Hi everyone, After next week, we will have completed all the requirements for the IE3 Core course, so we'll be able to have a few different types of lessons. Book Report Review After speed discussion, we complete three activities to help you improve writing a book report. For our first activity, we reviewed MLA referencing and then you complete the referencing for your own book report. Next, we analyzed the structure of a sample book report answer. Remember that the most important point about writing a good essay answer is to have logical structure with reasons and examples to support your opinions. Finally, we looked at some expressions you can use for writing about your literary terms. You then had a chance to discuss the literary terms in your own book with your partners. Asking for and Giving Examples: Before our discussions, we had a short activity on how to ask for and give examples. It's important to give detailed information when you give an opinion, so you can give examples to support it. To ask for examples, you can use these questions:
Homework: 1. Blog Comment #10 2. Discussion Preparation 3. Book Report #2
Blog Question #10: Compared to IE Core 2, do you think your discussion skills have improved? Why or why not? Which skills have been the most useful that you've learned this semester?
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IE3F-Kirara
6/22/2015 12:25:28 am
In IE Core 2, I didn't learn the way of discussion so much. Therefore, this semester was very beneficial class to me. I think that my discussion skill has improved and there are 2 reasons. First, I avoided reading and made eye contacts as much as possible. These points helped to let members know my insistence strongly. Second, I tried to comments each member's opinion. The comments were not perfect and sometimes the discussion stopped, however compared with IE Core 2, I could better. Finally, I think that most useful skill is conversational style. This style was difficult for me, but it is very effective way to improve discussion skills because all people can have opinions and join the discussion.
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IE3F-Minako
6/24/2015 11:04:01 am
I think I have improved my disccussion skills a little. In IE core 2, I said my opinion one-sidedly. About news discussion, there were not exchanges of opinions between members. However, I learned two main skills in IE core 3. The one of them is the way to give an opinion and ask for it. For example, "In my opinion, ..." or "What do you think about ... ," and so on. The second is the way of leading a discussion. A discussion leader should check understanding and use words of connecting topics. For example, a leader says, "Let's move onto ...," " Are you following me?" or " What do you think about his/her opinion?" So, compared to IE core 2, I think that I have improved my discussion skills by these ways.
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IE3F-Natsumi.H.
6/24/2015 03:10:02 pm
I feel my discussion skill was improved in IE3 because I could know in detail the way of discussion both as a leader and audience, and learn a lot of useful phrases and gestures. First of all, I could learn specifically how to discuss step by step. I did not understand what students should work or what students are demanded when they do discussion before taking IE3 class. Thus, although I also tried to improve my discussion skills in IE1 and 2, it was difficult for me to improve by myself. Plus, a lot of phrases and gestures help my discussion skills improve. Actually, some words or phrases in dictionaries or textbooks are not practical in English speaking countries. Therefore, I was glad to learn useful phrases and gestures. For these reasons, I think my discussion skill was improved in IE3.
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IE3F-Maho Takagi
6/24/2015 05:36:05 pm
In the IE core3, I think that my discussion skill is improved most. Because we didn't practice for discussion in IE core2. At first, I was nervous about discussing with classmates, however, I could be accustomed to discussion through your hard class. And you taught us many kind of gestures and expressions for asking answer or giving answer. So I think that this class's skill was very useful for me.
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