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點心女孩的生活雜記 Trivia of Life (寫作及批改範例)

我是一個甜點愛好者，幾乎吃遍了台北大街小巷的點心，只要是美食節目或雜誌有介紹的，我絕不會錯過。我因為喜愛甜食而不經意地結交一些甜點同好，朋友間會彼此介紹哪裡有好吃的點心, 哪裡的點心特別精緻，或哪裡的點心經濟實惠等等。最特別的是，我的這些朋友不僅喜歡吃， 也吃出品味及心得，有幾個甚至成為網路部落客。還記得當我還是甜點初學者時，有個朋友交我如何品嚐提拉米蘇，由上而下一層一層的品嚐，享受表面特殊的酒香，到提拉米蘇的精華，感到馬斯卡邦乳酪的綿密口感及乳香，最後一定要大口地品嚐，體驗味覺的整體搭配性。一想到這，我就開始留口水了。當我越用心品嚐甜點，我就越能感受到師傅的用心，慢慢地我竟然開始珍貴食材及大自然的可貴。不能再說了，這種有感觸通常是老化的象徵。最後，我想說的是，到貴婦百貨買一小片價值180元的甜點不算奢侈，奢侈的是不懂地慢慢享受甜點的美。

I am a dessert lover. I have been visited all dessert shops at every corner in Taipei city. Especially, I have never ignored the desserts which were introduced on TV cuisine program and on the cuisine magazine. Due to this special interest, surprisingly I have made several good friends who are also dessert lovers. We will share the information of where we can buy the best tasty desserts, and where we can buy the best refined desserts, and where we can buy the most economic desserts. Some of them have even become professional bloggers who are specialized in promoting good desserts via the Internet in a subtle way. As I remembered, one of my friends who taught me how to taste Tiramisu, from the top layer to the middle and then to the bottom layer. Enjoy the special flavor of wine on the top and feel the best part of Tiramisu, the texture of Mascarpone cheese and its milk flavor. After these, the final part is to have a big bite of the dessert to feel the overall taste. Speak to here, I am starting to swallow. When I delicate myself more in finding good things of desserts, I can sense more the dedication from chefs. And I become more cherish the food and natural resource. I will stop here of speaking my feeling. Often, this feeling is happened to people who are gradually turning old. At the end, I want to say that it is not too luxury to get a small piece of desserts from a high-end shopping mall. However, it is too luxury to eat the dessert with empty feeling forward the desserts.

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(1)   I am a dessert lover.

French Dessert in Taiwan (寫作及批改範例)

French Dessert has rapidly become famous in Taiwan. It has been perceived as a piece of art and a trend setter of the dessert world. The factors of this success are worth for us to study and to benefit from it to better promote Taiwanese dessert to the international market. French dessert is one of the global leading brands, carrying strong French image, life style and the level of people’s competency toward art literature. As a soft power, French dessert hugely influences people’s understanding toward French.

French dessert has rapidly become popular in Taiwan. It has been perceived as art and a trendsetter in the dessert world. The factors of this trend are worthy for us to study and to benefit from it to better promote Taiwanese dessert to the international market. French dessert is now like one of the global leading brands, carrying strong French image, lifestyle and the level of people’s competency toward art literature. As a soft power, it also hugely shapes people’s understanding of French.

French dessert is often priced high as luxury jewel. The luxury dessert market size has expanded 100% within 2 years. It is the result from the intensive marketing activities, promoted by ingredient suppliers, channel managers, and of course, media. Efforts from each of them are like free tools to French government to lift the image of nation and its dessert.

I’ve been teaching Time magazine nonstop for 8 years, and is getting wilder ever time I teach because of the richness of the world events the English language leads me and students to.

I constantly think of the way I learned English in school – those moments of rote memorization of words and rules, mechanical sentence patterns. We studied hard for tests but were rarely given the chance to use the language. Probably all language educations are like this – rigid and lifeless. Yet, it was the things outside the textbooks that fascinated me. I would read English newspapers and magazines because I wanted to know the stories behind those images. Yes, they were difficult, but they were interesting.

Little did I know what I was so doing until recently that my curiosity of things simply went go beyond language, and only at a very later stage did I realize that when we set our eyes on world events, language ability will follow. 

After 8 year of teaching, I have developed my philosophy in teaching – language should lead us to freedom, not constraint. It gives us freedom when we are wondering the meaning a language delivers. A constraints when we focus too much on the correct spelling, grammatical use of a language.  

Q 1. 我的英文很差，也可以參加林老師的課程嗎？ 

A 1. 在字字字英文教室中，課程分為字彙解析及新聞英文閱讀兩大部分，其中字彙課以字首及字根的角度切入，由單一字首或字根延伸出許多同義字首或字根的單字，舉例的單字多為實用且常見的用字。學生可透過大量的例子來提昇對單字的敏銳度，並且加深對字首或字根的印象。林老師授課時，反傳統、反制式的思考方式及內容，經常幽默且具啟發性，並且可以降低學生的學習痛苦指數。學生的程度並非關鍵，態度及持續力是學習的關鍵推力。

另外，在新聞英文閱讀課中，林老師每回課程內容皆不相同，包括國際間的頭條時事或現況，或對國際社會具影響力的事件、人物、想法等，林老師透過不同的內容主題擴展學生的既有認知，並且幫助學生對單字、文法、或特殊用語等的認識能夠更加靈活及深入。學生透過在課程中經常性的閱讀，可以提昇學生的整體閱讀能力，及整體英文能力。此課程的大多數學生與林老師有深度的互動，以中長期進修的職場工作者或計劃出國升學的學生居多。 

Q 2. 我想學些實用英文，有類似旅遊或商用英文的課程嗎？

A 2. 字字字英文教室中，無論是字彙解析及新聞英文閱讀課程，內容多以實用為主，不侷限於單一主題，內容範圍包括政治、財經、外交、科技、藝文、生活等層面，培養學生對英文使用的廣度及深度。

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我覺得上Bruce老師的字彙課對我很有幫助。像是字根字首的部份，現在我慢慢的養成一個習慣，在查字典前都會試著去猜它的意思。然後猜對的機率越來越高，就會很開心，有學以致用的感覺很好！耶！

而且就像Bruce你說的，慢慢的會形成一種對字的感覺，雖然我現在的感覺處於一種很模糊的狀態，但是跟以前比起來，看文章的能力有進步了很多。

上老師你的課有一個很好的是，會一直重覆講過的東西，然後補充一大堆。所以即使我忘記了，下次當你再提到後，我就很快可以記起來，就不會再忘記了。

還有我覺得最大的收獲就是！有關學英文的態度。以前我總是死背單字，然後弄的自已好累又背不起來，就算背起來也不知道要怎麼用。但是現在因為你鼓勵我們要多閱讀、多聽、多看，所以我才開始看書、報紙。再也不死字單字了。有一種一語驚醒夢中人的感覺。我真的沒有誇張，遇到英文突然就亂了陣腳，然後一亂就亂了好幾年....

總而言之，Bruce你的課讓我受益良多。

Yvonne