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[farshad_miki]

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[Sha7ab]

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why not ? wellcome

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[singleguy]

Hi there...Finally I started the first activity of summer
The schedule tell us that we should start from tomorrow but we start from today (because I misread the schedule and told all of you, we start from Tir 14th )
Thanks to dear Masoudrejae and Mohammad88 who helped me typing this reading
Please read the first post in order to find out what you should do for the reading activity
The reading is so long and pretty hard but it's really beautiful and it improves your English and you have enough time to do your activity
you must finish your activity till Tir 18th

Culture is everything .Culture is the way you dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties.
Amie Zesair-French writer (1913- )
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Culture Shock
By bob Weinstein
From the Boston Glob

Saying Tamara Blackmore experienced culture shock when she arrived here last September is an understatement. It was more like culture trauma(1) for this adventurous student who left Melbourne's Monash University to spend her junior year at Boston College (BC). Blackmore, 20 , was joined at BC by 50 other exchange students from around the world. Like the thousands of exchange students who enroll in American colleges each year, Blackmore discovered firsthand(2) there is a sea of difference(3) between reading about and experiencing America firsthand. She felt the difference as soon as she stepped off the plane.

As soon as she landed in Boston, Blackmore could feel the tension in the air. She was about to test a lifestyle (4) far more hectic than the one she left. "driving in Boston is crazy", says Blackmore. "It took me a while to get used to the roads and the driving style here. I was always afraid someone was going to hit me. It was particularly tricky since the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car. In Australia it's on the right side. "Beyond the cars and traffic jams, Blachmore said it took a while to get used to so many people in one place, all of whom seemed like they were moving at warp speed(5).

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There are only 18 million people in Australia spread out over an entire country," she says," compared to more than six million people in the state of Massachusetts alone. We don't have the kind of congestion you have in Boston. There is a whole different perception of space."

The pressing problem for Blackmore was making a quick adjustment to the American lifestyle that felt like it was run by a stopwatch. For this easygoing Australian, Americans seemed like perpetual-motion machines(6). "Americans are very time-oriented," Blachmore says. "Everything is done according to a schedule. They're always busy, which made me feel guilty about waiting to just sit around and occasionally watch television. Australians, on the other hand, value their leisure time. The pace there is a lot slower because we don't feel the need to always be busy. It's not that Australians are lazy, it's just that they have different concept of how time should be spent. Back home, I used to spend a lot more time just talking to my friends."

It didn't take long for Blackmore to adjust to American rhythms(7). "I felt the pressure to work harder and do more because everyone was running around doing so much," she says. When BC students weren't huddled over books, Blackmore found it odd that they were compulsively jogging, running, biking, or doing aerobics in order to be thin. "Compared to home, the girls here are very skinny," she says. "Before I got here, I heard a lot of stories about the pressure to be thin and that many young American women have eating disorders. I'll go out with a friend and just tuck into a good meal(8) and have a good time, whereas an American girl would just pick at her food.(9)"
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When it comes to drinking, Blackmore says Australian have a lot more freedom. "we are more casual about drinking at home," she says , "whereas there are many rules and regulations attached to when and where you can drink in the united states," not to mention a legal drinking age of 21 compared with Australia's legal drinking age of 18.

But it’s BC's laid-back(10) and friendly learning environment that sets it apart from her Melbourne college experience.” Generally speaking, learning facilities are a lot better in Boston,” she says. “In Australia, students and teachers have little contact outside the classroom. It’s a formal and depersonalized relationship. College is a place you go for a few hours every day and then go home. Your social life and school life are separate.”

It’s just the opposite at BC, according to Blackmor. “BC students and faculty are like one big happy family,” she says. “There is real sense of team spirit. It’s like we’re all in this together. Going to school here is a lifestyle, whereas at home we’re just a number. We attend school to get a degree so we can graduate, get a job, and get on with our lives(11).”


.Another pleasant shocker(12) was the close and open relationships American students enjoy with their teachers. It's a sharp contrast to Australia, where college students keep a discreet but respectful distance from their teachers. "I was surprised when I learned students go out to dinner with their lectures," she says. "We just don't do that back home. Professors deal with hundreds of students and you're lucky if they remember your name."

When Blackmore returns to Australia at the end of the school year, she'll have plenty of memories, most of them good ones. BC, like most American colleges, has gone out of its way to create a memorable experience for Blackmore and its other exchange studentsَ. .

(1)
Culture trauma: extreme form of "culture shock"

(2)
Discovered firsthand: learned by directly seeing or experiencing

(3)
Sea of difference: very big difference

(4)
Test a lifestyle experience a way of life

(5)
Moving at warp speed: traveling very, very quickly

(6)
Perpetual-motion machines: machines that never stop moving

(7)
Adjust to American rhythms: get used to American lifestyle

(8)
Tuck into a good meal: enjoy a meal (Australian expression)

(9)
Pick at her food: eat only small amount of food on her plate

(10)
Laid back: relaxed

(11)
Get on with our lives: move ahead in our lives

(12)
Shocker: surprise

[singleguy]

I don't know why the second half of the first post vanished away!!!

I didn't delete any thing
But there is enough information about reading activity there.
I'm going to complete the first post as soon as possible

[singleguy]

Summary Of The Reading
The reading is about an Australian girl called Tamara Blackmore who experienced culture shock by spending the junior year in an American college. She felt the difference of culture from the first moment that she was getting off the plane. American lives was very strange for Blackmore such as being time-oriented and Americans was always busy while Australians didn't feel to be busy.
one of the other things that was very odd for Blackmore was the American women who had eating disorders in order to be thin and skinny.
The difference between the legal drinking age in Australia and America was also another strange thing for Blackmore and The most thing that made Blackmore surprised was the relationship between students and teachers...!!! they all were like a big happy family
most of American colleges have gone out of their way to make a memorable experience for all Blackmores


could one of the masters in this forum like sepid12ir or JEFF_HARDY or linhu or SCYTHE or..... tell me my mistakes?!!!

New Words(for me)

Understatement
Meaning: the practice of making things less important
Example: my speeches about myself always are understatement

Culture shock
M: a feeling of confusion and anxiety that someone experiences when they visit another country

Trauma
M: a mental condition caused by sever shock

Adventurous
M: willing to take risks and try new ideas
Ex: Some of my friends always want to be more adventurous

Junior
M: connected with the year before last year in a high school or university
Ex: I'm spending my junior year

Exchange students
M: students who go to high schools or universities outside of their home country

Enroll
M: to arrange to officially join some where
Ex: I have to enroll in university course

Tension
M: a feeling of anxiety and stress that make it impossible to be relax
Ex: I feel an unusual tension before all exams

Hectic
M: very busy
Ex: all of us have to deal with a hectic life

Tricky
M: difficult to do or deal with
Ex: fighting more than 3 minutes is tricky in competitions

Steering
M: the machinery in a vehicle that you use to control the direction it goes
Ex: I loosed the control of the steering when my car crashed

Congestion
M: the state of being crowded and full of traffic
Ex: Tehran has the most congestion in Iran

Perception
M: The way you notice things
Ex: just a few people have the real perception of love

Space
M: the freedom and time to think or do what you want

Adjustment
M: a small change made to something in order to correct or improve it
Ex: I've made some adjustments to my daily schedule

Perpetual motion
Ex: the heart is a perpetual motion muscle in our body

Guilty
M: feeling ashamed because you have done sth wrong
Ex: I always have a guilty feeling when I cheat in exams

Occasionally
M: sometimes but not often
Ex: I occasionally want to be online

pace
M: the speed that sth happens
Ex: my pace in studying is really slow

Concept
M: an idea connected with sth
Ex: the concept of people about politics is different from each other

Huddle
M: hold your arms and legs close to your body
Ex: I often huddle over my dreams

Odd
M: strange and unusual
Ex: the most odd thing for me is that I never can be successful

Compulsive
M: difficult to stop or control
Ex: she was so beautiful that everyone was watching her, compulsively

Skinny
M: very thin

Disorder
M: public violence

Eating disorder
M: a medical condition caused by intense fear of being overweight

Regulation
M: rule
Ex: Universities have some funny regulations in Iran

Set sth apart
M: to make sth different from others
Ex: his hairstyle sets him apart from others

Depersonalize
M: to make sth less personal

Faculty
M: all the teachers of a university or college
Ex: most of the teachers in azad university faculty can't teach as well as the teachers in the high school

Spirit
M: feeling
Ex: nothing is as powerful as the love spirit in the world

Sharp
M: clear
Ex: there was a sharp difference between votes in the election

Discreet
M: careful in what you say or you do, in order to keep sth secret
Ex: there is a discreet relationship between most of friends

Lecturer
M: a person who teaches in a university or college
Ex: he is a lecturer in math at our university

Go out of its away
M: to make a special effort to do sth


now its your turn
have fun
Single Boy

[JEFF_HARDY]

Summary Of The Reading
The reading is about an Australian girl called Tamara Blackmore who experienced culture shock by spending the junior year in an American college. She felt the difference of culture from the first moment that she was getting off the plane. American lives was very strange for Blackmore such as being time-oriented and Americans was always busy while Australians didn't feel to be busy.
one of the other things that was very odd for Blackmore was the American women who had eating disorders in order to be thin and skinny.
The difference between the legal drinking age in Australia and America was also another strange thing for Blackmore and The most thing that made Blackmore surprised was the relationship between students and teachers...!!! they all were like a big happy family
most of American colleges have gone out of their way to make a memorable experience for all Blackmores

maybe I add the new words to this post
could one of the masters in this forum like sepid12ir or JEFF_HARDY or linhu or SCYTHE or..... tell me my mistakes?!!!
now It's your turn
have fun

dude its truly an honer, and i don`t know why you keep sayying you have forgotten English structure, you write as a native!
OK, things i thought could be told in a better way in my opinion are onderlined in red, and i tried to be picky ,so tell me where im wrong please

American lives: The american`s lifestyle

had eating: eat or were eating

most thing that made Blackmore surprised: the most surprising thing for blackmore was...

[brain]

Hi there. It's my turn
Summary Of The Reading

This reading is about culture shock.An Australian girl called Tamara Blackmore who left Melbourne's Monash University to spend her junior year at Boston College In America and who experienced the culture shock. Blackmore had read about American culture but she didn't know what she read about that is difference from experiencing that.She felt a sea of difference as soon as she arrived at America. First difference that she felt was about driving.The steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car whereas in Australia that's on the right side.The American ways were very busy with heavy traffic. American people were like a machine and they were always busy but in Australia it was difference. The other thing which she felt was about American women who were very skinny that is why they had eating disorders. They always just picked at her food while she always tucked into a good meal with her friend. In America was many rules for drinking like the legal drinking age was 21 but in Australia was more freedom about it, the legal drinking age was 18. And she saw some other differences at there which were about relationship between teachers and students at college and this difference made Blackmore surprised more than other differences. At the end of the school year Blackmore returned to Australia with many memories.


New Words
(for me)

understatement

Culture trauma

trauma

junior

exchange

enroll

Test a lifestyle

Sea of difference

Discovered firsthand

land

tension

hectic

particularly

tricky

steering

Moving at warp speed

spread out

congestion

perception

easygoing

perpetual-motion machines

orient

leisure

Adjust to American rhythms

huddled

compulsively

jogging

skinny

disorder

tuck into a good meal

pick at her food

casual

regulations

legal

laid-back

apart

facilities

depersonalized

faculty

spirit

attend

pleasant

shocker

discreet

respectful

deal

Get on with our lives

tie

Please tell me my mistakes

Maybe if god wants I'll make sentences with my new words which I learned from the reading

Goodbye. Thanks

[sepid12ir]

Summary Of The Reading
The reading is about an Australian girl called Tamara Blackmore who experienced culture shock by spending the junior year in an American college. She felt the difference of culture from the first moment that she was getting off the plane. American lives was very strange for Blackmore such as being time-oriented and Americans was always busy while Australians didn't feel to be busy.
one of the other things that was very odd for Blackmore was the American women who had eating disorders in order to be thin and skinny.
The difference between the legal drinking age in Australia and America was also another strange thing for Blackmore and The most thing that made Blackmore surprised was the relationship between students and teachers...!!! they all were like a big happy family
most of American colleges have gone out of their way to make a memorable experience for all Blackmores

hey, thanks
I actually dun like to go thru the mistakes in reading activity with details, just some which I think are worth mentioning
thanks to Jeff also for his nice consideration; n let me approve of wot he said singleguy, u r an absolutely a great English learner

that she was getting off the plane : that she got of the plane I think is a better choice rather than using Past Continious

strange for Blackmore: strange to Blackmore

برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید

btw Dear Jeff, Singleguy has used 'eating' here as a noun n it seems to be correct
to have eating disorder

[JEFF_HARDY]

Hi there. It's my turn
Summary Of The Reading

This reading is about culture shock.An Australian girl called Tamara Blackmore who left Melbourne's Monash University to spend her junior year at Boston College In America and who experienced the culture shock. Blackmore had read about American culture but she didn't know what she read about that is difference from experiencing that.She felt a sea of difference as soon as she arrived at America. First difference that she felt was about driving.The steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car whereas in Australia that's on the right side.The American ways were very busy with heavy traffic. American people were like a machine and they were always busy but in Australia it was difference. The other thing which she felt was about American women who were very skinny that is why they had eating disorders. They always just picked at her food while she always tucked into a good meal with her friend. In America was many rules for drinking like the legal drinking age was21 but in Australia was more freedom about it, the legal drinking age was 18. And she saw some other differences at there which were about relationship between teachers and students at college and this difference made Blackmore surprised more than other differences. At the end of the school year Blackmore returned to Australia with many memories.

Hey dude. to be honest, i think you have really improved since last time i had the honer of correcting yout writting. these were the things i thought might be abit problem maker in your writting, tell me where im wrong please

wholeft: left

and who experienced: experienced

she read about that is difference : she read about is different from

experiencing that: experiencing it


American ways: American highways, american reads


had eating : were eating, ate



In America was many rules: in America there were many rules


at there : there


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[JEFF_HARDY]

btw Dear Jeff, Singleguy has used 'eating' here as a noun n it seems to be correct
to have eating disorde

i don`t findany order when i check it,i feel like its just lacking something, it should be at least

had been eating

as far as i know