Reading Skill: sugar better to eat less of it

Reading Skill

      This topic is about sugar better to eat less of it. How to spot sugar in our food which can lead to obesity, hypertension & heart disease, a registered dietitian shares her knowledge.

     One of the most common breakfast choices for Thai people is deep-fried dough (pa tong ko) and sweetened condensed milk, to go with a cup of coffee. Sounds ordinary, almost predictable. But that simple meal comes with more sugar than you're recommended to consume in a day. A packet of ready-mix coffee contains 8g of sugar, while a 454ml cup of whole milk latte gives you about 20g of sugar. A teaspoon of condensed milk contains 3-4g of sugar, and to fully enjoy the fried dough, we need about 10 teaspoons, or up to 40g, of sugar in our bloodstream. That's about 50-60g of sugar in a meal. The recommended daily intake, however, is not more than 25g of sugar for women and no more than 37.5g for men. Another big issue in Thailand is the misconception surrounding the use of sweeteners. There are more than 10 kinds of sweeteners available at supermarkets today, from white sugar, brown sugar, caramel sugar, low-calorie sugar, palm sugar, syrup and honey to artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose. Some people are under the misunderstanding that certain sweeteners are better and therefore can be consumed in larger amounts.

         I think, Nowadays, we're not running from anything, but we're constantly stimulating that system with stress. The minute we wake up in the morning, we're emailing, calling, texting, or driving in traffic, and those activities stimulate the adrenal system. The blood sugar runs wild with the adrenal response, so the body naturally asks for something to bring the blood sugar up. Most of the food available at that time of day would be white bread, pastries, and sugar. Those foods are the ones that bring the blood sugar up quickly, but then it comes straight down again without leaving you feeling full, so your body craves something more. It's a vicious cycle.

 

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
register	regis • ter / redʒɪstər / verb	to record your/sb's/sth's name on an official list
packet	packet / pækɪt /   noun	a small paper or cardboard container in which goods are packed for selling
teaspoon	tea • spoon / tispun /   noun	a small spoon for putting sugar into tea and other drinks
consume	con • sume   / kənsum /   verb	sth   to use sth, especially fuel, energy or time

 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/health/368916/bitter-truths-about-sweet-deals

 

 

Listening Skill: ASEAN community

 

        In this video, it is about ASEAN community. In this video tell me about what country in ASEAN are there.
        Which it compose of 10 countries that is Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Phillipphines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. When ten countries come together to build a better life for everyone together as ten, they are sronger and can do more than one country alone.
          Whenever, ten countries come together they don't fight one another. I think they can enjoy a good things that come with stronger economic development. As they attract more investors, business will grow and there will more job and oppotunnities.

Reading Skill

Reading Skill

       This topic is about out of control. The government is considering the use of special emergency laws to control increasingly violent rubber farmer protesters in the South. About 70 police officers were injured in clashes yesterday and about 10 police vehicles were set on fire.

       The government is considering the use of special emergency laws to control rubber farmer protesters in the South, Thawat Boonfueng, deputy secretary-general to the prime minister. Protesting rubber and oil palm growers clashed with police and resumed their highway blockade in Cha-uat district of Nakhon Si Thammarat province just hours after officers cleared the demonstration Monday morning. About 70 police officers were injured in the clashes and about 10 police vehicles were set alight in the scuffle. Protesters also seized a Thai PBS TV production truck and erased footage of the clash. There were several injuries on both sides, including two protesters – a man and a woman – who were shot in their legs. It was not clear who fired the shots. Both were taken to Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat Hospital. Young protestors retreat from police. Shortly afterward they came back in large numbers and forced the police to leave.

      Now a day, money is important for everyone because if we have more money we can buy everything that we want. Therefore, everybody usually want money that enough per survive of oneself.

 

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
control	heckle / hekl /   verb	~ (sb) to interrupt a speaker at a public meeting by shouting out questions or rude remarks
government	gov • ern • ment    / ɡʌvərnmənt /   noun	the group of people who are responsible for controlling a country or a state
violent	vio • lent    / vaɪələnt /   adjective	involving or caused by physical force that is intended to hurt or kill sb
protester	pro • test • er / prətestər / noun	a person who makes a public protest

 

 

http://www.posttoday.com/เรียนภาษา/เรียนภาษาจากข่าว/247278/out-of-control

 

Listening Skill : English for kid

       In this video it's about teaching english for kid. Teacher can bring this video to in class for teach the easy word or sentence.
       Children will be good learn if they learn by using video because they will remember the event and some word or sentence that they heard. Therefor, sometime teacher should be bring the video for teach children and teching of teacher will be successfull if teacher use material.
       I think, video is one of material which it can help teacher teach students and it can help teaching in each class successful.

Listening Skill

       This video it's about english listening skill. I think, this skill is important for everyone because it have advantage for oneself. If we always practice this skill, we can understand when we communicate with the tourist.
       In this video tell me about keys to better listening comprehension which it have three keys. The first key is understand what make native speakers hard to understand. The second is improve my own pronunciation. The third is learn primarily with my ears rather than my eyes.
      If we always practice listening, we can know what is the speaker say and can communicate with the speaker.

Reading Skill

Reading Skill

         This topic of news is about extorting money out of tourists, go to jail. Vendor sells tourist flowers, sticks something else in tourist's hand, later vendor demands more money, threatens, surrounds tourist, until they pay.

         Keng Santhanabool and three companions sold three garlands to a woman at 90 baht each, or 270 baht in total. The four men followed the woman when she went to light the candles and handed her 18 cigars. She took them and offered them to the statue. As she was about the leave, the four men demanded she pay another 360 baht for the cigars. She at first refused, as she thought that the cigars were included in the price paid at the beginning. The four men surrounded and heckled her, so she finally decided to pay the money -- and then called the police to arrest them. At the police station, the men offered to pay 10,000 baht compensation, but the woman declined to accept the money and took the case to court.

       I think, in Thailand has many tourists which they come to Thailand because for work or for travelling so Thai people should receive visitors by kindness.

 

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
extort	ex • tort    / ɪkstɔrt /   verb	to make sb give you sth by threatening them
tourist	tour • ist / tɔrɪst / noun	a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure
refuse	re • fuse   / rɪfjuz /   verb	to say that you will not do sth that sb has asked you to do
heckle	heckle / hekl /   verb	(sb) to interrupt a speaker at a public meeting by shouting out questions or rude remarks

 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/370123/vendors-of-tourist-services-warned-extortion-will-lead-to-jail

 

Listening Skill: Air pollution

     Today I practice listening skill. It is about air pollution. Which, air pollution is the introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals, particulates, or biological materials that cause discomfort, disease, or death to humans, damage other living organisms such as food crops, or damage the natural environment or built environment. 
    I think, if the world have fresh air, many people maybe don't havesick.

Reading Skill

Reading Skill

        In this news, it’s about northeast braces for more flash flooding. I choose this topic because it is interesting news.

        A tropical depression in the South China Sea is threatening to hit Thailand today and tomorrow, raising concerns over flash floods, especially in Ubon Ratchathani and the lower Northeast. The situation is worrying for villagers as their banana farms are at risk. Many residents were forced to move their belongings to higher ground and to the sides of local roads. The flood forced the closure of the road after resulting subsidence left a 15-metre-wide hole in the highway.

        When happened flooding, everybody maybe trouble because nobody can’t work and don’t have money for buy food or other thing that they want.

 

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
flood	noun,   verb / flʌd /	a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry
threatening	threat • en • ing / θretnɪŋ / adjective	expressing a threat of harm or violence
concern	con • cern / kənsɜn / verb,   noun	sb/sth   to affect sb/sth
risk	noun,   verb / rɪsk /	the possibility of sth bad happening at some time in the future
result	re • sult / rɪzʌlt / noun	(of sth)   a thing that is caused or produced because of sth else

 

http://www.posttoday.com/เรียนภาษา/เรียนภาษาจากข่าว/247784/tropical-depression-on-the-way