英語聽力練習- 舞蹈治療

I.) 一位結合表演藝術和身心治療的編舞家和學者:

Dance As Therapy: Natalia Duong at TEDxStanford
"Performance artist Natalia Duong sees art as the space where cultures coalesce.

A San Francisco Bay Area native, Natalia Duong is a performance artist, choreographer and scholar. Her interdisciplinary research
explores kinesthetic empathy as a resource for conflict resolution, community theater and the embodied transmission of trauma in people affected by Agent Orange. Duong has collaborated with artists to perform internationally in Edinburgh, Paris, Uganda and Vietnam, where she recently led a community-based devised
theater piece that was performed at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. Duong is also the founder and artistic director of PAO, a movement collective interested in how war is inherited in the body. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Duong is currently living in Brooklyn and pursuing a master's degree in performance
studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University."


II.) 這位演講者以前是專業芭蕾舞者,後來研讀心理學和計算神經科學:

TEDxObserver - Peter Lovatt - Psychologist and dancer
"Dance and the mind Peter is a reader in psychology and principle lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, but his first love was dance. Before entering academia, he trained at the Guildford School of Acting and the Cecchetti Ballet, and worked as a professional dancer. Later, he went to study psychology and computational neuroscience and in 2008, he set up the first Dance Psychology Lab. This has enabled him to combine his twin passions of dance and psychology and, through experimental work, to explore the ways in which dance, and different types of dance, can affect the brain. His most recent work, and the subject of his talk, has involved investigating the effects of dance on people suffering from Parkinson's Disease. Dr Peter Lovatt's talk at TEDxObserver (http://www.guardian.co.uk/tedx) 2010 was cited by many in the audience as one of their highlights of the day."

英語聽力練習- Dance Injury

訓練舞蹈學生的英語聽力,看幾段和 dance injury 有關的 Youtube. 首先, 一位芭蕾舞者敘述她的親身受傷歷程: How to Deal with & Prevent Dance Injuries - My Injury Story

紐約一個職業舞團的舞蹈傷害經歷:

一些預防性觀念和措施: Dance injury prevention - with Dr Lisa Schoene

職業芭蕾舞團如何做復健: Physical Therapy | city.ballet | Bonus Clip

美國前100大城市

Rank	Large US Cities	State	Population
1	New York	NY	8,491,079
2	Los Angeles	CA	3,928,864
3	Chicago	IL	2,722,389
4	Brooklyn	NY	2,538,705
5	Queens	NY	2,277,251
6	Houston	TX	2,239,558

美國 50 州

Region	State	Capital
Deep South	Alabama	Montgomery
Deep South	Florida	Tallahassee
Deep South	Georgia	Atlanta
Deep South	Louisiana	Baton Rouge
Deep South	Mississippi	Jackson

出國留學英語- 美國地理歷史, 50 州 Youtube

英語學習要進步,對美國的地理和歷史該有一些基本理解。這裡整理一些 Youtube 影片，幫助學生學習。

1) 幫助學習美國歷史的地理知識:

2) 幫助學習美國50州的名字和位置:

留學英語聽力- Meet Florida State University's Karlanna Lewis

Florida State University's Karlanna Lewis is not your average student, for starter, a professionally trained dancer double majored in creative writing and Russian and is now taking graduate level courses.

And did I mention she did all of this by the age of twenty?

"If you don't try for something, you're never going to get anything."

A true academic, her first love remains dance.

"If anything is, you know, bothering
or going like on kind of
chaotic

"It's always a huge passion of mine.
And I see it uh like as a time to renew me
sort of like if anything, you know, bothering me or like going on kind of chaotic, if I, like, can take dance up and I just focus ..."

In her spare time, the Tallahassee native gets back to the community by teaching children to express themselves through dance.

It's part of her honor service learning project.

While the project is complete, she is still volunteering. The kids are the only ones finishing it.

"It's really positive and I have a lot of love with them. And um being around them is just always a really nice. Into a day if I did not have school day or doing other things, running around, and maybe I have the exams earlier then I come here and it's so nice. And um it doesn't feel like work. You know, it's just feel like fun for me."

Karlanna feels strongly about working with children, building their confidence through dancing.

"It's a very beautiful thing just to be able to move and we have the ability to celebrate that because it's really liberating and um I think there is so much we can say in dance."

Taking her love for dance and community service even further, she recently started a not-for-profit organization called Dancearth.

"We are about trying to use dance to help about environment and in my vision it was like I like it to be an international movement"

Dance isn't Karlanna's only means of artistic expression. This summer she published her own book of poems, many of referencing the art she loves."

"I specially like trying to, um, write about thing that maybe don't usually have words that I try to find words for saying like dance, which is traditionally a wordless art.

So I like, um, trying to find some way to express dance in writing, um, sort of move, um, the motion of dance to the motion of the poem."

"Child quiet down now and lift up their feet from the corner of my eyes"

Not only did she author the book, she illustrated it too.

"... a good time"

If mastering English wasn't enough, Karlanna speaks four other languages, Russian, Spanish, French, and Polish.

Now let us hope that more doors will be open by her success and the Rhodes process.

"I was hope that (would) just be the start that
the emphasis wouldn't be that it is so amazing that I had this opportunity but that I was hopefully going to do an amazing thing after because of this opportunity that's what I would hope. It wouldn't be all great things, you know, that a combination of everything, that it would be a start of something much much better than I could, you know, I could do in the future."

Dancer, poet, linguist, author, and illustrator, Lewis does it all, a truly amazing scholar.

英語聽力教材- Classifying Animals

How do we classify animals?
classify (v.) 分類
classification
sort things into groups
All animals are divided into two main groups, vertebrates and invertebrate.
backbone ~ spine ~ vertebra

mussel

Mammals are vertebrates that get milk from their mothers when they are very young.
They breathe air with lungs and have hair or fur.
The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat.
It's about the size of a thumb.

bird
beak
lay eggs
Penguins are flightless birds.
hunt for fish

fish
Fish have gills to help them breathe and take in oxygen out of the water.
Many have scales, which help them move through the water.
shark
stingray
Their bodies are made of cartilage.

cartilage 軟骨
It's the same stuff in our nose and ears.

Amphibians are animals that have adapted to living on water and land.

They hatch from tiny soft eggs in the water.
When they are tadpoles, they breathe through gills and live under water.
As they get older, most frogs grow lungs to help them breathe on land.
Many amphibians can breathe under water through their skin which takes oxygen out of the water.
toad
salamander
newt
caecilian

Cold-blooded animals use the environment to help control their own body temperatures.
to warm up
to cool down

reptile
Most reptiles lay eggs, kind of like birds.
Snakes, lizards, crocodiles, and tortoises are all reptiles.
They've adapted to living in their ocean environment.