WEEK10

Skill: Reading

Site: NetAcademy

Level: 3

Topic: Japanese poeple have prejudice for HIV patients (REVIEW of last week)

Your Score: 142/405

Lesson Rating: ::I

Comments: (good level)

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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 30minutes

Comments: (only reviewed)

WEEK9

Skill: reading

Site: NetAcademy

Level (if any):3

Topic:Japanese people have predice for HIV patients

Main point: Japanese hospital declined to do sugery for Thai woman because she is a HIV positive patient. She died after because of AIDS and her family sued the hospital.

Your Score:3/3

Key language points to review (words or rules):
*sue: to make a legal claim against someone, especially for money, because they have harmed you in some way
*formerly: in earlier times
*decline: to say no politely
*surgery: medical treatment in which a surgeon cuts open your body to repair or remove something inside (=operation)
*caring: thinking about what other people need or want and trying to help them
*ignorance: lack of knowledge or information about something
*pose: to exist in a way that may cause a problem, danger, difficulty etc

Lesson Rating: :I

Comments: (little difficult)

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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 40minutes

Comments: (concentrated / reviewed )

WEEK8

Skill: reading

Site: NetAcademy2

Level : 3

Topic: Why do we feel that people who use their mobile phones while useing public transpertation are nuisance?

Main point : We don't fell good about "open-loop" (conversation that we can see only one people).

Your Score : 3/3

Key language points to review (words or rules):
*loop : a shape like a curve or a circle made by a line curving back towards itself, or s piece of wire, string etc that has this shape

Lesson Rating: :(

Comments: (too easy / interesting / not effective)
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Skill: reading

Site: NetAcademy2

Level : 5

Topic: The origin of Thanksgiving Day

Main point : There are many myths about the origin of Thanksgiving Day. The strong myth is that native Americans and immigrants cooperated with each other to get through terrible cold of winter. After that they cereblated. That is the origin of Thanksgiving Day.

Your Score : 2/3

Key language points to review (words or rules):
*purport to… : to claim to be or do something, even if this is not true
*inception : the start of an organization or institution
*customary : useal
*prevailing : current
*rendition : someone's performance of a play, piece of music etc
*domain : an area of activity, interest, or knowledge, especially one that a particular person, organization etc deal with
*arduous : involving a lot of strength and effort
*benevolent : kind and gererous
*cultivate : to prepare and use land for growing crops and plants
*due to… : expected to happen or arrive at a particular time
*slave : someone who is owned by another person and works for them for no money
*reside : to live in a particular place
*baptize : to perform the ceremony of baptism on someone
*reliant : depend on someone or something
*christen : to officially give a child its name at a Christian religious ceremony

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: (too difficult / effective)
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Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 50 minutes

Comments: (studied hard / concentrated / thought about my progress)

Review Assignment

1. Take a look at the goals you wrote at the beginning of the summer. Have they changed? If so, how? Why?

-The goal has not changed.

2. Do you think you are making progress this semester? How? If not, why?

-Yes. My vocabulary has increased than at the beginning of this semester. So, writting is also much better than before.

3. Overall, what grade would you give yourself so far? (Are you studying enough? Are you studying smartly?)

-I think my daily English study is not enough, but I can study intensively. I want to use the extra time like commute hours to study listening, reading and vocabulary.

WEEK6

Skill: Listening

Site: South Park Episode

Level (if any): N/A

Topic: post-election

Main point :
In the first scene, Obama's and McCain's supporters are both confused. After that, we knew Obama, McCain and their staffs had planning to steel diamond for ten years.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
stabilize: to become or to make sth become firm, steady and unlikely to change; to make sth
stable
drape : a long thick curtain

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (difficult / interesting )

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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 40minutes

Comments: (hardly studied )

WEEK5

Skill: Listening

Site:ELLLO newscast#11

Level (if any): N/A

Topic: several kinds of news

Main ideas :
marathon, band, an impure ingredient in tomato soup, recipe book,
traing for sheep, and a weather forecast

Your Score (if any):5/6

Key language points to review (words or rules):
ensure : to make certain that something will happen properly
tin : スズ
spate : a large number of similar things that happen in a short period of time,
especially bad things
zinc : 亜鉛
bid : to order or tell someone what to do

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: ( good level / boring / (not) effective)

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Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 40 minutes

Comments: (studied hard / studied intensively )

WEEK4

General English: 91%
TOEFL:95%
TOEFL:97%

I will remember each word's spells properly because I was warned "it is NOT REAL WORD".

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Level (if any): N/A

Topic: pals, Spain

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):
If we want to go shopping in pals, to go ceramic store.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
Nothing

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: (too easy)

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Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 10 minutes

Comments: (studied without thinking)

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Skill: Listening

Site: ELLLO news

Level (if any): N/A

Topic: Pirates, protesters, etc.

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): 2/4

Key language points to review (words or rules):
simulate=copy

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: ( good level )

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Skill: listening

Site: Yahoo Odd News

Level (if any): N/A

Topic: a giant pumpkin

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):
A man won the contest because he grew a huge pumpkin.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
soil=dirt
superb=super
gourd=pumpkin, etc.
LB.=pounds

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: ( difficult / interesting / effective)

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Skill: Listening

Site: Geo

Level (if any): N/A

Topic: Dam Square, Amsterdam

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):
There are many nice architectures in Dam Square. The city hall which built in 19th century and national monument for victims of World WarⅡ is the place especally I want to visit.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
irregulate: not control
Lesson Rating: :)
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Self-evaluation: * * * * *

Study time: 30 minutes

Comments: ( concentrated / studied smartly / studied intensively )

Comments: ( good level / interesting )

October 8th

Skill: Listening

Site: FOEL

Level (if any): N/A

Topic:Siena,Italy

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):Siena is an old town in Tuscany in Italy. It has nice archtectures.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
exterior:out side of a building
interior:the inside
picturesque:beautiful

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: good level / interesting

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Skill: Listening

Site:FOEL

Level (if any):NA

Topic:Transsexual Cabaret

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):This is about Transsexual Cabaret performers in Thailand. They are mostly accepted in Thailand. The performers feel sustained by it.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
Transsexual: a man who pretends to be a woman
Sustain: give us life

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: a little difficult / interesting /effective

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Skill: Listening

Site: FOEL

Level (if any): NA

Topic:Speed Dating

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): 2/4

Key language points to review (words or rules):
vice-versa: both ways
any luck: successful?

Lesson Rating: :I

Comments: a little difficult /effective

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Self-evaluation: * * * * *

Study time: 70minutes

Comments: studied hard / concentrated / studied smartly / thought about my progress

1. What is your current language level? (For this class, consider your listening fluency, reading fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and test scores). How do you feel about you ability? Are you satisfied?

I feel my listening skill is gone down than last semester now. And also reading, vocabulary and grammer is my weak points. I'm not satisfied my skills.

2. What are your long-term English goals? (getting a job using English or requiring a high TOEIC score, volunteer work, maintaining relationships, travel, entertainment, living abroad, etc.)

My long-term English goals are requiring a high TOEFL score and participating semester abroad program.

3. What are your short-term goals for this class this semester?

To put my listening skill back bofore summer vacation as soon as possible and take the first time TOEFL test.

4. What is your plan in Language Development to reach these goals?

(NetAcademy2: listening, reading, TOEIC, grammar dojo)

(Ferris Online English Lab: reading, vocabulary, listening to news, topics, or conversations)

NetAcademy2:reading,TOEIC test

Ferris Online English Lab: reading, vocabulary and listening

plus, I remember new words which I can't understand everyday.