Interactive Greek and Latin Roots

This is a site that I use to practice Greek and Latin Roots. There are Matching Flashcards (Java/non-Java)Concentration and Word Search exercises.

This is better than working on paper and it's playing and learning at the same time.
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Go to this site and create a painting like Jackson Pollock.

VocabSushi

Memorizing new words is easier when you see them used in a real world context. VocabSushi lets you do just that. It is a free interactive vocabulary builder, which lets build your vocabulary by seeing word usage in the daily news.

You can practice words by filling out the sentence completion questions and learn the correct word pronunciations by playing the MP3 files. Words have been compiled from the actual word sets used in ISEE, ACT, GRE and other standardized tests that feature vocabulary sections.

System tracks progress of your overall vocabulary, skips the words you know and suggests words that are most challenging for you based on your learning curve. The service is free, and you need to sign up to get started.

Features:

• Interactive vocabulary builder.
• Learn new words by their usage in daily news.
• Words are taken from actual word sets used in GRE, ISEE, ACT, SAT and other standardized tests.
• System tracks progress of every word and suggests the most challenging words based on your learning curve.
• Practice new words by filling out sentence completion quizzes.
• Download printouts, MP3s and podcasts to learn words while you are offline.
• Similar website: WordAhead.

Check out VocabSushi @ www.vocabsushi.com

Learning vocabulary on the Internet

WordSift is a new tool which can help you get more information about a word or a sentence by displaying the related images from Google, visual thesaurus showing word relationships and more information about the text, all on one page. The tool was created primarily for teachers so that they can visualize text vocabulary structure and share it with their students.

Career Suggestion for Me = )

I had a look at this site to explore some possibilities for a career.
I answered 39 questions about what I like or dislike about my interests and abilities. This programme calculated my results and gave me a suggestion of suitable careers.

The suggestions were interesting because I don’t know what I w ant to do for my career. I looked at 6 careers and I looked at the general Arts programme at The University of Quebec in Montreal.
1. Environmental Consultants are scientists or engineers. When someone wants to buy, sell, develop, or restore land that may have been polluted, consultants are contracted to assess the area. It’s also their job to plan and oversee the cleanup, or “remediation,” of the site.
2. Art Directors are responsible for the overall “look" of films, television shows, stage productions, magazines, newspapers, advertisements, and multimedia products. They have a strong sense of design, vision, and style.
3. Historians examine records of the world's political, economic, religious, and cultural past, trying to find out how and why things happened the way they did, as well as what impact they had. They try to reconstruct the course of events based on various kinds of factual records, but the facts are always incomplete, and the whys of history are a matter of interpretation. There is a lot of guesswork involved, and historians are well-known for arguing with each other.
4. Ecologists study how living things interact with each other and with their environments. For instance, they may look at how a forest recovers after a fire, or how a rise in the population of rodents can influence the population of the owls and foxes that eat them.
5. Physical, or biological Anthropologists, focus on human physical characteristics, trying to understand how they are shaped by heredity and environment. Some concentrate on the fossil remains of ancient humans and closely related primates such as apes. Others specialize in primatology, studying the behaviour of living primate populations, usually in the wild. Cultural and social anthropologists compare historical and contemporary human cultures from all around the world, looking at religion, mythology, art, customs, and political, legal, and economic systems. In studying and documenting the amazing diversity of human life they also try to understand what we all have in common.
6. Landscape Architects design and create outdoor environments, from the gardens of single residences to whole streetscapes of entire new communities. They also do environmental assessments of development projects and monitor projects once they are built. To do their job well, they need a wide variety of scientific and artistic skills.
When I go home I will have a better idea of how to plan my future  !!!!

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Harry Potter in English!!! A review by Marjorie.T

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is playing in cinemas around the world. It’s my luck to see in English in Vancouver.

After seeing all five Harry Potter movies in French, I was surprised by the sixth movie in English.

The Half Blood Prince begins with scenes of Harry and Dumbledore. Sadly, the movie ends with Dumbledore’s death at the hands of Snape.

We learn about Dumbledore’s sacrifice when he drinks the poisoned water, but we don’t learn more about his character.

We see Tom Riddle when he is young but as the adult Voldemort his story doesn’t really advance and his character does not really develop.

The atmosphere of the film is dark and gloomy, but we don’t have a conclusion to the struggle between good and evil. For this we must wait until the final two movies: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

The quality of the set design, costuming and special effects were amazing. Every scene looked like a painting.

The relationship between the characters of Hermione, Harry, and Ron is developing with their maturing. It’s entertaining to watch the dynamics of their interaction with each other and their love interests.

Therefore I anticipate the last movie impatiently!!!!!!