2009年12月22日火曜日

11th

web:
http://www.history.com/video.do?name=christmas&bcpid=2647858001&bclid=1675979322&bctid=1586348684


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①christmas
the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.

②holiday
vacation, break

③merry
happy, blithe, blithesome, frolicsome, cheery, glad. See gay.
jolly, jovial, gleeful

④origin
root, foundation. 4. birth, lineage, descent

⑤history
record, annals. See narrative




history.com was fun.

2009年12月8日火曜日

10th

web:
http://netacademy.ferris.ac.jp/anet2/lms/student/crsmenu/stCourseMenu.aspx

http://a4esl.org/q/j/dt/mc-2000-01def.html


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①disdain
hate; indifference

②stiff
hard, inflexible

③yield
production of labor

④brag
talk boastingly

⑤steep
extreme in direction, course



ESL Quiz was interesting, I enjoyed that.
I think it is an appropriate site.

2009年12月1日火曜日

9th

web site:
https://bb-sv.ferris.ac.jp/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_6405_1%26url%3D :)

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①symptom
a symptom is one of the ways in which a disease, illness or medical condition manifests, or shows itself

②a higher portion of
more

③stroke suffers
people who have had a stroke, i.e. a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, and are often partially disabled (usually on one side of their body) as a result

④hemisphere
 here, half of the front part of the brain; the left and right hemispheres of your brain process information in different ways: the left hemisphere works in a more logical, linear, reality-based way, whereas the right hemisphere is more random, intuitive and fantasy oriented

⑤constract with
is opposite to, is unlike

⑥brain imaging
studying the brain using scans, tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, encephalography or other techniques

⑦tonal languages
languages where using specific tones, i.e. the quality of the speaker's voice (e.g. pitch, rising or falling intonations etc.), is very important both for expressing yourself while speaking and for understanding the speech

⑧tends to occur
usually happens

⑨investigations
research, examining and/or testing




that was so interesting:)

8th