1.  Write a list of listening skills that you learned about from each of the units that we studied.  Find them on - page 9, page 35, page 58, page 82, page 107.
        Identifying main ideas,making inference,listening for example,recognizing appositives that explain,organizing notes with a T-chart.
2.  Which listening skill (mentioned above) did you find the most valuable?  Why?
        Identifying main ideas.With the ability to identify the main idea helps me to understand the speaking.I think listening to the question by the reporter is a good way.

3.  What are some ways in which your listening in English has improved this semester?
       I can tell the organizational cues and help me to identify the main idea.Also, by practice over and over, could hear more words and sentences than before.

4.  What are some challenges that you still face in your English listening?  How do you plan to overcome these challenges?
     Whenever there are words and phrases I can't recognize I would get tripped and miss the following contents.Also,my spelling is poor.That makes me fail to take notes quickly.  I plan to read more articles and write some short paragraph to gain some vocabulary.And, watching more English videos to sharpen my listening skills.

5.  Based on your experience with listening to many different types of activities in English this semester (listening to radio reports, radio interviews, TED talks, the audio book, a song, etc.), what is the most efficient way that you can train yourself to improve your English listening on your own?  Explain your answer.
       Listening to TED talks is the most efficient ways to train my listening ability.The content of TED talk is very meaningful so that I could focus on the video.Besides,there are subtitles for me to check weather I misunderstanding the talk or not.What is more,the speakers speak clearly and there is all kinds of accents I could learn.

Taylor Swift-22

Why are you sharing this song ?
This song is talking about the mood of 20 something.And, I am quite agree with her point of view toward 20 something. The lyric is what most of us think and do. Also,I like the joyful tone of this song.Once I am in dilemma,I will play this song to convince myself  that everything will be alright!

 What is the meaning of the lyrics?
The girl is feeling like 22,the magical age."To dress up like hipsters and make fun of our exes"Girls in this ages likes to dress themselves up and talking about love.We are free and do at our will sometimes we" eat breakfast at midnight"." we're happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time"Although we are free and happy,we face many difficulties in daily life and our identity is weak.As a result,we are confused and lonely."It's miserable and magical."It is a process of growing up."I don't know about you, but I'm feeling twenty-two Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you" 22 is an age easy to make friends.The singer is telling us don't worry too much.Once we are together,everything will be alright."Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing"Remain our passion and we don't need to worry that much~  

What is happening in the commercial ?
A  young man is walking out of subway.and then he takes out his HTC and start to listen rock music with headphone. Suddenly,all the things around him like cars and street lights  start to blow up. However,when his phone ring up,the music stop temperately and the speed of blast slow down.After he hang out the phone,the music restart and the speed of blast come back to the normal speed.

What is the product?
HTC cell phone.

Who is the target audience?
According to the tone of this commercial, it is for teenager.Teenagers is the main group who use smartphone to listen to music.And rock music is their favorite.The main actor in the commercial is a young man who is cool and fashion.

What emotions does it use to persuade the reader to buy the product or service?
They use excitement music to bring out how well the resound beats is.Also, they give the audience a surprise that many things are exploding.At the and the slow motion part is quite humorous. 

Does it do a good job in persuading the watcher to buy the product? Why or why not?
Yes, the commercial is a shuck and it is easy to remember the specialties of the product--the resound beat.And the tone of commercial fit target audience's taste.Also,teenagers like listening to music by cell phone.The resound beat is exactly what they need.

Why are you sharing this documentary?

When I was little, I love to watch Discovery channel, especially the lion documentary.I thought they are amazing animal. The way they walk is really confident. I am quite appreciate that. Also, I am interested in learning how they fed and the social system of them.By the way, the cubs are so cute ! I love to watch them.

Summary

The lion Simba and his wife Beby have gave birth to two cubs. The small lions are playing joyfully,when two dangerous male lions approach. The male lions are the challengers. They try to take over Simba's place.First,they walk slowly and intend to sneak up on Simba to give him a deadly bite. they are just 15 meters away!However, Simba notice that, so he run away immediately.That is a wise decision. Fighting with two strong young lion is risky. Nevertheless,the territory fight is not over.Sometimes,it takes months to decide who owns the power. Simba has experience but the young lions are stronger.It is hard to predict who will win in the end. Beby and her children just watch these quietly.It is a nature rules of lives. 

Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

Summary

             Dan Gilbert defended ,"There are two kinds of happiness, one is natural happiness,which means we get what we wanted so we are happy,the other one is synthesized happiness. Synthesized happiness is that we don't get what we wanted but we are happy in the end. According to the data,the levels of happiness of this two kinds are equal after 3 months.
            The reason why is we have impact bias.Most of us overuse our experience simulators so that we image different outcomes are more different than they in fact really are.That is to say,the other option is not as bad as we believe.In addition,we synthesize happiness,so we are happy. And, the option we preferred is not actually as good as we think. Synthesize happiness make us love what we choices more than when we haven't make the choices.It is changed by the time we make decisions.Follow the phenomenon, we infer that choices are friends of natural happiness but enemies of synthesize happiness.Once we have choices to switch our decision,we struggle that weather we should change or not.As a result,we don't like our decisions and deeply dissatisfied.
           In conclusion,we maximum the differences between two options.Our preferences push us so hard that we ignore our true values.Then, we can't be happy cause we can't always get what we want. Our irreversible choices bounded our longings and worries so we can be  happy.That is to say, if we don't long and worry that much,we could have achieved what we wanted to achieve.Of course,be happy.

What can listener learn from the talks?

           Sometimes,we makes ourselves unhappy by longing and worries too much.So we should know those true values first and then we make choices.The outcomes will always be right when we are not violate those true values.As a result,we don't have to be panic when things are not matching our expectations.Then,we will be happy.Take choosing departments of university for example.When I chose the department,I was in fears and pains.I don't know weather I chose the department right or not. What if I chose wrong one? Does that means I will be miserable for the rest of my life?After one year in university,I realize I can learn whatever I want, no matter what I major in.There are many ways to get it. The outcomes are not that difference.
           

Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters

Summery 
           With the processing of technology, we post lots of information online. But, we are not aware of the effect of doing this. Alessandro Acquisti did some experiments to tell us how far the big data can do to our privacy and explain how they effect our lives. First of all, he randomly found a student in campus and took a photo of him.Then, he use the face identity system used by facebook and found the student's profile on facebook. Based on this information, 27% of subjects's first 5 digit of SSN can be found (in 4 attempts).It is like when you walk on the street people around you can know some information about you without asking.So, does that mean we can know a person better? Not exactly.The photos and information we posted are partly.People would judge us according to what we post.That would generate biases.
           Subconsciously,we know this fact. Alessandro Acquisti did another experiment and demonstrated that people are familiar with the situation without privacy.It doesn't mean they don't care. They just can do nothing about this.Current policy is not effective.However,Alessandro Acquisti still believe we will find  solutions to protect our privacy and enjoy the benefit of big data in the same time.
     
What can listener learn from this talk?
                We can know the data online is really big. We never know who will use this information to do what things.What is more,the process of  technology has been so fast that everything becomes possible. We should always be aware of what we post on line!

My sister's keeper

Which movie does this clip come from ?
 My sister's keeper

What is this movie about ?
There is a pair of parents who have a daughter,Kate, getting cancer. She is getting weak everyday and  needs to do a lot of surgeries desperately.Because of those surgeries, her parents need to find someone who has similar physique to transfer something like blood. So,they decided to get birth to another daughter,Anna, to help.
After 16 years,Anna suits her parents for abuse her body like forcing her to transplant her kidney.But ,if Anna doesn't  transplant her kidney to Kate ,Kate will die without exception.There are some questions needed to be discuss.Can parents decide their children's fate? Which one is more important,Kate's life? Anna's right of living without fear? What is more, is it right for parents to force their children to live and break the family into pieces because of love?

What is happening in this movie clip?
Anna's parents were shock that she suited them for abusing her body.She tried to explain that they never thought about her feeling just like her life is not important. And, she didn't want to be careful in her rest of life because of doing transplantation.She wanted a normal life like others. For example, being a cheer leader.