Comparison Between Students at NTU and Their Counterparts at Tsinghua University, Mainland China--""放狗出來，台灣年輕人也會跳牆"--from Business Today

This is a LINE message from a junior high school friend. The article was originally from Business Today.

http://www.businesstoday.com.tw/article-content-80396-102058?page=4

"文章很長，但值得慢慢看！
［轉載］兩岸年輕人的競爭力到底差多大？
大家都要加油了！責任在下一代！

兩岸最高學府，名師陳嫦芬專訪：
（今周刊 872期，撰文 / 施禔盈  ）

北京清華大學，20年來極少數
被評價特優的師長陳嫦芬，
目前在兩岸最高學府教書，
對於兩邊實力有第一手觀察，
她深深憂慮：
台灣人才的培育已經來不及了。

Jamie Raven, the Magician at Britain's Got Talent

The other day, a friend, who once taught English at a junior high school, told me that she found her English not as good as before because she could not hardly understand what was said at this year's Academy Awards.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar Acceptance Speech & Its Transcript

Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Oscar Award for Best Actor on Feb. 28, 22 years after he was first nominated, for Best Supporting Actor that time. I watched The Revenant and knew he would win the award before the result was announced. Good for him!

The transcript from the follwoing website, with some words missing, though:

Cold or Flu?

(Photo shared by a LINE group)

After almost totally recover from the cold, I got the flu.

The website http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/flu-cold-symptoms gives the differences between cold and flu.

When you wake up sneezing, coughing, and have that achy, feverish, can't move a muscle feeling, how do you know whether you have cold symptoms or the flu?

You Are the Brand!--重視人格教育 孩子，你就是名牌--from UDN

http://udn.com/news/story/7339/1529740-%E9%87%8D%E8%A6%96%E4%BA%BA%E6%A0%BC%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2-%E5%AD%A9%E5%AD%90%EF%BC%8C%E4%BD%A0%E5%B0%B1%E6%98%AF%E5%90%8D%E7%89%8C

重視人格教育 孩子，你就是名牌

2016-02-28 04:29 聯合報 李枝桃／資深教育工作者（南投市）

最近出新書，接到幾家廣播節目訪談，節目進行之餘與主持人聊著教育相關問題。一位主持人憂心忡忡地說起，在台北父母親把孩子送到私立雙語小學就讀，決定十二年都待在私立學校似乎已成趨勢，他問我知不知道這樣的情況？

My comments: Why?

我想到，幾年前推十二年國教沸沸揚揚之際，我在台北某扶輪社演講，當時一半以上社員都對十二年國教不放心，把孩子往私校送，並計畫讓孩子到國外讀大學，另一半則慶幸他們的孩子都大了。

The Best Way to a Man's Heart Is Through His Stomach

Tonight Annie called me and among others, we talked about cooking. Annie enjoys preparing food for her family. Yesterday she learned to make sushi from a lady and she posted the step-by-step proceddure on her fb page. Seeing the photos, I recalled a sentence learned from a movie years ago, "If someone can do it, I can do it." I decided to make sushi by the coming Sunday.

It is a blessing for a family to have a mother/wife who loves cooking.

 

"Forget 'Sit down!' Students now standing up to learn"--from CNN

This is an interesting article. Last week when I was teaching, I had an urge to ask students to stand to learn, though I didn't really do so. They stood only when I had them "read, look up, and say." Since sitting too long is not good for health, perhaps teachers should design some activities in which students stand and move around.

The webpage presents a video in which you can see what the standing desks students use are like.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/10/health/standing-desks-impact-health-education/index.html

Forget 'Sit down!' Students now standing up to learn

By Kelly Wallace, CNN

Updated 1259 GMT (2059 HKT) December 10, 2015

Kelly Wallace is CNN's digital correspondent and editor-at-large covering family, career and life. Read her other columns, and follow her reports at CNN Parents and on Twitter.

(CNN)Juliet Starrett and her husband were running the sack race at their children's school field day when they noticed something was wrong -- the kids couldn't get into the sacks.

A Passage from the Book the time keeper

I'm reading a book by Mitch Albom, "the time keeper." A passage on page 8 tickles my heart.

"Try to imagie a life without timekeeping.

You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a scchedule, a calendar, a tie for dinner or a movie.

Get to Read

An article recommended by my good friend Annie (詹麗馨) yesterday.

http://www.managertoday.com.tw/articles/view/51322

買了書回家卻總是沒讀？這7個方法，讓你養成閱讀習慣！

2015-09-30 16:40 合作轉載 職場家

「知識就是力量」這句話是老生常談了，建立閱讀的習慣很難，但卻很值得，不是嗎？建立習慣需要時間，但卻有方法，一旦你建立起閱讀的習慣，你的專業知識將會建立的更快，也能夠更快脫穎而出。

1. 睡前固定安排一小時閱讀

Traffic Light Labeling--Videos

Lesson One is about traffic light labeling, which was introduced by the Food Standards Agency in the UK. After discussing the first four paragraphs, when students get a clear idea about what this system is, I presented two videos so that the students could get a vivid impression of it.

Sentence Analysis

This is the most complicated sentence in Lesson One.

Words Related to Shining: Glitter, Glisten, Gleam, Glint, and Glimmer

This afternoon, students in Class 208 asked me the difference between glitter, glisten, and gleam. Although I gave them my answer, as a non-native English speaker, I was not 100% confident. Here I found an answer online. The webpage includes more words: glint and glimmer.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/127189/whats-the-difference-between-glinted-glittered-glistened-gleamed-and-glimme

 

 

My First Day of Substitute Teaching

The first day of my four-day substitute teaching. I didn't spend one hour talking to students in English about learning English or life lessons as I used to do when teaching a class for a whole school year, or at least around a month.

Clip Converter to Download YouTube Films

http://www.clipconverter.cc/

On College Education--"周行一／「良心」尚不足以成事"--from UDN

http://udn.com/news/story/7340/1355762-%E5%91%A8%E8%A1%8C%E4%B8%80%EF%BC%8F%E3%80%8C%E8%89%AF%E5%BF%83%E3%80%8D%E5%B0%9A%E4%B8%8D%E8%B6%B3%E4%BB%A5%E6%88%90%E4%BA%8B

周行一／「良心」尚不足以成事

2015-12-04 02:22 聯合報 周行一（國立政治大學校長）

您一定聽人說過「教育是良心事業」，台灣的確有許多老師無怨無悔地教育學生，不僅勞心勞力，甚至慷慨解囊幫助學生，這些教師真正做到了發揮自己的良知，把教書當成一生的志業。儘管如此，台灣整體的教育品質並不算好，我們應該思考如何改善。

A Friend's Blog of Recipes--"小瑪的天空"

http://smargare168.pixnet.net/blog

小瑪的天空



Yesterday on our short trip, Yen-chiu told me she enjoyed cooking. She posted her recipes on her blog so that one day when she passes away, her children can still make the food their mother used to cook for them. This way, they won't really lose their mother. I was touched by her words.

A Day with Friends

(The first gentleman from the left in the back row helped plant the cherry trees around the park.)

Time: 10am~13pm, Feb. 19, 2016

Place: Lohas Park, Neigousi, and Pi-fang's home

Participants: 林必芳, 沈豔秋, 黃將彰, 將彰夫人, and me

Today, though having a bad cold, I still attended the trip to Lohas Park with my junior high schoolmates, because I'm a co-organizer. In fact, I've visited the cherry blossoms in the late afternoon the day before yesterday because I had to get a clear idea of where to meet and the route to the park from the nearest MRT station. Only five had signed up for this trip, and we had a good time.

Locating the Verb of a Sentence

Yesterday I mentioned in my entry the importance of locating the verb of a sentence. Here is an example question Che-wei asked yesterday.

Most of the companies surveyed ________ their growth to marketing and sales strategies.

(A) attributes    (B) attributed   (C) attributing    (D) attribution

Borrowed to Teach Grammar

Time: 7:30pm~8:50pm

Place: MOS Burger, Wende MRT station

After an exhausting day, I went to the appointment with Che-wei (范哲瑋), an NHSH student who graduated in 2011 and who I never taught but got acquainted with just because he was a friend of a student of mine. Late yesterday evening he contacted me via FB Messenger, asking if he could ask me grammar questions on some TOEIC practice tests he'd done by Sunday, when he's going to take the big exam. Surely, I said yes. I once thought to myself, if I were a "book" in a human library, what could I be borrowed for? English grammar, of course.

Monkey Phrases

This year is the year of monkey. This afternoon, while driving, I heard on the radio the host talk about English "monkey phrases." He mentioned three: monkey business, a monkey on one's back, and monkey around.

Curious about more monkey phrases, I checked online and find nine at Oxford Dictionaries:

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/12/monkey-business-and-other-phrases/

Guesss what phrases are listed here?