Movie

Because those days were bored aside from homework and the weather was not good, I have seen a lot of movies recently. Which the movie I have seem is “Slumdog Millionaire,”“Departures,””Marley and Me,””The Reader,””27 dresses,””Music and Lyrics,””Any Given Sunday,” and “Les’ Miserable.” Some were borrowed from the library, some were in the English movie class, and others were on the internet. Those movies which I liked very much were ‘Slumdog Millionaire” and “The Reader.” Both of them were long stories. The former touched my heart that I felt there were still cruel and miserable to society. There had still poverty and the dreadful conditions somewhere. The boy in the movie why he could get an amount of money is he just came through those experiences through his whole life in those answers of being asked questions. In addition, he had been intrigued by a girl when he was young. His intention to attend the show just wanted the girl could watch him on TV. Lastly, with the help of his elder brother, they could get together in the end.


The other movie “The Reader” is an unusual love. A young boy about 15 had a relationship with a woman about 36. They lasted together the duration of the summer. The boy usually read stories to the woman when they were together. One day, the woman vanished without excuses. The boy was confused and heartbroken. After the years, both of them met at the court in which the boy sat there as an intern lawyer while the woman was a defendant related to German guard crimes against Jewish prisoners. When the years past, the boy recorded some of previous stories sent to the woman in prison. Which part of the movie I liked was that the woman confessed she wrote the fatal report. Because she was not able to write, she abased herself and couldn’t want anyone to disclose her weakness. She denied writing words down to compare characters, so she was sent to jail. In prison, she listened to those tapes and began to learn words; furthermore, she tried to write a letter to the boy. However, she chose to end her life in prison after the boy finally came to see her and was going to pick her out of jail. Although the movie was a tragedy, still it was perfect ending to me.

Assignmen4: Comment

I didn't know those websites until the teacher introduced to me. I like online dictionaries. There were different functions among them. Especially it can differentiate between two similar words with English definition.

The strength of those tools is that they are assisted tools in order to help us write proper words which would be able to improve our English. They split a variety of functions which aimed to specific usages or proposes to enhance English.
The weakness of those tools is the page is running slowly and lists too much which might confuse us some time.

When I want to look up for a word, I am priory to use dictionaries instead of concordance and collocation websites. I am accustomed to use it. But, since that I have knew those websites, I use them to look up for words when I couldn’t find the correct words in dictionaries.

Good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8COsZloYdU

Today, I went to "Tapei story house." My roommate and I went there about 10:00. It took us 30 minutes to get there. The building was beautiful. The house was colorful and vivid. However,inside the house,it was too small, so we went around and finished quickly.

In the afterroom, we went to 西門町 to see Jolin's singing. She released her new album called butterfly. She was beautuful and thin. There were a large number of people for seeing her. Although the weather was hot, we stood there almost three hours for picturing.She sang two latest songs. One is "real man." The lyrics said " I don't want to a boyfriend, I need a real man", which meant that a girl wanted to an honest, reliable, and gentle man instead of a boyfiend. hahaha...

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Assignmen3: big and large

In my opinion, nouns were described by big and large.However, large was usually linked to quantities somthing like a large amount of, a large chunk of, a large group of and so on. Big is comparatively oral speaking. It sometimes refer to the volume, the weight, and the degree.
Basically, I think there are no much different between them. : (


For example,

big
a big man= an old man
a big elephant
big man=great man

large
a large amount of
a large chunk of
a large number of
a large percentage of
a large proportion of
a large quantity of
a large scale
a large slice of
a large sum of
a large volume of

Assignmen2: 2 Confusing Words

valu•able (Adj.)
1. ~ (to sb/sth) very useful or important: a valuable experience
ex: The book provides valuable information on recent trends.
ex: This advice was to prove valuable. Spinach is a valuable source of iron.

2. worth a lot of money: valuable antiques
ex: Luckily, nothing valuable was stolen.
ex: My home is my most valuable asset.

Opposite: valueless, worthless—compare invaluable, priceless

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value•less (Adj.)
(formal) without value or worth
ex: Her shares in the company have become valueless.
Synonym:worthless
Opposite:valuable


worth•less (Adj.)
1. having no practical or financial value:
ex: Critics say his paintings are worthless. Opposite: valuable

2. (of a person) having no good qualities or useful skills:
ex: A worthless individual Constant rejections made him feel worthless.

valuable→valueless→worthless

in•valu•able (Adj.)
~ (to / for sb/sth) ~ (in sth) extremely useful
ex: invaluable information
ex: The book will be invaluable for students in higher education.
ex: The research should prove invaluable in the study of children’s language.
Synonym: valuable
—compare valuable
Invaluable means ‘very valuable or useful’.
The opposite of valuable is valueless or worthless.

price•less (Adj.)

1. extremely valuable or important: a priceless collection of antiques priceless information
ex: Our family photos are priceless. → note at valuable

2 (informal) extremely amusing:
ex: You should have seen his face—it was priceless!

invaluable→priceless→precious→worthwhile


Opinion:
I am confused between invaluable and valueable.
Invaluable somewhat means there is no money can evaluate.
And valuable means you can use your money to evaluate and buy one.

Invaluable: can't evaluate
valuable: can evaluate

For example:
He bought me a valuable diamond ring as a birthday present.
The invaluable ring was the girl's only proporty that her parents left for her.

I like to eat a lot of fruits. : )

It is part of fruits which my mom sending me.

The box inside includes tomatos, apples, oranges and a muskmelon. : )

In front of my house in my hometown, there are some farms planting fruits, vegetables or livestock. My mom and father plant over 30 vegetables and fruits. During the winter holiday, I could eat my favorite foods including cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, strwberries, sweet potatos, tomatos which are all my parents diligently planting. I also helped my parents water those lovely vegetables and fruits. So I miss the winter hoilday at home.

Thanks to my mother pack me some fruits and useful stuffs like anti-insect ointment and eye lotion, because I won't probably have time to get back home.

In this semaster, there are some English original books that I have to read. It's hard to comprehend those books called "Language files" and "A course in Phonetics." Sometimes when I am tired, I will listen to some Taiwanese songs to remove my thinking to my family. I feel that Taiwanese songs are more local and full of friendliness than Chinese songs.