Pamela’s Box

 on preparation 

  Durimg my personal reading, I have to admit that I rarely study in whole English, so I did spend  quite a long time to do that, and I realized that I have to work harder at the same time! After reading, both of Sam and me percived that the content of chapter one was a kind of exposition but we didn’t want to  proceed our presentation as a lecture. So we decided to add some stimuli and activities to it.

 Therefore we recollected our learning experience, hoped could find an interesting way to explain those six procedures. And then we remembered the first week how we learned the 10 language teaching approches, that way gave us the idea to provide the clues instead of accounts and arranged the discussion later. Then when we considered that we might have a conclusion, we were not confient of drawing a great one, so we designed the application what probably could make all of us have further thinking.

 Finally, the most important part were done, afterward we must finish our plan. Thus, we divided the class into maybe six groups, made the lipstickers, bought some candies, and used the PPT to connet all of our designs and ideas.   

on presentation 

 This was definitely a whole new experience to me. Fortunately, all of my classmates and the teacher are so kind that I didn’t feel much pressures. However I was a little bit nervous, then I acted very emotionally and exaggeratedly. Although I could not unsterstand every single word that everyone said throughout the duration of the discussion, I still could got the meaning from the interaction between us. After reflection, I found some problems in our presentation.

   First of all, we prepared too many to have enough time for discussion. It seemed that we should explain each procedure and question clearer, and focus on understanding. Second, we didn’t balance the division of our individual presentation, obviously I spoke too much, and I ought to attend more to the teamwork. Third, my English was terrible…. especially my Japanese style of pronunciation and accent. I really appreciated that the teacher and my classmates pointed it out to me. I know I must improve myslef or I won’t be able to keep up with everybody.

 However, it was an interesting experience, and I got more delights in learning English. I will treasure the feedback from everyone, keep my individuality and then strengthen the competitive ability.