10월13 - 10월19일
After discussion about speaking theories and activities , I thought my tendency or feeling like anxiety when I was speaking in English.
I unwillingly speak in English in front of the audience.
after meeting some problems of speaking, I will introduce some ways to go further.
First, confidence
confidence is the key to improve the speaking.
when we do something with full understanding and perfect structure we never get nervous.
so I tried to memorize speeches which was spoken by great people sych as 오프라윈프리 or
오바마 that gives me more confidence and understanding.
Second eye - contact
many of us cannot contact their eyes with audience because of cultural differences.
but it should be the thing we need to consider.
because without eye contact the speech's quality is diminished.
so I contact my eyes in my daily life with my friends and
looking the mirror to eye contact with me.
both of the way improve my english speaking ability I think.

Cross word

9.29-10.5

Discuss the following terms regarding vocabulary learning: Guessing meaning, word association, collocation, mnemonics,
Review other vocabulary teaching approaches. What do you think the most essential components in teaching words
Review the Online word games below by clicking each links and discuss what they are and how they can be used:
crossword puzzle, hangman, matching, word search, scrambled words From ITESLJ's Games for ESL Students
Eclipse Crossword Maker


In classroom, we made a crossword puzzle. it is very interesting to me because I don't know this such website. I think when I become a techear, this site is very useful to children because it can give interest children and teacher make students work themselves. I don't use many material so far, eventhough there are many advantage material. So, through this activity, I can realize we can use this useful site well .

Culture activity with images

1. Black beauty

- one of bestseller novels by English author Anna Sewell.

- By telling the story of a horse's life in the form of an autobiography and describing the world through the eyes of the horse.

- Purpose in writing the novel was "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses" Her sympathetic portrayal of the plight of working animals led to a vast outpouring of concern for animal welfare

- Black Beauty also contains the use of blinders on horses, concluding that this use is likely to cause accidents at night due to interference with "the full use of" a horse's ability to "see much better in the dark than men can."

2. Hamper

- A hamper is a primarily British term for a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food.

In America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle for dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper".
In agricultural use, a hamper is a wide-mouthed container of basketwork that may often be carried on the back during the harvesting of fruit or vegetables by hand by workers in the field. The contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck.
The open ventilation and the sturdiness offered by a hamper has made it suitable for the transport of food, hence the use of the picnic hamper.

3. Jack O'Lantern

- typically a carved pumpkin. It is associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween, and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o'-lantern. In a jack-o'-lantern, typically the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved onto the outside surface, and the lid replaced. At night a light is placed inside to illuminate the effect. The term is not particularly common outside North America, although the practice of carving lanterns for Halloween is.

4. vanity mirror

- a small mirror in a motor vehicle for checking one's appearance, esp. on the inside of a sun visor

5. He goes Banana

1. Black Beauty
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid.[1] The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell living just long enough (five months) to see her first and only novel become a success. Although not originally intended as a children's novel, but for people who work with horses, it soon became a children's classic[citation needed]. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect. Despite recollections to the contrary, there is no evidence that this book was ever banned in South Africa .

2. Hamper
A hamper is a primarily British term for a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food.In America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle for dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper".In agricultural use, a hamper is a wide-mouthed container of basketwork that may often be carried on the back during the harvesting of fruit or vegetables by hand by workers in the field. The contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck.The open ventilation and the sturdiness offered by a hamper has made it suitable for the transport of food, hence the use of the picnic hamper.At one time it was common for laundry services to leave a large basketwork container with a lid which is now commonly referred to as a clothes hamper. The same type of container would be used to return clean clothing, which would be put away by the laundry service and the empty container left in place of the full container for later pickup.

3. Jack o' lantern
A jack-o'-lantern (sometimes also spelled Jack O'Lantern) is typically a carved pumpkin. It is associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween, and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o'-lantern. In a jack-o'-lantern, typically the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved onto the outside surface, and the lid replaced. At night a light is placed inside to illuminate the effect. The term is not particularly common outside North America, although the practice of carving lanterns for Halloween is.

4. vanity mirror
a small mirror in a motor vehicle for checking one's appearance, esp. on the inside of a sun visor

9월8일 - 9월 14일

Discuss the following terms and approaches: Schemata, Code-Emphasis (phonics, lingusitics, sight words,basal reader approaches), Socio-psycholinguistic (LEA, Literature based, whole language approach).
What do you think the optimal approach of developing reading skills? And why? Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these reading approaches for young learners from your own learning and teaching experience.



Whenever I read sth in enlish, I do not perceive main idea or topics in the passage, but focus on the specific details information and grammatical component. Because I prepared for Korean SAT three times, I was trained to focus on specific component and grammar. I tried to change this tendancy, but it is really hard for me. So, I believe that I adapt top-down processing for improving my reading skills.