W12-Evaluation

   

     In order to enhance the learning content more impressively, one of the procedures of our learning project is to have an evaluation in the very last of our course. The content of the evaluation test is based on "good expressions" on our blog, which aims to evaluate if we effectively absorb the pragmatic expressions. We picked up six sentences for each other to check if we understand the meaning or not. 

Nicole's questions: 

1. The numbers back up the surge in spending over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

2. If we just go over the cliff and let those policies stay in effect, we're basically gonna undo the recovery.  (繼續生效)

3. The company has brought that experience to life. (把...實現) 

4. CEO Howard Schultz spills the beans on starbucks' international ambition.  (走漏消息)

5. Others manage to contain their excitement. (抑制)
6. A city to savor (細細品嚐,慢慢享受)

Lilian's questions: 

1. outsmart以智取勝
2. 2. GoldenEye engendered a new regime of gender equality in the office with Miss Moneypenny firing the first warning shot across Bond's bows. 
(開啟了一個新的...時代；發出警告) 
3. This is coming on the heels of some severe flooding that happened less than a week ago.　　(緊跟在...之後) 
4. With improving political relations between Beijing and Taiwan's China-friendly president comes an economic windfall. 
(經濟上的意外收穫)　
5. Others manage to contain their excitement. (抑制)
6. I'm a singer-songwriter(創作歌手)

Reflection: 

     We both found that in order to enhance the retention memory, we need to design the evaluation part as a formative assessment, such as once a month, which prompts us to keep reviewing the good expressions more frequently. 

W12-course modification

Course Modification

1. During the CALL teaching discussion, Lilian and I found out that actually we were not interested in some certain topic such as sport. It would be difficulty for us to write reflection on "one thing I learned today". Therefore, we modified our course design, that is, to write 6 "one thing I learner today" out of 12 articles. In that way, we could only reflect on the articles that we were interested in, and generate more profound thinking.

2. We planned to test vocabulary each week. However, we found out that it would possibly end up knowing the vocabulary by short-term memory. Therefore, we changed our vocabulary test to the end of the program to see whether we really learn vocabulary.

W11- One thing I learned today

Nicole

In this week's reading, I learned some useful expression, such as half-drowning. (險些溺斃) If I would like to describe this kind of situation, I would possible just use "almost drowning". Besides, I was wondering whether I can use "half-" to describe something is almost done, such as "half-falling". In order to prove my hypothesis, I asked one of my native speaker friends to verify it. She said  she would just use "trip"in this situation. The trial-and -error process really increased my impression towards the word"half-drowning".

W11-Bond's Beauties

Nicole:

What makes the Bond beauties evolve from sexy sidekicks(花瓶) to lethal  ladies?

Lilian: 
Let's talk about something about Feminism. How do you think an intellectual sex kitten should be? 

Nicole

The rise of feminism results in the change of female character in James Bond movies. Women was not just a sidekicks anymore, but show their true color in the movie. I think an intellectual sex kitten should be the combination of gorgeous and sexy appearance, both high IQ and EQ, independence. Anne Hathaway will possible be the representative of intellectual sex kitten.

W11-Good Expression

Nicole
1. She didn't mind getting dirty and half-drowning. (險些溺斃)
2. Well, obviously, you know,when I did it in the early 70s we were very politically incorrect, and beautiful actresses in that era always played sex kittens. (政治不正確的[冒犯或歧視某種種族]/性感女郎)
vocabulary
bubbly活潑的
outsmart以智取勝
engender產生

Lilian 
1. She didn't mind getting dirty and half-drowning. (差點溺斃)
2. GoldenEye engendered a new regime of gender equality in the office with Miss Moneypenny firing the first warning shot across Bond's bows. 
(開啟了一個新的...時代；發出警告)