欣蓉的教學網誌

2010年1月24日星期日

Q11: What would you do if you were an English teacher?

If your were an English teacher, what would you do in class to enhance students' learning? And what would you have students do outside of class? Please be specific. Instead of saying, "I'll make my class interesting," tell us what you would do to arouse your students' interest.

Q10: Which lesson in Book 3 impressed you most?

There are twelve lessons in Book 3 and we discussed in detail eight of them. Which lesson impressed you most? Why? What did you learn from it?

Q9: What makes a good friend?

We all need friends and we are all someone's friends. What are some qualities of a good friend?

Q8: What do you like about yourself?

This is nothing about narcissism. To have a positive self-concept is the first step toward a happy life.

Q7: What can you do for others?

Albert Einstein once said, "...man is here for the sake of other men." Please list at least three things you can do for others.

P.S. If you'd like to read the article by Einstein, just read on:

Q6: What is a well-educated person like?

Give a definition of your own about a well-educated person. How do they behave?

Q5: What kind of parent would you like to be in the future?

Life is a cycle. You'll be a parent to someone in the future. What kind of parent would you like to be?

Q4: If you could invent anything, what would it be?

For this moment, let your imagination fly. Imagine yourself as a great scientist. What would you invent? What would your invention look like and what would it do? (SC, Jan. 14)

Q3: What is one of the things you want to change about yourself?

Everyone wants to become a better person. What is one of the things you'd like to change about yourself? Why and how?

Q2: What do you wish you had spent more time doing last semester? Why?

During last semester, you must have done a lot, but still there seem to be some things you wish you had done if time had allowed. Talk about one of them.

Q1. What would you most like to do during the winter vacation? Why?

If you could do anything during the winter vacation, without any restraint, what would you most like to do? Why?

Q & A for 2010 Winter Vacation

Dear 209 and 214,

How is your winter vacation so far? Exciting, relaxing, or a little boring? Let's do something different from what we did during the last semester. You'll very likely find a lot of fun in it.

In this Q & A activity, everyone can share opinions about some questions on my blog. Do not care too much about grammar. Just write out your thoughts. To answer the question, click the "2010 Q & A" category in my blog, and you'll see a list of the 12 questions. Click on any one and key in your answer in the comment box.

The following are some rules:

1. Everyone has to answer at least 2 out of the 12 questions. The more, the better.

2. Answer each question in around 30~50 words, surely in English.

3. Your name can be given in one of the following forms:

1) Your real name, either Chinese or English.

2) Your class + student number, for example, 20901, 21433, etc.

3) If you hate to leave any clue to anyone except me about who you are, you can use a pseudonym, but please tell me the "secret" by sending me an email. My email address: june0626@gmail.com

4) Those who use the WordPress system will feel confused why your comments don't show after you enter your messages. Well, that's because all the comments have to be approved by me before they appear on that blog of mine. So, just key in and hit enter. You'll see your comments approved later.

Please enjoy sharing your opinions. This activity is meant to create a real-life English environment for you. If you have more interesting questions, let me know. I might add them to the list.

Have fun!

P.S. For your reference, click on the following link and you'll see how this was done last year (2009).

http://www.tiec.tp.edu.tw/lifetype/post/1130/29439

2010年1月23日星期六

It Takes Time to Build Character--洪蘭：走馬燈校長難建立校風

http://udn.com/NEWS/OPINION/OPI4/5382719.shtml

洪蘭：走馬燈校長難建立校風

聯合報╱洪蘭】2010.01.23 03:31 am

2010年1月22日星期五

On SAT English Composition

The following is an article by Ms. Huang about her feedback to an English essay written for last year's SAT English writing task. In Part 1, she only focused on the structure of the essay. In Part 2, she'll go into details and correct sentences one by one. Before reading Part 2, which will be shown below this one, why not try correcting the sentences by yourself?

http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=231269

學測指考英文作文》98學年度作文考古題解析（上篇）

2010年1月21日星期四

Farewell Party for the Retired Teachers

(Click on the photo at the pause and you'll see the caption.)

Yesterday we had a farewell party for the three retired teachers right after the end-of-semester meeting.

2010年1月20日星期三

A Big Day, a Big Gathering, And a Big Photo

(Click on the photo to enlarge it. Click on the enlarged one and you can see an even bigger photo.)

Today is a big day. To begin with, today is the last day of the semester. In the following 32 days, teachers and students can live their life as they like. Of course, students still have some assignments to finish, but at least they can have their own schedule.

On English Dictionaries

Here is an article on vocabulary learning. Part of it is about English dictionaries and what dictionaries to use.

http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_MAIN_ID=381&f_SUB_ID=4274&f_ART_ID=232040

2010年1月19日星期二

Life with Purpose

Sih-heng (鄭思恆), a former student who graduated in summer 2008, called me tonight. Sih-heng is a anthropology major at NTU now. She asked me about the TOEFL. I suggested that she borrowed a TOEFL book to get familiar with the types of the test items before preparing for the test. That way, she will go in the right direction.