English, Literature, and the Bible

2026年3月8日星期日

7.18 New Year's Eve

1. What year was it?

2. Where were you?

3. Who were you with?

4. Where did you have dinner?

5. What did you wear?

6. What did you do before midnight?

7. What did you do at midnight?

8. What did you do after midnight?

9. How was the weather?

10. What time did you go to bed?

11. Did you have a good time?

F = friend, D = Denisa

F What was your best ever New Year’s Eve? One you always remember?

D Oh, definitely 2014, when I was in Rio.

F Who were you with?

D I was with my boyfriend Marcelo, who’s Brazilian.

F Why was it so special?

D Well, Brazil has special traditions for New Year’s Eve, and they were all new for me. For example, it’s a Brazilian tradition to wear white clothes for New Year’s Eve because white is a symbol of peace, so I wore a beautiful white dress, which Marcelo’s mother bought me. I have a photo somewhere on my phone. Yes, here, look!

F How pretty. So what did you do?

D Uh, let me think. Well, first we had a typical New Year’s Eve dinner with Marcelo’s family. And then, I guess it was about ten, we got a bus to Copacabana.

F What was the atmosphere like there?

D Oh, it was amazing! The streets were already full of people. We went to a show at a place near the beach. It was great, and we danced samba.

F Wow. Were you there at midnight?

D No, no. When we saw it was almost midnight, we went to the beach, and the typical countdown started, you know – ten, nine, eight…Happy New Year! Everywhere we heard the sound of people celebrating, and we watched the wonderful fireworks.

F It sounds great. What did people do when the fireworks finished?

D Most people went to other parties, or they went home.

F And what about you?

D We decided to go to a different beach, a beach called Praia do Arpoador, and we took our first swim of the new year. It was magical.

2026年3月7日星期六

Lesson 2. Taking Vital Signs

1. take/check vital signs
2. temperature
3. respiratory rate
4. pulse
5. (take) blood pressure: high/low, hypertensive/hypotensive
6. oxgen saturation
7. systolic pressure/ diastolic pressure
8. beat
9. cuff
10. chart

2026年3月4日星期三

Chapter 1.

Chapter 1.

https://books.studioclassroom.com/BWP/u1/story_html5.html

2026年3月1日星期日

1. Making an Appointment

1. making an appointment
2. reception
3. available
4. wart
5. incoming
6. deal with
7. hold on
8. remind
9. in that case
10. reschedule
11. assigned doctor

Nurses without Borders Intermediate Level MP3

Celebrities

2026年2月24日星期二

Questions

1. Do you agree that film is an art form like music or painting? Why or why not?
2. Do you think films influence our beliefs about gender, class, or race? Can you give an example?
3. In what ways is film a product of modern industrial society?
4. Why do you think film has become the dominant art form of our time?
5. Why is adaptation considered an interpretation rather than a simple transfer?
6. What challenges might filmmakers face when turning a novel into a film?
7. Why do you think so many successful films are adaptations?
8. Do you prefer watching a film adaptation before or after reading the book? Why?
9. Should a film be judged by how “faithful” it is to the original text? Why?