99 Ways to Say 'Very Good'

給孩子或學生們一些鼓勵的話吧

99 Ways to Say 'Very Good'

by Arzella Dirksen

1. You're on the right track now!
2. You've got it made.
3. Super!
4. That's right!
5. That's good.
6. You're really working hard today.
7. You are very good at that.
8. That's coming along nicely.
9. Good work!
10. I'm happy to see you working like that.
11. That's much, much better!
12. Exactly right.
13. I'm proud of the way you worked today.
14. You're doing that much better today.
15. You've just about got it.
16. That's the best you've ever done.
17. You're doing a good job.
18. That's it!
19. Now you've figured it out.
20. That's quite an improvement.
21. Great!
22. I knew you could do it.
23. Congratulations!
24. Not bad.
25. Keep working on it. You're improving.
26. Now you have it!
27. You are learning fast.
28. Good for you!
29. Couldn't have done it better myself.
30. Aren't you proud of yourself?
31. One more time and you'll have it.
32. You really make my job fun.
33. That's the right way to do it.
34. You're getting better every day.
35. You did it that time!
36. That's not half bad.
37. Nice going.
38. You haven't missed a thing!
39. Wow!
40. That's the way!
41. Keep up the good work.
42. Terrific!
43. Nothing can stop you now.
44. That's the way to do it.
45. Sensational!
46. You've got your brain in gear today.
47. That's better.
48. That was first class work.
49. Excellent!
50. That's the best ever.
51. You've just about mastered it.
52. Perfect!
53. That's better than ever.
54. Much better!
55. Wonderful!
56. You must have been practicing.
57. You did that very well.
58. Fine!
59. Nice going.
60. You're really going to town.
61. Outstanding!
62. Fantastic!
63. Tremendous!
64. That's how to handle that.
65. Now that's what I call a fine job.
66. That's great.
67. Right on!
68. You're really improving.
69. You're doing beautifully!
70. Superb!
71. Good remembering.
72. You've got that down pat.
73. You certainly did well today.
74. Keep it up!
75. Congratulations. You got it right!
76. You did a lot of work today.
77. Well, look at you go.
78. That's it.
79. I'm very proud of you.
80. Marvelous!
81. I like that.
82. Way to go!
83. Now you have the hang of it.
84. You're doing fine!
85. Good thinking.
86. You are really learning a lot.
87. Good going.
88. I've never seen anyone do it better.
89. Keep on trying.
90. You outdid yourself today!
91. Good for you!
92. I think you've got it now.
93. That's a good (boy/girl).
94. Good job, (person's name).
95. You figured that out fast.
96. You remembered!
97. That's really nice.
98. That kind of work makes me happy.
99. It's such a pleasure to teach when you work like that.
100. I think you're doing the right thing.

句點點在哪？Does a full stop (period) go inside or outside quotation marks?

If the quoted words end with a full stop, then the full stop goes inside the quotation marks. If the quoted words do not end with a full stop, then the full stop goes outside the quotation marks:

He said: "I love you."
She has read "War and Peace".

Note that in US English, the full stop usually goes inside the quotation marks in all cases:美式用法中，任何情形之下句點都落在引號內。

He said: "I love you."
She has read "War and Peace."

However, US English adopts the British style for question marks and exclamation marks:

He said: "Do you love me?"
Have you read "War and Peace"?
Can you imagine? He has never read "War and Peace"!

番荔枝

「番荔枝」是「釋迦」的原名，今天我也才從我的第一本「長人」字典得知其原名，奇摩字典也是寫「番荔枝」。(我去年又買了新版的，雖然圖片印刷較好，字典後也歸類了很多東西，但怎麼一直找不到前一版有的世界地圖、中式房子種類，更重要的是它的水果目錄裡沒有了很多水果，如「波羅蜜」和「番荔枝」等等等。這驗證了一句話：舊愛還是最美。Sorry，扯遠了……)

若你利用奇摩知識＋去搜尋，很快就可以找到「釋迦」的英文，它的英文名字正如中文一樣有很多個，，我的字典只列舉了兩個：sweetsop和sugar apple。此外，波羅蜜的英文為jackfruit。

這是第二次談到水果，第一次介紹了「the fruit book」，不過水果種類真是太多了，光這兩樣外加蓮霧，那裡都沒有。

Grammar point: 進行式代替未來式

English, Baby!: Business Traveler(此連結有效期限一週，逾期需入會員才可瀏覽。)

The forms will and going to are used to talk about the future. In addition to will and going to, most native English speakers use the present continuous tense ( [be] + -ing) to talk about things happening in the future.

In the conversation between John and Taylor, John says: "I am going to Montreal." Though he is going to go to Montreal in the future, he uses the present continuous am going to talk about his trip.

Similarly, Taylor says: "I know that you're going to be meeting with business clients." He uses the going to form to talk about the future, but he could also say "I know that you are meeting with business clients," to talk about a future event.

Other examples include:

Tomorrow I am eating at my friend's house.

We are flying to Amsterdam this summer.

She is throwing a party on Friday night.

What's your hobby?

Discover A Hobby 網站幾乎網羅了各式的休閒活動，藉由該網站我們也可以學一些活動的英文。一般的爬山若是說"mountain climbing"就不大對了，應該就是"hiking"。

會看到這個網站其實是因為lifehack的一篇文章，先前他們提到"十個關掉電視的理由"，但關掉電視後要做什麼咧？何不培養一個新的嗜好呢？故後來介紹了這個Discover a hobby網站。

New York Times: English as Langauge of Global Education

New York Times: English as Langauge of Global Education

上英文課教授老師用英文講是很自然的事，但是上一些非英語科的課程，聽的卻是英文，會不會有所阻礙呢？我聽過好像台灣某些大學有開設類似的課程，即老師上課使用英語來教學。在巴黎的大學裡，即便是普通課程也逐漸的以英語來教學，這樣的轉變，自然就有人覺得無法接受。為何轉用英語來上課呢？巴黎一所商業學校MBA課程主任Laurent Bibard解釋：

"It's the language for international teaching," he said. "English allows students to be able to come from anyplace in the world and for our students — the French ones — to go everywhere."

當然還有經費等一些因素，若以英語來上課不僅可吸引世界各地的學生，最主要的還可吸引來自英語系國家的學生。

"Revenue is very important, and in order to provide good services, we need to cover our expenses for the library and research journals. We need to cover all these things with a bigger number of students so it's quite important to attract international students."

以下的情況我很能體會。

But getting students to feel comfortable speaking English in the classroom is easier said than done. When younger French students at Essec start a required course in organizational analysis, the atmosphere is marked by long, uncomfortable silences, said Alan Jenkins, a management professor and academic director of the executive M.B.A. program.

"They are very good on written tasks, but there's a lot of reticence on oral communication and talking with the teacher," Dr. Jenkins said, adding that he used role-playing to encourage students to speak. He also refuses to speak in French. "I have to force myself to say, 'Can you give me that in English?'"

在韓國首爾的一所大學裡的部份課程也採全英語授課，當然開始時總會遭遇一些問題甚至質疑，但學生終究受益：

At the beginning, "teaching courses in English may have less efficiency or effectiveness in terms of knowledge transfer than those courses taught in Korean," said Anna Suh, program manager for the university's office of global affairs, who said that students eventually see the benefits. "Our aim for this kind of program is to prepare and equip our students to be global leaders in this new era of internationalization."

國際上的競爭無所不在，要與他國競爭，英語授課勢在必行。

"Internationally, the competition is everywhere," Dr. Bredillet said. "For a master's in management, I'm competing with George Washington University. I'm competing with some programs in Germany, Norway and the U.K. That's why we're delivering the curriculum in English."

woulda

woulda

(colloquial) would have

You woulda told him the truth.

Learning English BBC World Service:should and should have, would and would have, could and could have

網路翻譯家:語氣助動詞表示「推測」的用法