Discussion board 3

RE: English language impact on my culture

Author:

Bo CAI

Posted Date:

Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:54:45 o'clock EST

Edited Date:

Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:54:45 o'clock EST

 

In my opinion ,language is an important part of culture. English changes our language, this also means it changes some parts of our culture.Look at the Chinese nowadays,listen the way they way they speak.They use lots of English words in their daily dialog and think it's a fashion.When this situation goes by.Chinese may forget the way of how their ancestor speak.This harm our traditional culture.English can also change our culture in other ways.There are so may American products and media goes into china with English.Children watch American cartoons and read English story books.People watch American films and use American products.Everyone speak like American, act like American ,even think like Amerian!So English can change our traditional culture seriously.

Discussion board 2

RE: English a global language

 

Author:

Bo CAI

Posted Date:

Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:11:25 o'clock EST

Edited Date:

Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:11:25 o'clock EST

I think one of the reasons for this problem is due to the history.The  British Empire used to be the strongest country in the world.It has a lot of colonies.British brought English to the colonies and force people to speak English.Another reason is the U.S.A is now the world's strongest country.America is the leader of many fields such as economic,technology and education.People learn English for these reasons.This make English become a Lingua Franca

Reflection of week three

It is already end of the third week.It means we will have the final exam very soon.Last week we had a writing exam.I tried my best to write the essay and finally I finished it in time.I got the result the day before yesterday.I get a 12 in the exam,not good not bad.It show I still need to do more work to improve my writing skills.Life is always busy for E7.

Listening:
Although I have done some execise for listening.I still feel it is very
difficult.It is hard to catch the main points of the arcticles and write all of them on the paper.Unknow word is also a big problem.Sometimes I know where the answer is and can hear it clearly but I can't write it down because I don't  know the word.This problem is hard to be solve in the short time,the only thing I can do is to listen more carefully and try to use its pronunciation to spell the words.

Writing:
This week we start to learn the Critical response for two arcticles.It is more difficult beacause we need to compare the two arcticle and we need to write more words in the essay as well.I'm worried about my writing speed and don't know if I can finish the essay in time.I need to do the preparation well to let me use less time to think when I'm writing.

Reading:
I have do some execise and it seems to be OK.My reading speed improve a little as well. The only problem is how to guess the unknown words.I need to prectise more.

Speaking:
I have do some reasearch about the topic and start to do the PPT.I will do some prectise on my presenting skills this weekend.