English in the Third Millennium

Two thousand years ago English did not exist. A thousand years ago it was a language used by less than two million people. Now it is the most influential language in the world, spoken by more than a billion people on the planet, as their first, second or third language. English currently dominates science, business, the mass media and popular culture. For example, 80% of emails on the Internet are in English. But where will English be at the end of the third millennium???

One view is that English is going to become even more important as a global lingua franca, domination the world's trade and media while most other languages will become localized or just die out. At present, over half the world's 6500 languages are in danger of extinction. Another view is that English is already breaking up as Latin did, into separate languages.

Hopefully, neither of these things will happen. Although different varieties of English will continue to develop around the world, standard English will survive for international communication. 

For me personally, I think that English will probably stay in control for a long time, at least while the USA remains the top superpower, but it definitely won't become the only language in the world

Let's improve our english skill!!!

Will post something soon again ^^

Rubik's Cube

There is only one solution and millions of ways of going wrong when it comes to solving 'The Cube'. One eighth of the world's population has laid hands on it, and more than 300 million of the most popular puzzles in history have been sold worldwide.
When hungarian Erno Rubik frist made his colorful cube in 1974, and showed it to some of his friends, the effect was instantaneous. Once they started fiddling excitedly with The Cube, they were hooked as they tried to get it back to its original position. The compulsive interest of friends and students in The Cube caught its creator by surprise, and it was months before any thought was given to the possibility of mass production.
However, a few years later, it seemed that the whole world was suddenly working away at their Cubes. People would play with them at home and at work, on buses, on tubes and in trains., in restaurants and cafes. Everywhere you looked, someone had a cube. As soon as you started playing with it, you couldn't put it down - the Cube was just to addictive....

Try it!!! You'll be addicted too ^o^

Exponential Function

Here's the clip about the project...
Hope you guys enjoy it

Exams are a fair way of testing students. Do you agree???

1. Every year thousands of students take important essays which can decide their future. For example, students have to pass exams with satisfactory grades in order to get a place in a university. However, are exams a fair way of judging a student's ability?
2. On the one hand, exams seem fair. The questions are the same for all students. Also, the exams are marked according to a strict scheme and usually by more than one examiner. Furthermore, students do the exams at the same time and under the same conditions.
3. On the other hand, there are some drawbacks with exams. Despite some students deserving to pass, they might be so nervous on the big day that they make a mess of the exam. Moreover, there may be other reasons, such as illness which affect a student's performance in an exam. An alternative to exams would be a system of continuous assessment of course work by teachers during the year although this would be mean more regular testing and more work for teachers. There would be a greater oppurtunity for students to copy work, too.
4. To sum up, exams are not the ideal way of testing students and the idea of assessing students' work over a longer period is becoming more popular. In my opinion, the best system would be a mixture of the two-50% exams and 50% course work.

Last week, I had a meeting with my supervisor for my personal project. It's a short meeting with him, but we had many discussions about my topic which's water filtration experiment. He made me confused because of his questions. He said, "Who is this product for?" I was confused and while I was thinking for the answer, he showed me one of the nominations for CNN Heroes last year. His name is Evan Wadongo and he is african. What did he do? He made a simple and cheap lamp so his product will light up their homes. At night, in his area, rural area, it doesn't have light therefore many students don't do their homework. For further information about him, click this link. For the following days, I've researched many interesting sources about the product like the process of water filtration, how does it work, etc. Last, I'm going to meet my supervisor again to have another discussion this week.

Personal Project

Water is essential for life. People, animals and plants all need water to live and grow. But in many places people don't have enough water to stay healthy. Many people have to travel long distances to collect water. And often, the water is available isn't safe to drink. Therefore for my personal project, I'm going to make a water filtration.

The goal is to see if it is possible to filter dirty water, to make clean water, using filters created from objects around the house. 

AoI: Environment

Key Question: how can we change water through filtration?

The Korean Fan Dance

The korean students performed their traditional dance at lunch which's the Korean Fan Dance.The Korean Fan Dance is one of the most popular and well-known movement pieces from Asia. The bright pink fans and dresses combined with graceful movement have thrilled audiences in SWA. I just want to say good job cause they did the dance very well.

Mother Tongue Week

Today is mother tongue day. Mother tongue brings together vocal and instrumental music, dance, poetry and story to create moving and potent ritual performances for a variety of audiences. Like some of the teachers, they will be performing in front of us at lunch today. During lunch, lotus was so crowd cause most of the students and a few teachers were watching the performance enthusiastically. Tomorrow, it will be different from today however mostly the event is mostly the same. There will be performances and exhibition. Hope you guys enjoy the mother tongue week!!!

Music

There is no best genre of music, everybody likes different music. Music is completely in the ear of the beholder. It would be impossible to say that one genre is better than another. I love hip hop music but i think that i if i had to choose it would be classical music for best genre. It has transcended through time, unlike most of the music of now.

By the way, this is the greatest classical music I've ever heard...

Hope you guys enjoy it!!!

Basketball

I love playing basketball and I'm still improving my basketball skills by watching some top players' skills during NBA game like the player Lebron James. I like his quote "I don't want to be Kobe, I want to be Lebron." For me it's a strong quote which means be yourself. Therefore we shouldn't underestimate ourselves and our own abilities.

Will post something soon!!! ^^