(1) Discussion on bad habits to continue.
Students don't have to comment on this as you have done it already.
(2) Compelling conversations: Talking about books and reading pleasures.
Please see the attachments. There are two lists of 18 questions each. We'll work in pairs and each partner will get a different list. On list 1, we'll answer only the following questions: 1 ("Did your mother read to you as a child?"), 5, 7, 8, 10, 17 and 18. On list 2, only the following questions: 5 ("What are some books you've read and enjoyed?"), 6, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 18.
For your comment, students can answer any of those questions, or tell me about a book you read and why you enjoyed it. You decide.
Compelling Conversations x1.pdf
Compelling Conversations x2.pdf
Compelling Conversations x3.pdf
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Oh, you read Sherlock Holmes, Fang Xue?! Wasn't that too difficult to understand? Oh, you read it in Chinese! Okay, then I can understand! Yes, Jane Eyre is a good book to read (specially if you read the Chinese/English publication!). I agree, Charlotte Bronte created an outstanding protagonist in the person of Jane. She had some outstanding characteristics one could learn from. And of course, to love and marry a man who was left blind and crippled from a disaster, took a very special woman to do that. But you're right, she still lived a happy life with her beloved Rochester! ;-)
Hong Jingjing, that is quite a strange book to read - about a Muslim funeral! Why did you read it?! Was it a prescribed book by the school? The only time I read a book about the Muslim religion (Islam), was only to get some knowledge about their strange religion. Oh, I nearly lied to you ..! I also read a book called, "I dared to call Him Father", by an ex-Muslim woman, called Bilquis Sheikh, who converted from Islam to Christianity. It was an incredible book of courage and faith. Oh, reading about law and regulations is too boring! Leave that for the lawyers and judges! :)
Two months ago ,I borrow two English books named Gone With The Wind and Pride and prejudice from library.But I was very busy and have no time to read them.Finally I return them to the library.It is really sad,I am really busy at university ,busy with my subjects ,my club activity and so on.I really hope that I can have more spare time to read books and learn English ,but I cant ,I have so many other subjects"homeworks to do.But in the future ,I will read more books ,I think I will do that .
Oh Amy, if you also like reading books, we are two of a kind as I love it so much myself! Like you I also loved reading from my childhood and I've never stopped reading. My mother used to call me a 'book worm'! I think I have accumulated most of my knowledge from reading books! I don't know much about "A Dream in Red Mansions", but I know that if you're Chinese, it is a great book to read as it is being regarded as the most important of all Chinese novels (and even important in general world literature!). I guess it must be a good book if you read it several times already! I admire your courage to borrow those English works from the library, but I think it was a mistake! Why? Because it is too difficult for a beginner in the English language! I always tell my students to start with simple English books that reads easily. If you are interested (I realize you don't have much time ...), I have a few easy-English books that I'll bring to class tomorrow. I bought them specifically for my students during my last holiday in South Africa. I have already lend a few of them out, but if you think you may find some time somewhere for reading, you can borrow some of them. I hope you can again take up this great hobby one day! Tell me if you want more English books from my country! ;-)
I like reading chinese poems.but i think it is really difficult expressing chinese poems feeling by english words . some day ,i surf a english translate of a poem.Although the feels are different between them,but there is a amazing artistic conception in here. i just cut a part of it and share with you. “you turned and looked，not speaking.only lines of tears crousing down。” IT's writed by chinese great poet SuShi.
Sarah, pse remember the name cards ... otherwise you would be returning to the dormitory to get them this time!
Oh, you like reading poems, Cai Huibin. Have you ever tried reading English poems? Consider this poem: "They walked down the lane together, the sky was full of stars. Together they reached the farmyard gate, he lifted for her the bars. She neither smiled nor thanked him, indeed she knew not how, for he was just a farmer's boy, ..................................". Do you know this poem? If you do, then you know the end! If you don't, I'll complete it tomorrow in class! :)
Haha Zhao Ziwei, it appears that many a Chinese student were exposed to the fairy tales of Hans C Andersen! I agree that he was an outstanding author; I even remember some of his books from my own childhood (like "The ugly duckling", and others)! He was so popular that his books were translated in more than 100 languages (also in Chinese, of course!). Interestingly, both his parents weren't well educated (actually received the minimum education), but his father had the foresight of introducing him to literature. And then he ended up this wonderful author of children's (and other) books!
I first know the story was from my grandpa.That was the most precious memory in my childhood.He always tells me the story of his experience,and the things happened around him.When I grow up,I can read by myself.I love the book named "The Red and the Black". The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great 'realist’novel of the nineteenth century.It is author is Stendhal who borns in French.it is a novel of ambition and passion, of indignation and tenderness, of polemic and poetry .
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