LS13707 Advanced Listening and Speaking Skills Reflective Journal 1) Interview of native English speakers Date: 2nd October‚ 2012 As there is a group presentation on an analysis of different accents‚ I have to interview two native English speakers with my classmates. We interviewed three people whom are an American‚ a British and a Sweden. Accents in different countries are various. I am more comfortable in listening British English. So‚ when I was interviewing the American and
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ENGLISH 4U ACTIVE READING NOTES While you read your chosen novels and other relevant material you should be keeping notes. The goal is to jot down ideas and thoughts as you are reading‚ thus making the process active. You should write something every time you read. Your instinct may be to write your opinion of what you have read. While this is okay to include in reading notes‚ reserve these comments for your reading log. Your active reading notes should be of more substance in order to
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tive Here’s how I’ve personally gotten active. While in high school I quickly realized what procrastination is and what causes it. For a student such as myself‚ I have come to notice when one has a large amount of time to complete something they tend to wait till the last minute. I personally have taken the "get active" way of school. I began to join clubs and community activities to take up some of my time. By this I was left with less time to get my assignments complete‚ with that in mind I began
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UNIT 4222-374 Promote active support OUTCOME 1 1. Compare the characteristics associated with active support and the hotel model in relation to an individual’s support. The hotel model is where support staff does things for people and they become observers in their own lives. Active support is a way of ensuring that people are able to engage and participate in their own support. Promote individuals independence making environments easy to maintain and comfortable for people. Support informed
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From what I understand an "Active" person is referring to a personality that doesn’t sit back and go with the flow but makes an effort to make things happen. Active person tend to be more outgoing ‚ competitive and aggressive. A "Passive" Person is referring to a personality that laid back and takes life as it is‚ potentially lazy when it comes to achieving certain goals or dealing problems and never will jump into any kind of conflict. From the stories that we had read‚ I think Richard Wright’s
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2011 Share with us know your thoughts and your experiences in Teaching Listening and Speaking in your school. Candidly share your opinions on the following topics. 1.What are your best accomplishments in teaching these two skills to your students? 2. What are some of the challenges/problems you encountered in teaching this two skills? 3.What are your hopes and expectations of this course? Thank you Dr Lee Dear Doc‚ Thank you for posting these questions; frankly speaking I’ve already felt the
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Active and Passive Student Comparison between active & passive learners (block method) All students cannot be the same. This is brought about by the nature of their genes‚ or because of the environment where they grow in. Friends and families can also greatly influence the nature of a student in learning. Teachers usually identify two distinct types of learners in their classes; active students and passive students. Teachers should be able to know the differences between the two groups of students
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students these days just think they have to go to class‚ pay attention‚ write some notes and they will do fine. That may be true for some people but if they were to use a more active learning approach instead of passive‚ they could do even better. Active learning is a learning approach that gets the student more involved which helps lead to a better understanding and idea of the material being learned (VickyRN‚ 2009). Passive learning is the common classroom learning approach where you listen to a teacher
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1) Active and passive Compare the following sentences: Your little boy broke my kitchen window this morning. My kitchen window was broken by your little boy. In the first sentence‚ the person who did the action (your little boy) is the subject‚ and comes first; then we say what he did (with the verb‚ broke) and what he did to (the object‚ my kitchen window). In the second sentence‚ the opposite happens: we start by talking about my kitchen window (the object of the first the
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Active and Passive voice Grammar: Active and Passive voice The formula of active voice is a common structure of a sentence; it should consist of subject‚ verb and object. If we want to change the structure into passive voice‚ we should change some of the elements in the sentence. The formula both of the voices are shown below: Active voice S + V + O + adjective/adverb Examples of the sentences 1. Agus gives Rany a present in her birthday. 2. They punched the thief
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