1. Read Aloud

Akimbo (2 Jan 2020, Melbourne)

Akimbo, this must be one of the odder-looking words in the language. It puzzles us in part because it doesn’t seem to have any relatives. What’s more, it is now virtually a fossil word, until recently almost invariably found in “arms akimbo”, a posture in which a person stands with hands on hips and elbows sharply bent outward, one that signaling impatience, hostility, and contempt.

Teenage Girls and Boys (15 Jan 2020, Beijing)

Teenage girls are continuing to outperform boys in English while the gender gap in achievements in math and science has almost disappeared. The figures show that last year 80% of 14-year-old girls reached at least the expected level 5 in English, compared with 65% of boys. But in math, the girls are just 1% ahead of boys, while in science the difference is 2%.

Shakespear (15 Jan 2020, Beijing)

A young man from a small provincial town, a man without independent wealth, without powerful family connections and without a university education, moves to London in the late 1580’s, and in a remarkably short time, became the greatest playwright. Not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare?

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Lincoln (19 Jan 2020, Bangalore)

Lincoln’s apparently radical change of mind about his war powers to emancipate slaves was caused by the escalating scope of war, which convinced him that any measure to weaken the Confederacy and strengthen the Union war effort was justifiable as a military necessity.

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Important Value of Literature (20 Jan 2020, Melbourne) 

Certainly one of the most important values of literature is that knowledge nourishes our emotional lives. An effective literary work may seem to speak to us, especially if we are ripe for it. The inner life that good writers reveal in their characters often gives us glimpses of some portion of ourselves. We can moved to laugh, cry, tremble, dream, ponder, shriek, or rage with a character by simply turning a page instead of turning our lives upside down.

Electronic Discourse (28 Jan 2020, Brisbane) 

Electronic discourse is one form of interactive electronic communication. In this study, we reserve the term for the two-directional texts in which one person using a keyboard writes language that appears on the sender’s monitor and is transmitted to the monitor of a recipient, who responds by keyboard.

2. Describe Image

Germination (6 Jan 2020, Adelaide)

3. Retell Lecture

Three Stages of Brain Development (9 Jan 2020, Singapore)

4. Summarize Spoken Text 

Ugly Building (11 Jan 2020, Sydney)

IT seems to me that architecture is very much something that causes us both pleasure and trouble. I live in the part of western London where I think many of the streets are, where I live are really really ugly, and this distresses me every time I walk to a supermarket or walk to a tube. I think why did they built that and with terribly without architecture. It last so long, and if you write a bad book or do a bad play, you know, I will be shocked when it be showed and then no one would suffer. A bad building has a serious impact for, could be hundreds of years on the people around it.

And suppose the book arose a little bit from the frustration, almost anger than there is so much bad architecture around. And then I realize if you talk about architecture, you will say why building are not more beautiful. Then you will say I can use such work as “beauty”, that’s really arrogant word. And no one knows what beautiful is. It’s all in the eye of beholder. I couldn’t help but think that actually. Well, you know that we all attempt to agree that Rome is nice than Milkykings, and  San Francisco has the edge of Frankfurt, so we can make that sort of generalization, surely they are somethings we can say about why a building work or why it doesn’t. So the books really attempt to suggest why architecture works when it does and what might going to be wrong when it doesn’t work.

5. Summarize Written Text

Skip Breakfast  (1 Feb 2020, Adelaide)

Skipping breakfast seems a simple way of losing weight or saving time while getting the children ready for school or rushing off to work. But it can also be a sign of an unhealthy lifestyle with potentially dangerous consequences, including a higher risk of premature death. According to a study, adults and teenagers who miss the first meal of the day are less likely to look after their health. They tend to smoke more, drink more alcohol and take less exercise than those who do eat. Those who skip food in the morning are also more likely to be fatter and less well-educated, meaning they find it harder to get a job.

Researcher Dr. Anna Keski-Rahkonen said: Smoking, infrequent exercise, a low level of education, frequent alcohol use and a high body mass index were all associated with skipping breakfast in adults and adolescents. Our findings suggest this association exists throughout adulthood. Individuals who skip breakfast may care less about their health than those who eat breakfast.

Previously, experts assumed that missing breakfast often called the most important meal of the day was simply the marker of a hectic life or a way to try to lose weight. But Dr. Keski-Rahkonen, who led the study at Helsinki University, said the results revealed starting the day without food suggests an unhealthy lifestyle.

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