ESL Ppodcast 426 Assignment 6

ESL Ppodcast

Bare basics : simple vision , need , nothing more
Top of the line: best possible, high quality , most expensive
Cheap: poor quality ,not expensive ,negative word
Flimsy: poor , break easily
Act up: have problem, create problem , stop working
Top dollar: very high price , very expensive ,
Bells and whistles: in every thing you buy usually technology ,features
Like,the cell phone==>mp3 player
Sturdy: not break,strong,reliable

Hideous: very ugly, negative words, very bad
Get over it: something bad happened in your normal life ,(you need stop worry it)
Style over substance: very beautiful , but it does not work well, not useful and functional

The last lecture

Here are some sentance from The last lecture.

1. We cannot change the cards we are dealt just

how we play the hand.

Don't try to use any excuse,do what you can do.

2.Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want.

Failure is the mother of success.

3.Th elephone in the room.

If an elephone in the room,it's impossible don't look it.

It's mean 心照不喧.

4.Forget The last lecture.Here 's a real story.(from his wife)

I think the heartbrokenest is her but she still can make a joke.

She is a strong woman.

listening diary Assignment 5

It's too difficult to finish the listenibg test...
1.vocabulary

• receipt:[noun [C] (US ALSO sales slip) ]a piece of paper which proves that money, goods or information have been received.

ex.

Remember to check your receipt,it may be wrong.

• essential :[adjective]necessary;[noun]a basic thing that you cannot live without

ex.

The oil is essential for industry.

• case:[noun [C]]a container or box for storing things in

ex.

The kid broken a case of wine,he is afraid of his morther now.

• picky:[adjective]describes someone who is very careful about choosing only what they like

ex.

She is picky about what she eats because she is on a diet.

• adjust:[verb [T] ]to change something slightly, especially to make it more correct, effective, or suitable

ex.

I had adiusted my life since I entered the NTUST.

• wrap up :[(phrasal verb)] to finish
• drop by/in:[phrasal verb ] to visit someone

Actually,I don't understand the senters"Whatever. Where was I?...."

Can anyone tell me what she mean?

At first time to listen Answering Machine,I just knew he cann't go to somewhere on time for his report.At second times,I knew he want to go to somewhere,and then take some food to somewhere.At 3th, 4th times,no more information from the sound record.

I think the "連音" cause that I don't understant what he say.

It have more work to do in English listening.

Studio Classroom Assignment 4

I find some words that I don't know before from studio classroom Augst13 14.
1.purchase
It mean to buy something.
Ex.
The ticket of concert must be purchased at the first time!
It mean something that you buy,too.
Ex.
How much do you pay for purchases?

2.Statistics
collect more and more date to establish the fact
Ex.
I think the constellations is one of statistica.
3 Talk into
try to convince someone
I talk into you to believe that I have a lot of work!

I think worth of money depond on person.
How much can you spend a watch?
1000? 3000? 8000?!!
Yea..I bought a 8000 dollers watch of CK watch.
My friend talk to me it's too expensive and waste but he bought the iPod to himself!
Which is waster one? CK watch? iPod?
It has not a standard.
The consumption can push tne economy .

If you can control your desire of purchase,just to buy you want!

Just remember control yourself.

How the cazy concert!!!

There were a concert about
"Ayumi hamasaki ASIA TOUR 2008~10TH ANNIVERSARY~" last saturday.I bought two tickets of NT5000 with my brother.
Is it too expensive?! NO! It 's very worth.

The lights ,sound effects,dancers,stages.... shock me,especially the dancer perform drama when he/she dance.
It is too hard to tell what my feeling about the concert is...

This year is her 10th anniversary of singing business carrer.
I wish she could have a great concert every year!

This the introduct about Ayumi Hamasaki from Wikipedia