A Little Tired Day (part 2) In the 'Speak Your Mind', I and teacher Jagger, my only male teacher, first talked about the Nov. 11, which is the Chinese Single Day. Second, We talked about bad traffic and big car sale last year in China. At the end, we talk about the car license plate limit policy in Beijing and Shanghai. The last class today is group class, 'Picture stories'. In this class, we introduced our homeland using 'To Add Information' words. I said:"My hometown is a small city, called HanZhong. ADDITIONALLY, it local at the centre of China…" Eight classes one day made me a little tired. I think it is a little too much for me. I don't have enough time to review and do my homework. I think maybe six classes one day is a better idea. But I have no choice, because I had paid and cannot change my schedule. So, just insist on studying hard!

A Little Tired Day Today is Wednesday. And I was a little tired all day, because there were too much classes for me yesterday. But unfortunately, I still have eight classes today. In the 'Talk Talk Talk' class, I described two things on a picture. The first word is dice. A dice is a small cube which has six flat surfaces. Each surface has a number on it. We use it in gambling. Sometimes, we throw one or two dice for getting a number. We do this because in this way, we can get a number randomly. The second word is helmet. A helmet is used to keep us safe. Sometimes, we also call it a crash helmet or a motorcycle helmet. Most helmets are made of metal. In most countries, you must put your helmet on when you ride a motorbike. If someone rides with you by the motorbike, he/she must also wear a helmet. If you do not wear a helmet in riding a motorbike, you will have a penalty. If you have an accident, the helmet will protect your head. At the end of the class, the teacher give me some homework to describe some item : compass, life vest, stethoscope and emergency kit/ first aid kit. In the 'Steve's class' class, I learnt two sentence pattern. The first is "I've lived there for ten years". This is an answer for "How long ..." The other is "I've lived there since 2008". This is an answer for "When ..." My examples are: I've worked for nine years. I've had this iPod for two years. My friend has became a father since 2008. I've played badminton since 2011. In the 'Callan 2012' class, I just practiced the ordinal number and color. In the 'Topic Conversation' class, We talked about family. And learnt some useful words and phrases: run in the blood, niece, resemble, get along and mother-in-law. After the lunch, in the pronunciation class 'Ship or Sheep', I practiced some new tongue twisters. The hardest word for me today is UNLESS. In the 'Topic News' class, I continued to learn the article I learnt yesterday. 'The Chocolate for Health'. Teacher Kiss is very strict. She corrected me a lot about pronunciation and intonation.

The First Day I Began My Classes (part 2) My seventh class today is 'Speak Your Mind'. In this class, the teacher has many questions about yourself and your life. You should answer it basing on your experience. My last class today was 'Picture Stories'. It's a group class. My classmate in this class is Ryohei and Kyoske, they are Japanese. In this class we learned the sequence works like: first, second, third, then, last, next, at the end, after that, and finally. The teacher Yanski shown same pictures to us, and we told the stories about those picture using the sequence words. At the end, we learned some prepositions. On and off is relevant to surface. In and out is about space. At is relate to specific, particular and pin-pointed.

The First Day I Began My Classes Today is Tuesday, it's the first day I really began my classes. Every day I have 8 classes and in every class I have the different teacher. Every class is fifty minutes, then I can have a ten minutes breaking. Some teacher suggested me to speak slower today. They thought me speak English to fast. I think its because we speak Chinese fast. And The teachers corrected my pronunciation in much time. My first class today was 'Talk Talk Talk'. It's all about talk. Talk about myself, my job, my purpose of studying English, the reason I chose this school. My second class today was a group class called 'Steve's Class'. In this class I have a Japanese classmate called Bridge. In this class we shared our habits when we were children. And I learned that Japanese call the thumb as 'father finger', the point finger as 'mother finger', the middle finger as 'brother finger', the ring finger is 'sister finger' and the little finger as 'child finger'. I introduced that in Chinese we call the thumb as 'big finger', the point finger as 'eat finger', the middle finger as 'middle finger', the ring finger as 'nameless finger', and the little finger as 'little finger'. At end we practiced a sentence pattern 'I used to ...'. My example was 'I used to watch TV everyday, but I instead of surfing at Internet nowadays'. My third class today was 'Callan 2012'. In this class, the teacher says the sentence quickly, and you need repeat or answer your teacher also quickly. Not thinking, just repeating or answering quickly. My last class in the morning is 'Topic Conversation'. Today's Topic in this class is 'movies'. I talked with the teacher Heidi about Chinese movies, especially the 'Lost in Thailand' which has grossed more than US$200 million at the Chinese box-office. In this class I learned a awesome phrase 'two thumbs up'. After lunch, I had my fifth class called 'ship or sheep'. It's a pronunciation class. I learned two tongue twisters. The first is 'She sells sea shells at the sea shore'. The second is 'Betty bought a bit of better butter but she said, "This butter is bitter." So, she put a bit of better butter to make the bitter butter better.' My sixth class today is 'Topic News'. First I did a dictation with a news. Next we talked about this news. My news in today is 'chocolate for health'. It is a very interesting article. It says that eating chocolate is useful for human health.

The First Day in School This is my first day in this language school. I had a test in the moring. In the afternoon, Jade who is the manager of China and Taiwan(China) introduced the information about this school to me and another Taiwanese girl. After that, R.J introduced the course of this school for all new students beginning class this week. Then R.J took us looking around the area of the school, especially the currency exchange site. After then we back to school to pay the fees about our study. At last, the school had a welcoming party for the new students. The test was very interesting. At listening part, we was showed one picture once and was listened four sentences, then we must chose the closest sentence for the picture. For example: The woman was typing the computer. At reading part, we just to do some multiple-choice questions. At the writing part, we must wrote a issue about a picture. In that picture, there were a woman and a man before a flower store, they were smiled. Before the welcoming party, I got the result about my test, it's 4 of 10. My level was HIGH BEGINNER. My writing score is very lowed, just 2 of 10. I think it because I had too many spelling mistake, and I did not have a good story about that picture. In the welcoming party, all the new students introduced themselves first. Then, we played a game called Bingo. First, everyone got a color paper card and a white paper card which had three rows and three columns, you should wrote down you name on that color paper card and in the centre grid of the white paper card. After that, you should introduce yourself to other eight persons and asked their names, and let them wrote down their name in others grid of the white paper. Next, the host collected all the color paper in a box, and extracted one color paper one by one. You can marked the name the host extracted in your white paper. If the names of you paper was in a line, you should called 'Bingo', and you can get a prize for free beers provided by the Q-bay the bar in the first floor of this building. I did win the prize, but it was very interesting, exciting game, because you must introduce yourself to other strangers, and ask they for a help. It was a very good first day! I hope tomorrow the classes will interesting!

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