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WUTHERING HEIGHTS CHAPTER I Lockwood was a new renter in Thuscross Grange. He has a neighbor also own of the rent house, his name is Mr. Heathcliff, he is a gentleman person.  Lockwood went to Mr. Heathcliff house and look around his house.  That house has own uniqueness, He thought that, the house is little bit inferior and that building is not originally Mr. Heathcliff ‘s house.  At night Lockwood wanted to have dinner, but on the way, suddenly snow storm was coming, he stopped at Mr. Heathcliff’s house. He was freezing and decided to knock Mr. Heathcliff’s house, Joseph, one of Mr. Heathcliff servant told him, he was not allowed to enter to that house.  He became more freezing because the snow began to drive thickly. Suddenly a young man let in Lockwood to that house. In that house Lockwood felt warm, comfort and cheerful apartment. There he met Ms. Heathcliff, he has a cold personality, Lockwood tried to have a chat with her by providing small talk.  Ms...

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This video got from www.bandisoft.co.kr .  click for video here This teaching learning process was conducted in South Korea but the video uploader did not inform specific where the video took place is. This teaching learning process is in Grade 5 students, they taught about “Possessive Pronoun”. 1.       Role of Teachers and Students There are 2 teachers in this video, male and female. The male teacher is a primary teacher in the classroom who speaks English, without using mother tongue in whole day time in teaching learning process. He had many contributions in the classroom, such as giving vocabulary, keep students desire to study up and make each students active in the classroom, meanwhile, the female teacher is a second teacher who helps primary teacher. She sometimes spoke Korean to make the students understand clearly what the primary teacher said. She also helped the primary teacher to teach students These 2 teachers also play drama in front...

TERRY MOORE – WHY IS THE “X” THE UNKNOWN ?

He has the answer why x the unknown is. It is from Arabic which is the reasons as western science and math was really worked out in the first century. This includes Al-jabra in English algebra. In the Arabic language also contained mathematical wisdom, and it influences Europe (Spain). The problem happened when some sounds in Arabic do not be represented by the characters are available in European language. the letter “SHEEN” it like SH the first word of shalan, it means something (something cannot be defines, unknown thing). Just put AL in Arabic and AL –SHALAN means (the unknown thing). The problem also happened in Spanish scholars who were not be able translating this material due to Spanish does not have SH sound. Thus they created another sound the CK sound. Why the X is unknown? because you cannot say “SH” in Spanish.

PATRICIA RYAN – DON’T INSIST ON ENGLISH

She told about language loss and the globalization of English. Nowadays, languages are dying in every 14 days but in the same time English is an undisputed global language. All the books, journals are done with English. English is taught to modernize the country and to empower the citizens through education. But she does not think so that English is everything. We cannot pursue others any longer till they get English. She reminded us that for taking lot of intelligentsia did not have to have English (like English test, TOEFL test). There are some many people outside there, producing something which is useful, with the great idea. Mind your language and lets spread the great idea. Don’t insist on English. 

PATRICIA KUHL – THE LINGUISTIC GENIUS OF BABY

The baby is genius until the age of seven. The baby all over the world using a techniques to learn language and also sound of language, they can discriminate all sound of all languages. When baby listen all they do is taking statistic which sound that they hear. For example statistic of Japanese and English is very different, there are no L and R in Japanese language, meanwhile English has a lot of L and R. The babies can absorb all the statistic of language, unlikely we as adults, we are no longer to absorb kind of that thing. In this investigating of baby’s brain, s we know they have golden of knowledge to determine all sound and language. We are able to see how child’s brain development. 

KELLY MCGONIGAL – HOW TO MAKE STRESS YOUR FRIEND

Stress is cardiovascular disease, everyone have stress experience in their life. She said that stress is very bad for someone’s health. But she is wondering why stress can make healthier. Finally she knows that oxytocin does not only works in your brain, but also in your body and the roles is to protect cardiovascular system from chronic stress. It also can give benefit to your heart, oxytocin can help heart cells, this stress hormone can heal and make your heart have lots of strengthe than before. Oxytocin is enhanced by social contact and support, so when you try to help people, you will produce this hormone lots, and it can be very useful for your stress become healthier, and it will recover you from the stress. She also said, stress can give us lots of energy due to pounding physical heart. 

JOHN MC WORTHER – TXTNG IS KILLING LANGUAGE

In the distant era now, everyone might be easy to give the information to someone, we have something in our pocket to share and receive a message. So texting become popular now, we can write the way we talk, the way we say, in his opinion writing is fingered speech, we can use very natural sense, between the way we talk and the way we texting, but he told that nowadays,   the way young people in USA texting their friends is so broke the language, for example when someone text someone else with the word ‘LOL” (laughing out loud) it means shat someone is laughing, but LOL in texting is not indicate “laughing out loud” anymore, because it’s evolved into something that is much subtler. LOL always be used in every single texting, he said that it’s marker empathy which is called pragmatic particles in linguistics context. In conclusion he said texting is the new way people writing which is developing by using writing skills.