On 17 April 2007, there was a terrible tragedy that happened to Virginia Tech University in the United States, which has been recorded as the most serious shooting rampage in an American University. The massacre caused 33 dead, including the gunman, and 15 serious injuries.
This is the link to the article. The killings were in two phases. The first took place at 7.15am in a dormitory and the other at 9.15am in a classroom block. People, including the US President, expressed their shock and sadness. A New Zealander who studied in VT has contacted his family and said he had been safe.
Most of the verb forms which explain what happened are in the past simple form. There are four examples of perfect forms. The first one, "have been triggered", is the present perfect passive. The second and third ones, "has spoken", "have emerged ", are used in the present perfect simple. The last one, "had separated", is past perfect simple. One present continuous is used "are feeling". And one present simple, "says", is used in the article.
04/04/2007
Week 6, Oral Blog Entry 3-Leturer Summary
The Student Funding Centre mainly helps the students with their money problems. They provide students with funding and services, including awards, scholarships and grants. Focusing on student loans and finance problems, they give professional advice. Annette fully detailed the whole process of the official system, so that students could apply for what they needed in an efficient way. Furthermore, she introduced some useful resources and websites to the students, such as Breakout and Unitec Study Awards, so that they could find the specific information or data by themselves. Finally, some important financial advice was given to students in order to help them to budget their finances, for example, tips to increase their income and decrease their expenses. The Student Funding Centre solves any financial problems for students. Drop in and take a look at it. Use the links to the help centre.
27/03/2007
Week 3, Text Based Blog Entry 1 - About ME
What's up~guys!!My name is Kent. This is my first semister in the Diploma in English(Advanced) at Unitec.
Year 2007 is my 4th year in New Zealnd. I can still clearly remember the first day I arrived. My first impression of New Zealand was "What a beautiful country!"
I came here to do my further study alone. My parents and lelatives are in my home town, Guangzhou, China, which is in the south part of mainland China. I miss them so much! I wish I could give them a big hug at this monent. However I thought I had been luckier than many other overseas students. Why? Because I came here all the way to Auckland with Siva who is my best friend. We've known each other for nearly 10 years. He is an international student as well. We have shared all the joys and sadness together for the past few years. I am so glad to meet him.
When people ask me about my hobbies, I always say I have a lot, such as playing basketball, swimming, trvaelling and listening to music, etc... And basketball is always the first choice I want to talk about, but this time I will do something different. It comes to travel. However, I still attached a photo to prove basketball was my favourite sport.
Last September, my mum came to visit me. That was her first time she had been to New Zealand since I first came here. In this case, I wanted to show her the best stunning views in New Zealand - the South Island. I've never been there before and I expected to have an amazing experience there. Taking heaps of awesome photos and tasting very yummy seafood, we both had a really good time in the South Island. On my way home, I told myself I would be back again.
Finally, I hope every classmate will enjoy their time in class and all the best! I am very happy to meet so many friends in this class. Hope everything goes well during this semister.
20/03/2007
One Two Free!!
Landscape Archi + Art = Landscape Art
I am not used to like reading, but I had a huge turning when something happened last year. NOW, reading becomes one of my favourite hobbies.
Urbis, Domus and Trends are my favourite magazines. It's about creative design, architecture, and art. It tells you how to fix thing together, how the inspiration comes out, how a building from caterpillar-to-butterfly. Hope you will enjoy but not overjoyed.
best wishes
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