March 2012
6 posts
Want To Get Faster, Smarter? Sleep 10 Hours
by ALLISON AUBREY
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127478147
- vigor: force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism.
- warriors: a person engaged or experienced in warfare.
- rituals: an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
1- How many hours of sleep that human need per day?why?
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February 2012
7 posts
Reflections #2
What?
My group had four people (two students and two conversation partners).We talked about several things. We introduced ourselves. Then, one of the conversation partners was asking many questions about Saudi Arabia because both my friend and I from S.A. I noticed that the man who was in my group is new. In addition, the last time students are divided to two groups, and each group was...
News HW #5
How to Make a Diet Work
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6734073
1- How to make a diet work?
2- Do you think that dieters should avoid fast food?why?
3- What is the ways to make the dieters follow the diet?
- Nutrition : the act or process of nourishing.
-discipline : training to act in accordance with rules.
-Matters : a situation, state.
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News HW #4
With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens’ Choices
by MICHELLE TRUDEAU
- initiate : to introduce into the knowledge of some art or subject.
-Underscore : to stress; emphasize.
-tolerance : the act or capacity of enduring; endurance.
1- Do you think that legal age of drinking alcohol should be 21 or change to 18?why?
2- What do you think the negative results for teens who drink...
Reflections #1
My group had four people, and we talked about many things. We spent long time introducing ourselves. My conversation partner was Tokio, and he talked about himself and his family. I observed that all of LLI members ware women except one man who was my conversation partner. That made me thinks that women are more interested to meet international students and know more about other countries...
News HW #3
Baby’s Palate And Food Memories Shaped Before Birth
by GRETCHEN CUDA-KROEN
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/139033757/babys-palate-and-food-memories-shaped-before-birth
- evolutionary: pertaining to.
- oysters : something from which a person may extract.
- extent: something extended.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/search
1- Do you think that baby’s food memories shaped...
News HW #2
Workplaces Feel The Impact of Obesity
by JENNIFER LUDDEN
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/27/141760591/workplaces-feel-the-impact-of-obesity
1- ًWhat are the best ways to avoid obesity?
2- Do you think obesity caused by genetics or human behavior?
3- Do you think exercise is one of the ways to treat obesity?
- Suit: to make appropriate, adapt.
- Collapse: To fall or cave in.
- Arthritis:...