[FUN WITH READING 2018-20204A] Sally’s Phone

20204吳品萱 (WU, PIN-HSUAN)

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TITLE OF THE BOOK: Sally’s Phone
NAME OF THE AUTHOR: Christine Lindop
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2003

ISBN: 9780194234269

Sally’s Phone

Sally is a woman who had a boyfriend. Her boyfriend always made her to do something. I think the writer had a terrible experience of relationship, so she wrote the story. She wanted to remind people who have difficulty in his/her relationship not to be stubborn. The writer might be a liberal-minded guy and he wanted to tell young people his experience.

The story tell us that we should treasure our relationship. It's a story about a woman, Sally, who started a new relationship from her smartphone. In the beginning her boyfriend always made her do something she couldn't or she didn't want to do. What her boyfriend did made Sally feel bad. In an accident, Sally’s phone changed with a strange man who was truly polite. The man soon caught Sally’s eyes. In the end, Sally and the man went to a party together.

I think the story is nearly impossible. When Sally and the man changed their phone, their friends exactly called them both. The story only suits children. They will not think too much about the circumstances, just like that the prince and princess always have a happy ending.

[FUN WITH READING 2018-20202B] People Don’t Always Need Words

20202朱莫亞 (CHU, MO-YA)

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TITLE: One way ticket- the girl with green eye

AUTHOR: Jennifer Bassett

YEAR: 1991

PRESS: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780194789141

People Don’t Always Need Words

On the train to St. Austell, Julie, a girl with green eyes, and her husband, Bill, were going to have their first holiday. While Bill was busy talking to the man in a brown hat about his life story, Julie felt nothing but bored. So she started to observe the tall man in expensive outfits , and the book as well as the newspaper he read. She was so into him that she decided to leave her husband and the boring trip behind and went away with the mysterious tall man.

At first, Julit sat next to Bill, who kept chatting with the man in a brown hat. She felt so bored! The destination, St. Austell, doesn’t even the place she wanted to go. She thought of many cities she would like to visit. And then, the tall man who sat across her grab an Italy guidebook out from his bag. Julie couldn’t help but start reading the title while her husband and the man in a brown hat went to a restaurant to grab some food julie knew she was attracted ny the tall man, so she went away with the tall man and left her husband the boring trip to St. Austell without saying goodbye.

I appreciate what Julie did but I don’t think it’s right. After all, she had a husband who loved her very much, but she just went off. That’s very irresponsible and childish. Although that hurt Bill’s feeling and left him nothing but shocked, what can we possibly judge Julie if she was really in love with the mysterious tall man? When Bill learned that the tall man even waited for Julie, he was stunned, and said ”But he read his newspaper all the time. He didn’t talk to Julie. And she never talked to him. They didn’t say a word.” There’s a passenger on the train on the train heard the whole story and told Bill, “people don’t always need words.” So, I guess Bill will have an “unforgettable” trip during the time he went to St. Austell on the vacation.

[FUN WITH READING 2018-20202A] Key Happiness

20202朱莫亞 (CHU, MO-YA)

TITLE: Hector and the search for happiness

AUTHOR: Francois Lelord

YEAR: 2014

PRESS: Penguin Group

ISBN: 9780143126744

Key To Happiness

Hector was unsatisfied with himself even though he owned more money and social status than normal people, so he decided to go on a journey. From France to China to Africa to US, he tried hard and had lots of conversations about what made people happy.

In the story there were 23 lessons that Hector wrote down during the whole journey. I especially love lesson 3: “Many people see happiness only in the future.” To demonstrate this point, the author let Hector met an old friend who worked in China as a businessman. This person made and saved lots of money the same way as his colleagues did. Because they wanted to retire early so that they could have happiness by spending their money on traveling and so on. But the truth was that they were extremely unhappy right at the moment because all they did was work, work, and work. They didn’t have time for a lover, an interest, nor a family.

I think happiness is about enjoying the moment, instead of being unhappy at the moment but enjoying happiness afterwards. There’re always great views and kind people around along the way. We don’t have to wait until the end or until we have lots of money to earn the rights to be happy. Take my case for example. Now I have to study hard so I can go to the university I want to go . There’ll be happiness when I accomplish my goals, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have happiness during the way. Maybe few hours of TV can be cut, and I have to put more time as well as energy into study, but these factors can’t block the way between me and my own happiness. Having dinner with my parents is a kind of happiness, humming a song I like on the way to school is a kind of happiness, enjoying a  nice cup of latte is a kind of happiness. The simple happiness doesn’t have to wait until I reach my goals. I can enjoy them whenever I want.

Hence, I agree with the author, because he clearly doesn’t like the whole concept of “having happiness in the future.” And I like the way I demonstrate this point because I know that there is a lot of happiness around me as long as I’m willing to find it.

[FUN WITH READING 2018-20201B] The Witches

20201伍珮齊 (WU, PEI-CHI)

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TITLE OF THE BOOK: The Witches

NAME OF THE AUTHOR: Roald Dahl

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1983

ISBN: 978-0-141-34994-7

The Witches

The boy was turned into a mouse by The Grand High Witch because he knew everything about Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker. He and his grandma made an excellent plan to deal with the witches. The boy’s grandma is a retired witchophile who studied witches and knew a lot about them. She always told her grandson how to recognize a witch. First, witches had thin curvy claws, so they wore the gloves to hide them. Second, they were all bald as a boiled egg, so they wore wigs. And wearing wigs did cause a rather serious problem for them. They had to put them straight on to their naked scalp. It will be very rough and scratchy, and the witches called it wig-rash. Third, nose-holes. They had a slightly larger nose-holes than ordinary people. Their special nose-holes were for smelling out a child from far away. And that was why his grandma told him to have a bath once a month. Forth, witches never had toes. They just had feet, so they had the most awful job to squeeze their feet into those neat little pointed shoes. Last, their spit was blue as ink, so they even used it to write. His grandma had a pneumonia because she used to smoke cigars. And they decided to go to Hotel Magnificent which was a nice place for them to rest. One day in the hotel, the boy came to “The Ballroom”, where RSPCC Meeting was held. He was fascinated by these hair –scratching ladies first. Then he found out it was Annual Meeting for witches. Sadly, he was turned into a mouse by using Mouse-Maker. Therefore he ran to his own room to tell his grandma everything. Then they decided to put some drops of Mouse-Maker in witches’ supper. They did it successfully but the boy was still a mouse.

The fiction made me nervous. I really wanted to live in that fiction’s world because his grandma said it was a bad habit for children to take a bath. I can’t agree it more. And on Page 57, it said, ” It is always funny when you catch someone doing something coarse and she thinks no one is looking. Nose-picking, for example, or scratching her bottom.” That was totally what I thought. Some of my classmates often did those things. It was really disgusting but funny. And in the fiction, the author wanted to express that The Grand High Witch had trouble pronouncing the letter w and the letter r, so he wrote the word she said in a different way. I thought the author made a mistake first, but after I knew the reason, I still had trouble reading it. Also, “She does it in order to keep the rest of them on their toes.” “But they don’t have any toes, Grandma.” The sentences really gave me a knowing smile.

[FUN WITH READING 2018-20201A] Matilda

20201伍珮齊 (WU, PEI-CHI)

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TITLE OF THE BOOK: Matilda

NAME OF THE AUTHOR: Roald Dahl

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1988

ISBN:978-0-141-34990-9

Matilda

Matilda’s father was a clunning car dealer. He fiddled the number on the speedometer back to cheat his customers. Her parents didn’t like Matilda, so when her teacher told them Matilda was an extraordinary genius, they didn’t care at all. With her rage and sadness, Matilda decided to take revenge on her parents by mischief. Later, when it was her time for school, her headmistress was a sinewy woman. Miss Trunchbull hated the kids so much that she always threw and wobbled the pupil she didn’t like. Everyone in school were scared of her including the teacher. On one occasion, Miss Honey went home with Matilda, and they had a long talk, Miss Honey told Matilda her childhood, and how Miss Trunchbull had treated her. In the end, Matilda used her magic to help her teacher and live together.

Matilda practiced a lot at home in order to help her teacher, so when Miss Trunchbull got into her classroom, she used her magic to make the chalk write on the blackboard by itself. The thing that the chalk wrote about was asking Miss Trunchbull to give Miss Honey back her house. The tone was really like Miss Honey’s father who had been dead. Miss Trunchbull was so frightened that she ran away. At the same time, Matilda’s parents had to leave for Spain to escape from the police. Matilda didn’t want to go with her parents, so Miss Honey asked her parents whether she could take care of Matilda. Because her parents didn’t care about her, they agreed. Then, Matilda could live with her teacher forever.

I do really love this story and the author, I have already read four books of the author. The plot of the story is very dramatic and it was hard to predict. The author gave every character a distinct image. Sometimes the author used puns in the story, and they were very hard for me to understand. And the way how the author described a character was very interesting. For example, the author wanted to describe that the cook was very old. He wrote that she looked as though her mouth was full of lemon juice. After reading the book, I really envied Matilda’s ability. If I have an ability just like her, I would read a lot and use my ability to help many people in the world. Though it is impossible, I will still try my best to learn, and use what I learn to contribute.

[廷歌音越](4)Chi Dân - 1234

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新世代歌手支民Chi Dân，吾音樂網路平台NCT，1234連續數週排行第一，1234幾段歌詞輕快有趣，剩下哪個傻瓜？依舊多少寒暑？

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1 2 3 4 ngày...
過了1234天，
Có chắc nỗi nhớ sẽ biến mất đi hay còn lưu luyến vậy
確定眷念不再還是依舊相思？
Có chắc tiếng khóc sẽ giúp lấy anh hay làm tan nát lòng
確定訴苦對我有益還是傷心？
Nhìn từng kỉ niệm trôi, nhạt nhoà và phai phôi
看著每段回憶過眼雲煙...
1 2 3 4 năm
過了1234年，
Có lẽ ngốc nghếch a chỉ nhớ em
或許我仍傻傻想念你，
Dại khờ a sai lầm, em cũng đã có một người yêu mới
愚蠢的我錯了，你已經有新的愛人！
Chắc anh chẳng tin một ai nữa đâu
我不再相信任何人了，
Vì ta mất nhau
因為我們失去彼此！

哈樂字  Những Lời Của Bài Hát
1. ngày 天［奈；𣈗］
2. năm 年［暔；𢆥］
3. vì 因為［為］

越法趣 Ngữ Pháp Của Bài Hát
đã 已［達；㐌］通常句尾會加rồi 了［了］
e.g.
1. Tôi đã ăn rồi. 我已經吃了。
2. Anh đã đi rồi. 他已經去了。
3. Tôi uống thuốc rồi. 我已經服藥了。

p.s. ［］方框為似音，若有底線則為原本越語漢字。

[廷歌音越]Bài Học Của Anh Đình

[廷歌音越]Bài Học Của Anh Đình
本系列將透過越南音樂，與各位一同來學習越南文化，由於我也是初學者，因此請大家多指教，讓我們能夠用更多角度，一起來認識四周圍鄰居！
課程Bài Học，源於越語漢字“牌學”，越語先說名詞再加形容，所以就是學牌，學習的牌子，意即學習課程；以此類推，廷哥Anh Đình，來自越語漢字“英 Anh”，聽起來很相似臺語“尪”，用來稱呼比自己年紀大男性；除此之外，越語漢字“庭 Đình”通用，源於越語漢字家庭“Gia Đình ”。

1. [Chorus]
精選附歌，希望各位能夠琅琅上口。

2. 哈樂字  Những Lời Của Bài Hát
重要單字，透過各首讓你牙牙學語。「哈樂字」－哈（Hát）在越南語為“歌”，樂（Lời）為“字”，取中文近音字，期許大家快樂聽歌學習越語！

3. 越法趣 Ngữ Pháp Của Bài Hát
基礎句型，藉由各句讓你侃侃而談。「越法趣」－語（Ngữ）近臺語“語”，法（Pháp）在越語為“法”，跟中文頗相似，期待大家輕鬆哼曲學習越語！

5年前發下最末篇英文教學網誌，5年後開啟初史篇越語音樂分享，希望度過黑暗5年瞎忙期，許願邁向多彩50年新人生。就讓我們學英語看世界，聽越語唱百樂！