EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 6 3/3

unfortunately, my wisdom tooth are growing these day; therefore, I got a swollen gums, and I do not wanna speak and eat.  I always think the pain which is from mouth is most painful.  Because of my tooth, I lose my enthusiasm to do everything, and I have a lot of homework to do.  In Canada, it is very important that to have a treat with a dentist.  If you only want to wash your teeth, you may will be charged for 200 dollars around.  If I want to extract my teeth, the price is more higher.  As a result, I choose to bear the pain.  Yesterday and today, I cannot eat food well even just open my mouth. Now, I am really
crazy about this and really can not stand it.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 6 2/3

When I first saw this movie called Forrest Gump, I didn't appreciate it like I do now. Because I was so young that I didn't get the main idea when I first saw it. Just recently I saw the movie again, and I feel like that this movie teaches me so much about life and the meaning of it. That life isn't as bad as most people feel. Forrest Gump, the innocent man can impact so many lives with his innocence. The meaning of the movie to me is that everyone needs to have a better outlook on life. That we need to appreciate more of the little things and not let the big things hold us back. Although life may throw us trials and tribulations like a box of chocolates, we just have to bite into it and get through it even if we don't like it. I just love this movie. It is truly amazing for me.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 6 1/3

Now, EAP 145 is past half, and I want to say somethings here.  For listening, I think there are some vocabularies that I do not know so that I cannot spell them while I am listening.  I need to memory more vocabularies to improve my listening and taking notes skills.  For reading, I assert I should accelerate the speed of reading because I always feel that the time is not enough.  What is more, I need to find answers more quickly and correctly.  For speaking, I need to practice my pronunciation more.  Then, writing, the most important part, I have some difficulties.  In writing, every student should get 35 points out of 50.  I think it is a challenge.  To get 35 in writing, a good thesis statement, clear position, and strong citation are needed.  For me, I need to practice more.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 5 3/3

Today, I finished my presentation.  My topic of presentation is "Is plastic surgery superficial?".  To be honest, it is difficult to brainstorm some ideas at the beginning because I believe that plastic surgery is superficial.  And superficial is not the same as good or not good question.  For superficial question, students should not just give some advantages or disadvantages of plastic surgery.  I search a number of information online, and I find that it is more easier to illustrate that plastic surgery is not superficial because I can find more ideas.  In my presentation, there are three main points that I have demonstrated such as plastic surgery can prevent and cure some diseases, change people's future, and give the same change that people to compete.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 5 2/3

Two days ago, I went to my best friend's birthday party, and that experience for me is unforgettable. At the beginning, some of his friends decided to make a surprise for my best friend; therefore, we started to make our special gift.  It was a horrible moppet with a sound recorder inside. We had made some weird voices before we put it in, and after that, the moppet was dressed up and covered by a old box.  All in all, we just wanted to scared him.  When the night was coming, we gave this box to him, and told him the mystery of that gift.  He was a little bit threaten by us, and after he listened the sound of that moppet, he shouted like a child.  We couldn't believe that he was truly frightened by us, and that made us laugh at him for the whole day; however, we added some wishes for him at the end of that voices.  He was finally moved by us.  After that day, I realized the importance of our friendship, and I will value it in the future.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 5 1/3

This week is week 5, which means I finish half of EAP 145.  In EAP 145, I think the most difficult thing is to get 35 in essay.  In EAP 145, the style of our essay is agree or disagree.  In terms of agree or disagree essay, students should give good thesis statement, and position.  Position means what is your opinion, students should give their own idea.  For example, if the topic is "Are cellphones dangerous?", in the first paragraph, students should give their own point clearly.  What is more, EAP 145 more concentrate on APA style.  In the past, if students want to use citation, they just need to say "Author's name (year) states" while students need to write "Author's name (year) stated".  In EAP 140, students only just use 2~3 different APA style such as website,pdf,and journal while in EAP 145, there are a number of style that students should learn.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 4 3/3

Today, we had a presentation in our classes, and class had an excited discussions.  For today presentation's topic, I assert two of them is not good.  For instance, Is drinking milk good for you?  For this topic, I think the answer is obvious.  Drinking milk is good for human body because milk can provide protein which can strength human bone and teeth.  It is very difficult to say a food is good or not because different people have different choice.  People have right to choose what kind of food they should eat or not.  Except drinking milk, another topic is also not very good such as Are fast food companies bad?  It is no doubt that fast food companies bring convenience to human life and provide cheaper food for costumers even if fast food is not healthy enough.  It is useless to talk about fast food companies are good or bad because they just provide food.  The right of choosing what to eat is owned by consumers.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 4 2/3

Last Saturday, I went to the Chinese night market which located in Richmond. I heard from many of my friends that this night market is one of the best event during Vancouver's summer, and that makes me quite interested to join this activity.  As soon as I went there, I was deeply affected by the surrounding atmosphere. Plenty of the goods and customers make the night market lively, and people couldn't avoid the noises from anywhere. I didn't spend too much time on shopping because they were actually too expensive for me;however, I couldn't miss the attractive snacks because of their savory smells.  I used all my money on tasting different kinds of food, and that makes me feel satisfactory.  At the end of that day, I met one of my Japanese friend. She told me she loves that night market and after chatting a while, we agreed on going the night market together next time.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 4 1/3

Yesterday, I went to karaoke and had a dinner with my EAP 145 classmates.  In Friday, after we finished our class, Miss Cindy suggested that students should go to karaoke together.  I hesitated for few mustiness because I wanted go back home and had a sleep.  Finally, I decided to go to the karaoke.  Then, we took skytrain to Metrotown and 106 bus to K-mix karaoke.  Me, zhaobo, cindy, max, chiyu, and my friend who is a student in EAP 140. We sang a lot of different language songs like Chinese, English, Japanese  and Korean songs.  In our group, the best singer is Max.(So ask him to sing a song in class)  After singing karaoke, we went to mongolian hot pot which is in metrotown.  Our 13 people sit together and ate hot pot together.  We talked about interesting things what happen around us.  I assert that we not only can entertain, but also strength our relationship.  It is really fun.  Finally, we went to home around 10:30 P.M., and everyone thought it is wonderful.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 3 3/3

Today, I went to Granville Island because my friends ask me to Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and it is my first time to granville island.  Firstly, we took no.50 bus and got off at granville island.  When we got off the car, I saw a big bridge (OK, not very big) connect with granville island and Vancouver land.  I try my best to look through all landscape here.  I found there are a number of houseboats in granville island.  Many shops sell various souvenirs to visitors.  Then, we found Emily Carr university of Art + Design, and it really surprised me.  I really cannot believe this university just only 2 teaching buildings.  However, the appearance of these teaching building is really artistic.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 3 2/3

Today, I finished my first practice test in EAP 145, and I want to talk about something.  This time, the topic of our practice is meat diet or vegetarian diet.  In the present, increasingly people are like to have a vegetarian diet because they think keep eating vegetables can help them keep health.  For my opinion, eat more vegetables really can help people to keep health and reduce the rate of getting cancer; however, vegetables cannot replace meat completely.  In terms of meat, there are some nutrition that vegetables cannot provide.  What is more, in Chinese culture, people should keep a balance in their body, which means they cannot only eat vegetables only. For this test, I finished my essay in time, and I assert that time for reading is enough.  For listening, I think it is not very difficult but the speed is too fast.

EAP 145 - HU, Weili - Week 3 1/3

Today, I went to the movies with chiyu, max, zhaobo, and cindy, and we watched the movie called "after earth".  The movie talks about human beings destroyed earth, and they have to move to another plant.  1000 years later, a boy called Kitai Raige and his father Cypher Raige land on the earth because an accident.  Raige and his father survived, and Cypher Raige's leg has broken.  Therefore, a boy needs to find the ruins of their plant, and send signals.  However, there are a number of unknown animals which have evolved and weather which changes frequently.  A boy fights with chimpanzees, tigers, and alien which is from other planet.  And 1000 years later, the earth's atmosphere has changed a lot, and every 10 hours, the temperature of earth will decrease to subzero.  Facing of these difficulties, boy sends signal to home and come back with father.