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2015년 4월 28일 화요일

First shadow reading :How to improve your English Speaking and Fluency



A Lame-Ass Offer - Erin Brockovich (6/10) Movie CLIP (2000) HD



How do i get really good at speaking Enlgish fluently?
1.Listen to a lot of English.
2. Prononciation is very important.
3. Lots of speaking practise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYS5RgeI6hI

Today, I learned "Shadow Speaking" in my class. What Shadow Speaking is? It means to shadow the video or CD, that is to speak with and copy its. I think this is quitet interesting and the best way to improve my Enlgish Speaking level more than anything else.

I chose above a video , "A Lam-Ass Offer- Erin Brockovich" , to practice shadowing speaking. In order to compare before with after, I recorded my voice using my smart phone. The most impressive thing was that I could feel the speaker's mind and her emotion with imitating her words. After practicing, i can totally feel much difference between before and after the way of my talking in Enlgish.

I would like to share this nice study method with you, improving English Speaking level like native speaker!


Before >  https://clyp.it/zhcc3nol
After   >  https://clyp.it/rug5pdtk

2015년 4월 15일 수요일

My SHELF Project


As my SHELF project, I'd like to make "Korea-English language learning video" introducing specific situations or occasions and practicing useful expressions and phrase which is suitable in that moment.
 I've wanted to make my own video like this for a long time ago but I really needed someone's help with editing video and adding subtitle to complete the work. That's why I have hesitated such a long time even still now. But I really want to try to make this video in this time. Not a force, as my own will!

The following videos inspired me these ideas, one is from English Central website and the other is from YOUTUBE, with confidence and it will be the base on producing my SHELF project  video.

Dating in Korea
http://ko.englishcentral.com/video/22367

Learning pratical English with Dave
Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THniRYGNCK0
Lesson 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5R-tkPKcmk
Lesson 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrRzcSwSvcA
Lesson 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIymTYZi3os
Lesson 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvZq0tplCY
Lesson 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H37DSBJyeFg

I believe this video could be very helpful in studying languages with interest.

2015년 4월 9일 목요일

France votes to ban ultra-thin models in anorexia crackdown


France votes to ban ultra-thin models in eating disorder crackdown

Have you ever seen fat barbie dolls? It has also called as plus-sized barbie dolls.
When i watched this news video,on the upper side, in the class,  I've reminded the fat barbie doll which was a worldwide sentation last year. I think the way people think  has changed a lot! It could not make sense at all, if i were born in a long years ago. Isn't it ineresting?

A Fat Barbie Doll Information: 
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/04/finally-a-barbie-doll-with-average-proportions/

In the past, most images of models were 10-30 percent underweigh. But currently it's easier to see plus-sized models and it's going around you, such as Laura wells, Crystal Renn, Jennie Runk and Gee Yang Kim(김지양) who is the first plus-sized model in South Korea that have strick standards of their apperance. What a nice and pretty woman she is!

South Korea Plus-sized model, Gee Yang Kim

 
Content
1. Models would have to present a doctor's certificate saying that they were at a healthy enough weight to work. (anyone employing models who was employing people without such a certificate would be penalized)
2. outlaw internet sites that  encourage anorexia.
3. require that all photographs of which show model's bodies, if they had been retouched, either to make the figure look heavier or thinner than it really is, the photo would have to be labeled.

the law is that all models would have to at least within the normal weight not the underweight range.

Difference between the French and American sensibilities :
- France are willing to regulate very extensively, great detail many aspects of life, use the powers of goverment to do
-American are much more relucatant to regulate.


Vocabulary
-anorexia (antonym of bulimia-binge and purge)
-susceptible
-reluctant (= hesitant, unwilling)
-prescriptive (=enforcement of a rule or method)
-provision (= measure)
-sensibility
-senate
-House of Representatives
-legislative
-judicial
-psychiatrist
-psychologist
-slip into (= gradually, step by step)
-outlaw (= something illegal)
-BMR basal metabolic rate

2015년 4월 7일 화요일

Grieving parents of Korean ferry victims start long march

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150404000084

Newly shaven-headed and clad in white mourning robes the grieving parents of the victims of last year's Sewol ferry disaster began a marathon march Saturday to press for an independent inquiry into the tragedy.

Families of those who died in the Sewol ferry accident start a march from Ansan, Gyeonggi Province on Saturday. Yonhap


More than 200 people are participating in the march from Ansan city to the capital Seoul, mostly the parents of the 250 students from the same high school who perished when the overloaded ferry sank off the southern island of Jindo on April 16.
  
With the first anniversary of the tragedy drawing near, the 35 kilometer march is being held to call for the sunken ferry to be brought to the surface to recover those bodies still unaccounted for.
  
The marchers started off from a public park in Ansan where a giant altar to the victims, complete with their black-ribboned portraits and flowers, has been in place over the past year.
  
Some wept as they set off carrying pictures of their daughters and sons.
Before the march started, many parents shaved their heads in a show of grief and determination.
  
They chanted slogans and held banners alleging that the government was "insulting"  victims' families by "waving money under their noses" instead of seeking to ensure a thorough and independent investigation.
  
Over the past year, families have repeatedly staged street protests and sit-ins, demanding a meeting with President Park Geun-Hye and urging her to deliver on her promise to continue the search for those still missing.
  
"Almost a year has passed since the tragedy but the president has not delivered on her promise. We are going to Seoul to hear from her," said Chun Myeong-Sun, a representative of the families.
  
The accident--blamed by many on regulatory failings, official incompetence and the ship's illegal redesign--prompted Park to vow a complete overhaul of national safety standards.
  
Following months of political bickering, the South Korean parliament passed a bill in November initiating an independent investigation into the sinking.
  
But relatives have accused the government of seeking to hamper the probe and contain any political fallout by appointing government officials to key posts in the 17-member inquiry committee.
  
Committee chairman Lee Suk-Tae--one of the members nominated by the families--said this week that the government, which should be the very subject of the investigation, was seeking to lead the committee, something he labelled "unacceptable."

  
More than 50 people have been put on trial on charges linked to the sinking, including 15 crew members--who were among the first to climb into lifeboats.
  
The Sewol's captain was jailed in November for 36 years for gross negligence and dereliction of duty, while three other senior crew members were sentenced to jail terms of between 15 and 30 years.
  
The families plan to hold a candle-lit vigil when the protest march arrives in Seoul on Sunday. (AFP)




It is subjoined article with
http://joyfuljo2ful.blogspot.kr/2015/04/parents-of-ferry-disaster-victims.html

It's unfortunate that the truth was still not revealed and has passed almost a year since this tragedy. The most important task is probe into the facts, not buy a person's silence. Who knows the heart of partents of the victims!


Vocabulary

-march
-clad
-mourning robe
-press for something (=demand, push for something)
-load (=burden, cargo, baggage)
-overload
-perish(=die,be killed)
-unaccounted for; not to be accounted for or explained
-altar; the table where communion is given 
-set off (=put off, erect)
-chant; keep calling[shouting] out
-allege (= claim, charge)
-insult (=offend, abuse)
-stage (=demonstrate, protest)
-sit-ins ;  one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
-regulatory failing
-overhaul (=check, service, maintain)
-incompetence (=ineptitude, inability, inadequacy)
-vow (=promise, pledge)
-hamper (=hinder)
-a subject of investigation
-negligence (=carelessness, neglect, disregard)
-bickering (=squabble)
- pass a bill
-gross negligence
-dereliction of duty : 직무유기, 태만
-candle-lit vigil
 
Useful expressions

- people chanted slogans and held banners alleging that..
- in a show of grief and determination
-waving money under their noses
  

Following sentence has been tricky to figure it out. Your advice or comment would be appreciated.

+Committee chairman Lee Suk-Tae--one of the members nominated by the families--said this week that the government, which should be the very subject of the investigation, was seeking to lead the committee, something he labelled "unacceptable."

 




2015년 4월 2일 목요일

Parents of ferry disaster victims refuse state reparation plan

 
A group of parents of some of the high school students killed in a ferry accident last year lambasted the government’s reparation plans on Thursday, demanding a thorough probe into the accident’s causes and the recovery of the sunken ship instead.

In a rally at the Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, the parents shaved their heads to protest what they called the “government’s unilateral decision to pay reparations against the parents’ wishes.”

“We have never asked for money,” said Yoo Gyoung-geun, a family spokesman who lost his daughter in the disaster.

Relatives of the victims of the Sewol ferry disaster shave their heads in Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul, Thursday. (Yonhap)

“All we ask is that the ferry be towed out from the sea, so that those still missing can be found and that officials fully investigate the cause of the disaster,” Yoo added.

The 6,800-ton passenger ferryboat Sewol sank in waters off southwestern Korea last April, killing 304. Nine are still missing. Most of those killed were students of Danwon High School at Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, an industrial town south of Seoul.

The Oceans Ministry announced Wednesday that the government would pay about 720 million won ($657,000) to every family that lost a child in the disaster. The costs were tallied by taking into account the foregone wages of the teenagers who had not lived to be adults.

Families said Thursday’s conference was organized to express their “utter disgust” at such plans.

“Do you think it’s just going to be OK if you throw money at us?” one mother yelled in anger. “Why do we have to be the ones suffering on the streets? What have we done to deserve this?”

Most of the fathers remained silent, their eyes closed, with looks of both despair and determination.

Supporters of the families shaved the heads of about 50 parents. Some of the mothers started weeping as their long wavy hair slowly fell to the gray asphalt streets of downtown Seoul.

The families also demanded the government give more authority to a special investigative committee formed earlier this year to investigate the disaster’s causes.

The committee was formed after the bereaved families refused to accept the results of earlier prosecutorial and parliamentary probes, saying they were insufficient.

The committee’s mandate, written by the government last month, would put investigators under the close watch of the Oceans Ministry, which some families accuse of avoiding responsibility for the accident. It comes into effect next Monday.

Some of the families, and 10 of the 17 members on the probe committee have strongly urged the government to revise the mandate.

“I will not give up,” one mother said, her voice quivering as tears rolled down her cheeks. “I will not allow myself to see my son in heaven and tell him that I’m sorry.”

“I will make sure I’m able to look him in the eyes and tell him that I did my part.”

By Jeong Hunny (hj257@heraldcorp.com)



There are many advantages of reading newspapaer. It makes you keep abreast of what is happening in the world so that you can learn background knowledge in various fields.

 Nowadays, I'm trying to study English, reading a newspaper and discussing current affairs with Jihun Jay Kim
(Jihun's blog; http://jihunjaykim.blogspot.kr/2015/04/feedback-about-using-audiovisual.html)

Like different people have different ideas, we're disgussing and guessing what it is on the newspaper.
Even though a few sentences were confusing, that's what stimulated our curiosity as well as interest!
It was really interesting more than we expected. I believe that it would be help improve my English skills, if i do consistently.


I've expected to make study group with you guys, but  no one ever let me know..:(
We're still waiting for you

Kakao ID; joyeanji


Vocabulary

-State reparation ( =conpensation, damages)
-lambast
-probe into
-rally
-unilateral decision
-tow out
-Oceans Ministry
-Foregone wages
-take into account
-tally
-utter disguest
-with looks of
-prosecutorial and parlimentary probes
-bereaved families
-quiver (=tremble, shake)

Useful expressions

-I'll not allow myself
-I'm able to look him in the eyes and tell him that i did my part.


+I need your help and advice what "the foregon wages" means in  this sentence.
 The costs were tallied by taking into account the foregon wages of the teenagers who had not lived to be adults.