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Superskyscarpers, language learning, evolution, male/female, happiness, animal experimentation, population, plagiarism... we have already studied many interesting units...

Superskyscarpers, frankly speaking, I never pay attention to this before. I have interests on engineering, not in superskyscrpers, but in historic buildings. At the beginning of this unit, I wondered why we should choose this unit, it focus on specialized field too much. The video which talks about self-rising system made me very confused. I found the video on the internet and spent lots of time on re-listening, but even I heard every single word, I couldn't understand it very clearly because there are too much technical words that I don't know, it drives me crazy . However, at last, I realized that the purpose of studying this unit is not to teach us as engineering students, but give us a way to know how university students do their work and let us understand that how to read English article---even though you don't understand the technical word at all, you will understand the whole article because English author always try their best to explain their main idea to help reader understand clearly. Therefore, I clear my mind and think over the whole video with the backgroud information that I get from reading and discussion, so finally I figure out how self-rising system work. It's not my favorite unit,but I learned something very important about reading, that's what I expect learn from this class.

Language learning, it's a good relaxing after escaped from superskyscarpers:) It's familar to us who are learning English as a second language. I learned how to read an article quickly and understand it very well. It also helps me to know that how to anwser essay questions. The most intersting thing I find in this unit is that through reading and study, I know myself better than before. It pushes me to think what my motivation of studying is and find many intersting facts with studying on myself that I never mention before. It built a clear and completed system about the factors which influence study in my mind so that I can understand my purpose of studying and know how to study efficiently better.

Evolution, which is the unit I like it best, is a wonderful unit to students who study English as a second language, in my opinion. There are two reasons can explain why I choose it as my favorite unit. Firstly, everyone knows Darwin's theory about evolution, so even thought the article have a lot of technical words, we still can understand the whole theory from guess with our rudiments, it's not too difficult but also is a challenge. Second of all, the artical we read is a part of real university text book of Biology. Comparing the knowledge which I get from the artical with my rudiments, I find that it's very ineresting to compare two text books in different countries and different cultures. When I read the article very carefully, it's amazing to know a lot of very useful vocabulary that I expect to know and can help me explain what I want to present better. For this reason, I felt a great sense of achievement after learning this unit. In addition, I learned how write a summary by writing summary for this unit. As stated above, I enjoy learning this unit best.

Male/ female is the most interesting topic that I prefer to study. It's very funny to watch such a wonderful video and free to discuss a lot of interesting question. But maybe we have so much other projects to do, we don't have time to study this topic deeply and carefully. It's a pity that we don't have enough time to study such a interesting topic which is worth to learn.

Happiness unit is the one that I spent lots of time on it. To my surprise, the best part that impact me a lot is to give a definition of happiness. It sounds like everyone konw what is happiness, in fact, it's really very hard to definite this simple but expensive word. The process that figure out a clearly definition of happiness is a way to lead us thinking deeply and to organize or arrange our explosive mind. The big big summary we write for the two articles about happiness was simply like a nightmare to me. The summary is too hard to be done. Even thought I spent five hours on it and wrote a second draft, I'm still not satisfied with it. Nevertheless, it gives me a warm-up practice for doing research paper.

Animal experimentation is also a good unit. I understand the issue very well so that I have a lot of arguments for the debate. Beside, I think that I can control persuasive essay much better than I was in advanced one. I have more freedom to write and not to be limited by plenty of the information I have already get.

Population unit teach me to realize the importance of preparing background inforemation. When I wrote my blog about population, I don't know what I read and thought would be very helpful with my exam. When I watch the video about population, I felt like I got a surprising gift from my own. A lot of useful vocabulary that I learned for my blog are also very useful for video, so I get a wonderful secret which helps me a lot for preparing exams.

Plagiarism unit is a very short but useful one to us. It comes from real document in university and it's better to know these rules as early as possible.

All of the units that we learned is useful to improve our English more or less. Ibelieve that if a person try to do some real study, he or she will alwasys find interesting parts of his or her own favorite.