Bliss English Club

Dear blissers,

Yesterday Barkley brought us a nice afternoon. We recognized some precious animals and plants, such as Taiwan black bear, butterflies and orchids.  We also learned a useful skill about the action we should take while running into a bear in the wilds.  In the second half of the meeting, we grouped into to 4 teams to discuss about two topics:

a)   Wet land community design

b)   Some useful ways to protect environment

We also learned a lot of vocabularies. Thanks Barkley for providing the following import ones. I believe they’re very useful to you.

1.the equator 赤道

2.the tropics / the torrid zone 熱帶

3.the temperate zone 溫帶

4.the frigid zone 寒帶

5.latitude 緯度

6.tropic of cancer 北廻歸線

7.tropic of capricorn 南廻歸線

8.coral 珊瑚

9.emerald 綠寶石

10.wilderness 荒野

11.wetland 濕地

12.the kidney 腎臟

13.flood control 防洪

14.ground water recharge 補充地下水

15.coastal protection 保護海案

16.poison 毒物

17.properties 資產

18.gene pool 基因庫

19.habitat 居民

20.endangered species 瀕臨絕種物種

21.recreation 休閒

22.atmospheric equilibrium 氣候調節

23.shrimp 蝦

24.shellfish 貝

25.purify clarify 淨化

26.birding 賞鳥

27.glacier 冰河

28.small leaf edelweiss 玉山薄雪草

29.common selfheal 夏枯草

30.crystal orchid 水晶蘭

31.photosynthesis 光合作用

32.altitude 海拔

33.jurassic period 侏儸紀

34.salmon / sakura masu 鮭魚 櫻花鉤吻鮭

35.adopt 認領(養)

Thanks Kurt, Nelly, Stanley, Catherine, Angel, Angela, David, Stephanie, Ellen, Karl, Sam, Sylvia and Fox for your participation. The following is the meeting ‘s photo link: http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/Jan30thLifeAndMindMapByBarkley#

For the next 3 weeks, 2/6, 2/13 and 2/20, there’s NO meeting because of the Chinese Lunar New Year.  Wish you guys all have nice holidays and vacations.

Sincerely,

Mengta

Dear all bliss members,

Last week, Owen held an auction for us. He introduced the types of auction including English auction, Dutch auction, Sealed first - price auction, Vickrey auction, All-pay auction, buyout auction, and combinational auction.  I believe all you guys had lots of fun and learned how to bid and ask price in an auction. Do you get what you like? Do you sell out your unused ones?  Don’t worry, prepare for it, we’ll hold another auction for you later this year.

Thanks Ellen, ㄍㄨㄢˋ強, Nelly, Nelly’s sister, Stephanie, Joe, Fox, Barkley, Karen, Joy for your participation.  The following is the photo link:  http://picasaweb.google.com/ilovebliss.taipei/Jun16AucationByOwen#

It's my honor, again, to host the meeting for Blissers. This time, I am going to share some techniques about knowing people. It's not quite necessary to learn mind reading or through talking with a person to know him well. In the first part we may acquire some general/advanced knowledges to quickily understand what a person feel by his gesture, body language, or expression. After that, each attendee will have a chance to practice those skills by means of interesting team activities.

In the 2nd half, we'll have some case studies about the famous Holmes' deduction approaches to observe the profile of strangers and get to know things in stunning detail.

2:00 ~ 2:30 - Warm-up activities (including Apple Mac mini Demo)

2:30 ~ 3:00 - Introduction of techniques to know people quickily

3:00 ~ 3:30 - Group guess game on body language

3:30 ~ 3:40 -  10 min break

3:40 ~ 4:10 - Introduction of Sherlock Homes' famous cases of knowing strangers by deduction

4:10 ~ 4:40 - One-on-one game for individual analysis by deduction

4:40 ~ 5:00 - 10 min break

5:00 ~ 5:30 -  Group deduction game

Let's have some good lessons to see through a man's thought ahead of knowing them further. The sooner you know people well, the less time you need for deeper acquaintance. 

Best Regards,

Patrick

Dear all bliss members,

Last week our host, Michael Tsai, bring us a great lesson about American Idioms. We learned the types of Idioms – Fixed type and Wild-card type, and many interesting Idioms with illustrations. We also debated on the pro and cons of rekindling on old flame. I believe that all the attended learned a lot in this meeting. I’d like to summarize the idioms and share with you as follows:

Thanks Jay, Tracy, Joy, Fox, Nelly, Barkley, Karl, Angela, Stephanie and Owen for your participation.  The following is the photo link: http://picasaweb.google.com.tw/ilovebliss.taipei/Jun10AmericanIdiomsByByMichael#