# Assignment 10 -- BBC Message Board

Question

posted by LARRY :

What is the tip for memory English word? It is easy for me forget the memoried words.

Reply

posted by wes :

Read a word a hundred times - with luck you might remember it.Say a word ten times - you could remember it.USE a word correctly two or three times - you'll remember it.Words 'learnt' from lists just end up in your passive vocabulary - OK for reading or listening. Words learnt because you know how to use them (and pronounce them!) are in your active vocabulary - and this is the important one.

The reply is good. But I can't ask questions in the morning. It is not convenient.

Assignment 9 -- comments on some online open courseware

MIT opencourseware is convenient. It has many useful information.
I like it because it has not only video but also some practice assignments.

Academic Earth has many video from many school. It is good.
But it has not practice assignment. It is bad.

OpenCourseWare Consortium is hard to use. I think.

TED is good. It has many interesting things.

Top 100 speeches has many mp3 to download.It is very good.

Assignment 7--A song from Youtube

Carpenters - Yesterday Once More

Lyrics for "Yesterday Once More"

When I was young

I'd listened to the radio

Waitin' for my favorite songs

When they played

I'd sing along

It made me smile

Those were such happy times

And not so long ago

How I wondered where they'd gone

But they're back again

Just like a long lost friend

All the songs I loved so well

(*) Every Sha-la-la-la

Every Wo-wo-wo

Still shines

Every shing-a-ling-a-ling

That they're starting to sing's

So fine

When they get to the part

Where he's breakin' her heart

It can really make me cry

Just like before

It's yesterday once more

Lookin' back on how it was

In years gone by

And the good times that I had

Makes today seem rather sad

So much has changed

It was songs of love that

I would sing to then

And I'd memorize each word

Those old melodies

Still sound so good to me

As they melt the years away

Repeat (*)

All my best memories

Come back clearly to me

Some can even make me cry

Just like before

It's yesterday once more

Repeat (*)

Assignment 6:Reflection on Steve Jobs' talk

The expressions I learn from Steve Job's talk
(1)I am honored to be with you today .
(2)It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
(3)None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
(4)You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
(5)But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did.
(6)It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
(7)It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
(8)As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
(9)So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
(10)Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
(11)It was their farewell message as they signed off.

Reflection on Steve Job's thought
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. " I like this concept.

I am always regretful for something stupid I did before.
After listening this speech,I think that maybe the things I did are not totally useless.
If I had not those failure before, I will not progress.
So I must believe myself. Just do something what I want.

Assignment 4

[easy]Daily schedule

1. I can catch the buses.
2. It takes about 20min to walk to the bus stop.
3. That is full time job.

[easy]Shopping for the Day

1. How about giving your father a new wallet?
2. How about this brown another one?

[easy]Clothing styles

1. The weather doesn't get too cold.

Comment:

First,the website is good for us to improve listening skills.

But I think that too many ads beside the listening practice are not good.

Assignment 3

"Large" usually describe the amount of the thing which is uncountable.
"Large" also could describe the size of clothes.
ex.I will be very upset if I see a large amount of lottery money spent on just one or two institutions in the short term.

"Big" could describe countable noun or uncountable noun.
"Big" usually describe countble noun.
ex.There are no big differences between young and old or across the social classes.

Assignment 2

After using some online dictionaries,I feel that these online dictionaries are more
convenient than the paper dictionaries I use before.Because it takes a lot of time
to look up the word in paper the dictionary.
The strengh of the paper dictionary is portable.I can take it to everywhere.And taking a computer is inconvenient.
When I raed the article from CNN,I use the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
It is fast.And the meaning of the word is clear.

Here are five words I look up:

1.humanitarian [noun]
(a person who is) involved in or connected with improving people's lives and reducing suffering


2.epicenter [noun]
the point on the Earth's surface directly above an earthquake or atomic explosion

3.stability [noun]
when something is not likely to move or change

4.juncture [noun]
a particular point in time

5.aftershock [noun]
a sudden movement of the Earth's surface which often follows an earthquake and which is less violent than the first main movement