narrative (continued) and descriptive

          30 January 2017, as there were many of my classmates absented from the make-up class on Sunday so the teacher asked Sitthichai to tell my friends about what was the whole story that we  had learnt yesterday and she also asked to tell all my friends about what we had studied on Sunday. 

After that, the teacher explain us about the purpose of Narrative, the types of narrative, text organisation and language Features.

Next, she asked us to work in group of 5 people to discuss about the home work that she assigned us on Sunday, it was about discussing the story’s symbols.

And these were the Idea of my group

The eggs represented as the secret that become bigger every day. The bigger of the secret is the more stress Kylie has so she can’t hold it anymore so she let it go as you could see from the story that she threw the chickens in the well.

The well represented as the loneliness, the more Kylie go down in the well is the more she stay far from the society.

The photo represented as the only good memory that she only has when she was a child.

Kylie’s cutting of the photo represented as that Kylie wants to escape from the adult’s world.

After all groups finished discussing, we had to send the representative of each group to present in front of the class and the representative of my group was me.

After all groups finished presentation, the teacher showed us the example of another person’s ideas on internet.

Next, she assigned us about the homework. She asked us work in group of 3 people what we had to do was draw cartoon books about the story that we just read ( Secret by Tim Winton ) She asked to send this homework on 28 February so we had time to do to like a month.

After that, teacher show us the slide of pictures and then she asked us to describe about their appearance, habitat and what diet.

The first picture was Green darner dragonfly. In our group we described that the type of Green darner dragonfly is insect and it has 4 wings, long body and it eats grasses.

The second picture was the ant.

In our group we described that the type of the ant is insect and it has a long legs, small body, big eyes and it eats meat.

The third picture was Komodo. In our group we described that Komodo has long and forked tongue, fat body, 4 short legs, rough skin and it looks like a crocodile. It lives near the river and eats chicken.

After that the teacher asked us to send the representative of each group to present about Komodo in front of the class. When each groups finished presentation she gave us the handouts, it was about descriptive.

Next, the teacher asked us to draw the diagram and add the information of Komodo from the handouts but the time was up so she asked us to do it as the homework.

For me, I thought the lesson of today was pretty easy and interesting however, I still had some problem about that I don’t know much vocabulary but I solved the problem by asking the teacher and asked my friends and also finding in dictionary. I had a lot of fun in class because we had to discuss with my friends a lot in class. See you next again week. Bye for now.

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Narrative

                    29 January 2017, today is Sunday. Intact, we had no class today but as the class on 13 February will be canceled so the teacher decided to make up class today. When the class started the teacher asked us to talk with friends about the story that we had read last week.

After that she read and explained us the part one of the story the she asked us to make a group of 5 people and do the exercise, it was about adding 3 fairly short sentences to complete the summary.

And this was our summarized:

Kylie feels left out from her mother and Philip’s activities. She becomes interested in the chickens in the yard. Somehow her secret helps her to feel less lonely. She finds the second egg and then finds out where others are being laid by an unhealthy-looking hen. After that Philip shows her the bore well that she is not allowed to lift the lid but because her curious, she brings the photo album with her and goes down into the well. She looks at the photo. It reminds her about how the photo was taken. She remembers that her father was the photographer so there are only her mom and Kylie in the picture. The she asked us to send the representative of each group to read the summary in front of the class and I was the representative.

Next, she read and explained us the part two of the story. After finished reading she asked us to do the exercise, it was about put sentences in the right order to produce a summary of the second of the story.

After that, we did another exercise, it was about choose one of the verbs and complete each sentence.When we all finished the exercises, my friend in class named Loychoy confused about the story so he asked the teacher to explain it again.

Next, we did another exercise. The teacher asked us to work in a group of 2 people in this time and then we had to choose the three themes which us think are the most important and write each one on a slip of paper. After that we all had to put all this papers together and then find out which three were chosen often by the class.

The three themes that were chosen often by the class were

- neglect

- problems associated with contemporary family life

- children’s rights

After that, the teacher asked us to draw the diagram, it was the one that we already did last week but this time we had to use the information of Kylie, a girl in the story that we read. When we all finished doing this exercise, the time was up so she asked us to do the rest of the exercise as homework.

For me, I thought the lesson of today was pretty easy because there were not much difficult words  however, the exercise were pretty hard but I solved the problem by asking the teacher and asked my friends and also finding the difficult words in dictionary. I had a lot of fun in class. See you next tomorrow . Good byeeeee.

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Recount (continued) and narrative

            23 January 2017, the teacher asked us to talk with friends about what did we do on the weekend. I told my friends that on my weekend, I went back to my home at Suphanburi province. I did a lot of things with my family. It was really good time for me.

After we finished sharing our experience about the weekends, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback of the homework that she asked us to do last week but before she gave us the corrective feedback, she read the texts of each exercise and explained us about the texts so  we all could understand  correctly.

Next, she asked us to do the rest of exercises in handouts so we could start the new lesson. She asked us to read the texts and answer the following questions. After that we had to work in group and summarize what was the text about then  sent the preventatives of each group to present  in front of class.

The story was about “There were a woman and a boy. They drove too fast so they were stopped by the police. The police asked them to see their license but They pretended not to understand what police was asking for. And the truck weren’t theirs. Finally, they could escape because the police was struck in the mud.”

After every groups finished presentation, we had to read all the texts again together and then the teacher gave us the corrective feedback about the exercises and finished the lesson.

Next, Teacher started new lesson. She asked us to do some activities. We had to answer the questions about ourselves and then drew it as diagram then talked and compared with friends about shape of our diagram. After that, she asked us to read the first two paragraphs of the text and talked about it. We couldn’t finish the whole texts because time was up but we keep studying about this text again on Sunday.

For me, I thought the lesson of today was pretty easy because there were not much difficult words  but I had a little problem when I had to analyzed the  main point of each paragraph by my own words but I solved the problem by asking the teacher and my friends and also finding the difficult words in dictionary. I had a lot of fun in class. That’s  all for today. See you next week. Good byeeeee.

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recount

        16 January 2017, when I arrived class and found that all windows and the door were opened because the air condition didn’t work and yes i had to sit at the fifth row again, very far from the whiteboard.

After that teacher gave us handouts, it was about recount .She asked us to read the text in the hangout; it was about Furious Pace in Hockey Finals the she let us analyzed the text. In part orientation of the text we had to find when, who, what and where .In part events of the text we had to find action verbs, linking words to do with time and specific participants.

Shortly after that the housekeepers came to our class and asked the teacher to stop using electricity for a while because electricians wanted to fix the electrical system so we had to stop studying for a while.

After electricians finished fixing electrical system, we could keep studying. Teacher asked us to read the next; it was about the funeral in Toraja. Then she asked us to analyze the text and answer the following questions.

Next she asked us to draw the sequence diagram about the text about the funeral in Toraja.

we couldn't finish the handouts today so teacher asked us to do the rest of exercises as homework.

For me, I thought  the lesson today was pretty easy there were not much difficult words and the exercises weren’t  very hard. I could solve those problems by finding a difficult vocabulary in dictionary, asking my friends and asking teacher. I had a lot of fun in class but it would be better if  the air conditioners could work well.

Hola, teacher asked us to write a special event that happened to us because she want us to recount something.

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I got a scholarship to study basic Chinese for 2 weeks there at Taiwan so I was very excited as it was my first time to travel aboard. There were 10 students that got this scholarship, they were from difference majors. 

We arrived Taiwan on 7 August; the staffs from the university came to pick us at the airport and took us to the dormitory. We met another people that also join this program there; they were from many countries like Spain, America, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand and Taiwan and they all were very awesome. We got along very well.

2 weeks at Taiwan was really awesome.

I spent time studying Chinese.

Doing many activities and something that I never did before.

Trying new foods and drinks.

Visiting many cool places like Gaomei Wetland,  Taipei 101, National Palace Museum, Tamsui Old Street, Waterfront, Sun moon lake  etc.

It was a cool experience for me. I had done many new things there, learnt another languages & cultures and also met new people. I had a lot of fun there and I hope I have a chance to go there again.

Here is a video of the activities that i did there :

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Course introduction

             9 January 2017, A Discourse Approach in Reading was the first class of this semester. I was still excited even i already met the teacher in last semester. Bad luck today as my gang wasn't fast enough to get the seats in the first row. We all got seats in the fifth row; it was very far from the whiteboard. I think i need to buy binoculars for this course. When we started class, the teacher explained about what we are going to study in this course. She told us that we are going to learn how to analyze, what the text is about and what the type of texts is. She also told us that we still need to use strategies from the last course.  She didn’t say much about rules because we all in class already knew it from last course but she still reminded us to pay attention to class.

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        After that, she asked us to talk about our holidays with friends. My holidays weren’t so interesting. I just spent almost time at home, watching movies, series and cartoon but I went to bring in the new year by attending a prayer service at a temple with my cousins on  New Year’s Eve. The temple was in the mountain, there was no electric and phone signal so I couldn’t use internet at all but the weather was really good there, very fresh air.

Next, the teacher gave us the course outline. She also told us that we still have to write blogs like last semester.

After finish introducing course, she asked us do the exercises, the first one was about matching the following words with the correct genres of texts, it was very difficult for me because we hadn’t learned it yet so what I could do was guessing. In the second one was about complete the sentences of each paragraph by using the words in the box. This one was also very difficult but maybe I was good at guessing so I made only 2 mistakes in this exercise. The third one was about rewrite the sentences using the connectors in parenthesis. First, I thought it would be easy for me but it wasn’t as I made a lot of mistakes. Before finishing class, the teacher gave us papers and asked us to read it, it was about a list of discourse markers.

Today I’ve learned many difficult words and how to pronounce it correctly.
                                                                                                      1. Address (v.) /əˈdres/ : to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem.

2.Distinction (n.) /dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/ : a difference between two similar things.

3.Polygamy (n.) /pəˈlɪɡ.ə.mi/ : the fact or custom of being married to more than one person at the same time.

4.Polygyny (n.) /pəˈlɪdʒ.ɪ.ni/ : the practice of having more than one wife or permanent female sexual partner at the same time.

5.Pharmacological (adj.) /ˌfɑː.mə.kəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/: relating to treatment that uses drugs.

6.Cardiovascular (adj.) /ˌkɑː.di.əʊˈvæs.kjə.lər/: relating to the heart and blood vessels (= tubes that carry blood around the body.

7.Respiratory (adj.) /rɪˈspɪr.ə.tər.i/ : relating to breathing.

8.Well off (adj.) /ˌwel ˈɒf/ : rich.

9.Notion (n.) /ˈnəʊ.ʃən/ : a belief or idea.

10.Merge (v.) /mɜːdʒ/ : to combine or join together, or to cause things to do this.

11.plummet (v.) /ˈplʌm.ɪt/ : to fall very quickly and suddenly.        

For me, I thought this lesson today was pretty difficult because there were many difficult words and the exercises were very hard for me but I could solve those problems by finding a difficult vocabulary in dictionary, asking my friends and asking teacher. I had a lot of fun in class today. See you next week. Byeeeee

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