Helen's class Home work_Reporting Verbs

Exercise


1. Most iPod owners state that on average, only 20 of the tracks on an iPod will be from the iTunes shop.

2. Far more important ,they explained, was free music ripped from CDs someone already owned or acquired from file-sharing sites.

3. 83% of iPod owners report that they do not buy digital music regularly. The minority, 17%, buy and download music, usually single tracks, at least once per month.

4. On average, the study demonstrate that only 5% of the music on an iPod will be bought from online music stores. The rest will be from CDs the owner of an MP3 player already has or tracks they have downloaded from file-sharing sites.

5. "It is not instructive to think of portable media player owners, nor iPod owners specifically, as homogenous groups," suggested the report.

6. It reported : "Digital music buyers do not necessarily stop file-sharing upon buying legally."

7. The importance of "free" to digital music fans should not be underestimated, noted the report, and should be a factor for newer digital music firms, such as Spiral Frog, which use an ad-supported model.

8. "Digital music purchasing has not yet fundamentally changed the way in which digital music customers buy music," predicted the report.

Helen's class Home work _ Passive sentence

Exercise 1: Passives
after rewrite the sentences

1) The theft has been reported to the police.
2) The charity has been given 1,000 pound.
3) The program will be demonstrated to the students.
4) The procedure was explained to me.
5) Large areas of forest are being destroyed every day.
6) The land next to the university has been bought.
7) Tomorrow all the marketing will have been completed.
8) The library should have been finished by the time you arrive.
9) Results are expected better soon.
10) Their complaints should be sent to the head of department.
11) The lecture had to be posponed because of illness.
12) The fire could have been caused by an electrical fault.
13) The next year's conference are going to be held in Birmingham.
14) This fact is known very well.
15) The new lecture theatre was opened only last month.
16) The answers must be written on the examination paper in black ink.
17) This type of computer are being manufactured in Korea.
18) The problem should be investigated.

Listening practice & Passive sentence_comedy_family sitcom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00808sc.shtml?order=aztitle%3Aalphabetical&filter=category%3A100002&scope=iplayercategories&start=1&version_pid=b00808jl

Siri's summary :After you have gone series 2 (Meet the parent)

Family sitcome story were told about Jimmy,single father with one daughter and one son, and his mother - in -law,Diana .Today Jimmy is invited to meet his girlfriend's father,Siobhan,but he gets really nervous because mother-in-law tags him often,but the funny things was happened when he met Siobhan who should be interested by Jimmy,his daughter 's boyfriend ,but it was went wrong ,his attention has been turned to Diana ,Jimmy's mother-in-law ,who flirted to him then looked like Siobhan and Diana are going to have a date instead of get to know Jimmy.

Next day Diana has got a lovely flower so everyone at home were surprised including her and Diana were teasted by her grand-son-law,making a family's tree if she will marry with Siobhan so that sound complicated relationship at home for the childrend.

Then unexpected situation was happened when Diana has got a lot of flowers in the day after,living room were full of Siobhan's flowers, suddently she gets nervours and do not like to go out with Siobhan anymore she felt sorry to tell Siobhan.

Unfortunately when Jimmy has heard about Diana's felling ,right away he said that heis afraid that his relationship will be effected by Diana when she break up with Siobhan so Diana were offered to handling this problem by Jimmy,he will tell Siobhan himself that Diana like to break up with him .Again it went wrong Sionbhan was misunderstood that Jimmy would like to brake up with his daughter .

Finally Diana have to tell herself that she do not like Siobhan but she was surprised when Siobhan said he just doing for fun.

Please enjoin the story .... ;-)

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR RESEARCH(INTERNATINAL STUDENTS PROBLEM)

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PRESESSIONAL INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Please fill in the information below.

Country_________________Course name: _____________________

Gender: __Female __Male

Age: __below 20 __21-25 __26-30 other please specific: _______


1) Please RANK the following problems below (Put 1 = Most problem , 2= Quite problem 3 = Medium problem, 4= Little problem,5= Least problem , 6= No problem)

Transportation

VISA

Accommodation

Healthcare system(NHS)

Open bank account

Child care

Food

Finance(funding)

Home sick

Language


Others (please specific)_______________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2) How satisfied do you feel with your life in UK? (please tick )

__Very satisfied __Quite satisfied __Satisfied
__Not very satisfied __Very dissatisfied

3) How satisfied do you feel yourself with the quality of study?

__Very satisfied __Quite satisfied __Just Satisfied
__Not very satisfied __Very dissatisfied


4) How satisfied do you feel yourself with the quality of staffs?
__Very satisfied ___Quite satisfied __ Just Satisfied
___Not very satisfied __Very dissatisfied

Reading: Oil price still near record $142

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7476910.stm

Summary by Siri: "Oil price still near record 142 $"

- Supplied will not match with demand.
- London and New York were trading between 140-142 $.
- Opec,oil producer's group,has been under pressure to rise production,but recent reports have shown that members are split over whether to increase output.
Increasing oil price 's factors.
- Labya has threatened to cut production because market is well supplied and was threatened by US .
- The hedge funds were blamed by analysts as a player in raising oil prices.
- Opec believed that speculators were involved in the rising oil price,but others are not convinced.
- Deutsche Bank's research note "the factors driving oil prices higher are fundamental and not speculative.
- The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow the Justic Department to sue oil producers for limited supplies ,but the bill not yet review by The Senate and The White House will not agree with this.

Siri 's opinion : I think the factors are involved in the increasing oil price are speculators and hedge funds because the oil market is a future market so they can play with the markets with their huge billion.

Vocabulary

- Amid
among, between, during, encompassed, midst, over, surrounded, throughout

- a bill
- veto

Gapmaker Exercises_27 June

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7477251.stm

Gap File produced at level 8

Indian inflation at record levels

Petrol prices have so far lagged behind oil prices
There are growing fears that further rises in Indian interest rates will be needed after inflation hit its highest rate since records began 13 years ago.
Wholesale prices went up by 11.42%25 in the 12 months to 14 June, which was higher than had been expected.
Earlier in the week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised interest rates from 8.0%25 to 8.5%25 in an attempt to keep inflation under control.
It was the second increase in interest rates in two weeks.
The government has cut duties on items such as crude oil as well as cutting exports of rice to try to keep prices down, but interest rates are still expected to have to go up again.
"We expect inflation to head higher in the coming months and peak somewhere between 12 to 13%25," said A Prasanna from ICICI securities
"In order to reinforce its policy stance, the RBI will hike rates in the course of the year."

The following words will fill the gaps:
exports items policy reinforce securities

Siri's note

1) have so far lagged behind

2) There are growing fears

3) inflation hit its highest rate

4) higher than had been expected

5) expect inflation to head higher in the coming months

Vocabulary & Grammar : Education-news

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/universities-too-reliant-on-foreign-student-fees-853522.html

Vocabulary
- standards watchdog
- arbitrary (determined or marked by whim or caprice rather than reason)
- a rotten system
- rotten = abominable, bad, carious, corrupt, crooked, decayed, decomposed, depraved, dishonest, disintegrated, evil, festering, fetid, foul, inferior, lousy, nasty, offensive, perished, putrefied, putrid, rank, smelling, sour, spoiled, tainted, unlucky, unpleasant, unsound, vicious
- plagiarism = theft


Grammar
- Britain's universities are becoming increasingly (Siri's example : The oil price is becoming increasingly in 2008)
- a standards watchdog has warned (Siri example : The giant US pharmaceutical company ,Pfizer,has warned by US FDA in order to declared a crucial information of new drug)
- "The way degrees are classified is rather a rotten system," Mr Williams added(Siri example :The researches are classified by the authors)
- He also argued that university lecturers were being told to "mark positively" (Siri example: The new LondonMet students were being told by admission department to attend the introduction session in the afternoon)

Top 10 universities for overseas (non-EU) student recruits in 2006-7
1 Manchester 2,815
2 University of the Arts, London 2,675
3 London Metropolitan 2,665
4 Nottingham 2,610
5= Uni College London
5= Warwick 2,320
7 Sunderland 2,220
8 Imperial College London 2,160
9 Northumbria 1,960
10 Middlesex 1,700

Helen's class Home work_Academic vocabulary exercise

Answer exercises 1.2

1) Mainly --> primarily
2) Almost--->apparently, virtually
3) Only ----> solely
4) Basically---> fundamentally
5) Tried----> attempted
6) Really good ----> admirable ,excellent
7) Typical of -----> characteristic of
8) No way ----> can not

Helen's class vocabulary

1) generate(v) generative(adj) generation(n) =
beget, breed, cause, create, develop, engender, form, induce, initiate, make, originate, procreate, produce, propagate, sire, spawn, yield

2) turn (n/v) =
alternating, anfractuous, contorted, flexuous, rotary, rotating, serpentine, tortuous, vertiginous

3) solid(n/adj) solidly (adv) solidify(v) solidification/solidity (n)
compact, concentrated, concretionary, consistent, constant, continuous, convincing, cubic, dense, dependable, durable, firm, full, hard, impermeable, lasing, level, massive, monolithic, ponderable, reliable, rooted, rugged, secure, sound, stable, sterling, stiff, strong, sturdy, substantial, thick, thorough, trustworthy, unanimous, unbroken, uninterrupted, valid, weighty

Remind ourselves

1) Academic language puts a lot of information into noun pharses rather than spreading it out over a whole sentence

2) In academic writing use many expressions which are neutral ,knowing whether an expression is formal or just neutral is important

Vocabulary Notebook

1) Precise (adj) = Strictly distinguished from others

2) Mainly ----> academic vocab ---> Primarily (adv.) ,primary(n/adj)

3) Grammar(n) grammatical(adj) grammatically(adv)


Vocabulary from BBC article
1) Surge (n) =
billow, pour, rise, rush, swell, tide, wave

2) Legislation(n) =
act, bill, charter, enactment, law, ordinance, regulation, ruling, statute

3) Stipulate(v) =
agree, arrange, bargain, contract, covenant, designate, detail, guarantee, indicate, promise, require, specify, state, warrant

Homework_25 June : Reading Technique

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7473321.stm
"Price warning on farmers markets
By Kevin Peachey Consumer affairs reporter, BBC News ,25 June 2008

Siri : Reading Technique :SQ3R

Recite the article

"Price warning on farmers markets"

- Customers are confused -----> the source of the food -----> the unaware guideline for classifying locally-sourced food----> so-called food from local farmers markets
- Farmers market ----> The National Farmer’s Retail and Markets Association (Farma)-----> Number of farmers markets has significant increased for 3 times since 2001----->do not have the official guideline to classify source of the local food

Question :

1) Do we have to concern about the source of food in UK ?

Siri's opinion : Yes ,I think if I am staying in UK that is high cost of leaving I am concern about food especially if some factors that will make the food's price increase such as the article said it has misled food price if the source of food were unclear.

2) What do you think about food price in farmers markets ?

Siri's opinion : When we look at the factors in the article it look like the food price in farmers markets should be declined in order to the number of farmers markets have risen significantly ,but it did not decrease nowaday and trend to increase gradually maybe accroding to they not implement the stardard guideline and unaware of sorced-food then some food price misled the price.

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