News summary 4------Talking to Kids About Santa…and Everything Else

Talking to Kids About Santa…and Everything Else




16說:I believed Santa was real when I was a little girl.

43說:I also believed.

14說:that's what our mom and dad told us~

16說:yeah.

43說:Do you guys remember that a few years ago, there was a movie talking about Santa ?

14說:no........I only rememberd a Christmas song called "I saw mommy kissing Santa Clus"

16說:And my parents had pretend to be Santa to give us gift.

14說:it was talking about a little boy saw his mom kissing the santa clus, which is his dad~~~XDDDD

43 說:oh, it seems that I have heard this song before

16說:that sound very interesting.

43 說:the movie I mentioned is called "The Polar Express"

14說:what's the story about?

16說:The Polar Express is another movie talking about Santa

43 說:yes

43 說:when I read this article, somehow I remind this movie.

16說:me, too.

16說:I was very fond of it at that time1

43 說:Would you like to read the book mentioned in this news?

43 說:I think if I have the chance, I will see it!

16說:yes!

16說:when children grow up, their parents will have to face this problem.

43 說:Yes, so I think this book may help parents to solve this problem

14說:well........as for me........I don't really want to see that book...........i think when it comes it comes........we will get to know how to be a parent ourself when the time comes

14說:and besides

14說:my parents also told me that there was santa when I was little

14說:but even after I grew up

14說:I knew that there was no santa in the world

16說:maybe he live in somewhere.

16說:I sometimes think.

14說:I still won't think that my parents are telling the lie

16說:Nobody will think they are to blame.

43 說:Do you know that there exsitst people who play Santa in order to response letters to children who believe in Santa?

14說:yeah~so I think the guy who wrote the book really thinks too much

16說:I know what you mentioned.

43 說:Perhaps he just want to help parents to give such a complicated answer to their children.

16說:those people are so considerate.

43 說:yeah, even we know that there is no real Santa in the world, as long as we recieve the letters, I think that we still wil feel very satisfied.

16說:yes. I agree what you said.

14說:I think we childrens know how to grow up ourselves

43 說:yeah .It's a process everyone wil face.

14說:we can tell what's true and what's false...........adults really don't need to worry that much~XD

43 說:I like the sentence the writter said"Santa is real as long as you believe in him."

16說:Stockings play a important role on Christmas day!

14說:the santa here means.....sort of like"dreams", it represent all the beautiful dreams we had in our childhood

43 說:yeah, it also represent a symbol for children who believe Santa really exsist

43 說:I like you compare Santa with dreams!

14說:thanks!XD

14說:so,even though we already knew that there is no santa in the world

43 說:"Santa is real as long as you believe in him."

14說:we can still believe in things we want to believe

16 說:yes he live in every child 's mind foe ever.

16說:for ever sorry!

43 說:yes, and if we have the ability to believe, we will certainly preserve something important in our lives!

16說:yes, that 's our conclusion!

14說:very well~so long for now~byebye~~~~XDDDD

16 說:bye!

43 說:bye see you guys tomorrow!

News summary 2------Seeking to save shelter dogs from death

Seeking to save shelter dogs from death




Questions

Q1.How much time can each dog get before put to death?
A1.It varies from state to state.

Q2.Can animal shelter change the dog’s death date?
A2.Yes. They can either delay it or move it up, depends on how crowd the kennel is.

Q3.What’s the charge for adoption service?
A3.It’s toatally free, both for shelter and adopters.

Q4.What was the dog that Alex Aliksanyan had?
A4. It was miniature American Eskimo dog.

Q5.What can you see if you go to Dogsindanger.com’s “In Memoriam” page?
A5.The images of dogs that didn't got adopted and was destroyed, and the famous words from Mahatma Gandhi : "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."




Keywords

1.advocate: support; stand for

2. abide: obey the law; stay; survive

3. nonprofit: not commercially motivated

4. entrepreneur: one who creates a product on his own account

5. kennel: a house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds

6. breed: class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.

7. aim: to direct the indention or purpose

8. tagged: to join; to fasten; to attach

9. retriever: a dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

10. boxer: a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany





Summary

There were about 4 million dogs put to death each year in US. But there were also many dogs who had found their new homes and started their new lifes by the helps of some caring people, and Alex Aliksanyan is definitely one of those caring ones. He was driven by a well-known saying of Mahatma Gandhi : "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." So he founded The Buddy Fund Inc, which is a nonprofit organization that aims to save dogs live by offering them the chance of adoption. He set up a site and post the information of dogs wating for adoption on it. If a dog was successfully adopted, its photo would be posted on the "Success Stories." section;if not, the destroyed dog’s photo would go to the "In Memoriam" page.

News summary 1------Dreams of New Ways To Fly

Dreams of New Ways To Fly


Michael Moshier had invented a flying machine called "Solo Trekle." It got 120 horsepower and can carry only one person at a time to fly up in the air. Another man named Paul had invented a flying car and was prepare to test it and sell it. Relizing the dreams to fly is never easy. But someone like Michael and Paul did succeeded. Now Michael even got help from NASA, and they plan to develope “Solo Trekle” into military use.


The language exercises are about midium level. I need my dictionary with me for the vocabulary section,or else I could only score about 76%. Other sections are fine, I'm doing OK. I also try the "YOUR TURN" activity, but somehow I just can't send my message out! So I think I'll just have to post it here:

Q1. Describe why you think man has always been interested in flying.
A1.Because flying can symbolize freedom I suppose.People wanna get off ground to escape from this hustle and bustle world.

Q2. How do you think having a Solo Flyer would change the world?
A2.I hope ond day Solo Flyer can not only be use as military use,but everybody from everywhere can own them too. By that time, we can go explore any place we want in the world!

This is my answers to the questions. It is actully quite fun to think about these different questions. I think all the activities were great to help us understand more about the artical.


This artical really brought the world lots of hopes about flying. But this is not the end yet, there will never be an end in fact. We human are still dreaming, dreaming to realize all the dreams. And that's what keep us prograssing.

Introduce myself

Hi there~

My name is Jocelyn

I'm now a freshman of National Central University English Department(can I call it NCU ENG?XD)


It's great to have so many nice and interesting people as classmates for the rest four years

I'm so glad to be here,as a member of English Department this big family.



Since this is an introduction,I'm going to talk more about myself

so that you can get to know more about me~XD





As many people might already knew that I'm a local


I born in Taoyuan,

lived in Taoyuan,

studied in Taoyuan,

except for the four years in Canada Vancouver though.


I my whole family emigrated to Canada when I was 8-year-old

but we already came back for 8 years

So!!!I still know this "cute little town" very well~XD

Feel free to ask when you need any help about place you wanna go in ChungLi,

I'll do my best to help you get there.(´▽`)



What I like to do in my free time......well,it's quite normal though.

probably are chatting online~going out with friends~reading novels.......sort of things like that.



As you can see above,I'm a very common person

but after entering NCU,I looking forward to live an unusual college life

I know there is still a lot more about this place waiting for me to explore

and that is what I'm going to do for the next four years



Step by step,

NCU,

here I come. :)

桌面問卷～（老梨傳的ＸＤ）

1.老子的桌面







2.OS為？

內、內心的ＯＳ嗎？（汗）



3.這台是你的個人電腦？還是公司或家人共用的電腦？

這可是俺最最最私人的－－－－－一台抵兩台、耐操好擋拼第一的小筆記／／／／／／



4.這張桌布是什麼？從哪裡取得的？

是什麼？


哎呀誠如各位所見，是小夫妻下流又不失唯美的高檔次桌布啊！┐（´ー`）┌


至於從哪取得.............這..............應該是ＡＫＦＣ我記得（搔下巴）



5.更換桌布的頻率高嗎？

高！！！ＸＤ
因為我曾經被人家恐嚇（？）說桌布不常換的話電腦容易當機ＸＤ（←當怕了這傢伙）



6.桌面上有幾個ICON？

啊哈哈～雖然我跟阿梨一樣不知道ＯＳ是啥
但我知道什麼叫ｉｃｏｎ哦我贏了哈哈哈（梨：碼的＃＃＃＃）


俺總共才１５個ｉｃｏｎ啦！！！
真是個愛清潔的好孩子^／／／／／^（不要自誇啊太太！）



7.一堆檔案和捷徑放的亂七八糟的桌面，你看的下去嗎？

其實我常常這樣啊（乾笑）
截圖的時候亂七八糟什麼鬼都存到桌面


不過事後會因為不甘心小夫妻桌布被擋住而良心發現（？）的來個大掃除這樣



8.有沒有什麼堅持點？


色香味俱全ＸＤＤＤＤＤＤ


反正都已經暴露（？）了，就連帶著公開我前幾個桌布好了



（秉持俺一貫的風格下流又唯美）



（這個梨子你看了應該會大笑這樣ＸＤ）



（奴哦哦好一對金童玉女／／／／）



（這張深得我心因為兩人感覺就像是被抓姦在床那樣的活色生香（？））

9.有為了填這份接力，還特地整理一下嗎？

沒有啊哈哈哈！！！(´▽`)（得意）

..................因為前幾天剛好整理完這樣ＸＤ

10.最後請再傳給5個「我想看看他的桌面」的人。

哎～我這裡根本沒讓別人知道┐（´ー`）┌

我就算點了人人家也不曉得啊ＸＤ

打住打住～

搬新厝哦～～～（吆喝）

新開張～挺微妙的（笑）


簡直像住進個沒落成、天花板還會剝落的二手屋那種感覺（明明是全新的ＸＤ）