Week 17: Monday, 29 December 2014

(1) Vocab test

The test consists of 30 questions and will comprise of the vocabulary we learned in all the lessons this semester. It will be in the format of a multiple choice questionnaire and you choose the correct answer from three possible answers. We will meet in our classroom 341, but we'll move to another bigger classroom for the test.

(2) Short awards ceremony

Categories:

1. Best 3 role plays (+ one consolation prize)

2. Best 3 English Club commentators

3. Best vocab test result (to stand over)

P.S. - COMMENTS:

This is the very last opportunity for comments (and to gain a final mark if you want one!). Please answer the following questions in your comments:

1. What did you like in the classes? What kind of lessons helped you?

2. What did you dislike in classes? Except for the teacher who didn't smile sufficiently and was too strict (sorry!), which lessons didn't help you at all?

3. In your view, do you feel you have made progress during this semester with regard to your English language skills? Yes/No? Why do you think so?

The comments don't have to be in before the next class. This time you can do the comment after class - as long as I can get it before next Friday (2nd Jan 2015) as I then want to finalize the semester grades. Thank you. :)

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  • I thuoght by myself when the end of the class will coming.I have kinds of thoughts which make understand a lot of reasons.If you really want to make progress you must pay efforts to it.Maybe it need spend you plenty of times and you wlii feel so tired,but you must believe that you will receive mass of harvest.when you want to give up you can think it,then you can regain energy.
    In the classes,i like spaeking english with my friends especially the debating.I like sharing my feeling with others and listening their thoughts abou every thing when they use english to express.F rom it i can know the areas for improvement of myself.To be honest, i don't like the system that it needs point.The reason why i think is that the class is voluntary.I think i have made progress about my spoken.You know we haven't chance to speak english in our daily life.I realised that i must increse my vocabulary.So that i can express my thought more smoothly.

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  • At first ,I am so sad that it will our last comments, although evertimes my comments didn't engouh good ,even more the comments with the topic have no matter.I also try my best the comment,every week it can remind me of study English ,it give us a encourage to study english, just to intersting.To be honest,at the begining ,I join the class in order to improve english ,but now I begin to love it slowly and slowly.Howerver,this new is very sad that you wouldn't teach us the next years.I am worried my enthusiasm will be extinguish.but I won't.Never too late to learn.
    I think a good class is the teacher should talk with students each other,this is not limimted school request's konwledges,We should learn more knowledge in life. this is to say,we should study the life.I enter into the college about one half of years,I hardly didn't listen the english courses,because the english teacher just to teach the books konwledge ,the whole class we may be sleepy in the class.
    But when I joined the semester that I began change my view- study english just to learn vocabularies and grammars and so on.now I have a new view that is we study english in order to entermate,we could use it our life and everywhere,In addition,it help me to open mouth to speak english ,let me enough confident to talk with my partern or other people.
  • I cant believe that next lesson is our last lesson for the oral English class ;How time flies.I learned a lost in the oral English class over the pass few weeks,and I think my oral English has really improved .Thank the teachers of our college for giving us the good chance to practice our English.And thank John for helping us to improve our English ,and without you ,we cant make such great progress,thank you very much.
    In the classes ,I like the English movies,the short videos and the topics of those John let us to discuss,the most I like is listening to John speak English,because from this way,I can really improve my listening skill.I think learning from the short videos abuot how to learn English well help me a lot ,from which I can get many good methods to learn English and I can imitate the accent and speech patterns of the people in the short videos.And also,I can learn something about other countries,like cultures,life-style and so on .
    Oh ,I am sorry to say I dont know what I dislike in classes.Comment on the website improve my writting skills,and listening to the news improve my listening skills ,and in the classroom ,I can not only practice my listening skills and increase vocabulary,but also practice my communication skills .I like all the lessons(maybe one thing I dont like is John didnt smile a lot in the class).
    I really make progress during this semester,especially my listening skills.But I think the best I gain from classes is to think deeply,it is not only important for me to learn English ,but also important to my life.Thank John for teaching us the way to learn English well and to think deeply.
  • 'No pains,no gains' is a familiar proverb to us.During the semester i made obvious progress especially in oral English.I like the time when we are discussing questions.Everyone knows that we chinese don't speak english frequently.The time provides us with opportunity to practice English.Video lesson helps me so much.I can check whether my pronunciation is right.I think the material is rare.That makes us not convenient.Sum up,the class is very essential.I really benefit from the lesson.Now,i am not so afraid as before when it's my turn to speak english.Thank you for your help.Best wishes..
  • 1.In this class, my favorite is the group discussion, because in the past, my English level is very low, I know that if you want to learn a foreign language, you need to use it, but because the environment, no one is talking with me in English, so my English is very bad, remember at first in this class, when the group discussion I don't know how to say. I am very stressed. But now, when I was in discussion, I can tell my own ideas, though not very fluently.
    2.In fact, in the beginning, because of my English level is very low, so for this class I have pressure, so because of my subconscious to escape idea, so in this class, in every time the teacher draw, I would be very afraid, afraid of the answer is not good on my own.This is a point I feel awkward.
    3.In this class, I think my progress is very obvious. In the beginning, answer problem is I don't know how to say, then can express my own ideas. Let me excited, the progress and let me more confident, because I also can talk with others in English. In writing and English composition, I can express my own point of view.
    In fact, I was able to enter the class was lucky, my English progress in many aspects. In the beginning, I also know that this will be a special experience in my life. Now, I am more convinced that this point of view. Thanks very much for the lovely John teacher and help my classmates .
  • John,you know we love you and your lessons.You are a good teacher because you are serious about every class and you always do lots of preparation to tell us what to do next class.
    I like you play movies in class,and play some video about learning English.It’s interesting so we love to watch.and it is so helpful to our hearing,help us know the life as well as the background about native speakers of English.In my opinion,the most usefull course is role play but not the most interesting.It is true we have learned into practice.We talk with partner in English,and we think seriously,really a language environment.
    Seriously,if I must say,the classroom atmosphere at first is not good because Chinese students are so shy as you say.It’s our problems not yours.To be honest,I can’t pick out the problems of the course.(oh,by the way,I hope you privately,can communicate in English with us.)
    I think I may have made progress during these classes.At the very least we hearing is certainly has the progress.you know we listen to you every class.we can understand most of your meaning,and what you say at first I don’t even understand.There is no doubt that my spoken English ability is enhanced,because I communicate with Cai Huibin in English during the class.I feel communicate in English not as hard as I used to be.
    At last,I want to seriously say thank you to you.

  • 1、It is English-talk atmosphere which I like most.In the past,we can't get corrected if we speak English in a wrong way.But in this class,we can hear the pure English,learn how to speak English. I think it help us a lot.

    2、I like all in the class,but i think listening to the English songs can help less because we haven't get into that level.I think talking can help more.

    3、Of course yes.Because this class provides us a good atmosphere for us to learn English,especially oral English.we can talk a lot and listen a lot.I get benifit from it.And the most important is to remind me to keep studying English.English is really important.
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  • We had finished the role play today.In fact I and my partner had prepared a lot for this role play.But as you can see I think I was too nervous and didn't play well.But it's a great process that we prepare for it.We try our best to use some good vocabularies and find a more advanced grammar.We grow in self-denial. And we are going to have the vocabulary test on monday.I don't know how many scores I wil get but I know this class is really helped me.To tell the truth.I used to think maby this class won't did any help.However the fact is when I listen to the CET-4 listenning I feel it was slowly.This is the first time I feel this way.An amazing progress!!!Meanwhile more change is happenning...
    I think the most thing I like is the role play and work in pairs.We can say anything we want to say and share it with partners.We regard ourselver as the roles in the situation and improve ourselves unconsiously.If I must to say something dislike I will choose the classroom.Yeah it's too small and limited.
    I am very happy that I am the first one to do the final comments haha~~But I hearded from other classmates that you won't teach us anymore after finshed this class.You will go to FuXin. But the humor and lovely man I will remembered forever!Miss you.
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