The Married Couple

The couple I interviewed was my cousin, Vita, and her husband, Todd. They have been married five years. They just had their fifth anniversary. Before they married, they had been dating about a year. How they met was not extraordinary. At that time, Todd just came back from Canada and he worked in the company of his uncle. He was trying to figure out what he really wanted to do. One of Vita’s friends was working there too. So they had chance to go out together. In the beginning, they were just friend. They dated casually. Vita even told me that he was so not her cup of tea. The way he dressed and even his appearance. Totally not her type. However, she did admire his personality in some way. He is the kinda person who plan for his life. So she felt that she could always count on him. It’s a sense of security. After six months, they became a couple. Another six months later, they decided to get married. Till now, they are the happiest couple I have known. They don’t have any child. Having a baby is not on their list currently. They do enjoy their life. From their marriage, I can tell that the most important thing for married couple is to give and take. Always put yourself to your partner’s shoes. I think that’s why they are happily ever after. They are my idol couple for sure.

What Is Love

What is love? It is one of the most difficult questions for the everyone. There is no one can give the proper definition of love. To some Love is friendship, for others Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it. No matter how you define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the history of mankind. Love is patient, love is kind. It has no envy. Love is to e together, share your joy and sorrow, understand each other, provide space to each other, but always be there for each others need. And surely, love will strengthen your relationship with your matter of all.

Writing diary in English

Keeping a diary in English is one of the effective ways to improve our English writing ability. Compared with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes less time. It can help us to cultivate the habit of thinking in English. If we persist in this practice, gradually we'll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we inevitably run up against a lot of difficulties .In the first place, it often happens that we have trouble finding appropriate words and phases to give expression to our mind. Secondly , there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Manderen. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English properly. Certainly, there are some other roadblocks we may come across in our keeping a diary in English. In short, it is of godd to keep a diary in English for the development of our writing skills.

Owning a Car

Nowadays, anyone can enjoy the luxury of owning a private car - if he or she can afford it. Having a car of your own means no more traveling to work on crowded buses or subway trains, and you can drop off the children at school on the way. Moreover, it also means that you can enjoy the weekends and holidays better, because with a car you can go to places where the regular buses and trains do not go, and so you can find a quiet scenic spot with no crowds. However, there are drawbacks to owning a car. For one thing, with the increase in car ownership in recent years, the roads are becoming more and more crowded, often making the journey to work more of a nightmare than a dream. For another, it is not cheap to run a car, as the prices of gasoline and repairs are constantly rising, not to mention the prices you have to pay for a licence and insurance coverage.

A Lesson Today

Opportunities don't come often. They come every once in a while. Very often, they come quietly and go by without being noticed. Therefore ,it is advisable that you should value and treat them with care. When an opportunity comes, it brings a promise but never realizes it on its own. If you want to achieve something or intend to fulfill one of your ambitious, you must work hard, make efforts and get prepared. Otherwise, you will take no advantage of opportunities when they come to visit you. The difference between a man who succeeds and one who does not lies only in the way each treats opportunities. The successful person always makes adequate preparations to meet opportunities as they duly arrive. The unsuccessful person, on the other hand, works little and just waits to see them pass by. In my opinion, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone in our society, but only those who are prepared adequately and qualified highly can make use of them to achieve their purpose.

Context Clues Strategy

Reading is a process for us to knowmore stories or articles. However, we always face a difficulty to read through whenever we meet words or vocabularies that we have no idea at all. In order to keep reading on and to know what the authors trying to indicate correctly, we should use the reading strategies to help us. Using the method of context clues, which we demonstrated, is easy and can save our time to look up the dictionary for the meaning all the time. We just need to look before or after the words which we do not know, and see whether they belongs to which one
of the three types of context clues. Next, predict the possible meaning of the words. Then we will be able to go on reading and understand the stories or articles what they are all about.

What Is Reading

Reading is defined as the ability to examine words and absorb the information within. It is also a multifarious process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. However, reading is actually a very complex process that requires a great deal of active participation, especially, the message is not something given in advance, or given at all, or even there are many words that are unknown. Thus, the reading strategies can help the readers to read in a very efficient way and to get the maximum benefit from their reading with the minimum effort. One of the reading strategies is to use context clues while reading. They are words and phrases in a sentence which help us reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

When we are reading a text or an article, the problem we usually face is that there are many words or vocabularies we don’t know. Then we fail to understand the topic even unable to continue reading it. It wastes time if we insist to look the words up in the dictionary. Therefore, using context clues is a way to help us not only reason the meanings out but also can build up our vocabulary. The context clues are the hints that authors give us in the story, and usually presented in the sentence or paragraph in which the word occurs.

Advantages of Exercise

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen
Good afternoon, Howard
Thank you all for being here today. I am Jessie.
I think we are all very busy now since we are working and being students at the same time. I wonder how many of you exercise regularly.
It is recommended that to exercise three times a week, 30 minutes each, and to raise heart beat to 130 per minute. If we exercise regularly, we would definitely benefit from it. In my following speech, I would like to report on three advantages including exercise can control our weight, promotes better sleep, and improves our mood. My presentation will take about 4 minutes. There will be a Q&A section after my presentation. So if you have any question please feel free to ask me during the time. Ok. Let’s move on to the topic. I think most people on a diet because they’d like to lose weight. They often focus on the foods they eat and the calories they consume. While this is important, exercise is also an important part of a weight loss program. Regular exercise helps us control our weight by burning calories. Here are some activities which can burn calories. You can see how many calories burned through each one of them. Balancing the calories we burn through physical activity with the number of calories we take into body will help us manage our weight.
Let’s now turn to the next benefit.
As we are working and studying, we, sometimes, get too many stresses to fall asleep. Regular physical activity can help us fall asleep faster and deepen our sleep. Once we sleep well, we will be more concentrate and more productive on our work and study.
This now leads us to my next point.
After a stressful day, exercise can help us to calm down. Exercise provides brain chemicals that would make us feel happier and more relaxed. We will also look better and feel better when we exercise regularly, which can increase our confidence and improve our self-esteem. Moreover, regular physical activity can even help prevent depression.
To sum up, exercise is good for people since it helps us control weight, reduce our difficulty to fall asleep, and make us feel happier. So even we are busy, we should still find some time to work out just for our own good.

Global Warming

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and it’s becoming a serious issue worldwide now.
In Taiwan, we are also being affected by global warming these days. According to a report released by a professor, Fan Kuang-Lung, of National Taiwan University Institute of Oceanography, sea levels around the world are gradually on the rise due to global warming. He discovered that Taiwan’s sea level was rising at an annual average of 0.32 cm, higher than China’s 0.26 cm and the global average of 0.1 to 0.2 cm. because of that, the tidal land in central and southern Taiwan suffers from constant flooding. If the sea level keeps rising at such a fast speed, it is feared the land will be swallowed up by the end of the century. Another scholar also warned in the fair of the influence of over-development and pollution causing the marine species around Taiwan to vanish at a fast speed.

In order to reduce carbon emissions, we should change our lifestyle to protect our mother earth.
1. Cut down electricity consumption- such as turn off the lights if not necessary or turn on your fans instead of air con. Don’t keep your computer on if you are away.
2. Use your car less - Public transportation is better than drive your own car. Or drive more slowly and consider car sharing with someone else who is going to the same direction as you.

Thousand-Year Egg

Thousand-year egg is a Chinese cuisine ingredient which is made by preserving duck,chicken eggs for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing. Through the process, the yolk becomes a dark green while the white becomes a dark brown. Most of foreigners are not knee on tasting it since the name which has been translated into English, thousand-year egg, sounds weird and it looks not delicious at all. However, when it mixes with tofu and a bit of soy sauce as a side dish, it does taste good and recommendable.

Comparing of Fresh Foods and Canned Foods

To compare fresh foods and canned foods, there are some differences between them. The most notable difference between these two kinds of foods is their flavor. Fresh foods have great flavor and taste because they keep all their natural conditions. However, canned foods are lack of its flavor because there are some other chemical products added to the natural foods. The other difference is that health factor that affects both of them. Canned foods lose some of the original fresh food nutrition when stored, and also it has many conservatives and chemical factors that prolong its lifetime and apparent freshness. On the other hand, fresh foods which nutrition remains in are not preserved by canning, freezing, or smoking. Yet another difference between these two types of foods is the convenience. The benefit of buying tinned foods is that they are easier to get. For example, canned foods, in a supermarket, require less work to prepare than fresh foods, just open and serve. Unlike, fresh foods need a lot of preparation beforehand. In summary, the main three differences between fresh foods and canned foods are their flavors, health factor, and convenience.