Good morning
Ladies and gentlemen
My name is Jonathan
Today I am going to tell you
About my favorite teacher
My favorite teacher
Her name is teacher Sammy
She is from Australia
She had brown hair and beautiful blue eyes
With a high hill nose.
One day she came to class
She looked as a fairytale
She said “I am a snow white.”
We knew how she came that day.
There must have been some magic
In her old silk dress
For when she place it on her head
She began to dance around.
She could laugh and play
Just the same as you and me.
She said,
“the sun is hot,
let’s run and have some fun,
before she run away.”
And she waved goodbye,
Saying don’t you cry.
“I’ll be back again some day.
She has moved back to Australia.
I'm missing her so much.
She is my favorite teacher,
I can remember.
Thank you everybody! !
~by Paul
An adventure
It was a stormy night.
I opened my eyes.
The rain tapped hard on my window.
“Do you hear what the rain is saying?” said a voice.
I turned on my lamp.
And my sister stood in the doorway.
She wore her raincoat and held a flashlight.
“It’s saying, Come now!” my sister said.
“We have to go to the tree house.”
I didn’t want to leave my warm, cozy room.
But, I had a feeling my sister was right.
Some interesting thing was going to happen.
My sister said, just put on your raincoat.
I pulled on my sneakers and grabbed my backpack.
There was a mysterious tree house.
My sister and I climbed into the tree house.
It was filled with books.
The tree house was a magic.
All we had to do was point to a picture and wish to go there.
It could take us to the places in the books.
There was a whirlwind in the book.
It was a twister.
When we pointed to the twister, our tree house rose to the air.
“Ahhhhhh!”
“What was that, it was a scream!”
“Where are we now?”
“Let’s look out the window.”
“Oh look, it’s so beautiful, green trees, and apples, and pears, and butterflies, and birds.”
“There is a little old woman. She is coming up here.”
“Let’s go out and say hello to her, then we can find out where we are”
“Helloooooo!”
“You are welcome to the land of the Munchkins.”
Said the old woman.
“Please follow the yellow brick road, a great wizard is waiting for you.”
Then the old woman disappeared.
When my sister and I follow the yellow brick road, suddenly a breast leaped out of the trees.
It was a lion ahead of me.
I tried to move, but I couldn’t move.
The lion jumped over me, and my sister.
I thought we were dead meats.
But the lion jumped too far and hit a steel man.
I found a scarecrow beside me.
I knew I must in the book of the wizard of Oz.
Suddenly, I was awake, when my sister whispered me to go home.
I realized I had the wizard book on the table,
while I was fast sleep in the library.
I opened my eyes.
The rain tapped hard on my window.
“Do you hear what the rain is saying?” said a voice.
I turned on my lamp.
And my sister stood in the doorway.
She wore her raincoat and held a flashlight.
“It’s saying, Come now!” my sister said.
“We have to go to the tree house.”
I didn’t want to leave my warm, cozy room.
But, I had a feeling my sister was right.
Some interesting thing was going to happen.
My sister said, just put on your raincoat.
I pulled on my sneakers and grabbed my backpack.
There was a mysterious tree house.
My sister and I climbed into the tree house.
It was filled with books.
The tree house was a magic.
All we had to do was point to a picture and wish to go there.
It could take us to the places in the books.
There was a whirlwind in the book.
It was a twister.
When we pointed to the twister, our tree house rose to the air.
“Ahhhhhh!”
“What was that, it was a scream!”
“Where are we now?”
“Let’s look out the window.”
“Oh look, it’s so beautiful, green trees, and apples, and pears, and butterflies, and birds.”
“There is a little old woman. She is coming up here.”
“Let’s go out and say hello to her, then we can find out where we are”
“Helloooooo!”
“You are welcome to the land of the Munchkins.”
Said the old woman.
“Please follow the yellow brick road, a great wizard is waiting for you.”
Then the old woman disappeared.
When my sister and I follow the yellow brick road, suddenly a breast leaped out of the trees.
It was a lion ahead of me.
I tried to move, but I couldn’t move.
The lion jumped over me, and my sister.
I thought we were dead meats.
But the lion jumped too far and hit a steel man.
I found a scarecrow beside me.
I knew I must in the book of the wizard of Oz.
Suddenly, I was awake, when my sister whispered me to go home.
I realized I had the wizard book on the table,
while I was fast sleep in the library.
The China Youth Corps
The China Youth Corps known as 救國團 in Chinese established a garden party this morning. I was asked to come to help. I came in the early morning with little sad mood and was assigned to the Taiwanese speech contest. My work is to ring the bell once at the three minutes and twice at the four minutes from the starting of the each speech. It was quite interesting that I have never don't this kind of job. When the competition started, some parents protested because the rule of speech time wasn't clarified on the bulletin sheet. The second student of low graded elementary school proceeded only one minute and twenty seconds. Some said the rule was posted on the internet, while some judges said there was a common rule. I had no idea about the rule, but everyone in the auditorium kept questioning on me. I was an ignorant person, though they thought I should have written properly. The contest was finally ended with peace. I got out of there before noon. It was a ridiculous set-up at least from one of many contests. The corps was not the same as I used to cognie, I pondered and sighed.
General English Proficiency Test
I just got out of General English Proficiency Test. I feel like the listening parts to be harder than I expected. For the secondary part, I wrote the answer sheet before the conversation end. Then, I heard the question had told about something specific in the dialogue. I was stunned and unable to go on to next couple questions. I started to regret that I should have done more simulation test, not just one. After that, I realized I have to remember what they talked about in several aspects, because there were many choices the qestion would ask. I had never made any correction, I just let it went. I felt comfortable later on. The passing score is 80/120. I dared to miss some answers. I hope I can pass it no matter the score is.
story teller
I was a country boy. I used to run away from my house. It seemed I would show up only at lunch time or supper period. I didn't know how to tell a story because I seldom heard any story when I was a kid. I didn't think of learning from story book except textbook I read in the past. But things have changed, I am going to be an elementary teacher. I took children literature at college and got impression with those tales by Grimm brothers and Anderson. When I was in the college, I managed to tell some non-fiction stories which were made up by myself. However, I paid more attention to what professor had taught. Now, I instruct every class starting with a tale. I find it is very exciting to react with my students when story proceeding. I hope I can learn more skills, so my students have interests to study English.
Catepillar
OK, it's play time. I want to be a catepillar. You all have to be everything. I am always hungry and I need to eat something. My head is green and I am walking. What do I do? Yes, I am walking. Everybody repeat with me. I walk, and walk, and walk. I find a banana and I eat it. But my head become yellow. I go on walking, I walk, and walk, and walk. I meet strawberry and eat it. My head become red. I walk, and walk, and walk. I will go to your place and you ask me "How are you Catepillar?" I will say "Who are you?" You should say "I am a ruler, Catepillar." I claim "I am hungry, I want to eat you. Yummy. Yummy." Then, turn to class and ask "What I've eaten? 我吃了什麼?" Lead the class to say, "I've eaten a banana, and a strawberry, and a ruler." Everybody please repeat after me. I go on walking, and walking, and walking. Find other students to eat..... When the line is too long, I might say"I burst out!" Evryone should say," go home." The last one to get home will be the Catepillar for next play.
I just design this play, because the unit is "This is a ruler." Though, I have not done on my class. I hope my class will like this.
I just design this play, because the unit is "This is a ruler." Though, I have not done on my class. I hope my class will like this.
Learn to write
This afternoon, I went to a workshop where instructor taught how to write. The instructor mentioned that children should learn listen, speak, and read first. She said if one didn't have experience how can he/she write. Teacher should create context for children to follow. She would start with a story then lead children to act and create thinking. She introduced "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, and ten more other stories. It is funny because I am looking for those stories too. So I didn't fall to sleep as the lecture went on three afternoon hours. I took lots of notes. The stories were told in Chinese and I needed to translate back to English. Overall, I learned listen and act can help not only drawing, but also writing.
English class
Hi! Good morning! there. I just did a new song: Hickory, dickory dock. After that, I told another story: the mouse and the sausage. It took about 10 minutes to complete. The TPR and the story are closely tied, so fifth grade students seemed to like both of them in a row. I used colored words (blue and red) for the song and two pictures, a mouse and a sausage. Students were amazed by the French tale, when I said the hotdog(sausage) found his friend inside the hot pot. I replaced the sausage with hotdog which mightbe easier for my students to understand. Somehow, I like this combination with this TPR song and the mouse story. I will schedule to present this combo during my observation for my practice training.
Early in the Saturday morning
I wake up as week day's time. Two day workshop on university had fueled my energy again. Most of students, actually we are practice teachers, fell to sleep, from time to time. We are not interested in what they speeched. We just wanted practice hour stamps. Some of members didn't show up, but asked others to sign fake signitures. It was not important matter because we got too much practice hours from local workshop separately. The benefit of this gathering is to meet our beloved classmates from all over the islands. Yesterday, we skipped one section and went out for break tea and lunch. All of a sudden, the earth vibrated largely. We knew it was an earthquake, but it was much smaller than 921. It reminded us what had been doing the crazy night of 921. I was surfing the internet, and the lamp fell from the desk somehow I managed to catch it before breaking off. The measure was 7.0, but it happened far away from our place. This morning the sun is shining and warm. It seems a beautiful day for me. I shall go now, bye!
Slow learner
Did we slow down fast learners' learning pace and at the same time we need to spend more time helping other learners who can't catch up? I think for the fast learners, they tend to make big step no matter how you might slow your pace. I remember seeing a old movie where adolescences and little children were taught in a class in Canada. Now, I teach a class with large discrepancy. I try different words, simple and a little complicate, for different level through a period. The fast learners can absorb the knowledge by themselves, whereas slow learner need more time to repeat those new vocabulary. There is a saying, we learn fast by teaching others. During a period, it is proper to ask students to group and work together so the whole class can make progress without regarding their levels. Don't blame for slow learners and think about this, we learn more from the poor people, don't we?
八卦山 Bug Show
This morning the bug show is taken in our student activity center. All the students are scheduled to attend. There are about fifty bugs, only four of them are alive whereas the others are sampled with description sheet. I helped to move tables and set up flags. I also watched for a class period, then hided myself into the computer room. Students are happened because they can run away from the classroom. Few of them are caught by their main classroom teacher for chasing and fighting in the presentation area. But overall, students are observing bugs with exciting mood and learn apart from the boring textbooks.
Songs for TPR
I don't know many songs for TPR. Last week, I taught "five little monkeys jumping on the bed" for all my classes. The results were extraordinary good, because they got organized from messy atmosphere. Children tend to get loose when they come to English classroom. Some delated about five minutes and got in the class where they could involve immediately with others in our physical acts. They don't need many vocabulry. Two classes said they had learned this before. They didn't mind playing again. The other TPR song I know is "the itsy bitsy spider" . I hope someone can help me.^^
My second post
I still don't know how to blog, which seems as brag to me. I am learning to write English since I am taking 全民英檢 and it is requested therein. Now it is Sunday afternoon, and I am supposed to read some English for the test. I just can't settle down my mind. Well, I do come and logon the internet. I don't know what else to write. I abide in central Taiwan and work as a practice teacher in an elementary school for half a year. Though the great Education Bureau call us practice student because we have to pass another test to earn a teacher licence, we act as a teacher to students. This is a brand new story for everybody. Anyway, the practice is considered as four courses to complete my educational program which is requested to be an elementary English teacher.
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