Week 8 : West meets East

            In class, we started to unit "West meets east". Teacher assigned to finding word meaning such as Hello kitty toys, Tazo Chai Tea, Wasabi mashed, McDonald's meal and etc.

    Example • McDonald's meal is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries across 36,538 outlets. Founded in the United States in 1940, the company began as a barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald.(refer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s )

             • Wasabi mashed is a plant of the Brassicaceae family, which includes cabbages, horseradish, and mustard. Its stem is used as a condiment and has an extremely strong pungency more akin to hot mustard than the capsaicin in a chili pepper, producing vapours that stimulate the nasal passages more than the tongue.(refer :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi)

                 

           The teacher assigned to do exercise. She did to read the passage "The Asianization of United States" and to do understanding the passage. The passage is more difficult than old passage that I had ever done before because that is more difficult vocabulary and the subject matter is too hard for understanding.

           Finally, she assigned to do next exercise on page 106-108.

Week 7 : Fashion

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               Today we learned about Fashion. Fashion is a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, body, or furniture. Fashion is a distinctive and often constant trend in the style in which a person dresses.
              We practice speaking vocabulary in sheet "Famous fashion items" word such as bikini, miniskirt and etc.
               The teacher did to read and summarize the passage page 69.
          Paragraph 1 : It's not true that japanese are more conservative than American, especially when it come to dress. 
          Paragraph 2 : Yumiko had the bad experiences because of her clothes.
          Paragraph 3 : The second time she was frighted and shocked because a man camped to her and wouldn't go away.
          Paragraph 4 : Yumiko realized that it was her clothes that were the problem.
          Paragraph 5 :  Yumiko changed the clothes she wore so that she could look more like the Americans.

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Week 6 :Today’s technology

              Today, We learned in new sheet "Researchers worry as teens grow up online". She did to summarize information about opinions of researchers and teenagers from a sheet then she did to share your information to friends and write on whiteboard. I used previewing skill,scanning skill, skimming skill, guessing the words meaning from the context skill,and making inferences skill.

Before finished class she ordered me to find picture about fashion in the world. And the teacher assigned set a tables in class for test. I think, the test is rather easy because it has many the content of the sheet.

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I thought 3 hours per day using the Internet too much because we waste time on things that are not useful and time lost to the Internet can be useful for many activities.

Week 5 : Today’s technology

              This class studied about “Today’s technology. Teacher assigned to talk about how did technology change your life and write everything about technology on whiteboard.
              Now a day Technology has an important role in the daily lives of people in society even more.  Especially in education has developed a variety of learning media on the Internet. Technology can help in learning the English language easily. Such as YouTube, Facebook, Dictionary English online and etc. There are programs that can be used to improve we English.

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              Teacher ordered to do exercise in page 24. After that she assigned to work in small group read the article about Prof Casts and summarized the article and present in front of class.  For this class I had new vocabulary and new knowledge about technology.