Thursday’s Topic

Hello guys.

How are you? I am not sure who checks this blog, or when they check it. I wanted to be sure to give you a hint about the topic for Thursday’s class. I promised Mi-young that I would at least say on Tuesday what the subject will be for Thursday. Well, today is Wednesday so I am almost right. The topic for Thursday is one that was suggested in the second class. It is “How to make friends.” One link that might be helpful for this topic is right here.  This page was not written with ESL learners in mind, so I think that it might be a little difficult, but I also think that it has lots of interesting and useful words for you. Take care and I will see you on Thursday!

Talking about the internet

On Monday, May 7th we talked about using the internet. The question that we started with was, “How often do you use the internet?” Starting with this question, students talked with a partner for about 10 minutes. In this time, many people thought of more and more questions about the internet. Some include:

How many hours a day/week/month do you use the internet?

What kind of websites do you visit?

What sites do you visit?

What information do you search for?

Do you use cyworld/____/_____?

Do you have a blog?

After chatting for a while it was time to start the survey. I asked everyone to think of 1-2 questions about the internet to ask their classmates. I thought that everyone did a good job to think of good questions. I was surprised when there were not many differences between the kind of answers that came up. There were lots of interesting questions, and I think that many answers were interesting too. Someone (JH) was disappointed in his classmates’ honesty. I wonder how honest everyone was. After finishing the survey, everyone presented their results. I thought we did a great job with this, each presentation was special and unique. Nice job!

During this class, everyone did a great job to communicate their ideas and thoughts. There were some errors that might make this more difficult. Some phrases that I heard include:

I buy my clothes by internet. >>> I buy my clothes online./I buy clothes on the internet.
I do internet everyday. >>> I use the internet every day./I surf the internet every day.
I like to shop in internet. >>> I like to shop on the internet./I like to shop online.
I surf internet for hours everyday. >>> I surf the internet for hours every day.
I turn on my computer all day. >>> I leave my computer on all day.
(turning the computer on all day would be strange–we just need to turn it on once.)

We still had some problems talking about the number of people.

5 peoples answered yes. >>> 5 people answered yes.

1 people did not agree. >>> 1 person didn’t agree.

A sentence that I heard was, “I didn’t decide mind.” I think this person wanted to say, “I haven’t made up my mind yet.”

One person’s survey question was, “Can you believe someone that you meet via online chatting?” While this question is not completely wrong, I think that I should have asked this person to change the question to, “Can you trust someone that you meet online.” I would use believe to be just one time. Like, “I believe you” when I hear a story. Trust sounds more like forever. This is not a huge problem, but trust would be much more natural in this situation. Please believe me and trust me!