Week Six summarising the article

This article mainly talks about the traffic safety .The author points out the defect of traffic system after a couple of traffic accidents between buses and human , and suggest that some road rules should be promoted to guarantee the safty of pedestrians and cyclists . For example , the buses speed should be limited in some special area , set up special lanes for buses in some bus lines etc . One more thing is that the amount of vehicles is increasing everyday . So more public transportation should be introduced so as to let more people take buses instead of driving their cars .

past simple and past passive
Union president Gary Froggatt first suggested the lower limit last month, after a pedestrian was killed in a bus lane in Dominion Rd.
present perfect simple
Plans to extend Auckland City's network of bus lanes deep into Remuera have prompted a renewed call for extra safety rules to protect pedestrians and other road users.
past perfect simple
...there had been very few accidents involving buses in the lanes, apart from...
present simple
The city council wants to add 5km of bus lanes along Remuera and St Johns Roads to its 26km .
present continuous
I'm talking about when cars are bumper to bumper in the middle of the road,....

New Zealand Englisg

Teacher Philippa Fox Gave a lecture about about New Zealand English on April .

New Zealand is an immigrant country . From here you may see all kinds of people , who come from Europe , Africa , India , America , China ,Korean and Australia . Of course , they brings their English here ,such as British English, Korean English, Indian English, Africa English etc . Actually , there are two types of common English , one is standard English ,the other is American English . New Zealand English is close to standard English .

With the increasing of the immigrant amount , A new accent — mixing bowl was created during the daily communication among the mixed people . They influences each other in normal changes, pioneering spirits, national identities, media characters etc .
The content of the accent , mainly are about vowels, diphthongs, disappearing differences, extra syllable, as well as high rising intonation and so on . You may find that some vowels have already changed in New Zealand . For examples , A Kiwi usually pronounces ‘fish’ as ‘fush’ , and pronounces ‘chips’ as ‘chups’, say ‘pen’ as ‘pin’ and ‘six’ as ‘sex’.Lastly, if you need more help . you can find some references in the Language Learning Centre at library in Unitec about the story of New Zealand English. You may also read some articles about NZILD English by visiting some websites, like http://listener.co.nz/issue/3393/features/4034/watch_your_language.h or

Two pictures

There are two pictures here. Picture one shows a group of students are studying in classroom one .They are discussing questions in group with the help of computer. Compare to the picture two , these students are elderly teenagers.
In picture two , there are some students who are learning something , some are writing , some are reading . They aren’t sitting on the chair using computer , instead they sit on the ground in group or individually . Maybe they are younger than those in classroom two and short of analysis ability so that they needn’t to use the computer for help .
Now computers already become common in New Zealand in educational area. Nevertheless , when deciding whether computers could be used by students in the class their ages should be taken into accounted .

Differences in manners between NZ & China

Holidays are usually happy time for a busy person . I accompanied my wife to go shopping. She want to buy some clothes. To our surprise , it’s really hard to find ideal one for her .It turn out that the dress style here is really different from that in China. She had no choice but sent email to my sister-in-law to ask for help . Now ,I have already lived here near two and a half years . I discovered that living manners between NZ and China are really different . For example , a Kiwi friend invited my wife and I for dinner , when we left home ,we should bring some food or drink with us . In China ,the people invited just go with their mouths. The interest thing is that Kiwi food cooks really fast, even for 20 or 30 people. In China ,it would take long time ,even prepare it a couple days ahead of dinner time . Another thing caught my sight is the marriage, many of the couples are partners. They keep their own money respectively,if one pay the food ,electricity or water fees, the other pay rental . Financially independent. In China ,the couples put their incomes together. Enjoy it together.

About Union

Last year I worked in Cadbury Confectionary Manufacturer for about ten months.I saw that the union members of this company held a couple of meetings to discuss about over-hours rates of their pay.I didn't understand what the union was and what its funtion was as well.On 3rd April,I attended a class about 'union'.Now I understood it more and more. First of all,a union is a association that workers orgnized voluntarily,or ,to further their mutual interests with respect to wages,hours,working conditions and other matters of interest to the workers.You can choose if you want to join.Secondly,unions have traditionally negotiated with employers about pay rates,hours of work and working conditions such as holidays sick pay,safe & healthy workplaces etc.Thirdly,employers have no rights to choose the union leader,instead the leader is elected by the union members.Finally,the union may decide to go on a strik if collective agreement has expired when negotiating a new CA must give resonable notice.There are about 330000 New Zealanders belong to a union,51.5 percent of them are women.

About me

Hi everyone

My name is Raymond and I am from Shenyang city in the North-East of China. I used to be a teacher and I taught Mechanism and Engineer drawing. I moved to New Zealand in September,2004. I hope I can become a teacher again. But English is a big problem for me. Now I am learning English at Unitec. I really hope my speaking and listening will improve greatly very soon. My interests are a little extensive . I like to talk about politics , histories, cultures from different nations etc. I also like to take part in community activities.

My maxim is
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. －Thomas Edison

Buddy, encourage each other.