My visit to Tainan

Last weekend I went to Tainan to visit a friend. It was my second time there. I like Tainan very much - the food is great, the weather is always lovely, and there are lots of interesting places to visit and things to see.

One of the places we went to was the tree house. An old banyan tree has grown over an abandoned warehouse, and the effect is quite striking. There was a great museum there as well, about the interaction of the Dutch traders, and the native Taiwanese and Chinese inhabitants of Tainan.

A great visit. I hope to go again some time.

TWERK

This is a new word that has been appearing in the media recently. It has even made it into the dictionary. Watch the video up to 0.42 to get the definition.

Can you twerk? Do you need a partner to twerk with?

Listening practice: Computers

Here is a video about the history of computers.

Listen to the video. Can you hear any of the following vocabulary?

Vocabulary:

• massive =  really really big
• perform =  do
• bulky = big and inconvenient to use
• unreliable = not able to be trusted
• vacuum tubes =  (look at the video, you can see some)
• transistor = ( look at the video, you can see some) 
• integrated circuit =  (look at the video, you can see one)
• miniaturization process =  the process of making something as small as possible
• component = part of a machine
• carry out = perform, do