HP Exercise JMatch

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The collocation of "euthanasia"

euthanasia rights/ movements/ban

perform, practice/practise, legalize/ban euthanasia

voluntary/involuntary/active/passive euthanasia

COCA Exercises

Mesmerizing	Adjective		The characteristics or properties of something or someone that attract people’s attention		This video is a slow burn, but it's mesmerizing. This stick insect, painstakingly extruding itself from its egg, is an individual (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/27/watch-this-a-gigantic-stick-insect-pries-itself-out-of-a-tiny-egg/) We took 30 minutes to do each round. The process was absolutely mesmerizing. Even one of the most compulsively loud and talkative boys managed to  nearly touch (http://www.alexawebermorales.com/2012/11/how-i-survived-in-an-improvised-shelter-in-the-shadow-of-mt-shasta/)	Example 1: Her performance is so mesmerizing that everyone gives her a standing ovation. Example 2: Her beautiful and mesmerizing eyes makes him fall in love.
Quell	Verb	To subdue, to suppress something, to stop something especially by using force		He’s been unable to quell his wife’s suspicions. In this century, however, such criticisms have been quelled by the enormous prestige of standard modern logic, which is considered inviolate.		Example 1: the police quelled the protest quickly after it broke out in violence. Example 2: The manager coldly quells his opinions.
Far-fetched	Adjective	Very unlikely to be true, difficult to believe.		The recent finding of mosaic patients indicates that this possibility is not far-fetched. Cambridge English Corpus		In the beginning, I thought that the plan of building up a thousand-bed temporary hospital within a week was far-fetched.

HP Quiz Exercises

AWL Exercises Sublist 1b, 1c, 2a

Experience with CALL

I have just found out that I have been using the CALL materials all the time without knowing that they are CALL materials. Online dictionaries, news websites, and online multimedia tools are what I find very useful for me to improve my English learning because they are easy to access and to be used. However, things were not that convenient when I was a junior and senior high schooler in Vietnam. Back in the early 2000s, computers were rarely seen in my remote hometown, and not to mention the internet connection service (which I remember that it was started to be installed and later commonly used in 2008). At that time, the studying of English relied on reference books and raw documents, which was a disadvantage in terms of learning materials and studying time.

When I was in 7th grade, I was chosen along with a few students to form a representative team for an English competition. We had to prepare months before the competition. Our English teacher gave each of us a pile of exercise documents which was about identifying and determining the correct stressed syllable of each word given (the assignment was very tough and tiring). I had to look up every page of a small, old and worn dictionary to check every single English word. it was such a time-consuming and tiring exercise I have ever did, and yet, I didn't finish all of it by the time of the deadline, even though I tried all my best. If I had had a computer connected with the internet at that time, I would have finished the exercise even before the deadline without wasting too much time on it.

Now, I can check any English word in an online dictionary and it is free of charge. What's more, I often practice my English listening skills through Youtube and improve reading skills on news and magazine websites.

AWL Exercises 2b, 2c, 3a