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10 Tips on How to Approach Grammar Exercises

10 Tips on How to Approach Grammar Exercises

1. Make sure you use as many kinds of grammar exercises in textbooks and websites so you get to target as many grammar skills as possible.

2. Always read the instructions well and make sure you know which language structures or grammar rules you are supposed to use in each exercise.

3. In sentence fill-ins, always read the whole sentence up to its end, understand the context, and only then address the grammar point at hand.

4. In longer cloze passages (paragraphs with missing words to complete), read at least 5 lines without completing anything in order to get clues from the context. These clues will help you with the grammar completions.

5. Do not over-drill simple one sentence grammar exercises. Try to get context-based full-text exercises that include your target language structure. These should be real-life texts, such as a letter to a friend or a paragraph detailing DVD instructions.

6. Try and actively use every new structure you learn in free speech and in writing. Make a checklist of structures you want to master in order to make sure you include them in your English writing.

7. Some language students get too obsessed with grammar and neglect vocabulary, reading, and writing activities. You must realize that grammar without vocabulary is like a necklace without colorful beads – boring…

8. Make sure you constantly review and recycle previously learned grammar structures with the new ones you learn. Practice with exercises in a rising level of difficulty as even simple grammar rules can be implemented in more advanced and complicated contexts.

9. Get hold of, or better yet, create your own grammar tables for reviewing. Have these tables in easy access when doing new grammar exercises.

10. Another good grammar exercise is to identify grammar structures in your reading and trying to explain why the author has chosen them over other structures.

Grammar is an important part of a language and is very important for a well written piece of writing.

TED:Michael Sandel: What's the right thing to do?

 In these days, I read a book‘Justice’ which is very hard to understand his real intention. The book is based on a course Sandel teaches at Harvard. More than 14,000 students have taken the course, making it one of the most highly attended in Harvard's history. Sandel explains theories of justice based on utilitarianism (minimize social harm), libertarianism (maximize personal freedom) and communitarianism (cultivate civic virtue). When I was a high school student, I learned the theories in ‘윤리’ classes. As a result, I can read easier than friends who didn’t study ‘윤리’. We can read the ideas of Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick and John Rawls.

My opinion about groups like the Innocence Project.

 In class of ‘Enalgish 1’, we debated about groups like the Innocence Project. So I wrote my opinion about the discussion.


 I disagree with the idea that groups like the Innocence Project not exist. First, organizations can exonerate falsely convicted people through scientific proof. They help someone who has no one to complain to about the unjust situation s/he is in. Next, groups can motivate polices and investigators to make a thorough investigation. The activities of the groups make people think that the accuracy of evidence investigated by police and investigators is doubtful. To avoid suspicions, polices and investigators find more accurate evidence and determine the more exact cause of crimes. In addition, groups make lawyers judge someone guilty through more precise and clearer evidence. By following these reasons, a lot of non-profit legal groups are important and significant. To continue non-profit groups like Innocence Project, individuals should support them financially. Groups require not only donations from private individuals but also government support.



www.innocenceproject.org

Diplomat

 

 We had a class with a diplomat who was educated by Professor Bea J.H. I think a diplomat is important job. A diplomat is a person appointed by a country to conduct diplomacy with another country or international organization. Diplomats work for their country in on embassy. Diplomats negotiate with the countries of sojourn on behalf of their country to protect the commercial interests of their country and their nationals residing in a foreign country in case of danger. They promote cultural exchanges among nations and help to maintain friendly relations between the two countries. To be a capable diplomat, they need knowledge of foreign languages, decision-making skills and judgment abilities. Also they should be able to negotiate and create harmonious relationships. I think diplomats are very significant job. Their decisions or behaviors influence the countries of sojourn. If their deeds serve as an example for others, nationals in the countries of sojourn suppose that an impression of their nation is good.

LUCAUS~!

2011.05.27

The day was a last day of LUCAUS!

I had no class but I went to school with my high school friend . We are very surprised all students ware the blue t-shirts and held the blue sticks. It made the very wonderful blue waves~! I sat the seat with my seniors and friends of English Education together. We enjoyed the festival. I can't forger today!

Commercial Success in our Bar!

We made preparations for bar before the day .

We made many foods and snacks served with alcoholic beverages such as Kimchi pancakes,  rolled-up eggs and sausages. My friends were very good cooks all! Their foods were very delicious and good- shape. We avertised while we walked around the school~ We told loudly "We will open the bar at 8'O clock". The outcome of our bar was very successful~! There were so many people, I didn't have time to break because orders were too many! I was so happy that we made Commercial Success in our Bar!

Making posters for promoting a Bar

 We met 은현, 진주, 성아, 희재 to make posters for promoting a bar managed by my department, English edution ! In the E.E.room,  we drew, painted and handwrote. Decorating posters was a little difficult but very fun~we were proud when we posted them on the wall.

TEE policy in Korea and Teacher attitude to TEE

DISCUSSION

Yes, TEE
1.can develop listening skills.
2.reduces the cost of pritical education.
3.helps understanding of target language culture.
4.enhances learners' concentration.

No.TEE
1.lowers motivation and interest on English.-high affective filter.
2.miscommucation involved.
3.ineffeicient learning.
4. ineffective delivery of lecture (ex.voca)

NNES
1.teach two cultures together.
2.can teach English in Korean way
3.give more comfort
4.can teach grammar better
5.have more understanding od students.

NES
1.provide better input. (ex, pron)
2.can  explain language better in Englidh(more effectially).
3.have good cultural background.

Emma Watson Harry Potter Interview

CLASS ACTIVITY

MOVIE SUNNY

11.05.13  Sunny, the movie making me nostalgic

After party "The day of teacher", I went to the TIMESQUARE in "영등포" with 은현, 진주, 나정, 소은. We almost always played near 흑석, so we were excited to play in 영등포. We arrive in TIMESQUARE at noon, so we ate lunch there. The food was very delicious but too expensive. When we waited for food and ate food, we told about our department, English education, about festival held at the day before, about friends, and about future. We could chat franker, because we were only girls who like to chat with friends. After lunch, we went to theater on the 6 floor. ‘Sunny’ was very touching story that moved many of us to tears, also it was pleasant and funny. While the movie played, we laughed merrily and cheerfully. 진주 cried drops of tears not because of a tragic scene but because of a funny scene that a girl who is main character in Sunny cusses and shouts like her grandmother. After seeing the movie, we went to café to chat about movie. Then we went to shopping, but we had no money so we couldn’t buy many clothes. Today was the unforgettable day. I will go many dog place with my friends~!

 

The movie made me miss for old days when I was a high school student. I wanted to go back the past, also I wanted to meet my friends! The movie was good movie for many mothers, because the settings of it are in 1970’s. I recommend the movie to my mother to see with her high school friends.

developing my self-access learning blog

• Talk about developing your self-access learning blog. What functions and resources are you interested in?


Making and developing myself-access learning blog is a very unfamiliar and new studying method to me. Many activities in my blog help me prove my English skills and use practical English. Various and interesting activities include posting pictures or videos that might be about everything without limit. In addition, we can write diaries and many data written by English. We can also design SALB freely and post something called by ‘gadget’ that include very various fields such as about studying English, for fun or dictionaries.



• What barriers do you perceive? What do you attempt to especially emphasize in designing your SALB?

When I do not have time to manage my blog reguarly, it is a hard and inefficient method to study English. It takes a long time to post materials and manage blog. Posting material about English regularly is a little complicated work.

I attempt to emphasize much information about English in designing my blog. I post lots of gadgets about English such as vocabulary, English saying or dictionaries.



• Write and submit the details of your SALB plan on your blog. Your plan should include:


o Purpose
to study English. I want to practice writing English by posting many journals and diaries,
to share my interest with my friends. My favorite singers, movies..  
o Organizations (subcategories)
- journals - diaries -interviews -materials of English
o List of Links in each category 
a lot of Links- news, English words of Toeic, Toefl, English dictionaries, saying of English, search engines, o Planning (how to use it),
 I will post many materials of English, diaries that include my life in univercity, Ted videos reguarly. When I write the diaries, I can go into training to write such as vocaburaly, grammar etc.

CYWORLD

Do you do Cyworld? Tell me how you do. Explain what you you like about Cyworld (strengths) and what you do not like about it (Weaknesses)

I started CYWORLD when I was in middle school. Every day I check comments written in my Cyworld homepage and look around my friends’ Cyworld homepages.

Cyworld provides many services. Cyworld users can post lots of materials such as pictures, videos and diaries. We share our various posting with one another. In addition, we can scrape the materials posted in Cyworld homepages that are managed by other people. As a result, we can see pictures, videos and diaries that can help us touch with acquaintances who are busy to meet in person.

There is much strength in managing the Cyworld homepage. First, it gives communicating chances users one another. I don’t have much time to meet my high school friends, but I can touch them by the Cyworld. In addition, we can contact people who are in abroad or far from where we are. Next, the Cyworld gives many pleasers when I am boring. However, we can look ever Cyworld homepages without limits. Therefore the Cyworld might aggravate people invade others’ privacies. In Cyworld, we can buy BGM music, skins or decorations, so we spend money wastefully to decorate homepages.

prezi! so funny



 We studied about Prezi, a web-based presentation application in class. It’s very easy and useful to make videos. Photos, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite screen. I practiced this program and made a short storytelling that was very not good because I was first time to use it. It was very exciting and interesting, because I can place many materials where I want to on the infinite canvas.

HIGH SCHOOL