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Impegnata
Finalmente ho il tempo di scrivere un articolo! Queste ultime settimane sono state molto impegnative. Abbiamo spostato nostro figlio del college nel suo appartamento, abbiamo fatto un viaggio per vedere tutti e quattro i nonni, abbiamo avuto diversi appuntamenti dal dottore e dal dentista, e abbiamo visto molti amici e parenti. È molto per me perché sono una introversa.
July 20, 2021
עץ שצריך להסיר
בחצר שלנו יש עץ גבוה ורזה שרוכן מעל הבריכה. לא מזמן העץ האלה היה זקוף, אבל עכשיו הוא רוכן בגלל כל הגשמים הכבדים האחרונים ואנכנו צריכים להסיר אותו.
אבל אין מספיק מקום שנוכל להפיל את כל העץ. ואי אפשר לטפס אותו בבטיחות. ומכיוון שהעץ מתכופף מעל הבריכה, אם הוא ייחתך מלמעלה, החלקים ייפלו לאזור הבריכה ויגרמו נזק. ואז צריך לחתוך אותו לחתיכות קטנות מתחתית העץ!
כדי לעשות את זה, ראשון תשתמשו בחבלים ותקשרו את העץ המתכופף לעוד שתי עצים שהם גדולים וחזקים יותר.
אז תשתמשו בחבלים האלו כדי למשוך את העצ המתכופף עד שהוא זקוף. אז תחתכו חתיכה קטנה מתחתית העץ. אז תשתמשו בחבלים כדי להנמיך את העץ קצת ותחתכו עוד חתיכה קטנה מהחתית. תמשיכו עד שכל העץ נחתך.
זהו!
July 20, 2021
If you had all the money in the world ... (summary)
I’m a teacher, and I have always thought that getting rid of textbooks would be good for humanity :-). I’m thinking about the ‘traditional’ textbook, naturally. I would like to create a publishing company to change the traditional textbook.
For many years I have seen hundreds of textbooks lying forgotten in corners by students who hardly use them.
The problem is always the same. The publishing company asks one or two teachers to write a textbook for an entire subject. But usually you have good material for one or two subjects, the rest is usually quite bad. The result is that each teacher uses a small part of the book and forgets about the rest.
In many cases they illegally photocopy :-) parts of other books to complete his class material.
The case is particularly serious in regions like mine, where the government pays for all the books. So more and more books with little use are accumulating in schools and we all end up paying for them with our taxes.
What can we do to change that?
The ideal situation would be that the teacher could choose one chapter (or less) from a textbook, another chapter from another book, etc. Obviously, the only way to do this is to use digital books.
But how to organise all this in a legal, easy, and efficient way so that the teacher can choose different parts of different books and build their own digital book?
My idea is to offer teachers an application where they could do two things: on the one hand choose different educational items to build their own textbook.
On the other hand, they could write their own educational items to offer to the educational community.
As an incentive, teachers would receive some remuneration for each published item.
The main problem is how to organise all the educational items so that someone could find what they need. To achieve this, we would use the learning standards published in the current regulations in most countries.
First of all, we need a group of programmers and teachers working hand in hand. The programmers must create a platform where every teacher could upload resources. Nowadays there are many platforms for education (classroom, Moodle, etc), but they are platforms designed to work with teachers and students. Obviously there are many ways to upload something to the cloud, but the challenge is having all these resources organized according to the learning standards. So, a teacher could find resources for published standards with precision. The idea is that teachers could download several specific resources and build their own textbook. (To be continued).
July 20, 2021
Ocupada
¡Finalmente tengo tiempo para escribir una entrada! Ha estado muy ocupado estas últimas semanas. Mudamos a nuestro hijo universitario a su apartamento, hicimos un viaje para ver a los cuatro abuelos, tuvimos varias citas con el doctor y el dentista, y hemos visto a muchos amigos y familiares. Es mucho para mí porque soy una persona introvertida.
July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021
improve your English grammar.
- lesen and understand a sentence by finding subject, verbs and complement.
- Use google translate to translate if there are some new words or if you cannot understand the sentence.
- Look at translation and think in English
- write the translation in English then correct yourself.
July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021
Diary
Mind explosion today. It took me all day to write an 800-word news commentary about a boy who decided to make chips, to come at it from a positive perspective. I rarely read articles that focus on complimenting people. Chinese articles like to use a lot of pompous and meaningless words and sentences to praise people. I don't like to read such articles. Writing that article really drove me crazy. While writing, I felt like I was completely out of control of my time. Today, I only wrote one 800-word essay and read a lot of essays without a specific topic. But now it's bedtime, and I'm so upset that the day is over.
There is still one lucky thing that happened today. I didn't do my coursework for my cataloging course, which was about identifying the Chinese characters on seals, because I didn't know those ancient Chinese characters at all. The teacher asked my classmates to remind me to turn in the assignment, and I didn't do it (because I don't know how to do it ಥ‿ಥ). But I am glad that the teacher let me pass the course anyway.
July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021
A Night with Typhoon
One of the typoons is 20 km away from the coast now. Its moving speed is 10 km/h, it means that it will hit the city in 2 hours. The small where I live is near the circle of the whole gale, maybe half an hour later, it will in the circle.
It is raining outside, but it isn't heavy. The wind is blowing, when it goes through the tree, the leaves are rustling and waving. Sometimes, when there is a strong appears, the rains are running fastly like a hurry man and then disappears. Or the rains just look like the firework, "blooming flashily, withering away swiftly."(a sentence I quote from a dictionary)
The temperarure of my room is 27.4 degrees now, which is the lowest in this summer. It is so cool and comfortable, I hate the hot weather deeply.
Let it break in all its fury! By Maxim Gorky
July 20, 2021
我的爱好
爱好是我们喜欢做的事情。 现在wo丈夫和我都工作太多，家里有很多事情要做，所以没有太多时间做爱好。 我丈夫年轻时经常打篮球，他打的很棒。 如今，他最喜欢的爱好是历史。 他喜欢阅读历史书籍，对欧美历史了解很多。 他还经常看历史电视节目。 我一直很喜欢看书，可是现在我只在假期里看书。 我喜欢看电视、电影和电视剧。我没有时间， 我每晚学习两个小时的中文。 学习中文是我的爱好。 我说得更好，我知道很多语法，可是我不记得写汉字。 除了学中文，我也总是有时间做运动。 我最喜欢的运动是 CrossFit。 我一般每周去健身房三次。 我不认为运动是一种爱好。 锻炼让我感觉良好，工作得更好，学习更多。
July 20, 2021
코로나 검진을 받고 백신도 받고
내가 수영을 많이 좋아해서 이번 여름 방학 일을 안 하는 동안 집 주변에 있는 실내 수영장에 신청했다. 그리고 일 줄일에 2~3번씩 갔다. 그런데, 일요일 저녁 때쯤 코로나 확진자가 내가 다니는 체육센터를 방분했다고 하는 문자메시지가 왔다. 한 시간 뒤에 코로나 검진을 받아라는 메시지도 왔다. 그래서 어제 아침 일찍 집을 나서서 가까운 검진소에 갔다. 검진소가 9시부터 운영을 하는데 사람이 조금만이라도 줄을 서고 있게지 싶어서 집에서 빨리 나갔다. 내가 도착한 8:25에도 한 30명이 이미 줄 서고 있었다. 그리고 사람들이 계속 오고 있었다. 많이 더운 아침이 아니었는데 습해서 줄이 움직이기 시작할 무렵 나의 옷은 이미 땀으로 흠뻑 젖어있었다. 검진 받는 건 별로 불편하지 않았다. 집에 가는 길에 검진을 기다리는 사람의 줄을 봤는데 대략 150~200명이 기다리고 있었던 것 같다.
검진 결과를 받을 때까지 자가격리를 하라는 지시를 받아서 집에 바로 가서 다시 나가지 않았다. 그리고 조금 이상했다. 내가 원래 집에서 시간을 잘 보내는 편이다. 48시간 연속 집에서 틀어박혀 본 적도 있는데 그거는 하고 싶어서 하는 거였다. 억지로 집에 있는 거는 느낌이 많이 다르다. 아이스크림이나 또 다른 시원한 것을 너무 사고 싶었는데 자가격리를 잘 지켰다.
오늘 아침 8:40분쯤 내가 기대하고 있었던 음성 결과를 받았다. 그리고 몇 시간 뒤에 코로나 백신 예약 확인 문자 메시지를 받았다. 나는 어릴 때부터 바늘을 싫어했는데 다음 주 수요일이 많이 기대 된다. 코로나 바이러스라는 저주가 이 세상에서 빨리 없어졌으면 좋겠다.
July 20, 2021
Pet Dogs
Near my house, there is a small park where many people walk with their dogs.
I really love dogs, so I usually go there to watch them.
I want to take care of my dog, but it isn't allowed by the rule of my building.
Other residents would be able to argue about pets.
What's more, I can't stand when my dog dies.
I remember my childhood when my beloved dog was dead.
At that time, I busted into tears more than a week, and I still remember the sad feeling.
In the end, I can't raise a dog anymore.
July 20, 2021
Les hobbys du confinement
J’habite en Australie et en ce moment ma ville fait l'objet de mesures de confinement. Je suis barman donc je n’ai pas travaillé pendant quatre semaines, aussi c’est les vacances de l’université maintenant, donc j'en ai rien à faire.
Un chose que j’avais fait dans la passé est le travail au crochet. Avant, j’avais fait du crochet seulment de temps en temps, j’avais fait seulment deux petites couvertures, jamais un grand projet. Pourtant, parce que j’ai beaucoup de temps libre maintenant, j’ai décidé de faire un pull-over. J’ai fait soixante cinq carrés qui ont le motif du tournesol, et puis je les ai attaché. Le pull-over est très confortable et doux parce que j’ai utilisé la laine de merino.
Je veux faire plus de projets de crochet mais je n’ai pas beaucoup de la laine, et les défenses du confinement étaient fait plus strictes: il y a deux jours seulement les supermarchés et les pharmacies sont permis à être ouverts. J’préferais regarder la laine avant d’acheter mais je dois d’avoir de la confiance en faire les courses en linges maintenant.
July 20, 2021
Active learning
First and foremost, It’s important to distinguish between active and passive learning techniques. The meaning of passive learning is every form of studying that is only input but doesn't have to be an active part of the process. For example, if you listen to something and there is no any interaction or even any attached task afterward. This is when you just read something but don’t make the process activate: you don’t ask questions in the meantime, you don’t reflect on what you read, you don’t summarize, and so on.
Passive learning is studying, too; only its effectiveness and function are different. If you aim to gain a general idea, knowledge about something. Or if you hear the target language/ information, you can recognize it, but you don’t have to actively use it orally/written. I.e., you only want to gain knowledge at the level of recognition, then that is perfectly fine too.
However, if you not only want to know something superficially but also want to use it in practice, you have to make learning active. The essence of active learning is that you are involved in the learning process too. Not only do you get external stimuli (input), but you also start using them orally, in writing, in practice (there is also output). In other words, you not only take it in, but you do it. This is the most significant difference between passive and active knowledge.
What are the forms of active learning:
1, Ask questions about learning
One of the best ways to make learning activate is if you ask yourself questions.
Questions that help you
- better understand the learning material
- can link it with your previously learned knowledge
- can see over the connections or practical use of this information
For example:
- This part, does that mean …?
- Is that supposed to mean..?
- Is this related to x like ...?
- Then we use this as...?
July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021
Zwei Szenen von Little Women
Ich bin kein großer Fan dieser Art von Geschichten, aber ich habe neulich Little Women gesehen und war von mir selbst überrascht. Und das alles wegen dieser einen Szene, in der Laurie Jo einen Heiratsantrag macht. Ich finde es interessant, das neue Schauspiel mit dem alten zu vergleichen. Beginnen wir mit der 1994er Version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLDgcHxJ4Sc
Es ist komisch. Ich mag sowohl Christian Bale als auch Winona Ryder, aber diese Szene funktioniert für mich nicht. Irgendwie ist es viel zu dramatisch, Bale wirkt zu ernst und Winona zu kindisch. Ich denke, so gut wie Schauspieler die beiden sind, hatten sie keine Chemie auf der Leinwand. Die Art und Weise, wie die Szene vom Regisseur eingerahmt wird, ist auch seltsam, es gibt keine Schwere. Jetzt für die 2019-Version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cEg2HCl50I
Dies auf der anderen Seite hat einen tiefen Eindruck auf mich gemacht. Ich hasse es, es zuzugeben, aber ich war am Boden zerstört, als ich diese Szene zum ersten Mal gesehen habe. Als ob etwas richtig wäre und passieren sollte, aber irgendwie nicht passiert ist. Die Rahmung ist perfekt, die Art und Weise, wie beide übereinander sprechen, trägt zur Schwere der Szene bei, sie wirkt zu real. Ich denke, es ahmt in gewisser Weise die Beziehung nach, die beide im wirklichen Leben haben. Es ist eine traurige Szene, ich war wirklich traurig. Am Ende scheint Laurie jedoch recht gehabt zu haben. Jo auch. Beide waren richtig.
July 20, 2021
Reservoirs
When the summer comes, it's often said that reservoirs are dangerous to swim in. The surfaces of reservoirs are covered with concrete and algae grow upon them, which are too slippy to climb up. If you fall into a reservoir, you should wait for help while drifting and floating. You shouldn't struggle to get out of it.
July 20, 2021
World Englishesについて
映画『マダム・イン・ニューヨーク』の主人公シャシはインド人で、英語を母語とせず英語がうまくなかった。シャシがアメリカに行ったときに参加した英会話教室にいるフランスなど様々な国の人たちもシャシと同じく、英語を第二言語として操る。流暢に英語を言えないが、これもある定義上英語の一種で、World Englishesと呼ぶ。とはいうものの流暢に言えないWorld Englishesを認めない人がおり、その人たちにバカにされていたりすることがある。
World Englishesという概念は世界範囲で人々のコミュニケーションツールとして、英語を母語、第二言語、外国語とする人たちが話す英語を統一したものである。第二言語ならびに外国語としての英語は母語の影響を受けるため、英語を母語とする人の英語と違うところが生じる。このようなところを認め、言語の文化的多様性を受け入れるという意味でWorld Englishesという概念が出てくると思う。また、言語にクレオール化という現象があり、複数言語を母語とする子どもは自然と言語を規則的に組み合わせ、若干違うが母語レベルの英語を生み出すことがあるため、英語の言語自体も変わっていると言える。これを踏まえるとWorld Englishesの考え方はどんどん主流になってくると思われる。
映画主人公シャシの母語はヒンディー語であり、話す英語はHindi Englishである。これもWorld Englishesの一種である。その特徴は主に3つの側面に分類できる。まず、Hindi Englishには特別な言葉の使い方がある。例えばGood nameはHindi Englishでは名前の丁寧な表現である。次に、発音も違うところがある。Hindi EnglishではRの音を強く発音する癖があり、例えばParkだと若干違う発音になる。さらに、文法を使うとき特別な癖もある。Hindi Englishでは、通常は一般形で話す文章も進行形で話されることがある。以上のようにWorld Englishesは普通の英語と若干違うところがあるが、英語がわかる人と通じ合うことは可能だということがわかる。
英語の運用能力が人生を左右することもある。インドは強い階級社会にあり、カースト制度というものがある。社会の人々は5つの階級に分けられ、下の階級にある人は差別され、苦しい生活を強いられていた。現在は最下位の階級以外、階級制度が廃止されたものの、階級の文化はまだ根強く存在している。この階級の縛りから逃れるため、インド人は自力で良い仕事に就くことに一生懸命である。インドでは多言語の人材が少ないため、チャンスを掴もうと英語などを勉強する人が多い。英語を勉強して英語を使う仕事に就くことで、階級が下のインド人でも良い生活ができ、まさに英語の運用能力が人生を左右すると言えよう。
July 20, 2021
Rainy season
The rainy season was over in Osaka three days ago. It lasted 62 days. This year's rainy season was the longest in the history of observation. It gets particularly hot for ten days after finishing the rainy season. In such a situation, the Tokyo Olympic games are going to start this week. However, it's not exciting at all.
July 20, 2021
8/30 l'histoire d'une institution
The University of Hong Kong est la plus ancienne institution qui offre des études supérieures à Hong Kong. C'est en 1912 que cette université a vu le jour. À ces premières années, il y avait que trois facultés. Elles étaient l'Arts, l’Ingénieure et la Médecine qui a évolué de Hong Kong College of Medicine. Parmis les plus anciens éleves, Dr. Sun Yat-sen était le plus connu parce qu'il avait organisé la rébellion contre le gouvernement des Qing et il a donc été nommé comme le fondateur de Chine moderne.
Pendant les guerres mondiales, les bâtiments de l'Université étaient occupés par l'arme Japonais. Alors, toutes les activités scolaires se sont arrêtés. De plus, les guerres ont détruit pas mal de facilités scolaires. Donc, il s'est passé une période de reconstruisions .
Les nombres de cours offerts augmentent au fur et à mesure. La faculté où je fais d'étude, c'est la Faculté de dentaire qui a été née en 1982 en établissant avec le Prince Philip Dental Hospital et elle reste désormais la seule institution à Hong Kong d'offre d'entrainement de professionnelles dentaires.
Ces dernières années, il y a pas mal d'activités politiques qui se sont passés dans le campus. Les étudiants locales fassent lutter contre d'engagement du gouvernement et du Chine à les affaires d’Université. Parce qu'on croire que l'université est un lieu pour cultiver des façons de penser uniquées et critiquées de la prochaine génération. Mais à l'opposition, le gouvernement veut simplement moins de voix opposée. Donc, Il y a eu de changement de personnelles, d'investigation de police, de suppression de pouvoirs d'association étudiante... etc.
Mais bon, je ne sais pas où l'avenir va le mener et on verra.
July 20, 2021
Dia vinte de julho
Depois, nós viajamos para a cidade chamada a "Melacca" de carro.
A cidade localizado na sul de Malásia.
Lá foi a cidade velha, e pude ver muitas ruínas durante a Holanda colonial.
Na cidade há muitos chinês de Malásia e viviamos aqui por centenas de anos.
Mas a língua que hablam deles e a comida local foram diferente de nos.
Muitas casas velhas de chinês foram no caminos.
Na cidade, viemos mesquitas, templos e igrejas no bairro pequeno!
Foi bastante interessante para mim.
Eu gostar de Melacca muito.
July 20, 2021
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