A Discourse Approach in Reading: English Reading Strategies Week3

17 August 2015

Here is the third week that I learnt this course.

Can you guess? What's topic that I studied of this class?

It is Natural Disasters.

I studied about Natural Disasters. The lesson stated after the instructor had opened tsunami videos in Japan. I was so surprised because everything in these videos was collapsed particularly, homes and cars they were washed away by tsunami in Japan.

Here is the natural disaster,Japan in 2011.

Source : https://www.google.co.th

For my opinion, The people should realize this natural disaster and try to prevent it by growing more plants or trees. Don't eliminate them.

Then, Our instructor gave us to brainstorm about the vocabularies that associated with natural disaster on the whiteboard. I and some of my friends wrote them on the whiteboard it made us fun and got lots of vocabularies that associated with natural disasters.

Here is the vocabularies about natural disasters written by us.

Next, Our instructor explained the handout to us. we read it carefully and answered each of questions deliberately. The easy way to understand what's text about was reading the headline and guessing the picture first it can make me understand easily. After that, I would like to know the details of news. I read body details of news. By the way, I saw the unfamiliar words. I tried to guess it by context clue when I completely read it I found the meaning of these words and wrote down suddenly.

I would like to show you about my handout that I studied today.

In short, When I read the news I will guess the topics and pictures first in order to easily understand and if I don't know the words from news, I will find the meaning of words when I completely read it and jot down them on my note or paper.

Eventually, I presented about the food in our university with my members group in English version. This was the first time that I speak English in Thailand. I have ever presented in English in Vietnam because I got the scholarship to study there for 1 month before I went to there I could not speak English anymore. But now I can speak English confidently. For my view, I just speak more and listen more it makes me confident to speak with everyone.

For our presentation, we tried to do it best. The name of food which we presented is "Fresh spring rolls with assorted vegetables" called "ก๋วยเตี๋ยวลุยสวน" In Thailand. There is a great deal of vegetables and this food is healthy for your health. If you have a chance, try to have it just few times in order to know the flavor of this food.