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Audio: View on Vocaroo >> Transcript: When there are electronics like mobile phone or computer, I will procrastinate very often. Because these electronics have “superpower” that we want to check it out. So, when I studied for school’s subject or reading books, I will check the mobile phone for something never heard on the book. After find out the introduction on Wikipedia, I will want to check out other things like someone, something, some where’s introduction on Wikipedia. And I lost my studied time. I think most of the people like my age’s will have it, too. To prevent procrastinating, I have the following ideas: Put the electronics at somewhere we can’t see it when studied. Or after finding on mobile phones, told to yourself: “Put your attention back to your book right now!” and you will realize the book is important than mobile phone, and put the phone away.

Video: Words: In this funny TED Talk, I've learned three new words: Thesis (n.)  論文 a long piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one that is done for a higher college or university degree Perplex (v.) 使困惑 to confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve dormant (adj.)  休眠的 Something that is dormant is not active or growing but has the ability to be active at a later time. Summarize of the talk The speaker is an blogger, talking about procrastinate. He share a story when he is in college, which he is procrastinate at doing things. Then he use drawing to showed our brain has an "Instant Gratification Monkey", will interrupted the mind, let you doing unnecessary things, and reduce your  efficient .

Video: In this motivated speech, I've learned 5 new words: Decimal 小數 a number expressed using a system of counting based on the number ten Parallelogram Parallelogram  平行四邊形 a flat shape that has four sides. The two sets of opposite sides are parallel and of equal length to each other. Rookie  新手；菜鳥 a person who is new to an organization or an activity Grit   勇氣，毅力 courage  and  determination   despite   difficulty Ethic   行爲準則； 道德規 範 a  system  of  accepted   beliefs  that  control   behaviour ,  especially  such a  system   based  on  morals Introduce the talk: The speaker, a psychologist, was a teacher in school. After the rich experience in education, she discover "Grid" is the most important thing to success. Wh...

Introduction: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XUjA6d_iwU2Z75_ralvjm_VyW6n3T9L2/view?usp=sharing Video: Handout: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6min/191010_6min_english_lie_detecting.pdf

(A) Do you have a smart speaker at home? Yes, there have one in my home. As the picture below. It's Amazon's Echo, a smart speaker  developed by   Amazon . When my father bought this device via my family member lived in the USA, he wished his kids could use it to improved their English. But I don't think this device would be useful in my home. Because lots of Amazon's services aren't available in Taiwan. Until now, we only use Echo to listen the ICRT online radio. (B) What is a smart speaker? You can r efered to the following picture, it seems no different with the regular one. But smart speaker has an important featured: With  virtual assistant. (C) How does a smart speaker work?  Just like Siri, Google assistant in your smartphone. This invisible agent in the speaker can help what you want for help. You can ask: reminds me for shopping, set the alarm, tell me the personal schedule today, even help you feel happy with the joke or the song. ...

In the podcast, the host has mentioned a future transportation conception, called "Hyperloop One". I had heared this name few years ago, thought this idea is very amazing. A land transportation can run faster, and cost cheaper (buiding cost, the first presenter of the conception said) than airplane. Though it sounds beautiful, I think that will have many ten years to make it popularize. For example, Maglev train, the japanese one is still in experiment. The only Maglev train runs in operation is in Shanghai, China. And the second question is the public can accept the new transportation or not. In a class at NTUB last year, I heared the teacher said: "Our (Taiwan's) High Speed Rail must starts from Keelung to Kenting, not just from  Nangang to Zuoying. Because after the tourists got off the ship in Keelung, they can get more fluent to their destination." And now, the central government are discussing the  issue about extending the HSR route to Pingtung. Both i...