The play is set at Elsinore Castle, (which is based on the real Kronborg Castle, Denmark.) The time period of the play is somewhat uncertain, but can be understood as mostly Renaissance, contemporary with Shakespeare's England.

That same night, Horatio and the sentinels see a Ghost that looks exactly like their late king, King Hamlet. The Ghost reacts to them, but doesn't speak. The men discuss a military buildup in Denmark in response to Fortinbras recruiting an army. Although Fortinbras's army is supposedly for use against Poland, they fear he may attack Denmark to get revenge for his father's death, and reclaim the land his father lost to King Hamlet. They wonder if the Ghost is an omen of disaster, and decide to tell Prince Hamlet about it.

The Ghost talks to Hamlet what? Hamlet could know something? He is to be or not to be? The play has the amazing advances, enjoy it.

Student Director - Effric Lee
594091016 李仁豪

The practice process is quite laborious, we have spends many time and studies many more things. I am a director, I made preparation for everything, especially lighting crew, music, stage design, property and costume. Although final performance a little accident, but is quite successful. I must be thanks all partners, this is an unforgettable experience I always remember.

HAMLET(B) – Jonathan Ya

59401066 葉志勤 飾演 He is crazy Hamlet

My role is Hamlet. It is my acting about an English modern drama first times. I felt very nerves. An English modern drama that I felt a big challenge. I have many things to learn. When I learnt the news in February, I were not think about I have to role Hamlet. We were confronted many question and besetment. We were have to learn how assailed our question and besetment. When I stand on band shell, I were felt very exciting. When I stand on band shell, I were have to serve my task. I am extremely this play. It is my pearly recall.

TOM & HAMLET(A)－Irene Zuing

594091341 莊孟潔 飾演 He is normal Hamlet

I learn many things in this semester English. I know that team spirit is important. A play is difficult for ourselves. But we are earnest in this time. We are happy on that day. We play in hamlet that I am very nervous of viewers. I am afraid of error. In the end, the audience enjoyed of the performance. We are excited to see audience applause.

KING CLAUDIUS –Peter Hong

594091494 洪辰緯 飾演 King Hamlet’s brother, King of Denmark

It is very soon that the English class is the end. We are busying in the English drama all semester, although it is not have test, but I think the English drama are more things that we must be advert, because we except for recite words, another we have to anxious about clothes, props, area, lighting, action..., in fact I think playact are more complicated things than test, however we can learn a lot of things in English drama, and I am very happy that attend acting, because my English is not very good, and what is more I have to recite, so I practice more and more, but when acting, I all the same forget word, just as well not bad, at last we have a happy ending, I think this drama must be become the wonderful memory in my school days, and I have to thank of teacher’s teaching, when we have questions, teacher will tell us that we should what to do, although the semester is the end, but I hope that I can learn more things from teacher.

QUEEN GERTRUDE – Teresa Ou

594091107 區幃珽 飾演 Mother to Hamlet

This performance is an extremely precious recollection to me.

I study from the experience of this performance very much.

For example, association cooperation spirit and Interpersonal communication

And some problems would be find only when stage rehearsaling such as walking position, light coordination, sound affection.

Extremely thank teacher to give us this opportunity to performance English modern drama.

Scripts are all great, but my favorite is the one our team performed haha.

GHOST & REFEREE –Jefferson Lou

594091482 羅于捷 飾演 King Hamlet

When I know this semester have to act a English stage play before. I have already arrayed in the heart. I think it will be very hard in this semester And also afeared act not well. Can’t arrive at what is teacher’s want. When we decided the groups and roles is beginning the livelong English class. Do the tools in the play. Recite the drama. Think the move in the play. We try to understand this drama want to say. We practice very long time and never stop at the holiday. My role is King’s ghost. I think this role have something difficult, and I have conclusion with team members. After finish our play. We very ablaze and happy. Because we pain is worthy. Thanks for our opportunity to appearance this play. It’s very seldom experience. Thanks to teachers. Thanks to everyone.

HORATIO –Beryl Huang

594091042 黃詩荃 飾演 a friend to Hamlet

This English drama lets us learned many think about unity.

We study the unity in the drama practice are very importance.

And we also learned how do we study admit their opinion in English drama practice.

We have experienced the quarrel and are not happy .

But in the performance we are very unity and tacit understanding .

Although we have something mistake in the performance ,but we are all enjoy this play .

In this play we are all satisfies.

And I also extremely thank teacher's guidance.

Finally I hope teacher can remembered us and give we a good results.

Thank you teacher!!

POLONIUS－Belle Jiang

594091030 江馥妤 飾演 Lord Chamberlain

Since the beginning of this semester everyone from my class decided to perform a play done in English. It has been a tough journey that started with everyone being afraid in the beginning and ended with the wonderful ending performance on stage. It was a good thing that my group was very cooperative in trying to get everything done on time and meet every deadline that we set for ourselves. We even made up a punishment of having to pay a small fee for people who came late to practices. Thanks to everyone’s hard work during rehearsals, we were able to complete a humorous version of “Hamlet”. We thank our teacher for helping and supporting us to make this play possible. I love you teacher.

LAERTES –Greg Try

594091420 蔡宏俊 飾演 son of Polonius

OPHELIA – Mindy Lee

594091133 李君怡 飾演 daughter to Polonius

This is a happy semester. Penetration English modern drama each group all had the growth. This Hamlet script is not easy to perform, but we made contribution. All is we arranges from the clothing stage light. Thank teacher give us this opportunity to perform very much.This is an extremely new experience. Teacher also give us many suggest. Between the classmate mutually cooperates. This entire semester I studied before did not know matter. Attends class vividly lets us to study English even more to have the interest.Although my English is very poor, I still extremely diligently to study. This semester thank teacher's guidance very much.

DIRECTEOR－Ray Chen

594091262 陳柏豪 飾演

The semester is coming to an end again.I feel we really really need english and english communication.In this semester,We have spend many time for English modern drama.Simultaneously also causes for English modern drama oneself to be very tired.

BERNARDO –Mick Hsu

594091406 許伯豪 飾演 a soldier

This English modern drama performs, I feel very interesting, this is my first stage play performs. Even though my character is not very important, but to me is a big challenge. This time I have learned very more things, it also let me understand we are a team, the team cooperation is very important.

Thanks for my classmates to give me this chance. During these days, I do know a lot of things. English is not really hard. If we did more practice it will be better. Anyway, thanks anyone who helps us to play this English modern drama performs. I really appreciate.

FRANCISCO –Kevin Shieh

594091078 謝致揚 飾演 a soldier

I have learned many things from the stage play in this time. I have experienced from fearing and resisting originally to looking forward to performing, and our performance is successful finally. We just performed about half hour on the stage, but we have been devoted to preparing it for three month. Fairly, its result is perfect. Therefore, I have learned about one thing which is that we can’t ignore not only our walk but also our expression. Most importantly, my English is poor, and it is difficult for me to pronounce it. Nevertheless, by practicing and practicing, I have been practiced, and I have learned many words that I had never seen in the play. Most importantly, because of this group activity, my classmates and I have been more united, and known more about each other.

FORTINBRAS &VOIVE-Megan Chou

594091080 周若玉 飾演

Initially started to English not not ripely to feel the fear, did not

dare to stand opens the mouth on to say the fluent English, after then

when directed assigns the good role. I then diligently recite English,

understands the meaning, to is practicing with everybody to act in a

play together, the practice acts in a play lets me think English

changes is extremely interesting, each Saturday morning then starts to

reach agreement to practice to act in a play, although unusual being

exhausting! But after the final result comes out really felt the

unusual happiness, all also are worth.

Study finds local students lack global perspective

The global perspective of Taiwanese university students was found sorely lacking according to a survey released yesterday, with only 38 percent of the students identifying Lebanon as the country that was recently at war with Israel.

The students also identified business tycoons rather than political figures as the best leaders. The top three leaders they chose were Formosa Plastics Group Chairman Wang Yung-ching, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Chairman Terry Gou and Microsoft's Bill Gates, with opposition KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou ranked fourth.

The World Leadership Education Foundation asked 1,200 university students across the nation several questions pertaining to significant recent world news events.

One of the few multiple choice questions answered successfully by the students was naming Wang Chien-ming as the New York Yankees' Taiwan-born pitcher. Some 97.5 percent of respondents got the answer right.

But the students did poorly on other questions related to world affairs. In one multiple choice question, only 49.6 percent of respondents picked Angela Merkel as female chancellor of Germany. Over one-fourth of the respondents chose Thaksin Shinawatra (Thailand's ousted prime minister) while another 14 percent identified British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Germany's chancellor, the survey said.

Lin Tsai-chen, the deputy director of the foundation's politics and economics department, suspected that university students' lack of interest in watching the news and the local media's bias in favor of domestic news reports accounted in part for the survey's results.

Lin stressed that in addition to learning foreign languages, university students should enhance their competitiveness in the global village by making themselves familiar with international affairs.

Ⅰ. vocabulary

1. Sorely

adv.

In a sore manner, very.

Ex: I was sorely tempted to report him.

2. Identify

vt.

to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing

Ex: I cannot identify this signature

3.Pertain

vi

To belong as an adjunct, part, holding, or quality.

Ex: We own the house and the land pertain to it.

4. Significant

adj.

important, of consequence.

Ex: This is one of the most significant studies of the subject.

5. Multiple choice

ph.

offering several alternative answers from which the correct one is to be chosen.

Ex: A multiple choice test.

6. pitcher

n.

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.

Ex: He is the best pitcher I've ever seen.

7. Chancellor

n.

the person who is head of state or titular head of a university.

Ex: Our Chancellor is totaged

8. Survey

n.

To determine the form, extent, position, etc.

Ex: A recent survey of public opinion showed that most people were worried about the increasing crimes.

9. deputy

n.

person given power to act for another

Ex: You can talk with my deputy during my absence.

10. bias

n.

fixed unfair opinion.

Ex: Some people have a bias against foreigners.

11. enhance

vt.

increase something good.

Ex: Beautiful colored illustrations enhanced the book.

12. affairs

n.

event, set of event.

Ex: How are your affairs going?

Ⅱ. cloze

Sorely identify pertains significant multiple

pitcher Chancellor survey affairs bias

1. I was ______ vexed.

2. She ______ him as her attacker

3. This lesson ______ to marine animals

4. This is one of the most ______ studies of the subject

5. We use the hall for ______ purposes.

6. Chien-Ming Wang is the best ______ I've ever seen.

7. ______ of the Exchequer.

8. From the top of the hill you can ______ the whole city.

9. The premier deals with important ______ of state.

10. The pianist has a ______ in favour of Chopin.

Ⅲ. Multiple choice

(1) The delegation was headed by a ______ mayor.

(a) adjunctive (b) deputy (c) assistant

(2) My mother have a ______ in favor of my younger brother.

(a) bias (b) partiality (c) hobby

(3) Explore more on how to ______ your luck and fate!

(a) improve (b) abate (c) enhance

(4) An acquaintance of world history is helpful to the study of current _____ .

(a) matter (b) affairs (c) anecdote

(5) We use the hall for ______ purposes.

(a) multiple (b) compound (c) manifold

(6) We own the house and the land ______ to it.

(a) pertained (b) pertained (c) pertaining

(7) A ______ of world history is one of the courses offered this semester.

(a) survey (b) surveys (c) surveyed

(8) Wang Chien-ming as the ______ Taiwan-born pitcher.

(a) New York Yankees (b) Red Stockings (c) Dodgers

(9) It was ______ missed at the reunion.

(a) sorely (b) sore (c) soreness

(10) Chien-ming Wang as the New York Yankees' Taiwan-born ______ .

(a) Catcher (b) Pitcher (c) infielder

(11) Their change of plan is strange but I don’t think it’s _____.

(a) significance (b) significant (c) signification

(12) Can you ______ your umbrella among this lot ?

(a) identity (b) identification (c) identify

Angela Merkel as female chancellor of Germany.



















British Prime Minister: Tony Blair















Thaksin Shinawatra (Thailand's ousted prime minister)

One of the few multiple choice questions answered successfully by the students was naming Wang Chien-ming as the New York Yankees' Taiwan-born pitcher. Some 97.5 percent of respondents got the answer right.

The students also identified business tycoons rather than political figures as the best leaders.

The top three leaders they chose were Formosa Plastics Group Chairman Wang Yung-ching,

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.Chairman Terry Gou

and Microsoft's Bill Gates,

with opposition KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou ranked fourth.

Israel strikes deep into Lebanon
Peres estimates end of fighting in a matter of weeks

Tuesday, August 1, 2006; Posted: 11:45 p.m. EDT (03:45 GMT)

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Israeli troops landed Tuesday near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbeck, Lebanese security sources said, and the Israeli military also engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah forces just across the border with Lebanon.

Israeli aircraft flew support missions as troops hit the ground about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) north of Baalbeck in the Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, the sources said.

The Lebanese army also reported heavy helicopter traffic east and west of the town, the northernmost ground operation for Israel during the nearly three-week conflict. (Watch as Israel presses north -- 3:06)

Israeli troops entered Hikma Hospital in northern Baalbeck, where they checked the identification cards of all staff and patients, the sources said, adding that there was no indication that anyone was taken from the hospital.

Witnesses, however, said "several" people were taken out of the hospital.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that Israeli troops operating in Baalbeck hit a number of militants and arrested some of them, although no numbers were given.

There were no injuries among Israeli soldiers, the IDF said, and the arrested militants were taken to Israel.

The Israeli Security Cabinet earlier in the day had approved an expansion of Israel's three-week-old military campaign in Lebanon.

Tuesday's fighting was concentrated near the Lebanese villages of Tayba, just outside the Israeli town of Metulla, and Aita Al-Shaab further west.

The IDF said three of its soldiers were killed and 25 wounded in the fighting in Aita Al-Shaab. Five other soldiers were wounded on the Israeli side of the border when they were hit by a mortar shell, it said.

In two days of fighting, the IDF said forces have killed or wounded more than 20 Hezbollah fighters across southern Lebanon. Hezbollah said four of its forces died in Tuesday's fighting. (Watch Israeli bombardment pound Aita Al-Shaab -- 3:09)

Just outside the village, the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon reported intensive Israeli shelling in the villages of Ramia, Dibil and Qawzah on Monday and Tuesday morning. (See where the fighting is taking place)

In Tayba, the IDF said it took control of several strategic positions that it said have been used by Hezbollah fighters to launch missiles at northern Israel.

Israeli police reported 14 cross-border strikes hitting northern Israel on Tuesday, two using Katyusha rockets and 12 using mortar shells.

East of Tayba, Israeli forces Tuesday heavily shelled the town of Kfar Kela a day after pounding it with airstrikes, according to U.N. observers.

Israeli forces have also been operating in the areas of Odaise and Rab Talateen for the past two days, according to the IDF.

To the west, U.N. officials said, Israel gunboats in the Mediterranean Sea pounded southern Lebanon. (Watch Lebanese racing to get out of range -- 1:51)
Israel: Hezbollah taking a beating

Israel said it has killed 300 of the estimated 2,000 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon during its three-week offensive. A Hezbollah spokesman said 43 of its fighters have been killed, Reuters news service reported.

"Hezbollah has taken a serious beating, and that is why the pressure of a ground offensive will produce the expected results," Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon said Tuesday on Israeli Channel 10.

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, in Washington to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, told reporters the end of the war was "not far away."

"You can count it in matters of weeks, not months," he said.

But Rice saw the process going more quickly. "Certainly we are talking about days not weeks before we are able to get a cease-fire," she said on PBS' "NewsHour."

Despite an overall decrease in attacks in the last two days, Ramon said the Lebanese militia has increased the number of rocket launches from areas north of the Litani River -- about 20 miles from the border -- where the Israeli military has asked residents in two locations to evacuate.

In its initial quest to create a security buffer to protect northern Israel from Katyusha rockets, the Israeli military said it wanted Hezbollah fighters to push back to the Litani River.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israeli forces were weakening Hezbollah daily and that no cease-fire would come until Israel was safe from a future war.

"Every additional day is a day that drains the strength of this cruel enemy," Olmert said in a speech Tuesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held the United States and Britain responsible for the bloodshed in Lebanon, The Associated Press reported.

"The U.S. and Britain are accomplices in all crimes committed by the occupying Zionist regime," he said in a speech.

The United States and Israel accuse Syria and Iran of supporting Hezbollah, and the Bekaa Valley has long been considered a haven for Hezbollah, with supply routes from Syria.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair had sharp words for Iran and Syria on Tuesday.

"We need to make it clear to Syria and Iran that there is a choice: Come into the international community and play by the same rules as the rest of us, or be confronted," he said. (Full story)
Aid process difficult

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Tuesday with representatives of the five permanent Security Council members to discuss how to stop the fighting, deliver aid to civilians and send a multinational force into southern Lebanon.

The United Nations said it had little success getting aid into southern Lebanon before the end of Israel's self-declared 48-hour lull in fighting.

The European Union said it approved $64 million in humanitarian aid for Lebanon, and EU foreign ministers called on Israel and Hezbollah to agree to an "immediate cessation of hostilities." (Full story)

The conflict began July 12 when Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed three others in a cross-border raid. (Watch captured soldier's wife plead -- 5:54)

As of Tuesday, 557 Lebanese civilians and soldiers have died and 2,128 have been wounded in the conflict, according to Lebanon's Internal Security Forces.

Israel has reported 54 deaths, including 19 civilians killed by Hezbollah rocket attacks.

CNN's Nada Husseini, John Roberts, John King, Elise Labott, Richard Roth and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report.

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