Blog 的評分時間
1/10 (二) 9:00~11:00 p.m 評分
老師分享歌
● Part of Your World
大學生知道了沒？
●美國一學分就要自修兩到三小時
美國每門課至少當三分之一
在美任教二十多年的錢致榕舉例，美國大學殿堂每門課至少淘汰三分之一學生，「這是對品質負責」。但反觀台灣，大學課程太好過關，就連台成清交等頂尖大學也都如此，他直言：「但老師真的教得那麼好嗎？該擔心的是，大學品管是否出問題」。
「台灣與美國的一流大學有什麼不同？美國一學分就要自修兩到三小時，老師要驗收、否則是失職。」美國學生一學期很少選超過十五學分，因每週得自修四十小時；但台灣大學生每學期甚至可選三十學分，每天自修十五小時嗎？簡直是不可能的事！」
新聞來源：http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/paper/426408
●美國大學生沒有學到核心能力
A large number of US university students fail to develop critical thinking, reasoning and writing skills because of easy classes and too little time spent studying, a study found Wednesday.
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In a particular semester, 32 percent of those surveyed did not take any course with more than 40 pages of reading per week and 50 percent did not take a single course in which they wrote more than 20 pages.
surveyed: 被調查的
資料來源：http://www.medindia.net/news/US-College-Students-Dont-Learn-Core-Skills-Study-79842-1.htm
從老師的演講到綠野仙蹤
●The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz => Mock
Because Oz isn't wonderful, he is just a liar.
*pun 雙關語
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the wizard Oz asked his citizens to wear green spectacles to make the city green (the Emerald City).
spectacles 眼鏡
spect: to look, for example, inspect(檢查), spectator(觀眾、目擊者、旁觀者）.
Victor Fleming
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. The director of the film The Wizard of Oz.
Yellow Brink Road
The Yellow Brick Road is a fictional element in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by American author L. Frank Baum.
有往夢想之路的涵義在裡面
Judy Garland - Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Elton John Goodbye Yelow Brick Road
2011 的 Oscar 有跟綠野仙蹤致敬(安海瑟威主持的)
●Seattle--The Emerald City
Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. One of Seattle's nicknames is The Emerald City.
*Chicago's nickname is Windy City.
Mount Rainier
Seattle has the highest volcano, the Mount Rainier, in America.
Mount Rainier, Mount Tacoma, or Mount Tahoma is the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, and the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Washington.
Space Needle
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair(萬國博覽會), which drew over 2.3 million visitors, when nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators.
Enough
Enough is a 2002 American thriller film directed by Michael Apted. The movie is based on the 1998 novel Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen, which was a New York Times bestseller. It stars Jennifer Lopez as Slim, an abused wife who learns to fight back. Enough garnered generally negative reviews from film critics, although several aspects of the film including the actors' performances were praised.
*如同電影主角，西雅圖是很多人療傷時會去的地方
●Kansas
Kansas is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area.
Kansas 這個地名源自於印地安語
*堪薩斯巫師隊(是堪薩斯城並非堪薩斯州)
堪薩斯城體育會（英語：Sporting Kansas City）也叫肯薩斯體育會，是美國職業足球大聯盟球隊，1995年成立，1996年球季以Kansas City Wiz名義參加比賽，後來因版權問題被迫改名Kansas City Wizards，兩者中文譯名皆為堪薩斯巫師。2011年球季開始再度易名至堪薩斯城體育會。球隊的主場是Livestrong體育場。
Twister
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that spins while in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
堪薩斯州很常有龍捲風
在綠野仙蹤電影裡面,主角就是被Twister捲走
但在小說裡面,主角是受到Cyclone(熱帶氣旋)的襲擊。這被當時的美國氣象局寫信抱怨說一個熱帶氣旋並不會造成小說那樣那麼大的傷害,但是作者回應說這只是個小說。所以最後沒有改變小說用詞。
tornado
cyclone
●綠野仙蹤裡面的旅遊文學
旅遊文學裡面最重要的就是回家與朝聖
1. 西遊記: 去西方取經(朝聖)
2. 神隱少女: 為了回家經過重重考驗(回家)
3. 綠野仙蹤: 為了回家所以去翡翠城找奧茲大帝(回家)
Quiz 13
6. What insect does Tom release in church?
A tick
A grasshopper
A ladybug
A pinch-bug
insect 昆蟲是節肢動物 sect=> section
9. What does Huck do outside Tom’s window to summon him to their midnight adventures?
He barks like a dog.
He meows like a cat.
He crows like a rooster.
He hoots like an owl.
summon: call out