English Reading Strategies week13

8  NOVEMBER  2015

(Make up class 12 October 2015)

Today I am so sorry to tell all of you, I did not come to class because I had to visit my relatives and made merit owing to Thot Kathin Festival with them at Phetchabun on 7-8 November 2015. I had already given my letter to my teacher before I visited my relatives.

Here is my letter that sent to my teacher.

First day, I arrived at 15.00 p.m. and talked with my relatives and monk then, we went to Phra Tat Pha Son Kaew Temple in order to pray and make a wish. The weather has been cold due to the condition in weather. I also took photos with my mom and my relatives. We were happy very much.

I would like to show you about my pictures that we took photos here.

We prayed at night. Then, we stayed at Wat Wang Buo Ban temple. I slept at 10.00 p.m.

The last day, we got up at 4.00 a.m. in order to go at Ban Khao Kho. The weather has been cold. I really like view here. There are many fruits, vegetables and flowers. I also took photos with my mom here.

Then, we came back to Wat Wang Buo Ban temple in order to make merit by offering new yellow robes to Buddhist monks. we were happy to make merit here and the monks blessed with us and layman. We departed at 11.00 a.m. and arrived at our house at 5.30 p.m. so we are very exhausted thank to traveling. 

When I arrived at home. I am writing my blog and doing my homework on my handout. The teacher gave the questions about the English reading obstacles and I would like to answer the questions by my experiences.

1. Obstacles to faster effective faster reading

1.1 Stop reading and find the unknown word meaning.

1.2 Do not use appropriate reading strategies.

1.3 Disturbance.

1.4 Unable to identify the main idea.

1.5 Lack of English reading experience.

2. Hints for speed reading practice

2.1 Don't stop reading when you find the unknown word.

2.2 Don't need to read every word.

2.3 Try to capture the main idea. 

2.4 Have a good attitude to English Reading.

2.5 Practice more and more.

Here is my opinion from my English reading experiences. I believe that If we would like to be good at English particularly, Reading Skill we should try reading again and again because it can help us as well.

The more you do,  The more you get

English Reading Strategies week12

2  NOVEMBER  2015

Classic Ann Landers (continue...)

Today, Our teacher comes to class on time. First of all, she checked the list of student's name and the lesson starts at 8.35 a.m.

Then, we responded the questions on page 3 so we needed to examine the answered by telling with the partner in order to check that which answered were correct or wrong in English version. This is the one method to improve our English Skill particularly, Speaking Skill.

Next, she gave us to write the answers on whiteboard in order to check whether they are correct or not.

After that, she read the letters which sent to Ann Landers and her responses with analysis each of them. 

I would like to conclude each of letters and Ann Landers' responses.

1. This letter sent by Careful in Louisiana is about she hired contractor to renovate her home. As her husband didn't be at home so she only was at home. During the night, she found her window was unlocked in her bedroom so she felt shocked. Moreover, she heard that there was a woman who had been raped by a man who had crawled through a window. She was certain that most workers are reputable and she wanted Ann to warn the readers about this.

Ann Landers' advice : she advised that the readers to be careful if the strangers come to work in their home by locking the doors or windows whether the work had been done or not.

2. The letter sent by Granada Hills, Calif is about his wife got cancer. Their friends said "GET WELL SOON" to her wife. It made him hurt. He didn't want to offend with their friends so he wrote this letter to Ann and hoped that his letter would be printed out to stop saying "GET WELL SOON" from their friends.

Ann Landers' advice : she advised him to open up his mind and accepted the phrase because it is intended to be comforting.

3. The letter sent by Annoyed in Texas is about She was divorced of two. When her children birthday came. She always invited her ex-husband and his wife,Venessa, came to her children birthday party. When they arrived, Venessa was constantly overstepping her bound with her children. She had spoken with her ex-boyfriend about this, but he didn't think Venessa was doing anything wrong. It had burned her up with Venessa's action.

Ann Landers' advice : she advised her not to compete, stayed in the background and refrained from making any critical remarks.

4. The letter sent by Sitka, Alaska is about she and her husband visited their friends and relatives, they only talked about themselves, their families, their accomplishments etc. They never asked about Sitka and her husband about their families etc. These were upset for her.

Ann Landers; advice : she advised that there were 2 kinds of people either the people talk about themselves or ask questions about yourself so didn't let stupid things that made you annoyed.

From this lesson I got many vocabularies such as overstepping, glamorous,mediate,apprehend,phony etc.

Here is the list of vocabularies that I don't be familiar.

 

Next, the new lesson started. It is English Today / Learning Language. Before this lesson started, she had given us think about the obstacles to faster reading and wrote on the whiteboard.

  

These are the obstacles to faster reading written by us.

We answered the question by ticking the statements do we agree with. we read the text and chose the answer by using the skimming to find what the text is about.

Finally, She gave us to read whole of this hand out in advance in order to practice our English Skill especially, Reading Skill.

If you would like to be a good reader, read more again and again.

Try your best including me.