http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-151105

This topic is about "The impact of plastic". According to the video, people don't dispose plastic bags in properly way, it litter the streets and clog or block drains and sewers, it spoil the countryside and damage wildlife. Because plastic bags are hard to decompose or break down by natural chemical processes so it may cause many impacts to environment or lead to pollution. Because of its harmful, i think we should cut down the use of plastic bags, we should use canvas bags, paper bags instead of using plastic bags. And we should reuse it in properly way to protect our environment. 

Assignment #7

The talk is very interesting. I'm always interested in learning about the topic of success. In the talk, she mentioned that "Grit" is the key to success and I agree with her opinion. As she said: "Grit is passion and perseverance for every long term goals". It so true, whatever we do, we need grit, don't being discouraging when encountering the failure. Everyone should have a grit of what they are doing and then the success will come. For example, when I'm in high school, some of my classmates weren't perform well at school, they even didn't concentrate on their study and I thought that they couldn't get a ticket to attend university. But what surprised me? They passed an exam and attended university while those who performed well at school are failed. It taught me that whether you are a smart person or not, no one will be successful without grit. So her talk is very useful and inspiring me.

Assignment#6

Christmas is coming around the corner, so i decided to pick out this song. Hope everyone enjoy it !

Song-facts:

This song is actually about a failed relationship(the singer's ex-girlfriend have a new boyfriend); only the phase "Last Christmas", when the relationship came to head, refers to the festival season. Despite this it has become an annual Christmas standards on UK radio stations.

I really love this song because it gives me a warm feeling. Can't wait to Christmas.. :))))



Lyrics:

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (special)

Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye
Tell me baby do you recognize me?
Well it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me

I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying "I Love You" I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me again

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (special)

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (special)

A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover but you tore him apart
Maybe next year, 
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special
Special, someone, someone
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special

Who'll give me something in return
I'll give it to someone, hold my heart and watch it burn

I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone special
I thought you were here to stay
How can love be for a day?
I thought you were someone special, gave you my heart

I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
You gave it away
I'll give it to someone, I'll give it to someone

Assignment#5

I use google to search for information every day, but I never used google syntax before until last week. After using google syntax I found that it is very helpful. Because I'm able to search for information easily. What is more, using google syntax is a good way to get more specific search results. I like how it works and I will use google syntax more often.

Assignment#4

My notes:

1. To change the subject: To stop talking about one thing and begin talking about something else especially when you don't want to talk about the first topic. You have to be careful when you say "Let's change another subject" because you could insult someone, you could be rude to someone by saying that out loud.
2. Not getting any younger: May soon be too old to do something.
3. Moving on: Is a phrase to indicate you want to stop talking about this topic and to talk about something else.
4. Settling down: To get married and to start a family.
5. Alone: To be by yourself without anyone else.
6. Lonely: To feel sad because you are by yourself and don't have close personal relationship.
7. Speaking out: To introduce a topic that is related to what the other person said but isn't exactly the same.
8. To break up with: To end the romantic relationship with someone.Usually we use it as the  ending with boyfriends or girlfriends, not married.
9. Leg man: Is an informal one, referring to a man who might be attracted to a woman who has long legs.
10. And now for something completely different: To change the topic of conversation but also to perhaps make a little joke.
11. Diet: Refer to a kind of food you eat, normally we use the word when someone is trying to lose weight, trying to eat such a kind of food in order to not be as heavy as they are right now to be weightless.
12. Shedding pounds: To lose weight.
13. My sentiments exactly: Used to show that you completely agree with what the other person has said. 

It is about avoiding topics in conversation. The conversation occurs between Lila and George. Lila wonders why George is not dating. However, George don't want to talk about this topic, he want to change another subject but Lila still want to delve into this topic.In my opinion, when we start a conversation or a dialog, we need to make sure what we should talk to and what is should not to avoid the conflict. And of course many people might feel discomfort with some topics which relate to personal private issues such as age, salary, boyfriend or girlfriend. For example, in many cultural, it will be rude if you ask someone about their age. So you need to be careful what are you going to say in order to make a conversation become more comfortable. Besides. you still able to start a conversation by asking their personal issues in case you're really close to a person that you talk to.

Assignment#3

I'm really interested in learning English.For me,English is the most useful language in the world .I started learning English since I was 7 years old.But learning English is always a big challenge to me.There are 4 main skills in English:Speaking,Listening,Writing and Reading.Listening is my first obstacle.When I am practicing Listening,I try to understand what people say in the conversations or short stories and then I feel upset with myself because I am not utterly understand it.With a view to improve my Listening skill,I force myself to spend an hour per day to listen in English and write down what i hear.However,it is quite difficult for me to understand the content of the conversations or short stories in the first time so i will repeat it over and over again until I completely understand it.I'm afraid of listening test.I want to improve more about my Listening skill to get high score in my test.Till I attend Computer Assisted Language Learning class.I can say that is a very helpful subject.In this class,my teacher has provides many useful resources to us such as ESL Listening Lab,Linking and Accent Reductions.ESL Lab is an useful program for those who want to improve their Listening skill or English on the whole. I can learn many things on this program.Because it provides many audio files to learner.The audio files are divided into 3 levels:Easy,Medium and Difficult so it is easy to choose the level that right for me.Besides,the time of each audio is quite short and after listening there are 5 questions below the audio.It also provides Script for each audio.I think this is the most useful part of this program.From the Script,I am able to understand more about the content of the conversations and improve my grammar as well.In addition,Linking and Accent Reductions are useful too.I can learn exactly the accent of English native speaker like how to pronounce the sounds "to","for","of" and so on.It helps me a lot in pronouncing English words correctly.After I attend this class,how pleased I feel when I am listening in English with more confident.

Assignment#2

My vocabulary list and following the example sentences:

• Voila:Used to express success or satisfaction.

E.g:Voila,my new winter outfit!

• Butcher:To kill indiscriminately or brutally.

E.g:The meet will be butchered for the local market.

• In charge:Having the care or supervision of.

E.g:She is in charge of two libraries.

• Prank:A trick of an amusing,playful,or sometimes malicious nature.

E.g:He loved to tease,and numerous times his friends were the victims of his practical pranks.

• Adjustments:The act of adjusting,adaption to a particular condition,position or purpose.

E.g:I have made a few adjustments to my diet.