Tuesday, April 7, 2009


key word

itinerary (noun): plan - I printed twenty copies of the trip itinerary for the students.

catch (verb): watch- We wanted to catch the musical last night, but it was all sold out, so we caught a movie instead.

come up with (phrasal verb): think of an idea or answer - We couldn't come up with any ideas for the weekend, so we just stayed home and played video games.
earn (verb): receive money as payment for work that you do - I need to earn money to buy more video games.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

corpus based reference tools

1.How do you like these tools?

It let you know how to use a word if you wrote the stence need this word
and maybe you do not know the grmmar
very quicky to get the example

2.What are their strength and weakness, in comparison with a dictionary?

use the corpus based reference tools, I should konw the word ,what is mean
,so I must look up the dictionary first

3.What are the difficulties you encounter when you used these tools?
it does not have sort out the same word
I hope it can improve this problem

Monday, March 16, 2009

WHAT different between 'big' and large

big is used on describing size , people and scope

ex1:
a big man -means a person who is great
ex2: a big boy -a boy who is older than other boy

large is used on area ,quantity and shape
ex: large dog
ex2: a large room
ex3: a large amount of something

please tell me ,where I make the mistake

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Assignment 2 Dictionary Exercise

the word which make me confused are 'effect'and influence

so i use the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary to solve my problem

effect: the result of a particular influence
influence : the power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to do this


effect is to be partial to result

influence is to be partial to reason


if I made a mistake
please tell me


thanks

Thursday, February 26, 2009

about me

my english-name is Jack,cheise name is曾清辰, major is mechanical engineering,it is very boring
I don't have interesting on this major,but my father hope me can be a geart engineer ,he is a
factor director
my hobby is play basketball,read the history novel,collect the stamp and go to travel
I want to go to the EUROPE , many different country,like Germany or Austria,the food
which I like the most is japanese food ,it taste refreshing
The NBA basketball player who I like the most is Steve -Nash ,I watch the NBA game on the weekends
I come from taichung,the famous of the delicacies is sun cake,there are a lot of delicacies food in
Fengjia nightmarket

I somtimes go the cafe drink the coffice and listen the music,the atmosphere maske me fell happy