WEEK 10

Q Skills for Success 4

Review

If you haven’t shown me your score for GEPT/TOEIC, you need to take 2 hours of English Corner.

You have an assignment. You can: Participate in the 11/27 Speech contest

(you must sign up before 11/19) Join the 12/24 Drama Night / Film Festival

(you must sign up before 12/17) Submit a Film for the Drama Night / Film

Festival Write a 500-word essay (Due 12/24)

Music Time!

Friday - byRebecca Black

Between its February 10, 2011 upload date and June 16, the music video received around 167 million views and has been called “the worst song of all time”.

This week’s vocabulary

significant - important and having meaning 意義重大的well-behaved - good mannered person; behaving in a way that other people approve (... child, ... dog) 行為端正accurately - correctly 正確的assumption - belief that something is true 假設colleague- person you work with 同事competence - the ability to do something well 能幹consistent with - in agreement with 與 .... 一致equipped with - possessing something that is needed for a particular purposeextracurricular - not part of the usual work or studies at a school 課外的innate - something that you are born with 與生俱來的nurture - to help someone or something develop and be successful 培育

period - a length of time 期間select - to choose 選擇

theoretically - according to what could possibly exist, happen, or be true 理論上的choir - a group of singers, usually in a church 合唱團risk - chance of loss or injury. 風險dread - causing great fear 擔心 懼怕stormy - difficult; filled with bad times 困難時期interconnected - connected together 互相連結的excel - to do or be better than others. 超越bonds - relationships with others 聯結predict - indicate what will happen in the future 預測resilient - able to recover from or adjust to change or misfortune 堅韌的self-reliance - Being able trust your own decisions; personal independence. 依靠自己encourage - inspire with confidence, support or praise 鼓勵