Update on Blogging+ Creating Self Study Tests Online

I am fortunate to have picked up new private students as well as picked up afternoon hours Wednesdays and Fridays in Loudong teaching PE and Art. I also want to start studying my Chinese again. That means I don't have the leisure time to create online self reviews/tests and personal pages for my private students for each week. I am hoping that can do it by themselves.

Here are the 2 websites I use to create self tests, and review games.

Studystack
Quizlet

Its very user friendly, create a free account, input the new vocabulary word and the definition, then save it. Voila! Easy!

For definitions, I use the Cambridge English-Traditional Chinese Dictionary. Its great for showing several definitions, sentence examples and is pretty comprehensive. It has more words than the pocket electronic dictionaries and is a good resource for your English homework and self study.

For entertainment as well as educational purposed, use YouTube to find videos related to your week's subject of study.

Some Channels for ESL study are:

Bookbox English: They have read along stories that are mostly world folk tales and fables.

Rachel's English (American English) I highly recommend this channel!

Best English Learning Videos

Let's Talk, with American Accent Training

ESL and Popular Culture (British English)


See you next class!

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS)

Vocabulary Self Review/Test

Extra Reading:
A Stranger in Her Own Land
The Woman Whose Brain Gave Her a Fake Accent

Kaoshiung's Rubber Duck

I. Vocabulary
1. rubber
2. sculpture
3. resident
4. artwork
5. pier
6. reportedly
7. harbor
8. diameter

II. Self Review/test

III. Pronunciation
7 Commonly Mispronounced English Words (American English)
L and R Pronounciation

IV. Extra
Florentijn Hofman (Dutch Artist)

Jamie's Page

March:

Tokyo to Host 2020 Olympic Games (Reading)

What's Your Favorite...?
What's Your Favorite Course? (Conversation)

Kaohsiung's Rubber Duck (Reading)

L and R Pronunciation

American Greetings

April:

Easter
Foreign Accent Syndrome

Self study

Tokyo to Host 2020 Olympic Games

I. Vocabulary
committee
contenders
bid for
billed
despite
radiation
leaking
nuclear plant
Prime Minister
make a presentation
cleanup
overjoyed
stage
tsunami
devastated
tidal wave

II. Self test/Review

III. Extra

A. Watch the video and answer the questions:

1. Who was the 2nd place contender?
2. Which contender got eliminated right away?
3. Is this for summer or winter Olympics?
4. When was the last time Tokyo hosted?
5. Do you think Tokyo is safe from it's recent nuclear disaster to host the 2020 Olympics? Explain.

B. Summer and Winter Olympic sports Pronunciation
C. Future Olympic Sports Bidding for the 2020 Games
D. Fukushima Update