黃佩萱's podcast

Learn from Ally Mcbeal!

Penny Huang — Tue, 16 May 2006 18:21:24 GMT

Tv series: Ally Mcbeal (First episode of the second season) Linguistic evidence: 1. We're adjourned.---to suspend the business of a court. 2. How could he and I possibly work out?---end stisfactorily 3. Maybe tomorrow? Sure!---(another way of saying yes) 4. The last thing you want is to be in love with someone you can't love. Cultural evidence: Unisex---restroom shared by male and female How video facilitates my English learning--- pronunciation, listening skill, common usage of words and expressions Song---Yellow by Coldplay!

blog reading

Penny Huang — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:06:06 GMT

1. How much do you know about blog reading via RSS? a. explanation of Wikipedia b. own knowledge about RSS (teacher's information) 2. Choose one blog which you are interested in, and describe about it. a. interested in "ESL"---http://toshuo.com (Doubting to Shuo) b. owner: Mark, an american ESL teacher. He shares about his teaching experience in Taiwan 3. Music---Scientist by Coldplay (poor quality...and small voice...)

web-based corpus: VIEW

Penny Huang — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:06:28 GMT

Time to improve the improper usage of words! 1. Congratulate should collocate with...? 2. Studying v.s. learning... How to distinguish these two words? 3. "Get" honor? What are the verbs that collocate with honor? 4. Synonyms for "proud"?

tools and resources for writing

Penny Huang — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:52:08 GMT

writing problems? 1. don't know how to say certain words? e.g. 潛移默化? try Babel Fish! 2. always use the same words? e.g. use "weak" all the time? try Onelook! (Encarta---thesaurus) 3. don't know the right collocation? e.g. damage "of " or damage "to"? collocate+? try research.iwillnow.org! 4. any other problems? Don't forget your most powerful and useful friend: Google!

favorite podcast of ESL

Penny Huang — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:00:53 GMT

His song was supposed to be my background music!!!!!!!!!!!! Well...never mind, I will invite him, no, I mean insert his song in my next podcast. Wait and SEE!! http://www.englishcaster.com/bobrob/ The Bob and Rob show Serious part---word use and grammar 1. Make v.s Do 2. Past simple v.s Past perfect Funny part---Cultural difference, special word use, interesting facts. 1. Rock---This podcast rocks! (Well...take it as an example sentence...) 2. Dodgy---doggy? 3. Bank holiday---holiday for bankers? 4. Off license---No liquor at off licenses after 11 in UK! 5. Automobile and Car

3 Questions

Penny Huang — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:54:31 GMT

Well...I'll try to sound better next time!

Additional Introduction

Penny Huang — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:57:01 GMT

self-introduction

Penny Huang — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:40:40 GMT

A bit noisy...

Welcome!

Penny Huang — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:21:13 GMT