Outstanding Student Recognition for the month of July, 2010

[OoSoOSwtJenna]

First, we would like to congratulate pinpon194, elearner, and andyngo for winning July's "Outstanding Student" recognition. Below are your certificates for an outstanding job. You can download the file by clicking on the link next to the name. Second, thank you to all the donors and ESE staff for conducting a fantastic successful event. For more information on upcoming event, please visit http://facebook.com/EnglishSharingExperience .




[pinpon194, click here to download your certificate]




[elearner, click here to download your certificate]




[Andy, click here to download your certificate]

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Participants scoreboard

Pinpon194: 13 points; eleaner: 12 points; andyngo: 9 points; Pe_u287: 8 points; Jokymoon: 8 points; Chieutim_nhoanh: 7 points; SauRiengCaiMon: 5 points; asmallwave: 4 points; phansteel: 4 points; pe iu oi : 3 points; Myhoneygemini: 2 points; capuchino_3690: 2 points; prettyboy_prettyboy059: 2 points; chucuoigia_1: 2 points; nhinho85: 1point.

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Dailynews- Questions

Question 1 (Doctor Zhivago): Read the passage (4 points)

This was the most disreputable part of Moscow—slums, cheap bars frequented by cabmen, whole streets devoted to vice, dens of “fallen women.”
The children were not surprised by the dirt in the rooms, the bedbugs, and the wretchedness of the furniture. Since their father’s death their mother had lived in constant fear of destitution.

Question 2 ( Doctor Zhivago): Pronunciation, part of speech and definition (6 points)

This was the most disreputable? part of Moscow—slums, cheap bars frequented? by cabmen, whole streets devoted to vice?, dens of “fallen women.”
The children were not surprised by the dirt in the rooms, the bedbugs, and the wretchedness? of the furniture. Since their father’s death their mother had lived in constant fear of destitution.?


Question 3 (Doctor Zhivago): Part of speech (4 pts)

All the same, these were troubled times? and she was afraid? to think of the future?; she had moments of paralyzing?despair.

Answer:

Troubled (adj) times (n)
Afraid (adj)
Future (n)
Paralyzing (adj) despair (n)

Question 4 (Doctor Zhivago): Read the passage

She must stop all this nonsense. Once and for all. Stop playing at being shy, simpering and lowering her eyes—or it would end in disaster. There loomed an imperceptible, a terrifying border-line. One step and you would be hurtled into an abyss.

Question 5 (Doctor Zhivago): Pronunciation, part of speech, definition, translation (6 points)

She must stop all this nonsense?. Once and for all. Stop playing at being shy, simpering and lowering her eyes—or it would end in disaster. There loomed? an imperceptible,? a terrifying border-line. One step and you would be hurtled? into an abyss.?

Question 6 (Doctor Zhivago): Read the passage (3 points)

But Antipov was only pretending that he was asleep. As so often recently, he had insomnia. He knew that he would lie awake for three or four hours. To walk himself to sleep, and to escape from the still smoky air of the room, he got up quietly, put on his fur coat and cap over his night clothes, and went outside.

Bonus point (1 pt): Definition of insomnia


Question 7 (Doctor Zhivago): Read the passage, intonation, and translation (5 points)

Lara wailed like a peasant woman and, grabbing Pasha’s hands, threw herself at his feet. “Pasha, Pashenka,” she screamed, “don’t leave us. Don’t do it, don’t. It isn’t too late, I’ll see to everything. You haven’t even had a proper medical examination, and with your heart ... You’re ashamed to change your mind? And aren’t you ashamed to sacrifice your family to some crazy notion?

Question 8: Speaking skill

(TED lecture: Modern sex slavery by Sunitha Krishan)

In sharing her humanitarian work concerning the modern sex trade, Sunitha Krishan pointed out her major problem with civil society and how social perception toward these rescued victims make it difficult to regain a normal life. Please cite what is the major problem and elaborate on what is the social stigma toward these victims?
(6 points)

Spell that word from previous Spelling Bee
(1 pt for spelling, 1 point part of speech, 1 point for definition)

Representation
Confluence
Convene
Accessible
Resolution
Adamant
Flexible
Convention
Zenith
Prototypical
Agile
Arouse
Allocate
Recession
Alias
Impurity
Routine
Hypothesis
Sprout
Authentic
Transparent
Metropolis
Circumstances
Candidate
Instability
Fraud
Exaggerated
Jubilant
Affluent

From ESE Vocabulary List
(1 pt for spelling, 1 point part of speech, 1 point for definition)

Envision
Unison
Recondition
Sentimental
Reveal
Scatter
Envious
Stillness
Contemporary
Compulsion
Speculate
Confer
Leisure
Unprecedented
Derive
Propagate
Culminate
Devise
Advancement
Microcosm
Promote
Bravery
Essential
Puzzling


Sevenn Uppp's Idiom Questions
1. Armed to the teeth
a. To brush your teeth before bedtime.
b. To be heavily armed.
c. To make movement with your arm while brushing your teeth.

2. Blow off some steam
a. To Fan away hot air steam.
b. To enjoy oneself by relaxing normal formalities.
c. The boilers contain water which creates steam.

3. Brand Spanking New
a. New and Unused.
b. A brand new clothing line.
c. Brand new car without Gas or Oil.

4. Clean bill of health
a. A doctor bill
b. Health Care new law
c. To be found healthy

5. Clear as a bell
a. Clearly understood
b. The sound of a bell
c. The sound of a church bell

6. Cold turkey
a. A frozen turkey
b. A winter turkey
c. To quit something abruptly

7. Dead as door nail
a. To nail a door
b. To nail the coffin shut
c. To be dead, with no chance for recovery

8. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched
a. Do not count your chicken until all eggs are hatched.
b. Do not assume all of your eggs will be hatched.
c. Don't be overconfident and assume before you know the outcome of a venture.

9. Down the hatch
a. To jump down into the tunnel
b. To slide down
c. Drink or eat

10. Down to the wire
a. To climb down the wall
b. To swing up and down with steel cable wirer.
c. Undecided until the end, at the last minute

11. Eyes are bigger than your stomach
a. When a person wants more than is good for them
b. Eagle eyes are much better than human
c. Bigger eyes mean bigger stomach

12. Face the music
a. To accept the truth
b. To listen to music
c. To look and listening to music

13. Smell a rat
a. Something is definitely wrong
b. A dead rat
c. To be afraid

14. Straight from the horse’s mouth
a. Horses breathe
b. From a very reliable source
c. TV show of a talking horse’s (Mr. Ed)

15. Cat got your tongue
a. How cat drink water
b. Keeping quite
c. Cat tongue is longer than dog tongue

16. Pay through the nose
a. To sneeze
b. Getting your nose fixed
c. Paying such a high price

17. Shoot off one’s mouth
a. Talk as if he knew everything
b. Spitting on someone face
c. Bad breathe

18. Playing it by ear
a. Listening to music
b. To listen before you answer
c. Not knowing what to expect

19. Not have a leg to stand on
a. Being handicap
b. To lie or hiding something
c. Without a strong foundation of facts

20. High and dry
a. Hot and humid
b. The higher you go the dryer the air be
c. Left someone alone to do all the work

21. Bend over backwards
a. How to exercise for your back
b. Tried very hard
c. To stretch your back

22. Jump the gun
a. Became hasty
b. To pull the trigger
c. To duck by the sound of a gun

23. Lost his shirt
a. Could not find his best shirt for the party
b. Lost his job
c. Lost a great deal of money

24. Money talk
a. To get a raise
b. To pay someone
c. Money has the power

25. Cost an arm and a leg
a. Very expensive
b. To be in a car accident
c. Very cheap

26. Hands are tied
a. To be in jail
b. Unable to do
c. To be kidnap

27. Burn the midnight oil
a. Work or study long hours at night
b. To leave the light on at night
c. Lights to be turn off at 12 am

28. Tie the knot
a. Get married
b. To tie the rope
c. Making a tight knot

29. Answer the call of nature
a. To save and protect our planet earth
b. Water and trees are made from mother’s nature
c. Go to the restroom

30. Horse around
a. Running very fast
b. Hopping like a horse
c. Aimlessly playing around

This last idiom is a BONUS point

A Walking encyclopedia
a. A sale man for a magazine
b. A book’s of information and translation
c. Someone who has knowledge of many languages
d. Someone who has a wide range of information and subjects


OoSoOSwtJenna's Spelling Questions
Q1 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. priveleged
2. privileged
3. priveliged

Q2 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. professionel
2. professional
3. proffessional

Q3. Which is the correct spelling?

1. necesary
2. neccessary
3. necessary

Q4 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. accomodation
2. acommodation
3. accommodation
4. accommedation

Q5 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. embarrasment
2. embarrasment
3. embarrassment
4. emberassment

Q6 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. changeable
2. changable
3. chengaeble

Q7 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. experience
2. expereince
3. eksperience

Q8 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. guarentee
2. guarantee
3. guarente

Q9 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. hyerarchy
2. higharchy
3. hierarchy
4. hierarchy

Q10 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. mellinnium
2. millenium
3. mellinnium
4. millennium

Q11 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. noticeable
2. noticable
3. notiable

Q12 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. parsaverance
2. perseverance
3. persavarance
4. persevarance

Q13 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. accidentally
2. accidently
3. acidentally

Q14 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. aquaintance
2. acquaintance
3. acquaintence

Q15 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. averege
2. avrage
3. average

Q16 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. amateur
2. amature
3. amateur

Q17 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. agression
2. aggresion
3. aggression

Q18 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. advizable
2. adviseable
3. addvisaeble
4. advisable

Q19 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. aknowladge
2. acknowledge
3. acknowlege
4. aknowledge

Q20 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. apparent
2. aparent
3. apparant

Q21 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. begininng
2. beginning
3. begining

Q22 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. amend
2. ammend
3. amand
4. amemend

Q23 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. acheve
2. ashieve
3. acheive
4. achieve

Q24 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. alege
2. allage
3. allege
4. allega

Q25 – Which is the correct spelling?

1. camouflage
2. camoflage
3. camoflague

m_la_m Questions for Ur_love Listening and Dictation class can be found [click here to view]