Writing Task 2 (essay) 250 words
Do you believe that positive impacts of computers outweigh negative impacts regarding the use of computer on our daily life? Explain this with your ideas and relevant examples.
Nowadays,computer is essential to our financial work, scientific research, communication, even learning and recreation.Nevertheless, advantage and disadvantage always appear in the meantime. However, I still believe that positive impacts of computers outweigh negative impacts regarding the use of computer on our daily life.
Some people claims that children pay all attention on computer games and school results just fall a lot. Undeniable, if teenager really dig their teeth into bad habit through internet, it is a serious problem. But computer also is a truly good learning tool when children know how to use it in a correct way. Like parent should control their time of using the computer, search the information that they are intereted with them.
Some people argue that computer assists the crime process. In fact, an inventor of computer is our angel, our superman that we can develop our science and technology, prosperous economy, even creativity easily through the computer. In this day and age, all the scientist research the thing that we don't know with the computer; clerical work and businessman are working with the computer instead many complicated procedure that just work by sample machine.
To sum up, computer can help us to alleviate the difficult works. Moreover, it can make us eye-opening if we use it rightly.
2009年11月13日 星期五
2009年11月7日 星期六
Writing Task
Writing Task 1 (letter) - 150 words
You received a letter from your friend informing you that his elderly parents are coming to visit Hong Kong and he is asking for your advice on
- which places they should visit,
- where should they live,
- invite them to do something with you.
Writing Task 2 (essay) 250 words
Do you believe that positive impacts of computers outweigh negative impacts regarding the use of computer on our daily life? Explain this with your ideas and relevant examples.
You received a letter from your friend informing you that his elderly parents are coming to visit Hong Kong and he is asking for your advice on
- which places they should visit,
- where should they live,
- invite them to do something with you.
Writing Task 2 (essay) 250 words
Do you believe that positive impacts of computers outweigh negative impacts regarding the use of computer on our daily life? Explain this with your ideas and relevant examples.
Comprehension questions
Economic
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution (分配), and consumption (消耗) of goods and services.
A definition that captures (獲得) much of modern economics is that of Lionel Robbins in a 1932 essay: "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce (缺乏的) means which have alternative (二擇一) uses.
Economics aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact (互相影響). Economic analysis (分析) is applied (實用的) throughout society, in business, finance and government, but also in crime, education, the family, health, law, politics, religion, social institutions (習俗), war, and science. The expanding (擴大中的) domain (範圍) of economics in the social sciences has been described as economic imperialism (帝國主義).
According to the article, what is the definition of the term economic?
Economics is defined as the social science that studies the production, distribution (分配), and consumption (消耗) of goods and services.
How did Lionel Robbins define economic in 1932? How does it differ from the recent definition?
Lionel Robbins defined economic as the science that studied human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce (缺乏的). For example, how a person would manage what he had and what he did not have and then made some choices and alternatives (二擇一) for its uses. It only deals with supply and demand.
However, it didn't take care of the distribution that is one of the three major areas that the recent economic includes in.
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution (分配), and consumption (消耗) of goods and services.
A definition that captures (獲得) much of modern economics is that of Lionel Robbins in a 1932 essay: "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce (缺乏的) means which have alternative (二擇一) uses.
Economics aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact (互相影響). Economic analysis (分析) is applied (實用的) throughout society, in business, finance and government, but also in crime, education, the family, health, law, politics, religion, social institutions (習俗), war, and science. The expanding (擴大中的) domain (範圍) of economics in the social sciences has been described as economic imperialism (帝國主義).
According to the article, what is the definition of the term economic?
Economics is defined as the social science that studies the production, distribution (分配), and consumption (消耗) of goods and services.
How did Lionel Robbins define economic in 1932? How does it differ from the recent definition?
Lionel Robbins defined economic as the science that studied human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce (缺乏的). For example, how a person would manage what he had and what he did not have and then made some choices and alternatives (二擇一) for its uses. It only deals with supply and demand.
However, it didn't take care of the distribution that is one of the three major areas that the recent economic includes in.
2009年11月6日 星期五
Economic
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution (分配), and consumption (消耗) of goods and services.
A definition that captures (獲得) much of modern economics is that of Lionel Robbins in a 1932 essay: "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce (缺乏的) means which have alternative (二擇一) uses.
Economics aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact (互相影響). Economic analysis (分析) is applied (實用的) throughout society, in business, finance and government, but also in crime, education, the family, health, law, politics, religion, social institutions (習俗), war, and science. The expanding (擴大中的) domain (範圍) of economics in the social sciences has been described as economic imperialism (帝國主義).
A definition that captures (獲得) much of modern economics is that of Lionel Robbins in a 1932 essay: "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce (缺乏的) means which have alternative (二擇一) uses.
Economics aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact (互相影響). Economic analysis (分析) is applied (實用的) throughout society, in business, finance and government, but also in crime, education, the family, health, law, politics, religion, social institutions (習俗), war, and science. The expanding (擴大中的) domain (範圍) of economics in the social sciences has been described as economic imperialism (帝國主義).
2009年10月31日 星期六
Argumentative essay
Should school authorities impose stricter rules to fight against the problem of drugs?
1. It is argued that school should impose stricter rules to fight against the problem of drugs.
2. In my opinion, I think schools should take the action to fight against the problems.
3. Illegal drugs are usually harmful to our health. They will confuse our mental ability, speaking skill, and even behavior.
4. They are addictive. The first attempt will lead to another. It will never stop until one becomes addictive.
5. Many students become addicted because of their friends’ influence.
6. Indeed, they even share illegal drugs at schools.
7. It is a really serious problem that school authorities should stop and help the addicted students.
1. It is argued that school should impose stricter rules to fight against the problem of drugs.
2. In my opinion, I think schools should take the action to fight against the problems.
3. Illegal drugs are usually harmful to our health. They will confuse our mental ability, speaking skill, and even behavior.
4. They are addictive. The first attempt will lead to another. It will never stop until one becomes addictive.
5. Many students become addicted because of their friends’ influence.
6. Indeed, they even share illegal drugs at schools.
7. It is a really serious problem that school authorities should stop and help the addicted students.
2009年10月25日 星期日
Should school authorities impose stricter rules to fight against the problem of drugs?
Someone argued that school should impose stricter rules to fight against the problem of drugs. In my opinion, I think school should do this. Drugs are harmful to everyone that which will confuse your mental,speech also behave.These are a real cliffhanger after you take your first time.Many students or youth become a drug addict is because of their friend who is a stoner.I mean not a little amount of teenager were influenced by stoner to try at drugs. In deeded, they even share illegal drugs in their school. It really a serious problem that school authorities should stop it and lead them in a correct way.
2009年10月18日 星期日
Comprehension Questions
Smart people don’t just learn better. They learn differently. While many students get caught up in memorizing facts, intelligent learners know to seek the bigger picture and connect the facts together. This form of learning I call holistic learning.
Holistic learning is basically the opposite of rote memorization. Instead of reciting lists of facts, rules or formulas, you seek to connect ideas together. Instead of having separate boxes in your head for geometry, algebra or ancient India, you deliberately link facts together, so they form a bigger picture.
Excessive studying shows you aren’t learning holistically. It shows that you didn’t learn the material the first time. If you properly link ideas together to see the bigger picture, studying should only be a brief refresher.
How to Boost Your Study Habits
Holistic learning isn’t like a brainstorming technique or mind-mapping. It is fundamentally changing how you look at the process of learning and how you absorb information. As such, there isn’t an easy ten step program to master it.
There are some tools that can help you shift your learning habits so they become more holistic:
Visceralize 感官和動作集中學習- You’ve probably heard of visualizing, right? Visceralizing means taking all of your senses and connecting it to information. Studies have shown that people remember more vividly information that comes to us in an emotionally aroused state. Linking feelings, senses and imagery to bland ideas makes them more real. You probably counted on your fingers when learning numbers, why can’t you do the same when you are learning now?
Metaphor隱喻 - The heart of holistic learning is relating things together. Metaphors are literary devices that link two things that normally don’t go together. Come up with metaphors to describe more complicated ideas in simpler terms.
Ten-Year-Old Rule十歲法則 - Explain ideas to yourself as you would to a ten year old. Sure, this isn’t always possible in your last years of a medical degree or learning how to apply neural networks to computer AI. But the idea is that you should be able to “dumb down” an idea enough so it seems obvious to yourself.
Trace Back 引用 - Put away your books and start with a random fact or concept. Then relate that idea to another concept in your subject. Keep doing this tracing pattern until you’ve linked many ideas together. The Gupta Dynasty reminds you of ancient Greece which reminds you of Socrates, reminding you of Confucius…
Refresher Scan 快速復習 - Scan through information in your text book. Notice whenever you encounter information that you either don’t remember or weren’t 100% sure about. Quickly link that information back to existing ideas through viscerlization and metaphor. If your refresher scan is turning up more than a few points per chapter, you haven’t learned it thoroughly enough.
Compress Information壓縮信息 - Not all information works well for holistic learning. A common point cited to me is learning anatomy for first year medical students. Anatomy involves learning arbitrary Latin names for hundreds of different elements of your body. There often aren’t clear patterns and constructs, just a dry list of facts. When encountering information such as this, your goal should be to compress it. Find ways to group information into smaller chunks of memory through pictures or mnemonics.
Write寫下有關聯想 - Take a piece of paper and write out the connections in the information. Reorganize the information into different patterns. The key here is the writing, not the final product. So don’t waste your time making a pretty picture. Scribble and use abbreviations to link the ideas together.
Scott Young is a blogger on learning, productivity and habits. You can check out his website here. If you want to learn more about Holistic Learning, download his free e-book: Holistic Learning: How to StudyBetter, Learn More and Actually “Get” What You Want to Learn
1. What is holistic learning?
( Sample answer: Holistic learning is the kind learning where where learners make a thorough learning the first time they learn. They tried understand what he learn by using and forming pictures to connect the facts and information together.)
2. List four of the learning habits and explain how they help learners to learn better.
(Sample Answer: One of the learning habit is called virceralisation. Learners can benefit when they use feelings, senses, and imaginary to bland ideas and information when they learn something. This helps them remember better and more vividly because information that comes to them in an emotionally aroused state.)
Holistic learning is basically the opposite of rote memorization. Instead of reciting lists of facts, rules or formulas, you seek to connect ideas together. Instead of having separate boxes in your head for geometry, algebra or ancient India, you deliberately link facts together, so they form a bigger picture.
Excessive studying shows you aren’t learning holistically. It shows that you didn’t learn the material the first time. If you properly link ideas together to see the bigger picture, studying should only be a brief refresher.
How to Boost Your Study Habits
Holistic learning isn’t like a brainstorming technique or mind-mapping. It is fundamentally changing how you look at the process of learning and how you absorb information. As such, there isn’t an easy ten step program to master it.
There are some tools that can help you shift your learning habits so they become more holistic:
Visceralize 感官和動作集中學習- You’ve probably heard of visualizing, right? Visceralizing means taking all of your senses and connecting it to information. Studies have shown that people remember more vividly information that comes to us in an emotionally aroused state. Linking feelings, senses and imagery to bland ideas makes them more real. You probably counted on your fingers when learning numbers, why can’t you do the same when you are learning now?
Metaphor隱喻 - The heart of holistic learning is relating things together. Metaphors are literary devices that link two things that normally don’t go together. Come up with metaphors to describe more complicated ideas in simpler terms.
Ten-Year-Old Rule十歲法則 - Explain ideas to yourself as you would to a ten year old. Sure, this isn’t always possible in your last years of a medical degree or learning how to apply neural networks to computer AI. But the idea is that you should be able to “dumb down” an idea enough so it seems obvious to yourself.
Trace Back 引用 - Put away your books and start with a random fact or concept. Then relate that idea to another concept in your subject. Keep doing this tracing pattern until you’ve linked many ideas together. The Gupta Dynasty reminds you of ancient Greece which reminds you of Socrates, reminding you of Confucius…
Refresher Scan 快速復習 - Scan through information in your text book. Notice whenever you encounter information that you either don’t remember or weren’t 100% sure about. Quickly link that information back to existing ideas through viscerlization and metaphor. If your refresher scan is turning up more than a few points per chapter, you haven’t learned it thoroughly enough.
Compress Information壓縮信息 - Not all information works well for holistic learning. A common point cited to me is learning anatomy for first year medical students. Anatomy involves learning arbitrary Latin names for hundreds of different elements of your body. There often aren’t clear patterns and constructs, just a dry list of facts. When encountering information such as this, your goal should be to compress it. Find ways to group information into smaller chunks of memory through pictures or mnemonics.
Write寫下有關聯想 - Take a piece of paper and write out the connections in the information. Reorganize the information into different patterns. The key here is the writing, not the final product. So don’t waste your time making a pretty picture. Scribble and use abbreviations to link the ideas together.
Scott Young is a blogger on learning, productivity and habits. You can check out his website here. If you want to learn more about Holistic Learning, download his free e-book: Holistic Learning: How to StudyBetter, Learn More and Actually “Get” What You Want to Learn
1. What is holistic learning?
( Sample answer: Holistic learning is the kind learning where where learners make a thorough learning the first time they learn. They tried understand what he learn by using and forming pictures to connect the facts and information together.)
2. List four of the learning habits and explain how they help learners to learn better.
(Sample Answer: One of the learning habit is called virceralisation. Learners can benefit when they use feelings, senses, and imaginary to bland ideas and information when they learn something. This helps them remember better and more vividly because information that comes to them in an emotionally aroused state.)
2009年10月2日 星期五
Letter Writing Practice
Write a letter to your friend in Australia. Tell him what you know about the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of China.
Read the newspaper articles and sample letter on Terri's Blog before you write.
Dear John,
Have you watched the TV progromme on the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of China? I think it is a good show. It shows China's military軍事的 capabilities, the rule of communist party, and the social and economic development and progress of China.
As for the military capabilities, I think it is great to see the armies, fighter jets,high-tech weaponry, and ballistic missiles. I was totally impressed by the well-performed marching of the troops(armies).
As for the successful rule of the communist party, president Hu Jintao reported the successful work of the communist party. He made us feel proud of China because of the achievement brought by the socialism and Marxism.
As for the social and economic development and progress of China, the parade 閱兵showcased some of the social and economic accomplishments China made in the past 60 years through the reform and opening-up policy.
I hope you've seen the programme. If not, you must try to see the related programme if you can. You will be impressed, too.
Yours
Annie
Read the newspaper articles and sample letter on Terri's Blog before you write.
Dear John,
Have you watched the TV progromme on the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of China? I think it is a good show. It shows China's military軍事的 capabilities, the rule of communist party, and the social and economic development and progress of China.
As for the military capabilities, I think it is great to see the armies, fighter jets,high-tech weaponry, and ballistic missiles. I was totally impressed by the well-performed marching of the troops(armies).
As for the successful rule of the communist party, president Hu Jintao reported the successful work of the communist party. He made us feel proud of China because of the achievement brought by the socialism and Marxism.
As for the social and economic development and progress of China, the parade 閱兵showcased some of the social and economic accomplishments China made in the past 60 years through the reform and opening-up policy.
I hope you've seen the programme. If not, you must try to see the related programme if you can. You will be impressed, too.
Yours
Annie
2009年9月28日 星期一
Synonym and Antonym
Read the following passage and find the synonym and antonym words.
The leading causes of amnesia健忘症 are either physical or psychological.
In antergrade amnesia, the subject is unable to recall the events that occur after a shock or an injury to the brain; however, past memories will not be lost.
In retrograde amnesia, the patient is capable of recalling events that occur after the trauma; interestingly enough, the information stored before the shock, is lost and cannot be retrieved.
In paraamnesia, established memories are contorted. In psychogenic fugue, the subject may venture into a new lifestyle, trying to repress memories which lead to trepidation. The events happening during psychogenic fugue are non-retrievable. Nonetheless, the experiences that happened before the onset can be recovered.
The leading causes of amnesia健忘症 are either physical or psychological.
In antergrade amnesia, the subject is unable to recall the events that occur after a shock or an injury to the brain; however, past memories will not be lost.
In retrograde amnesia, the patient is capable of recalling events that occur after the trauma; interestingly enough, the information stored before the shock, is lost and cannot be retrieved.
In paraamnesia, established memories are contorted. In psychogenic fugue, the subject may venture into a new lifestyle, trying to repress memories which lead to trepidation. The events happening during psychogenic fugue are non-retrievable. Nonetheless, the experiences that happened before the onset can be recovered.
2009年9月25日 星期五
Assist the Needy
Chris was a helpful boy. After he went shopping with his friends at a shopping centre in the afternoon, he saw an old lady with a stick who was about to cross the road.
The lady had her hair combed in a bun and walked very slowly. She looked very worried. Her stick was shaking while she was walking on the pedestrain crossing.
Christ saw the scene. He was afraid that the lady would fall. Suddenly, a minibus moved towards an old lady very fast. He was shocked and ran to help her. But the minibus ran really fast that it nearly hit the lady. Luckily it didn't hit the lady.
Christ moved to her and asked nervously, "Are you alright? Do you need help and where are your family, why they are not around? "
"Stop! Are you blind? I am standing here without any problem!" the old lady screamed. She then shouted, ''Don't stop me finding my granddaughter, please! She is just 5 years old...''
''A litte girl? Are she wearing in a lovely yellow dress? I saw her in a park.'' Christ said.
She went to the park quickly. The gril was walking alone in the park. The old lady was glad that she finally found her grand daughter. She was grateful that Christ had helped her. So she treated him a meal and to celebrate that she found her granddaughter.
The lady had her hair combed in a bun and walked very slowly. She looked very worried. Her stick was shaking while she was walking on the pedestrain crossing.
Christ saw the scene. He was afraid that the lady would fall. Suddenly, a minibus moved towards an old lady very fast. He was shocked and ran to help her. But the minibus ran really fast that it nearly hit the lady. Luckily it didn't hit the lady.
Christ moved to her and asked nervously, "Are you alright? Do you need help and where are your family, why they are not around? "
"Stop! Are you blind? I am standing here without any problem!" the old lady screamed. She then shouted, ''Don't stop me finding my granddaughter, please! She is just 5 years old...''
''A litte girl? Are she wearing in a lovely yellow dress? I saw her in a park.'' Christ said.
She went to the park quickly. The gril was walking alone in the park. The old lady was glad that she finally found her grand daughter. She was grateful that Christ had helped her. So she treated him a meal and to celebrate that she found her granddaughter.
Writing - story
Complete the story told below for your school magazine involving Chris and an old lady. Think about the question in picture 3 and write an interesting ending for your story. Give the story a title.
Assist the needy derive a lot
Today,Chris was been a helpful boy.He really joyful she still there.
After did shopping with his friends on shopping centre in the afternoon,he saw an old lady crossed a road with a stick.She wore her hair in a bun and walked very slowly in a worried face when there was no cars on the street.A stick shook by her every steps,it let him really scared that she will fall .
Suddenly,a minibus came towards an old lady very fast.He shocked and ran to help her.But the minibus really fast that he can't go.The bus none stop and it strange that the a old lady didn't hurt.He came to asked her in nervously''Are you ok?Are you need to help and where are your family,why they didin't...'' ''Stop!Are you blind?I am standing here in no problem!"The old lady screamed and said''Don't block me to find my granddaughter please!She just 5 years old...''
''A litte girl?Are she wear in a lovely yellow dress?I saw her in a park.''She ran to there quickly after I told her.Originally,the gril who walked alone in the park that he saw was the people she wanted to find.The old lady was grateful to have him aid her.So she treated him a meal.''So thanks to have these from you and let's celebrated your granddaughter was found!''
Assist the needy derive a lot
Today,Chris was been a helpful boy.He really joyful she still there.
After did shopping with his friends on shopping centre in the afternoon,he saw an old lady crossed a road with a stick.She wore her hair in a bun and walked very slowly in a worried face when there was no cars on the street.A stick shook by her every steps,it let him really scared that she will fall .
Suddenly,a minibus came towards an old lady very fast.He shocked and ran to help her.But the minibus really fast that he can't go.The bus none stop and it strange that the a old lady didn't hurt.He came to asked her in nervously''Are you ok?Are you need to help and where are your family,why they didin't...'' ''Stop!Are you blind?I am standing here in no problem!"The old lady screamed and said''Don't block me to find my granddaughter please!She just 5 years old...''
''A litte girl?Are she wear in a lovely yellow dress?I saw her in a park.''She ran to there quickly after I told her.Originally,the gril who walked alone in the park that he saw was the people she wanted to find.The old lady was grateful to have him aid her.So she treated him a meal.''So thanks to have these from you and let's celebrated your granddaughter was found!''
2009年9月18日 星期五
The Knight
The Knight is a knave (奸詐的人).
The knave needs a new knife.
The knife is near the knight's knee.
The knight needs the knife for the night.
The knight knows the knife's name.
The knight names the knife the knight.
The Knight was a knave (奸詐的人).
The knave needed a new knife.
The knife was near the knight's knee.
The knight needed the knife for the night.
The knight knew the knife's name.
The knight named the knife the knight.
The Knight will be a knave (奸詐的人).
The knave will need a new knife.
The knife will be near the knight's knee.
The knight will need the knife for the night.
The knight will know the knife's name.
The knight will name the knife the knight.
The knave needs a new knife.
The knife is near the knight's knee.
The knight needs the knife for the night.
The knight knows the knife's name.
The knight names the knife the knight.
The Knight was a knave (奸詐的人).
The knave needed a new knife.
The knife was near the knight's knee.
The knight needed the knife for the night.
The knight knew the knife's name.
The knight named the knife the knight.
The Knight will be a knave (奸詐的人).
The knave will need a new knife.
The knife will be near the knight's knee.
The knight will need the knife for the night.
The knight will know the knife's name.
The knight will name the knife the knight.
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