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.