設路障擋住) themselves in buildings and clash(衝突) with police. Cash-strapped(缺錢的) pupils say the increase, scheduled to take effect next fall, will force many to drop out(退學) or transfer to community colleges. UC president Mark Yudof said the measure was unavoidable because of the state's ongoing budget crisis.

From Time's Briefing

well

格蘭的小姐打電話來，
ask if the class is too easy or just find.....
and if u want to learn something more that the teacher didn't teach,
or change the way of teaching
just tell them or ...........me ^^" know
i'll let them know our needs~

GG

I slept too late that I haven't done my homework.

Maybe I should tell Kevin "GG" loudly.

God bless me.

Homework - Week 1

Grammar spot Page 3.

1.Which questions in the quiz contain the following tenses?

Present Simple: 2 4 6    Past Simple: 1 10    Present Perfect Simple: 9

Present Continuous: 5    Past Continuous: 3 11    Present Perfect Continuous: 12

Present Passive:7    Past Passive: 8

2.Which tenses use the auxiliary verbs do/does/did to make the questions and negative? 1 2 4 6 10

Which tenses are formed with have? 9 12

Which tenses are formed with be? 3 5 7 8 11

Adult English Conversation Class 1

Today is our first conversation class in Gram. Finally, we know that our teacher's name is "Kevin", but I think we'll still call him "teacher". We got our new textbooks and handouts. Teacher said that our textbooks are not "conversation books". Darn! I always feel unfree even though we can create something out of the book. I would feel more comfortable to "chat" in English. But I'm in a class, I have to get used to it. Speak more!

The Moment

It took Captain Chesley Sullenberger less than five minutes to become a hero, from the moment his Airbus A320 hit a flock of geese(一群鵝)on Jan. 15 to its safe splashdown(在海中降落) in the Hudson. For Captain Timothy Cheney and First Officer Richard Cole, it took an hour and a half of radio silence to become national punching bags(吊袋). After their Northwest Airlines flight shot past its Minneapolis destination at 37,000 ft., air-traffic controllers feared the worst: A hijacking? A flight-deck catastrophe(大災難)? After 91 minutes, the pilots resurfaced, saying they'd been absorbed in their laptops, reviewing a new crew schedule. On Oct. 27 the FAA revoked their licenses; commercial flying is a game with no room for error. And yet pilots' jobs are getting harder. Cost-cutting has trimmed starting pay at major airlines to $36,000--little more than a grade-school teacher's. Multiple short flights make it difficult for regional pilots to squeeze in adequate rest. The national air-traffic system relies on antiquated radio and radar; a teenager with an iPhone has more-advanced technology. There are ways to make the skies safer. Improving life in the cockpit(座艙) would be a start.

Adult English Conversation Class 0

Today we met our teacher at Gram English Center. He chatted with us and asked us some questions to test our level. Unfortunately, he didn't tell us his name( or we just had some loss?) and we also forgot to ask him. I felt a little nervous, since last time I talked to a foreign teacher when I was 14. And it was a bit strange to speak English by the side of my friends. I don't know if it is enough to speak in English only one day per week. Teacher told us to try to think in English, it helps. I hope it does work. Practice makes perfect!

Startup!

GRE - the next target!