Reading skill

                Today, I would like to talk about “West food” Do you want to have good health ?Food important for health, because it’s have energy, nutrient, vitamins, and minerals naturally found in food can improve your health and help you live a long, active life.

           Every day,I eat things that are good for my health such as rice, milk, and vegetable.Every day, I eat things that are good for my health such as chips, soda and alcohol. Jim- Jaem, Jaew Bong from the West is good food for your health, In pickled fish have vitamin and more calcium. Jaew Bong or sauce that can considered as identity of East food. Pla rah mixed with local spices such as pepper, red onion, lemongrass, kaffir lime and tamarind. This is just a taste of spicy chill which help with digestion and soothe nasal congestion. Kaffir lime has beta-carotene, vitamin A, B2, C, calcium and protein.Pickled fish is bad good for your health if you eat raw. It has a negative effect on the body is in a raw fish are parasitic. This caused disadvantage in digestive system and excretory system.

            To conclude everyone should take care of your health and body, because you only have 1 life.  

Reading skill

                Today, I would like to talk about “East food” Do you want to have good Health ?

Food important for health, because Every day, I eat things that are good for my health such as rice, milk, and vegetable.Every day, I eat things that are good for my health such as chips, soda and

           

            Tom kha gai or chili sauce, from the East, is good for your health because In tom kha gai have galangal to help anti inflammatory properties It also aids in digestion and can help with stomach aches and sickness as well as improving circulation. Coconut milk has vitamins and mineral, help to boost the immune system. Coconut milk is also rich in magnesium,poiassiam and phosphorus help teeth and bones strong.Tom kha gai or chili sauce, from the East, is bad for your health because In tom kha gai have coconut milk and high saturated it’s will make increase of cholesterol in blood  and risk of heart disease to cholesterol.

            To conclude everyone should take care of your health and body, because you only have 1 life.  

Reading Skill

How to teach directions

                  Today I read article online about How to teach directions. It’s about  directions can be challenging to teach however its practical uses are readily understood by students and there are many fun activities you can incorporate into your lessons to make them more enjoyable.

                  Warm Up - Directions.Get your students interested in learning how to give directions. On the board draw a rough map of the neighborhood, just a few streets and the school will do. Ask “Where is the school?” Have a student come to the board and point it out. Then ask where a few other landmarks are and have students draw and label them on your map.

                Introduce - Directions Vocabulary.Introduce the words about directions  ‘right’ and ‘left’. Try to elicit the meaning or translation of these words from the students and write them on the board with arrows demonstrating each direction. Once their meanings have been made clear to the class, demonstrate proper pronunciation.

                Practice.Ask students to do some choral repetition. Call on students to model pronunciation in order to check their progress on the individual level and do some quick comprehension tests. Ask a student to “Turn right” or “Turn left” with a demonstration and after a few individual checks feel free to have the whole class join in making sure.

                Introduce - Directions Phrases.Introduce the following phrases:

-Turn right/left

-Go straight.

-You’ll see it on the right/left.

-It’s across from (the school, the park, the post office)

-It’s next to (the police station, the playground, the library)

Explain the meaning of each phrase and lead some pronunciation practice exercises.

                                                

                Practice.Mark your imaginary present location on a rough map like the one from Step 1 and ask your students “How do I get to the (____________)?” Call on one student to give just the first section of directions, then another student for the second section, and then another until you’ve reached your destination. Repeat until your students feel comfortable enough with the new phrases to give a whole set of directions on their own. Next, mark a beginning position on the map and give a set of directions. Ask students “Where am I?” to see if they were able to follow along with you and repeat. If necessary, go back to review anything that seems difficult for the students.

                Practice – Directions.After demonstrating the dialogue, ask the students to work in pairs to practice giving directions. The model dialogue should resemble this:

A: Excuse me. How do I get to the ~?

B: Turn left. Turn right at the 3rd corner. You’ll see it on your left.

A: Thank you!

B: You’re welcome.

                Production – Directions.For further practice, if appropriate for your students and school, create a maze of desks in your classroom and have students give directions to a blindfolded classmate.

 Ask for translations or demonstrations of all associated vocabulary and phrases as well as directions from one place to another. Encourage students to ask questions if something is unclear. Start the next few classes off with direction related warm up activities to help students retain all this new vocabulary.

              When teaching directions, it is incredibly important to choose one structure and stick to it so that your students do not become unnecessarily confused. The examples above use the structure ‘Turn right/left at the 1st/2nd/3rd corner’ but you may choose to teach ‘Turn right/left onto Smith Street.’ or ‘Go three blocks and turn right/left.’ or ‘Take the 1st/2nd/3rd right/left after the school.’

Happy teaching!

Reading skill

                Today, I would like to talk about “South food” Food important for health, because it’s have energy, nutrient, vitamins, and minerals naturally found in food can improve your health and help you live a long, active life.

            Every day, I eat things that are good for my health such as rice, milk, and vegetable.Every day, I eat things that are good for my health such as chips, soda and alcoholGang liang or Soup from the South is good food for your health,  In Gang liang have Anana blossom or hua plee, lotus or saibua ,zacchinic, gourd, Black pepper, In black pepper has a stimulating effect on the digaetive organs and can help relieve indigestion. Garlic has many health benefits such as lower cholesterol used to treat coughs and coldsGang liang or Soup from the South is The bad food for your health. If you eat too much Black pepper will make apthous ulcer and alkaloids \in black pepper will be change as carcinogens.

            To conclude everyone should take care of your health and body, because you only have 1 life.  

Reading skill

                      Today I read about Appropriate Classroom Materials. In the ESL teaching world there is currently a continuing debate as to which type of class materials for oral and listening activities is more suitable. The choices are between authentic dialogues and materials taken from authentic sources such as radio interviews, magazine articles etc. and scripted dialogues prepared especially for the lesson by the teacher or some other English teaching source. Generally, the argument for authentic materials is that the materials should represent what learners will be confronted with in everyday life when using English. On the other hand, proponents of scripted materials feel that by preparing the material students are not introduced to issues that may be beyond the scope of the current level. Both arguments are equally valid, and it is my own practice to use both types of materials in my classes. Below is a consideration of what I consider the main advantages and disadvantages of both types of materials.

           

      Listening skill 

            Today I listen VOA special English Agriculture report about Cacao or cocoa trees grown in hot, rainy areas of Africa, Asia and Central and South America. Their beans are used to make cocoa powder, cocoa butter and of course chocolate. There are five to six million growers, maybe more. Many are poor family farmers with only a few hectares.

           

            The trees produce the most pods when they are ten, but they are still productive long. The workers use large knives to cut the lower pods and long tools to remove pods from high on the tree. A half gram of chocolate requires about four hundred beans. The world cocoa foundation says an average pod contains twenty to fifty beans and growers may lose perhaps one-third of their harvest to diseases and insects. But now scientists have genetic maps of two kinds of cocoa trees.

            The average West African cocoa farmer produces about four hundred kilos of beans per hectare. But Howard-Yana Shapiro, head of plant science and external research at Mars, thinks that science could greatly increase the yield.

           

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     Listening skill

Listening skill

            Today I listen VOA special English Agriculture report about some studies begin by accident. Cynthia Sagers is a biology professor at the university of Arkansas.

           

            Meredith Schafer is a graduate student. They were traveling in the state of North Dakota on a project. They noticed pretty yellow flowers. Farmer grow canola for seeds to make cooking oil. Canola is used for animal feed and biofuel but the canola plants they saw were not growing in farm fields.

            The researchers decided to test the plants. They had brought along special testing papers for the project they were working on. They crushed some of the leaves in water and added the test strips. The results is the weedy canola plants contained  genetic changes. If a plant is genetically modified, its mean genes have been changed to produce desired qualities.

            The researchers traveled more than five thousand kilometers to find canola. They stopped every eight kilometers to count plants and take samples to test vehicle. They finding at a recent meeting of  the  Ecological Society of America. The scientists found canola plants in almost half of the places they investigated.

          

           They tested a total of two hundred eighty – eight plants. And the plants contained genes from genetically engineered canola. Some crop plants are modified to resist damage from the chemicals that farmers spray to kill weeds. There are two proteins that can give canola the ability to resist two commonly used herbicides.