วันเสาร์ที่ 19 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2559

Classic Ann Landers

     
      On 14th November, I learned about "Classic Ann Landers". First, we gave the handout from the teacher and assigned us to read letters that someone sent to Ann Landers. After we finished read the handout we continues did the activities.

      Next, we read each letter and its response again and questions. After we finished, the teacher gave corrective feedback together.

1. Why did Careful Louisiana write the letter to Ann Landers?
     - To ask to warn the readers to be cautions anytime a stranger has been in their homes.

2. What is Ann Lander's advice?
     - She advises the writer to lock the doors and windows.

3. What is Granada Hill's problem?
     - He doesn't want his friends to say "Get well soon" to her wife. It hurts to hear that word because everyone knows that his wife will die.

4. Why did he write the letter to Ann Lander?
     - Because he wants to Ann Landers help him for this problem.

5. What is Ann Lander's advice  for him?
     - She has no idea. But she advises him to "Play the game" because the phrase is intended to be comforting.

6. What is Annoyed in Texas's problem?
     - Her problem is her ex-husband's new wife is constantly overstepping her bounds with her children so she feels angry about this.

7. Why did she write the letter to Ann Landers?
     - Because, she needs the advice to deal with her problem.

8. What is Ann Landers advice to her?
     - She advises her to don't complete with her second wife, stay in the background, and refrain from making any critical remarks.

     Next, the teacher ask to make a group and write the responses. So, we had represents of each group to tell the class and we had quiz 2 test for 50 minutes.

     In this class, I think summarizing the story was so difficult for me. But the teacher helps us by giving the feedback and recommend.

     I used Reading faster, scanning, skimming, and reading for detail to do the exercises.

วันอาทิตย์ที่ 13 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2559

Paragraph reading strategies "Book and Novels"

        On Monday 7th November, We learned the paragraph reading strategies 'Book and novels." The teacher gave us the handout and assigned us to do an exercise 2.

        After that, the teacher assigned us to read and answer the question.

1. Did Princess Diana have a happy marriage life?
     - No, she didn't. she trapped in a loveless marriage, who has suffered from chronic illness and loneliness.
2. What are the four aspects of the UK and USA mentioned in the book?
     - People, Geography, History, and institutions.
3. Who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize? For what aspects?
     - Aung San Suu Kyi for her  heroic efforts on behalf of  democracy in Burma.
4. What is included in the book "A Lie for God : Mother Teresa Treasury?
     - It includes a brief biography, conversation with Mother Teresa herself, Heart of joy, Loving Jesus, and Suffering into Joy.

     We finished activity "Secret of the Christmas Box" and we answer the question in the sheet.

      I used the skimming, scanning and reading faster to read. And scanning for finding the answers was easy for me.

วันศุกร์ที่ 4 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2559

Extensive reading continues and Read faster

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      On Monday 31st October, We started the class about "Extensive reading" that continues from last week ago and new reason learning the new topic "Reading faster".
      We sent the homework before starting the class.

      The teacher explained about "fluency is more important than accuracy." She also taught us by opening the Cambridge Dictionary to tell us with some vocabularies on the projector.
      I given the sheets by the teacher. Its about "Read faster". We spoke in the class about "How do you improve your speaking, listening, and writing skills?". and "How do you read in English?.
      She also assigned us to think about "What are obstacles to faster reading?.

   We read the passage from the activity "Hints for reading practice.". We read so quickly and answered the question to the teacher.

      In this class, I found that this lesson was a bit easy and It was contained by easy vocabularies.