Look CALL from a new angle --- the use of Word.

Today, after having my Chinese to English translation class, I start to look CALL from a new angle. I discover that one single computer program, even without the Internet, can still help students to increase their lexicon volume. Why will I say that? In the class we watched two short TV program, one is the big hit of today –Project Runway; another is “The Mystery of Genius”. When I watched these two TV shows, I typed down every vocabulary I’ve heard in Word. So this Microsoft product, Word, can help me to correct any wrong spelling word immediately and automatically. Even more, you can directly make and edit those new words into your vocabulary chart.
Nowadays one out of five people have a computer or a laptop; therefore, it is very convenience for everybody to use Word to improve their English vocabulary ability. I think to use Word to help me to record and correct the vocabularies I hear, no matter from TV program or radio, is very useful and efficient.

Those are the new words I learn in my translation class today:

Vocabulary from Project Runway:
To keep the level of competition high
Significant amount of weight
Layers 層次
Girlly 女人味
Someone owns something ….. 主導
Makeover 改造
Fit well 合身
Force on to 加諸於
Chop up into 分成
Show off 展現
Ouchy 沒品味
Beret 貝雷帽
Impeccable = perfect
Stumpy 矮胖的矮胖者
Duster 雞毛撢子
Way too many ….
Run out of stem 缺乏創意 / 缺乏活力
Velvet 絲絨
Costume 道具服
Fashion forward
Canary yellow 淡黃色
Legging 內搭褲
Cliché 過時的
Force into … 加入
Immunity 豁免權

The Mystery of Genius”:
Over above 超越
Cognitive 卓越 / 顯著
Hyperactive 過動兒
Compulsive 強迫
Hook by 使驚訝
To give someone the hook. 很突然地解雇某人。
Equation等式
The equation of success