Category Archives: Blog
Headlines as Framer of News Stories
- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Headlines frame News stories and direct our responses – are we really unbiased readers?
沙圓
- Tuesday, 13 September 2016
十年前一個秋日的傍晚，我在溫哥華島托菲諾附近的長灘閑步。長灘悠長寬闊，天水一線。遠外有幾個孩子在嘻笑跳躍，稍近有一對男女面朝大海相依而坐。慢慢地我朝海水走去。突然我被腳下的一件東西吸引。我定睛細看，再彎腰拾起。它是一塊潔白的石質圓盤，比我的手掌還大。一面刻著五朵花瓣，另一面雕著細嫩的枝葉。我被它的精緻和美麗驚呆了。許久我抬頭張望，原來坐在這裡的男女已牽手走遠。「等一等，等一等。」我朝他們急步跑去。他們轉過身來的瞬間，我看到了兩張年青美好的面容。
Speak Often!
- Tuesday, 06 September 2016
Sometimes, we have time to prepare what we will say at a scheduled talk or in a debate, but at other times we have to speak “off the cuff” (without any preparation)! So it is good to practise speaking “off the cuff” from time to time, so that when we are caught unawares, we are able to “think on our feet” (think of things to say very quickly).
The Basic Requirements of Being a Good Father
- Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Are you a good father? Do you want to become a good father? How many of the requirements below have you met?
The Language(s) We call English
- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
The language we now call English should really be called the “languages we know as English” since it is a mixture of many languages. In this mixture can be gleaned the history of invasion and settlement of the British Isles.