Week 11 : Extensive reading

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• What is extensive reading?
        Extensive reading is reading as much as possible, for your own pleasure, at a difficulty level at which you can read smoothly and quickly without looking up words or translating to English as you go. In other words, instead of spending a half hour decoding a tiny part of one book (also known as intensive reading), you read many simpler books that are at or slightly below the level at which you read fluently. This lets you get used to reading more complex sentences with ease, reinforces the words you already know and helps you learn new words from context.
(Liana Kerr ; http://joechip.net/extensivereading/what-is-extensive-reading/)

         The teacher gave a handouts and assigned to read a very long text about extensive reading, reading and writing and understand it. This lesson is about "Extensive Reading" it's one of technique in reading and it can help for TOEFL/TOEIC tests and make more skills such as Reading skills ,writing skills ,speaking skills ,listening skill grammar and vocabulary.
We were asked to write a summary of each paragraph. After that we did exercises. Extensive reading helps students improve reading skills and it also allows students to improve reading speed much more quickly than by reading difficult texts.

Week 10 : Scanning

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       In class the teacher gave a handouts and assigned to read and we did exercises. I get a lot of knowledge from this course and can be used to learn the English language.

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   • What is scanning?

          Scanning is 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. For example, you might scan the list of names in a telephone directory in order to find a phone number. You might scan job advertisement to find a right job.

   • How do you scan?

         1. need to have a question in mind - what the specific information you need;

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

         3. do not read every word, i.e. you can skip over unimportant words or read only the words that answer your questions ; and 

         4. need to read fast.

         • Scanning is a skill that you use in daily life. The following exercises are examples of texts that you can use to practice your scanning skill.

Week 9 : West meets East

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             Today we still studies about West meets East. The teacher assigned to did page 107-110. We used guessing word skill to do exercise and practice speaking vocabulary.
             We get new vocabulary and pronunciation skills correctly.

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             We read the passage "Expat in Asia" that passage is about  interview of Micheal. He comes form Africa and he came to Taiwan for teach English before he came to Taiwan, he had travelling in India and he met some Canadians who told him "Taiwan was a great place to teach English". Micheal said "I went to Taiwan because I wanted to continue my travels." He stayed long term in Taiwan because he think  Taiwan has become his home over time and it's part of him.
             He like that he can live in Taiwan and make decent money with a schedule that he have a lot of control over. He think Taiwan is an easy to live, but he find driving seriously problematic and have grown to dislike it intensely.