被動語態 Passive Voice

This website offers very concise explanation of the passive voice.

http://www.npc.edu.hk/staff/~ngtungying/english_grammar/lessons/lesson35.htm

主詞與動詞的ㄧ致--表格篇 Agreement between the subject and the verb

Please click 主詞與動詞的一致.doc

Agreement between the subject and the verb 主詞與動詞的一致

You might like to get some idea from this website:

http://blog.sina.com.tw/suchin/article.php?pbgid=18254&entryid=3195

A surprise visit

This afternoon, I had a surprise visit from Max (呂元鐘). It's been a long time since I last saw him. Max graduated from NHSH about 7 years ago and has his own business now. Aggressive and ambitious, he seems to enjoy all the adventure in his life.

This is the beauty of being a teacher. Although you don't change much, you marvel at what a life your students have after they leave school.

To those who have got admitted to college

Congratulations, freshmen-to-be! You must be very happy that now you can use your time as you wish. No more review tests, no more pressure.

About 314

This morning, Anna, who taught 314 in place of me yesterday afternnon because I had to attend a conference, told me that my class behaved very well and that they were considerate and helpful. Wow! Isn't that great?

如何準備指考：學長經驗談

今天第二次模考成績公佈了，之前，早上聽到一位同學說他會慌。於是決定壯起膽來，很冒昧地打電話問琍琍老師去年305班的古彬宏同學，如何從學測的58級分衝到指考373.54分，進入台大會計系。彬宏同學非常熱心，從手機中的聲音就可感覺到他是個很樂意助人的好青年。以下是訪談內容，限於篇幅，僅列點陳述他做到的事：

A conference on 2008 SAT

This afternoon I attended a conference at CEEC. According to the statistics CEEC offered, this year's (97) SAT is the easiest one among the recent five years'. The items with P=or >0.51 account for 78.5%. Some teachers mentioned that it couldn't differentiate the real top students from the rest.

The page turner of 4DigitalBooks

At this site, you can see how the automatic page turner & scanner for books works.

http://www.4digitalbooks.com/

In Lesson 10, we learned that the robot from the Swiss company 4DigitalBooks turns pages at the rate of 1,000 pages per hour, but here you see the page turner turn pages at the speed of 3,000 pages per hour. More advanced!

To :P:

Are you and 是妳的學生:P: the same person? It is sweet of you to say those words. I remember a line of words on TV I saw when I was studying at Illinois: Some words hurt; some words heal. Surely, your words warm my heart. Thank you.

To Esther

Well, Esther, answer the follwoing three very simple yes-no questions, and I think I'll know who you are.

1. Are you in Class 316?

2. Is your seat number after 29?

3. Do you have short hair?

If we could carry the universal library around

In today's 316 class, we continued to discuss the universal library. In Paragraph 6, the idea of carrying a library of all libraries around in an iPod was introduced.

The students had mixing feelings about this possibility. Some liked it because it would save time, and some disliked it for they were afraid human beings would become more stupid. Personally, I like it because I can enjoy the convenience of having easy access to all material around the world, be it an article from a samll newspaper or a piece of exotic music.

 

Advice from Tsan-ju

This afternoon, Tsan-ju (楊粲如) and I had a chat. She already finished the interview with the department of design at a normal university. She said she would like to come back to school after she enters college to talk to students at NTNU. She would tell the frshmen that her personal experience taught her a lesson: it is worthwhile to study hard from the very beginning of senior high school so that they won't regret when they are applying for the department and school they really want to study in.

Ken's visit, plus how to impress the professors in the interview for college application

This afternoon, Ken paid me a visit. He called at noon and made sure that I would be at school at 4:00pm. It's been a long time since we last saw each other. He arrived at around 3:40 and we had a good chat until around 5:30. He showed me his school newspaper (大學報， Chengchi University) which he helped edit. In fact, he was responsible for the sports column, which he said took up a lot of his time. He also told me that he was selected to pay a visit to Japan for free during the winter vacation.

Alexandria Library

Don't be scared by the long URL. Click on it and you can see the library of Alexandria, past and present.

http://images.google.com.tw/imgres?imgurl=http://www.baltimoreegypt.org/Images/scrools2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.baltimoreegypt.org/Library.htm&h=239&w=300&sz=9&hl=zh-TW&start=16&um=1&tbnid=tkHQ2-9SABiI0M:&tbnh=92&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAlexandria%2Blibrary%26um%3D1%26complete%3D1%26hl%3Dzh-TW%26rlz%3D1T4GGLJ_zh-TWTW249TW250%26sa%3DN

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About English learning--grammar and writing

This noon Yu-chi (林育綺), Min-chu (張閔筑), and Shi-hsuen (楊士萱) came to me. They asked me how to improve their English grammar and writing ability.
As for grammar, I suggested that they review the grammar book we used in the second year and the exercises we did last semester. To get ideas for writing, I advised they often practice brainstorming together. I told them when they are walking around the campus, they can decide on a topic, for example, "Which is better, an extended family or a nuclear family," or "Which is the best season," then they debate, saying anything coming to their mind. If they use their brains often to generate ideas, they will find it easier to come up with ideas when writing. "Practice makes perfect."