Week 11: Ann Landers Descriptions of Books and Novels Paragraph Reading Strategies

       For this class, the teacher brought her novels to show us and give us to read in description from their cover back then, we included what is the novels about in English version and her gave us her hand out that is about books and novels. 

This period 11th of this course. In this period, we started class by the midterm test. I am excited and anxious but I passed it on and Book & Novel. Next, my instructor gave us read back cover of book & novel. And summarized it to became our thought. After that, she gave us do exercise in the new sheet. Then, she gave us read the text that Classic Ann Landers by use reading strategies is skimming. After that, she gave us do exercise about this text.

 Which the solution is she gave agent write answer of their on the whiteboard. And my instructor adjusted to correct. Thing that I got in this period is reading that I understand it more than several week ago. I feel I have more development.

Week 10: West meets East (Continued)

       Today is 10th period of This course. My instructor begin this period by she greet us same every time. Next, she give us do speaking activity that we discuss about celebrities, food and product of Asia. It's cool.

 My partner think difficult me. Then we have much more to discuss. Next, my instructor start lesson by give us do exercise. When we do exercise finish, she give us match with partner again. She give us make question in topic that when we met foreigner we are asking what they. After that, she give us read the text that "Expat in Asia". When we read finish, she give us do exercise of the text. When we finish, she answer together with us. In this period, what I can do is to read vocabulary in text and understand meaning of it.

 I used scanning in my reading.  It's about questions and answers of the one foriegner who lives in Taiwan. The problems that I found were unfamiliar words and didn't understand about some sentences.  The last activity was according to the text,which of these which might be true? I did it very quickly because that moment was the bad feeling of me. 

Week 9: West meets East

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 First of all,she shown us the pictures about cultures of each countries both are western and eastern such as martial arts,fusion food,fusion clothes or movies etc. and asked us what are them about. Next,she asked us to do exercises in pre-reading 1: complete the sentences with the keywords in bold from the text. and pre-reading 2 : discuss the question with a partner. The questions are about cultures in west and east. 

 Then we read the text "Asianization of  the United states" by scanning and did exercises in comprehension 1:decide if the sentence are True(T) or False(F) Then write the line number where the evidence is and comprehension 2: answer the questions without using a dictonary.  Comprehension 1 made us so tired because we had to find that each sentences are true or false and wrote the line number of them. I had a headache so much! But I can dealt with it because my friend and I held on together! 

   Finally we finished both last exercises in this class. But the studying must go on because teacher Usa assigned us to do remaining exercises as a homework and told us if you don't do your homework you will be punished by me!

Week 8: Fashion (Continued)

Fashion part 2: Hairstyles

 Last week,the instructor assigned us to find our favorite hairstyles and tell the reason why we like them.In this class,the instructor asked us to discuss them with our partners before the end of class. So,welcome to the last part of fashion!

 At the first time,we did exercise about name of hairstyles by anagram them such as shaggy hair etc. Then,she asked us to read the paragraph about hairstyle in 5 countries and found summary together with friends. After that, we matched a country with a sentence about the paragraph. Next,we completed sentences with linking verbs. Then, read sentence and circle F for Fact or O for Opinion and talked to a partner and answer the questions about hairstyles of students. 

  The next activity was discuss about our favorite hairstyles with a partner. I waited for it attentively. I found the obstacles between I did it that are I am not sure what are my reason and what are the  benefits of this hairstyle. but I thought it was the coolest activity I have ever done!