BBC Massage Board

My question:
We know that past participle can be used as adjective, like the following sentence "Where are the broken windows?"

However, here is a sentence deemed as a wrong one by my friend, who is an English speaker. Thus, I would like to ask you why it's incorrect.

Here is the sentence:
"The kissed girl by Mark is Tina."

Answer:
Not all past participles can be used as adjectives.

'Kissed' is one of them.


The answer to my question is satisfying. I also browsed other questions and answers, and found that there is no limit to the number of answers. Every teacher can leave the best answer they think on the board, and it sometimes become a discussion about an English topic. But I am curious that if everyone can be the teachers or there are exclusive and professional teachers for BBC Massage Board. This relates if the answers are reliable.
On the path in learning English, there are a ton of various and miscellaneous questions to not even grammar but vocabulary, usages of language, and culture. What English learners need is a platform to recieve immediate responses. Though whether the speed of this sevice is approving remains uncertain to me, I think it can be an aid in English learning.

Reflection on Steve Jobs's Speech

This is not my first time to watch this address; but, in different stages of life, there comes different reflections.

In Jobs' address, there are three main ideas: connecting the dots, love and loss, and death. Each of them touched me deeply and reminded me of some personal experience, especially the connecting the dots one. When we make decisions, we can hardly predict how much it will help or influence our future, because life is full of uncertainties. Since on the end of our life, everything we have experienced would connect and form a complete picture of life, we should know there is always a reason of everything’s existence.

To take my own experience for example, I am taking a Green Energy Technology class in this semester; and then, I happened to have a chance to have an interview for a job in a Solar Technology Company. Although the potential job did not require me have professional knowledge in technology, having taking the class did familiarized me with this industry. The reason why I am taking this class is a mere interest in environmental issues; I did not expect that it would connect to my (potential) job.


On the first post, I claimed that there is a slight chance that I would become a teacher; nevertheless, I have taken some teaching classes so far, and now, begin to believe someday these dots might connect and help me with my career. I have not found what I love yet. To be honest, I am very anxious. Yet, after I heard Jobs’ remark, “Keep going. Don’t settle. It just gets better and better as the years roll on,” I know I should not hesitate but try everything I encounter. It might not be as soon as I wish, but on the path of pursuing love in life, it would be worth.

ESL Podcast

Podcast number: 572
Podcast name: Blowing the whistle at work

Notes:

blow the whistle: to tell someone about something that is wrong in your organization or company

ramifications: consequences of your actions, implications

no two ways about it: there’s no doubt, it’s very clear
step up: volunteer to do or come forward
on the line: at risk, in danger, a possibility you could lose something
get out: for secret information to become known by other people
get into trouble: be in a trouble
keep the mouth shut: not to tell anyone
plus: in addition
live with that: to put up with something
to protect our interest: taking care of yourself, to ensure that you won’t get hurt
anonymous: no one knows who you are
don’t count on: don’t reply upon
blow up: to become a major problem
be in knee-deep: heavily involved in something(I’m knee-deep in work)
put my money where my mouth is: to stop talking about something and actually do it
go public: to share information with many people
let the chips fall where they may: to do something even though something bad might be a result of your option/ to do something but not think about the positive or negative consequences of your option
hasty: no to be so rushed, not to do it quickly
sleep on it: to think about something over night
I’ve made up my mind: I decided
are you with me: are you going to help me

This is a conversation bewteen a woman and a man hesitating about exposing something bad at their company.

The speed of this clip is very slow to catch what the speakers are saying; but, since there are many phrases, it would be a little hard to understand the whold conversation if listeners don't know the phrases.

For me, there are some unfamiliar phrases, such as "blow the whistle", "be in knee-deep", and "put my money where my mouth is." Although the both the speed of the conversation and the lecture is quite slow for advanced learners, the content is still worth to study.

The Differences between Big and Large

According to evident sentences provided by VLC concordancer, both large and big describe extent. However, large is often used to describe quantity; while big is used to describe greatness of something.
For instance, we can find "a large amounts of ~" more often than "a big ammount of ~ ". Meanwhile, we find big used to describe a business, businessman, brother, or chance to show their greatness. This explanation could be reliable because we can hardly find a collocation of "a large brother", "a large businessman" or "a large chance."

Greeting

I was not interested in teaching at all, neither now nor the future, I think . Being a teacher is the last thing I would do as a career; however, life is full of uncertainties, and especially, when the unemployment rate is accelerating, we can do nothing but follow the saying, "Baggars can't be choosers." Someday, I might become a teacher probably, like what Miss Lai, my teacher, did; thus, it is better to prepare and obtain more knowledge in teaching than doing nothing. Nevertheless, I am still fond of Miss Lai's class. (The attached photo was taken while I was teaching Chinese to Japanese students)

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