January 21st

YOUR STUDY HABITS

-Be ready, awake, and motivated・・・usually
-Choose fun or interesting activities that are a little difficult・・・usually
-Preview the title or any picture to focus・・・seldom
-Try to listen or read once & then test yourself・・・usually
-Listen or read many times to focus on any new language・・・usually
-Focus only on common, useful words・・・always
-Review often (especially vocabulary)・・・seldom


SETTING NEW GOALS

-Have you made progress to reach your goals this year?・・・No
-Have your long-term goals for the future changed?・・・No
-How often do you plan to study on your own during vacation? During school time (next school year)?・・・During vacation I plan to watch English movie at least 2 or 3.
-What are you going to study? NetAcademy/Web sites (Ferris Lab) /Books・・・Ferris lab and using movie (without Japanese subtitle)
-What skills are you going to study?・・・ Listening (Recently, I realize that my listening ability become decreasing.)

Remember you have until the end of January to continue your Independent Study Blog.

January 7th

Skill: Listening Site: English Trailers

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): 9/14
5 lucky kids visit Willy Wonka's amazing chocolate factory.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
freak: this is slang for an extremely unusual or eccentric person. It often has negative meaning.
to rehearse: to practise before performing it in front of an audience.
weird: strange, odd
to boogie: to party, to dance to pop or rock music


Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (good level / interesting /effective/ good voca.)

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Skill: Listening Site: English Trailers

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Two Brothers

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): 7/9

Key language points to review (words or rules):
fierce: having a savage and violent nature; ferocious; Extremely severe or violent
mess: problem or difficult situation
motion picture: a film, a movie

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (little difficult to hear/ good level / interesting )

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Skill: Reading Site: Net Academy 2

Level (if any): 4 Topic: War and the biased jounalism

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): 3/3
The news which report war is sometimes not fair but bisased.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
biased: unfairly influenced by someone's opinion
zealous: extremely interested in and excited about something that you believe in very strongly
troop: soldiers, especially in organaized groups

Lesson Rating: :I

Comments: (a little difficult / good level)

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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * * *

Study time: 70 minutes

Comments: (concentrated / thought about my goals / thought about my progress)

December 17th

Skill: Reading Site: Net Academy 2

Level (if any): Level 3 Topic: mobile phone

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):
When someone talk on the train, it often bothers others. Because that's conversation is "open loop".

Key language points to review (words or rules):
nothing
(I did it last week)

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: (easy / boring / (not) effective)

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Skill: Listening Site: English Trailers

Level (if any): Topic: Devil wears Prada

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):
Andry become a member of Runway's editor, but she can't adapt that atmosphere.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
skinny: very thin
crucial:extremely important, because everything else depends on it

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (good level / interesting / effective)

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Self-evaluation: * * * * *

Study time: about 60 minutes

Comments: (studied hard / concentrated / studied smartly/ reviewed / thought about my goals)

December 3rd

Skill: Reading Site: Net Academy 2

Level (if any): Level 3 Topic: mobilephone

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): 3/3
When someone talk on a cell phone on train, it often bother others. Because that conversation is "open loop".

Key language points to review (words or rules):
loop: a shape like a curve or a circle made by a line curving back toward itself, or a piece of wire, string etc.
invade: to enter a country, town , or area using military force, in order to take control of it

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: (too easy/ not good level /not interesting / boring /not effective)

*Recently, I think Net Academy 2 is so boring.
But I don't know any site which I can learn Reading.*


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Skill: Listening Site: English, baby

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Beijing Olimpics

Main point and/or Your Score (if any):
English, baby staff who were in Beijing during Olimpics met many people and all people were so kind!!!

Key language points to review (words or rules):
Great Wall= Chinese Wall
atmosphere= the feeling that an event or place gives you

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (good level / interesting)


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Skill: Listening Site: BBC Lerning English

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Birmingham

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): 8/8 perfect**
A millenium ago in England, the government wanted to know how many people lived in an each place so they made the Domesday Book.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
census: an official count of all the people in a country = kind of survey
resource: sth. in a country and can be used to increase its wealth
thorough: including every possible detail

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (a little difficult / good level / interesting / effective)


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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * * *

Study time: about 70 minutes

Comments: (studey hard/ reviewed / thought about my progress)

November 19th

Skill: Reading Site: Net Academy 2

Level (if any): Level 4 Topic: Flon and ozone hole

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

Key language points to review (words or rules):
shield: something that protects a person or thing from harm or damage
noticeable: easy to notice
treaty: a formal agreement between two or more countries or governments, or the document of this agreement

Lesson Rating: :I

Comments: (not interesting / boring)


Skill: Listening Site: Southpark

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Visiting a village

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): A class visit a village, but muders come here and try to kill villagers.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
pioneer: one of the first people to do something that other people will later develop or continue to do.
negotiate: to discuss something in order to reach an agreement, especially in business or politics

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (good level / interesting / fun / too grotesque)


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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * * *

Study time: 75　minutes

Comments: (studied hard /concentrated / studied smartly / thought about my goals)

November 12nd

Skill: Listening Site:South Park

Level (if any): N/A Topic: AIDS

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): Two boys get HIV and become fight with AIDS. Finally they and scientists find solution to cure HIV using bill.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
lethal: causing death, or able to cause death
ridiculous: silly or unreasonable

Lesson Rating: :) (^ω^)♪

Comments: very interesting/ effective


Self-evaluation: * * * * *

Study time: 50 minutes

Comments: (studied hard/ concentrated)

Octorber 22nd

Skill: Site:Yahoo Odd news

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Lego

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): Children made 10 Lego dinosaur statues in Indiana.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
dino=dinosaur
apples=wonderful, great

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (good level /very interesting)

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Skill: Site: geobeats

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Fish and Chips

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): Fish and Chips is a traditional dish in England, and now this dish has a lot of variation.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
cod= a kind of fish
complement= someone or something that emphasizes the good qualities of another person or thing.

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (a little bit difficult/ interesting)

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Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * * * *

Study time: 40-50 minutes

Comments: (studied hard /studied intensively / reviewed )



*memo*
Today's 2 videos are very intersting for me!!!
Especially, Yahho Odd news has always fun movie.