Week 6 Task 3 - Zheng He / Cheng Ho

Zheng He


The Chinese Armada - Dragons of the sea


Zheng He / Cheng Ho is a very important person of Chinese history. He was a Hui Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred to as the travels of "Zheng He to the Western Ocean". Two books called "1421: The Year China Discovered the World" and "1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance" are written by retired submarine commander Gavin Menzies positing that the Chinese(Zheng He's Armada explored the world before Europeans.

Week 6 Task 2 - Al Gore, wins Nobel, Inconvenient Truth

This movie is about Al Gore. On October 12, 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, which was shared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, headed by Rajendra K. Pachauri (Delhi, India). The award was given "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. Gore and Pachauri accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2007.

Week 6 task 1 - An Inconvenient Truth Trailer

Have you guys seen this movie yet? This isn't a new movie in the United States, this film was premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened in New York and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006. An Inconvenient Truth is an American documentary film about global warming, and it is presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore. This is a great movie, all people who are living on the Earth have to know about this inconvenient truth !

Week 5 Task 4 - Hong Kong 10 years after handover BBC

This video is about my hometown, Hong Kong, where was a last colony of the United Kingdom before 1997, and the U.K. had governed Hong Kong for about 150 years long. Since 1997, Hong Kong was handed over to mainland China form U.K. , but the Chinese government agreed to let Hong Kong remains unchanged until 2047. So Hong Kong didn't have any big changing after 11 years(2008). However, to be honest, Hong Kong people are still really miss the governed of the U.K.

Week 5 Task 3 - Study American English ESL Lessons Online : Vocabulary

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=2xVYL2O_Vbg

I'm sorry, I can't post the video on my blog.

This video is about English Vocabulary, it is a woman who teach it.This time she teach " made up of".
It is pretty useful for me.

Week 5 Task 2 - Batman - The Dark Knight

This is a one of the most attractive movies in this summer, this movie is more about the joker than batman. the movie is a little bit long but it keeps you so exited and entertained. So you can go to a moive when you are free on weekend.

Week 5 Task 1 - Leadership Unplugged

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/studentnews/07/14/transcript.mon/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

Leadership Unplugged is form CNN Student News, I've listened about 3 times.

CNN Student News has a new special programme over this summer, and it is about leadership which is called "Leadership Unplugged". There are more than 100 high school students, they can develp their leadership skills by joining some activities. Students give their own opinions of what a leader is, they think leader is a somebody people look up to, motivates and inpires others and takes charge, works whit and understands other people. Moreover leader must be diverse, have patience and compassion, give other a change, stand up for people and connect with followers......

Other people hope the new President of the United States can control the problems of high gas prices, high food prices, a war , education and social security.......

In my opinion, I think a leader is a person who can help other people and he can organize any events very well. A leader don't have to be very smart, they just need to help others to develop their special skills.


Vocabulary:
unplugged (adj). acoustic

Week 4 Task 1 - Real Life CSI: Crime Autopsy

3:55 mins

___F___ 1. All deaths are natural.
___T___ 2. The clues are inside the body.
___T___ 3. His life could have been saved if he’d gotten to a hospital in time.
___T___ 4. The worst part of the job is the smell.
___F___ 5. Her work interferes with her cooking.
___T___ 6. The gunshot would was caused by a single bullet.
___F___ 7. The doctor determined that the wound was self-inflicted.
___F___ 8. The case is still open because it’s unsolved.

Week 2 Task 4 - CNN covers Stephenville Texas U.F.O. Sighting

1:54


This video is about an UFO Sighting in a small town in Tesas. People saw an UFO and more than one, they were very fast and no any sound. In this video, one witness went to a place where he saw the UFO was. However, the U.S. Air-force said it wasn't an UFO.

Week 2 Task 3 - HANCOCK

2:28 mins

This movie will opening on July 2nd. This movie also is a new one of Will Smith after "I am Legend".It is reely funny because Will Smith has to be drunk before he becomes a superhero !
So check it out:]

Week 2 Task 2 - Discovery - First Time Machine

5:31 mins

This video is about Time Machine. It explains what a principle of Time Machine is. it also talk about how can they do it. Finally, the Time Machine bagan to bulid. It is pretty interesting.

Week 2 task 1 - Linkin Park - Numb

3.06 mins

Music: Numb - Linkin Park

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
feeling so faithless
lost under the surface
I don't know what you're expecting of me
put under the pressure
of walking in your shoes

(Caught in the undertow
just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is
another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow
just caught in the undertow)

I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I've become so tired
so much more aware
I'm becoming this
all I want to do
is be more like me
and be less like you

Can't you see that you're smothering me
holding too tightly
afraid to lose control
'cause everything that you thought I would be
has fallen apart right in front of you

(Caught in the undertow
just caught in the undertow)
every step that I take is
another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow
just caught in the undertow)
and every second I waste
is more than I can take

I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I've become so tired
so much more aware
I'm becoming this
all I want to do
is be more like me
and be less like you

And I know
I may end up failing too
but I know
you were just like me
with someone disappointed in you

I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
I've become so tired
so much more aware
I'm becoming this
all I want to do
is be more like me
and be less like you

I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
(tired of being what you want me to be)
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
(tired of being what you want me to be)


I chose this music because it is a pretty good song, and it shows what feeling I was in one year age...Therefore, I understand what the song talk about

Vocabulary
1. faithless(adj). not loyal that you cannot ruly on or trust
2. undertow(n). a current in the sea or ocean that moves in the opposite directin to the water near the surface

About myself !

Hi~ everyboby. I am Oscar, from Hong Kong. Nice to miss you all in lecture class.

My major is Business, so I think my future job will be about Maketing, International Trade, etc. Also I hope I can use English in my business. CNN.com is my favorite wetside because it can help me to improve my English; althought that is quite diffcult to understand. My favorite kind of music that I am interested in is "Hip-Hop" and Rap, such as Black eyes pears.

Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love?, I really like this song! I think it is about the wars and poverty. I think they want to presude people to help stop poverty and war and hatred.