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Hi everyone,
We are officially half way through our course. We'll be quite busy in June with our presentations and Book Report #2, but July will not be as busy. Work hard for the next few weeks, and you can have a bit of a break in July. Vocabulary Building: After speed discussion, we had a short activity on vocabulary collocation (=learning vocabulary in groups). Instead of making lists of words, it's better to make a group of words that are connected to the same topic. In this way, you can remember vocabulary more easily. For example, you can have this group of words connected to the word "smoking": smoking --> causes cancer smoker / non-smoker --> first-hand smoke/second-hand smoke Make sure you note down the vocabulary from speed discussion and from your discussions each week. Discussions: For next week's discussions, remember these points:
Presentations: After the break, we continued with learning about presentations. In today's lesson, we learned how to use visuals. There are a variety of visuals that you can use for your presentation:
We also learned how to explain graphs and maps. When you explain a graph, use the following steps:
All of our presentation handouts from class today can be found in the Presentation section of the website. Cell Phones in Class: I am very disappointed that I still have to keep telling students not to use their cell phones during our lesson. When you do this, it shows that you are not interested in learning and shows that you don't care about your partner and/or group. Please be aware that I note down your name every time you use your cell phone in class, and I will decrease your final grade by -1% each time you use your phone in class. Homework: 1. Blog Post #8 2. Discussion Preparation 3. Read Graded Reader (15 pages) 4. Journal Topic #7: your future goals 5. Presentation outline
Blog Question #8: In today's lesson, I returned your Book Report #1 with my comments and your grade. Read through the feedback. What three things do you have to improve for your next book report?
14 Comments
IEⅢ-Hiroko
5/29/2015 12:55:54 am
First, I want to take care of writing in detail. In some parts, it was not enough to express the statement. Of course, there are a piece of informations which was not written in the novel, but I should have written them, too. In addition, I sometimes used the incorrect words. So, I will check them more carefully at the next time. Furthermore, I thought that my understanding about symbols was not good, so I want to understand it deeply. Probably, I forgot choosing two objects, “surface” and “deeper” meanings.
IEIII-Ami
5/29/2015 08:37:51 pm
First, I should have written MLA style exactly. I made a mistake how to write it. So I will have to check it carefully.
Harufu Komori
5/30/2015 11:14:30 pm
First, I didn't understand about essay questions completely. To improve my answer for that questions, I should think the question more carefully and consider more deeply. Using complete sentences is my second assignment. I didn't write setting with complete sentences, so I have to correct that point. Lastly, I didn't learn deeply about the climax. I may be misunderstood about climax. I think I should had read my book more cautiously. Every time I read my book, I should think of climax more in detail. In addition, I should learn again about climax with the handout.
IEIII-Ayano
6/1/2015 12:36:21 am
First, I used too much "so" at the beginning of the sentences. Usually, so, and, but is used in the middle to connect sentences. However, I used too much "so" at the beginning of the sentences. Second, I used same transitions too much. Next time, I write my book report, I want to use words that I don't usually use. In IE textbook page 87, there are many transitions. I want to try to use those words next time. Third, I used "and so on", which is spoken English, on my book report. Next time, I write my book report, I have to be more careful.
IE-III Aoi
6/1/2015 09:43:58 am
First, I have to insert the auther and page when I use quote. I skipped it twice. Second, sometimes I didn't write detail of what I wrote. so maybe what I really want to tell is unclear for readers. Finally, I didn't use complete sentence in my conflict. I wrote somebody vs somebody but I had to somebody have a conflict with somebody. I'll write colletly in the next time. In conclusion, I have to write this report to who have not read this book can understand the story and the core message. If do so, I can make it better.
IE3 Hinako
6/1/2015 04:44:32 pm
First, I want to check my sentences more carefully. There were some unclear sentences in my book report. Second, I also need to check the spells. This time, I relyed to the system of word. I didn't check by myself. I thought I should check again and again to make my report better. Finally, I have to learn how to write in-text citation. I made mistakes. I wrote the person who said the sentence, but actually I need to write author's name. I want to care abou these things and write better book report next time.
IEⅢ-Akane
6/1/2015 04:52:29 pm
First, I should give some detail examples. My essay didn't have detail example. It is difficult to understand what I want to say. Also, my explanation is too briefly. Next time, I'll write something more detail. Second, I took some mistakes on grammer. I 'll write correct sentence by caring for grammer. Finally, I didn't understand the meaning of theme. Next time, I try to find the good theme which main character learn.
IEⅢ-Miki
6/1/2015 05:12:23 pm
First, I should not have used "and", "but", and "so" at start of sentences. I'll use "however", "in addition", and "therefore" instead of them. Secondly, I shouldn't have made grammatical mistakes. I will write sentences more carefully. Finally, I did not write literally terms clearly. It is not good. Therefore, I'll write more in detail next time. I want my 2nd book report to be better than my 1st book report.
IE3-Motoko
6/2/2015 12:40:34 am
I have many things to improve in my previous book report. Firstly,clarifying and examples are very crucial. However, in my book report, there are some sentences which I did not clarify.For example, in my first question, I did not give enough specific examples. Secondly, I used italics for quotes. I did not recognize this is not good therefore I used for all quotes. This was my mistake so I will improve this. Finally, some sentences did not make sense. I could not make reader understand. I will change in these ways.
IE III-Kento
6/2/2015 10:21:26 am
Firstly, I'd like to improve my vocaburaly skill. Because most of my words are repeated not only in book report but also another writing. For that reason, I'll use more effective vocabularies next book report. Secondly, I 've got some wrong words in previous book report. For example, spelling miss, wrong use or wrong tense. It seems to me improving them are not difficult so I'd like to pay attention about them more and more. Lastly, I should read book more carefully because my question answers were well-organized but my literally terms were not well-organized. It means I did not read book well maybe so I' ll read next book with more care.
IEⅢ-Ryo
6/2/2015 01:03:49 pm
Firstly, I have to give some examples to explain my idea. In my first book report, I didn't give enough it. Therefore, I will look for proper ground. Secondly, I should comprehend the relationship with character. Protagonist and antagonist, or main character and sub character relationship is so important. In many cases, it connect to conclusion. Thirdly, I should quote appropriate sentence to insist on my own idea. In my first bok report, I could quote good sentence, so I would like to do same thing in the sencond book report.
IE3-Hiroka
6/2/2015 02:49:49 pm
First of all, I need to decrease the number of subtle mistakes such as grammatical mistakes and spell mistakes. For example, I do know why I wrote in this book report ‘This story begins on February’ instead of ‘This story begins IN February.’ I should be more careful to avoid such kind of error. Secondly, I have to take more vocabularies and natural English expressions. Through studying English ever, I have found that thinking ideas in Japanese when I write an English essay make it sound like Japanese essay. I mean, I think translating an idea from Japanese to English will not create a beautiful English sentence. Although I know it is not an easy task, I should read and write more English books or magazines to learn words or idioms that native English speakers usually speak or use. In addition, it is also necessary to make a sentence long and complicated. Most of sentences in an English book usually include approximately 20 words for one sentence and some sentences reach even to 50 words, while sentences I wrote are not long like 15 words. One of the ways to make complicated sentences is using relative clauses or conjunctions. Anyway, I need to train myself to write a better book report next time.
IE-3 Hiroki
6/2/2015 07:12:59 pm
Firstly, I didn't use quote from the book, so I have to use quote to improve my next book report. It is very important for all book reporters to explain detail of the book.Secondly, in my first book report I wrote roughly the whole book, so I have to write more detail so that readers can understand my book report easily. Lastly, I should read my book more detail parts. These days, I'm very busy, so I read my book roughly. My commuting time is very long, so while I am in the train, I read my book carefully.
IEⅢ-Haruna
6/3/2015 01:51:27 pm
I felt I should have written more detail. Leave a Reply. |
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