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.

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).