Midterm Review: Where do we go from here?

This week, I asked you to find your own reason for learning English. Some of you need English for your future job. Some of you want to travel abroad. A few of you even said you want to make friends with foreigners and understand how different people think. PLEASE POST a comment below (minimum 50 words) and share your reason with us. Let's motivate each other!



I also want you to think about how we can do a better job of using this class as a way to help you improve your skills. As you know, I try my best to give you interesting and relevant chances to use the English skills we study. I also tried to give you a fair test to measure your ability. But is there a way we can do this better? What do you think?

PLEASE CLICK HERE to take the class survey.

Finally, I want you to remember that STARTING NOW, you still have a chance to earn 50 more points (+5 bonus points!) to your current grade. Don't give up!

Next week, we will talk more about your future in Unit 6 of the textbook. You can preview our lesson by looking at next week's vocabulary on pages 56 and 61 of your text book.

Remember, "the only way out is through." Let's work together to help you improve your English skills over the next seven weeks.

Cheers,
Becka

Guide to Shinchang

How can new students to SCH learn about what Shinchang has to offer?



Please post your paragraphs about our neighborhood here!

Unit 4: Social trends - is society changing?

Last week in class, we talked about social trends - new, popular ways of thinking. In the PPT below, you can see the results from our class for each question we asked. In the 2A class, 28 students did the survey.

2 A results

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Now, compare the 2A class's results to the collated results of ALL my students. A TOTAL of 95 students did this survey last week.

Social Trends Among Native English 2 Students

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Your blog post this week:
Compare the results of our survey. Do you see any trends in your generation's ideas for society? Do you think Korean (and Chinese) society is changing? Are there any traditions that will continue?
Please write at least 50 words (5-6 sentences).

See you next week!

Becka

A little break...

Hi everyone,

How was your Chuseok? Mine was very busy. It was SO busy that I didn't get to finish the results of our "social trends" survey last week. This means that YOU DON'T NEED TO MAKE A BLOG COMMENT THIS WEEK. Your next blog comment must be finished before 8am Monday, October 12th.

This little break is my Chuseok gift to you. ^^ See you in class!

Cheers,
Becka

Unit 3: Watching the Detectives

Detective stories are very popular in American movies. James Bond is probably the most famous crime-solving movie character. This character has been in 22 movies, from 1962 until now. The next James Bond movie will come to theatres in 2011.



When I was a little girl (a long time ago!), the most popular detective movie was The Pink Panther. The Pink Panther movies were comedies, about a clumsy French detective, Inspector Clouseau (played by British actor Peter Sellers).



Charlie's Angels was a detective show famous for its sexy female detectives (played by Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson, Cheryl Ladd, and Farrah Fawcett). This show was on TV in the 1970s.



In the 1990s, Canadian comedian Mike Myers created the character Austin Powers - a time-traveling British "ladies' man" who always tried to stop Dr. Evil (who was also played by Mike Myers). These movies are called "spoofs" because they make fun of the James Bond movies of the 1960s.




CSI is probably the most popular detective TV show nowadays. The show CSI is actually many different series that take place in different American cities and have different characters. The theme songs ("OST") for these shows all comes from British rock band "The Who" - most of these theme songs are older songs that were famous in the 1970s.







This week's blog post:
Tell me about Korean or Chinese "detective" movies. Do you like detective movies? What is your favorite movie? Tell me about the detective character (please use 50 words or more). Are Korean detective movies at all like western-style detective movies? What are Chinese detective movies like?

Unit 2: Which restaurant is better?

This week, we talked about food, and how we compare different flavors (tastes) and textures (feeling). For your blog post this week, I want you to use what we talked about to compare two restaurants that you probably know very well here in Shinchang:

Kim Bap Cheon Guk (김밥천국)...


...and Kim Bap Na Ra (김밥나라).

Which restaurant is better? Why?

Please post your comment and write at least 50 words (5 or 6 sentences) here, before our next class together. I am interested to know your opinion!

Cheers,
Becka

Introductions: Welcome to Native English 2!

Welcome back to SCH University, and welcome to the Native English 2 class!

On our first class, we played "Two Truths and One Lie" and we learned a little about each other. This week, I want you to tell me a little more about yourself. Please post THREE sentences telling us...

1) a routine you never change
2) an unusual habit
3) a general fact about yourself

I'll go first.

1) I always drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning.


2) I usually drink coffee with a spoon in my cup.


3) I have a pet cat.


I look forward to hearing your responses. See you in class!

Becka