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Proposal on Final Project Basic Structure of your proposal I.                Motivation II.             Objectives III.           Audience IV.           Content V.              Design >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   Sample Proposal Group 1  06121258 葉如時 06121222 陳亭均 0 6121255 林祐萱 0 6121204 陳 品蓉 0 6121248 王 韋竣 I.   Motivation: 1.  As we grow up, we gradually realize the importance of English, especially in the modern internatio...

In this semester, I've learned a lot of useful online learning tools and websites which can improve my English ability in the fields of reading, listening, writing, and speaking. My learning plan for English will first focus on reading and writing, and then listening and speaking. Especially practice speaking, vocabulary, and grammar. First, to understand more content and advance my speed of reading, I will use AWL and some news websites. AWL can increase my vocabulary, so this is a basis that I must know the words in particular amount of words and be familiar with the common vocabulary. After getting ready for that, I will go to the websites, like CNN and BBC, to read extensively to connect with the world and to know more things. Because of the Internet development, reading those foreign news websites is not limited anymore. We can download many apps on our cellphones and then read on the MRT or the bus. My goal is to read at least three different categories of news and later ...

  My Response to The Graveyard Book ●       How much did you enjoy or not enjoy reading this book? I do enjoy reading The Graveyard Book and I think it is indeed a special book for three reasons. First of all, it is about an unusual life of an unusual little boy who has been growing up in a graveyard; Secondly, I think the beginning of the book is terrifying because the writer creates a crime scene in which Bod's families are all killed except for himself. Finally, there are many things that readers can learn from this book, such as friendship, parenting, and even bullying. ●       How easy or difficult was this book to read and what new idea did you get from this book? From my perspective, this book is quite difficult to read because of the vocabulary it contained. Some of the characters, who may have lived hundreds of years ago, may use the language at that time and that could be incomprehensible to me. Besides, I also lea...

1.        2. My Instagram account have followed 9gag and HipDict. These two accounts are about sharing something interesting, funny, and humorous. I introduce 9gag first. 9gag often shares some pictures with few simple words or sentences or short and funny videos. Personally, I think videos are less helpful that those picture with a short sentence because a picture with an eye-catching big words are more impressive. Sometimes when I see some funny pictures with big and colorful words, I memorize longer. The second one is HipDict. I like this more because it is more humorous. Each picture will introduce a vocabulary, and the interpretation of these words is like a needle, poking into our hearts, and breaking down the inner words that we want to say but dare not say. It is also like a magnifier, magnifying the small things that are used to in life, and reinterpreting them from the perspective of humor. That’s why I like to see most posts of HipDict.

Recommendation of an English learning APP － Erudite         I am going to recommend an English learning APP called Erudite . For me, it is the most useful bilingual dictionary. When you look up a word, the results from this dictionary are many as its name, erudite, which means having a lot of knowledge. After typing the word, you will see not only different meanings of that word but also synonyms and antonyms. Apart from showing the various definitions of a word, the app also shows a lot of supplementary information including collocations, grammar, phrase, and example sentence. It can also be as a translation app with support for over 20 languages including Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish and French. I often use it to look up vocabulary because I can listen how to pronounce and check its tense how to change. Also, I like its design that it convenient for users to learn collocations and phrases. Other apps may not have the same function, so...

I think WriteAway is a good writing website and helpful tool when you need to do some writings or essays. When you use the wrong adverb or preposition, it will give you some recommendation and collocation to make your writing better.

1.  鶯鶯傳 元稹 鶯鶯傳is a chuanqi literature, which is a form of fictional short story in Classical Chinese, is about the emotional entanglement between 張生 and 崔鶯鶯. The reason I want to read this book is because that I know the author uses personality, behavior, and plot contradictions, etc. to support the complex interactions between the main characters and to make characters’ images in the short story more diversified. Thus, this advantage really attracts me to read and explore how those contradictions works in the story to make it famous. Also, I am interested in the love and affection in ancient time that how the author would describe because he can’t write too straightforwardly or sexually. So, I think this is worth reading. 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice has enchanted readers around the world, in every language, for 200 years. It is classic love story. I heard it before, but I did not read it. The characters are described delicately am...

Missing Taiwanese student found dead in Alabama http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2019/11/17/2003726005 By Staff writer, with CNA, Los Angeles Updated November 17, 2019 Summary The body of Taiwanese exchange student Lai Chih-kai, who went missing in August, was found in a shed near Auburn University in the U.S. state of Alabama on Nov. 10. Auburn police confirmed the identity of the body as the 22-year-old Lai after an autopsy. Lai was a computer science student at the National Taipei University of Technology. After applying to be a foreign exchange student at Auburn University, Lai arrived at the school dormitories on Jul. 24. He last corresponded with his family member on Aug. 17. He was last seen on video surveillance at a restaurant close to campus on Aug. 18, but did not show up for the first day of classes next day. Police observed that Lai had left his cell phone and personal belongings in his dorm. Comments The reason I c...

2019.11.06 Cool English - senior section 06121204 陳品蓉 After visiting the website “Cool English”, I think it is a helpful website for students. Cool English is established by MOE. There are two sections － learning and game area. Because of games, these can reduce the feeling of rejection in order to stimulate students’ interests and curiosity in learning English. For example, when I was in the high school, I didn’t like our current English class because it was a little boring. We just read and memorized some texts, words, and grammar. Many students hate this course. Also, many schools subscribed to different English magazines at that time. For me, this was my savior. Because I can read articles about various topics, not just learn by rote. Cool English is a good and useful tool for students. You can choose any categories that you want to improve. Also, you can take a quiz about what you just learned and read the analysis in detailed. Then, you definitely can make significant pro...

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Recommended website for the class: https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/           We can find a lot of online websites about grammar practice or learning material. So, I will recommend one website that I think it is helpful and useful and will list several advantages about this website. First, UsingEnglish.com has an extensive collection of free English language quizzes so that you can practice various types in grammar and vocabulary as well. Secondly, the tests on the website has different levels for different learners, like beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Once you finish quizzes, you will receive a score. And the answer keys are also available. For example, when learning about adjectives and adverbs , you can choose to do some exercises about individual words or about the position of adverbs in a sentence. The last one is that there are also many quizzes on vocabulary so that you can speak and write in English not only...

1.       Tell us the frequency of apartment and flat in BNC and COCA and the differences between these two words, if any. As you can see, these two pictures show that the frequency of “apartment” in COCA is 37398 and BNC is 1221. Therefore, we can know that the word “apartment” is more common in American English. Also, the pictures can indicate that the word “apartment” in American English is used in newspaper more often, and is used in advertisement in British English. Because we can see that the frequency of “apartment” in BNC showed 100 search results, and just 35 outcomes are about newspaper, while 65 results are about advertisement.         From these pictures, we can find that the frequency of “flat” in COCA is 27148, and in BNC is 8069. Although the amount in COCA is more than in BNC, we can compare them with the previous result and find that the frequency of “flat” is higher than “apartment” in B...

Light's quiz is really interesting because this can let me know more about a brand and its background. I can understand some relations between the brand and its country. Before taking this small and fun quiz, I don’t know where this or that brand comes from. But, after doing these simple questions from Light’s JQuiz, I know more about some brands, especially about their country. At first, I just know some brands are from Europe, and some are from the United States or Asia. But now, I know more about these brands.

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1.       Please show us the differences between anyway and any way by COCA through collocation and/or KWIC. Expanded context: (anyway) Fifty-four years ago, it was a racist white woman and a Jamaican man got together -- I know, weird combination.  Anyway , they got together, and they had Stephanie Rose Rick, which is me. " Expanded context: (any way) I've seen some of the stories you are talking about around this election and personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, of which it's a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in  any   way  is a pretty crazy idea. As you can see, from the results and examples above, the word “anyway” is usually used as an adverb. As for the phrase “any way”, it is more like a noun phrase, not an adverb. From the first expanded context, “anyway” is a transition word. Therefore, when we use the word “anyway”, that expresses a change of manners of spea...

COCA Exercise 1.      Mesmerizing (1) Frequency: 659 (2) Part of speech: Adjective (3) Meaning:   very charming or attractive that you can not pay attention to anything else around you (4)   Example 1: Date 2017 Title Burn what will burn Author C B McKenzie Source FIC : Burn what will burn I watched the snake cross the creek, his arrowhead swimming side to side, like a pocket watch swinging on a golden chain gone green,  mesmerizing . The pollen was so thick on the creek's face that the serpent's trail was as visible as a deer track through the woods. Example 2: Date 2017 Publication information ; Greenwich Vol. 22, Iss. 2,  (Fall 2017): 125-147. Title THE FEMINIST PL...