"Narrative continues" and "Descriptive"

      On Monday 30th January, I continued learned about “Narrative” from yesterday. She asked Ger to tell about the summary of the short story “Secret” in front of the class. After that, the teacher explained about Narrative. There are so many types of narrative such as mysteries, science fiction, fairy stories, etc.
      Next activity, the teacher told the students to make a group of five people to discussing the story’s symbol in a Secret short story. It had 4 symbols; the eggs, the well, the photos, Kylie’s cutting of the photo. And each group were represented by the symbol in front of the class.
      This is about my group were discussed:
- The eggs refer to something valuable of her mind. Because she wanted to take care the eggs. So, she didn’t get from this family.

-  The well refers to the seeking/ love compassion from the family. So, she climbed down to the dangerous area.
-  The photos refer to her memories in childhood because she had a warm family.

- Kylie’s cutting of the photo refers to threw herself out of this family.

      Next, we were started to learn about “Descriptive”. I think this lesson would learn about the description to anything or anyone. Before we learn this lesson, the teacher was opened the pictures and told us to describe each picture. We have described the type of the animal, appearance, and diet.

      First, she opened green darner dragonfly:

 - The type of the animal: Insect

- Appearance: 4 wings, small body, and it looks like the jet plane.

- Diet: dew and grasses.

      Next picture was the ant:

- The type of the animal: Insect

- Appearance: long legs, small body, orange color, two eyes, big abdomen and head, antenna, and mandible.

- Diet: sugar or sweet, and food.

      And the last was komodo, the teacher told us to describe for this picture together in the group:

Appearance: long and forked tongue, fat body and long tail, four big legs, rough skin, gray color, and it looks like crocodile combine with the snake.

Habitat: it lives on the ground and in the water, a lot of trees, and humidity places. It always lives alone.

Diet: fishes, insects, plants, animals, chicken, meat.

      Next, the teacher gave us about the descriptive handout and drew the diagram. Then she added the information onto the diagram and told us to do it for the homework.
      I think this lesson was easy to me because I really like about describe things.
      I was fine about this week because it was easy.

Narrative continues

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On Sunday 29th January, I continued studied about "Narrative" from the last week. Today is the makeup class because of the Monday 13th was the holiday.

After the teacher came into the class and checked the name already, she told us to talk about the story that we read in the last week with friends. Then, the teacher explained about the story (Secret) in part 1. After that, she told us to made a group of 4 peoples and completed the summary of part 1 by adding 3 fairly short sentences.

We brainstormed and discussed the idea of the story in the group, after that she told us to choose the represents of each group to read the sum-up in front of the class.

Next, the teacher continued explained the story in the second part. After she finished read about the story, she told us to do the activity C the was "Put the sentences in the right order to produce a summary of the second part of the story".

Next, I did the activity "D" in the handout. It was "Choose one of the verbs, and then complete each sentence". Then, I and my friends read the sentences to share our opinions in the group.

 After that, Next, I did the activity "E" that was "What do I feel about the story? Talk about it with a partner". After that, the teacher told us to choose the three things that most important in this story to wrote in the small paper and sent to her. So, the most themes of this story are neglect, problems associated with contemporary family life, and children's right.

Next, we looked on page 13 that we had ever done at the first time we learn about this course. So, we crossed it again follow the story that we had to learn before in the story.

I think The exercise C was easy for me because this exercise was just summary what we read about the story.

In this class, I always found many difficult words, I solve this problem by searching these words by my online dictionary.

Finally, I felt very interested in this day because of this lesson we learned about Kylie was interesting.

"Recount continues" and "Narrative"

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      On Monday 23rd January, I continued learned about recount and narrative from the last week. Today was the makeup class because of the Monday 13th was a holiday. The teacher was a bit tired, she told us she was didn't rest on her conference vacation.

      Next, After the teacher checked our names. She would like us to talk with friends about "what did I do on weekend?". So, I told my friends that I went to the volunteer camp at Banhuaibong school. I did a lot of activities. I painted the English and Thai letter on the ground and BBL. It was very good activities.

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      After that, the teacher gave us the collective feedback in the hand out that she assigned in the last week. It was the exercise 3 that was "An Excursion to the Botanic Gardens".

Next, It was the exercise 4 that had two texts. Then, the teacher gave the corrective feedback and read the texts for us to understood the texts. She gave us the corrective feedback again about the factual recount. It was the news report about 'The arresting if Vietnamese who was stealing'.
Then, we read the texts that was the police report about "Investigation report" and the teacher told us to make a group and summarized the texts. After that, one of each group were represent the story that they summarized in front of the class. Then, she told us to answer the questions and gave the corrective feedback to us. This activity, the teacher searched some words the were difficult such as : > irresponsible (adj.) /ˌɪr.ɪˈspɒn.sə.bəl/ = not thinking enough or not worrying about the possible results of what you do
> cunning (adj.) /ˈkʌn.ɪŋ/ = Cunning people are clever at planning something so that they get what they want, especially by tricking other people, or things that are cleverly made for a particular purpose
> dishonest (adj.) /dɪˈsɒn.ɪst/ = not honest

     After that, the teacher gave us the handout that  was "Narrative". She explained about narrative and told us that she would taught us by using the activities to bring us to the lesson. It was a story named "Secrets" by Tim Winton. So, she told us to  do the activity that was "Put a cross in the line in the circle, at an appropriate point, to show how you felt as a child" the scale goes from 0(not at all) - 6(very much). After that, she asked us "What is this story?". So, it made me to predict the story that we were going to read after this. About me I think this story was told about the story of childhood that was about he/she had something that he/she didn't told to the parents. At the end of the class, the teacher assigned us to read the stories part 1 and part 2 for homework.

I think the exercise 3 and 4 were quite easy for me because I could do it correctly.

I found some words that I didn't know about the meaning but I solve this problem by using the website diction and asking my friends.

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This week, I felt good about this period.

Recount

On Monday 16th January, this is the second periods that we learned about 'Recount' lesson.
     After I came to the class, I  shocked that the air conditioner didn't work. So, the teacher told us to opened the windows and took a break for a while to wait the technician came to fix the air conditioner. It finally works again and then we continued to learn about recount lesson.
      First, the teacher told us to read the example about news of sport in the handout. It had three topics of this news including "Text organization, News's title, and Language features".
      Then, the teacher explained about three topics and after that, she told us to analyze the relation of the text organization, story, and language features.

      Next, she told us to underline the specific word in the news that was about the hockey competition in the final round between Gerringong and Warilla.
       Then, she told us to do the exercise 1 that was about analyzing the text that was about the personal recount.
      During that time, the maid came into the room and told the teacher to turn off the light because the technician came and fixed the air conditioner again. So, we wait until the problem was resolved and the maid came in again to told us that everything was ok and we can use the air conditioner too. It made me felt good but inside of the room was still hot. So, we opened the windows and continued to learn again.

      Then, the teacher continued explained about recount lesson and then she told us to find "What is Toraja" and she opened The Toraja on the website. Then, she told us to read the text in exercise 2 that was "My Grandpa's Funeral in Toraja".
During we were read the text, the teacher searched the words that we didn't know about the meaning such as:

> orientation (n.) /ˌɔːr.i.enˈteɪ.ʃən/ = the particular things that a person prefers, believes, thinks, or usually does.
> sandalwood (n.) /ˈsæn.dəl.wʊd/ = the hard light-coloured wood of a tree that grows in Southeast Asia and Australia, or the pleasant-smelling oil from this tree.
> corpse (n.) /kɔːps/ = a dead body, usually of a person.
> slaughter (n.) /ˈslɔː.tər/ = the killing of animals for meat.

After we were finished about reading, I answered the questions. Then, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback. And she taught us to wrote the dialog from two phases.

At the end of the class, the teacher told us to do another exercise for the homework and she told us to write the recount about the past experience that was interesting into my weblog.

I think the exercise 1 was quite easy for me because it had the example and I could do that as well.

I found some words that I haven't seen before. So, I solved this problem by using the online dictionary and asking my friends about the words.

I used the text organization and Language features to analyze the texts.

I feel a bit confused and tried for this period.

HOMEWORK :

My volunteer to Ban Thumhin Border Patrol Police School.

      In last weekend, I went to "the Ban Thumhin Border Patrol Police School" in Suan Phueng at Ratchaburi with my friends. At school, There is a lot of cute children and the weather was cold. I felt very good.

      We arrived there around 11 a.m. and prepared everything for making the activities with children on Sunday. In the evening, we cooked the foods for the children around 30 persons. It was so fun to make many activities with my friends.
 
       On Sunday, me and my friends volunteered to help the caravan to made and prepared many games for children. After that, we gave the foods, rice, water, snacks, and the presents to the children.

      In the evening, we went back to Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. I felt very very to do this activities and I wonder to go there again.

Course Introduction

      On Monday 9th January this is the first day of the second semester with Dr.Usa Noytim. She's the same teacher that we learned with him in English Reading Strategy.
After she checked the member in this class, she was explained about this course. She talked about What is the discourse marker? , What we able to do if we finish in this course? , What did you do on the last vacation? Then, we started to talk about we did they do on the last vacation in two minutes.
Next, She gave us the course outline and worksheet. After that, we did the three activities in that worksheet. First, It's about read the text and matched the words in the texts. Second, read and completed the sentences in the paragraph and the last is about rewrote the sentences by using the connectors. I know many vocabularies in this activity that the teacher was searched. It's about the words that we can't pronounce such as:
>Polygyny (n.) /pəˈlɪdʒ.ɪ.ni/ = the practice of having more than one wife or permanent female sexual partner at the same time.
>Pharmacological (adj.) /ˌfɑː.mə.kəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/ = relating to treatment that uses drugs.
>Cardiovascular (adj.) /ˌkɑː.di.əʊˈvæs.kjə.lər/ = relating to the heart and blood vessels (= tubes that carry blood around the body).
>Respiratory (adj.) /rɪˈspɪr.ə.tər.i/ = relating to breathing.
>Category (n.) /ˈkæt.ə.ɡri/ = (in a system for dividing things according to appearance, quality, etc.) a type or a group of things having some features that are the same.
>Classification (n.) /ˌklæs.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ = the act or process of dividing things into groups according to their type.
>Procedure (n.) /prəˈsiː.dʒər/ = a set of actions that is the official or accepted way of doing something.

In this course, I think It was easy for me about match the words with the correct genres of the text.

I use past tense in this class to talked about what I did in the last vacation.

I think this week was not difficult for me, and I'm so much relaxed because I met and talked me friends again in the new semester.