2008年12月24日水曜日

WEEK10

Skill: Reading

Site: NetAcademy


Level: 3

Topic: Japanese poeple have prejudice for HIV patients (REVIEW of last week)

Your Score: 142/405

Lesson Rating: ::I

Comments: (good level)

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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 30minutes

Comments:
(only reviewed)

2008年12月17日水曜日

WEEK9

Skill: reading

Site: NetAcademy


Level (if any):3

Topic:Japanese people have predice for HIV patients

Main point: Japanese hospital declined to do sugery for Thai woman because she is a HIV positive patient. She died after because of AIDS and her family sued the hospital.

Your Score:3/3

Key language points to review (words or rules):
*sue: to make a legal claim against someone, especially for money, because they have harmed you in some way
*formerly: in earlier times
*decline: to say no politely
*surgery: medical treatment in which a surgeon cuts open your body to repair or remove something inside (=operation)
*caring: thinking about what other people need or want and trying to help them
*ignorance: lack of knowledge or information about something
*pose: to exist in a way that may cause a problem, danger, difficulty etc

Lesson Rating: :I

Comments: (little difficult)

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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 40minutes

Comments:
(concentrated / reviewed )

2008年12月3日水曜日

WEEK8

Skill: reading

Site: NetAcademy2


Level : 3

Topic: Why do we feel that people who use their mobile phones while useing public transpertation are nuisance?


Main point : We don't fell good about "open-loop" (conversation that we can see only one people).

Your Score
: 3/3

Key language points to review (words or rules):
*loop : a shape like a curve or a circle made by a line curving back towards itself, or s piece of wire, string etc that has this shape

Lesson Rating: :(

Comments: (too easy / interesting / not effective)
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Skill: reading

Site: NetAcademy2


Level : 5

Topic: The origin of Thanksgiving Day

Main point : There are many myths about the origin of Thanksgiving Day. The strong myth is that native Americans and immigrants cooperated with each other to get through terrible cold of winter. After that they cereblated. That is the origin of Thanksgiving Day.

Your Score : 2/3

Key language points to review (words or rules):
*purport to… : to claim to be or do something, even if this is not true
*inception : the start of an organization or institution
*customary : useal
*prevailing : current
*rendition : someone's performance of a play, piece of music etc
*domain : an area of activity, interest, or knowledge, especially one that a particular person, organization etc deal with
*arduous : involving a lot of strength and effort
*benevolent : kind and gererous
*cultivate : to prepare and use land for growing crops and plants
*due to… : expected to happen or arrive at a particular time
*slave : someone who is owned by another person and works for them for no money
*reside : to live in a particular place
*baptize : to perform the ceremony of baptism on someone
*reliant : depend on someone or something
*christen : to officially give a child its name at a Christian religious ceremony

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: (too difficult / effective)
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Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 50 minutes

Comments:
(studied hard / concentrated / thought about my progress)