The show of 14 September YouTube.
Hi, I'm Sarah. Welcome to the Daily English Show.
Today I'm me, I'll tell you something about English courses here at Acadia. There are courses here called EPP, which for English for Professional Purposes (English for professional use) is. These courses focus on English for travel, communication and work purposes. That's mainly what I was doing in Japan.
The other courses are EUP, which for English for University Purposes (English for academic purposes) is. EUP courses are for people who want to study at a university. Especially if they want to study at Acadia, but it also is preparing a course for study at another university.
Some students come for example from China and they want to earn a degree at Acadia, but before they take part in EUP rates.
And to attend a regular course, one must have reached a particular level. You must either have a certain level of EUP rates reached or pass a test with a certain score.
And for EUP courses, there are different levels. On Tuesday, the students had to write a test, to determine what level they are. The test is called CAEL test, which for Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (assessment of the English language faculty in Canada). The test is like the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), of whom you've probably heard, or the International English Language Testing System (international system for testing the English language faculty).
These are international test, and the CAEL is designed only for Canada. So I think that probably every country has its own test.
I have not given a lot of English classes for academic or academic purposes, so I do not know much about it. But I'm for it. So I'm going with some students and teachers encourage and let you know what I find.
STICK NEWS
Kia Ora in Stick News today: Google is sponsoring a moon landing competition. The winner receives 20 million U.S. dollars.
A space probe is an unmanned missile, which is usually controlled remotely from Earth.
Google is sponsoring an international competition of private industry and non-governmental bodies.
winner is the group that will land a spacecraft on the moon, they can walk 500 meters and a data packet including video recording up to 31 December 2012 returns.
The first prize is 20 million dollars and the second Price includes $ 5 million. TDES
The studio has not yet let announce whether it takes part in the competition.
And that was Stick News on Friday the 14th September. Kia Ora
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friday joke
A linguistics professor gave a lecture to his English course. "In English," he said, "the double negative is affirmative. In some languages, however, such as in Russian, a double negative is there is a negation. Every case there is no language where a double positive statement is negative."
A voice from the end of the room has its say, "Yes, of course."
I've got the joke found.
conversations with sarah
# 308 What courses have you covered in the first year?
Step 1: Repeat Tommy text.
Step 2: Read Tommy text and talk to Sarah .
Tommy For international students, it must be difficult to attend regular classes at the university.
Sarah Yes, definitely. Uni was really hard for me and I am a native speaker.
Tommy's right. What did you find most difficult?
Sarah Oh, everything ... On the morning after a boozy Night waking. No, seriously, to see if I opened a book and tried to read something, because there were so many words I did not understand. And as for the content, I had no idea what it was there.
Tommy What courses have you covered in the first year?
Sarah I had politics, philosophy, English literature and French.
Tommy How were they?
Sarah Now, English and French, I'd had in high school, I had so at least some idea of what it was there. But in politics, I had absolutely no plan. I do not even know what left-wing and right-wing means. I remember that, that there was a guy who lived at the end of the hallway, and he was very interesssiert in politics, so I went to him one day, knocked on the door and said: "Darren, I know not know what the left-and right-wing, can you explain it to me? " And he said: "Sure." He was really cool. He is now even a member of Parliament.
Tommy Wow, really? It must indeed be a fairly young member of parliament.
Sarah Yes, I think he is New Zealand's youngest member.
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original script courtesy of Sarah .
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