On Monday 20th March, we started to learn the new lesson about “Cause and Effect”. First, the teacher gave us the new handout. Then, she explained about cause and effect and she opened the video of the fourth year student that was about how to cook the food.
Next, the teacher assigned us to do “practice” and “skill practice 1” in the handout because of she had to go to the inauguration. When she came back to the classroom, she began to explain us about cause and effect. Then, she read text example and practice for us. After that, she explained discourse markers of “cause and effect” and taught us how to pronounce words in this lesson correctly such as:
Cause (n.) /kɔːz/ = the reason why something, especially something bad, happens
Effect (n.) /ɪˈfekt/ = the result of a particular influence
Affect (v.) /əˈfekt/ = to have an influence on someone or something, or to cause a change in someone or something
After that, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback of skill practice 1 and she told us to do “skill practice 2” in the handout. Next, she told us to read “The effect of stress” and answer questions below the text. After we did it finished, she gave us the corrective feedback.
For this lesson, I think the effect of stress activity was difficult for me because of I found many difficult words in the text. But, I solved this problem by finding the words on my smartphone, asking my friend, and guessing the meaning of them. It challenging for me.
I felt enjoy about this class.
On Monday 6th March, I continued studied about “Procedure”. The teacher started to read the text 3 in the handout that was about how to use a toaster. The exercise 2 was “what is the brand of this
product?” The exercise 3 was “identify if the statements below are true (T) or false (F).” and the last one was “complete each of the following sentences with the informati
on from the instructions.”
Next, we were continued to the next lesson “Comparison and Contrast”. The teacher told us to open the first page of this handout. It was about the purpose, types of procedural texts, text organization, and language features. Next, she told the students to compare between two topics “The high context culture student and the low context” in the example 1.
After that, the teacher told us to read the text 1 and text 2. Both of them were about the subway airline and the Hurricane. When we finished read that text, the teacher was assign the work from page 38, the topic was about Men and Women: Do They Speak the Same Language? And do the activities.
I think that this lesson “Comparison and Contrast" was easy for me because I felt when can choose the best word for compare thing as well.
I felt great for this week very much.
