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!

Week 7 : Fashion

       Today we studied the new lesson. It was a 'Fashion'. First the teacher assigned us to write vocabularies about fashion onto the board. I learned new vocabularies such as halter top, platform shoes, fishnet stocking and etc.

Here was the vocabularies that written by us

  

Halter top

Platform shoes

 Fishnet stockings 

      Then, we had to read the passage about "The Fusion? Confusion?". First, I am using scanning to read and captured the main idea each of paragraph. I found the difficulty that I could not capture the main idea some of paragraphs I saw the context clue and tried to capture the main idea. Finally, I could understand about this text.

     It was about the woman name's Yumiko, a student from Tokyo studying in U.S, have found herself in difficulty because of  her clothes. She had two bad experiences when she arrived there. The first time was a Saturday night when she went out with some students at her university. A lot of people stares at her because her clothes  were different. The second time a man approached her and wanted to take her away because the way she dress. Yumiko realized that her clothes caused the two problems. When American people go out, they rarely dress up. They usually wear comfortable clothes such as jeans, T-shirt, and sneakers. It's interesting to learn that the image you get of a country from the TV is often very different in reality.

      The teacher gave us to include the main idea each of paragraph on the whiteboard. When we mistook she also helped us to guide the contents each of paragraph so we could understand exactly.

           I had problem about how to use skimming and scanning. I can't find main idea in the passage. I usually think the detail of passage is a main idea. I should try to read and find main idea as much as I can do.

week 6:Today's Techology (Continued)

 First of all, We had to test in unit 1 and 2: Healthy Diet and Natural disasters within 1 hour. Before the test started, I prayed for myself "wish knowledges stay with me and wish me do it extremely,please" I was worry a little bit because I can't found my watch!  The instructor said"if you're not sure in some part,you can skip and do them later." I followed her suggestion strictly because I didn't have a watch.After that, she gave our to make group,gave to handouts and describe about produce such as (1.Blogging for   ELT1 2.Blogging ELT2  3.Podcast1 4.Podcast2 5.Facebook 6.Search engine ). Everyone read articles in handout and summary this text .Then each of group 2 peoples move to other groups for taking about their topics summary. The easiness about to read the articles or study in this class are 1.look at the picture 2.predicting 3.strategics.And I used skimming and scanning strategic.This lesson,I think I found difficult words and sentences.When I had problems,I will to find the meaning of words in dictionary online such as www.dictionary.cambridge.org.
   I  hope you enjoy reading my diaries and wish you like it soooooo much. Have a nice dream everyone. See you next week

Week 5:Today's Technology

The first activity that the teacher assigned us was sharing learning experience of last week with a partner. This week I was very happy bacause I can remember almost my learning experience.So I can told it fluency. Then she asked us to exchange about today's technology news with a partner.

  When we finished this activity,our instructor asked us to write words about technology on the whiteboard. It's my favorite activity so I went to write it with my friends quickly. We wrote them joyfully. Finally,our mission was complete.

We paid attention to do it.

Next,we obtained today's technology worksheets from the teacher. She assigned us to do exercises from page 24 to 28.I used skimming and scanning strategics in the article is " Profcast " of the text,when I had problems about difficult words , I will try to guess that words but I can't. I will to find the meaning of words by dictionary on internet or dictionary application on my smartphone  such as www.dictionary.Cambridge.org etc. It is the best choice for me.

See you again Next class.

Week 4 : Natural Disasters (Continued)

Today's in English Reading Strategies class, I learned about Natural disaster and news stories.The teacher asked us to exchange our learning experience in last week with a partner. Sakulrat and I talked about it difficulty because she was sick.But she tried to do it extremely. Then,the teacher answered the exercises of natural disasters continued last week. Next,she asked us to read the news and do the exercises of  Japan earthquake: Tsunami hits north-east and California fires: Evacuation orders given to 13,000. 

The first one was answer the questions from the news,the second one was choose true(T) or false(F) in the space provide,the third one was write unfamiliar words and find their meaning from dictionaries,the fourth one was same the first exercises and the last one was complete each sentences with the correct word. I did it tiredly because there were lots of vocabulary that made me feel dizzy! But I can do it for my English skills. I will improve it more and more and more.

Before the ended of class, the teacher assigned us to search about today's technology news for the next week.