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.

My Vocab Test

General English: 86%
TOEFL: 91%
TOEIC: 93%
Basic English: 95%

I am not satisfied with my vocab.
Because the percentage is very bad, I think.
In addition, I should do TOEFL vocab than TOEIC.
That's why I want to go to abroad.

Octorber 15th

Skill: Listening Site: ELLO news

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Pirates, protesters, etc.

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): 3/3

Key language points to review (words or rules):
simulate=copy

Lesson Rating: :I

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


Skill: Listening Site: Yahoo Odd news

Level (if any): No Topic: a giant pumpkin

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): A man won the contest because he grew a huge pumpkin.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
superb=super
soil=dirt
gourd=a container made from this fruit

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (too difficult / interesting)


Skill: Listening Site: Yahoo Odd news

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

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): a black bear came a restaurant to eat foods. (and this video might become the funniest movie in month.:)

Key language points to review (words or rules):
hang out=live

Lesson Rating: :)

Comments: (very interesting /effective)


Skill: Listening Site: BBC Entertaiment

Level (if any): N/A Topic: Harry Potter

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): Harry Potter is liked by any age because J.K.Rolling catch the imagination.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
launch=an event to celebrate or introduce something new
pageturners= books that are so exciting you have to read them quickly

Lesson Rating: :I

Comments: (difficult /not interesting /too long)

October 8th

Skill: Listening Site: FOEL

Level (if any):N/A Topic: Siena, Italy

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): Siena is an old town is Tuscany in Italy. It has nice artitectures.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
pictureesque: beautiful
interior: the inside⇔ exterior: outside of a building

Lesson Rating: :I

Comments: interesting





Skill:Listening Site: FOEL

Level (if any):NA Topic: Transexual Cabaret

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): This is about Transexual Cabaret performers in Thailand. They are mostly accepted in Thailand. The performers feel sustained by it.

Key language points to review (words or rules):
Trasexual: a man who present to be a woman
Sustain: give us life

Lesson Rating: :/

Comments: difficult



Skill:Listening Site: ELLO

Level (if any): Topic: Speed Dating

Main point and/or Your Score (if any): No Score

Key language points to review (words or rules):
vice-versa: both ways
any luck?: successful

Lesson Rating: :(

Comments: (difficult / not interesting / boring)



Do this once each study period:

Self-evaluation: * * *

Study time: 70 minutes

Comments: (studied without thinking ）

My goals

1. What is your current language level? (For this class, consider your listening fluency, reading fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and test scores). How do you feel about your ability? Are you satisfied?

→I like to talk with people in English, so I don't have any concern about it. (But the vocaburary which I use in talking is too easy is a problem, I think.) However, from junior high school, my big propblem is reading and writing. As I said, my vocaburary is too easy and always use the same word. For example, I always use 'and' 'and' 'and' 'and'... Also as I don't know many words, I can't understand the story. That's my big problem, I think.

2. What are your long-term English goals? (getting a job using English or requiring a high TOEIC score, volunteer work, maintaining relationships, travel, entertainment, living abroad, etc.)

→My goal is to become a English teacher. Now I'm thinking about junior high school not high school. That's my long-term goal, and in the university I want to get TOEIC (850 score) and TOEFL(80 score ibt based).

3. What are your short-term goals for this class this semester?

→At first, I have to take a test of TOEFL and get 61 score which is the least score to go to foreign country universities.

4. What is your plan in Language Development to reach these goals?

(NetAcademy2: listening, reading, TOEIC, grammar dojo)

(Ferris Online English Lab: reading, vocabulary, listening to news, topics, or conversations)

→As I said, my weak point is reading, so in this class I use Net Academy 2 (level 4 and 5).

However I don't get used to very quike listening. So my plan is 70% doing reading and 30%

listening using ferris lab.

You can add to or change these goals as the semester goes on. Please put a asterisk (*) by any

new or changed info (so I can see how your goals have changed).