Teaching & Learning English
Reflection for seminars 1&2: The topic for seminar 1 was ” Why Travel?”, led by Serena and Emma ；）We talked about the purpose of traveling and what exactly could be defined as travel. To me, the purpose of traveling might be to relax, to gain information, or to seek a better place to live, and … Read more
This time we tried a new form of seminar. We had four leaders for four groups so we can have the four groups to work at the same time. Therefore, we can have more chances for students to speak. But this form also bring us a problem: Some groups aren’t doing anything if all the … Read more
We did the group seminar of quotes sharing on Wednesday last week, this is a completely new way of seminar-ing came up by Dr.Terret. We need to choose four leaders, with each leader managing a group. I volunteered to be a leader, because I found it interesting, and felt happy to try it as my … 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
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
Since I have added a 🐟 in the title. It is now destined to dominate this blog 🐟 🐟🐟🐟 In today’s class we had another dreadful seminar. The only difference was Dr. Terret decided to try out a peculiar way of hosting it: four groups with four students leaders as they host the seminar whilst … Read more
During the seminar 3 I didn’t perform well because I hasn’t say anything. Cause I didn’t prepare much however I have something to say now. In grade 8, we start to take on more responsibilities, both academically and socially. We have more homework, more exams, and more projects that need to be complete. We also … Read more
We had a seminar earlier on When in Rome, should we do as the Romans do? This is also closely related to our life. Should we do as the Romans do when traveling? Most situations in which you do as the Romans do are friendly and fun . But if the thing gos differently, How should … Read more
This was my first seminar of being the host and the leader. We talked about what our middle school experience was, which was very touching and everyone could relate to it. The experience of being the host had its pros and cons, for the pros, I could bravely talk to my classmates and introduce the … Read more
This was the first seminar I was part in. in my perspective it was a really cool discussion about the middle school journey. The seminar was really short though and not everyone could share their answer. I think it is important to reflect on our goals and mistakes during middle school. Elaine and Joshua got … Read more
qReflecting on the third seminar, I realized I didn’t improve much from the second seminar since I spoke less. However, the few things I did say were still having some value. I talked about things like the more complicated relationships among students during 8 grade and how the school was getting worse. These are important … Read more