2007/12/31

Reflective Statement


Time is flying. Winter vacation is coming soon. I have studied in English department in NCU for four months already. It’s just like a dream. But in these four months I have learned so many things and lived a really different life from before.
Because of the English class, I have read much more news from the Internet and newspaper than ever before. I think reading is a very important part in learning English. Especially reading the news from U.S.A. and U.K.’s media is more effective. Maybe at first I think reading the news in a foreign language is difficult and annoyed, but now I know it is necessary and it really helps me to improve my English a lot. Teachers also taught us how to write the news summary well. The news is so long and hard to realize, but we have to use our own sentences, instead of copying the words to make the readers know what the news is talking about. It is not an easy job, but if we want to use and write the English well, we must try hard. To know more about the news and write a good summary, I always discuss the articles with my friends and roommates together in our dorm. I believe working in group and sharing the opinions can make us learn English efficiently. Sometimes I often ask my friends to help me to check my essays. Because the essays are written by my own, I can’t find the mistakes easily. They would also give me some advices, I think it really helps. To me, it’s so happy and exciting to have the opportunity to use the blog to write down my English articles. I hadn’t written things in English on blog ever before, so this time, it is a good chance that I should seize tightly. I consider putting English and technology together is an inevitable and essential way in our life. We have to adapt it quickly and after that we can acquire more things from it easily.
I am in the end of my first semester in college now. I know I still have three more years to spend in there, so I will try my best to study and improve my English well. I believe there are still many treasures waiting me to explore in NCU.

2007/12/03

News Summary 4

Summary 4 transcriptions
Article: Tiffany and eBay in Fight over Fakes
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/technology/27ebay.html?_r=1&n=Top/News/Business/Companies/eBay%20Inc.&oref=slogin

Group members: Evance
Vickie
Judy
Seven

S: Hello, Judy. Could you tell me what does this article talk about?
J: Yeah, of course. It is about Tiffany & Company has accused eBay of being a distribution network to trade the counterfeit Tiffany productions.
J: Seven, do you know how does Tiffany want eBay to estimate the counterfeit items in trade?
S: Ha! Ha! It is a simple question to me. It is said that Tiffany asked for a demand, which could force eBay to do many differences on producing Tiffany’s fake, such as silver ornament.
S: Here is a tough question for you guys. Please tell me whether you for or against about Tiffany’s charging eBay with sharing phony in the auction.
J: I thought the charging is really difficult to eBay. Because as a marketplace, it is hard to know where the goods that the sellers wants to sell in the auction come from.
J: But do you know why Tiffany thinks eBay’s action has copyright infringement?
S: I think it originates from making profits.
S: Say Judy, could you tell me what did you learn from the article?
J: Right, I know Tiffany is very angry about that many people have sold the counterfeit products of its brand on eBay. But the cyberspace is too big to find who has the illegal trade. So I think it is a hard work for eBay to satisfy Tiffany’s request.
J: Hey, seven, tell me about what's your thought after reading this news?
S: I think that it is a little hard for Tiffany to request eBay set a strict regulation controlling its member’s trade. Since the Internet is a tremendous space, I don’t believe that anyone can keep an eye on others behavior.