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.

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.