–This was my favorite answer to the question, “How do you feel after speaking in English for 45 minutes?” Very nice.
Today was the first Monday of 6 more “no topic Mondays.” Originally, many students said that they wanted practice free-talking. We will try to do this each Monday. The other days we will have a skill to practice or a topic.
I thought today was fantastic. I only felt for a few moments that it was difficult to talk without a topic. After changing partners and making groups and asking everyone to not talk about the weekend it seemed as though things were very easy.
Most partners started out the class talking about the weekend.
“What did you do this weekend?”
(Whadja do this weekend?)
The conversations started from there and changed into many different conversations. It was very interesting to walk/slide around and try to catch what everyone was talking about. I think many people have seen Spiderman 3 by now.
Charles was asking Monica about her friend. He wanted to know how they met, so he could ask, “Where did you meet (each other)?”
Rose was talking about buying an item. She said that it was expensive but it was valuable. She could say, “It was worth the cost/money.”
Jason and Changbo were talking about their condition. One of them was not feeling well lat night, so he could say, “I was (feeling) sick last night.”
Royal and Nana were talking about a military base or barracks.
We changed partners and then formed a bigger group. A very popular topic of conversation was about summer plans. I cannot believe that this course is coming to an end so quickly. Time is really flying. Let’s try our best to stay focused for the next few weeks and remember the goals that we had originally. I am very, very proud of everyone so far and I know that you can do even better.
Great job!
May 8, 2007 at 9:20 pm |
Hi~ Mike!!!
long long time.hahaha;;;;
Today topic was hard to me because these day I don’t play the computer.
However, I knew many thing, so I was good! thanks Mike.^^
Tonigh weather is cool.
Take care Mike!!
See you thursday!!!!!
May 9, 2007 at 12:38 am |
Thanks for your encouraging..
We have 5~6 weeks left.
You’re right. Time is very flying.
I always look forward to meeting you.
You’re very excellent teacher.Also,
I think you’re job is rewarding.
There is no doubt.
CU
May 9, 2007 at 12:41 am |
Hello~
Because I was absent ,I wanna see today’s topic .
But not yet
Nowadays , I ‘m so lazy because of the domitory .
I’m gonna study hard From now!
Anyway take care! See ya tomorrow!
May 10, 2007 at 2:10 am |
Hello everyone…How are you doing? Well I hope. Jason, I promise that I will update about this week tomorrow (Thursday). I want to do it right now, but I left my notebook in my office. You guys know I am a night owl. It is 2:00 am but I am ready to work. I am happy that the blog is useful for times when you miss class. I hope that things are going welll for you on your thesis. What is the topic anyway? Royal, thank you for the kind comments. I hope that everyone will make the most the last few weeks. Please do not forget that you have already made a lot of progress. I feel very strongly that it would be nearly impossible for another class to have improved as much as 1B….for sure.
Monics, I hope that I answered all of your questions that we needed to talk about. I think that even if you don’t use the computer you still know about gossip so you were ready to guess who the most popular searches would be. I hope everyone enjoyed the rain–it really cooled things down.
Take care and see you in about 10 hours!