My team members for the Saturday English class are Chien Fong , Leon, Sean and me(as attached photo), we chose a novel “Shawshank Redemption” which was wrote by Mr. Stephen King, we had a presentation at 6th class on Nov. 29th ,2008.
In order to prepare the presentation well, we divided the novel for four parts by pages, each member read the novel and watched movie at home, then found out key plots for the novel. Everyone shared what he read and opinions about the novel with other members, it is helpful for everyone to go through the novel quickly.
From the preparing presentation, we learned a lot of English words, phrases, useful sentences; in order to enrich the presentation, we used video software to cut movie to short video and captured pictures what we need, link these video via powerpoint tools.
It is so great way to learned English quickly via watching movie and reading novel.

I summarized characters and setting for Shawshank Redemption!

This weeks, I had read the Novel"Shawshank Redemption "by Stephen King, and watched DVD version. In order to prepare the presentation on 11/29, my team divided the novel to four parts by pages, I am in charge of third part (page 27~page 39). I summarized characters and setting I summarized as below:

1.Who
Tommy Williams-- a thief ,he talked Andy who killed his wife and golf pro.
Elood Blatch--a killer, he killed Andy’s wife and golf pro.
Warden Norton--a warden, he let Tommy disappear and have Andy wash
money.
Peter Stevens—a false name, no living soul, created by Andy’s friend Jim.
2.Where
Solitary--a place, prisoners were taken care of in terms of absolute black and white.
Cashman--a prison, a minimum security prison far up north in Aroostook County.
Zihuatcnejo--a place, warm all the time, Andy wish to go if he get out of prison.
Buxton--a place, there's a rock wall, Andy’s friend Jim hid key there.
Casco Bank--Jim open a deposit box there for a false name Peter Steven.
3.What
False name--Jim set up a false name for Andy before getting in prison.
Key of deposit box –Andy talked Red that Jim hid a key in Buzton, it could unlock a
deposit box of bank for big money.

After writing down characters and setting, it is easy for me to memorize key points of the novel,I will use the same skill to read other articles or novel, good way to improve writing truly.

Motorbike TV advertisement "Kymco Racing 150" and music!

Recently, I found some brand car or motorbike markers published very nice TV advertisement by videos to promote new cars and motorbikes.
KYMCO published a video of “KYMCO RACING 150”as TV advertisement on TV, background music is very relaxing, I am attracted by the music and concentrate my attention on the video.
I searched the key word “KYMCO”from Yahoo and Google search engines, there are a lot of people discussed the Kymco Racing video , background music and song at blog http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4OIlQ6KkA

I learned that the name of song is Day Job, sung by Sunshine State.

For more information about the KYMCO information and video, you may visit the website at http://www.kymco.com.tw/tw/event/racing_minisite/
For more information about singer and songs, you may visit the Web Site at http://www.sunshinestate.ca/
Next time, you may try to access the above web sites for KYMCO RACING video and Day Job song to have a lovely time!

Riding bicycle is one of my favorite exercises!

I like to ride bicycle for exercise with my family at Sam-Keng street in Lungtan.
Sam-Keng street is not a scenic spot, but keep primitive appearance well. The habitant here are mainly Hakka people who are very friendly and sell a variety of delicious Hakka snacks like as Hakka vegetable buns, traditional rice cakes and Hakka rice tamale.

Taoyuan government planned and maintained a nice bicycle paths in Sam-Keng Street, there are pedestrian paths, woody platforms, sigh-seeing pavilion, resting chairs, illustration boards, bicycle specific path and index et all.

There are also several bicycle rent stores in Sam-Keng street, people come here could rent out bicycles at US$100~US$150 each, it is very convenient for people to enjoy riding.

If you wish to do exercise with your family and like to enjoy pleasant riding bicycle, Sam-Keng street is nice place for your choice.

Do you like to enjoy hot springs?

Do you like to enjoy hot springs?
I know a great place for hot springs named ”Shihmen Hot Spring Relax Club” in Taoyuan Country’s Longtan Township.
The water here is sodium bicarbonate, appears rusty yellow in color because of rich contraction of iron and other minerals. There are inner and outer areas here, if you like to enjoy hot spring with family or friends, it is requested to wear swimming cloths in outer area which has cool pool, warm pool, two spa pools and hot pool.
The water of hot spring could increase blood circulation, relaxes the muscles and has curative effects against skin diseases arthritis, and neuralgia.

Because the club is located in Shihmen Mountain, it is proposed to go to mountain climbing or ride bicycle in the nearby countryside first and to go to enjoy hot spring then.

The Hot Spring Club also serve great Japanese food and herbal tea, if you don’t like Japanese food, you could try the well-known “there ways of tasting the live fish” at nearby live fish restaurants.

This Sunday, I took some beautiful photos of the Hot spring Club in the daytime ,for more information about the hot spring club, you could go to it's website at http://www.shimenhotspring.com.tw/

What a great place! You should bring your friends and family here next time.