Week Eight Oral Blog Entry Six - Picture Comparison

There are two pictures which I linked in picture 1 and picture 2. Picture 1 show that some children are siting in a circle, and some are standing to do the demonstration. There is no teacher, they learn from each other, and they can talk and discuss whenever. Picture 2 show that all students are siting to the teacher. They are listening to the teacher and answer the question from the teacher. If they want to say something, they must put up their hands, and talked it after permiting.
I think the first circumstance is more effective, students do not hesitate to talk and ask if they have any questions. They can follow other children who had already done. When these children study together, they can learn form each other and know how to work in a team. In picture 2, students learn from the teacher, they do not have opportunity to discuss with each other. They must accept what the teacher say, and do not have enough time to understand it.

Week Seven Text Blog Entry Four - My Break

I went to Rutorua in my studying break with my friends. It is a very nice town, and people are very friendly. But we hadn’t enough time to visit every famous place because we just had two days, so we looked around the town by following the map.
What gave me the strongest impression was not the landscape but the accommodation. It was too difficult to look for a room with three single beds, so we had to book a room within a single bed and a double bed. Even thought it was a private house, not a hotel. I have not never slept with anther person since I was 6, so I felt very uncomfortable when I was sleeping with my friend in bed. I could not move, otherwise I would fall on the floor. The next day when I wake up, I felt very tired even more than last night.
We went to Hamilton in the next day, and visited the university in Hamilton. When I came back home, the only thing I wanted to do was sleep in my own bed.

Week Six Text Blog Entry Four - a narrative or recount

Last few days, I read a article named Exercise helps rebuild memory, Here is a link to the article about it. It is about researches had found that exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain region linked with memory and memory loss. Tests on mice showed that exercise could cause the development of new brain cells in the mouse equivalent of the denate gyrus. The team recruited 11 adults and put them through a three-month aerobic exercise regimen, and found the same result.
Most of the verb forms which explain what happened are in the past simple form. There is one examples of the past perfect simple which is "had shown" refers to the time before the National Academy of Sciences first "tested" mice.
There are two examples of the present simple which are "next step is to identify" and "physicians may be able to", they are all quoted.

Week Six - Oral Blog Portfolio Diploma Lecture Entry

Speaker: Sarah Hardman (Unitec Lecture and Association of Staff in Tertiary Edua)


Union: workers orgainized into a volountary association, or union to further their mutual interests with respect to wages, hours, working conditions and other matters of interests to the morkers.

Unions are volountary, you can choose if you want to join.
Unions have traditionally negotiated with employers about pay rates, hours of work and working conditions, such as holidays, sick pay and safety condition.

The use of Union:
1) Fair pay
2) Fair working conditions
3) A voice for working people
4) Entitlements
5) Safe & Healthy
6) workplace
7) Equal of Opportunity

Some extra information:
1) 330000 Union workers
2) 51% women
3) Selfemployee cannot join a Union because himself is boss
4) Any worker cannot go on strike if they are angry with boss

About me

Hello, everybody.

My name is Chen Ye. I was bron in 1982, and I come from Hangzhou in China which is a very beautiful city. The city's most famous site is the West Lake, which I have attached behind. I am the only child in my family. I graduated from Zhejiang Gongshang university in 2005, my major was computer programing. I was working in an international trade company before I came to New Zealand, and I was in the export department.

English is very important in my job, because most of my clients are British and American. So my company sent me here to improve my English for 1 year. This is my second semester, and I will go back to China to return to my work in July 2007. I hope desperately to improve my speaking and listening very much, because I need to communicate with my clients frequently.

I used to travel to south island last year, this picture was taken from a private house in sotuth island.