I just heard the course that introduce and greetings in Italy. This short film named" Ciak Saluti e presentazioni" I hear this short film without reading any vocab firstly, I really confused! After listening this film, I'm sure that this language is so tough for me. Anyway, I can understand a little bit with my prediction... This was a short self-introduction among these two girls that came from Italy and America. Afterward, their professor also joined their introduction before the lesson start. This was a short but clearly self-introduction. If someone want to learn Italy's language, I think this should be a good website. It was because it'll prepared English script and Italy script as a conference. You can look through the English script and you will understand the meaning as quickly as possible. I think this website is normal and I love TedTalk more than this website. The page layout of this website confuse me. I'm not sure that the button that I click is the thing that I want or need. Anyway, I really think that if you want to learn different language, this is one of the website that I surf suitable for the beginner learner.
The topic of the TED Talk that I listened is "Three things I learned when my plane crashed". The speaker Ric Alias. He is boarding a plane and the plane is going to decline rapidly. The three things that he thought at the moment are what kind of thing that he hasn't do, why is his thinking so negative, and he should be a good father. I love this topic and also agree with the speaker. I assent that we should do the thing that we want to do at the moment. We don't know if we have the chance to do it. Immediately action is a wise choice. We don't make any repent in our lifetime. Besides that, negative thinking also will ruined a people. We do not like to stick with an emotional person. Emotional person will bring a lot of negative thinking and ruined the whole day mood. In the past, I'm really an emotional people. I really love to have negative thinking, and now I really think that I'm so silly. Negative thinking let me lose a lot of friends. "Emotional girl" was my nick name. I'm not really love to be negative but the morale came out naturally. I think I must "makeover" myself. I tried to console my friends that same as me and encourage them to stand up again. I know my comfort is not the best but the comments that I received are good. So, I think that I'm changing. I love myself now, of course we must love ourselves!We do not need to live for others but live for yourselves! This is the link about the topic:https://www.ted.com/talks/ric_elias#t-273749
1. intuition: (knowledge from)an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feeling rather than facts.
2. calligraphy: (the art of producing)beautiful writing, often create with a special pen or brush.
3.typography: the design of the writing in a piece of painting or on a computer screen.
4. entrepreneurs: someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity.
5. intellectual: relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas.
I love these three stories because I think that Steve Job has his own ideas about his life. He didn't afraid that if he dropped out from school, his life will become difficult. Besides that, Steve Job knows that what should he do and he do it early in his life. We know that what shall we do but we afraid to do that because we afraid failure. I like his determination about somethings that he love to involved. He braves to try something that he think that he need to try and never give up! Lastly, facing his death, he'll not fear but face it bravely. Actually, I don't think that I have the same experience with Steve Job. I have a lot of dreams and I also hope that I'll fulfill my dream. However, I afraid to do it. I really fear of failure. So, from his stories, I think I must be more bravely to chase my dream without any hesitation. Life is short, if we not appreciate our time to do somethings meaning, we just waste our youth!
Anywhere you are, I am near Anywhere you go, I'll be there Anytime you whisper my name, you'll see
How every single promise I'll keep 'Cause what kind of guy would I be If I was to leave when you need me most
What are words If you really don't mean them When you say them
What are words If they're only for good times Then that's all
When it's love Yeah, you say them out loud Those words, they never go away They live on, even when we're gone
And I know an angel was sent just for me And I know I'm meant to be where I am And I'm gonna be
Standing right beside her tonight And I'm gonna be by your side I would never leave when she needs me most
What are words If you really don't mean them When you say them
What are words If they're only for good times Then they're done
When it's love Yeah, you say them out loud Those words, they never go away They live on, even when we're gone
Anywhere you are, I am near Anywhere you go, I'll be there And I'm gonna be here forever more
Every single promise I'll keep 'Cause what kind of guy would I be If I was to leave when you need me most
I'm forever keeping my angel close
Introduction of singer:
This English song named "What Are Words".
The name of the singer is Chris Medina born in Chicago, America.
He is most famous for his hit"What Are Words".
In late 2010 he auditioned for American Idol making it to the top 40 before being eliminated.
Three words that I learned from this song:
1. whisper: to speak very quiet
She whispered somethings in his ear.
2. single promise: a thing that you'll certainly do it
He gives her a single promise before he study aboard.
3. live on: (a money or somethings) that you buy or get it when you need it
I can live on my inheritance.
Comments:
I love this song because of its melody and also the lyrics. The lyrics is meaningful! This song is writing about his fiancee. His fiancee had an accident before their wedding. His fiancee soon became hemiplegia. He wrote this song to tell his fiancee that anywhere she been, he will always be there. I admire the singer that can wrote down their song by expressing their feelings in their own life. Of course this song made me cried every time when I listened. Besides that, the lyrics are also easy to understand. I think that lyrics can be easy and fulfill feelings and meaning are a good work to the writer.
I just heard the topic "Do opposites attractive?" from the website 6 minutes English. I found out that we really can improve dramatically our listening skills by surfing this website. I have my own notes after listening "Do opposites attractive?". The two speakers are discussing about can we fall in love with other at the first sight? Next, both of them feel that humor is very important in a relationship. Besides that, they also think that the health of women also is a vital case. Men always think that women must be able to conceive and get pregnant soon getting babies successfully. If women can't pregnant, men will think that they won't fall in love in this kind of women. Nowadays, women or men tried to have plastic surgery for changing their appearance to attract someone. By the way, both of the two speakers usually think that humor and kind eyes are the perfect way to attract someone and fall in love with. The question that asked from this topic is what percentage of Americans said they believe in love at first sight? The answer is 56%. I really believe that this website can help a lot of people to improve their English because of their (this website) clearly and fluently English. I will continue to use this website to getting ahead my English listening skill.
I've just listening the ESL Podcast 1165-Eating spicy foods from the website eslpod.com. This is the hyperlink of the episode: https://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=17678856#
The words that I listened from the episode are shown below:
1. eyes watering: fill with tears 2. spicy: refer to foods that hot 3. curry: a dish associate in India that cook in vegetables and spicy sauce 4. mild: refer to the spiciness of the foods 5. medium: between the spicy and mild foods, or the foods are not so spicy 6. peppers: vegetables can often make foods very spicy 7. hot sauce: liquid that put on foods, made from spicy peppers 8. roof of my mouth: top part of mouth, top above tongue 9. on fire: i) to have a burning feeling because the food was spicy ii) doing or finished something very well 10. taste buds: points on tongue can sense taste of foods 11. a little kick to it: little bit spicy 12. pungent: having very strong smell or taste 13. zesty: slightly spicy flavour 14. to cool down: to lower the temperature of something 15. heat: cause by very spicy food 16. to fill up on: to eat or drink something so much not hungry or thirsty 17. dessert: sweet food served at the end of meal I think this website is suitable for the English learner. I like the content in this website but the speech is too slow for me. I like this website because I can learn a lot of phrases and vocabulary. Besides that, I can also learn how to explain the vocab with English. I'll try to listen the different topic from the website and also use other website that teacher given.
I'm now trying to post some vocabulary from the "Just a Hair cut,Please!" in the website SL Cyber Listening Lab.
1.specializing: to become an expert in a particular area of work, study or business. example sentence:He is specializing in business management.
2.voila:used to say "there it is" example sentence:Voila! You give me a shock!
3.trimmer:a machine for cutting the edges of bushes, grass, hair and hedges example sentence:He cuts the grass by using a trimmer.
4.styling: the act of cutting or shaping hair in a particular style example sentence:She puts on some styling gels on the model's hair.
5. vacation:this word has two meaning. 1.a period of time when something was closed 2.a period of time spent travelling or resting away from home. example sentence:My family is on vacation in Spain.
