Site: BBC Sport
Topic:TOEIC etc
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*associate: unite/ to make a connection in your mind between one thing or person and another
*predict: foretell/ to say that something will happen, before it happens
*venture: adventure, risk/ a new business activity that involves taking risks
*starve: famish/ to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat
*voyage: navigation/ a long journey in a ship or spacecraft
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
2012年6月1日金曜日
week 7
Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*deny: 1. say sth is not true 2. not allow
*labor: work and workers
*define: to describe something correctly and thoroughly, and to say what standards, limits, qualities etc it has that make it different from other things
*competitive: determind ot trying very hard to be more successful than other people or businesses
*alien: very different from what you are used to, especially in a way that is difficult to understand or accept
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*deny: 1. say sth is not true 2. not allow
*labor: work and workers
*define: to describe something correctly and thoroughly, and to say what standards, limits, qualities etc it has that make it different from other things
*competitive: determind ot trying very hard to be more successful than other people or businesses
*alien: very different from what you are used to, especially in a way that is difficult to understand or accept
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
2012年5月23日水曜日
week 6
Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*ambition:a strong desire to achieve something
*confuse:to make some feel that they cannot think clearly or do not
*capture:to catch a person and keep them as a prisoner
*increase:it becomes bigger in amount, number, or degree
*arrest:if the police arrest someone, the person is taken to a police station because the police think they have done something illegal
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*ambition:a strong desire to achieve something
*confuse:to make some feel that they cannot think clearly or do not
*capture:to catch a person and keep them as a prisoner
*increase:it becomes bigger in amount, number, or degree
*arrest:if the police arrest someone, the person is taken to a police station because the police think they have done something illegal
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
2012年5月16日水曜日
week 5
Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*conrtaband:goods that are brought into a country illegally, especially to avoid tax
*rupture:1.an occasion when something suddenly breaks apart or bursts 2. a situation in which two countries, groups of people etc suddenly disagree and often end their relationship with each other 3. a medical condition in which an organ of the body, especially one near the abdmen, sticks out through the wall of muscle that normally surrounds it
*intermit:stopping and starting often and for short periods
*involuntary:happening to you although you do not want it to
*signature:formal the act of singing something
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*conrtaband:goods that are brought into a country illegally, especially to avoid tax
*rupture:1.an occasion when something suddenly breaks apart or bursts 2. a situation in which two countries, groups of people etc suddenly disagree and often end their relationship with each other 3. a medical condition in which an organ of the body, especially one near the abdmen, sticks out through the wall of muscle that normally surrounds it
*intermit:stopping and starting often and for short periods
*involuntary:happening to you although you do not want it to
*signature:formal the act of singing something
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
2012年5月15日火曜日
Week 4
Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*impute:to say, often unfairly, that someone is responsible for something bad or has bad intentions
*colloquial:language or words that are colloquial are used mainly in informal conversations rather than in writing or formal speech
*caption:words printed above or below a picture in a book or newspaper is showing
*derogate:to make something seem less important or less good
*compassion:a strong feeling of sympathy for someone who is suffering and a desire to help them
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
Amanda, please give me some advices about the news websites.
I sometimes read the English news sites to study English and to know about the international situation. But it is almost made by Japanese company, for example, Asahi shinbun and Yomiuri shinbun etc. So I want to read it made by the English speaking world. Please give me Amanda's advice. What the news websites should I read to study English?
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*impute:to say, often unfairly, that someone is responsible for something bad or has bad intentions
*colloquial:language or words that are colloquial are used mainly in informal conversations rather than in writing or formal speech
*caption:words printed above or below a picture in a book or newspaper is showing
*derogate:to make something seem less important or less good
*compassion:a strong feeling of sympathy for someone who is suffering and a desire to help them
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour
Amanda, please give me some advices about the news websites.
I sometimes read the English news sites to study English and to know about the international situation. But it is almost made by Japanese company, for example, Asahi shinbun and Yomiuri shinbun etc. So I want to read it made by the English speaking world. Please give me Amanda's advice. What the news websites should I read to study English?
2012年5月9日水曜日
Week 3
Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
dumb: unable to speak, because you are angry, surprised, shocked etc
surpass: to be even better greater than someone or something else
mutual: mutual feeling such as respect, trust, or hartred are feelings that two or more people have for each other
vicious: violent and cruel in a way that hurts someone physically
intrepid: willing to do dangerous things or go to dangerous places - often used humorously
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective) interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 20 minutes
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
dumb: unable to speak, because you are angry, surprised, shocked etc
surpass: to be even better greater than someone or something else
mutual: mutual feeling such as respect, trust, or hartred are feelings that two or more people have for each other
vicious: violent and cruel in a way that hurts someone physically
intrepid: willing to do dangerous things or go to dangerous places - often used humorously
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective) interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 20 minutes
2012年5月2日水曜日
Week 2
words
・introvert:someone who is quiet and shy, and does not enjoy being with other people
・sovereignty:1.complete freedom and power to gonern 2. the power that an independent country has to govern itself
・bolster:1. to help someone to feel better and more positive 2. to improve something
・aesthetic:connected with beauty and the study of beauty
・browse:1. to look through the pages of a book, magazine etc without a particular purpose, just looking at the most interesting parts 2. to look at the goals in a shop without waiting to abuy any particular thing 3. to serach for information on a computer or on the Internet 4. if a goat, deer etc browses, it eats plants
・introvert:someone who is quiet and shy, and does not enjoy being with other people
・sovereignty:1.complete freedom and power to gonern 2. the power that an independent country has to govern itself
・bolster:1. to help someone to feel better and more positive 2. to improve something
・aesthetic:connected with beauty and the study of beauty
・browse:1. to look through the pages of a book, magazine etc without a particular purpose, just looking at the most interesting parts 2. to look at the goals in a shop without waiting to abuy any particular thing 3. to serach for information on a computer or on the Internet 4. if a goat, deer etc browses, it eats plants
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