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
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
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
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
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