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 candisec@umd.edu

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.