Wednesday, 20 June 2007

listening task

I choose 'bling' in this David Crystal lesson. This word attrack me so much because it sound familiar for me, especially we said it many time in our ice breaking time at class lesson.
In my opinion about learning with this new way, with internet and online learning, it easy and help me correct my pronounce. when im hear the audio, at the same time i read the text, it make me easy to understand and know better about the history of the word. This is so interesting because usually, we just heard and said the word, but we don't know that word come from where and what story behind the word.
'Bling', arrived in English in late of 1990s. this word used to describe diamonds and jewellery and all of kind show cloth and other.
This word became nationally known in the USA when the artist Baby Gangster - Cash Money artist - made a hit hip-hop song called 'Bling Bling'. And it soon arrived in Britain, where it was more usually used without the reduplication, you know, 'bling', by itself. It was in dictionaries by 2002.
Another word i had choose is 'blog', this word more familiar for me because im a blogger almost for a year. I had my own blog and now, in this English faundation, we also need to do a blog. blog, bloggers, carry out the activity of blogging, setting up a blog site, with a unique web address in order to do so. It's an abbreviation of 'web log'; a phrase that was first used in 1997, both as a noun and as a verb, a web log. content management system, a way of getting content on to a webpage; it's a genre, a bit like diary writing, or bulletin posting. Blogger usually write about their own life, story, same as we write a diary, and blogger also do it diary at least often several time in week, and there is a blogger who write new entry each for everyday.
That all for my opinion.

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