extensive reading

  17 October 2016, today the teacher told us the midterm scores. I got 15 from 20, it wasn’t bad score but not good neither so I will study hard to get better scores in Final exam.  After that the teacher told us when we are going to have the second quiz and final exam.

Next, the teacher started the new lesson “Extensive Reading” Teacher let us guessed what it is and then talked with a partner. After that, the teacher asked us the question “Do you often read in English for your private study?” and If “Yes” what is the way that you use? On Internet, Magazine, Books or Study books.

She asked us to discuss that with our partner. For me, I used Internet. I love reading quote of movies on Facebook and Instagram. 

Next, the teacher shared her experience about her studying abroad and told us many tricks to study. She told us to practice and read more because it will be good for us. 

After that, the teacher gave us the handout  it was about extensive reading and then let us think the words relate to “Research” and wrote them on the board.

Extensive reading = simply reading a lot of English (reading almost every day) at a fairly easy level so you can understand the text without needing a dictionary.

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After that, we started reading in the handout, summarized each paragraph and did some exercise. When we all finished, the teacher gave us corrective feedback.

The strategies that I used today were finding the references, scanning and making inferences.

Today because text was academic so it was very hard for me there were a lot of difficult words but I could solve that problem by finding them on dictionary and teacher also told some. I had a lot of fun today. See you next week. Byeeeeee

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scanning

         10 September, the teacher gave us handouts and asked us a question from the handout.  “ At which hotel can you have an international buffet dinner with jazz music ?”  So we had to use scanning strategy to  find a key word. A key word were international buffet and  jazz music.

                      

Next, the teacher told us what is scanning and how to scan. 

                                   

Scanning : A type of speed reading technique which is used when you want to find specific information without necessarily understanding the rest of the text or passage.

How to scan : 

1. Need to have a question in mind. 

2. Decide on a key word or expressions that will signal the needed information. 

3.Do not read every word or read only the word that answer your question. 

4. Need to read fast. 

After that the teacher asked us to work in group of five people and see which group will be the fastest. When we all finished, the teacher gave us corrective feedback. We kept doing like this for 2 exercises. Then the teacher asked  us to do the rest of exercises by ourselves and see how much time we took for each exercises and when we all finished, the teacher gave us corrective feedback. I found that when I used scanning strategy made me found the answer faster.

Today the teacher also showed us how to book a flight online. I hope I have a chance to book one later.

The strategy that I used today was scanning.

I liked this lesson because it was fun to find the answer of each exercises and tried to take time as less as possible but this lesson also made my eyes got tired a bit as I had to use my eyes to scan a lot. I think learn how to scan is good because it is very helpful when we have to do reading exam or we have to find the answer race against time. I had a lot of fun in class. See you next week.

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west meet east ( continued )

                       3 September 2016, the teacher started class by telling us the score that we did the test.  I got 3/5. Not bad but I think I could do better if I read handouts well. After that the teacher let us correct exercises that she ordered as homework together.

Next, the teacher let us do another exercise then corrected when we all finished. After that she old us to read a whole passage of that exercise and make summary. That passage was about the life of Yong-hee Kim, mother of United States football star Hines Ward.

After that, she told us to do another exercises and corrected when we all finished.

Next, she told us to discuss the question with a partner. The question was

What products, Celebrities and foods from other Asian countries do you like ? 

My partner said that she likes Vietnamese foods because  they are very delicious and they put a lot of kind of vegetables in their foods. She loves vegetables that why she likes Vietnamese food very much.

Next, the teacher asked us if we met a foreigner living in our country, what questions would we most want to ask him/her ?  Discuss with a partner and make a list of question.

1.Where are you from ? 

2.Do you like Thai food ? 

3.How long have you been living in Thailand ? 

4. In your opinion, Do you think Thai girls are beautiful ?

 5. Have you ever seen Thai Movies ? 6. What is your name ? 

7. Can you speak Thai ?

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After that, the teacher let us do another exercises and read the passage called Expat in Asia. Then do more exercises.

Today I had learnt many new vocabularies and how to pronounce them in correctly way, such as

Discriminate : (/dɪˈskrɪm.ɪ.neɪt/) to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc.

Obstacle : (/ˈɒb.stə.kəl/) something that blocks you so that movement, going forward, or action is prevented or made more difficult.

Overcome : (/ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/) to defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with something.

Overwhelming : (/ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/) difficult to fight against.

Prominent : (/ˈprɒm.ɪ.nənt/) very well known and important.

Support : (/səˈpɔːt/) to agree with and give encouragement to someone or something because you want him, her, or it to succeed.

Inspire : (/ɪnˈspaɪər/) to make someone feel that they want to do something and can do it.

Emerge : (/ɪˈmɜːdʒ/) to appear by coming out of something or out from behind something.

Dogged : (/ˈdɒɡ.ɪd/) very determined to do something, even if it is very difficult.

Determined : (/dɪˈtɜː.mɪnd/) wanting to do something very much and not allowing anyone or any difficulties to stop you.

The strategies that I used today were skimming,  scanning , previewing, finding references, predicting and guessing words meaning from the context.

In my opinion, I thought  this lesson was pretty hard for me because there were many difficult words that I didn’t know the meaning  and that made me read more slowly but I could solve the problem by finding it in dictionary and asking my friends however, many exercises in this lesson were very difficult but as teacher gave us the corrective feedback of all exercises so I knew what mistakes that had made.That's all for today. Bye, see you  next week.

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Fashion Essential (Continued ),West meet east

                       26 September 2016, today we had mid-term exam. For me the exam test was pretty difficult because there were many vocabularies that I didn’t know the meaning. After we all finished exam, the teacher asked us to read the passage called Splitting Hairs and did exercises and when finished reading and and she asked us to talk with partner about the answer of each questions in exercises.

After that, the teacher gave us handouts and started new lesson. She gave us some words and ordered us to find the meaning or information of it.

Martial arts : a sport that is a traditional Japanese or Chinese form of fighting or defending yourself.

Mc Donalds’ Happy meals : It’s a promotion of Mc Donald.
Hello Kitty toys : Toy's company.

Moutain Dew: It’s fizzy drink. Country of origin is USA.

Crouching Tiger : It’s Drama/Action Film.
Tazo Chai Tea : ginger, cardamon , cinnamon, fennel, black tea.
Wasabi mashed potatoes : mashed potatoes with wasabi.
Fusion dishes : essentially a mixing of food culture and cuisines.

Boba drinks : It’s bubble tea. Country of origin is Taiwan.

Rick Yune : An american actor, screen writer, producer martial artist and former model.

Nicole Bilderback: Korean- born, American actress

kelly Liu: An american actress, voice actress, director, producer singer and artist.

After that, she asked us to do exercise and discuss about the questions in handouts with the partner that sat next to us.

Next, she told us to read the passage called The “Asianization” of the United States.

And then she ordered us to do some exercises for homework.

The strategies that I used today were skimming,  scanning , previewing, finding references, predicting and guessing words meaning from the context.

In my opinion, I thought  this lesson was pretty hard for me because there were many difficult that I didn’t know the meaning and Chinese names were hard to read but I could solve the problem by finding it in dictionary and asking my friends and teacher. That's all for today.See you  next week.

Exercise : Your university has decided that all female students should have long hair and all male students should have crew cuts. Write your opinion about this.

    In my opinion, I think that the new hair rules are a bad idea because it seems like University want to produce robots  not creative students. Set the rule like that, I think, it’s the way to block off the ideas of students  and I think hairstyles won’t be affected  ability to learn so then why all students should have hair in the same way ? University is very stressful. Rules about student’s hair will put more stress to students.Let students create their own hairstyle is better. Let them be creative people.

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Fashion Essential

   12 September 2016, the teacher asked us  when we hear “fashion” what do we think ?

For me I think about clothes and accessories. After that, the teacher gave us the hand outs and told us to read the paragraph; it was about famous fashion items and I had to find what the name of each article is. When we all finished this exercise, the teacher gave us another handouts.

Next, the teacher taught us to pronounce  some vocabularies in correctly way.

1.Halter :( /ˈhɒl.tər/ )  a piece of women's clothing that is held in position by a strap that goes behind the neck so that the upper back and shoulders are not covered.

2.Kimino :( /kɪˈməʊ.nəʊ/) a long, loose piece of outer clothing with very wide sleeves, traditionally worn by the Japanese.

3.Sneakers : (/ˈsniː.kər/) a type of light, comfortable shoe that is suitable for playing sports.

4.Jeans : (/dʒiːnz/ ) trousers made of denim (= strong blue cotton cloth) that are worn informally.

5.T-shirt : (/ˈtiː.ʃɜːt/) a simple piece of clothing, usually with short sleeves and no collar, that covers the top part of the body.

6.Comfortable : (/ˈkʌm.fə.tə.bəl/) Comfortable furniture and clothes provide a pleasant feeling and do not give you any physical problems.

7.Reality : (/riˈæl.ə.ti/ ) a fact.

After that, the teacher let us read the passage called “ Fusion ? Confusion” and tell her what is each paragraph about.

Next, we had to do exercises. When we all finished , the teacher told us to discuss with friends about the picture ( she ordered us last week as homework ) that we prepared, what is she/he wearing ?

The strategies that I used today were skimming,  scanning and guessing words meaning from the context.

In my opinion, I thought this lesson was pretty easy for me because it didn’t have many difficult vocabularies and as I love fashion so it was fun for me to study this lesson. Bye. See you next week.

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today's technology ( continued )

5 August, the teacher gave us a topic and let us go to write the answer on the white-board.

The topic was “ What technology can you use to learn English? ”   
I went to write Instagram and the rest of my friends wrote E-mail, Facebook, messenger.

After that, the teacher let us think and write our ideas about the advantages and disadvantages if using the internet when we finished we had to talked about our ideas with a friend who sat behind us.

Next the teacher picked someone to present in class and it was me.

I told my friends in class that I think advantages of using the internet are, we can search for all information that we want to know, we can communicate with people that live so far away from us, we can update what are happening around the world and we can search something on internet that can make us relax. On the other hand, the disadvantages of using internet are, nowadays some people are getting addicted to internet so they spent time with their family less and there are a lot of wrong information on the internet as  anyone can post anything.

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After that the teacher had some words for us and we had to find the meaning.

Cyberspace : The internet considered as an imaginary area without limits where you can meet people and discover information about any subject.

Key pal : A person with whom one regularly exchanges E-mail for fun.

Netizen : a person who uses the internet.

Emotion : a strong feeling such as love or anger, or strong feelings in general

CU stand for See you.

RUOK stand for Are you okay ?

OMG stand for Oh my god!
LOL stand for Laughing out loud.

After that, the teacher  gave us a hand out and told us to read the passage in handout called researchers worry as teen grows up online. Then the teacher picked someone up to share what we got from the passage. Next the teacher let us write “ what is the researcher’s opinion and teenager’s opinion on the board.

researcher’s opinion 

1.Chatting online may be better than watching television,but it's worse than hanging out with real friends.

2.We are not only looking at what the computer can do for us,but what are they doing for us.

 teenager’s opinion

1.School is stressful and busy.

2.Nobody seems to expect the online world to be the same as the real world.

3.Appreciate the ability to edit what they say online or take the time. 

Then  the teacher told us to do exercises and we all finished exercises, the teacher gave us 10 minutes for break.

After that we had to do the test. I thought  the test was a bit difficult for me because I didn’t prepare myself well as my friend told me the test would be unseen passage so I didn’t read much on handouts.

The strategies that I used today were skimming,  scanning , previewing and guessing words meaning from the context.

In my opinion , the lesson was pretty hard for me  because there were many difficult vocabularies that I didn’t know the meaning but I can solve  the problem by find it on dictionary and asked my friends and I really feel thank you for the teacher because in this class made me feel like I had more confidence to speak English.

Exercise C. Answer the questions.

1. How much time spent online do you think is too much? Why ?

Answer  In my opinion, I think 3 hours is too much to spent online because if you spent time more than 3 hours, the light from the screen might damage your eyesight.

2.Do you think that everything can be communicated by E-mail ? Or are some things best said face-to-face ? What example can you give ?

Answer I think everything can’t be communicated by R-mail because it’s better to said face-to-face as we can show the real feeling that we really feel such as guilty for them or feel sorry for them.

3.Would it bother you if people lied you online about their age or appearance ?

Answer In my opinion, I annoyed the person who lied online about their age or appearance because maybe they are criminals who want something from us.

Bye. see you next week.

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8 August,Taiwan

I was absent a class on 8 August, as I got the scholarship to study basic Chinese for 2 weeks in Taiwan so the teacher told me to write what did I do in that day instead.8 August, it was the first day so no class, but they had a welcome ceremony for us. In welcome ceremony,the people that responsible this project told us about the story of Hung Kuang University and they also had a little dance show. It was so cute. After that everybody that joined this project had to introduce themselves to make us know each other.

Next,we all had lunch together.

When we all finished lunch all stuffs took us to walk around the university.

Then we went back to our dormitory to change our clothes because they would take us to Goamei wetland.

The view was actually great, but the weather was too hot.Maybe If we went in the evening, it would be better.There were many crabs and Mudskipperes there.
after that, on the way back University we stopped to find something to eat for dinner at Guanhua district. I bought Dumpling and as I didn't know which one is taste good so I ordered all but lucky me because all kinds tasted good.♥

here is a video of some activity that i did there, Hope you enjoy watching.