Teaching & Learning English
Over the past week, two seminars that focused on the theme of travel were held. The first seminar explored the question “Why travel?”, while the second one centered around famous travel quotes. In the first seminar, I really like the way leaders organized the discussion, which is breaking the broad topic down into smaller, more … Read more
I went to Nantong this May Day holiday with my friends by taking my friends’ car and they drove us there. Through our journey to Nantong, I saw distinctive trees, fabulous buildings and even high-speed trains alongside the road. I was totally amazed by the scenery I saw. After we arrived there, we stayed in … Read more
This new way of Seminar disscussions was brought up by Dr. Terrett, it was a total new way of how disscussions occur. We were to form four groups of four (that is: 3people+1leader). Since this new way was still in testing-stage, it could be the last time to participate in it, that’s why I raised … Read more
At the beginning of this year, my family and I went on a five day trip to Melbourne. On New Year’s Eve, we boarded the flight to Melbourne. The next day, after getting off the plane, I immediately took off my thick jackets to embrace the warm summer of Melbourne. In geography class, the teacher explained that … Read more
Recently, we have adopted a new form of seminar, which is group seminar. I think the advantage of this kind of seminar is that it enables introverted people to talk more, like me. Moreover, it enables us to express our opinions more fully because there are only two to three people in a group, avoiding … Read more
Recently, we had two seminars on the topic of travel, both of them very interesting. The first seminar was a class seminar, meaning the entire class discussed together. The main topics we explored that day were: 1) the definition of travel, and 2) the purpose of travel. Both of these abstract and vague topics were … Read more
Seminar reflection™ is now officially trademarked by me🙃 Whenever you use it, you’ll have to give me a like 👍 This was a new approach to seminar discussions that Dr Terrett had never introduced before, and compared to the original way of hosting a seminar, there were both many benefits and drawbacks to this new … Read more
In the previous seminars of the unit our discussion majorly revolved around some aspects and meanings of traveling. They had been highly effective – a lot of thanks to the leaders who proposed such inspiring questions and managed the seminars efficiently, and our intelligent classmates who gave brilliant answers🤓 I learned a lot through these … Read more
On May 6th, Serena and I led a seminar discussion about travel. (I had no idea I was going to be a host in my ELL academic career… thanks Serena. 😭) Even though I did not speak as much as others (especially my partner, whose level of engagement is astonishing), I contributed to this seminar … Read more
OK guys, so we were in the library doing the mythology thingy with the group pages and there was a “take over” thing. And then I went to check other peoples works and then Zephyr started copying my profile pic and name to edit other peoples posts so it looked like I was taking over … Read more
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Last Christmas holiday, my parents and I went to Japan. This blog post will focus on the things I found interesting in Kyoto. Since Kyoto doesn’t have an airport, we had to fly to Osaka and then take a bus for over two hours to reach Kyoto. I had to wake up in the middle … Read more