Thursday, January 31, 2008

Gender Talk

Hi~
We are tired today, but interesting~
This morning, we had a viedo lecture wich is about studies on the differences and ability of using language bewteen men and women.There were 3 studies with 3 couples.The experts devided them into 3 men and 3 women.

The first reaserch is experts asks all of them as fast as possible to read sentences wich have word spelling mistakes and correct mistakes right way. For men, few of them are not good enough to read fast with correcting mistakes. On the other hand, women well done for this test. They read fluently more information and they could quickly search vocabulary from their brain.

The second reaserch is experts want to know the differences of creating language bewteen men and women. Experts let them have a free talk. During the talking time, men have 10 topics and women only have 1 topic. The difference is women would like to focus on 1 topic and to deeply talking about it. After this reaserch, men explained that they can feel and see something , however, they feel hard to write their feeling down and speak out. Women said they like to talk about one thing deeply,because they could get the good information from each other and they could know each other as well.

Another study is about whether men or women could do many tasks at the same time. They let them ask questions with earphones to someone and experts will speak with the person who are asking questions. In this way, experts observed that men cann't speak when they listening , however, women can do it well. Therefore, experts observed that women have better ability of learning language than men.

Haha~~~~I'm soooo happy to hear that~actully I can feel very much in these reaserches from the daily life, such as when the men playing computer games, they won't answer any questions for others. I think it's not like they doesn't repect others, it's just like they can't do it. They can't think or respone many tasks at the time very well. So, pretty women ~!Don't angry with men when they do not response u~!Please forgave them~!

Saturday, January 26, 2008

The New York Time---Sport

During this weekdays, I read The New York Time and I feel it's really different from other english reading what I read. It's more formal and international.....feel good~~
When I read it, I was attractived by a pic that was a Chinese girl who did one of figure skating's difficult positions. Her name is Caroline Zhang,14 years old and she was a top junior last year. She will compete at the senior level in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
The reporter showed that she has a very good essential training and skills.Zhang could pull her free foot toward her head in a Biellmann spin.She competed with many similar ages girls in many different competitions like junior nationals, the junior world championships and this season's junior Grand Prix final. Moreover, she achieved many good accomplishments, such as she earned bronze at Skate America in Reading, Pa and in December (2007), at the Grand Prix Final in Turin, Italy, she acquired the fourth. In this play, a old player who are 3ys older than Zhang were two places behind Zhang. Zhang let the old player feel nervous........Now, she is preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics and she said"I'm focuing on the podium, and skating two good programs."
I really respect someone who has proficiency in a particular line. Those people might focuse on different aereas, but they all have the common things. That is they all have the great personal qualities which should be required to be successful, such as they persevere unremittingly when they trainning hard; they have enough confident to overcome difficulties; they have the quility of psychology to face different situations when they have very strong pressures.........................
No matter what we do, we should have the same quilities to be successful.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

In your opinion what is the most important factor that affects proficiency in learning a second language?

In your opinion what is the most important factor that affects proficiency in learning a second language?

In my opinion, the most important factor that affects proficiency in learning a second language is the confidence. To begain with, I think if a pearon without the confidence , he or she cann't do anything. For learning a second language, people should be able to speak with confident. Speaking with confident is the best way to improve their second language.Therefore, the ability of confidence for learning a second language is very important.
Morover, not only the confidence could affects the proficiency improvement of speaking in second language, but also it affects on the process of learing writing, reading and listening. For some people, they have confidence to make mistakes for the process of learning. Those people have more quickly progress than others who are lack of confidence.If people are afraid of making mistakes, they cannot make any progress.
In conclusion, in order to be a successful person in learning a second language, he or she should have the confidence to learn it.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

The pics of Skyscrapers in Beijing








1.
Identification



Official name:Jing Guang Center

Location
Borough :Chaoyang District
City:Beijing
State:Beijing
Country:China



Technical Data
Height (struct.):208 m 682 ft
Floors (OG):53
Construction end:1990

Building in General
Type of construction:high-rise building
Status:completed



Facts

This was the tallest building in mainland China from completion until 1996, when Shanghai's King Tower and Shenzhen's Shun Hing Square were completed.

The tower is composed of 3 parts: hotel, offices and condominium.












2.
Identification



Official name:Park Tower

Location
Complex:Beijing Yintai Centre
Borough :Chaoyang District
City:Beijing
State:Beijing
Country:China



Technical Data
Height (struct.):250 m 820 ft
Floors (OG):63
Construction end:2007

Building in General
Type of construction:high-rise building
Status:completed

Facts

The tower will contain a 237-room Park Hyatt Hotel, 32 Park Hyatt Residences and 228 apartments.

Yintai Centre was topped out December 16, 2005, taking its place as Beijing's tallest skyscraper.


















3.
Identification



Official name:China World Trade Center Tower III

Location






Technical Data

Height (struct.):330 m 1,083 ft
Floors (OG):74
Construction end:2008

Building in General
Type of construction:high-rise building
Status:under construction [topped out]

The skyscrapers

This Monday we started a new unit which named is The Skyscrapers~~This is my frist time to learn sth and try to found new things about the skyscrapers~!

Nowadays, the skyscrapers are more common than before. We could find it everywhere, especialy some big cities like Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, New York.........
Do you know why people want to build the skyscrapers? Before I leart it, I just know the simple reason that everyone could know is saving space for the city.Actully, that is the truth, and also it's the main reason that why designers and engineers try to build them. For example, many big city don't have enough land for the growing population. The only way they could go is "up"~! Moreover, there are many other reasons for creating the sky city.
People think the skyscrapers could save the time for people's daily life. Tokyo is very big crowd city. Eventhough they have very good train station system, the city is too big to let people move fast.People have to spend a lot of time on transportation. They think if the could work and live in the skyscrapers, it's really good for them to save the time~!
Of course people have other reasons such as solve urban sprawl for the rapid growing population in big cities, save energy, improve the development of the economic in the cities.........
However, the designers and engineers of the skyscrapers have to face many problems, like how to prevent the damage of skyscreapers from the cases of fires, the earthquakes, and the powerful wind and so on........Eventhough we have high-technologies....designeers cann't 100% to fix all problem in the hurry......therefore, many people against to build the skyscrapers....

In my opinion, I think creating the skyscrapers is a good idea. It can let people have better life, save land, save time and so on. I think we could fix those problem with the new techonogies in the future.


Xixi2008

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