TEERADEJ LO
ENGLISH
1/10/2017
Unit 1: Academic Speaking and Listening
How is public speaking used as a tool for social change?
Public speaking may change our society by persuading people, inspiring and making people to think. Public speaking is used for election, make people choose them as the president. Public Speaking is also used to determine issue, tell your own stand, make people think that they are doing the right thing or not. The last thing is to inspire people, encourage people to do something. That can make many changes to our society, the way we live or how the country are going to develop, improve the quality of society.
Description: We practice the skill of Public speaking by talking about the issue around us. I'm talking about the problem of assigning homework via internet..
Reflection: In this unit I get to practice my speaking skills. I'm talking about the problem of using internet to assign homework. The thing I can do well in this activity, I think it was the eye distribution is getting better. I'm looking at most of the audience. But for my weaknesses, The first thing is gesture and movement I have some of it but not that much and the second is the way i memorize my note it making my speech not natural, sometimes I need to read the note because i forgot what I going to say.
ESLOs: Strategic learners, Innovative thinkers, and articulate communicator
Unit 2: Academic Writing
12/12/2017
How does English affect learning other subjects?
English affect other subjects in writing a lab introduction in biology subject, presenting work on a feature board, the used of words, and reading articles or news that are related to that subject. If we can show that we can use English grammar in proper way it will show that we have the ability to apply into other subject and to make our works look good. Also, in reading if we be able to understand what we read it will make us can clearly explain and remember it for a long time. The last thing is speaking, it is used for communication so we don't misunderstand each other and can plan together for a project.
Reflection: In this unit we are doing a newspaper. We have 4 people in our group. My role is to make the logos and the banner. I make it by using Adobe Illustrator, I found it quite a little bit hard because I didn't use it for a long time already. But I think it very useful because we can use this in other subject to design or create something too. The thing I should improve is to be more accurate with the logo and the designing, the used of color. We also have individual work to design our own essays pages. I really enjoy this work.
ESLOs: Strategic learners, Innovative thinkers, Articulate communicators, and Leader of the future
Persuasive Essay
12/12/2017
We are writing a persuasive essay. The topic I choose to write about is about grade can't be used to measured students' ability and intelligence. My Idea come from when I see someone are good in math, science, or English but they can't do well on art or music. So I start thinking that if they got bad grade in music and art it doesn't really matter if they know there own ability and what they like. In this essay I can write it very well. I enjoy it because the topic is the think I truly curious about. The think I needed to improve on in this essay is about the subject verb agreement and the used of some tense such as past tense.
ESLOs:
- Strategic learners
- Innovative thinkers
- Articulate communicators
Descriptive Essay
12/12/2017
This time we will get to write a descriptive essay. The topic is about my experience going to the National Book Fair at The Queen Sirikit Convention Center. I love book very much and this is the first time for me to get there so I choose it for my descriptive essay. In a descriptive essay we needed to use a lot of adjective to describe everything clearly which I can't do well on it because I don't know a lot of vocab. But because of this the think I improved is about the vocabulary I need to search and find more word to use to describe my feeling and emotion at that time. This essay help me a lot.
ESLOs:
- Strategic learners
- Innovative thinkers
- Articulate communicators
Unit 3: Academic Writing
12/3/2018
How does one read critically?
From my understanding, I define reading critically as using less time to understand more about the article. Therefore, I think to read critically mean finding the main idea of each paragraph, skim through, and using the context clues to find for the definition of the word so you won't waste your time with using dictionary. If we know the main idea of the paragraph we will be able to connect the idea given from the article together and understand the article more easier. Skim through to find the message in the paragraph that is important and try to understand it.
ESLOs:
- Innovative thinkers, Morally intelligent persons, Articulate communicators, Leaders of the future
Sample work and reflection:
ITL Material
Reflection: We practice the skill of listening and reading by using ITL material. This help me a lot because the format is similar to the TOEFL exam so we also get to practice the skill to be ready for the TOEFL exam too.
Reading test portfolio
Reflection: We designing a test by our own by start looking for a article and create a question from it. The type of the question can be divided into vocabulary, pronoun, literal, and inferential question. This help us about the reading skill because we must truely understand the article so we can make a question out of it.
Script
Reflection: We planning for our silent film by setting the location, the action that are going to happen, the time taken in each scene, and the camera angle. From this activity, it give me the knowledge about the camera angle that I had never knew before and it can be used in other project too.
Movie Poster
Reflection: This is the poster that we help together to design it. We met together to take the picture and ask each other to choose the color and the font.
Silent film
Reflection: For the silent film we work hard on it. Many things happen during the film taking such as forgetting the camera battery so we need to change to use the phone camera instead, changing the scene because the environment at the location. This help us improve the skill to solve a problem in uncomfortable situations.
Unit 4: Research Report
10/1/2017
How to create a reliable research report?
A reliable research report means that the information inside is clear and have good references. The information inside contain statistics or come from an article that already did a research on. The references should have a reliable author or is written by an organization such as university or government. Also, there should be enough references regard to the topic you choose, for instance they should be at least eight references. The subtopics that are described in the research report are related to the topic, cover most of the topics thoroughly.
Reflection: This work is about writing a research report. The topic I choose is the class activities preferences of Grade 10 MUIDS in 4 different subjects including Math, Biology, Computer, and English. In this work I need to find a lot of references to use in my research report to make it reliable. I needed to read and summarize a lot of information. The most important thing is that I need to write a lot. This work really helps me improve my writing skill. I start to remember my mistake and try to avoid it the next time I write something. The most difficult part in this work for me is gathering the survey response. I need to use about 3 weeks to be able to gather enough response to use in the research report. The thing I can improve in this work is to look for more subtopic about some experiment that others already do about how class activities affect learning.
ESLOs:
- Strategic learners
- Morally intelligent persons
- Articulate communicators
- Innovative thinkers
