2008年10月22日水曜日

Week 4

Lexxica 40 min.

Skill: Listening Site: Lexxica

Level (if any): N/A Topic: vocabulary

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):

Key language points to review (words or rules):
inn:a small hotel
diploma:a document showing that someone has completed a course of study


Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: ( good level / interesting/effective)


elf-evaluation: * * * *

Study time: 50 minutes

Comments: (studied hard/concentrated/studied intensively)

0 comments

My Vocab Test

General English 96%:(7102 words)
TOEFL:98%(4665 words)
TOIEC:99%(3285 words)

I am very surprised at my score. I want study harder.

2008年10月15日水曜日

Week 3

Skill: Listening Site:ELLO news

Level (if any):N/A Topic: Pirates,protesters,etc.

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):2/4

Key language points to review (words or rules):
simulate:copy

Lesson Rating: :I think this news is a little boring.

Comments: ( good level / okay,a little boring)


Skill:
L Site:Yahoo Odd news

Level (if any):No Topic:a giant pumpkin

Main point and/or A man won the contest because he grew a huge pumpkin.Your Score (if any):

Key language points to review (words or rules):
soil=dirt
superb=super
gourd=pumpkin,etc.
LB.=pounds

Lesson Rating: :I like pumpkin!

Comments: ( good level / interesting / effective)


Skill:
L Site:BBC Entertainment

Level (if any): No Topic:Harry Poter

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):Explain why Harry Poter is so popular and everyone love to read it.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
gaze=look something for a long time.
generate=to produce something.
phenomenon=someone or something that is unusual.

Lesson Rating: :I love Harry Poter too!

Comments: (a little difficult / interesting / effective)


Skill: L Site:Geo Beats

Level (if any): No Topic:Boulangerie Paris,France

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):How to make French baguettes and croisants.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
baguette=a long thin bread.
croisant=a piece of bread which shaped in a curve.
meringue=a light sweet food.

Lesson Rating: :The foods look very delicious.

Comments: (a little difficult / interesting / effective)


Self-evaluation: * * * * *

Study time: 70 minutes

Comments:
(studied hard / concentrated /studied intensively / thought about my progress) 0 comments


2008年10月8日水曜日

Skill: Listening, Site: FOEL

Level (if any):N/A Topic:Siena,Italy

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):Siena is a old town in Tuscany in Italy.It has nice architecture.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
exterior:outside of a building
interior:the inside
picturesque:beautiful

Lesson Rating: very intresting

Comments: ( good level / interesting / effective)


Skill:
Listening, Site: FOEL

Level (if any):N/A Topic:Transexual Cabaret

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):This is about Transexual Cabaret performers in Thailand.They are mostly accepted in Thailand.The performers feel sustained by it.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
Transexual:a man who pretends to be a woman
sustain:give us life

Lesson Rating: I want to see it.

Comments: ( a little difficult / interesting / effective)


Skill: Listening, Site: ELLLO

Level (if any):N/A Topic:Speed Dating

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):3/4

Key language points to review (words or rules):
vice-versa:both ways
any luck:auccessful

Lesson Rating: It is interesting.

Comments: ( interesting / effective)


Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * * * *

Study time: 70 minutes

Comments:
(studied hard / concentrated / studied smartly / thought about my progress)

0 comments

2008年10月1日水曜日

My goals


1. What is your current language level? (For this class, consider your listening fluency, reading fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and test scores). How do you feel about you ability? Are you satisfied?

A. I am not satisfied with my English level.My listening is fine but I think I should study my vocabulary and grammar harder. I want to speak English more fluently too.

2. What are your long-term English goals? (getting a job using English or requiring a high TOEIC score, volunteer work, maintaining relationships, travel, entertainment, living abroad, etc.)

A. I want to getting a job using English and I want to living abroad someday so I hope I can communicate with people whose mother tongue is English without difficulty.

3. What are your short-term goals for this class this semester?

A. I want to learn more vocabulary and I hope I can speak English more fluently.

4. What is your plan in Language Development to reach these goals?

(NetAcademy2: listening, reading, TOEIC, grammar dojo)

(Ferris Online English Lab: reading, vocabulary, listening to news, topics, or conversations)

A. I want to study TOEIC and Ferris Online English Lab mainly.


You can add to or change these goals as the semester goes on. Please put a asterisk (*) by any new or changed info (so I can see how your goals have changed).