Assignment6: ESL Podcast 466 – Having a Good or Bad Bedside Manner

Article:

Cho: I’m not sure I’m cut out to be a doctor.

Joy: I think you’ll be great. I’ve seen you with patients and you have a great bedside manner – not like Gregory.

Cho: Why? What’s wrong with his bedside manner?

Joy: I’ve seen him with patients and he can be really callous. For instance, I was in the room last week when he was telling one of his patients that she was taking a turn for the worse.

Cho: What did he say?

Joy: He just blurted it out. He told her the diagnosis, and he didn’t even try to soften the news when she asked about her prognosis. He did absolutely nothing to try to comfort or reassure her.

Cho: I feel sorry for the patient.

Joy: That’s the point. Gregory didn’t, and it didn’t seem to faze him that the patient was very upset and close to hysterics.

Cho: That’s terrible. I’ll try to remember to be more compassionate with my patients.

Joy: Don’t worry. It’s against your nature to be anything but considerate.

Keywords:

1.cut out: to be created to do something. something is good nature for you.
2.patient: people who are receving medical care or attention from doctor or nurse.
3.beside manner:how the doctor treats his patient
4.callous: Do something without consider someone else.
5.taking a turn for the worse: become worse.
6.blurted it out: to say something without thinking it first.
7.diagnosis: the doctors conclusion.
8.soften:to make it easier.
9.prognosis:the doctor's opinion about how your health will change in the future.
10.comfort: to make people feel better.
11.reassure: to give someone confident.
12.feel sorry for:to understand someone's upset.
13.didn’t seem to faze him:somone else isn't affected by something.
14.hysterics: someone has uncontrol emotion.
15.compassionate: to be kind to someone.
16.against your nature: not a part of someone's personality.
17.anything but considerate: to be nice to be aware other people's feeling.

2 audio clips at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

Dinner Time
level:medium

1. starving (verb): hungry, famished- Many deer will starve to death in the mountains because of the harsh winter.
2. yuck or yucky: expression showing strong displeasure or dislike for something (informal)- Oh, Dad. I don't like this yucky soup.
3. adaptation (noun), adapt (verb): a change or modification to something, revision- Sometimes it takes time to adapt to the customs and language of another culture.
4. mess up (phrasal verb): (1) to make a mistake or (2) make something untidy or cluttered- If you take your eyes off that boy, he might mess up your entire house.

Video Game Systems
level:difficult

1. come up with (phrasal verb): think of an idea or answer - We couldn't come up with any ideas for the weekend, so we just stayed home and played video games.
2. odd job (noun): not usual or regular work - I had to accept a few odd jobs after I graduated before I found good steady work.
3. stand (noun): a small outdoor store where things are sold- I worked one summer at a fruit stand downtown to earn money to pay for college.

Assignment 4: Comment on the corpus-based reference tools.

Even we know the explanation of words, but we always don't know how to use it appropriately.

If we use the dictionary to search for words, we can get many explanations but no idea of how often it be used or what opportunity you can use it.

On the other hand, some words are used to get together with other words, it is called collocation. We often strange to use they.

Last two classes, we learned the way about how to solve this problem, the way is using corpus-based reference tools.

By using corpus-based reference tools, we can find a lot of sentence with the word, and we can follow the track about how to use the word, how frequently it be used, and its front and behind always connect to which word.

It is useful for us to know more about the word.

But the weakness is, sometimes a word have been using in a wrong place, day by day, it become a new language. for example, long time no see.

But I think if we use it, we can become more nature in english.

the lyric of pull up to the bumper

Song: Get the party started
Singer: Pink

I'm coming up so you better get this party started (I''m Coming up) (im coming) I'm coming up so you better get this party started Get this party started on a Saturday night Everybody's waitin' for me to arrive Sendin' out the message to all of my friends We'll be lookin' flashy in my Mercedes Benz I got lots of style, check ma' gold flashin' rings I can go for miles if you know what I mean Pumpin' up the volume, breakin' down to the beat Cruisin' through the west side we'll be checkin the scene Boulevard is freakin' as I'm comin' up fast I'll be burnin' rubber, you'll be kissin' my ass Pull up to the bumper, get out of the car Licence plate sez stunner, Number One Superstar Get this party started Makin' my connection as I enter the room Everybody's chillin' as I set up the groove Pumpin' up the volume with this brand new beat Everybody's dancin' and they're dancin' for me I'm your operator you can call anytime I'll be your connection to the party line Get this party started, ooh Get this party started right now Get this party started Get this party started Get this party started right now

Search from google.

Assignment 3: The difference between "big" and "large"

"big" describes a object is very huge.


ex. He is a big man.
They've got a big house in the country.


"large" describes many objects get together, and become very huge.


ex. A large amount of money.
The concert drew a large audience.

My computer was broke!

A few days ago, my computer was broke.


When I turned it on, the background was always black, and some words showed on the sceen. it is "DISKBOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER", and next line showed "Boot from CD''




I don't know what is it happen, so I ask my friend for help.

He looked at it and tried a lot of methods to fix it, some methods is useful, but not been a long time, the same words appeared on the screen again.

Conclusively, my computer still don't work.

Unfortunately, my homework always have to use computer, like CALL class or some reports. Althought I can use school's computer, it also has some incovenient.

I miss my computer!

If someone have some tips to fix it, please tell me, thanks.

Assignment 2: Dictionary Exercise

There are two sentences:

She is upset.

She is sad.

We know, those two sentences are meaning that she is unhappy, but do ''upset'' and ''sad'' have same explanation?

First, I used Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary to look for those two words.

upset (WORRY)

1 verb upsetting, upset, upset to make someone worried, unhappy or angry:
It still upsets him when he thinks about the accident
Don't upset yourself by thinking about what might have been.upset

2 adjective [after verb]

Don't get upset about the dress - there's only a little stain on it.

[+ to infinitive] She was very upset to hear that the holiday had been cancelled.
[+ that] He was very upset that you didn't reply to his letters.

sad (NOT HAPPY)

1 unhappy or sorry:

I've just received some very sad news.

She gave a rather sad smile.

[+ (that)] It's sad (that) the trip had to be cancelled.

I'm so sad (that) you can't come.

[+ to infinitive] It's sad to see so many failures this year.

I was sad to hear that they'd split up.

2 HUMOROUS If something looks sad, it looks worse than it should because it is not being cared for:

Give those flowers some water - they're looking a bit sad.

Second, how about Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary explained those two words.

upset
• verb /1 make unhappy, disappointed, or worried. 2 knock over. 3 disrupt or disturb.
• noun /1 a state of being upset. 2 an unexpected result or situation.
• adjective/ 1 unhappy, disappointed, or worried. 2 (of a person’s stomach) having disturbed digestion.

sad
• adjective/ 1 feeling sorrow; unhappy. 2 causing or characterized by sorrow or regret. 3 informal pathetically inadequate or unfashionable.

Third, I used Merriam-Webster's Learners' Dictionary to search for those two words.

upset
Function:adjective
Meaning:
1 : angry or unhappy

▪ I was feeling upset by/about the whole experience.

▪ There's no point in getting all upset about it.

▪ I try not to let her make me upset.

▪ She was too upset to speak to him.

▪ I'm upset that you didn't call.

▪ I was so upset with him, I didn't call him for two weeks.

2 ◊If you have an upset stomach, you have an unpleasant feeling in your stomach because of illness or because of something you have eaten.

▪ I had an upset stomach after eating all those cookies.

▪ My stomach was upset and I felt like I might throw up.

sad
Function:adjective
Meaning:
1 : not happy : feeling or showing grief or unhappiness

▪ He's feeling sad because his pet died.

▪ People were sad that he was leaving.

▪ The experience left her sadder but wiser.

▪ big sad eyes

2 : causing a feeling of grief or unhappiness

▪ Have you heard the sad news about his wife's illness?

▪ It'll be a sad day when you leave us.

▪ a sad love song
▪ a sad poem

▪ a movie with a sad ending

▪ He lived a sad life.

3 : causing feelings of disappointment or pity

▪ The sad fact/truth of the matter is that they are right.

▪ I live a pretty sad [=pathetic] life. I never go out on the weekend.

▪ The government is in sad [=bad] shape.

▪ The new version is a sad imitation of the original movie.

▪ He's a sad excuse for a father. [=he's not a good father]

▪ a sad-looking birthday cake ▪ We needed more money but, sad to say, there wasn't any.

▪ Sad but true, we couldn't afford to go away for even a weekend at the beach.

According to the three learners' dictionary, we could know the difference between upset and sad:

1. "upset" is meaning unhappy, worry or angry. It also has another explain: you feel bad in your stomach.

2. "sad" is meaning unhappy, sorry or feel sorrow.

In conclusion, if you want to search for more explain or example, you can use Merriam-Webster's. If you don't want to get too many superfluous explain, Cambridge Advanced can give you clear explain.