Assignment 10

ask:
Recognize "linking Consonant to Vowel" is very difficult for me. How can I do?Everyone give some advice,please.Thank you.

answer1:
Hi, Jay and welcome to the board.We have a networker called Jay who often answers questions here, so you might be asked to change your nickname.As for your question - wow! - there's no answer to it. Any vowel can be linked to any consonant, so we need you to ask more specific questions.Rover

answer2:
Just not thinking about it, just doing it in a natural way. But I don't know what's your native language is and if you do it differently.I found exercises on it very confusing and always skip them. When you are asked (said) to listen and read the recording script at the same time, where they introduce additional linking sounds in between a consonant and a vowel (at the end of one word and at the beginning of the other).I think linking is just natural thing to do, but yet again, it might be different with Asian languages. I am sure linking exists there as well, but maybe it's done differently.

answer3:
I can think of only one example of what you are looking for and I might be wrong anyway.Linking the word 'the' to another word when we speak is like this:If the second word begins with a vowel eg 'apple', we should say, "thee apple".If the second word begins with a consonant eg 'book', we should say, "thu book".Is this the sort of thing you are looking for?We should always say the letter 't' at the end of a word eg don't, about, lot, got. Sometimes people do not pronounce the 'd' and that is incorrect.

Assignment 9

1. MIT Open Courseware
I thought that MIT Open Coursewave is best, because it nearly all courses have, and has the note, the test, the work, the video frequency, you can find all of the resource in this website.

2. Academic Earth
Although this website does not look like MIT Open Coursewave have many courses, but is actually in each university's featured, and this website is more convenience.

3. OpenCourseWare Consortium
It is very convenience to find Open Coursewave around the world.

4. TED
I think this is also a good website, because it not only for academic purpose but also provide encourage, even you can listen to the funny lecture to relaxes.

5. Top 100 Speeches
It is very convenience to find the top 100 important 20st century speeches in American.

6. 台大演講網
This website is more practical to us, because it is Chinese, but it only provide the video frequency.

George Michael - Careless Whisper

lyrics

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

(a)

• Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.


• No big deal.


• But I naively chose a college


• what I stumbled into by following my curiosity


• to apologize for screwing up so badly


• But something slowly began to dawn on me


• And so I decided to start over


• It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.


• Don't settle


• make sure everything is buttoned up


• Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

(b)

I think Jobs said " I' m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You' ve got to find what you love." It is let my feelings be very deep, if Jobs did not have interest to this work, he will not have this kind of achievement. Therefore I think that now most important is to find my interest, and toward this goal advance industriously, no matter what difficulty I will encounter, I have to overcome and introspection, must have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Assignment 4

First Date

1. I'm going out tonight.


2. Dad! We're going out to eat, and then we're going to catch a movie


3. What movie and what is it rated?


4. It's a science fiction thriller called . . . well, I don't know what it is called, but it's rated PG.

A Fun Day

1. Would you like to go down to the beach or through the park?


2. And then maybe we can go out to eat tonight.

Dinner Time

1. Oh, I'm starving.


2. mom put me in charge of dinner because she's not feeling well tonight.


3. Well, wait, wait, here let me try a piece first.


4. Oh, well, well, that's just part of my own adaptation to the recipe. I added some pumpkin.


5. You can't mess up on that, Dad.

Comments

I think this is a very good study platform, after I listen to a topic, there have some exercises to practice. If you want to read script, there has hyper link Quiz Script in side. This not only helped for my listening also helped for conversation skills. If there are some special phrase or word, also has the annotation in the bottommost to explain, it's very convenient. But the defect is the speed which runs is very slow.

Assignment3

Q:Is there any rule governing the use of "big" and "large"?
Ans:Yes!


Q:If yes, what is it?
Ans:"big" and "large" usually describe concretely noun. Sometimes large and big may exchange.
But "Big" are more anglicizes than “large”.

Assignment2- Dictionaries

1. epicenter – noun
Meaning: a focal point, as of activity
Sentence: Many people were death near the epicenter.

2. mud – noun
Meaning: 1. wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
2. Informal. scandalous or malicious assertions or information: The opposition threw a lot of mud at our candidate.
3. Slang. brewed coffee, esp. when strong or bitter.
4. a mixture of chemicals and other substances pumped into a drilling rig chiefly as a lubricant for the bit and shaft.
Sentence: The village is under the mud.

3. disrupt - verb
Meaning: to cause disorder or turmoil in
Sentence: The heavy storm has disrupted telephone service.

4. juncture - noun
Meaning: 1. a point of time, esp. one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
2. a serious state of affairs; crisis: The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.
3. the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.
4. the act of joining.
5. the state of being joined.
6. something by which two things are joined.
Sentence: At this juncture the hero arrived.

5. tectonic - adjective
Meaning: 1. of or pertaining to building or construction; constructive; architectural.
2. Geology.
a. pertaining to the structure of the earth's crust.
b. referring to the forces or conditions within the earth that cause movements of the crust.
c. designating the results of such movements: tectonic valleys.
Sentence: This earthquake has caused the tectonic plates.