Monday, August 11, 2008

BOOK CLUB REPORT 5

1/Choose two the character in the book that you are reading and compare how they are similar and contract how they are different?
Last week, I read Amelia Earhart by John Parlin.
I chose two charater in this book. This book have two girls. They are sister. Muriel is younger sister. She is active girl. She wanted to make an airplane. She told with Amelia. Amelia is older sister but she was afraid because she didn't have the right things to make an airplane.After that, Muriel said 'we can try',and they tried to make an airplane. Muriel was very created girl.
Amelia is nice. She have sympathize with soldiers. After she finished high school she studied in Philadelphia, and Muriel was going to a school in Toronto, Canada.
Amelia went to Toronto to visit Muriel. She saw many soldiers, and they were wounded. They needed to use crutches while they were walking. She saw them, and she felt sorry for the men. She has been volunteer stay there. She became a nurse's aid a hospital. She brought medicine and food to the wounded men.
They are sister but they have diffirent character. Each person have something special, but they are nice person.
2/Why did you choose these two people? Are you similar to either one of them? How are you similar? How are you different.
I chose these two people because they have good character. I think I have a litte bit similar them but I am not sure. It is not obiective when I judge myselt.
However, I want to have charater look like them.
3/ Vocabulary
-Woodshed: [ noun]
A shed in which firewood is stored.
-Somersault:[ noun]
An acrobatic stunt in which the body rolls in a complete circle, heels over head.
-Comet:[noun]
A celestial body having a solid head surrounded by a nebulous luminescent cloud and an elongated curved vapor tail arising when the head approaches the sun.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

OLIVE GARDEN

Last week, my cousins and I went to an Italian restaurant, Olive Garden. It is a fantastic restaurant. Olive Garden is located near South Center Mall, a very convenient spot because you can go shopping in South Center Mall and easily find parking if you are driving.
Inside the restaurant it is really beautiful, elegant and cosy. The restaurant placed a lot of candles on the table which made it look so romantic. All in all the decorations are well done.
The food is very delicious. The menu had plenty of dishes to choose from.For example, they have appetizers, soups, salads, pizzas, classic recipes, chicken, seafood, filled pastas, beef, pork, grilled garlic shimp and etc. You name it they've got it. They gave us a bread basket and salads while we wait for our food. I really liked the bread because it is so good. If you wanted cheese on any of your foods, the waitress will grinde fresh cheese with a handy grinder.
Plus, Olive garden have many different kind of drinks/refreshments.
The waiters and waitresses are very kind. They are so friendly and polite I thought for one second that they were family.
Not just that but the prices, it was not so expensive.
I give Olive Garden a five star rating with excellency. The delicious foods, fantastic environment, and the outstanding customer service.
I would recommend Olive Garden to any family, friend, or just anyone. If you want a good meal, while being treated like you're the king and at the same time have the most fun with you friends while you're at it. Them Olive Garden is the place you should visit.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

THINKING AND LEARNING STYLE

She is a my first friend when I came here. She is very nice. We are best friends. She have o lot of good character. I relly admire her. First, she is very clever. When she want to make something, she always do very well. For exemple, she can desige a lot of flower. She make them very beautiful. Beside, She cooks very well.
Her food really good and look delicious. Second, she is a active girl. She told me. she just came here 4 years but she can speak English very well. She is very friendy. She made a lot of American friends. They are her classmates. Third, She is very patient. When she do something. If it has prolems, but she will concentrate for do it. She will never stopp to it. I think she is a good her. I should study chacracter for her.

Monday, July 28, 2008

BOOK CLUB REPORT #4

Title of book: Who Was William Shakespeare
Author: by Celeste Davidson Mannis illustrated by O'Brien
This book has 105 pages, and I read 50 pages
I understood about 75% of what I read
1/
William Shakespear lived 450 years old ago, he wote least 35 plays, and more than 150 poems. He is the great play wright. He bgegan his life as the son of the glover-marker in the small town of Stratford-upon-avon. He was married on November 28, 1582.
His wife is Anne. She was 26 years old but William Shakespeare was only 18 years old. Their daughter Susanna was born six months later. Twins- Hamnet and Judith came along a few years after that. The Shakespere family was still strugging. After that, he came to London.
2/
I chose this situation because i want to know about his life. He is vey famous. Before, I didn't know about his life I just know his plays.
3/New Vocabulary
a/ Daring:[adj]
Fearless, bold
b/ Script:[noun]
Handwriting as distinguished from print
c/Troupe:[noun]
A company or group, especially of touring
Labels: I

Friday, July 25, 2008

NEWSPAPER REPORT # 2

THE SEATTE TIME:JULY 23/ 2008/WEDNESDAY
TITLE: GARDENING
AUTHOR: BY VALERIE EACTON
This story told about plant trees. Some people had problems about plant trees, and they asked newspaper how to make it better
- Growing parsley
Q: they have grown parsley, and used parsley so much for cooking. They would like to plant more herb. They want to know. Which three or four kinds do you recommend as easy to grow?.
A: Most herbs are easy to grow, so it relly depends on which you'd use most for your style of cooking.For example, rosemary, chives, cilantro, oregano, basil and mint.
-FLOPPY FOLIAGE
Q: they have 5 dianthus plants that they planted in their front yard a few years ago. Dianthus come up and bloom quite nicely, but about haft of them fall over and are droopy. They want to know. What can they do make dianthus bushier and stand up straighter?
A: These attributes make them especially attractive but unable to stand up well.
Don't give dianthus much fertilizer, which causes the foliage to grow taller.
- TEARING UP A CARPET OF BLUE
Q: A few years ago they planted a seed packet worth of little blue flowers that are taking over their garden. Some are pale blue and some dark blue, and they are in bloom right now. They don't know how to get rid of them.
A: they just try to weed them all out before they go to seed this year and you'll eliminate them in the future.
-MY OPINION
This is a good story. It hepled me more knowledge how to do when my trees has problems. It is very useful. I knew more herbs, and i can choose herbs easy to grow.
- NEW VOCABULARYS
PARSLEY
:[Noun]
A plant with finely divided curled leaves used as a seasoning and garnish.
BASIL
:[Noun]
An aromatic herb with leaves used as seasoning

Monday, July 21, 2008

SUMMER FUN BOOK CLUB REPORT 3

Title of book: The House On The Hill
Author: Elizabeth Laird
This book has 31 pages.
I understood 97%
1/ Choose one of the characters in your book and write a letter to him/her. Tell him/her anything that comes to your mind. May be to give advice, encouragement, or admiration.

Dear Elizabeth!

Hi Elizabeth1. I'am Nhi. Last week, I read your book and, I liked it. It was very easy to understand. Your story was very romatic. I liked Paul. He is a good man. He loved Maria. He has written a poem about her. He was very happy when Maria said love him. Do you know the firts time I thought Maria loves Paul but after that I relized she doesn't love him. She didn't love him because he was poor person. I felt very sorry with him and, I thought he wiil accept his life. After that, He made me surprise. He won in competition. He had a jod and successful in his life. He became a rich man. He still love Maria. He thought her loves him too. Finally, He relized she didn't love him. She just care about money. Then, he found his love. It was a good story about love. I really thank you because you made this story. I like it.
2/ Explain why you choose to write this character and tell why you said what you said
I chose this character because I like her story. It helped me know about love. If you love someone and, you just care money. You won't have a good end.
3/ Vocabulary
+ Ribbon:[noun]
A narrow strip of fabric, finished at the edges and used for trimming or tying.
+Necklace:[noun]
An ornament worn the neck
+Clever:[adi]
Mentally quick and resourceful
Quick writted
Dexterous

SUMMER FUN BOOK CLUB REPORT 3

Thursday, July 17, 2008

MY QUESTION: WHY DO YOU CHOOSE TO STUDY IN THE UNITED STATES AND NOT ANY OTHER COUNTRY?

When I graduated high school. I decided go to oversea. The first time, I felt confused because I didn't know what country I want to study. After that, I decied to go oversea in the United States. I have four seasons why I want to study in The United States. First, American has a high education investment and advanced methods. Second, American is native language. They speak English. It is very important for me because I want to study English. I will have more chances to practive speaking English with native speaker everyday so I will quickly improving my English skills. Third, American degrees are recognized word wide. It is very important for my life. Fourth, American has a lot of international student from another country. I will have more opportunity to make friend with them. I can learn more different cultures. All in all, I think study in The United States It is a good choice for my life.

MY QUESTION:

Monday, July 14, 2008

SUMMER FUN BOOK CLUB REPORT 2

Tittle of book: King Solomon's Mines


Author:H. Rider Haggard


This book has 68 pages. I am now on page 34.


I understood 75% of what I read.


1] Tell in your own words about what you read this week


Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good have travelled a long way over difficult country to the strange, hidden land of the Kukuanas. They are looking at King Solomon's treasure. There are enough diamonds there to make them the richest man in the word.


Henry has come to South Afica, with his friends, to find his lost brother.


2] What is your opinion this story?


I like it. The story was very interesting.


3VOCABULARY WORDS


_Escape [verb]


To break out


To avoid capture, danger or harm


_Fortunate [adj]


Occurring by good fortune


Lucky


_Gentleman [noun]


A man of high or noble birth


A polite or well -bred man.


_Brave[adi]


Possessinh or showing courage


Making c fine display


_Permission[noun]


Consent, especially formal consent


Derived from Latin permittere, to permit.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

THE SEATTLE TIME .

Last week, i read The Summer Vacation Hot Spot? Close To Home on the newspaper. It wrote about summer vacation.
Derly Girault usually flies to Miami with her two daughers to spend their summer vacation with family and take in the heat and sun. In years when they don't make the trip, they typically drive to the Oregon Coast, where they stay in the motel and shop tax- free. Not this years. It 's too expensive. They aren't going. Many people in the region, confronted by the high price of gas and air travel, are sticking closer to home this summer.
People are tending to travel shorter distances. In some cases, they are staying for a shorter time.
47% said they were changing their vacation plans because of high gas prices.
Flocking to the city parks
Spce in the San Juans
Gas- guzzlers special
$40 gas credit for an RV
$20 for the camper to lure folks the 175 miles
They chose some place near them
They are sticking around and going camping.
My Opinion
I think they had a good choice. They donn't make long vacation beause the high price of gas. High gas make everythink high. They need to save money. They can have vacation in them state. It donn't need to pay a lot of money.
New Words
-Combination: [noun] the act of combining or stare of being combined.
Something resulting from combining, aggregate.
-Sunset:[noun] the disappearance of the sun below the horizon.

Monday, July 7, 2008

My Weekend

Last weekend, I went my aunt house. She lives in Issaquah. We had a party. We made barbecue in outside. Besides, my aunt cooked a lot of vietnamese food. I ate too much. I really liked it. I and my cousin rode a bicycle around her house. At night, we stayed at home but we could see fireworks. It was very beatifull. We had a good time. After that, my uncle, my sister and me went to the Space Needle. We went around Space Needle. We played games. Then, we went to the Central House because we felt hungry. We bought some food and drink. I had a great weekend.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Book Club

Last week, I read a book. Name of my book is The Road Ahead author by Era. I chose this book because I want to know about Bill Gates. He succeed person. I borrowed this book in the library.

Bill Gates wrote his program for a computer when he was thirteen years old. His program tells a computer to do something. His program told the computer to play a game. This computer was very big and slow. It didn`t even have a computer screen. But he thought it was wonderful. He was just a kid, but the computer did everything he told it to do. He loves about computer. when he write a good program, it always works perfectly.

One day in 1972, when he was sixteen and his friend was nineteen, his friend showed him something that he was reading. It was about a company called Intel that had a new microprocessor chip. A microprocessor chip is the part of the computer that thinks.

In 1979, his friend and him moved Microsoft to a town near Seattle, Washington. The company was growing. Microsoft was doing so well because they made only software, never computers.

When he was young, he loved the encyclopedia that his famlilyhad. When he wanted to learn about somrthing, he could read about it and look at pictures of it. he spent a lot of time with the encyclopedia, and read a lot of it. Microsoft Encarta is an electronic encyclopedia. It has a million words but it also gas photographs, movies and music.

He wrote a lot of program for computer.

I like this book.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Introduce my self

Hi every body!
My name is Nhi Dang. Iam from Vietnam. Iam very friendly. Iwant to make alot of friends. I think study in Seatte Central Community College is a good opportunity. Seattle Central Community College have a lot of student from another coutry. Ican make friend with them . Iam really like it. My favorite food is Vietnamese food. Ican play baminton. I like to listen the music, watch the movie, and read the magazine.