Thursday, October 19, 2006
NEWS
1. Title: Farmers Organize to Try to Control Potato Supply
2. URL: http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2006-10-16-voa1.cfm
5. Question: Why people don't eat as many potatoes as they did in the past?
Potatoes are a traditional part of American meals. But people are not eating as many potatoes
as they did in the past. The United States Department of Agriculture reports that it expects potato use to decrease during the next fourteen years.
Growers say one main reason is that more people are worrying about getting too fat. Several popular weight-reducing plans restrict carbohydrates. Potatoes are high in carbohydrates.
2. URL: http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2006-10-16-voa1.cfm
4. Summary: It talk abuot that potato will decrease during the next fourteen years because of
they are high in carbonhydrates.
5. Question: Why people don't eat as many potatoes as they did in the past?
6. 負責段落:
Potatoes are a traditional part of American meals. But people are not eating as many potatoes
as they did in the past. The United States Department of Agriculture reports that it expects potato use to decrease during the next fourteen years.
Growers say one main reason is that more people are worrying about getting too fat. Several popular weight-reducing plans restrict carbohydrates. Potatoes are high in carbohydrates.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Weblog
Research about the weblog. You want to know what the weblog is and how it can be used in English teaching and learning.
1. What keywords do you use to search information on the web?
- Weblog
2. What search engine(s) do you use?
- Google in English
3. How many search do you get?
- About 288,000,000
4. What articles do you think are useful to answer the question? how do you choose these
articles?
- (1.) The article that talk about English teaching or learning
- (2.) Look for the title about English teaching or learning
5. What are the answers? List the titles of the articles you read and their URL.
- (1.) A blog (short for weblog) is a frequently updated website that often resembles an online journal. It's so easy to create and update a blog - it requires only basic access to the Internet, and a minimum of technical know-how. Because of this, it is one of the easiest ways to publish student writing on the WWW. It's almost as easy as sending an email.
Nowadays, blogs can also display photos and some people are using them with audio and even video, but this article will concentrate on the basics, showing how a simple text-based blog can be used to great effect with your English language learners.
- (2.)Blogging for ELT
Lay and Lie
Plagiarism and English Teaching Part I
- (3.)URL: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/
http://www.english-blog.com/archives/2005/11/plagiarism_and_esl.php
1. What keywords do you use to search information on the web?
- Weblog
2. What search engine(s) do you use?
- Google in English
3. How many search do you get?
- About 288,000,000
4. What articles do you think are useful to answer the question? how do you choose these
articles?
- (1.) The article that talk about English teaching or learning
- (2.) Look for the title about English teaching or learning
5. What are the answers? List the titles of the articles you read and their URL.
- (1.) A blog (short for weblog) is a frequently updated website that often resembles an online journal. It's so easy to create and update a blog - it requires only basic access to the Internet, and a minimum of technical know-how. Because of this, it is one of the easiest ways to publish student writing on the WWW. It's almost as easy as sending an email.
Nowadays, blogs can also display photos and some people are using them with audio and even video, but this article will concentrate on the basics, showing how a simple text-based blog can be used to great effect with your English language learners.
- (2.)Blogging for ELT
Lay and Lie
Plagiarism and English Teaching Part I
- (3.)URL: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/
http://www.english-blog.com/archives/2005/11/plagiarism_and_esl.php
