"Procedure continues" and " Comparision and Contrast"

 On Monday 6^th March, I studied “Procedure” and “Comparison and Contrast”. she read the text 3 This text is about the toaster which lets us know about the using of this appliances.                             So, there are many questions that we had to find the answers from this text, It was neutral either but looked puzzle because of much information in the text.

 http://generationgranny.com/2015/07/16/toasters-are-like-marriage-from-what-i-hear/

After I had done it, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback. While she was giving the corrective feedback

  Next, she told us to open the first page of this handout. So, it was about the “purpose”, “types of procedural texts”, “text organization”, and “language features”.

- The purpose of the procedure is to tell the reader how to do or make something.  

- Types of procedural texts are 

  1.Texts explain how something works or how to use instruction/operation manuals,                   2. Texts that instruct how to do a particular activity, and 3.Texts that deal with human behavior.

- Text organization – Goal, Material, and Method.

             Next, she gave us to look at the screen which is apples and oranges pictures. Then, she gave us to find about what is similar and different between apples and oranges.So, she brought this toward the new reason that was “Comparison and Contrast”. 

Next, the teacher read and explained the example 1. 

Then, she told us to compare between the high context culture student and the low context culture student so the example 1

High context culture student

- More skilled in the reading non-verbal behaviors

- Speak less

- Listen more

- Communication tends to be indirect and less explicit

Low context culture student

- Emphasize verbal messages and shared information they encode.

- Speak more

- Listen less

- Stress direct and explicit communication

After that, we started reading in text 2 which is Andrew Hurricane and Hurrican Katrina. After we finished reading, she gave us to write the board about the differences and similarities of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew

 Hurricane Andrew 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

 Hurricane Katrina 

In short, Hurricane Andrew was more dangerous than Hurricane Katrina. In contrast, Hurricane Katrina was more destructive and worse than Hurricane Andrew.

 I would like to show you how they are similar and different. 

 Hurricane Andrew 

 Category 5

 175 mph winds

 Nearly 17 feet storm surges

 $25 billion property damage

 26 people died

 It's stronger than Hurricane  Katrina

 Hurricane Katrina 

 Category 3

 120 mph winds

 12 feet storm surges

 $81 billion property damage

 More than 1,800 people died

 More destruction and fatalities

In my opinion, thinking about the main idea is difficult for me. I have to read more in order to understand and specify the main idea as well.

I think that this lesson is important in reading. I can compare each of things and know that what is better. However, I should practice to read more because some conjunctions which are related with the comparisons and differences haven't known before. 

Procedure

On Monday 20^th February the teacher came to the classroom, she checked our name that who absented for this course because on that day we had to do the quiz1. 

 Procedure or instruction is to tell us how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps. It is very important genre in our society because it enables us to get things done, and it is equally common in the oral and written mode. The purpose is to tell the reader how to do or make something.

Then, she explained the text organisation of procedure. It consists of:

 Goal (often indicated in the main heading and / or diagram)

 Materials (listed in order of use such as utensils, ingredients etc.)

 Method (steps oriented towards achieving the goal)

Next, teacher shown us cooking video by Jamie Oliver. It was about cooking perfect omelet. And she let us jotted down the words that we heard from the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQyRuOEKfVk

Then, she taught us about how to make a Banana Shake. First, we looked at the slide of presentation, we saw the Banana Shake Recipe. There are there parts of this recipe,Goal, Materials, and Method, they made us understand what is it about and how to make it.

After that, she also taught us about how to make a Banana Cake. We looked at the goal, ingredients and method respectively. She read the text to us and let us practice to pronounce the difficult words via Cambridge Dictionary. The recipe also contains two headings, 'Method' and 'Ingredients', which make it clear to us what is involved in making the cake.

After we did it finished, she told us that “this is the time to do the test (quiz 1). After we prepared the chairs finished, we started to do the test (quiz 1).  I think that the test (quiz 1) was difficult for me. Because I must use much time for do it. 

Descriptive continues

            On Monday 6^th February, I learned about “Descriptive” that was continued from the last week. Before we started, the teacher came and checked the name.  Next, she told us to talk with my friends about “What did you learn last week?” for 2 minutes. 

             Next, she told us to read the text 2 “Budapest”.After I finished read, I answer the questions below the text.   After we did it finished, she gave us the corrective feedback.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest 

            Next, we read the text 3. It is “Prague” that is the city in Europe. After I finished read, she told us to do the activity below this text. But she gave us the corrective feedback while I was doing this activity.

https://www.finleap.com/blog/the-5-hidden-fintech-hubs-prague

                Then, the teacher told us to read the text 4 and do the activities in this text. After we did it finished, she told us to make a group then each group chose someone to pick the little paper that had three topics. my group got “place”. we discussed the place. So, we chose “Chiang mai”. Then, we drew the diagram for writing the text.

                  After we wrote for 15 minutes, we  present the text that each group wrote. After I finished this lesson, I think text 4 is easy for me because I could read it understandably.

 I used skimming, scanning, and finding references to comprehend the texts

Today was quiet easy to me because it was about description things, read the text and answered the questions. I felt fun we worked in group because we talked and worked together.