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2014年01月

Here is a useful video of useful 7 adjectives for describing people.



In 7 adjectives mentioned in the video;
 

1.soft-spoken loud
2.self-conscious uninhibited
3.well-behaved  naughty
4. right/left handed
5. middle-aged/class
6. easygoing/flexible
7. good-looking ugly
 

I am a soft-spoken, self-conscious, well-behaved, right-handed, middle-aged, easygoing, and good-looking(?). How about you?

CORRECT ANSWERS (in the previous quiz)

1. microscope
2. life
3. crawl
4. sequence
5. extinct
6. unlikely
7. revival
8. reach
9. mosquitos/insects
10. preserved

Watch this video(till 1:13) and fill the blanks.



When I was a child, I gazed through a           at the insects in amber that my father kept in his house. And we imagined those kind of insects would sometime come to        ,          out of the resin, and would fly away if they could.

To           the genomes of          animals was considered           or pipe dream in the past.

But I’m standing here today to say that the           of such species is actually within          .

We can start from not           but mammoths, the well           remains of woolly mammoths in the permafrost.


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I have picked up some useful expressions from the previous video.

1 .Our media climate generally provides a very distorted mirror of our lives.
2. You create psychological profiles of consumers
3. we've been looking specifically at social media.
4. demographic boxes(=categories)
5. they're monitoring your clickstream
6. they aggregate around the things they love.
7. shared interestes and values are a far more powerful aggregators of human beings than demographic categories.
8. women actually outnumber men in thier use of social networking technologies.
9.  dominate the social media sphere
10.enternainment and play have a huge impact on our lives.

My favorite word is "clickstream". 

CORRECT ANSWERS (in the previous quiz)
1. applications
2. absurd
3. dismantle
4. demeaning
5. segmentation
6. define
7. demographic
8. predictable

Watch the video(till 1:30) and fill the blanks.



I’m going to argue that social media             allow us free from            
assumptions about gender in our society.

I think social media can           some of the silly and            stereotypes seen in media and advertising about gender.

Most media companies use rigid              methods and restrictive labels
to             us

These companies believe that If you fall within a certain                category, you are                 in certain ways.

umi


Enjoy the soothing power of the ocean!
(海に癒されたーい)

soothe (v)  = (をなだめる、落ち着かせる)
                  =make someone feel calmer and less anxious, upset, or angry
e.g.) Lucia soothed the baby with soft words and smiles.

CORRECT ANSWER( of the previous listening quiz)
1. temperate
2. inches
3. realm
4. organism
5. 380
6. stories
7. growth

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