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TED talk: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator -Vocabulary 1.procrastinate: (v.)To keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring. 2. propagate: (v.)To produce a new plant from a parent plant. (v.)To spread opinions, lies, or beliefs among a lot of people. 3. dormant: (adj.)Something that is dormant is not active or growing but has the ability to be active at a later time. -Summary Although I've heard this TED talk for many times, I still think that we should do things right away, not just ignore them, because the more procrastination, the more things you have to do in a bad way.  Video: TED talk

#3 Vocabulary from Transport of the future 1.authentic :it's real, true, or what people say it is. 可靠的;真正的  e.g. He was there and  saw  what  happened , so his is the only authentic  account . 2.prevalent :existing vary commonly, or happening often. 流行的;普遍的 e.g.This diseases are more prevalent among young children. 3.commonplace: often seen or experienced and not to considered to be special.平常的;普通的 e.g.Electric cars are increasingly commonplace. 4.far-fetched :so unbelievable it's unlikely to happen.難以置信的 e.g.That was a far-fetched story. 5.vacuum: it's a space that has had all the air and other gases removed from it. 真空 e.g.Please clean the room with vacuum cleaner.

#2   Are the speaking and listening tasks difficult for you?  What are the challenges you often face when you listen and speak in English?  I learned English for about 14、15 years, and the most difficult learning task I thinks is speaking tasks, because I've memorized many vocabulary words, but I always can't recall it all and use them when I needs to talk about it, although I can recognize those when I read some articles, I just can't recall those vocabulary when I needs to uses those, but my high school teacher said that you don't have to talk with difficult words, talking is a way to communicate, so you can speak English with easy words, even if you can't recall the difficult words, you can speak with a easy way. 

#1 My New Plan This Year!  This year I want to learn a new language, Japanese. So this semester I choose a course, named Commercial Japanese, but in the beginning, there are a lot of people choose this course, and whether I can take this course is up to the drawing, and fortunately, I’ve been chosen!! Hope I can improve my Japanese skills in this class :).