Unit 10: Cell Phone Culture

This week, we learned about how Apple's iPhone will compete with new Samsung and LG smart phones that use Google's Android open-source operating system. What kind of cell phone do you have? Will you buy a new cell phone next year? What kind do you want? Tell me about your current and future cell phone purchases. What do you look for?






Please practice using the following grammar styles we learned in class this semester. Write one sentence to answer each question:

1. PRESENT PERFECT (p. 93)/CELL PHONE VOCBABULARY (p. 109) - What has been your cell phone experience until now?

2. TIME CLAUSES (p. 78) - How do you usually use your phone? What do you use it for?

3. COMPARATIVES (p. 15) - Compare your current cell phone to your past cell phone.

4. SIMPLE FUTURE (p. 64) - Are you going to buy a new G3 smart phone? What kind will you buy?

Please make sure your response is at least 50 words.

Unit 9: Preparing for Job Interviews

This week in class, we talked about how to talk about your talents and skills in a job interview.

You can state a quality about yourself, then give an example of how that quality fits you, based on your experience. You practiced these while you were being interviewed for some unusual jobs.

CLICK HERE to see more information about how to use PRESENT PERFECT verb tenses (for describing your experience).

Now, find a job you think you would like to do. The job-hunting website Monster.com lets you find real job postings in your area of interest. CLICK HERE to try out their "career-mapping" tool. It's fun!



When you find a job posting you like, try to think about how you would describe your qualities and skills for the position. Then, post the JOB TITLE with your description of YOUR QUALITIES and EXAMPLES FROM EXPERIENCE below. Please make your post at least 50 words.

This blog entry is a little difficult, but it could be very useful in your real life! Good luck.

Becka

Unit 8: Storytelling

Sometimes we don't realize it, but humans are always telling stories. Sometimes these stories are fables from long ago. Often, they are simple events we relate to our friends. This week, we talked about storytelling. To do this, we practiced how to use simple past verbs vs. past continuous verbs. We also talked a little about how to use stative verbs. If you are not sure about what stative verbs are, CLICK HERE for a list and a description to help you.

For your homework this week, choose one of the videos below. Each video is a Canadian story, but these stories don't have many words. Please write at least 100 words to tell one of the stories. You may read your classmates' work, but don't copy them! Instead, try to improve upon what they did. Also, don't forget to do your WORKBOOK: pages 48 and 49C.

Here are the stories you can choose from:

1. The Story of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Mascots


2. "Neighbours" by Norman McLaren


3. "The Big Snit" by Richard Conde


Have fun with these stories! See you in class.

Becka

Unit 7: How do you celebrate your favorite festival or holiday?

There are lots of festivals and events that happen here at SCH during the semester such as the Cherry Blossom Festival, Spring Festival, GEE Days, the Medical Students' Festival, end-of-semester performances, homecoming, and more. Did you take part in any of these? How did you celebrate?

Here are a few of my pictures from past campus festivals and events:


Buddha's Birthday, May 2009


SCH Cherry Blossom Festival, April 2009


End-of-Semester Fine and Performing Arts Students' Festival, December 2007


My husband, Jim (left) and Prof. Min Kyung-won (right) are enjoying the SCH Spring Festival, May 2007.


Here are some students performing at the Spring Festival 2009. Do you recognize any of your classmates?

NOTE: try practicing expressions we learned in class, such as "before," "after," or "when," as well as definite and indefinite time expressions about events coming in the future!

Guide to Shinchang

How can new students to SCH learn about what Shinchang has to offer?



Please post your paragraphs about our neighborhood here!

Unit 4: Social trends - is society changing?

Last week in class, we talked about social trends - new, popular ways of thinking. In the PPT below, you can see the results from our class for each question we asked. In the 2E class, 10 students did the survey.

2 E results

View more presentations from BeckaB.

Now, compare the 2E class's results to the collated results of ALL my students. A TOTAL of 95 students did this survey last week.

Social Trends Among Native English 2 Students

View more presentations from BeckaB.

NOTE: The 2E class did not get to answer question 10 (about the environment vs. the economy) because of a photocopier error. ㅠㅠ

Your blog post this week:
Compare the results of our survey. Do you see any trends in your generation's ideas for society? Do you think Korean (and Chinese) society is changing? Are there any traditions that will continue?
Please write at least 50 words (5-6 sentences).

See you next week!

Becka

a little break...

Hi everyone,

How was your Chuseok? Mine was very busy. It was SO busy that I didn't get to finish the results of our "social trends" survey last week. This means that YOU DON'T NEED TO MAKE A BLOG COMMENT THIS WEEK. Your next blog comment must be finished before 11am Wednesday, October 14th.

This little break is my Chuseok gift to you. ^^ See you in class!

Cheers,
Becka

Unit 3: Watching the Detectives

Detective stories are very popular in American movies. James Bond is probably the most famous crime-solving movie character. This character has been in 22 movies, from 1962 until now. The next James Bond movie will come to theatres in 2011.



When I was a little girl (a long time ago!), the most popular detective movie was The Pink Panther. The Pink Panther movies were comedies, about a clumsy French detective, Inspector Clouseau (played by British actor Peter Sellers).



Charlie's Angels was a detective show famous for its sexy female detectives (played by Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson, Cheryl Ladd, and Farrah Fawcett). This show was on TV in the 1970s.



In the 1990s, Canadian comedian Mike Myers created the character Austin Powers - a time-traveling British "ladies' man" who always tried to stop Dr. Evil (who was also played by Mike Myers). These movies are called "spoofs" because they make fun of the James Bond movies of the 1960s.




CSI is probably the most popular detective TV show nowadays. The show CSI is actually many different series that take place in different American cities and have different characters. The theme songs ("OST") for these shows all comes from British rock band "The Who" - most of these theme songs are older songs that were famous in the 1970s.







This week's blog post:
Tell me about Korean "detective" movies. Do you like detective movies? What is your favorite movie? Tell me about the detective character (please use 50 words or more). Are Korean detective movies at all like western-style detective movies?

Unit 2: Which restaurant is better?

This week, we talked about food, and how we compare different flavors (tastes) and textures (feeling). For your blog post this week, I want you to use what we talked about to compare two restaurants that you probably know very well here in Shinchang:

Kim Bap Cheon Guk (김밥천국)...


...and Kim Bap Na Ra (김밥나라).

Which restaurant is better? Why?

Please post your comment and write at least 50 words (5 or 6 sentences) here, before our next class together. I am interested to know your opinion!

Cheers,
Becka

Introductions: Welcome to Native English 2!

Welcome back to SCH University, and welcome to the Native English 2 class!

On our first class, we played "Two Truths and One Lie" and we learned a little about each other. This week, I want you to tell me a little more about yourself. Please post THREE sentences telling us...

1) a routine you never change
2) an unusual habit
3) a general fact about yourself

I'll go first.

1) I always drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning.


2) I usually drink coffee with a spoon in my cup.


3) I have a pet cat.


I look forward to hearing your responses. See you in class!

Becka