Monday, 8 September 2008
Infinitive - grammar practice
There are 10 exercises, and I got 8 correct answers.
http://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/gerund_
infinitive_ex.html
Two mistake that I have made:
1)Peter was delighted to meet a former colleague at the conference.
2)A lot of people dislike driving at night.
Victoria and Albert Museum
One day, Debbie with me went to Victoria and Albert Museum, due to the Jewellery exhibition. It is the first museum that I have been to in London. The decoration is quite spectacular, and the style is Art Nouveau-an art term began in 18 century, and arrived the peak between 1890 to 1910. The hall on the ground floor is decorated with lots of sculptures and ceramic tiles with plant pattern. With regard to Jewellery exhibition, it included all the art terms, such as Baroque, Art Deco, as well as Contemporary Jewellery. Over 1,000 creations are performed in this exhibition. Unfortunately, it is not allowed to take pictures.
I am interested in the Contemporary Jewellery, even some of them are not understandable. Due to the technologies, the performance of creations are variable. The most special technique is aluminum dyeing- a difficult technique to use color on aluminum.
Modals verb
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/2004/u6/pg135ex2modals.htm
1)Judging from the attitude and examples used, this article might have been (was) written by a democrat.
2)It might be (is) wise to spend more time working out our needs before conducting the survey.
3)The audience might not have been (was not) aware of the mistake we made during the performance.
4)Our formula can be (is) taken as a new measure to evaluate the existing models.
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Grammer Exercise~Verb Patterns
http://www.learn-english-today.com/wordgames/hotpot-quizzes/
verb-patterns1.html
1)Tom reminded her to come home early.
2)The marketing director avoided meeting him.
Assignment-Globalization
Summarize the main effects of globalization and discuss to what extent they are beneficial to design industry
International integration has become one of the most important aspects in the world. According to BBC news (2007), globalization has taken a key role and has been an unprecedented increased in prosperity in the last five decades, which is spring up from the United States and Europe to many other developing countries in Asia, such as China and India. The influences of globalization widely include economy, environment, communication, and culture. With regard to the design world, some people argue that the development of communication technology has resulted in culture impact making the world more homogenous (Hansen.M, 2001), and even affects design industry. The trends of design, not only have influence in one area, but also in the whole world. In this essay, I would like to look at previous research on the effects of globalization on economic aspect. Moreover, to what extent globalization is beneficial to my subject - design, will be considered.
Nowadays, international integration is changing the rules of human life. The combination of Sweden IKEA furniture, the Germany BMW car, and decoration with British BURBBERY is one of the multicultural life-style. Among the culture communication, more and more originality are encouraged and enrich the source of design. However, it is considerable that how designers improve their skills of creative working, in order to increase the value of products. In the high competition environment, only improving the uniqueness and the quality of products, the power of brands will be strengthened. As well as the policy improvement, the government in UK, also other countries are working hardly to advance culture and design industries, such as ‘The Good Design Plan’ of UK and ‘Developing- Culture Plan’ of Taiwan. At the same time of globalization, striving against the homogeneity is an important challenge. (1033 words)
Monday, 1 September 2008
Reporting Verbs
2)declare-to say something officially or publicly
3)demonstrate-to show something clearly by giving proof or evidence
4)pinpoint-to describe something exactly
5)cast doubt on -to think somebody is less honest
6)deny-to say that something is not true
7)assume-to think or accept that something is true but without having proof
8)presume-to suppose that something is true, although you don't have actual proof
9)reveal-to make something known to somebody