Today I went to George’s college class reunion with him. An old classmate of his, who came back to Taiwan from the U.S. on business for six days, told me about his daughter’s junior high school life in the USA. (more…)
Archive for October, 2009
Is That Heaven?
Saturday, October 31st, 2009An Article on Writing: 說小故事與講大道理
Friday, October 30th, 2009http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_MAIN_ID=13&f_SUB_ID=1259&f_ART_ID=219332
名人堂／廖玉蕙：說小故事與講大道理
【聯合報╱廖玉蕙】2009/10/30 (more…)
Whose Life?
Thursday, October 29th, 2009An Acitivity for Teaching Vocbulary
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009This morning in Class 209, we came to the vocabulary of Lesson 6. An idea came up before I stepped into the classroom. Why not let the students make up a story using the vocabulary words? They could learn to use the words by using them. (more…)
Is Cram School a Cure-all?
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=218835
名人堂／什麼都靠補習的畸形教育觀念
【聯合報╱楊照】 2009/10/27 (more…)
There Is No Such Thing as Potential Development
Monday, October 26th, 2009http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NATS4/5214288.shtml
洪蘭：潛能開發 沒這回事
聯合報╱記者薛荷玉／台北報導】
2009.10.26 06:34 am (more…)
A Good Way to Practice Speaking English
Sunday, October 25th, 2009Failing to find online the UDN article I read yesterday “賴世雄 開創兩岸英語王國,” an excerpt from a book to be published on Oct. 27, 幸福力 (The Power of Happiness), I would like to talk about one thing mentioned in the article: a way Mr. Lai practiced speaking when he was young. (more…)
When You Are Willing, There Are Thousands of Ways
Saturday, October 24th, 2009Seeing an article entitled “賴世雄 開創兩岸英語王國” in today’s UDN, I searched for it online, only to find a short and different version.
http://www.bookzone.com.tw/event/new025/book6.asp
Luckily, I came across another article about Mr. Lai on jimmy’s blog:
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!zIcVgf2GHxn6vu2VhC6PN2LG5W0-/article?mid=185&prev=1297&l=f&fid=13
賴世雄頂尖英文 豬圈裡練出來的? (more…)
Cocoon Cutters
Friday, October 23rd, 2009An Interview with Shih-jen
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009This noon, Shih-jen (張世仁), a student in Class 209, was given an interview to decide whether she was eligible to waive the 2nd-year English course in high school. Chris (林詠梅老師), Wei-yun (楊葦芸老師), and I were the interviewers.
Our quetsions were: (more…)