Chatting with a cute A.I.

A. L. I. C. E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation

Captain's Log: 



Lieutenant: How are you 
James T. Kirk: Standing by. 
Lieutenant: How old are you? 
James T. Kirk: I am 35 in human years. 
Lieutenant: You look cute 
James T. Kirk: Appearances can be deceiving. 
Lieutenant: Anton Yelchin passed away 
James T. Kirk: Lieutenant, channel automatic telemetry directly to the computers. 
Lieutenant: Are you single? 
James T. Kirk: Single. 
Lieutenant: Let's date! 
James T. Kirk: Let's do that. 
Lieutenant: When will you come to pick me? 
James T. Kirk: There are some things in my quarters I want to pack. 
Lieutenant: I've been waiting for you. 
James T. Kirk: No one expects you to die for an error in judgment. 
Lieutenant: Do you know the actor River Phoenix? 
James T. Kirk: The answer is obvious. 
Lieutenant: So what's your answer? 
James T. Kirk: Can you please rephrase the question? 
Lieutenant: Silly! 

James T. Kirk: I get that way around a beautiful woman.

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Results of JMix

I did Linda's JMix. Her favorite season is spring, and she loves to hear the birds singing. It's a pity that I didn't get a good grades on her little test.
I think this is a difficult test since we don't know the maker's order of the passage.

JMix- My Favorite Season

JMix- My Favorite Season

Grammar Learning Websites

Grammar Monster


I think Grammar Monster is a good website to learn grammar, especially to non-native English speakers. This website includes grammar introduction, A-Z Grammar Glossary, Punctuation, Easily Confused Words, Common Errors, and Grammar Tests. We can not only learn things there, but also test the learning outcomes. I took the test of "plural" and got 100% correct. You should try it too!

Daily Grammar

Daily Grammar is a useful website too. Compare to Grammar Monster, Daily Grammar has some different things, such as e-book and "fan mail". Wanna know what's going on there? Go check it out!

There are still other websites which can help us with grammar, such as British Council. We should make the good use of these language learning websites.

Match Game！ (Hot Potato)

Find the antonyms of the word on the left

Find the characters in the film series

Cloze！

Movie : Le silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea) 2004
Cloze！

Match Game！ (Hot Potato)

Find the antonyms of the word on the left

Find the characters in the film series

COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)

http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/



Cannibal

(n.)食人者；吃同類的動物

(a.)食同類的；吃人肉的

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......of CFRM a page at a time. When the fire died to embers, Nick saw his life in the ash and called Sam. # " I'm done. " # " With what? " # " Everything. " # Sam had paused. " You better explain, because' everything' is a big word. " # Leave it to Sam to be dramatic, a side effect of taking the gospel to cannibals in New Guinea. Nick admired him for it. In a way, for a period of time Nick had been a cannibal of another kinda man who fed of other people. He'd been a user back then, a taker. That night, his voice had cracked when he finally replied to his brother. # " Pray for me. " # Nick still smiled at Sam's reaction. " You idiot. I pray for you all the time. " # Silence. # " Pray for yourself, Nick. I'll listen. " # More silence. Darkness. Then a breeze stirred the ash and a charred

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......distress mixed with the odor of smoked flesh. When he reports Maurice's plan to sacrifice himself, the Chief curses his son's betrayal. The Missionary corrects the Chief, explaining that the young boy imitates a god by his willingness to die for the sins of others. Taken aback by his son's sacrifice, he asks to be instructed in the religion of the mission. In Les Anthropophages, the existence of the bieri is intimately related to the acquisition and conservation of human remains. Saving bones for the relic basket is part and parcel of the cannibal act. Exhumation serves as a way of tenderizing the body buried alive or dead, and as a means of procuring skulls and other body parts. Nothing goes to waste in the mind of Lejeune, as the leftovers are used for the bieri to bring future enemies to the Fang and thus to propel the cycle of killing and revenge, sacrifice and offering. After Ndotouma offers a goat to the bieri, the god delivers the youths to him so that he can avenge the death of his son Eko......




Example sentence：

The cannibal animal seems to attack me.

Suicide

(n.)

• 1. 自殺，自殺行為[U][C]

• 2. 【律】自殺者；試圖自殺者[C]

• 3. 自殺性行為，自毀[U]

 (v.)  自殺； 結束（自己）的生命

(a.) 自殺的

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text in the specified categories. Using my professional judgment, I placed each text on the continuum from the rubric. This process is similar to the CCSS Appendix A " Model in Action " (2010, p. 11), although I provide much more detail in analysis of each text below. # Glimpse (2010) by Carol Lynch Williams. Glimpse is a 485-page verse novel written from Hope's point of view. Hope is a white 12-year-old girl who, in the opening pages, finds her 13-year-old sister Lizzie holding a shotgun, prepared to commit suicide. By page 5, the reader experiences the first of many random flashbacks that serve to build the story as Hope comes to understand how her sister fell to this level of despair. However, Hope learns of the injustices of her world through her innocent youthful perspective, a perspective less mature than the reader's, experiencing life in ways that she is not ready to fully understand. # Structure. The structure of this text is unconventional. It is a verse novel with frequent " manipulations of time

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simple, but meaningful. I wanted the reader to get inside my character's head like you can in this story. " According to Stacy, " Studying this genre with mentor texts has helped me be more creative and shown me that I could write. " # Flash Encouraged Taking Topical Risks # Even though we taught flash as fiction, students in both classes wondered whether the authors drew from personal experiences in order to write concisely, yet still provide a deep emotional connection. For example, did Paul Lisicky in " Snapshot " lose his father to suicide? Students wondered, how could he write such a deep, dark emotional flash piece? For the mentor texts that contained thematic issues of love and loss, students believed that the authors pulled from their own memories. Ten of the twelve students in the at-risk class echoed this notion, claiming that they found topic choice difficult. Many wanted to write emotional essays, yet needed inspiration. Many students experienced personal challenges, such as poverty, criminality, and family members dying. They wanted to incorporate these

Example：

She attempted suicide after being bullied at school.

bear

(n.) 熊

vt. 及物動詞



1. 支持，承受；承擔
2. 運送；攜帶；帶走[O]

3. 忍受；經得起[+to-v][+v-ing][+that][O2]





vi. 不及物動詞



1. 承受重量（或壓力）
2. 用力推（或擠，壓）
3. 開花結果








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...... flagship state newspaper, Al Ahram, published a front-page editorial expressing rare, officially sanctioned criticism of the Egyptian police. " Peaceful Shaimaa only dreamed of a free country, " wrote Ahmed el-Sayed al-Naggar, the chairman of the state-run news organization, but " she was killed in cold blood by the same person who killed the martyrs she was going to honor. " In the television appearance Sunday, Mr. Sisi urged the interior minister to track down the killer, offering reassurances that even if a police officer had shot Ms. Sabbagh, the ministry itself would not bear the blame. " I don't know, in all sincerity and truth, who is behind the killing of Shaimaa el-Sabbagh, " he insisted, a hand on his heart. In Alexandria, a friend and her cousin said, no one has yet told Ms. Sabbagh's son that his mother is not coming home. 1635 CAIRO -- In the tiny village of Nagaa al-Khalasab on the outskirts of......




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PG-13 for brief strong language. At Tara Theatre. 1 hour, 36 minutes. " Mr. Turner " A The film examines the last third of British artist J.M.W. Turner's life. It looks at his relationships, travels and artwork. It's a collection of masterful scenes that hang together in a dazzling gallery. Starring Timothy Spall and Marion Bailey. Directed by Mike Leigh. (Jeff Baker, The Oregonian) Rated R for some sexual content. At Lefont Sandy Springs and Tara Theatre. 2 hours, 29 minutes. " Paddington " B The bear from the children's book is found in London by the Browns, who endure kid-friendly kerfuffles while trying to keep Paddington safe from the museum taxidermist. It's utterly charming though not given to much deep thinking. Starring Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Nicole Kidman and the voice of Ben Whishaw. Directed by Paul King. (Roger Moore, Tribune News Service) Rated PG for mild action and rude humor. At AMC Barrett Commons, Picture Show at Merchants Exchange and Regal Georgian Stadium. 1 hour










Examples：




Among all the animals, I love bears the most.




The owner bears all expenses.  




He could not bear that his friends should laugh at him.  




Those bamboo beams will not bear. 




 Our apple trees will bear well this year.