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Amanda Knox was born in Seattle(July 9, 1987), Washington, to Edda Mellas, a math teacher, and Curt Knox, the American woman who was accused of the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. In 2007. Knox moved to Perugia, Italy, to study Italian, German, and creative writing at the University for Foreigners for one year. She shared a house with Meredith Kercher, a student from England, as well as two Italian women. After Meredith Kercher was found murdered on November 1, 2007, Amanda Knox and her boyfriend were both arrested for the crime. She was found guilty and sentenced to serve 26 years in prison and later the conviction was overturned on October 3, 2011, but the jury upheld Knox' conviction for falsely implicating bar owner Patrick Lumumba. For this Knox was sentenced to three years in prison, which she had already served, and was ordered to pay Lumumba's court costs of about 22,000 euros.Amanda Knox’ lucky escape should thank the leaky Italian law. During the whole time of her trail, the media of the world followed closely. Now she is home with her family, but America is the land of opportunity, people never miss a chance making money from all sorts of situations, whether they are bad or good. According to industry experts, Amanda could sell her story in book, TV and even big screen movie rights for millions of dollars. People are lining up and can’t wait to get their hands on the gravy train.As the matter of fact Amanda Knox’ family had already spent a fortune to secure her release, only her grandmother alone was said to have taken out a loan of $250,000. She needs to make quite a lot of money to repay her family. The thing is, although she was acquitted and allowed to go home, she isn’t quite out of the woods yet because Italian prosecutors are expected to make a final appeal against her acquittal. Therefore, any deal could be in need for discretion from the Italian authorities. Personally, after reading all the reports about the whole trail, it seems to me that Amanda Knox wasn’t exactly an angle. To be honest, I don’t believe she was completely innocent, only just lucky and be able to get away with it that is all. I also would believe that the whole thing will remain as hot topic for quite some time to come yet.你又给了我一个苦差喇! 说实话,我根本并未注意到这度新闻,为了要深入一点了解整件事情的前因後果,我花了很多时间在网上找资料,取你这20分可实在辛苦了(又未必实得的),而且你要200个字,我连标点符号一共写了405个,下次要多给我几分至得了,若不是,我就不干了(Only joking OK?)。
包子熊二
我是英语老师KK,已经带过很多学员。通过自己学英语的感悟以及和学员们的沟通交流,分享三个心得体会。
1. 不要脱离生活学英语
英语是一门学科,更是一门语言。学英语的目的,主要是为了能够和别人顺畅的沟通交流。因此,英语是生活的一部分,学习时不能脱离生活。比如我们小时候在课本上学到的经典打招呼用语:"How are you?" "I'm fine, thank you. And you?",在实际生活中,几乎没有人这么说。而且,这句话在生活中,也不是我很好,而是我不怎么好。所以,要想和别人愉快的说话,就要研究外国人在生活中真正会说哪些话,比如我们可以观看贴近生活的美剧:《摩登家庭》、《绝望主妇》等。
2. 输入重要,输出更重要
很多人提到学英语,第一个反应是背,背单词,背句子。并不是背东西不好,而是只背不用是学不会英语的,因为会用的东西才是自己的,相对于输入而言,输出更重要。就像没有一个孩子学说话,是靠往脑子里不停得塞东西,而不运用,都是要不停的模仿,不停的说,多运用多输出,记住的东西就是自己的了。
3. 抓住一点去努力
我有很多学员在最开始学习的时候,音准、音调、流利度、语法等等都想一把抓,结果把自己搞的很疲惫,过了几天就放弃了。切记:面面俱到 = 精力分散,如果什么都想做成,往往什么都做不成。就像旅行一样,我们每次都只能去一个地方。因为我们的精力是有限的,顾此失彼是常态。比如给自己一个月的时间,就把音标学好,每天学几个音标读法,这样每天都有进步,每天都有正反馈,会积极地促进自己走的更远。
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借鉴一下他人的英语学习经验来回答吧~今天和大家分享的这一本书是《考拉小巫的英语学习日记》,我昨天刚刚看完。这种非专业中文书看得很快,3个小时足够。大家可以利用周末半天时间翻阅。个人感觉这本书干货不多,主要就是在讲个人奋斗历程。想通过这本书的方法学习英语的同学很可能没什么收获,因为一开始我也是抱着这种想法的。作者2009年已经到了美国读研,我们现在已经2017年了,很多书籍、方法都不适用了。但是,书中非常可取的一点就是,作者本人从小学到大学都很普通,是我们场说的averageone,但是通过自己努力学习英语,最终申请到了WUSTL,攻读社会学,这个专业全美排名第一。因此,这本书带给人的最大收获就是:如何从普通人变成出色的人。看完感觉很励志,恨不得立马抱起书就开始读,拿起单词就开始背。坚持下去就是最好的。所以,加入周末共读吧~我们一起读书~寒假过后,你会发现收获满满~要不要看看坚持的力量?本期电子书密码:hv38