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ILA Tasks
ILA Tasks
Posted on 14 January 2016, 13:39
Last updated Monday, 25 January 2016, 16:30
Last updated Monday, 25 January 2016, 16:30
English Activity (1): English Workshop
Reflection
This workshop is about the discovery of the beauty of the nature, in which the teacher showed us the characteristic and interaction of different organisms and environment in this nature, with the multifarious activities including videos, sharing and games (pictionary).
What I have learnt is how to describe the biological features of the organisms in English since teacher would explain the specific vocabulary related to that organism after showing photos or videos. For example, the feet of the parrots are called "grasping claws" which help them to get a hold on the tree, peacock is a male name while peahen is female, courtship describing the behavior of animals to attract the others of opposite sex etc, all these words help me to explain and describe the nature i a more specific way.
Overall, I found this workshop educational and inspiring. "Educational" relates more to the details teacher informed and explained for us, especially the specific vocabulary of particular organism, and also acquirement of knowledge of the ecology, for instance, various physical structure and living habitat of some animals. "Inspiring" means the teaching methods. Several kinds of activities teacher has planned make the lesson less boring, so I tend to be more encouraged to join the lesson, which, in turns, increases my learning incentive. Yet, the only problem is that maybe the teaching contents is slightly easy and simple for some of the students, so level-upgrade may be needed.
English Activity (1): English Cafe
Reflection
My chosen topic is Health, the list of words includes
1)easy to feel sick 2)balanced diet 3)regular exercise 4)mental health 5)physical health 6)sedentary lifestyle 7)see a doctor 8) medical cost 9) healthy city/country 10)social cooperation 11)technology 12) energy input/output 13)chronic diseases 14) heart attack 15)diabetes 16) obesity
Overall, i totally used 8 vocabularies from the list above.
I found this activity beneficial to improving my English speaking skill. First, tutor lets me repeat the words after she read, which further ensured and corrected my pronunciation, as well as the grammar of several phrases, for example, "see doctor" should be corrected into "see a/the doctor".
Through the entire interacting conversation with tutor, not only can I was able to just answer tutor's questions, but also elaborate the topic by using examples and societal background. Meanwhile, the positive comment receivd from tutor, including high relevance with specific vocabulary, adequate elaboration etc., gave me a high self confidence that i am also capable of speaking in English with high accuracy, which encourages me to contact with more foreigners actively.Therefore, i may not be as scared as eaarly as before when expressing in English in future.
Yet, i found there is still space for me to improve. Regarding the fluency, i found i can't express the meaning fluently when encountering th unfamiliar topic.I wish i can improve speaking skills by practising more in order to increase my own fluency.
Reflection
This workshop is about the discovery of the beauty of the nature, in which the teacher showed us the characteristic and interaction of different organisms and environment in this nature, with the multifarious activities including videos, sharing and games (pictionary).
What I have learnt is how to describe the biological features of the organisms in English since teacher would explain the specific vocabulary related to that organism after showing photos or videos. For example, the feet of the parrots are called "grasping claws" which help them to get a hold on the tree, peacock is a male name while peahen is female, courtship describing the behavior of animals to attract the others of opposite sex etc, all these words help me to explain and describe the nature i a more specific way.
Overall, I found this workshop educational and inspiring. "Educational" relates more to the details teacher informed and explained for us, especially the specific vocabulary of particular organism, and also acquirement of knowledge of the ecology, for instance, various physical structure and living habitat of some animals. "Inspiring" means the teaching methods. Several kinds of activities teacher has planned make the lesson less boring, so I tend to be more encouraged to join the lesson, which, in turns, increases my learning incentive. Yet, the only problem is that maybe the teaching contents is slightly easy and simple for some of the students, so level-upgrade may be needed.
English Activity (1): English Cafe
Reflection
My chosen topic is Health, the list of words includes
1)easy to feel sick 2)balanced diet 3)regular exercise 4)mental health 5)physical health 6)sedentary lifestyle 7)see a doctor 8) medical cost 9) healthy city/country 10)social cooperation 11)technology 12) energy input/output 13)chronic diseases 14) heart attack 15)diabetes 16) obesity
Overall, i totally used 8 vocabularies from the list above.
I found this activity beneficial to improving my English speaking skill. First, tutor lets me repeat the words after she read, which further ensured and corrected my pronunciation, as well as the grammar of several phrases, for example, "see doctor" should be corrected into "see a/the doctor".
Through the entire interacting conversation with tutor, not only can I was able to just answer tutor's questions, but also elaborate the topic by using examples and societal background. Meanwhile, the positive comment receivd from tutor, including high relevance with specific vocabulary, adequate elaboration etc., gave me a high self confidence that i am also capable of speaking in English with high accuracy, which encourages me to contact with more foreigners actively.Therefore, i may not be as scared as eaarly as before when expressing in English in future.
Yet, i found there is still space for me to improve. Regarding the fluency, i found i can't express the meaning fluently when encountering th unfamiliar topic.I wish i can improve speaking skills by practising more in order to increase my own fluency.
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