#9 Radio Station: ICRT 100.7

Theme Radio ICRT 100.7

Host: George Arney, Julian Keane, Fergus Nicoll, Max Pearson
Genres: News, Current Affairs
Location: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Networks: BBC

Examining in detail the stories which make the headlines. From politics and economics to international affairs, the show offers news analysis and investigation of world events.

Comment
It's quite a good station for those who wanna practice their English listening skill. The host of this radio station are always said with very clear and correct pronounciation while they are speaking, and I like their music provided indeed:)

and.... sorry for the delayed after all. Is it okay to give me some score?QQ

#8 Cats Musical - Memory

Cats Musical - Memory

Musical "Cats" - Memory Lyrics


Daylight
See the dew on the sunflower
And a rose that is fading
Roses whither away
Like the sunflower
I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day . . .

Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Every streetlamp
Seems to beat a fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And the streetlamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I musn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is

Look
A new day has begun

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It's quite fascinating that this song touched a lot of people indeed - including myself. I was impressive by the situatuon which the old cat faced. Though this song and musical are just telling a story, it's convinced that this kind of story are continuously happend everywhere while people inhabit in. We are luckily just listened to the music with a new power feeling inside, and just take a break, thinking how come she can do after the end....

#7 "Life after Death by PowerPoint." @ YouTube

Life after Death by PowerPoint (Chinese subtitles)


It's not searched by myself. I was shared by one of my friend about one year ago. This video is very funny that impressive me about the key point of making a powerpoint and let me barely forget at all. I think it's very useful for whoever want to get a good score of presentaion ppt while they don't know how to start. In addition, I hope that I won't make the same mistake in my presentation next week, though I'm actually not a good presenter after all. Ha ha!

#6 Note of ESL Podcast 466

ESL Podcast 466 – Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner

1. to be cut out to...
>>created to do sth/ It's intended to you./ with talent

2. patient
>>people who receive medical care from doctors

3. bedside manner
>>How doctors treat patients with communicate.

4. callous
>>telling without considerating to others

5. taking a turn for the worse
>>beginning worser/ to worsen

6. blurted it out
>>saying without thinking it first

7. diagnosis
>>the doctor's conclusion about the result

8. soften
>>make it nicer/ doesn't upset them

9. comfort
>>give sb confidence

10. reaasure
>>make them feel better

11. feel sorry for sb
>>understand someone's difficulty

12. didn't seem to faze him
>>didn't reaction as what he should reaction/ didn't feel surprised

13. hysterics
>>uncontrolled emotion/ can't stop feeling threaten

14. compassionate
>>be caring/ nice to sb

15. against your nature
>>doesn't hurt your personality

16. anything but
>>definitely

17. considerate
>>aware of someone's feeling

#5 Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

Topic 1.
Level:medium
Topic:emergencies
Type:telephone conversation
Speakers:two men
Length:01:08

1. explain what is happening.
2. I'm... about 15 miles from...
3. I have no idea about the woman. = I don't know.
4. She's in no condition to tell me. =She's too threaten to tell me
5. get someone else to stop. = have sb to stop here

Topic 2.
Level:medium
Topic:hair care
Type:conversation
Speakers:man - man
Length:02:50

1. get my hair trimmed a little.
trim (verb): cut just a little off
- He got his hair trimmed yesterday at a beauty salon.

2. You're in good hands.

3. what do you do for a living?

4. he left me in charge,
in charge (adjective): in control
- She is in charge of the new project.

5. How in the world am I ...

#4 Comment

This is my first hearing about the NTNU Concordancer and Collocation Retrieval System(CCRS). It's quite interesting that you can search the different common usage of foreigners' language while it just list them on the board. I can know immediately when I want to see if my article is correct or not, but I'm not easy to create a sentence which I have no idea about that. However, a dictionary will be much useful when I try to link some synonyms together. After all, I think those tools are good enough for a learner to use, while they need to know the best usage of these tools. Lack of knowledge about vocabulary is my greatest difficulty when I used these tools. It let me feel nothing to do from these tools, and I might miss some wrong to exam.

#3 Large v.s. Big

When it comes to depart with "big" and "large", it's difficult for us who using the Chinese dictionary to explain. However, there is some rule whenever we use this two words.
"Big" is often talked about the greatful of a thing or an abstract situation, such as a big conference, a big festival or a big pig something like that.
"Large" is used to describe the amount or quantity of something like money or other objects, and it'll be quite concreted and countable for instance. For example, they can be a large expenditures, a large sedan and a large waterfall. In addition, "large" may be much formaller than "big".