Friday, 4 July 2008
An Interesting self-learning websites
By B Siriporn
1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/default.stm
BBC website is contained with Big knowledge such as education news ,business news,political news,and etc ,where everyone who keen to improve English skills ,were found very useful with listening skill,via I-players ,writing skill ,reading skill via many of article ,In my opinion it is really useful with business news which is fulled of business information around the world and carry out 1,000 of business new vocabularies and phrases so BBC website is a favorable websit for me.
2) http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/#
Grammar is the top piority for academic english and myself so I considered this websit is very useful for a grammatical improvement.
3) http://www.englishpage.com/
This website were contained with many links classifies by areas such as listening ,writing, grammar and etc which really useful for students or people who like to improve English with one click and then has been found a lot of knowledge.
1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/default.stm
BBC website is contained with Big knowledge such as education news ,business news,political news,and etc ,where everyone who keen to improve English skills ,were found very useful with listening skill,via I-players ,writing skill ,reading skill via many of article ,In my opinion it is really useful with business news which is fulled of business information around the world and carry out 1,000 of business new vocabularies and phrases so BBC website is a favorable websit for me.
2) http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/#
Grammar is the top piority for academic english and myself so I considered this websit is very useful for a grammatical improvement.
3) http://www.englishpage.com/
This website were contained with many links classifies by areas such as listening ,writing, grammar and etc which really useful for students or people who like to improve English with one click and then has been found a lot of knowledge.
Steve's class Home Work_Writing comparision
Example writing comparision by Steve :
Drinking: Britain has a highly developed (maybe even over-developed) drinking culture, whereas some countries (for example Pakistan) have no alcoholic drinking culture. In Britain, it far more common to see inebriated young women in the evenings than in Italy, where getting drunk is not the only criterion for a good night out. When buying drinks for friends, a ‘rounds’ policy is employed where one person will buy a drink for everyone at the table. Even if it means that some people will not buy a round that evening. This is in contrast to Japan, where people generally pay for themselves. Men will tend to drink less sweet drinks than women who quite commonly consume alcopops (e.g. Bacardi Breezer). In Thailand, it is not unusual to see both men and women consuming these drinks."
Title : A taboos
Writing by B Siriporn
A cultural taboo has been developing around the world since the countries has been established,generally any countries has their own taboos such as drinking ,eating ,bodily function and speaking ,but some countries has been influenced by other.
Recently the international presessional students were carried out an interesting discussion results which the taboos were compared among the international students countries such as Japan,China,Thailand,Pakistan and Morocco.However, Eating in Japan,the elblows were not allowed on table and chopsticks are not tapped on the table before eating ,but in Thailand is accepted.While eating with mouth open in China is not a taboo while it is different when compare with Japan and Thailand and also Thailand slurping noodles is a taboo whereas Japan is a culture.Some Asian countries,China,Thailand,Japan, bodily functions,splitting,nose-blowing, are impolite, especially in Japan nose-blowing is not polite ,but fairly common with a spit in China less than Thailand and Japan.While in Pakistan burping among friends is accepted,but not in Thailand and the farting are accepted as a universal taboo.Normally speaking,expressing disagreement is common in the world ,but Japan men generally are recongnized as the first and important person to speak first ,not a women.Finally the world is recongnized as a multiple culture.
Drinking: Britain has a highly developed (maybe even over-developed) drinking culture, whereas some countries (for example Pakistan) have no alcoholic drinking culture. In Britain, it far more common to see inebriated young women in the evenings than in Italy, where getting drunk is not the only criterion for a good night out. When buying drinks for friends, a ‘rounds’ policy is employed where one person will buy a drink for everyone at the table. Even if it means that some people will not buy a round that evening. This is in contrast to Japan, where people generally pay for themselves. Men will tend to drink less sweet drinks than women who quite commonly consume alcopops (e.g. Bacardi Breezer). In Thailand, it is not unusual to see both men and women consuming these drinks."
Title : A taboos
Writing by B Siriporn
A cultural taboo has been developing around the world since the countries has been established,generally any countries has their own taboos such as drinking ,eating ,bodily function and speaking ,but some countries has been influenced by other.
Recently the international presessional students were carried out an interesting discussion results which the taboos were compared among the international students countries such as Japan,China,Thailand,Pakistan and Morocco.However, Eating in Japan,the elblows were not allowed on table and chopsticks are not tapped on the table before eating ,but in Thailand is accepted.While eating with mouth open in China is not a taboo while it is different when compare with Japan and Thailand and also Thailand slurping noodles is a taboo whereas Japan is a culture.Some Asian countries,China,Thailand,Japan, bodily functions,splitting,nose-blowing, are impolite, especially in Japan nose-blowing is not polite ,but fairly common with a spit in China less than Thailand and Japan.While in Pakistan burping among friends is accepted,but not in Thailand and the farting are accepted as a universal taboo.Normally speaking,expressing disagreement is common in the world ,but Japan men generally are recongnized as the first and important person to speak first ,not a women.Finally the world is recongnized as a multiple culture.
Gapmaker Exercises_4 July
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb2008073_344519.htm?chan=globalbiz_asia+index+page_top+stories
Gap File produced at level 8
According to the Internet analyst company's latest statement, the regional Internet audience grew at an average of 14 percent during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users.
India registered the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users, followed by China at 14 percent growth with over 102 million, said comScore.
Taiwan and Malaysia also clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent for both. ComScore said the more mature, saturated Internet markets of Japan and Singapore were at the bottom of the list, growth wise.
Additionally, it was found that Internet users in the region spend less time online than the worldwide average, with users in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan spending the most time in the region. Nonetheless, these were still below the worldwide average, said comScore.
On Web domains, comScore said half of the top 20 in the region are locally-owned, noting that five of the top 10 search engines are regionally-based, citing China's Baidu.com and Korea's NHN Corporation's Naver.com.
The following words will fill the gaps:
analyst citing corporations domains percent percent percent percent region region region regional registered
Gap File produced at level 8
According to the Internet analyst company's latest statement, the regional Internet audience grew at an average of 14 percent during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users.
India registered the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users, followed by China at 14 percent growth with over 102 million, said comScore.
Taiwan and Malaysia also clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent for both. ComScore said the more mature, saturated Internet markets of Japan and Singapore were at the bottom of the list, growth wise.
Additionally, it was found that Internet users in the region spend less time online than the worldwide average, with users in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan spending the most time in the region. Nonetheless, these were still below the worldwide average, said comScore.
On Web domains, comScore said half of the top 20 in the region are locally-owned, noting that five of the top 10 search engines are regionally-based, citing China's Baidu.com and Korea's NHN Corporation's Naver.com.
The following words will fill the gaps:
analyst citing corporations domains percent percent percent percent region region region regional registered
Useful business sentences by Siri
- growth Soars
- grew at an average of 14 percent
- during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users.
- the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users
- clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent
- ComScore said the more mature, saturated Internet markets
- spend less time online than the worldwide average
- half of the top 20 in the region
Thursday, 3 July 2008
The difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students during summer 2008_First Draft
B Siriporn, London Metropolitan University
Introduction
More than 200 years that The United Kingdom (UK) has established a highly standard and a good reputation in the world of education so those reasons have risen significantly for international students who pursue a higher education (The independent survey 2008).A basic things as problems will come along with international students when they are moved to UK for their education such as missing home ,accommodation ,difficulties reading‚ writing‚ or listening to lectures in a foreign language and transportation(students affairs UK ,University of Kentucky) were reported.
However, even thought has a few research has been reported about international students problems in UK but unfortunately there were not up to date data so these research will carry out the new updated international students problems.
Aims:
The primary aim of this research is to discover if there is any difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students who attend the class during summer 2008 and the secondary aim is to carry out the results of how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.
Methods
The sample
The research sampled 27 respondents, 16 Females and 11 males, from the international student summer class 2008 with different ages. The respondents have been studying at London Metropolitan University.
Data collection
The data were collected by questionnaires that were contained with various student problem questions and the questions how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study and the quality of staffs then the data will identify the sort of international student summer problems and how satisfied do they feel during summer class.
Finding
The primary aim: the sorts of problems international students.
The research were discovered that the most problem for the respondents were funding and Visa, were come up with a similar percentage, despite finance and Visa problems were a major problem for female not in group of male.
One in three of the respondents were found quite problem with accommodation and about 22% have quite problem with transportation. However, accommodation, transportation and funding problems were occurred with female more than male.
The research were found that the medium problem of the respondents were language(37%) and male were found less problem than female, the main medium problem for the male respondents was a opening bank account(18.51%).Whereas, both language and healthcare system were high percentage as a medium problem for female respondents.
Other problems were just a little, least or no problem for the respondents and both female and male were significant no problem with child care when the research was carried out the result.
The secondary aim: how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.
- How the respondents were satisfied by living in UK?
The research was demonstrated that 52% of the respondents were quite satisfied by living in UK while a quarter says they were just satisfied, but 11% say they were very dissatisfied by living in UK.
- How the respondents were satisfied by the quality of study?
The quality of study just over a half of the respondent state that they were quite satisfied, but 19% was not very satisfied with the quality of study at London Metropolitan University.
- How the respondents were satisfied by the quality of staffs?
The majority of the respondents were quite satisfied with the quality of staffs and one in three say they were just satisfied by staffs however 4% of the respondents were very dissatisfied with the quality of London Metropolitan staffs.
Introduction
More than 200 years that The United Kingdom (UK) has established a highly standard and a good reputation in the world of education so those reasons have risen significantly for international students who pursue a higher education (The independent survey 2008).A basic things as problems will come along with international students when they are moved to UK for their education such as missing home ,accommodation ,difficulties reading‚ writing‚ or listening to lectures in a foreign language and transportation(students affairs UK ,University of Kentucky) were reported.
However, even thought has a few research has been reported about international students problems in UK but unfortunately there were not up to date data so these research will carry out the new updated international students problems.
Aims:
The primary aim of this research is to discover if there is any difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students who attend the class during summer 2008 and the secondary aim is to carry out the results of how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.
Methods
The sample
The research sampled 27 respondents, 16 Females and 11 males, from the international student summer class 2008 with different ages. The respondents have been studying at London Metropolitan University.
Data collection
The data were collected by questionnaires that were contained with various student problem questions and the questions how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study and the quality of staffs then the data will identify the sort of international student summer problems and how satisfied do they feel during summer class.
Finding
The primary aim: the sorts of problems international students.
The research were discovered that the most problem for the respondents were funding and Visa, were come up with a similar percentage, despite finance and Visa problems were a major problem for female not in group of male.
One in three of the respondents were found quite problem with accommodation and about 22% have quite problem with transportation. However, accommodation, transportation and funding problems were occurred with female more than male.
The research were found that the medium problem of the respondents were language(37%) and male were found less problem than female, the main medium problem for the male respondents was a opening bank account(18.51%).Whereas, both language and healthcare system were high percentage as a medium problem for female respondents.
Other problems were just a little, least or no problem for the respondents and both female and male were significant no problem with child care when the research was carried out the result.
The secondary aim: how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.
- How the respondents were satisfied by living in UK?
The research was demonstrated that 52% of the respondents were quite satisfied by living in UK while a quarter says they were just satisfied, but 11% say they were very dissatisfied by living in UK.
- How the respondents were satisfied by the quality of study?
The quality of study just over a half of the respondent state that they were quite satisfied, but 19% was not very satisfied with the quality of study at London Metropolitan University.
- How the respondents were satisfied by the quality of staffs?
The majority of the respondents were quite satisfied with the quality of staffs and one in three say they were just satisfied by staffs however 4% of the respondents were very dissatisfied with the quality of London Metropolitan staffs.
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Helen's class homework_Pronunciation : Energy Watchdog
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB121490783562819031-lMyQjAxMDI4MTA0MjkwMDI3Wj.html
Energy Watchdog Expects Oil Markets to Stay Tight
10 Vocabularies from this article
1) Respite(n)= stop ,example : we worked for hour without respite.
2) Taper off (phrasal verb) = become smaller or less frequent ,example : most of that growth will come early before sharply tapering off / The mobile phone market trends to be gradually tapered off in the next quater.
3) Jibe (V) with something (US informal) = similar or match ,example :the IEA's outlook jibed with the views of oil company executives at an industry conference in Madrid.
4) Deep-seated (adj) = strongly felt or believed in something ,example : the red-hot oil market reflects deep-seated pessimism about the industry's ability to open the spigot to satisfy rising demand / The reporters were carried out a deep-seated opinion.
5) Pessimism (n)= think of the bad part of situation ,example A survey were created to find out who are a pessimisism by HR department.
6) Pessimistic(adj) ,example Tommy is a very pessimistic man when he talks about America.
7) Spigot (n) = a device unsed to control the flow of liquid ,example the industry's ability to open the spigot to satisfy rising demand / The goverment has been put pressure to raise the water spigot in rural areas.
8) Desperate(adj) = serious ,bad ,needs or want something very much,example
The IEA's report provided scant comfort for a world desperate for relief from the escalating cost of fuel/ The researcher states that he is desperate to prove his hypothesis is true.
9) Stall (v) = to delay taking action or decision ,example The BBC predicts that The member of parliament will stall the taxation bill.
- Stall(n) = shop or engine
10) Offset (v) = to balance one influence against an opposing influence ,example The sorbering situation of emerging market is a surge of OPEC oil price,but it has been offset by Russian supply.
Energy Watchdog Expects Oil Markets to Stay Tight
10 Vocabularies from this article
1) Respite(n)= stop ,example : we worked for hour without respite.
2) Taper off (phrasal verb) = become smaller or less frequent ,example : most of that growth will come early before sharply tapering off / The mobile phone market trends to be gradually tapered off in the next quater.
3) Jibe (V) with something (US informal) = similar or match ,example :the IEA's outlook jibed with the views of oil company executives at an industry conference in Madrid.
4) Deep-seated (adj) = strongly felt or believed in something ,example : the red-hot oil market reflects deep-seated pessimism about the industry's ability to open the spigot to satisfy rising demand / The reporters were carried out a deep-seated opinion.
5) Pessimism (n)= think of the bad part of situation ,example A survey were created to find out who are a pessimisism by HR department.
6) Pessimistic(adj) ,example Tommy is a very pessimistic man when he talks about America.
7) Spigot (n) = a device unsed to control the flow of liquid ,example the industry's ability to open the spigot to satisfy rising demand / The goverment has been put pressure to raise the water spigot in rural areas.
8) Desperate(adj) = serious ,bad ,needs or want something very much,example
The IEA's report provided scant comfort for a world desperate for relief from the escalating cost of fuel/ The researcher states that he is desperate to prove his hypothesis is true.
9) Stall (v) = to delay taking action or decision ,example The BBC predicts that The member of parliament will stall the taxation bill.
- Stall(n) = shop or engine
10) Offset (v) = to balance one influence against an opposing influence ,example The sorbering situation of emerging market is a surge of OPEC oil price,but it has been offset by Russian supply.
Research : The international presessional student problems_Finding session after have got the result from questionaires
GROUP 2: Elaine, Akiko, Siri, Sheraz
REASEARCH TOPIC: INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROBLEMS
REASEARCH TOPIC: INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROBLEMS
Research aim:
The primary aim of this research is to discover if there is any difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students who attend the class during summer 2008 and the secondary aim are carried out the results of how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.
Method
The research sampled 27 respondents, 16 Females and 11 males, from the international student summer class 2008 with different ages. The respondents have been studying at London Metropolitan University. The data were collected by questionnaires that were contained with various student problem questions and the questions how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.
Finding
The primary aim, the sorts of problems international students, were discovered that the most problem for the respondents were funding and Visa, were come up with a similar percentage, despite finance and Visa problems were a major problem for female not in group of male.
The primary aim of this research is to discover if there is any difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students who attend the class during summer 2008 and the secondary aim are carried out the results of how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.
Method
The research sampled 27 respondents, 16 Females and 11 males, from the international student summer class 2008 with different ages. The respondents have been studying at London Metropolitan University. The data were collected by questionnaires that were contained with various student problem questions and the questions how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.
Finding
The primary aim, the sorts of problems international students, were discovered that the most problem for the respondents were funding and Visa, were come up with a similar percentage, despite finance and Visa problems were a major problem for female not in group of male.
One in three of the respondents were found quite problem with accommodation and about 22% have quite problem with transportation. However, accommodation, transportation and funding problems were occurred with female more than male.
The research were found that the medium problem of the respondents were language(37%) and male were found less problem than female, the main medium problem for the male respondents was a opening bank account(18.51%).Whereas, both language and healthcare system were high percentage as a medium problem for female respondents.
Other problems were just a little, least or no problem for the respondents and both female and male were significant no problem with child care when the research was carried out the result.
The secondary aims were demonstrated that about 52% of the respondents were quite satisfied by living in UK while a quarter says they were just satisfied and 11% say they were very dissatisfied by living in UK.
However, the quality of study just over a half of the respondents say that they were quite satisfied, but approximately 19% was not very satisfied with the quality of study at London Metropolitan.
While the majority of the respondents were quite satisfied with the quality of staffs and more than 30 % say they were just satisfied by staffs.
(This article was written by Siri)
The secondary aims were demonstrated that about 52% of the respondents were quite satisfied by living in UK while a quarter says they were just satisfied and 11% say they were very dissatisfied by living in UK.
However, the quality of study just over a half of the respondents say that they were quite satisfied, but approximately 19% was not very satisfied with the quality of study at London Metropolitan.
While the majority of the respondents were quite satisfied with the quality of staffs and more than 30 % say they were just satisfied by staffs.
(This article was written by Siri)
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