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#10 edX

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What is User Experience? UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN Mark W. Newman Associate Professor, School of Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To me, the most attracted point of using MOOCs is that you can choose the courses you like and change to others when you don’t like the professor. The another important point is that you can replay and adjust the speed to improve your learning efficiency. User Experience is the course I had been curious for a long time .Trough this opportunity, I can understand the basic concepts of UX and keep researching this aspect of courses in the future.

#8 TED Talk

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Every kid needs a champion | Rita Pierson Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that become the best that they can possibly be. – Rita Pierson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- self-esteem n.   All the people in the study had low self-esteem and had issues with their bodies. absent adj.  John has been absent from work for three days now. strut v.  Jackson strutted around on stage between songs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Among the period of being a student for eighteen years, we always discuss the good or bad a teacher is, but never think in the way that if we were the teacher, how should we improve students. I agree with the Rita Pierson’s opinion that school won’t teach you relationship which is such important. "Seeking first to understand, as opposed to...

#7 English song

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KODALINE hails from Dublin, band members Steve Garrigan and Mark Prendergast have known each other since childhood.  Years later, they began to share a love for music and at that stage Vinny May joined the group.  The group was not fully complete until January 2012,  bass player Jason Boland joined. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- love will set you free I'm sure you're probably busy getting on with your new life So far away from So far away from When everything we used to say was wrong is now alright Where has the time gone Where has the time gone (*)If you're ever feeling lonely If you're ever feeling down You should know you're not the only one cause i feel it with you now When the world is on your shoulders and you're falling to your knees Oh please, You know love will set you free I took a long and lonely w...

#6 ESL Cyber Listening Lab

Article: Just a haircut, please! trim v.  –  cut just a little off I have my hair  trimmed  every six weeks. adjustments n.  –   small changes or modifications  Moving to the city has been a difficult  adjustment  for us. voila int.  –  used when you are showing or telling someone something surprising ‘ Voilà !’ she said, producing a pair of white shoes. decent adj. –  nice, acceptable, proper     I want to provide my  boys with a  decent   education. prank   n.  –  a trick that is intended to be funny but not to cause harm or damage The  fire was started as a  prank . Longman Dictionary  

#5 Free Writing

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Before aliens attack the earth If the aliens really exist in the universe , what's the thing you want to do before they attack the earth? To me, there are so many places as wonderful as heaven on the earth. However, going on a trip around the world seems to be a difficult thing to a 21 years old student. Thus, I hope that I can travel around before aliens attack, so my travel goals includes the glacier in Iceland, Grand Canyon and   African  savannah , etc . In this way, I can die with no regrets when the world's going to the end. O r maybe aliens would have the arbitrary door to go anywhere I want? Tools:  1.  SkELL   2.  Linggle   3.  Google translate   4. Cambridge

#4 Collocation

Article :   Facebook boss apologises in UK and US newspaper ads apology n. owe + apology I think you  owe  an  apology   to Wesley . tighten v. tighten + up You can feel your stomach  tightening  up  in knots .   audit n. audit + carry The  audit  was  carried  out by African Conservation Centre. rely v. relying + on Stop   relying   on drugs to loose weight.   recommendation n. make + recommendation The report  made  25  recommendations  for the action.

#3 Collocation

Article :  The biography of Stephen Hawking Time  v. time + large Ten years later, the biggest database was around 100   times     larger . found  v. found + colony He   founded   the first colonies of Russian America. overcome  v. overcome + odd They have overcome the odds , on many levels. depressed  adj. depressed + area The stock market was a   depressed   area     again yesterday. Issue  n. issue + face The main  issues  facing a power engineer are reliability and cast.