Definition and Classification

      Monday 3rd April, I started to learn the new lesson about “definition and classification”. Before we started to learn, the teacher told us about the scores of our mid-term test. So, I got seventeen. I think it was not enough for me but I’ll improve myself more than this. First, the teacher started to explain about definition and classification. Then, she told us to read definition and classification on the projector.

      Next, she taught us about many discourse markers of definition and classification. I think it will help me to find the meaning of the unknown word in the text in the future by finding the discourse markers of definition in the text such as is, i.e., comma, etc.
      After that, she explained us about strategies of definition and classification. She told us to do the skill practice 1 and 2. So she gave us the corrective feedback about this activity. There were many words of this practice such as:
     
Distinguish (v.) /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ = to notice or understand the difference between two things, or to make one person or thing seem different from another
     Psychologist (n.) /saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒɪst/ = someone who studies the human mind and human emotions and behavior, and how different situations have an effect on people
     Intrinsic (adj.) /ɪnˈtrɪn.zɪk/ = being an extremely important and basic characteristic of a person or thing
      Next, the teacher told us to write more meaning about the words on the white board in front of the class and we continued did the skill practice 3 in the handout. So, the teacher read the text 1 “What is Anthropology?” for us. She told us to read again and answer the questions that follow to pronounce them correctly.

      After that, the teacher told us to talk about the main idea of the text. We answer that was “the last sentence is the main idea: anthropology is to learn how man has developed into his present condition and what potentialities are for future”. Then, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback for us and she finally assigned us to read the text 2 for homework.

      I think I know about this lesson not much. But the teacher taught me for easy, so I can learn and did many activities for this lesson easily. Even I found many difficult words in the practice. I can solve these problems by searching the word from the dictionary or asking my friends about it.

      I felt very happy for this class.

Cause and Effect

            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.

"Procedure continues" and “Comparison and Contrast

      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.

Procedure

      On Monday 20th February, the teacher told us to talk with our friends about “the foods that I had ever cooked”.  We talk about this topic for a while and the teacher opened the PowerPoint that was the healthy diet. Then, the teacher told us about her past in Sydney and Australia. She told that she cooked a lot in there by herself. And she assigned the work for us to make the video about cooked the food and explain how to cook from the video.

      Next, she opened the cooking video of “Jamie Oliver” that he was cooking “the perfect omelet”. So, the teacher assigned us to listen and watch this video carefully and write words or sentences that we hear. After we watched it finished, she asked us about words or sentences that we hear. So, we could tell many words and sentences.
      Next, she opened the cooking video of the perfect omelet by Jamie Oliver. We listened and watched that video carefully and wrote the words from the video. After that, she told us about the words that we heard and opened other videos from Youtube.

      After that, the teacher gave us the “Procedure” handout and told us to look at page 29. The teacher explained about “How to make a banana shake” in the handout. After that, she told us to do the activities in the handout. It was about “Match each sentence with the correct picture and then put all sentences in the correct order and “Read the recipe about Chicken soup and answer the questions that follow”. After we finished did that activities, she told us to the test 1. We prepared our chairs and started to do the test 1.

      I think this week was difficult for me because the time for the test was short for me. But I’m find because I think that It was challenged for me.

      I felt a bit nervous about the score for this week!

“Descriptive” continued

      On Monday 6th February, this was the sixth week that we learn. So, we continued learned about descriptive from last week. The teacher told us to talk about what did we learn from last week?

      So, we talk about the komodo in the handout. The teacher explained the story and told us to do the activities in the handout. , the activity A was “Answer the questions based on the text.” And activity B was “Match the word with the correct meaning.” After we did it finished, she gave us the corrective feedback.

      Next, the teacher told us to read Budapest in the text 2. After we finished read the topic, I answer the questions that below in the text. After that, she gave us the corrective feedback.

And we read the text 3, “Prague”. She also told us to do the activity below this text too gave us the corrective feedback.

      Next, the teacher told us to read the text 4 and do the activities in this text and she told us to make a group. So, my group got the topic “Place” and we had to describe the place that we were interesting “Sanam Chandra Palace”. We wrote for 15 minutes from this activity picked someone up to present the text that we wrote.

      Finally, the teacher explained the purpose of this lesson. So, it’s “to describe and reveal a particular person’ place, or thing”.

      I think the activity from text 4 was easy to me. So, I used skimming, scanning, and finding references to comprehend the texts.

"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

source : http://southcarolinapublicradio.org/programs/narrative

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.