http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090225/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_plane_crash
Question
Do you know the ways to escape safely when airplane crashes?
Vocabulary
fuselage: the complete central structure to which the wing, tail surfaces, and engines are attached on an airplane.
cockpit: a space, usually enclosed, in the forward fuselage of an airplane containing the flying controls, instrument panel, and seats for the pilot and copilot or flight crew.
casualties: one who is injured or killed in an accident: There were no casualties in the traffic accident.
http://dictionary.reference.com/
On sunday, me and my friends were talking about teenagers behavior in these days.
Our conversation started with a story of 13 years old boy in England who became father recently. He has girlfriend who is about 2 years older than him.
The News reporter asked him how he’s going to support the baby with the financial issues. and the boy asked the News reporter back ‘what is financial issue?’
We talked about that adults should teach teenagers more.
Me and my friends also talked about teenagers smoking and drinking issues.
My boyfriend told me that many Americans start to smoke weed when they were in high school. He also said that he gets really stressed out when teenagers come to the restaurant (that he works) and show him fake ID to get a drink. Also, sometimes even workers asks him to buy them drinks or give them cigarettes.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090218/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_sharing
Questions
1. Do you use facebook?
2. Are you going to keep use facebook if their going to share your pictures?
Vocabulary
torrent: a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.
legalese: language containing an excessive amount of legal terminology or of legal jargon.
on sunday, me and my boyfriend Andy talked about the mail I receive few days ago.
The letter was from the national society of collegiate scholars (NSCS).
inside of envelop, there were many papers to read and I couldn’t understand exactly.
so I asked Andy to explain me again and he said it’s the certificate of nomination.
and he said they sent this mail because my GPA is over 3.4
They want me to send them mail so I can join their membership.
He said I should do it because it’s great opportunity to get a scholarship.
He seemed very excited more than me. He said he is so proud of me because I got this letter because I worked hard at school.
I said I feel happy because he is proud of me but I don’t feel excited because if I get excited and have expectation of something, and when that something turns out as nothing, I get so depressed. so I decided not to excited.
But he was keep saying that I should tell my mom and join their membership.
(I couldn’t talk about academic topics- me and my friends were so busy last weekend)
On February 5th, I had disscussion about surrogate mother (or surrogacy) with Andy. First of all, he asked me if I can explain the meaning of surrogate mother. I said Surrogate birth is a fertility bargain where a woman who agrees to be pregnant for other parents who cannot have a baby.
“Do you think surrogate birth is the right thing to do because it just benefits parents who cannot have a baby?” He said.
I said it’s wrong even though it benefits sterile parents because you cannot buy or sell one’s life and surrogate mother is not human incubator.
He asked me what if sterile parents really want baby? so I said they can adopt baby, in that case, everyone can be happy.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98783020
Questions
1. Do you have any experience like this article (Play and learn)?
2. can you think of any other ideas(other than museums) that technology or art can develope kids’ education?
Vocabulary
1. vortexes: a whirling mass of water, esp. one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
2. Plexiglas: Trademark.
a brand name for a thermoplastic polymer of methyl methacrylate that is light in weight, resistant to weathering, capable of being bent when hot but returning to its original shape when reheated, used for signs
3. pteranodons: Any of several large pterosaurs of the genus Pteranodon of the Cretaceous Period, having a long pointed head, a scooplike beak, no teeth, and a wingspan upwards of 6 meters (20 feet).
4. paleontology: the science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
http://dictionary.reference.com/
On January 30th, I went out to eat with my boyfriend Andy.
on our way in his car, we started to talk about people because we thaught there are too many people that are weird.
Some people lie all the time without any reasons and for nothing. Some people think that they are machoman. Some people think that they are the best thing in this world. Some people do bad things to make them happy.(make others sad to make them happy.)
The funny thing about our conversation was that we know some people that are just like that.
I both agreed that sometimes, we don’t like the fact that we are human being just like the others. So Andy said, “be a martian then” so I said, “Okay, then you’ll be a Jupitorian.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99716622
Questions:
Do you prefer apples’ products or the other companys’ products? (Ipod-MP3? Macbook-PC?) Why?
Don’t you think apples’ products are too expensive then others’?
Why do you think Apples’ products are so popular these days?
New Vocabulary:
executives: A person or group having administrative or managerial authority in an organization.
entrenched: dug in
federal : pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states: the federal government of the U.S.
regulators: One that regulates, as:
- The mechanism in a watch by which its speed is governed.
- A highly accurate clock used as a standard for timing other clocks.
- A device used to maintain uniform speed in a machine; a governor.
- A device used to control the flow of gases, liquids, or electric current.
Definitions from http://dictionary.reference.com/
On January 20th, I went to my boyfriends place to hang out with him and my friends after we went play pool. I was sitting on the sofa by myself and the guys were starting to drink again. They were drinking and playing each other.
Suddenly, one of my Micronesian friends (Curtis) smack my another friend Mikey’s face with Slim Jim (beef jerky). The problem was, Curtis was playing and Mikey was not.
Curtis was keep saying that he is just playing and we all knew that because we all know that’s how he is. However Mikey was keep asking him to apologize about him being rude. It was getting serious and we all didn’t know what to do with them because they were kind of drunk.
When Curtis and mikey were starting to fight each other, everybody else was trying to seperate them and we did.
I went to Mikey’s room and tried to calm him down and told him that it’s just one crazy drinking night and he should just avoid what just happened because we all know that Curtis is the one who always wants to show others that he is the strogest person. Mikey replyed me back that he knows exactly what I’m trying to telling him but he still feels bad because he thinks smack one’s face is very rude and disrespectful. also, Mikey said that maybe it’s just beacause of Curtis’s culture from his country. so I told him that I agree because some of korean guys do that too to play and to show that they are close friends.
Finally, we all ended up by watching them to apologize each other, and we all passed out.
