2012年1月27日金曜日

Final Blog

1. I think ELLLO is the best website in my studying. I have some reasons. First, ELLLO can not only listening but reading. So I could study both of them. Secound, the speakers speak like a real talking of their life. This was made me understand how to talk native speakers. Third, this website explains the meaning of difficult words or idioms in the listening. So I could learn some words in the listening without using a dictionary. Finally, this website uses conversation which is talking between native speaker and not native speaker. This system is very interesting because in the conversation, there are a few contents of difference of each country. I could study some giographical problem in this website.

2. I felt my reading is the best improved skill in this semester. At first, I could not read a long paragraph. But by doing the test of voabulary, I could collect my English vocabulary, so I could read more smoother than before I did many things that are in Net Academy or in Ferris Online.

3. I think my grade of this class is 4. Because I could work always with concentrating and independent by myself. But the rest of one is because of my study style was in a rut. If I had done working originality every week, I could grade 5 for my ability of my work.

4. I feel my speaking skill is not good enough because I cannot train that in this class. So I want to improve speaking skill in the near future. And I also want to increase my vocabulary. When I worked in this class, I tried to retain many words but I couldn't get my vocabulary enough. I think I want to take TOEIC test, so I need more vocabulary. Finally, I want to use my English ability for traveling abroad. I have a dream to study singing in Italy so I need to speak in Italian. But I think English is very important language because I cannot tell my emotion only Italian. Whatever is my choice, I think I continue to study English!

2012年1月24日火曜日

Blog 12

a. On January 20th, I studied in Net Academy2 and  Broke in the Big Apple in ELLLO of Ferris online. In Net Academy, I studied only reading which level was 3rd for an hour. In addition, I tried ELLLO for about 30 minutes. 
b.Net Academy's reading  was very interesting to read. But compared with ELLLO, it was a little easy. ELLLO is very nice text. I could hear the text and I could understand some words which I couldn't understand the meaning because the speaker taught me in the listening.

c. I learned some new idioms. And I could learn new cadence of speaking.

d. My skll of listening was improved because of ELLLO, so I want to continue to study in ELLLO.

2012年1月10日火曜日

Blog 11

a. On Jan. 6th's class, I studied reading in USA Today Off Beat and ALC Net Academy2.
In USA Today Off Beat, I read an news (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/medical-examiner-arrested-for-keeping-body-part/1) which was written about an medical examiner. This text has 176 words and this is very short but I took very long time to read this text.
In ALC Net Academy2, I tried level 2 for 40 minutes. Net Academy is easier than Ferris Online, so I could read the text faster. 

b. In fact, USA Today is a little boring. But I could understand the content. On the other hand, Net Academy was very interesting because I read about The Beatles!

c. I learned many new vocabularies! Those words I didn't know are very important words, so I must retain those.
d. My word hoard is very farty, I want to retain words more and more because the placement test and vocabulary test are upcoming.

2011年12月20日火曜日

Blog 10

a. On December 16th, I studied at BBC Learning English, Geo Beats, and  I Village.
In BBC Learning English, I tried Episode 125 and 204. And at Geo Beats, I studied "Roman Forum Rome" and "Colosseum." Finally, in I Village I studied "debt discussions OT -Mom's christmas Miracle."
b. BBC Learning English is very fun because it's like a comic or animation. I'm studying Itarian in Ferris, so the topic of Geo Beats is also fun. I Village is a essay thorefore it was a little difficult for me.


c. I could learn many new words. But I couldn't understand a word -"inaugration". What does it mean?

 
d. My listening skill is improved little by little. I want to improve more. I also want to skill up my reading skill or level.

2011年12月13日火曜日

Blog 9

a. On December 9th, I studied listening for 40 minutes in Yahoo News and in Australia Network. And I studied reading for 30 minutes in USA Today Off Beat.

A news' title is Obama to "appeasement" critics: Ask bin Laden
And in Australia Network, I tried Episode 13: welcome students
On the other hand, I read "World's oldest dog dies in Japan at age 26" and "11/11/11 brings hopes of luck to couples, others across USA"

b. Yahoo News was very difficult for me, but I felt Australia Network was a little easy. USA Today Off Beat had so fun topic that I could understand the meaning.  

c. I studied many new vocabulary in USA Today Off Beat.

d. I felt my week point is still listening... So I want to improve my listening skill!

2011年12月4日日曜日

Blog 8

a. On December 2nd, I studied in Japan Times (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20111202a1.html) on Ferris Online English Lab for about 50 minutes, and I studied reading which level is 2nd on ALC Net Academy 2 for about 20 minutes.

I made a summary of the article: Woodford, who was president of Olympus and calling into question dubious acquisition submit a letter of resignation of his post on Wednesday. On Thursday in tokyo, it was accepted. So He resign the President of Olympus but he is interviewed by FBI or other U.S. investigators until now.
  
b. On Japan Times, there are many difficult words. I tried to guess those words, I could understand a few words but I had to search almost of the words. On the other hand, I thought ALC Net Academy is very easy compared with Ferris Online English Lab.

c. I learned a number of words such as proxy, retake, accuse and so on.

d. On this class, I studied only reading. I want to study both reading and listening on the next class.

2011年11月29日火曜日

Blog 7

a. On November 25th, I studied listening on ELLLO about 20 minutes.  
b. It was a little easy because I could listen almost the sentences which was spoken. I could also answer accurately all of the question that in the program!
c. I learned a few idioms and words. I kept those words in my new vocabulary list.
d. I tried only listening both this week and last week, so I thought I should try reading program too.