About cartoon

            Here, I would tell something new about cartoon which is not included in my oral report because of time.

     As we all know, cartoon is for children in kindergarten and primary schools. However, this is  really old idea, cause everything is made for money. Cartoon making company still need money to make new works.So it need to fit the people, the teenages and adults,  who have money and could use it on the comic and its side productions. So this is my first point about my suggestion to the comic business--the customers. What is more,because  there is much presure among today's society so we need something to release our stress and cartoon is the best thing which can call back our childhood's memory to let our mind have rest. Besides this, it takes less time thanother relaxing activitiesso that we do not have to misss our work. So, we  can see what a big market it is , if we plus the number of stressful white-collars in the world.

     The next part I want to talk about is the writers. Of course they are trying their best to make the readers happier and earn more money. However , they ignore one problem , which is very important , is that they need to communicate with the ideas of chidren and what are they think about. The world is changing, so our knowledge is changing, especially the chidren, teenagers, and those youth.  They are  young so it is qiute easy and quick for them to get new ideas. So to be a good and welcoming writer, he need to add some elements which relate to today's word. Some people say that Chinese cartoons' failture is because they always want to teach the audients, but I do not think so. Why do writer write stories? It is because they wat pass thgeir ideas to us, which can let us know something new. For example, we can feel the love between father and son in"Find Nemo"(Disneyland, 2003).We can see the pollution of the river in "Spirit away"(Studio Ghibli 2001) and the appetite of man in"Castle in the Sky"(Studio Ghibli, 1986). So it is not a problem. The problem is that the idea should be compound ed with the story, which need the audients to notice it by themselves. It also a satisfactory thing if we can learn something new after we finish a film.

         Finally, in my opinion, Chiness companies should not have such a high speed to produce a cartoon. Whether a company can make money depends on if the work attracts customer. If you only make a lot  low quantity films and TV series, they will only waste your money and let the public lose interest in your cartoon. However , if you use a long time to make a good one, you will surely get your money back. What is more, you have get the fans' interest and they will support your next work. Besides this , you will also attract some investers' attention  who are likely to give you money and make the company bigger. There are many good examples, such as "Star Stealling Girl", "The Lotus Light","Qin's Moon",and so on.

         This is my summary about cartoon.I really like them and wish that there will more and more good works.

I have a dream!! (Blog writing 2)

    I have a dream that one day my son and his American friends could communicate with each other in Chinese, naturally and happily.

    I have a dream that one day everyone is born to be capable of speaking Chinese.

    I have a dream that one day my son can proudly tell his son:’ you no longer need study English.’

    But when I woke up to the joy of getting rid of English, I found it was high time that I went to CELC learning English. Despite the fact that in recent times, English act as a common language for people across the globe to speak, it cannot cover its inherent drawbacks which may greatly contribute to its failure as compared to Chinese.
     One of its fatal weaknesses is that for each new object, it must create a new word which none know its meaning except its creator. Take ‘altostratus’ for example. It means a layer of flat cloud, lying at medium height, or one of the clouds which form this layer. Few people exactly know this word’s meaning unless they are atmosphere professionals. On the contrary, even third-graders in China know the meaning of its equivalent in Chinese, regardless of their age or major. (in fact, they have no majors).
     In addition to the previous point, English also has a bulky grammar system which made it not only a tough job for language learners to gain a clear idea but also hard for native speakers to use freely. For instance, it has 16 tenses, a wide array of moods and different shapes for a word. They serve as endless traps waiting for us to fall in and make us extremely confused. However, Chinese neither has tenses nor moods. Nouns need not add a ‘tail (end)’, either. Due to this, Chinese is more human friendly than English.
    The third point, which few people have ever noticed, is that Chinese does much less harm to the environment. It is allegedly the fact that each time Chinese officials attend conferences at UN, they always consume the least time to deliver a speech and the least paper to put their notes down. Few other countries have done as well as China in terms of this. Compared to other languages, Chinese is incontestably the most efficient and environment friendly one.
    All in all, Chinese exceed English in many aspects. However, dream is enjoying; life is suffering. Now that it is an irresistible trend towards the universal popularity of English, it is not our turn to make a choice between English and Chinese. The only thing we can do at present is study English hard and have a promising future.
Thanks for your honored patience to finish it. Have a good day!

Blog 3 A short love story

One day, a grand, brilliant ball was held at the palace to celebrate the victory of the war. The prince came around to toast everyone, and enjoy happiness with all people. A pretty, young girl took part in it, she was just like a Cinderella whose dress was simple and austerely elegant. Once the prince caught a glimpse of her, he was mesmerized by her natural beauty and elegant manners. But the prince was sober because he was aware that he couldn’t judge a woman only by her appearance. He approached the lady and greeted her with a friendly smile. When greeted by the prince, banal( mundane) girls would desperately come near the prince and glorify him with all kinds of beautiful compliments. However, the girl just replied with a smile and behaved herself in a neither cringing nor arrogant way. This behavior made herself highly esteemed by the prince and he couldn’t help feeling affection for her. However, he didn’t want to engage with a girl he didn’t know much. He began to send the girl various gifts and wrote letters to make friends with her. Though deeply falling in love, they never referred to anything about marriage, since both of them were extremely prudent towards the choice they would make. On reflect, the prince made his mind to make a final decision. He went to the girl’s house alone, and knocked the door. The door opened, out came the graceful girl. The prince handed an envelope to her and promised, “ Marry me , and your family will be the richest one in this town.” The girl shook her hand and signed, “I’m so disappointed that I would not accept. The only true gift is a portion of yourself.” After saying this word she intent to send the envelope back to the prince and closed the door. “Open it.” The prince said. She grinned for his silly behavior and opened the envelope. There was a letter in it. She read carefully, in case of missing any single word. “Accept, farewell; Refuse, …”

No sooner had she read through the line did the prince kneeled down and put his hand on his heart, saying, “I love you.”

They hugged each other tightly for the first time.

My First Taste of Esplanade

   This Sunday, I together with teachers and classmates went to Esplanade, which is the internationally famous theatre, for a concert. And I find myself fascinated and enjoyable in it.

  

  Before I went to concert, I doubted whether I can enjoy the concert, for I had not seen such a grand symphony before. But Ms Angelina persuaded me to be confident, “Everything begins with the first time. You shouldn’t lose confidence when you even have not tried it. As the concert in Esplanade is very elegant, this experience is precious. If someone asked you if you have seen a symphony concert in the future, you can confidently say yes.” Yes, as a student, I should not only be surrounded by study, but also art.

   After I sat down in the theatre, I was circled by the gracious atmosphere and appreciated the elegant environment. And when the music began, although I was not quite understand music, following the rhythm I found I enjoying it very much. Various songs from America, Japan, Korea, etc, were displayed, which led me to a international music journey.Different from pop-music which I hear everyday, symphony is more pure and elegant which feels smooth and natural.When the concert came to an end, we all applaused loudly to show respect to symphonic orchestra.

      My first taste of Esplanade is enjoyable and fascinated. I really want to have a second taste in the future! I will continue my journey of music! 

   

  

  

Reading Journal

        I think I was successful after using the three tips. Because I read the three passages faster and faster than before and could understand the main idea and the details more thoroughly. I always read the article word by word , which turns out to be very slow and I had to look up every unknown vocabulary. But the technique told me to preview the passage first and it was really effective. Because by the previewing, I knew what the author was talking about and I could guess some of the details. After the skimming, I would have questions about how things came up and how will people solve. Because I knew the maiNidea of the passage, I knew where I should concentrate on in the nextr stage--clustle. What is more, I could guess some words ' meaning because I knew the story and I could imagine what kind of emotion the writer would have so that I would knew what meanings of words the author would use. So, in my opinion, ythe second tip is the best for me.

Reading Strategies （blog：3）

       Today, we learned three strategies for reading fast. They are preview, skim and cluster. When I started to learn English, I always read an article word by word. And this method doesn't work anymore because I am going to step into the university. By then, I have to handle a demanding academic reading load, so it is important to build up my reading rate.


        In fact, I have been using these three reading techniques since I was in middle school. They do improve my reading ability. And among the three strategies, I prefer preview to skim and cluster. Not only does it cost a little time, but build the structure of the whole passage in my mind, so I can have a good understanding of the article.


        Different people have a different preference. So you just need to choose the one that is most suitable for you.

Blog 2 Apply the reading techniques

Not only the exciting stories but also the improvement of reading skills makes reading lessons attractive. Last Tuesday, we did a lot of reading about tales of the sea. More importantly, we learned about the three reading strategy, namely preview, skim and cluster, which help to build reading speed.
During the reading lesson, I was surprised to find that I can read more words when I applied the techniques. At first, I thought it was because I have read part one before lessons. However, when my speed increased in the following parts, I was quite amazed.

According to my experience, skimming is the most efficient way to comprehend the main events while clustering may be most useful to understand most sentences. As for previewing, it provides me with an outline of a story, but I may not be accurate all the time.

As an elementary English learner, it is fairly miserable for me to work out all the new words in a passage, especially when they appear more than twice in a line. After the reading lesson, I am convinced that it will make a difference to my reading skills. What is more, I still regard vocabulary as the most significant. Anyway, it is better to know more words in a passage!