Getty Center Trip Friday, July 13th 1:00 PM—5:30 PM Join Deb and her family on a visit to this famous Los Angeles museum with the best view in town! Sign up for this fun activity on Monday, July 9th during lunch (12-1pm). To check out what’s happening there, go to www.getty.edu. This is a totally FREE activity!
Ice Skating Trip Friday, July 20th from 1-5:30pm Have you ever been ice skating? Wanna try? Join Rihao, Jackie and Natalie and stay cool inside an air-conditioned ice skating rink and have fun watching your friends take a spill on the ice! Sign up for this activity on Monday, July 16th during lunch (12-1pm). Bring $5.
Black Entertainment Awards
I N S I D E
T H I S I S S U E :
Language
Labs
2
Announce-
ments
3
Spiderman
Review
4
Tap Water
in L. A
4
Universal
Studios
5
California
Adventures
6
Korean
BBQ
6
NE X T W E E K ’ S AC T I V I T I E S
The Academy News J U L Y 1 3 , 2 0 1 2 V O L U M E 5 5 , I S S U E 3
Sunho An
On Sunday, July 1st , the
twelfth annual BET Awards
was held at the Shrine Audito-
rium. BET Awards has been
held every year in different
places for seven years now. It
was held at the Shrine Audito-
rium which is near our cam-
pus.
BET awards started in
2001 by the Black Entertain-
ment Television Network.
They made BET Awards to
celebrate African Americans
who take an active part in en-
tertainment.
There were 20 award cate-
gories, such as Hip Hop, Gos-
pel, R&B, Music video, new
artist for music as well as act-
ing, movie, and sports.
Many African American
TV celebrities, athletes, sing-
ers, and actors, such as Jessica
Reedy, Amber Bullock,
Y’Anna Crawley, Beyonce,
Giselle Knowles, Yolanda
Adams, and Nicki Minaj, at-
tended the BET Awards.
Many people stayed at the en-
trance of the Shrine Audito-
rium to see the celebrities.
Every time celebrities got out
of their cars, the crowds
shouted and called their
names. Some singers went up
to the crowds to shake hands
or hug their fans.
See BET Awards on p. 3
Beyonce was one of the favorites at the Black Entertainment Awards.
Jessy Chen, right,
is the new TAN
editor for Summer
Session B. Sunho
An is assistant
editor.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Time Location Description Facilitator
12:30-
1 pm ZHS 159
Stay at Language Academy Meeting Gil Cho
1-2
pm ZHS 159
Going to USC Grad School Meeting Gil Cho & Jessica Stern
2-3 pm ZHS 159 Leaving the Language Academy Meeting
Gil Cho & Jessica Stern
1-2pm WPH 203 The New GRE Workshop—Levels 4-6
Heather Robertson
1-2pm WPH 202 Writing your Statement of Purpose (SOP) - Levels 4-6
Jeminah Espinoza
1-2pm GFS 113 Writing Skills Levels 4-6
Nevena Fairclough
1-2pm HED 103 Reading Power—Levels 1-3
Diana Hiciu
1-2pm
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Levels 1 & 2 Adam Prohoroff
JEF Courtyard Conversation Level 3
Kent Lamm
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 4 Alexandria Johnson
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 5,6 Natalie Reyes
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Time Location Description Facilitator
1-2pm WPH 203 The New GRE Workshop Levels 4-6
Heather Robertson
1-2pm
WPH 202 Writing your Statement of Purpose (SOP) - Levels 4-6
Jeminah Espinoza
1-2pm GFS 113 Building English Skills Levels 1-3
Nevena Fairclough
1-2pm HED 103 Reading Power—Levels 1-3
Diana Hiciu
1-2pm
GFS 216 Preparing for Grad School—Levels 4-6
USC Web Resources
Jessica Stern
1-2pm
GFS 114 American Culture: Music Levels 1-4
Jackie Kim
1-2pm
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Levels 1 & 2 Adam Prohoroff
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 3 Kent Lamm
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 4 Alexandria Johnson
JEF Courtyard
Conversation Level 5,6 Natalie Reyes
New GRE Preparation : Find out the best ways to succeed on the new exam
Statement of Purpose Work-
shop: Learn how to write an amaz-ing SOP for graduate school.
Writing Skills: In this lab, you
will have the opportunity to work on improving your writing skills. Learn tips that will make you a better English writer.
Building English Skills: Do you
want to pronounce words better when you read aloud in class? Do you want to improve your spelling and basic grammar? This lab will focus on handwriting, spelling, reading aloud and sentence gram-mar.
Reading Power Levels 1-3: Do
you want to become a better, faster reader? Attend this lab to get tricks on how to improve your read-ing skills.
Preparing for Grad School at
USC: Learn about how to prepare for University study and make the most of your academic experience. Recommended for USC Graduate Students
American Culture– Music: In this workshop, we’ll get to listen to classic and contemporary Ameri-can music, as well as looking at some of the truly American genres of music.
Conversation Practice: This is your opportunity to practice speak-ing and to ask questions.
Stay at Language Academy Meeting: Attend this meeting if you plan to stay at Language Academy for the Fall (or plan to take a vaca-tion and return for Spring Semester 2013)
USC Grad School Meeting: Attend this meeting if you plan to start USC Grad School during the Fall Semester. Attend this meeting even if you are taking Language Academy classes concurrently with your Graduate Classes during the Fall (Do not attend the Stay at Lan-guage Academy meeting).
Going to another school or leaving the United States Meet-ing: Attend this meeting if you are done studying in America or if you plan to transfer to a different school in the United States.
P A G E 3
BET AWARDS Continued from p. 1
Samuel L. Jackson, a very famous
actor, was the host for the BET
Awards.
Here is part of the list of the win-
ners: Best Male R&B Artist was Chris
Brown; Best Female R&B Artist was
Beyonce Giselle Knowles; Yolanda
Adams won the Best Gospel ; Best
female HipHop Artist was Nicki Mi-
naj, who sings the hit song
“Starships”; and “The Throne” won
the Best Group. .
If you are interested in the BET
Awards, you can watch the video
again online. Also, it is a good idea to
make a plan to
visit the Nokia
Theatre next year,
where the BET
awards will take
place.
Language Study
Participants Needed
Would you like to help a fellow student be part of a language study?
The study has four experiments involving listening to English speech on the computer and pressing
keys to make responses. There is also a language background questionnaire and a proficiency test .
The total time for the study is 2.5 hours, separated into two visits. Participants will be paid $25 cash.
Participants must be English learners between age
18-40, level 4 or higher, who have not lived in the
U.S. for more than 7 years.
The goal is to test students native in Mandarin, Ko-rean, or Spanish.
Please contact Candise Yue Lin at [email protected]
MANDATORY STAY/GO MEETING ON THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2012
YOU MUST ATTEND ONE OF THESE MEETINGS ON THURSDAY. FEEL FREE TO SIGN UP FOR LANGUAGE LABS IF YOU WANT (AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH THE
MANDATORY MEETING THAT YOU NEED TO ATTEND).
Stay at Language Academy Meeting: Attend this meeting if you plan to stay at Language Academy for the Fall 2012 Semester (or plan to take a vacation and return for Spring Semester 2013)
USC Grad School Meeting: Attend this meeting if you plan to start USC Grad School during the Fall Semester. Attend this meeting even if you are taking Language Academy classes concurrently with your Graduate Classes during the Fall (Do not attend the Stay at Language Academy meeting).
Going to another school or leaving the United States Meeting: Attend this meeting if you are done studying in Amer-ica or if you plan to transfer to a different school in the United States.
Christ Brown won Best Male R
& B Artist at the
BET Awards.
P A G E 4
Chaoran Liu
“The Amazing Spider-man” is the fourth movie of the Spider-Man franchise, which came out this July. Having no clue as to what it was about, I walked into the cinema with the assumption that Peter Parker, continuing with his life and adventure, again found himself in other more serious trouble than schizophrenia and willful re-venge (watch the 2007 Spi-der-Man 3, and you’ll know what I’m talking about).
When the film began, I started to experience this strange feeling of déjà vu as the movie progressed: Wait a minute, haven’t I seen this already? My uncertainty of whether I had been cheated into watching the original Spider-Man again was so strong that I couldn’t help
but search the title (with “The Amazing”, of course) on IMDB.com: oh, it’s a re-boot. No wonder!
Having seen the 2002 version, I knew exactly what to expect. To avoid a spoiler here, I will not mention that the plot goes just like the first one: Peter got bitten by a genetically-engineered spider, his uncle’s death mo-tivated him to uphold justice, and finally the mad scien-tist’s crazy ideas were put to an end. Even the Nemesis didn’t even bother to have its color changed! Green lizard-man displaces green metal-guy and then it’s supposed to be a new movie? Come on.
Overall, was it an awful movie to watch? Not really. Despite the superhero cli-chés, the first-person point-of-view scenes of jumping
from buildings to buildings over neon-illuminated streets were definitely a fine sight for sore eyes, enabling you to experience a vicari-ous thrill as if you were the flying Spider-Man himself. But if you were on a tight budget, I’d say go for “Ice Age 4”, or even “Brave”, as long as animated movies don’t bore you that much.
Jaehyun Shin
Tap Water
in LA
Saving money must be one of
the most important issues for Lan-
guage Academy students. How-
ever, if you drink tap water in Los
Angeles, you should think twice
before you do so.
Have you seen your frying
pans, pots and sink with white
stains after cooking? That white
powder are calcium carbonate
(CaCO3), which is the main com-
ponent of eggshells. Water con-
tains a lot of dissolved calcium
carbonate and magnesium carbon-
ate minerals called
" Hard water" and
when the hard water
is heated, those min-
erals will turn into
calcium carbonate.
A lthough hard water
is considered healthier to drink
than soft water, the problem is
that Los Angeles is one of the
areas in United States with the
hardest water. Of course, if you
are healthy enough and get used
to hard water, it will not be a
problem because your diet and
drinking habits are adapted to
hard water, just like other South-
ern Californians.
However, if you are from
other countries with lower hard-
ness rate, drinking tap water in
L.A . can cause a bad stomach-
ache and kidney stones.
How can these problems be
prevented? The easiest way is to
spend more money for water. A l-
most all mineral water has re-
moved calcium carbonate because
of its taste. It only costs $3 ~
$4 for 24 bottles in the markets
near USC.
You can also use filters to pu-
rify water. It cost $20 for water
filter pitcher. Spending time can
be a solution, too. Just boil the
water before drinking it. Then
the hardness of tap water will be
reduced.
Artwork by Jaehyun Shin
The Amazing Spider Man Movie Review
Andrew Garfield plays Spiderman
Trip to Universal Studios by Jiang Jun
Amy Mingjie Yuan
Disney
California
Adventure Park
Last Thursday, my
friend and I went to Disney
California Adventure Park
and had an enjoyable adven-
turous experience there. It is
one of two theme parks com-
prising the Disneyland Re-
sort (another is the original
Disneyland Park).
Entering the main en-
trance, you will walk on
Buena Vista Street, which
leads guests into the park
that looks like early 1920s
LA. Because we just had
half a day to explore the
park, we focused on the
large rides.
My favorite is the Twi-
light Zone Tower of Terror.
You can enjoy the 2-minute
adrenaline rush, rising and
falling in darkness at terrify-
ing speeds in the hotel's
haunted elevator, again and
again. I highly recommend
taking this in the evening
because you can see the
amazing night view when
the elevator occasionally
stops.
If you like the roller
coaster, don’t miss Califor-
nia Screamin', which is the
only one in this park. Try the
Grizzly River Run in the
daytime, because you will be
totally wet.
The very unique attrac-
tion is Radiator Springs Rac-
ers, which is designed based
on Pixar's Cars film. You'll
be pitted against another car
for a competition.
If all of these above are
too scary to you, Mickey's
Fun Wheel is a good choice.
They have both swinging
and non-swinging gondolas,
on which you can have a
bird view of the whole park.
Also, the shows in the
park are attractive. The Pixar
Play Parade is in daytime,
and the World of Color is at
night. We finished the tour
by watching the World of
Color in which water show
weaves water, color, fire and
light into a kaleidoscope of
fantasy and imagination.
More information on the
website: http://
disneyland.disney.go.com/
P A G E 5
Life in L.A.
Transformers,
Mummy, Jurassic dino-
saurs, the Simpsons,
Shrek and Terminator—it
is the most amazing place
on earth that takes you
to the movies and behind
the scenes of real work-
ing films.
“ That’s great!” said
Jaehyun Shin, a student
from the Session B program.
Last Saturday, July 7, the
USC Language Academy organ-
ized a free trip to the Universal
Studios Hollywood. Language
Academy students had a lot of
fun there and got direct contact
with American movies and movie
characters.
Universal Studios, Holly-
wood, is the world’s oldest and
most famous Hollywood studio
still in use. The theme park pro-
vides a full day of action-packed
attractions, including 4-D film
experience, 3-D rides, and special
effects show.
When asked about the most
exciting entertainment facilities in
the Universal Studios, one student
said,” It must be Shrek 4-D™. You
can feel the donkey’s slobber
when he sneezes. The 4-D cus-
tomized cinema facilities makes
you feel you are in a real
movie!.”
The Universal Studios trip is
also a good time for the Language
Academy students to learn English
and American culture. The au-
thentic movie props, artifacts and
scripts displayed in its museum
are good history and language
teachers for language-learning stu-
dents. Moreover, the theme park
provides an opportunity for stu-
dents to break the ice and get to
know each other better.
“ I am very happy that I can
have a roomie who is good at tak-
ing pictures. My photos with
Bumblebee are so great that I will
definitely upload them on my
Facebook,” one student said.
Cultural diversity makes Cali-fornia special, especially in Los Angeles County. Many Mexi-cans, Chinese, and Korean im-migrants settled in L.A., thus ex-panding the possibilities for peo-ple to experience different cul-tures here. With the variety of nationalities, L.A has become a city with numerous exotic foods. You can enjoy Chinese food in Chinatown, Japanese food in Little Tokyo, and Korean food in Korea town.
Growing up in Asia, I am not only fond of Chinese food; Ko-rean food has always been one of my favorites as well. If you like meat, you must not miss Korean Barbecue. A Korean Barbecue restaurant called “Hae Jan
Chon” is one of the best BBQ restaurants in L.A. city.
It is located in Korea town, which is about ten to fifteen min-utes away from USC. The res-taurant offers a variety of meats and seafood, including mari-nated beef, beef tongue, pork, short rib, chicken, and squid. The best thing about it is they have got the choice of all you can eat for about eighteen dol-
lars per person. If you are a meat lover and
like trying out exotic food, then Korean Barbecue should be your best choice. Give Hae Jang Chon a try. I am sure you will have an enjoyable meal! Address: 3821 W 6th St Los Angeles, CA 90020 Phone number: (213) 389-8777 For more information, please visit:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/hae-jang-chon-korean-bbq-restaurant-los-angeles
USC Language
Academy
Rossier School of
Education
Phone: 213-740-0080
Fax: 213-740-0088
Web: www.usc.edu/
langacad
Korean BBQ at Hae Jang Chon by Hsin I Chen (Jessy)
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P A G E 6 J U L Y 1 3 , 2 0 1 2
MEET THE TAN STAFF Back Row: Jonathan Liu, Amy Yuan, Chris Liu, Jasmine Jiang,
Guang-Sin Lu, Jingxuan Sun, Jaehyun Shin; Front Row: Jessy Chen,
Sonja Lovelace, Christy Wang, Sunho An. Not pictured: Karen
Wen, Timur Orazov, Marshall Liu.