Listening skill

The trees produce the most pods when they are ten, but they are still productive long. The workers use large knives to cut the lower pods and long tools to remove pods from high on the tree. A half gram of chocolate requires about four hundred beans. The world cocoa foundation says an average pod contains twenty to fifty beans and growers may lose perhaps one-third of their harvest to diseases and insects. But now scientists have genetic maps of two kinds of cocoa trees.

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English Grammar - How to learn tenses - listening skill

The most effective way to learn English grammar! In this lesson for all levels, Teacher teaches you a way to learn all tenses in English without getting complicated. A simple, clear way to learn each tense. You can use this method for other topics, too!

Non-Stop Love Songs 2

voa special english << Listening Skill

I really want to improve my listening skill, I hope that Vietnamese people can speak and listen like some other nations in the area.

Reading Skill

Chinese environment official challenged to swim in polluted river

Bao Zhenming, who declined to take up the challenge was offered over £20,000 to swim in the contaminated waterway

A journalist takes a sample of the red polluted water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang, Henan province in December 2011. The sources of the pollution are two illegal chemical plants discharging their production waste water into the rain sewer pipes. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

Widespread outrage against China's environmental issues that began when Beijing's air pollution hit record levels last month has spread to encompass another major public health threat: water pollution.

Last week, an eyeglass-retailer executive from Rui'an City, coastal Zhejiang province, offered the city's environmental protection chief Bao Zhenming more than £20,000 to take a 20-minute dip in a highly polluted local river. The entrepreneur, Jin Zengmin, posted the dare to his microblog beneath pictures showing the waterway overflowing with discarded aluminum cans, polystyrene boxes and paper lanterns. He blamed the river's industrial demise on dumping by a local rubber shoe factory.

The Rui'an government responded by saying that most of the river's pollution was caused by individuals, not factories, and could be attributed to overpopulation. Bao has since declined the offer.

"Finally this issue [water pollution] has aroused the attention of the general public," said Ma Jun, head of the Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs. "Although it's going to take a long time [to fix], now we have seen a starting point."

The challenge to Bao came as the government announced on Thursday that it will force heavily polluting industries to participate in a compulsory insurance programme to ensure they can adequately provide compensation for damage.

The mining and smelting industries must participate in the scheme, along with lead battery manufacturers, leather goods firms and chemical factories. Petrochemical companies and firms that make hazardous chemicals and hazardous waste would also be encouraged to participate.

China's water pollution woes are not a new story. The head of China's ministry of water resources said last year that up to 40% of the country'srivers are "seriously polluted", and an official report from last summer found that up to 200 million rural Chinese have no access to clean drinking water.

China's lakes are often affected by pollution-induced algae blooms, causing the surface of the water to turn a bright iridescent green. Yet even greater threats may lurk underground. A recent government study found that groundwater in 90% of China's cities is contaminated, most of it severely. Chinese media responded with surprising urgency – the Straits Times newspaper in southeastern Fujian province presented the findings in a full front-page spread.

"Groundwater is a key source of drinking water, industrial and agricultural use, especially in northern China," said Ma. "If this resource gets contaminated, it's far more difficult to restore than surface water or the air."

Ground zero for the recent flurry of online outrage is Weifang, a city of 8 million in coastal Shandong province that's known primarily for its annual kite-flying festival. Last week, Weifang's internet users accused local paper mills and chemical plants of directly pumping industrial waste into the city's water supply 1,000 meters underground, causing cancer rates in the area to skyrocket.

"I was just angry after receiving information from Web users saying that the groundwater in Shandong had been polluted and I forwarded it online," Deng Fei, a reporter whose microblog posts sparked the allegations, told the state-run Global Times. "But it came as a surprise to me that after I sent out these posts, many people from different places in northern and eastern China all complained that their hometowns have been similarly polluted."

Weifang officials have offered a reward of about £10,000 to anyone who can provide evidence of illegal wastewater dumping. According to a Weifang Communist party committee spokesperson, local authorities have investigated 715 companies and have yet to find any evidence of wrongdoing.

Conclude:

The topic is Chinese environment official challenged to swim in polluted river.

It started about December 2011. The problem is in the Jianhe River in Luoyang, Henan province. People throw the garbage into the river and two illegal chemical plants discharging their production waste water into the rain sewer pipes. It happens because people ignore about the river and people who don’t use a bin for garbage and don’t treat waste water before release it into the rain sewer pipes. You should care about water pollution because you need clean water for use and drink. You can stop it by throw the garbage in a bin and don’t release waste water into the river.

  

Vocabulary:

Vocabulary	Meaning
Environment (n)	Thai meaning: ธรรมชาติ
Pollution (n)	Thai meaning: มลพิษ
Encompass (v)	Thai meaning: รวมเข้าไว้ทั้งหมด
Entrepreneur (n)	Thai meaning:  นักธุรกิจ
Manufacturer (n)	Thai meaning: ผู้ผลิต

Speed Reading Technique: How to Improve Your Comprehension

Technique of reading skill

      This video discusses a speed reading technique that can be used to help you read faster with better comprehension. Test out this speed reading exercise for you to see how it works.

Behind the clouds and mist of cold

The warming light of sun doth show

Within the depth of darkling night

The stars yet shining out their light.

Will the time come to light my days

And shed those pain and lone away

Will someone come and hold me near

I long for thee to stop my tears

Will there be sun behind my clouds

Or will my star ever be found

I long, I wish, o my heart cries

For someone I could call as mine.

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แสงอ่อนโยนของตะวันยังเฉิดฉาย

ราตรีมืดไม่ไร้ดาวพราวพราย

จะมีสักวันไหมได้พบเธอ

คนที่จะจุดประกายปลายฟ้า

อบอุราให้อุ่นไอรักเสมอ

จะมีไหมวันนั้นวันที่เจอ

หรือต้องเพ้อเพียงฝันนิรันดร

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Reading Skill

12 January 2013 Last updated at 13:14 GMT

Beijing air pollution soars to hazard level

 

The air smells of coal dust and car fumes

Air pollution in the Chinese capital Beijing has reached levels judged as hazardous to human health.

Readings from both official and unofficial monitoring stations suggested that Saturday's pollution has soared past danger levels outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The air tastes of coal dust and a car fume, two of the main sources of pollution, says a BBC correspondent.

Economic growth has left air quality in many cities notoriously poor.

Heavy smog has smothered Beijing for many days, says the BBC's Damian Grammaticas, in the capital.

By Saturday afternoon it was so thick you could see just a few hundred meters in the city center, our correspondent says, with tower blocks vanishing into the greyness.

Hazy view

Even indoors the air looked hazy, he says.

 

Some people are wearing masks

WHO guidelines say average concentrations of the tiniest pollution particles - called PM2.5 - should be no more than 25 micrograms per cubic meter.

Air is unhealthy above 100 micrograms. At 300, all children and elderly people should remain indoors.

Official Beijing city readings on Saturday suggested pollution levels over 400. An unofficial reading from a monitor at the US embassy recorded 800.

Once inhaled, the tiny particles can cause respiratory infections, as well as increased mortality from lung cancer and heart disease.

Last year Chinese authorities warned the US embassy not to publish its data. But the embassy said the measurements were for the benefit of embassy personnel and were not citywide.

Conclude:

The topic is Air pollution in the Chinese capital. It starts 12 January 2013.The problem is a few hundred meters in the city center in the Chinese capital. The air tastes of coal dust and a car fumes, two of the main sources of pollution. It happen because economic growth has left air quality in many cities notoriously poor and people who use car and the toxic fumes from industrial factory. You should care about air pollution because pure air is good for health. You can stop it by use bicycle and decrease to use car.

Vocabulary:

Vocabulary	Meaning
Hazardous (adj)	Thai meaning: ซึ่งเป็นอันตราย
Unofficial (adj)	Thai meaning: ลำลอง
Notoriously (adj)	Thai meaning: อย่างมีชื่อเสียงในทางไม่ดี
Vanishing (v)	Thai meaning: กำลังหายไป
Correspondent (n)	Thai meaning: นักข่าว particular subject for a newspaper or a television or radio station

Reading skill

The SLANG words of “YES”

YEAH                                                 แปลว่า เออ,ใช่

YEA                                                    แปลว่า เออ,ใช่

YEP                                                    แปลว่า เออ,ใช่

AYE                                                    แปลว่า เออ,ใช่

The SLANG words of "HOW ARE YOU?"

WHAT'S UP?                                                แปลว่า เป็นไงบ้างล่ะ?

WHAT'S SHAKIN'?                                      แปลว่า เป็นไงบ้างล่ะ?

WHAT'S NEW?                                            แปลว่า เป็นไงบ้าง?

HOW'S IT GOING?                                     แปลว่า เป็นไงบ้าง?

HOW'S EVERYTHING GOING?                             แปลว่า เป็นไงบ้าง?

HOW'RE THINGS?                                     แปลว่า เป็นไงบ้าง?

HOW'RE YOU GETTING ALONG?                                แปลว่า เป็นไงบ้างล่ะ?

ARE YOU DOING OK?                                      แปลว่า สบายดีไหม?

PRETTY GOOD                                              แปลว่า ค่อนข้างดี

IT'S OK                                                 แปลว่า มันก็โอเคดี

IT'S TERRIBLE                                           แปลว่า มันเลวร้ายมากเลย,มันแย่มากๆ

 The same meaning of word “YES”

 ABSOLUTELY                                แปลว่า อย่างแน่นอนเลย

CERTAINLY                                  แปลว่า อย่างแน่นอน

TOTALLY                                     แปลว่า อย่างแน่นอน

SURE                                          แปลว่า ใช่,แน่นอน

OF COURSE                                    แปลว่า ใช่ค่ะ/ครับ

RIGHT                                        แปลว่า ถูกต้องแล้วล่ะ

EXACTLY                                       แปลว่า ถูกเผงเลย

Air Pollution listening skill

Air pollution is a serious issue, and it is time to react seriously before it is too late (if it isn't already too late). Well if this was 5 years ago, were fucked! Thanks to all the adults of the planet who don't care enough about the children as they say they do, if they did care as much as they say, they wouldn't of let pollution get this bad. my future is probably ruined because of all the pollution, i don't want to grow up in an apocalyptic wasteland filled with garbage. i wish to have kids in my lifetime, but i doubt i will ever have any considering we can't even go one day without using oil.

How to Write Short Stories: Writing Lesson & Tips, George Wier

Technique of writing skill

      How to Write Short Stories: Writing Lesson & Tips, George Wier

      In this videos, fiction author George Weir lectures & gives you information about how to be a writer. This includes ideas, excises and techniques to improve your writing ability for short stories or novels including comments on writing in general, character development and plot.

Effective Listening Skills

Technique of listening skill

      The most important skill you can develop as a sales person is the ability to listen and understand what your prospects are telling you. There are two forms of listening active and passive. Most people develop lazy passive listening skills which mean they hear the words, don't process the aural sounds into understanding and follow through with feedback.

>>>The Book of My Life (my best)

In between my decorative cover

I laid a lot of colorful words

In red, blue, green and white

In black, sorrow and pain

All the doubts in yellow

I wrote in pink

The nightmares

I went through

In upper case I kept

The fragrance of lofty thought

You taught me

In tight secrecy, the memories

In maroon, in turquoise

The joy I got

Side by side

Along with the moon

Still words are merely words

You cannot see

The wounds of the wind

Oozing of the heart

Red blood of the dream

Still unmakes the image

Of the blank space

Left by you

With Big Dash I am only

Able to paint

The sound of

Of emptiness

Learning Log

Learning Log : week 5

Learning log  1 July 2013

                Today, I learned  about how to design the syllabus and how to write the lesson plan. It’s very important for me because I must design the syllabus and write the lesson plan to use in the future.

       Design the syllabus. It’s has 4 unit include local, regional, global and glocal . Teacher should design the syllabus by communicative language teaching and teach from easy to hard.

       How to write the lesson plan.  It’s must be consistent with 4 such as English for communication, English for culture, English for connection and English for community.

      I think the lesson plan is important because I must use in the future. I must write the lesson plan correctly and I must know the principle to write the objectives.