friday dec 11

my laptop was down and i could not update my blog for a long time. today we took the final. the prompt, for me, was difficult and confused.

friday october 30

today we spent the entire class time to work on the handout of "Ladies Detective...". some question are easy to answer, but some are not. one of those are the question that we had to draw a picture. Miss Han also returned us our in-class writting.

friday oct 23 2009

today we use all our time to write an essay. this is the first time i write an compare/contrast esaay. it is not easy. i was going to give 3 point. but i cannot support the third point. so i just write two.

thursday october 15

today we first work on the purple handout about parallel structure. some sentences are easy to connect, but some aren't. then we work in small group on exercises in textbook.

how he becomes the best of the best

friday 9 october 09

today we started class by disscusing news on the world. then we did a new kind of exercise. Miss Han asked us questions; the answers linked together made an introduction. then we shared our answers. i had never done such exercise before.

thursday october 8 2009

today Miss Han returned the essay "plastic bags" to us. we took about 20 minutes to reread. we had to revised it. then we divided in small group to work on exercises in textbook. one of those is about present perfect tense and simple past. it made me confuse to see the differences of those two.

today we first worked on exercises 7-1 in textbook. when we went through the essay in that, Miss Han share us her own experience. that was funny. then we divided in small group to disscus the questions. finally Miss Han read two essays of "plastic bags".

today we started class by checking the mistakes on "plastic bags" essay. then as usal, we work in small groups. this time was on the novel. it took almost the whole class's time. for each part, we have to tell where we found the answers in the book.

thursday october 1 2009

today we work in small groups on exercise in textbook. these ones are not hard at all.

tuesday september 29

today we work with partner to work on "plastic bags" essay. it took longer than one hour. then Miss Han gave us some sentences and we found errors on them. almost the errors are on adjective clauses.

friday september 25

today we first discuss what's going on in the world. then we work on adjective clauses. some sentences are easy to combined but some are not. after that Miss Han gave us a essay topic and we find ideas to write. that's our homework.

thesis statement and topic sentences

T.S: Learning English isn't so easy.
-it takes a lot of time to study new words
-listening is the most difficult skill
-you have to be confident enough to practice in public

T.S: students whose native language is not English may face many problems that English speakers do not encounter
-it's hard for them in studying.
-it's hard for them to communicate
-they cannot get a good job

thursday september 24

today we got back first in-class writting and then we divided in small group to discuss homework in textbook. then Miss Han gave us handout about adjective clauses. i had known them so it was not so hard. for example, "who" describe person, "when" describes time, and so on.

tuesday sep 22-no class- what a lucky day

today i got school early. when i opened the door to get in class, the class of the period before ours was not done yet. i did not feel anxious to the students, but just to the young beautiful professor.

i come to the library and when i come back, they said that Miss Han was absent.

GO HOOOOOOME!!!!!!!

friday september 18

today we divided in small group and discuss the topic "woman combat". then we share our ideas with the whole class. in last fifty minutes, we write an essay from those ideas.

woman combat duty
woman doesn't need to join army. as a men, would you marry a woman that used to carry a gun and shoted a lot of people. beside, many woman is not strong enough in emotion to do that.

friday september 11

today we started by discuss the news. then we work on exercises in textbook. that one was about coherence. next, as usual, we divided into 7 small groups and work on similiar ones. finally we discussed adjectives we use to write a paragraph about "9/11". that's homework.

thursday september 10

we started class by getting old homework back. before Miss Han gave it back, she told us the meaning of the symbols she uses to correct homework. we then make corections on it. next we switched the summary of the video "Glass Door Prank" to each other. Then she gave us some example sentences that contain errors and we tried to look for them. then she explains the differences of some similiar phrases such as "most" and "most of the". the second one has to go with a specific groups or objects. then we divided into small groups and do exercise in textbook.

tuesday september 8

today we first work on "partner" paragraph. we switch each other's paper and read. then we divided in small groups and discuss exercises in textbook. then Miss Han show us a video. that's a funny one. we had to write a summary for it for homework. Miss Han give us ideas to write.

friday september 4

Today we went to the lab first and we created blogs there. I have never had a blog before because i don't like it. Then we came back to our class to continue working on "Partner Asignment". That was not an easy asignment at all. I had to choose an specific adjective to describe my partner. Three examples has to be included to support that adjective. That's the most difficult part. Our instructor let us do that at home as homework.

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