[모임공지] 7월3일 M-PIS 366th Meeting and Topic Notice

[ben~]

담주에 만나요.  모두들~~!

7월3일.doc

[Time table]

8;00~8;15  Greeting and small talk           8;20~9;00  Topic1  Conversation

9;10~9;50  Topic2  Conversation             9;50~10;00 Wrap up the study

 Small Talk

1.    Do you have any special habits?

2.    What kind of drinking habit do you have?

Topic1. Sesame Street and IBM make vocabulary app

Sesame Workshop (the company behind the hugely successful children's TV show Sesame Street) and IBM have teamed up to create a revolutionary new app for kids to learn vocabulary. The joint venture has created the first vocabulary learning app powered by IBM's artificial intelligence software. The app discovers for itself a child's current reading level and vocabulary range, and then uses its algorithms to challenge the child with appropriate, new vocabulary to improve the child's skills. It personalizes the learning experience for children. As the child continues to use the app, it will ensure he or she has learned and understood the new words before introducing additional, tailored vocabulary items.

IBM says it has just completed a pilot program testing the app. It collected 18,000 multiple-choice assessments given to kindergarteners over a two-week period. The researchers said the results were very promising. They said the kids learned words like "arachnid," "amplify," "camouflage," and "applause," which are typically learned at a much later age. The children could also use these words in context. Sesame Workshop CEO Jeffrey Dunn said: "We expect to develop the next generation of tailored learning tools….Educational technology like the platform we've created…is a promising new channel for learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom, and we're excited to explore it further."

Questions

1.  What do you think of Sesame Street?
2. How good is a tie-up between Sesame Street and IBM?
3. What's the best way to learn vocabulary?
4. Do small children need different ways of learning?
5. How will artificial intelligence change the way we learn language?
6. How happy are you with your level of English vocabulary?
7. What new words have you learned recently?
8. Would you like to use the new app?

Topic2. Trendy names make vegetables look tastier

 Researchers have discovered that people eat more vegetables if the veggies have trendy labels. A research team from Stanford University in the USA found that sales of vegetables increased by 25 per cent after they were given trendy-sounding names. The researchers conducted their research on 600 diners for several months at the university canteen. They labelled all vegetable dishes in four different ways each day. Diners could select vegetable dishes with a "basic" label (for example with just the word "carrots"), a "healthy restrictive" label ("carrots with sugar-free citrus dressing"), a "health positive" label ("smart-choice vitamin C citrus carrots") or a trendy label ("twisted citrus-glazed carrots").

Researchers gave diners a wide choice of vegetables to see how effective the trendy labels were. They used beetroot, butternut squash, carrots, corn, courgettes, green beans and sweet potato in their test. These had names like "twisted garlic-ginger butternut squash wedges," or "dynamite chilli," and "tangy lime-seasoned beets". They found that the vegetable dishes with the trendy labels were by far the most popular. These dishes were 25 per cent more popular than those with the "basic" labelling, and 41 per cent more popular than those with the "healthy restrictive" labelling. A researcher said: "Labels really can influence our sensory experience, affecting how tasty and filling we think food will be."

Questions

1.  How much do you like vegetables?
2. What is your favourite vegetable and why?
3. How can we get people to eat more vegetables?
4. Would trendy labels encourage you to eat more vegetables?
5. What kind of vegetables do you eat every day?
6. Do you think you should eat more vegetables?
7. What do you think of the sound of 'twisted citrus-glazed carrots'?
8. What do you think of carrots?

초중급반이란?

 - "꿈틀"엔 초급과 중급이 나뉘어져 open class로 운영되고 있습니다.(정원제가 아니라는 뜻입니다^^)

     그러나, 별다른 인터뷰도 없고 오로지 본인의 판단만으로 반을 결정해야 하는 문제점이 있네요..

     초급과 중급사이에서 모호함을 느끼는 분들~은 초중급반에서 부터 래팅 경험을 시작해 보세요.

     색다른 즐거움과 motivation이 기다리고 있습니다.

    우리반은 매주 신입멤버를 모집합니다.

  스터디 운영 방식은요?

[Time table]

8;00~8;15  Greeting and small talk           8;20~9;00  Topic1  Conversation

9;10~9;50  Topic2  Conversation            9;50~10;00 Wrap up the study

     스터디가 끝난 후엔 친목도모 혹은 허기를 달래고자 하는 목적으로 거의 매주 개더링이 이뤄집니다.

           한시간 남짓한 시간이 가져다 주는 활력과 즐거움을 이루 표현할 수가 없네요 ㅎㅎ

 참여대상은?

  - 기본적인 생활영어 표현이 가능하신 분들 (본인소개,취미,미래의 꿈등 가벼운 주제의 토론에 큰 어려움이 없으신 분들)

  - 초급 10pass member ,중급 10pass member 모두 참석 가능합니다.

  - 예습 없이도 topic을 5분이내에 파악하실 정도의 능력은 되셔야 겠죠?!

  Topic 과 참여방법

  - 토픽은 스터디 3일전(금요일)까지 게시판에 Upload 됩니다.

  - 참여는 게시판에 매주 게시되는 모임공지에 꼬리말을 다시고 스터디 당일 마이존 현장에 와서 pass를

    구입하시면 됩니다.

  - 참여 댓글을 달지 않고 참여하시면 토픽 hand out을 100원에 구매하셔야 하니, 번거로우시더라도 반드시  참여댓글을 다셔야 합니다.

  - 패스는 한달 4회<우리반만 사용> 이용하실수 있는 Monthly pass를 구매하시거나 10times pass를 구입하시고 참여하시면 됩니다.

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[꿈틀 위치]

[Jimmy,Jeong]

1st /Jimmy/ 월요일에 활력소 스터디에서 만나요~^^

[ben~]

어서와~ㅎㅎ

[Andrew Koh]

2nd/Andrew/참석합니다.

[Jimmy,Jeong]

반갑습니다~~

[Kyle Rhu]

3rd / Kyle / 참석합니다

[Jimmy,Jeong]

반갑습니다~~

[yoonha]

4th / yoonha 참여합니다^^

[ben~]

오랜만이네~

[ben~]

5th/Ben

[christina♥]

히히 빨리 만나용 ㅎㅎㅎㅎ^^

[Richard Hwang]

6th/참석합니다~
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[ben~]

저녁에 뵈요 형님~

[seohyun]

7th/seohyun 참석합니다 :)

[ben~]

개근생 이시네요..좀 이따 뵈요~!

[elisha3]

8th /elisha... I'm in....

[christina♥]

곧 만나용~~~~>_< ㅎ

[Johnny Lee (mojo)]

9th / Johnny / 이따 뵐게요~

[christina♥]

이따가 뵈요 ㅎㅎ

[christina♥]

10th / christina~ / 참석합니다 ㅎㅎ

[Jimmy,Jeong]

반갑습니다ㅎㅎ~~

[Leonardo DiCaprio]

11th / Leonardo DiCaprio / 늦지만 참석합니다

[Jimmy,Jeong]

늦게라도 오세요~

[Reno_Reno]

12th reno see you 참석할께요

[Jimmy,Jeong]

이따뵐께요~