Assignment #5: How do you like ESL Randall's Cyber Listening Lab as a language learning resource?

My English is bad. Because I don't know how to learn English.

In the Taiwan. Many people like me have this problem, I think it is probably related with the learning environment. 

In our lives, We can hardly ready access to English.

At this time. ESL Randall's Cyber Listening Lab very helpful to us. 

This site has a lot of material to learn English, The most important is this site graded for difficulty level, This allows us to choose their own level of learning English, This is also the site where most attracted me.

Assignment #4: Two clips from Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

 1.Car Repairs

carburetor (noun): part of the engine that mixes air with gasoline vapor before combustion - The carburetor needs to be fixed or replaced.

alternator (noun): a generator that produces electrical current - There must be a problem with the alternator in my old truck.

outrageous (adjective): very expensive 
- The cost of repairing the old car would have been outrageous, so that I decided to buy a new one instead.

out-of-the-way (adjective): remote or far from populated areas - We took a trip to an out-of-the-way ghost town during our vacation.

cost an arm and a leg (idiom): be very expensive, outrageous - It cost me an arm and a leg to fix the damage to my sports car.


2.Housing Complaints

tenant (noun): occupant, resident, lessee- I have to talk to the tenant next door about his barking dog.

odor (noun): smell- Your dog has a real pungent odor. When was the last time you gave it a bath?

agriculture (noun); also agricultural (adjective): farming- The main livelihood of those in this region is agriculture.

resume (verb): continue, start again
- Classes will resume at the beginning of September.

exercises (noun): drills, maneuvers, activities, operations
- The fire department will carry out its emergency preparedness exercises later this week.

Assignment #3: Concordancer Exercise

粽子的英文

1.Dumplings
2.Rice dumplings
3.The dumplings
4.Zongzi