Listening Skill

This song name is “Marry you”. The singer is BrunoMars”

Summary :

This is a story of a man who saw a girl and then said with full assurance to himself, "she's the one!".

Learning Log Week 9

Today teacher explained about how to write lesson plan include indicator that students learn and do after they finish studied. We should use the curriculum that have standard and indicator. We should change them to our own words.

        In the lesson plan, there are learning standard, task, activities, and evaluation. Task and test must be related to evaluation form. Teacher must teach strategies for students like listening strategies, speaking strategies, reading strategies and writing strategies. Today there are 5 people to test teaching. Some people are different to design their teaching but they are good for selecting the material to teach. They should improve the style of teaching.

teacher should use only one skill to teach (listening, speaking, reading and writing).

Reading Skill

                             Coffee Is Generally Heart-Friendly

 Coffee drinkers can take heart from a series of studies presented this week at American Heart Association conferences in San Francisco. For example, coffee drinkers appear to have a lower risk of hospitalization for abnormal heart rhythms. And there's no indication that having a few cups every day increases the risk of atherosclerosis, the thickening of blood vessel walls that can lead to heart attacks and other problems. What's more, something in coffee other than caffeine might be responsible for a reduced risk of diabetes for women who regularly imbibe java. But it may be linked to a slight rise in high blood pressure

The heart rhythm research looked at the rate at which 130,054 members of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program were hospitalized for heart rhythm disturbances. About 2 percent of them had hospital stays because of such abnormalities, the most common being atrial fibrillation. But the risk was 18 percent lower for those who reported drinking four or more cups of coffee a day, compared to those who didn't drink coffee, said Dr. Arthur Klatsky, a senior consultant in cardiology for the program, who led the study.

"It might be a surprise, because coffee does give some people the jitters," Klatsky said. "And I don't think we're ready to tell people they should drink coffee to prevent heart rhythm problems."

The study didn't offer any reason why coffee might reduce heart rhythm problems, Klatsky said. "It could be that coffee drinkers have better diets or exercise more. We can't say for sure that it might not be related to minor heart rhythm problems that don't require hospitalization."

The bottom line: "Coffee drinkers don't have to quit because they have heart rhythm problems," Klatsky said. "That's about as far as we can go." 

Another study that has followed more than 3,000 men and women for 20 years found no association between coffee consumption and atherosclerosis for just about every demographic group -- men and women, blacks and whites, smokers and nonsmokers. Participants in the study included people whose coffee consumption ranged from none to more than four cups a day.

The third study, based on a report from the long-running Women's Health Study, provided a possible explanation for a lower incidence of type 2 diabetes -- the kind that generally develops later in life -- among coffee drinkers. Researchers compared 359 post-menopausal women newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and 359 women without the disease. They found that women who drank four or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day had a 56 percent lower risk of developing the condition than those who did not drink coffee.

That reduced risk appears to be due to the effects of caffeine on a protein that binds to sex hormones, said Dr. Atsushi Goto, of the University of California, Los Angeles, who presented the report. But the finding is preliminary and requires further study, Goto added.

The report linking consumption of one to three cups of coffee a day with a slightly increased risk of high blood pressure came from Dr. Liwei Chen, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Louisiana State University School of Public Health, using data from six studies that included more than 172,000 participants.

"Based on our results, long-term coffee drinking might be a risk factor for hypertension, but the effect is very moderate," Chen said. "We definitely need more research and evidence to clarify our findings based on the meta-analysis of published prospective studies. Meanwhile, I think it is important for people to consider lowering their coffee drinking if they are concerned about their blood pressure."

คำศัพท์

Abnormalities (n) ความผิดปกติ

Atherosclerosis (n) โรคหลอดเลือดแดงแข็ง

Consumption (n) การบริโภค

Diabetes (n) โรคเบาหวาน

Diagnose (v) วินิจฉัยโรค

Heart attacks (n) ภาวะกล้ามเนื้อหัวใจตายเฉียบพลัน สาเหตุเกิดจากหลอดเลือดไปเลี้ยงกล้ามเนื้อหัวใจอุดตัน

Hypertension (n) โรคความดันโลหิตสูง

Moderate (adj.) ปานกลาง

Participants (n) ผู้เข้าร่วม

Researchers (n) นักวิจัย

Rhythm disturbances (n) หัวใจเต้นผิดจังหวะ

Listening Skill

Adele's song "Chasing Pavements"

Summary :

The Song is about going in a journey with someone, and you want it to go somewhere. But it's not, and you have a feeling that never going to get there. And finally, you ask yourself ; If you should let go(Mind is thinking, 1st), or should you walk through pavements because when you have walked enough you might get to him(heart is convincing the mind,2nd).

Learning Log inside classroom week 8

Learning Log inside classroom - week 8*

     Today this class, teacher describe about Classroom observations. Before we leave to observation, we should know about that what we must to learn. The topic that we should learn such as

     Task, choose a topic that interests you and that could be the basis of an action resource project during your teaching practice in the most semester, than suggest have you could.

     Exploring teaching has audio or video record a lesson, writing accounts of lesson, teaching journal, case reports(เด็กเก่ง/เด็กอ่อน), teaching port folio (เก็บหลักฐาน/แฟ้มข้อมูล),critical incidents (เหตุการณ์ที่เกิดโดยไม่คาดฝัน), action research and student and teacher support groups.

     Focus of the observation

          1. Lesson structure

                 - the way the lesson opens, develops, and closes

                 - the number of activities that constitute the lesson (ในบทเรียนครูมีกิจกรรมอะไรบ้าง)

                 - the links and transitions between activity (ครูใช้ตัวไหนเชื่อมโยงกิจกรรมกลุ่ม)

     Communicative Language Teaching

           2.Classroom manage

                 - Sitting up group

                 - Maintaining order

                 - Time management (ครูสอนจบภายในคาบหรือไม่)

                 - Seating  management (จัดที่นั่งอย่างไร)

           3. Types of teaching activities

                 - Whole class activities
                 - Pair and group activities
                 - Individual activities

           4. Teaching strategies

                 - Presenting tasks

                 - Organizing practice

           5. Teacher use of material

           6. Types of teaching activities

                 - instruction

                 - English word order.

                 - use question English

                 - feedback technique

           7. Student use of language

                 - using group

                 - problem about grammatical or pronunciation

                 - teacher how to edit

           8. Student interaction

                 - time on task

                 - behavior about make the question

                 - Student to student talk

     Behavior in the classroom.
           1. Extent to which a lesson relied it objective.
           2. Use the question more or less

           3. Type of word

           4. How guestion are respond to

           5. Response to student partermane

           6. What the process for check student have get

           7. How student more chosen to respond

           8. Explaination of lesson procedure

           9. Use of visual aids

           10. Use of teachnology

           11. Organization of pairs/group

           12. Use of gestures and eye contect

           13. Use of voice and voice projection

           14. Evidance of organization and planning

           15. Lesson opening and closure

           16. Selection of appropriate material for the planned

           17. Connect smooth the activities 

           18. Difficult and easy to activities

           19. How vocabulary is presented

           20. How grammatical is presented

           21. How skill are presented

           22. Amount of teacher talk in the lesson

           23. Amount of student participation in the lesson
       Task for me.
           - Write at talk (transcript from)
           - Critique the lesson 

    Addition, form the basis of the observation of the teacher to teach, we have observed a clear and accurate, we can fix what is wrong and what is good to use in teaching our future possibilities.

Reading Skill

Thinking on the Application of Multimedia into College English Teaching.

Learning Reflection

       Multimedia teaching method has been used in college English teaching wider and wider. It has contributed a lot to higher teaching quality. At the same time, we have seen many difficulties and misunderstanding about it. We should change our teaching ideas and recognize its impersonal attribute as one of teaching method. So we can utilize modern education technology reasonably to fulfill the target to college English teaching.

• The current status of multimedia Teaching Method in CLT

       Some teachers can cultivate their 4 skills -productive and reductive,within the final teaching aim by multimedia teaching method because of its advantage is modular,intelligent and network which will be helpful to college English teaching.

• Relationship between the qualities of the college English teaching and multimedia teaching.

          Some teachers should be more active in teaching and carry out effective qualities education in order to develop student's abilities. It make students become competent and high score.

• Misunderstanding and Disadvantages of Multimedia Teaching Of College English Teaching.

          Teachers have misunderstanding.

                   -  Attending to trifles and neglecting.

            -  Depending on multimedia excessively and neglecting its auxiliary teaching function.

                   -  Being impercipient to multimedia teaching method.

• Some suggestion on Multimedia Teaching in College English Teaching.

           Teachers should change their ideas of using multimedia teaching.

• The modernization of teaching media is not equal the best teaching.
• The determinant of teaching depend on the educational conception.
• We should devote major efforts to developing multimedia teaching mode based on network circumstance.

Learning Log Week 7

Learning Log Week 7

Today we study about the exploring teaching and task from our observation. That today teacher explains about how we do it and what we do at school.

Then class starts by teacher give the exploring teaching at school such as lesson structure, classroom management strategies, types of teaching activities, teaching strategies, teacher’s use of material, student’s use of language, and student interaction. Then teacher submit the task after come back to university.

In conclusion I think it is difficult task at my observation because I must to record video when I observe teacher’s teaching in the classroom.

Listening Skill

Amy Winehouse's song "Tears Dry on Their Own"

Summary :

This beautiful song is about loving someone who doesn't love you back, or a bad romance. And the hard thing about this song's story is that the person she loves is using her feelings for him to take advantage of her. She regrets everything that she's done with him but whenever they're together she just forgets everything. She feels that love is being foolish. And If she's going to be a fool, better be fool for the one she loves. But in the latter part of the song, she decides to choose herself. She left him. It was painful for her, But she's looking forward to finding her.

Listening Skill.

         

English Can Be Difficult to Learn (VOA Special English)

         Someone, who knows English well but when they will use in their daily routine they can  use it without grammar. Sometimes, the content that we have learnt is more difficult than we use. So, if someone want to speak English well, they must practice more and more.

Learning Log week 6

Learning Log week 6

Today Teacher taught example the process and described how to made lesson plan. Student must do it by using the form that the teacher taught.

Example lesson plan, The topic of water is life

Unit 1

Topic (easy to difficult)	Vocabulary	Grammar	Skill	Indicator	Media	Time
The Giving tree		pronunciation	-listening -speaking -reading -writing	From syllabus	Listen to record	50 min.

Ex : summarize a short paragraph. Doing the project on “Environment”

Student should use 4C such as Grammatical competence, Competence, Connection, Community

CLT : การสอนแบบบูรณาการทักษะ ดูสาระเป็นสำคัญอันดับแรก

Example : การเขียน ตัวชี้วัด / วัตถุประสงค์

 ตัวชี้วัด (Indicator)

 Goal/aim (เป้าหมาย)

วัตถุประสงค์ (นำมากจากตัวชี้วัดไปตั้ง)

      1. Performance (what Ss can do?) ex. Can speak, Can writing

      2. Condition สื่อ

Ex. Ss will be able to listen to the giving tree story.

      3. Standard มาตรฐาน (ได้รับมาตรฐานแค่ไหน) ขึ้นอยู่กับความสามารถของผู้เรียน

      Goal : Ss will be able to(v1) communicate in macro skill (speak, write, read and listen)

      Focus : Listening and Speaking

Objective (จุดประสงค์ในแต่ละหน่วย นำมาจากตัวชี้วัด/ไม่ต้องยึดมาตรฐาน)

      1. Enabling objective ความสามารถ

      2. Terminal objective

      ***การตั้งวัตถุประสงค์มีหลักการดังนี้

      1. Clear      ชัดเจน

      2. Specific กระชับ

      3. Concise   รัดกุม

Example : Ss will be able to listen story (เน้นฟังอย่างเดียว)

*หาสื่อที่สอดคล้องกับความสามารถของเด็ก*

เน้นทักษะใดทักษะหนึ่งของแต่ละข้อ

Rulebric การวัดผลแนวใหม่

     - Evaluation (ประเมินค่า A B C D จากการทดสอบ)

     - Assignment (ประเมินผล เพื่อปรับปรุงพัฒนา) 

Note : *** I + 1 = Comprehensible Input (ตัวป้อนเข้า ที่สามารถเข้าใจ) *** แปลว่า  I = input (background knowledge), 1 = Teacher Input ----> Process ----> Output ----> Outcome (ผลลัพธ์ความพึงพอใจ) *** ครูต้องบวกความรู้ให้นักเรียนจากความรู้เดิมแค่ 1 เท่านั้น *** (สมมติฐาน ครูใช้แนวคิดว่า เด็กต้องมีความรู้เดิมก่อน แล้วครูเป็นผู้เพิ่มความรู้ให้มาแค่ 1 ระดับ) Language acquisition is I + 1 = Comprehensible Input

    In addition, in the objective of lesson plan will clear, specific and concise.

Listening Skill.

Are You Learning English? These Songs May Help

          There are many songs to learn English like Tom’s Diner, Lemon Tree, Truly Madly Deeply. Paul Cifuentes said that Bab Marley’s songs are amazing for teaching and Joseph Delea said songs by Johnny Cash have always worked in the classroom. And this song is for children like we will Rock You and Beautiful Girls. Teachers can use songs to teach students because when they listen to their favorite songs, they feel happy and it motivate them to study. So, teachers should choose their favorite songs to teach them.

       There are many other ways songs can be used in ESL classrooms to consolidate what students have already learnt. It’s very good to practice listening skill by using songs.