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VOCABULARY

• AMIABLE: adj. pleasant; friendly and easy to like  agreeable: an amiable tone of voice Her parents seemed very amiable.
   ami•abil•ity /emiblti/ noun [U] ami•ably adv.: ‘That’s fine,’ he replied amiably.

         e.g. Building a shopping center in your town is amiable for many reasons.

• ABSORBING: adj. interesting and enjoyable and holding your attention completely: an absorbing book / game

         e.g. Many people can spend theri time wiht absorbing  products.

• INTERRELATED: verb if two or more things interrelate, or if they are interrelated, they are closely connected and they affect each other: [v] a discussion of how the mind and body interrelate a discussion of how the mind interrelates with the body

         adj.: a number of interrelated problems the belief that the mind is closely        interrelated with the body

         e.g.  The social problems of poverty and disease are interrelated

• ARDUOUS: adj. involving a lot of effort and energy, especially over a period of time: an arduous journey across the Andes The work was arduous.

      e.g  Eventough maing a perfect place is arduous, people should try thier best.

OUTLINE - Problem of ESL in VCU

1.     Problem: Some ELP students are not satisfied with what they are taking.

Solutions

1.     ELP officer should conduct surveys and find problems and then examine what students want to learn.

2.     ELP should makes another test after students get their level

(make sure students get right levels)

3.     ELP should combine level which is 1,2 of each level  into learn and make more level so that students can learn in different levels effectively.

Criteria

1.     If they do the survey for all ELP students, there will pop so many small problems which are not valuable.

2.     Students will lose time and money. Moreover, everything can not perfect even though ELP check knowledge of students

2. Problem: Some students think that ELP officer is not helpful to get information   or when they change their schedules.

     Solutions

     1. Make a program which can help the international students (specific)

     2. ELP officer should contact(?) more with international students

Criteria

1. Cost lots of money to create another program

2. There are already some programs for international students and still  they are not helpful. Improve quality not quantity.

3. Problem: Some classes that ELP offers are not helpful to ELP students

    Solutions

    1. Remove the classes which are unhelpful or combine with other classes

<reference>

http://www.rong-chang.com/

http://a4esl.org/

www.curriculum.som.vcu.edu/international/

Do teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn?

Teachers should not be paid according to how much their students learn.

1. Teacher should more care about teaching their students not payment.

2. If teacher be paid according to how much their students learn, the purpose of education could be wrong.

3. There are lots of students who have different grades. It is quite unfair if teachers teach studetns who do not want to study hard.

For these reasons, I disagree with teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn. In my opinion, teacher should teach their students with educational mind more than payment     

Decisions can be made quickly, or they can be made after careful thought.

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Thesis : People should make desicions quickly because emergency situations require quick decisions, people can save the time to prepare their goal, and peopla can develop their results.

support 1 : emergency situations require quick decisions

support 2 : people can make their time to prepare something

support 3 :  peopla can develop their results.

You made good points. But how can prople develop their results if they make desicins quickly? I think people will make mistakes if they being hurry.

Universities should require students to take classes in many subjects

: Universities should require students to take classes in many subjects for three reasons.

1.The mine purpose of universities is giving a opportunity to accumulate knowledge of all students. Students try to learn more by taking classes. However, some students want to take classes only what they want. This will not help to collect their knowledge in many ways. Therefore, universities should require students to take classes in many subjects.

2. students will be given more options to choose their futures. If students take many different subjects, they will realize what they really want to do in the future. While they are learning, they will find which is good or which is not good for themselves.

3.It will give them wide sence by taking many subjects. People do not know what is going to happen in the future. If students learn as much as they can, they will know many kinds of information and they can apply to their real lives when they need.      

Morden technology is creating a single world culture?

Thesis Statement: I disgree with technology is creating a single world culture.

Support1: there still exist other culutures beside of technology.

              technology is not only the culture of each countries.

Support2:   

characteristics of a good class

mowrk:

 What are the characteristics of a good class?

1. Lively and free discussion- All students can communicate with their teachers and classmates easily and free. The students can learn more important knowledge, which can not be learned in textbooks, such as the social relationships or the manner of communication with each other.

 2. Fun and varied activities - Not to be bored a class; the teachers should make the atmosphere of their classes more active and fun in which students who loose interests in their classes can more participate and enjoy their classes.

 3. Unbiased treatment – Teachers should not be unbiased to their all students. Teachers sometimes tare more care of some specific students who are excellent in classes. It will discourage the other students, so that they are distanced from the classes more and more.

 I like that students and teachers need to have free communication. If so, the classmates and teachers will have a better relationship by talking their problem each other. I think this is the best way to make a good class.  

Three Characteristics of a Good Class

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To be a good class, students and teachers should get along with each other. To make it happen, students should participate in a class. Both students and teachers should follow general rules and expect each other. Teachers should have a little bit of humor which would make students have interests and make students participate in a class.

This is the good point to make a good class. what i like from your post is theachers should have a little bit og humor. If teachers have no humor at all, the class will be bored. Also the most students prefer to have humorous teachers than bored teachers!

“Three characteristics of a good class”

A class is one group of the community in a school. Each class contain many students who have different characteristics. Therefore, between students may have arguing each other or between teacher and student may have different ideas. This situation is very natural. The imfortant thing is how to class gose with less arguing each other. There are three characteristics of a good class.

One imfortant characteristic of a good class is understanging. Students cannot arguing every time when they have different opinions. If students understand each other little bit, they do not have to upset each other.

Another thing that a valuable characteristic of a good class is respecting. Students should treat teachera as parents. Teachers also treat students as family. Students may feel more clse if they think teachers as parents so that they will participate classes more carefully. As a result, teachers will enjoy teaching them.

Love is another characteristic of a good class. If students love each other, they will try to umderstand and respect each other. Love is the biggest faculty of a good class. Loving your classmate will help your relationship with others. A theacher love one’s students, students will show the passion about a classes.

If students and teacher keep these three characteristic which understanding, respecting, love, furthermore, school will be the most happy place in the world.

my speaking class is …

Good!!!   Haha….

I felt like free talking with international students.

I really like this mood because I can talk very freely.

auctually in summer intersession speaking was really uncomfotable to me.

So, when i had speech infront of stusents and teacher. i kept forget what i have

to say and what i want to say.. i just kept nervous.

I think relationship with classmates and teacher is very very important when i

speak English. i like our class

The other one is the conversation with world students. the most valuable thing is

i have a good converation partner. Actually i met him today lunch.

I really thank you for that. I hope we can meet again for next semester.