Archive for November, 2009
22n School Founding Anniversary–Part 4: Happy Reunion
Tuesday, November 10th, 200922nd School Founding Anniversary–Part III: Garden Party
Monday, November 9th, 2009At the garden party, my Class 214 sold sausage, noodles, and soft drinks. Class 209 sold food and offered a water-ballooning game. They were tired, but had a good time, I believe.
22nd School Founding Anniversary–Part II: Relay Race
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
22nd School Founding Anniversary–Part I: the Ceremony
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Today is NHSH’s 22nd anniversary. A ceremony was held in the activity center. The faculty who had served at NHSH for 15 or more years were awarded with a gift. Then some VIPs delievered a short address. After that came 4 performances by school clubs. Here are some photos taken at the ceremony. With a click on a photo, you can enlarge it. (more…)
214 Campus Decoration
Friday, November 6th, 2009
A Word Guessing Game
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
One activity my student teacher Ali (葛淑瑄) did in class was a word guessing game. Having finished Unit 7 this morning, she had the class play this game. The students were divided into groups of 5 to 6 to have a group discussion about how to say a word in another way or its association. (more…)
Decorating the Campus
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Today I stayed in school with some of my Class 214 students until around 8pm. They were working on the campus decoration for the school founding anniversary on Saturday. The topic is a mermaid swimming a race. The idea of bringing the sea creature to land is simply lovely. (more…)
Breaking with Convention
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009In today’s class, when coming across the phrase “break with convention” in Lesson 7, I asked Class 209, “How can an English teacher break with convention when teaching English?” The students’ answers were by using movies, songs, and games in class. The last two are easy for me. However, not a moviegoer, I seldom bring movies into the classroom. Maybe I should watch more movies. (more…)
Bringing Movies into Class
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Today my student teacher Ali (葛淑瑄) taught 214 for the second time. Speaking fluent English and appearing calm, she looked quite experienced. (more…)
Things Learned from UDN High School English Writing Class
Sunday, November 1st, 2009English writing gives many high school students a headache. UDN offered an English writing course, and yesterday was the last day of the class. In the following UDN news report, some students talked about what they learned from the course.
http://mag.udn.com/mag/campus/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=219612
高中英文作文 結業收穫多
【聯合報╱記者陳智華／台北報導】2009/11/01 (more…)