I have some hobbies,are red a novel and books,listening music,playing computer,volley ball and badminton.For badminton,I usually do it by single or double.Special for volley and badminton, I like to do it in the school yard.
Ok ,by the way....I like show you all my hobbies completely.see you......
Then, I and my family transitted Abu Dhabi Hotel last hours. I in Abu Dhabi only one day. Afterthat, I and my family cheek out. So,we went to Airport Abu Dhabi to Airplane.
Arrived at Cairo International Airport at 05.00 p.m evening.So, some teachers of Indonesian SchooL Cairo to fetch and delivered I and my family to Pyramisa Hotel as long as 3 days because we don't have home in the Egypt at the time.
Nowadays in the United States, there are thousands of people who collect antique milk bottles. They meet at auctions, antique shows and online to show their collections and look for new bottles to buy, sell or trade. There is even a national organization for people who collect milk bottles, which meets once a year in Hershey, pennsylvania.
Some of these people's collections contain milk bottles that date back to the late 1800s and realy 1900s. Now they're worth a lot of money. Bottles generally go for anywhere from$3.00 to$100.00. The bottles age,color,condition, and the diary they come from decide their value in the collectors market.
Why study English?
This is an interesting question. English is a hard language to learn, and serious study of any hard subject takes time, effort and sacrifice. There are people who find it quite easy to learn new languages, but they are very few indeed. Most of us have to work hard to develop good fluency in a new language. So why do we do it?
By far the most important reason is, in the end, financial.
We invest our time and our effort in order to achieve a real long-term benefit. Maybe our immediate objective is to get an international job, or to get a place at an English-speaking university. But in both these cases the real long-term goal is to improve our chances of earning a high salary over the rest of our life, or for a period in our life.
Like any investment, the balance between investment, risk and reward has to be right, or we will not spend the time and money.
Clearly therefore the potential cost of an English course, in terms of the price we have to pay and the time and effort we shall have to devote to it, has to be weighed against the benefits we expect. The actual price we shall have to pay is not the most important factor here. Most important is the difference between total cost and total benefit expected, because this provides motivation, and every language trainer in the world will tell you that motivation is the real secret of language learning.
But motivation is not a fixed quantity. It varies. A motivated student can become quickly demotivated if he or she starts to feel that they are not making visible progress. They can become demotivated if their tutor is unimaginative in their approach, or does not respond properly to their needs. Quite suddenly the effort they need to put into the learning process starts to feel like a burden they cannot carry, and their long-term goal looks unattainable.
A good tutor in a good school will build up their students’ motivation week by week. They will encourage the student to levels of effort and achievement the student did not imagine possible. The school will provide materials and equipment that help reinforce the tutor’s work, and the student will find that their studies move along quickly, and enjoyably. The long-term goal comes visibly closer, and motivation soars.
Finally, here are three tips to bear in mind when deciding to study English.
1. Be clear about your long-term goal, and the steps you will take to achieve it.
2. Look for a school that has tutors who know how to motivate their students.
3. Work hard…no one should ever expect to find English an easy language!
Technology in the ESL (English as a second language) classroom – Changing the way students learn to listen.
For too long, listening activities in English as a second language (ESL) classrooms have revolved around short excerpts played from cassettes on small, inadequate sound systems. In the 1980s this was hi-tech, but in the age of the iPod and MP3, it is astonishing that the majority of language schools still cling onto this outdated technology.
There are several problems associated with the use of cassettes in the classroom. Firstly, the cassettes themselves are of limited sound quality. Some of the intricacies of the English language are lost and the overall sound can be muffled and often disturbed by hi-frequency noise. All too often, schools protect their original tapes by making duplicate copies to use in the classroom. This obviously represents a further drop in the quality of the recording and therefore in the quality of the listening exercise used in a language lesson. Secondly, the small, low-quality cassette players often used in the ESL classroom are simply inadequate, lacking range, bass, volume and clarity. Even in very small classrooms, the result is a sound quite dissimilar to the real sounds a student will hear around them. Many students complain that listening is the most difficult English language skill to develop, and many theorise that poor quality recordings and machines may be partially to blame.
Examination time is when quality recordings and machines are most vital. Students' sitting in seats arranged in rows for exams will very often have completely different experiences in a listening test, with those at the back of the room at a distinct disadvantage. Although the effect of high-quality recordings and sound systems may be relatively small, we now live in a world where digital recordings and hi-tech sound systems are affordable by most, if not all language schools. There are now excuses for schools not to upgrade.
In Jakarta, Indonesia, schools are starting to make the switch and leading the way, as always, is ‘Aim for English’ http://www.aimjakarta.com/ This pioneering new school has started by throwing out all cassettes and moving over to digital recordings. Recordings are stored centrally on a wireless computer network and are available for all teachers and some students to access from anywhere in the building. After the problem of poor quality recordings was solved, the issue of playback quality was tackled. All classrooms are fitted with 5.1 digital surround sound speakers. These sound systems linked to laptops, classroom computers, MP3 players, mobile phones or any other media players, feature 5 small speakers positioned around the room, and one subwoofer (bass) speaker hidden away at the front. Now, you can sit anywhere in the classroom and experience exactly the same sound quality and volume. In several rooms, the sound clips can be played and controlled by the interactive white boards also installed at this school. This allows a teacher total control over the recording, using their finger on the white board to cue, pause, play and stop the recording using a slide-bar.
The results have been noticeable and the feedback from students has been overwhelmingly positive. Students, quite simply, find it easier to understand, easier to sit listening exams, and believe very strongly that listening activities are much more effective in classrooms fitted with this relatively inexpensive audio equipment. Now, it’s just a matter of waiting for other schools to wake up to benefits of digital classroom listening activities.
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