23 Oct 21012 - week 3
Halloween
Halloween again! I don't know much about it. I only know that American people celebrate Halloween. Australian people didn't celebrate Halloween traditionally. However, children have started trick-or-treating in these few years. The shops sell those horrible costumes and toys. Other then these, I know few about Halloween.
Monday 22 October 2012
Monday 15 October 2012
News Article Summary
16th Oct 2012
Title: Advertisers return to the alan Jones show on 2GB
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Link: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/advertisers-return-to-the-alan-jones-show-on-2gb/story-e6freuy9-1226496713643
Summary:
After speaking about the prime minister's recently died father in public, Alan Jones has currently been rejected by major advertisers. Radio 2GB has decided to cancel his ads for a short period. Mercedes Benz took back his supplied car. People also boycott the radio host on social network, which is described as a "cyber bullying" by Jones.
Vocabulary:
1. spark - ignite
2. backlash - a strong nagative reaction by a large number of people, especially to a social or political development
3. accused - charge (someone) with an offence or crime
4. embattled - (of a place or people) involved in or prepared for war, especially because surrounded by enemy forces.
5. resurgence - an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurence.
6. back off - draw back from action or confrontation
Reflection:
This is a short news article. It took me a couple minutes to read the first time. Then I thought of the main point of the article, and wrote the summary. There are some vocabularies and phrasal words.
Title: Advertisers return to the alan Jones show on 2GB
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Link: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/advertisers-return-to-the-alan-jones-show-on-2gb/story-e6freuy9-1226496713643
Summary:
After speaking about the prime minister's recently died father in public, Alan Jones has currently been rejected by major advertisers. Radio 2GB has decided to cancel his ads for a short period. Mercedes Benz took back his supplied car. People also boycott the radio host on social network, which is described as a "cyber bullying" by Jones.
Vocabulary:
1. spark - ignite
2. backlash - a strong nagative reaction by a large number of people, especially to a social or political development
3. accused - charge (someone) with an offence or crime
4. embattled - (of a place or people) involved in or prepared for war, especially because surrounded by enemy forces.
5. resurgence - an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurence.
6. back off - draw back from action or confrontation
Reflection:
This is a short news article. It took me a couple minutes to read the first time. Then I thought of the main point of the article, and wrote the summary. There are some vocabularies and phrasal words.
Week 2 - 16th October 2012
Finally I've got the password working.
Last week's text type exercise was a good one. I didn't get 100% correct. I should work harder.
This week, our challenging task is to untangle the mixed words given as below, and make two sentences.
I sorted out the words and made these sentences:
A shop in Bankstwon, Western Sydney was fined $12,000 in January, for Salmonella outbreak.
After consuming the poisoning bakehouse made products including bread and hot food, 83 customers fell sick and 20 ill people hospitalised.
Eventally I found out the original sentences from Marion. It is written as:
A WESTERN Sydney hot bread shop has been fined $12,000 over a salmonella outbreak that made 83 people sick, including 20 who were hospitalised.
The customers fell ill with food poisoning after consuming products from teh Bankstown Bakehouse in January.
It is a good exercise for sorting out the words and organising the sentences. I enjoy doing it.
Finally I've got the password working.
Last week's text type exercise was a good one. I didn't get 100% correct. I should work harder.
This week, our challenging task is to untangle the mixed words given as below, and make two sentences.
I sorted out the words and made these sentences:
A shop in Bankstwon, Western Sydney was fined $12,000 in January, for Salmonella outbreak.
After consuming the poisoning bakehouse made products including bread and hot food, 83 customers fell sick and 20 ill people hospitalised.
Eventally I found out the original sentences from Marion. It is written as:
A WESTERN Sydney hot bread shop has been fined $12,000 over a salmonella outbreak that made 83 people sick, including 20 who were hospitalised.
The customers fell ill with food poisoning after consuming products from teh Bankstown Bakehouse in January.
It is a good exercise for sorting out the words and organising the sentences. I enjoy doing it.
Tuesday 4 September 2012
Paralympic
Paralympic Games is an important sports event for athletes with physical disability to compete. The athletes are classified into different groups such as mobility disabilities, blindness and so on. There are summer and winter Paralympic Games and held every four years just after the Olympic Games.
The first Paralympic was held in Stoke Mandeville in 1948. Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a neurologist, believed that sport was a better way of mental and physical rehabilitation for spinal injury. He organised the first game in the same year of the London Olympics. That was the begin of Paralympic Games. Paralympic Game has now become a large international sports event.
The London 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony was held on 29th August 2012. Below is the logo for Paralympics 2012.
The first Paralympic was held in Stoke Mandeville in 1948. Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a neurologist, believed that sport was a better way of mental and physical rehabilitation for spinal injury. He organised the first game in the same year of the London Olympics. That was the begin of Paralympic Games. Paralympic Game has now become a large international sports event.
The London 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony was held on 29th August 2012. Below is the logo for Paralympics 2012.
The 2012 Paralympics marks the return of Paralympic to its birthplace - the British village of Stoke Mandeville, where the first game was hold for the veterans.
There are more than 2100 medals are to be grabbed. 205 countries are participating the Games. Australia has sent 15 athletes to compete at the Games. Wheelchair rugby player Greg Smith carried the Australian flag and led the Australian team into the arena in the opening ceremony. This is his fifth Paralympics.
Wheelchair basketball is one of the popular sports at Paralympic. Australia has sent the Men’s team called the Rollers and the Women’s team the Gliders to compete at the Games.
Born in 1981, Australian wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley has competed in 43 marathons and won 31 medals including 6 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze in Paralympic. He started participating the Paralympic Games in 2004 and is now competing the third time. He received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2004; and has received some recognition such as New South Wales Institue of Sport Athlete of the Year in 2007, Confederation of Australian Sport Athlete of the Year with a Disability in 2007, The Age's Sport Performer Award in the Performer with a Disability nominee in 2011 and so on. His achievement greatly encourages people to overcome any difficulty.
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