Assignment7: Commercial

Hey, come here.

I want you to listen very carefully to what I'm gonna tell you.

We both know, I ordered a Pepsi cola.

And now you've insulted me and my entire family by offering me this, this whatever it is.

Being a civilized person, I'd like to make amends.

Capeesh? (means DO YOU UNDERSTAND?)

Thank You... grazzi(means THANK YOU)
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I saw the commercial called "Godfather Girl" which my teacher show it on the screen in class in the last semester.

The Pepsi commercial describes a girl and her grandfather walk into a restaurant, but the girl's drink isn't the Pepsi she ordered, so in a Godfather voice she expresses how she feels.

At the beginning, the shopper said "cupcake" to the girl.

It means a cute adorable girl or boy. :)

The girl is adorable, especilly she holds her fist with a serious face.

Also, I look up for a dictionary for the meaning of a godfather.

The word has two differnt meanings.

One means a male godparent(教父), and the other means the leader of a criminal group, especially a mafia family.It can also mean your third parent(乾爹).

There are more detailed meanings on this website. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=godfather


Godfather
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I downloaded some of speeches and videos which I like from YOU TUBE.

I am grateful that I know how to store videos in that way .

Also, those which I downloded can transform videos into MP3 files.

It just takes few minutes to finish it. That is nice.
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By the way,

The blog is not easy to use than other blogs. (= = ")

Assignment6:ESL Podcast 466

Day/Date: 2009/04/16
Title: ESL Podcast 466–Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner
http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=6743057#
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The dialogue is native and doen't feel boring.
Although those explainationas are short, I can't not catch every word briefly.
I can't not bear each word and write down quickly.
Therefore, I have to listen to once ore twice times to finish it.
Hope oneday I can handle it without listening repetitively.
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TEXT:

Cho: I’m not sure I’m cut out to be a doctor.

Joy: I think you’ll be great. I’ve seen you with patients and you have a great bedside manner – not like Gregory.

Cho: Why? What’s wrong with his bedside manner?

Joy: I’ve seen him with patients and he can be really callous. For instance, I was in the room last week when he was telling one of his patients that she was taking a turn for the worse.

Cho: What did he say?

Joy: He just blurted it out. He told her the diagnosis, and he didn’t even try to soften the news when she asked about her prognosis. He did absolutely nothing to try to comfort or reassure her.

Cho: I feel sorry for the patient.

Joy: That’s the point. Gregory didn’t, and it didn’t seem to faze him that the patient was very upset and close to hysterics.

Cho: That’s terrible. I’ll try to remember to be more compassionate with my patients.

Joy: Don’t worry. It’s against your nature to be anything but considerate.
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
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Definition:
1. Be cut out:
to be creative to do sth…. sth. that is good match for you

2. Patients:
people who are receiving medical care or attention from a doctor or a nurse
If you are sick, you go to see a doctor. You are a patient

3. Beside manner:
the way that a doctor or a nurse talks to a people how they give medical advice or instructions or other information
how doctor treat their patients how they communicate with their patients because that such important part of medicine

4. Callous:
without considering another person’s feeling

5. Take a turn for the worse:
be getting worse it’s opposite of getting better

6. Blurt it out:
say sth. without thinking about it first and about how it will sound to the other person

7. Diagnosis:
the doctors conclusion what the medical problem is

8. Soften:
make it nicer… to make it easier to accept (soften the blow=punch=hit)

9. Prognosis:
is the doctor opinion how your health will change in the future… what the doctor thinks is what is wrong with you

10. Comfort:
to do or say sth. that will make the person feel better, more comfortable

11. Reassure:
make them feel better about sth. …is similar to comfort

12. Feel sorry for:
to understand the person’s difficulties…to empathize with someone

13. Faze someone:
is a phrase that means you are surprised because someone else wasn’t affected by sth.

14. Hysterics:
have an uncontrolled emotion when you can’t stop crying

15. Compassionate:
to be caring, to be kind, to be nice to somebody

16. Against your nature:
you can’t do because isn’t part of your personality, character and who you are

17. Anything but considerate:
to be nice, to be nature, to be aware of other people’s feeling

On the go

On the last Friday, one of my roommates and I went to National Taiwan Museum, Taiwan storyland, and Lunshan Temple. We visited there for assignments. Although it was for homework, it was worth visiting and sightseeing. National Taiwan Museum was now exhibiting “The Life of Centennial Taiwan” and “The Photos Exhibition of the sea” underground, "Woolly Mammoth" on the first floor, and “Czeth Gems” on the second floor and so on. We spent an amount of time on old life in Taiwan. It represented a number of ancient things such as the old household equipments, clothes, traditional discs and tapes, and telephones, etc from young’s rooms to elder’s rooms. It reminded me of childhood. Something special like Vespa motorcycles which my dad used to have one, heavy and black-white TV, Da-Tong dolls and fans, 50 dollars bills is memorable.

The next was we went Taiwan storyland. Although the admission charge was a little bit expensive, the inside was interesting and full of the times of my childhood as well. I memorized when I was a child, I could see the old chatting and singing karaoke under the big tree in the park, with kids playing balls, jump ropes and hide-and-seek. I used to play hopscotch with my sister and brother in the yard. I‘d seem a poster was drawn by hand. A garbage can was made from wood. An ice shaving was made by machine which needs to turn the wheel around on the right so that the small ice can be produced. A vender shouting loud for ice or sausages was strolling on the road everywhere with the bell ringing. I still remembered now there was a vender, driving around my village once a week, selling stinky tofu and he had been selling it since I was a child. The storyland was just like a small village. There you can find things different from our present circumstances opposite to where upper story building was a modern apartment store. Finally, in the evening at 6:00, we went to Lunshan Temple. It was my first time to pick a straw for a piece of advice. After staying here for a while, we went to school.

Assignment5: Five expressions from Randall's

I choose two audio clips "Vocation Plans" and "Weekly Activities" from the level of medium at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab.

There are five expressions I learn from these two listening articles.

1.to be in hot water: to be in a difficult situation or in trouble that might lead to punishment
e.g.
The politician is in hot water because of the he lack of lack of cultural sensitivity to that group.

2.crash: quick, complete, short or intensive, often difficult
e.g.
She took crash course in Spanish before she left for Mexico, but I'm not sure if it helped.

3.catch up: reach a point where one should be
e.g.
I need to catch up on my sleep. I've been very tired recently.

4.geometry: math of lines, points, and shapes
e.g.
My daughter is taking geometry in junior high school now.

5.vault: a room or space, often made of steel, for safekeeping valuables like money or important documents
e.g.
The millionaire kept all his valuable coins, paintings, and jewelry in a secret vault in his house.




In addtion, I also Listen to a "Traffic Ticket" conversation.
Here is some of Key vocabularies.

• glove compartment (noun): a small space, usually on the dashboard of the car, used for storage)
• e.g. People usually keep the car's registration and other small items in the glove compartment.

• odometer (noun): a meter that measures speed and distance traveled
• e.g. Check your odometer. I think you're speeding.

• impound (verb): to take or seize by legal authority
• e.g.The police impounded the man's car because it was involved in a crime.

• infractions (noun): minor crimes or violations against the law
• e.g.Because the man had been involved in numerous infractions with the law, his license was suspended for an entire year .

Why is a glove compartment called?

A glove compartment or glovebox is a compartment built into the dashboard, located over the front-seat passenger's footwell in an automobile, often used for miscellaneous storage. The name derives from the original purpose of the compartment: to store gloves.

Informaiton from:

http://www.esl-lab.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glove_compartment

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...

: )