Message Title: Your topic (Kim jin woo, Jung hye su, Cho soo bin, Choi go eun)

1. Textbook info: (주)천재교육Middle school 3rd grade,

2. Reading topic: Lesson10. Living in space

3. Your comment on the reading activities in this chapter:
(e.g types of reading activities provided/not provided in this chapter)
In this chapter, Most of questions in the reading activity are unbalanced in terms of using various reading skills. Among five, four questions are related with comprehension skills. It is important that understanding the content of reading text is major purpose of reading, but too much focusing on recognizing information in the text makes students less motivated and they come to feel more bored in their reading activity. If the textbook provide the students with

4. Treasure hunt (supplement activity)

Journal1

Journal1

Learning and teaching a second language is not quite easy thing especially to the children who are in elementary school. Their attention span is shorter than adults’, so giving interest for studying English is important. However, most of English phonics academies have the classes which include a lot of doing workbooks and memorizing words. That makes the learners more bored in learning phonics. What is worse, the words the learners memorize without any relationship with their own real-life are more difficult to learn. To help my younger brother who has been difficulties in studying phonics, I will make three suggestions for him: (1) Motivating the learner to attract attention for their phonics, (2) doing meaningful and authentic works, (3) Practicing in real-life context.

First of all, it is important to draw an interest for learning phonics. I will give some expectation of studying phonics. For example, I’ll say “if you know 43 phonics rules, you can read and speak aloud almost every English word. How amazing it is!” As I mentioned, children’s attention span is relatively short, so I have to check the learner’s attention of degree of understanding at that moment. Phonics textbooks usually consist of so many words which are related with certain part of pronunciation. We can often find that organization in the books. I think it is more helpful that the learner is taught through the passage or short paragraph which includes phonics words they learned than they learn individual list of words. If the topic of the short text is learner-related of their interesting theme, it will be more effective learning.

Using this drawing the learner’s attention, I can continue the phonics learning with more meaningful phonics works. There are various kinds of activity about phonics practice. Basically, substitute pattern practice, chant, simple games are representative. Among those things, Game is quite helpful to my brother who wants to study phonics more funny and easy. It is an effective learning way to begin the words which is more familiar and intimate to the learner. With the Phonics Game, the learner will learn all 44 sounds as well as 43 spelling rules. He will not realize how much he is learning, because he will be so engaged in the play.

Connection phonic learning and practice in the real-life is also important for better learning. After learning the content of phonics, the learner can practice with their own words. Family, food, and hobby he likes can be very useful categories to exercise phonics reading.

Doing this, considering learner’s characteristics or interests the instructor can teach the learner more effectively. To the learner, it will be very fun and interesting learning if they learn phonics with familiar things in meaningful context.

week2

Read Kim(2011) pp. 1-28

•Based on Actvity 1.2 what do you usally read in English? List up all the cases in which you read texts in English. ex) cereal boxes, street signs, textbooks etc. And also in your future what texts will you be able to read in English in what situations? ex) business emails, TIME magazines etc.

- Sign board on the street or buildings

- An explanatory note of a cosmetic product

- Advertisement on the public transportation (bus, subway...)

- Textbook, Syllabus

•What makes you English reading difficult? Analyze your reading process yourself and try to find your barriers to fluent reading.

•Refuse the idea "The readers is simply a receiver who plays a passive role in the written commmunication process." with as much contradictory evidence as possible from the chapter.

•Explain each term of "Reading Process"
Schema:
Shared assumption:
Presupposition:
Prediction:

•Explain three different unconscious reading processes
Top-down:

Bottom-up:

Interactive:

•Explain the principles of teaching reading(Williams 1986).

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