Talking about Plan Plan I like making plans and I have used to make plane for my life and work. In my opinion, the process of forming a plan can help to sort through your own affair and prioritize them in order to make everything in order before you are ready to finish them. Normally, I will write down my appointments such as applying for a credit card, an appointment with a dentist on a calendar. When it refers to my work or study, a more comprehensive schedule is needed, including the start time and deadline of each part of my work and the ultimate deadline, the people involved, requirements summarized in simple words and so on. What's more, one of the most important features of making a plan is that it also enables you to adjust your routines tasks in a methodical way, considering the fact that there are always things that are out of your control to necessitate you to upgrade your plan constantly.

What's the difference between "nervous" and "uptight"? I found that "nervous" seems to be used more commonly, but I looked them up in the dictionary and I found the explanations are very close so I am a little confused.

What is the difference between "amid" and "midst"? Here is a sentence: Like Li, many Chinese graduates are in the midst of a "job-hunting crisis" as a record number of young people search for jobs amid a slowing economy. Can I say "Like Li, many Chinese graduates are amid a 'job-hunting crisis' as a record number of young people search for jobs in the midst of a slowing economy."?

How do you use "satire","irony" and "sarcasm" ? What are the differences?

The plural of the words end with "um": um →s/a

I've taken a few notes about the words end with "um". I once read an article which said that you can't find a regular rule on how to form plurals about these kind of words becaues they are foreign wrods which were imported in English. There's only tendencies which means you just need to follow the majority when forming the plural. 

 

The following are the words I took down in my notebook. I think you guys can give me more words. Thank you very much !

 

quorum           quorums

momentum      momentums

rectum           recta

forum             forums

bacterium        bacteria

conundrum      conundrums

ultimatum        ultimatums

datum             data

medium           media

consortium      consortia

curriculum       curricula/curriculums

memorandum   memoranda/memorandums 

symposium      symposiums/symposia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What does "tap" mean in this sentence ? Robot maker giant Kawasaki Heavy Industries Co plans to tie up with a Chinese conveyor manufacturer to tap the world's biggest industrial robot market.

Museum I quite enjoy visiting museum. My favourite part about museum is that though settling at a same city for years, it enables you to see beyond a city, it shows how colourful the world is and its long, intricate history as well as letting you realize your insignificance. No matter it is the elaborate ornaments and clothes once wore on aristocrats, or the fabulous public infrastructures built up during the heyday of an empire, or a newsletter during wartime, there is always a place fits you in a museum. It keeps you in touch with the static history and makes you ponder the ever-changing world dialectically. I think schools should be a frequent visitor to museum. Students are able to explore their own interests and build a correct attitude towards science, cultural, history, etc. by means of listening to professional interpretation from museum commentators. What's more, it is also important for them to learn how to obey the rules in a museum for example, cultural relics are not allowed to be touched so as to keep them intact.

What does the second sentence mean? Women who undergo mammography screening reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by 40 percent, an international study published in the United States showed. Researches reported that women aged 50 to 69 who received screening were 40 percent less likely to succumb to the decrease compared to women who were not screened. According to the second sentence, which part is more likely to be suffered from breast cancer ? Women who go through a mammography or women who do not go through it ? I'm confused.

To what extent do you agree that punishment on children is acceptable? Punishment seems to be a quite sensitive word when its target is a child. While I hold the view that if children is so improperly behaved when they cross the line of principle, it is reasonable to punish them as a serious warning. Normally, children are able to understand that they have done something wrong through an eye contact with their parents or by receiving a verbal warning from their parents. Such negative indications can either work or sometimes go unheeded. It is necessary to adopt some practical punishments instead of a warning of strict an eye expression, which is aimed at emphasizing the seriousness of their incorrect behaviours or words so as to help them to tell right from wrong keep the right part in mind. While it is not strange that many people feel some ambivalence towards punishment on children since it is very liable to be misused as a way of catharsis which parents resort to it to sort through their own issues and eventually converts into violence. The line between punishment and violence can be blurry and difficult to grasp at when it comes to parenting. Finally, when speaking of what kind of punishment parent or teachers are allowed to use, it is imperative to keep this in mind that punishment is all about making a child to become a better individual. A child at an early age can be punished to stand or sit at a designated place in a house for several minutes without moving around, this may help to form a good character of them. What's more, don't forget to consider about their self-esteem when a punishment is determined since these two don't conflict with each other.