同一色系, 不同深淺 - shades
不同色系 - color
圖案 - pattern
今天上課的其中一張slide, 分享
- 7月 17 週四 200821:55
顏色
同一色系, 不同深淺 - shades
不同色系 - color
圖案 - pattern
今天上課的其中一張slide, 分享
- 4月 21 週一 200821:08
假設語氣
假設語氣種類 | 條件句動詞型態（if） | 結果句動詞型態 |
(1) 現在事實 | 現在式 | 現在式 |
(2) 未來可能發生的事實 | 現在式 | 未來式 |
(3) 與現在事實相反 | 過去式：Were/Ved | would/could/might+V |
(4) 與過去事實相反 | had + p.p. | would/could/might+ have+ V |
例：
(1) Salt dissolves if you mix it in water. // You have to practice every day if you want to be the best player on the team.
(2) If you come to dinner, I’ll make your favorite pasta. // Some students will transfer to different schools if the school raises its tuition.
(3) I might be able to help her if she were honest with me. // If I knew how to play the game, I would join your team.
(4) If he had listened to what I said, he wouldn’t have gotten into so much trouble. // Helen might have been able to receive the scholarship if she had gotten better grades.
哈哈哈~!
久違了的英文文法終於出現了
因為剛剛在整理電腦檔案
發現有一些東西是可分享的 
- 10月 18 週四 200723:19
UN for Taiwan?? Taiwan for UN??
今天上課時
同學問:[老師~ 新聞上在吵 UN for Taiwan 和 Taiwan for UN, 到底哪個是正確的?]
說實在的, 最近只看布袋戲, 不太關心新聞, 不知道究竟在吵些甚麼?
可能這個話題太敏感, 我上了幾個論壇, 要嘛~完全沒討論, 要嘛就離題-藍綠觀點對戰
好吧~ 因為也沒上下文, 我就自行揣測了, 大家參考就行, 若有其他的論調也可提出討論
我的說明是這樣的...
UN for Taiwan - 說的對象應是 [台灣人] -給我們台灣人[聯合國]吧! -把un給台灣人吧!
Taiwan for UN - 說的對象應是 [外國人/非台灣籍人士] - 請讓聯合國內有[台灣]吧! - 把台灣給un吧!
所以...也沒有所謂的對與錯
端看要呼籲的對象為何者
以上是針對同學問的問題做說明...
但, 基本上都怪怪的啦~
我想, 應該有不少人有興趣知道吧! 所以分享
其實可以用: UN members, Taiwan needs your vote(s)/support(s)!
UN, Taiwan needs you!
Real equality, UN membership for Taiwan!
...
總之有很多說法啦~~
同學問:[老師~ 新聞上在吵 UN for Taiwan 和 Taiwan for UN, 到底哪個是正確的?]
說實在的, 最近只看布袋戲, 不太關心新聞, 不知道究竟在吵些甚麼?
可能這個話題太敏感, 我上了幾個論壇, 要嘛~完全沒討論, 要嘛就離題-藍綠觀點對戰
好吧~ 因為也沒上下文, 我就自行揣測了, 大家參考就行, 若有其他的論調也可提出討論
我的說明是這樣的...
UN for Taiwan - 說的對象應是 [台灣人] -給我們台灣人[聯合國]吧! -把un給台灣人吧!
Taiwan for UN - 說的對象應是 [外國人/非台灣籍人士] - 請讓聯合國內有[台灣]吧! - 把台灣給un吧!
所以...也沒有所謂的對與錯
端看要呼籲的對象為何者
以上是針對同學問的問題做說明...
但, 基本上都怪怪的啦~
我想, 應該有不少人有興趣知道吧! 所以分享
其實可以用: UN members, Taiwan needs your vote(s)/support(s)!
UN, Taiwan needs you!
Real equality, UN membership for Taiwan!
...
總之有很多說法啦~~
最後! 本文無任何政治立場, 請勿對本文做任何非關英語討論之留言, 謝謝!
- 2月 14 週三 200719:15
Happy Valentine’s Day
Love's secret
Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentile wind doth move
silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears
Ah! She did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silenty, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.
by William Blake
William blake 是我很喜愛的一位詩人
在這樣的日子分享給大家一首有關［愛情］的詩
Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentile wind doth move
silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears
Ah! She did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silenty, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.
by William Blake
William blake 是我很喜愛的一位詩人
在這樣的日子分享給大家一首有關［愛情］的詩
- 5月 15 週一 200612:14
標點符號使用準則 IV
....又是好久一陣了...
歹勢啦~~
最近比較忙....
加上補習班和家教都停課中 (不過今天開始又一起都要上課啦~~)
就會比較懶得讀英文...
可是阿~~ 因為有在上PMP的課(粉難的~~)... 所以只要沒讀書都會有罪惡感...
ㄣ...
趁現在 心情好
趕快把剩下的部分都整理整理囉~~
... dots / ellipsis 省略號(中文????)
引用的句子太長時, 僅保留需要的文字, 不重要的部分可用 "..."代表省略
e.g. ...challenging the view that Britain...had not changed all that fundamentally.
/ slash / oblique 斜線 (中文???)
分隔可供選擇的詞或短語
e.g. have a pudding and / or cheese
single / married / widowed / divorced
' ' / " " quotation marks 引號
1. 引用別人的話語時使用
e.g. 'Why on earth did you do that?' he asked. 'I'll fetch it,' she replied.
2. 引用特殊詞語, 或表現特殊效果時使用
e.g. She is 'one of the kind.'
3. 標明文章, 詩集, 書籍時使用
e.g. Keat's "Ode to Autumn."
I was watching "Match of the Day."
( ) brackets / parentheses 括號
1. 加入附加訊息
e.g. Mount Robson (12 972 feet) is the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies.
2. 標明相互參照的註釋
e.g. This moral ambiguity is a feature of Shakespeare's later works (see Chapter Eight)
[ ] square brackets 括號
引用的句子中有不合文法邏輯的地方, 可加入 [ ] 補充或修正
e.g. Britain in [these] years was without...
參考書籍: 進階牛津字典 第六版
- 4月 07 週五 200616:47
標點符號使用準則III
不好意思... 拖了好久
還有part IV 喔~~ 別忘了回來看喔~~
問號 Question Mark
用於疑問句的句末
e.g. Where's the car?
You're leaving already? (非正式)
注意:
轉述句句末不使用問號
e.g. He asked if I was leaving.
驚嘆號 Exclamation point
用於表示驚訝, 欣喜, 憤怒, 震驚或其他強烈感情的句子末尾
e.g. That's marvellous!
"Never!" she cried.
Apostrophe (中文??)
1. 表所有格
e.g. Tom's book.
The teacher's glasses.
2. 縮寫
e.g. I'm
I'd like to ~~
He's my brother.
連字號(??) Hyphen
1. 將兩個以上的字組合成複合字
e.g. hard-hearted
fork-likt truck
mother-to-be
2. 字沒打完, 卻需換行時
e.g. ...The most experienced soldiers in the mod-
ern wars against catastrophe call this the gr-
eatest chanllenge of their lifetime.
3. 等同冒號或分號, 為前文做結論
e.g. Men were shouting, women were screaming, children were crying - it was chaos.
4. 為前文做補充說明
e.g. He knew nothing at all about it - or so he said.
- 2月 13 週一 200601:05
英文短篇閱讀 - The Witch (Cynthia 小妹妹, 這是特別服務 ^^)
The Witch | |||
Andrew Lang | |||
Once upon a time there was a peasant whose wife died， leaving him with two children -- twins -- a boy and a girl. For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring for them as best he could; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it, and at last he made up his mind to marry again, feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children. So he married, and in the following years several children were born to him; but peace and order did not come to the household. For the step-mother was very cruel to the twins, and beat them, and half-starved them, and constantly drove them out of the house; for her one idea was to get them out of the way. All day she thought of nothing but how she should get rid of them; and at last an evil idea came into her head, and she determined to send them out into the great gloomy wood where a wicked witch lived. And so one morning she spoke to them, saying:
'You have been such good children that I am going to send you to visit my granny, who lives in a dear little hut in the wood. You will have to wait upon her and serve her, but you will be well rewarded, for she will give you the best of everything.'
So the children left the house together; and the little sister, who was very wise for her years, said to the brother: 'We will first go and see our own dear grandmother, and tell her where our step-mother is sending us.'
And when the grandmother heard where they were going, she cried and said: 'You poor motherless children! How I pity you; and yet I can do nothing to help you! Your step-mother is not sending you to her granny, but to a wicked witch who lives in that great gloomy wood. Now listen to me, children. You must be civil and kind to everyone, and never say a cross word to anyone, and never touch a crumb belonging to anyone else. Who knows if, after all, help may not be sent to you?'
And she gave her grandchildren a bottle of milk and a piece of ham and a loaf of bread, and they set out for the great gloomy wood. When they reached it they saw in front of them, in the thickest of the trees, a queer little hut, and when they looked into it, there lay the witch, with her head on the threshold of the door, with one foot in one corner and the other in the other corner, and her knees cocked up, almost touching the ceiling.
'Who's there?' she snarled, in an awful voice, when she saw the children.
And they answered civilly, though they were so terrified that they hid behind one another, and said:
'Good-morning, granny; our step-mother has sent us to wait upon you, and serve you.'
'See that you do it well, then,' growled the witch. 'If I am pleased with you, I'll reward you; but if I am not, I'll put you in a pan and fry you in the oven--that's what I'll do with you, my pretty dears! You have been gently reared, but you'll find my work hard enough. See if you don't.'
And, so saying, she set the girl down to spin yarn, and she gave the boy a sieve in which to carry water from the well, and she herself went out into the wood. Now, as the girl was sitting at her distaff, weeping bitterly because she could not spin, she heard the sound of hundreds of little feet, and from every hole and corner in the hut mice came pattering along the floor, squeaking and saying:
'Little girl, why are your eyes so red?
If you want help, then give us some bread.'
And the girl gave them the bread that her grandmother had given her. Then the mice told her that the witch had a cat, and the cat was very fond of ham; if she would give the cat her ham, it would show her the way out of the wood, and in the meantime they would spin the yarn for her. So the girl set out to look for the cat, and, as she was hunting about, she met her brother, in great trouble because he could not carry water from the well in a sieve, as it came pouring out as fast as he put it in. And as she was trying to comfort him they heard a rustling of wings, and a flight of wrens alighted on the ground beside them. And the wrens said:
'Give us some crumbs, then you need not grieve.
For you'll find that water will stay in the sieve.'
Then the twins crumbled their bread on the ground, and the wrens pecked it, and chirruped and chirped. And when they had eaten the last crumb they told the boy to fill up the holes of the sieve with clay, and then to draw water from the well. So he did what they said, and carried the sieve full of water into the hut without spilling a drop. When they entered the hut the cat was curled up on the floor. So they stroked her, and fed her with ham, and said to her:
'Pussy, grey pussy, tell us how we are to get away from the witch?'
Then the cat thanked them for the ham, and gave them a pocket- handkerchief and a comb, and told them that when the witch pursued them, as she certainly would, all they had to do was to throw the handkerchief on the ground and run as fast as they could. As soon as the handkerchief touched the ground a deep, broad river would spring up, which would hinder the witch's progress. If she managed to get across it, they must throw the comb behind them and run for their lives, for where the comb fell a dense forest would start up, which would delay the witch so long that they would be able to get safely away.
The cat had scarcely finished speaking when the witch returned to see if the children had fulfilled their tasks.
'Well, you have done well enough for to-day,' she grumbled; 'but to-morrow you'll have something more difficult to do, and if you don't do it well, you pampered brats, straight into the oven you go.'
Half-dead with fright, and trembling in every limb, the poor children lay down to sleep on a heap of straw in the corner of the hut; but they dared not close their eyes, and scarcely ventured to breathe. In the morning the witch gave the girl two pieces of linen to weave before night, and the boy a pile of wood to cut into chips. Then the witch left them to their tasks, and went out into the wood. As soon as she had gone out of sight the children took the comb and the handkerchief, and, taking one another by the hand, they started and ran, and ran, and ran. And first they met the watch-dog, who was going to leap on them and tear them to pieces; but they threw the remains of their bread to him, and he ate them and wagged his tail. Then they were hindered by the birch-trees, whose branches almost put their eyes out. But the little sister tied the twigs together with a piece of ribbon, and they got past safely, and, after running through the wood, came out on to the open fields.
In the meantime in the hut the cat was busy weaving the linen and tangling the threads as it wove. And the witch returned to see how the children were getting on; and she crept up to the window, and whispered:
'Are you weaving, my little dear?'
'Yes, granny, I am weaving,' answered the cat.
When the witch saw that the children had escaped her, she was furious, and, hitting the cat with a porringer, she said: 'Why did you let the children leave the hut? Why did you not scratch their eyes out?'
But the cat curled up its tail and put its back up, and answered: 'I have served you all these years and you never even threw me a bone, but the dear children gave me their own piece of ham.'
Then the witch was furious with the watch-dog and with the birch-trees, because they had let the children pass. But the dog answered:
'I have served you all these years and you never gave me so much as a hard crust, but the dear children gave me their own loaf of bread.'
And the birch rustled its leaves, and said: 'I have served you longer than I can say, and you never tied a bit of twine even round my branches; and the dear children bound them up with their brightest ribbons.'
So the witch saw there was no help to be got from her old servants, and that the best thing she could do was to mount on her broom and set off in pursuit of the children. And as the children ran they heard the sound of the broom sweeping the ground close behind them, so instantly they threw the handkerchief down over their shoulder, and in a moment a deep, broad river flowed behind them.
When the witch came up to it, it took her a long time before she found a place which she could ford over on her broom-stick; but at last she got across, and continued the chase faster than before. And as the children ran they heard a sound, and the little sister put her ear to the ground, and heard the broom sweeping the earth close behind them; so, quick as thought, she threw the comb down on the ground, and in an instant, as the cat had said, a dense forest sprung up, in which the roots and branches were so closely intertwined, that it was impossible to force a way through it. So when the witch came up to it on her broom she found that there was nothing for it but to turn round and go back to her hut.
But the twins ran straight on till they reached their own home. Then they told their father all that they had suffered, and he was so angry with their step-mother that he drove her out of the house, and never let her return; but he and the children lived happily together; and he took care of them himself, and never let a stranger come near them.
對啦~~
好類似糖果屋那一類的故事...
可以嗎?
還是要成熟一點的?
- 2月 07 週二 200610:00
談論主題Follow Your Dream
引述
Follow Your Dream
I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a
horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use his
house to put on fund-raising events to raise money
for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he introduced me by
saying, "I want to tell you why I let Jack use my
house. It all goes back to a story about a young man
who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who
would go from stable to stable, race track to race
track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training
horses. As a result, the boy's high school career was
continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he
was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to
be and do when he grew up.
That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing
his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote
about his dream in great detail and he even drew a
diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of
all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he
drew a detailed floor plan for a 4000 square-feet house
that would sit on the 200-acre dream ranch.
He put a great deal of his heart into the project
從Ben那邊抓來的
有空時讀一讀吧
練習你的英文閱讀能力吧!
- 1月 26 週四 200617:12
英文表點符號的使用準則 II
冒號 [colon]
1. 將於文中條列事項時
e.g. These are our options: we go by train and leave before the end of the show; or we take the car and see it all.
2. 補充說明前文
e.g. The garden had been neglected for a long time: it was overgrown and full of weeds.
3. 引用短文, 段落, 或文句較多時 (引用的文章最好要縮排)
e.g. As Kenneth Morgan writes:
The truth was, perhaps, that Britain in the years from 1914
to 1983 had not changed all that fundamentally.
Others, however, have challenged hthis view...
分號 [semi colon]
分隔兩個無連接詞的主句
e.g. The sun was already low in the sky: it would soon be dark.
She was determined to succeed whatever the cost; she would
achieve her aim, whoever might suffer on the way.
- 1月 25 週三 200615:49
英文標點符號的使用準則 I
句點 [full stop (BrE) / period (AmE)]
1. 置於句末. 疑問句與感嘆句以外的句子, 在語意做結束時使用.
e.g. I called you last night.
You weren't at home.
2. 表縮寫.
e.g. Jan. / U.S. / Dr.
3. 網址中使用, 讀做dot
e.g. http://www.msn.com.tw
逗點[comma]
1. 分隔字或詞 (在and之前常被省略)
e.g. Apples, bananas, grapes, and strawberries are my favorite fruit.
Watching TV, going shopping, reading books, and chatting with friends on line are the things I like to do in my free time.
2. 分隔短句或附加子句
e.g. If you keep calm, take your time, concentrated and think ahead, thenyou're likely to pass you rtest.
Worn out after all the excitement of the party, the children soon fell asleep.
3. 為句子中的片語, 子句作補充說明時
e.g. Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, is my hometown.
4. 分隔由連接詞(and, as, but, for, or)連接的句子
e.g. We had been looking forward to our holiday all year, but unfortunately it rained every day.
5. 附加疑問句時使用
e.g. I was right, wan't I.
6. 對話的書寫時
e.g. "Come back soon," she said.
7. 引述時使用
e.g. Disraeli said, "little things affect likttle minds"
p/s 6 & 7 用法其實差不多, 注意說話的人放在句子後面時, 逗點要在引號的裡面, 說話的人放在句子的前面時, 逗號則放在引號的外面
參考資料: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 牛津高階英英字典附錄
1. 置於句末. 疑問句與感嘆句以外的句子, 在語意做結束時使用.
e.g. I called you last night.
You weren't at home.
2. 表縮寫.
e.g. Jan. / U.S. / Dr.
3. 網址中使用, 讀做dot
e.g. http://www.msn.com.tw
逗點[comma]
1. 分隔字或詞 (在and之前常被省略)
e.g. Apples, bananas, grapes, and strawberries are my favorite fruit.
Watching TV, going shopping, reading books, and chatting with friends on line are the things I like to do in my free time.
2. 分隔短句或附加子句
e.g. If you keep calm, take your time, concentrated and think ahead, thenyou're likely to pass you rtest.
Worn out after all the excitement of the party, the children soon fell asleep.
3. 為句子中的片語, 子句作補充說明時
e.g. Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, is my hometown.
4. 分隔由連接詞(and, as, but, for, or)連接的句子
e.g. We had been looking forward to our holiday all year, but unfortunately it rained every day.
5. 附加疑問句時使用
e.g. I was right, wan't I.
6. 對話的書寫時
e.g. "Come back soon," she said.
7. 引述時使用
e.g. Disraeli said, "little things affect likttle minds"
p/s 6 & 7 用法其實差不多, 注意說話的人放在句子後面時, 逗點要在引號的裡面, 說話的人放在句子的前面時, 逗號則放在引號的外面
參考資料: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 牛津高階英英字典附錄
