Teaching & Learning English
Mingze X History of Natto Natto, Japan’s sticky fermented soybean dish, has a long history. It likely started over 1,000 years ago, possibly in the Yayoi period (300 BC–300 AD). Legend says it was discovered by accident when cooked soybeans wrapped in rice straw fermented naturally. The straw had bacteria called Bacillus subtilis, which turned the beans … Read more
I really like Vinci and Kitty’s approach to this topic, by providing different examples from different aspects to let use share our opinions through compare and contrasting them. This really sparked some debate about which picture is more inspiring, and which title is better. In this seminar, we first compared different examples of paragraphs, titles, … Read more
I woke up, confused, wondering where I am. I seemed to be in an abandoned railway station, with its cracked transparent dome revealing a slowly swirling gas giant planet in the dim sky. The world looked weird. there are bio-engineered creatures all around me. Bats with bull horns crawled on the ground, frogs with human … Read more
We did the group seminar of quotes sharing on Wednesday last week, this is a completely new way of seminar-ing came up by Dr.Terret. We need to choose four leaders, with each leader managing a group. I volunteered to be a leader, because I found it interesting, and felt happy to try it as my … Read more
Last Christmas holiday, my parents and I went to Japan. This blog post will focus on the things I found interesting in Kyoto. Since Kyoto doesn’t have an airport, we had to fly to Osaka and then take a bus for over two hours to reach Kyoto. I had to wake up in the middle … Read more