After school, she was shooting the breeze with her friend Jackie. Jackie remarked that she’d seen Sara at the mall during lunch time going into Forever 18. The news hit Ava like a bolt from the blue. Sara would only go there for one reason – to buy the jacket for herself! Ava felt as if the wind had been knocked out of her. She should have left Sara in the dark about the sale. She’d had her head in the clouds and hadn’t been thinking clearly. She decided to confront Sara!
Ava stormed over to Sara’s house. When she knocked, Sara answered, “Oh, come in, Ava!” she exclaimed happily. “I have something for you.” She handed Ava a box. “I know you’ve been snowed under lately,” she said. “So I thought I’d so something nice for you.” When Ava opened the box, there was the jacket! She hugged Sara and felt relieved. Sara wasn’t a fair-weather friend after all. Now everything was as right as rain. Sara’s friendship was a ray of sunshine.
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Teaching Topic: One Space or Two?教學主題: 句尾間隔的紛爭
Hello, friends! When typing in English, how many spaces should there be after a period, one or two?
Well, there are lots of people who would say one, and lots of other people who would say two. The confusion comes from the era of the typewriter, anyone remember those? The typewriter used mono spaced type to make type documents easier to read people were taught at an extra space after each period.
Today though, computers use proportional fonts, so adding an extra space after a period is unnecessary.
Indeed, professional topographers and English style guys are all in agreement, that there should be just one space after period.
But as we said, there are still people who insist on using two. One journalism teacher in Colorado still today, teaches her high school students to use two spaces, even though she knows it goes against what all the style manual say.
So why does she do that, well she admits it’s because that’s how she learned to type when she was a student.
Friends, in your life as you study English, is there any thing you know you’re doing wrong? Yet refused to change just because it’s what you’re used to?
Language Lab
remark v.
to say something, especially about something you have just noticed:
remark that
- Sean remarked that he's going to England to study literature.
remark n.
something that you say when you express an opinion or say what you have noticed [= comment]:
- The governor's remarks about the incident irritated many women.
confront v.
if a problem, difficulty etc confronts you, it appears and needs to be dealt with:
- She left me no choice but to confront her.
to face someone in a threatening way, as though you are going to attack them:
- The robbers opened fire when confronted by the police.
confrontation n.
a situation in which there is a lot of angry disagreement between two people or groups:
- a serious military confrontation
exclaim v.
to say something suddenly and loudly because you are surprised, angry, or excited:
- "Help!" the girl trapped under the ruins exclaimed.
- She exclaimed in delight upon hearing the good news.
relieve v.
to reduce someone's pain or unpleasant feelings
- A nice hot bath can help relieve your headache.
relieved adj.
feeling happy because you are no longer worried about something
- I was so relieved when I heard you'd recovered from the surgery.
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