Teaching & Learning English
*Something I need to inform everyone who’s reading this blog post: I AM THE LEADER OF THIS SEMINAR. My performance in the seminar: Got a 7 for speaking and 8 for listening. Ella had one and a half classes for this seminar, and honestly speaking, I didn’t really perform well in the first class. Since … Read more
Our second seminar was about “What makes an engaging blog post.” As we have already written several blogs on different topics, purposes, and styles, this seminar was to share our experiences and our ideas about blog posts. First off, I want to summarize what we talked about in the seminar. According to the sequence of … Read more
This times seminar was about travel and literary quotes, it was an interesting discussion where we dove deeply into the core meaning of traveling, why we travel and what values we achieve. My performance during this seminar was nothing exceptional. I only chose to speak a couple times which made climbing the score board significantly … Read more
Our seminar this time was about Literary Travel Quotes, at first i didn’t think much of it and thought it would just be a discussion of how the background of the author connects to what he wrote or some generic stuff like that, but i was completely mistaken. This seminar was really fun but also … Read more
As the first seminar of the unit, I think I did a decent job. Our seminar was mostly about “Travel” (well, actually all of it). We all gave different opinions about travel and, at the same time, analyzed literary quotes to support our opinions. We started off with “Why travel is important in modern life.” … Read more
So we had another seminar. I got a A4C6, but the A4 was only earned from the second class. I think I did pretty well on the second class. I did miss connecting points in the first class, though. I could do better if I had connected more points and quotes in the first class. … Read more
Our seminar about travel‑themed literary quotes turned into a philosophical conversation about what travel truly means to human. Looking at how I did in this discussion, I noticed I struggled a bit with analysis (criteria A) at the very beginning. I mostly talked about my own opinions and daily life examples, but I didn’t really … Read more
Reflection on my own performance: Score: 6 for “speaking”, 8 for “listening” I expressed my thoughts a lot during the seminar, but most of them are not really related to the quotes (only answering the questions the leaders gave us). I think this is why I only got a 6 for my “speaking” part🥲 (you … Read more
Copyright © Leo MUZHEN Li 2026 I. The man sitting in the life boat glanced at the pandemonium vacuously, this gigantic ship was sinking into the night ocean, nobody knew the exact time it would go down to the bottom of the gloomy sea, but this callous truth was inevitable. He turned to Edward, his … Read more
This discussion forum provides a space for my Grade 7 and Grade 8 students to discuss their research findings and identify connections on the subject of Shakespeare. other students are, of course, welcome to join the discussion 🙂 What to discuss? Well, here are a few prompts to get you started: Share interesting facts about … Read more
This is the ‘Welcome to Shakespeare’ introduction for my Grade 6 English Language and Literature students, but anybody else is welcome to add to the discussion 🙂 There are three topics to research: About Shakespeare About Shakespeare’s time – What was England like in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean times? About Shakespeare’s work – his … Read more
Inspired by essay Absurdity and suicide form Le Myth de Sisyphe and La peste, Written by French writer Albert Camus. Préface One lived in absurd, yet some is ignorant of that. Why absurd? Irrational, bizarre, void. One had options to give up and succumb: Either made haphazard expectation of the coming future, yet this idea is … Read more