Assignment #5: How do you like ESL Randall's Cyber Listening Lab as a language learning resource?

Beginning of the study English seems to start from reading. Although it make my reading ability in English be improved, there are some problems emerge gradually. I think my lack of ability is Listening, because we don't have the kind of environment to enhance listening ability. But now has changed. ESL Randall's Cyber Listening Lab is the best website I have ever seen to learning English listening.
I found that this website has the following advantages:

First, they use life dialogue to express different situations. Second, conversations between two persons about speed and response are similar to the daily lives of foreigners. Third, they are attentive to the ease of doing classification, this facilitate in accordance with our ability to do incremental learning. 

Maybe my English isn't very well, but I will do my best to learning English, especially listening.

Learning is not talking without doing, only sustained learning, is the only way to succeed.

Assignment #4: Two clips from Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

Apartments for Rent (Easy part)

1.Campus (noun):

Definition: the area and buildings around a university, college, school, etc.

Example: Rallies were held on college/university campuses across the country.

2.Commute (noun):

Definition: the journey that you make when you travel to or from a place that you go to regularly (such as the place where you work.)

Example: There is always a lot of traffic on my morning commute.

3.Utilities (noun):

Definition: a company that provides electricity, water, etc.

Example: Notify the utility if there's an outage.

4.Complex (adjective):

Definition: having parts that connect or go together in complicated ways.

Example: A complex system.

5.Vacancies (noun):

Definition: a room in a hotel, motel, etc., that is available for use.

Example: There were no vacancies at the hotel.

A Student Credit Card (Medium part)

1.Stereo (noun):

Definition: a piece of electronic equipment that plays the radio, CDs, etc., and that uses two speakers for the sound.

Example: Let me show you my stereo.

2.Dough (noun):

Definition: informal (money.)

Example: I don't have much dough.

3.Spend yourself in a hole (idiom):

Definition: spend too much that leads to heavy debt

Example: Some people spend themselves in a hole because they can't control their shopping habits.

4.Impulse (noun):

Definition: a sudden strong desire to do something.

Example: He has to learn to control his impulses.

5.Sky-high (adjective):

Definition: extremely high (expensive.)

Example: The interest rates of student credit cards are usually sky-high.

6.Mess (noun):

Definition: a situation that is very complicated or difficult to deal with.

Example: I don't know how the economy got to be (in) such a mess.

Assignment #3: Concordancer Exercise

The name of the food has a variety of claims. Like Chinese food name "粽子" are the following statement：

1. A pyramid-shaped mass of glutinous rice wrapped in leaves.

2. Glutinous rice and choice of filling wrapped in leaves and boiled.

3. Rice dumplings.

4. Zong-zi.

5. Tzung-tzu.