Extensive reading

Today teacher started a new topic that was Extensive reading. First of all teacher asked us some question
Do you often read in English for your private study?
I answered that I read newspaper, reading on the internet and reading from English study books.

Then we studied the words about research.
The teacher assigned us to read a very long text. Then we were asked to write a summary of each paragraph. After that we did exercise.

I think that the vocabulary was easy. But summarizing of each paragraph was difficult.

I used scanning, guessing word meaning, skimming.
think the text was hard because the text was academic and have hard vocabulary.

I think that extensive reading is useful for practicing English skills.

Scanning

Today teacher told us made group.
Teacher taught how to use scanning.
- need to have a question in mind
- decide on a key word or expressions that will signal the needed information
- do not read every word
- need to read fast

Teacher assigned us to scan some information in the text and then write answer quickly.
For the first exercise in my group did for 9 minutes because we not be cautious and be careless. For exercise 2 in my group did for 3 minutes because it have less question and we use scanning strategy.Teacher assigned us to do a lot of exercise and reckon time for each exercise.

I think that some exercise was easy.
I used scanning skills.
I think that scanning is very helpful and makes me find the answer faster.

West meets East continue

This week we learned previous topic that we not finished studied last week. The teacher ordered us to read the passage and fill some word.We had read “The Asianization” of the US last week and we did the exercise this week.

We discussed the questions.
1. The text mentions many celebrities, foods, and products from Asia. Which are you familiar with? Do you like them?
2. What products, celebrities, and foods from other Asian countries do you like?

And teacher made the question.

If you met a foreigner living in your country, what questions would you most want to ask him or her?
This is my questions
-What’s your name?
-Where do your from?
-How long have you been there?
-What kind of Thai food do you like?
-What do you think about Thai culture?

And then teacher let us shared question who sat in front of me. After that we did exercise 2 about Essential skill. Before read the passage teacher let us to predict the answer for 3 questions.

I think that grammar was easy.
But the reading story was difficult because it’s difficult words and complex sentences.
I think this topic was quiet difficult because passage was hard to understand but it easily when I use some strategies.
I think that this lesson makes me see different identity of each country. So I should learn a lot.