past continuous tense in the story "Best Friends"

cartoon of regret

Benefits of the Corpus Tools

In the class, we learnt corpus tools through the sites such as http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ and http://www.wordandphrase.info/ . These sites are very useful to analyze both my own writing and the writings to be prepared for my students. They gives us a chance to check each word with its further uses. In the first site, we can find collocations, grammatical constructions, allophones. It contributes to enhance our writings as a student. Varible areas of using words create a wide range of writing style. In the second site, It is recognizable that words, phrases and texts can be analyzed in terms of their frequency. Being able to have a brilliant command of choosing each word minimizes possible misunderstanding in our classes. For instance, when we analyze our handouts prepared for our students in terms of their readibilities and comprehensibilities by taking into account their level, we have to also know that choosing each word and phrase included in our texts should be appropriate for their level in terms of frequency and academic use. Therefore these sites are very useful. I will use them in my language classes because they encourage the students to improve their awareness of word choice within different contexts.I will teach my students how to use them so as to help them enhance themselves in their writings. I have also used swiftkey keyboard in my mobile phone for a week. I knew this app before I had my current phone. In my previous phone, the keyboard in it has the same features. It was not swiftkey because of its operating system, windows. However, I am used to using it again now. I will encourage my future students to use this applications because it both save our own words and correct spelling errors. I suggests possible complements after written words It means that it shows the collocations while they are texting. In academic writings, it cannot be used or it is not a very reliable source, but in daily life there is no objection to use it. If there is someone to install this app to their phone this is the link: https://swiftkey.com/tr

Vocabulary knowledge from two tests

http://my.vocabularysize.com/result/317286f72e13cb132cd228b67672f8fc https://testcenter.duolingo.com/quick

Simply Falling

Simply Falling

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

There goes my heart again
All of this time I thought we were
Nothing looks the same when your eyes are open
Now you're playing these games to keep my heartbeat spinning
You show me , you show me love
You show me everything my heart is of
You reshape me like butterfly origami

You have broken into my heart
This time I feel the blues have departed
Nothing can keep me away from this feeling
I know I am falling for you

I'm taking time to envision where your heart is
And justify why you're gone for the moment
I tumble sometimes, looking for
And you know this is right when you look into my eyes
You show me love, you show me love
You show me everything my heart is capable of
And now I can't away from this fire that we started

There my heart goes again
In your arms I'm falling deeper
And there's nothing to break me away from this

Personal expectations from a technology integrated teaching

When I will start teaching, I will be able to achieve the level of authentic adoption in technology integration in my opinion. Actually, I am not an advanced user of technology in my daily life. I have some difficulties in complying with the technology. The reason why I slog on dealing with it is that I did not pass an technology integrated educational system in my previous secondary or high school years not all that. However, thanks to the facilities of the university and newly gained approaches push me to be integrated with it. Now, I have recognized that new generation and their learning style are totally different from mine, and I have to be engage with it as a prospective teacher. In ELT department, We have some courses in which we are doing microteachings. In our microteachings, we have to use some methods and some integrated skills for our learners.The most important point in our teachings is our teaching materials. They should be interesting. Our students should be able to associate the materials with the real life. Briefly, we have to choose authentic materials for our students. I think guided use of technology is what I can achieve in my class. For instance, I can use an authentic listening text such as a hotel reservation in a while-listening activity or for techniques of top-down, bottom-up. However, I can face with some problems during this integration. Facilities of the school is really important for this process. If the teacher does not have enough option of technology in the class, then the intention of the integration might not be achieved successfully. For example, the teacher cannot use a CD player all the time in the class where there is no computer. The teacher cannot use cyclopes in the class where there is no projector. So, the lack of facilities can paint into a corner the teachers. Furthermore, the personalities of the students should be taken into account. Technology integration encourages the students' collaborative skills instead of competitive ones with communicative activities via the softwares or some useful websites on the Internet. However, some students might not want to work as a group. Some of them might be shy or some might think that they are better at individual works. Then, the teacher should overcome these personal obstacles. If I have such problems in my class, I firstly comfort my students by modelling each easy activity and then incorporating them into the techniques. When they see themselves achieving the tasks, then they will be encouraged. Without using technology in the class, both teachers and students fall behind the world. The world has been changing with the technology. Teachers should bring their students up by keeping up with all the other students in the world.

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