My writing class

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Charts

There are 4 main spoken languages in Taiwan, Taiwanese and Chinese make up 70% of total spoken languages.

English constitutes 15 % of total spoken language.
Taiwanese constitutes 31% of total spoken language.
Chinese constitutes 39% of total spoken language.
other constitutes 15% of total spoken language.
Chinese is the most common spoken language in Taiwan

Comparing the different pieces of a pit chart:
Taiwanese language is almost as much as Chinese spoken in Taiwan.
Nearly half as much English language as Taiwanese language is spoken in Taiwan.

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More severe petrol shortages in Iraq
This is a petrol station in central Baghdad and as far as I can see along the street outside, there are cars lined up waiting for fuel. There are literally hundreds, their owners hoping the petrol won't run out before it's their turn. Fuel shortages have become a fact of life for Iraqis since the US and British invasion despite their country's vast oil reserves.
But the situation has got a lot worse in the past month or so. Many people now start queuing the night before. It's also dangerous. As the queues have grown they've become a magnet for insurgent attacks. There were two bombings aimed at petrol queues on Sunday with at least ten people killed and injured. With electricity as unreliable as ever, people need fuel not just for cars but generators at home, essential to power air conditioners to cope with the rising summer heat.
But petrol supplies into the capital have been badly disrupted, the government says, by recent attacks on several key bridges. Extra army checkpoints set up to prevent more such bombings have made things worse with many fuel trucks not being allowed through. Supplies are still getting through to the black market though, where petrol is more than double the price.

This is a petrol station in central Baghdad; there are really hundreds of cars queuing up along the street outside waiting for petrol. The car owners hoping the petrol won't be finished before they can add petrol. Since US and UK invade Iraq, the shortage of fuel become a fact of life, even though Iraqis have plenty of oil reserves.
In the past month even longer, the situation has got a lot worse. Many people now start queuing the night before. It's also dangerous. Because of the long queues, they've become an attraction for insurgent attacks. There were two bombings aimed at petrol queues on Sunday with at least ten people killed and injured. With electricity as unreliable as ever, people need fuel not just for cars but generators at home, essential to power air conditioners to deal with the rising summer heat.
But the petrol is very difficult to get through to the capital been a long time, the government says, by recent attacks on several key bridges. Extra army checkpoints set up to prevent more such bombings have made things worse with many fuel trucks not being allowed through. Supplies are still getting through to the black market though, where petrol is more than double the price.

Summaries
Because of the war, US and UK invade to Iraq, makes them lack of petrol. Then it makes the petrol price much higher then normal price. More then that, because lack of petrol, makes them queuing over night just for one barrel of petrol, even though it attracts the insurgent to seize.

classification

Base upon the topic, I am going to study, “How to overcome language study barrier” the language barrier my can be classified according to input and output barrier. That is the basic of language skills you have to learn, also it is the basic way you learn a language.
But what is input barrier? Input barriers can be sub-divided into reading and listening problems. Also, output barriers can be sub-divided into speaking and writing problems. Back to the input problems, most of learners, they do not know what does the importance of input, so they ignore it all the time or try to skip it. Basically, most reading problem is because they lack of vocabulary, so it makes them do not understand what is the meaning of articles, or misunderstanding. Then listening problem is caused by lack of practice of English, most of student they do not used to listen English program, or can not ignore subtitle when thy watch foreign films. Above two problems affect the next step, speaking and writing, output barrier.
Under output skills, there are speaking and writing, two kinds of skills. A lot of students, they have speaking problem, that is because they do not used to express their idea, especially in foreign language. So even they overcome the input barrier, become a good reader and listener, they still hard to speak out, lack of confidence.
After all of those problems, the last and final problem, writing. I believe most of language learners have experience the problem before. That is because writing is not easy as speaking. You have to care a lot of grammar, vocabulary, structure problems. Once you overcome all of them, you just can write a good composition, or make clear point, to let reader to understand. So that is the field we try to study, we still work on it, hope one day we can find a good way to learn languages, and help our-self as well.