Sunday, March 13, 2011

Reflection about the different types of sentences

Last ESL lesson, We learnt about different types of sentences and predicate. I was confusing at the first time about the predicate, but after Ms, Dianne explained to us with the slideshow, I could understand easily.

A sentence must contain a subject and predicate. For example; I am studying at SWA. In this sentence, the subject is "I" and the predicate is " am studying at SWA". She also explained different types of sentences, which are simple sentence, compound sentence and complex sentence. A simple sentence is also called an independent clause. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a co-ordinator. A complex sentence has an independent clause joined one or more dependent clauses. Ms. Dianne was explaining with the examples, so we could learn and try it easily than just looking at our own grammar book.

I think this lesson plan worked very well on us and we enjoyed the activities that Ms. Dianne gave us as a worksheet. And also, we could learn and understand the differences between the types of sentences.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Mother Tongue Week Reflection XD

This week at SWA we were celebrating Mother Tongue week. Tuesday was Asian day, which were for Indonesian, Koreans and Chinese. The Chinese and Korean students and parents worked really hard and imaginative to share their own cultures with other nationalities. I was really enjoyed watching the Chinese singers and dancers. I also introduced the culture of Korea to my friends and people who were interested in Korea culture. They looked joyful when they wrote their own names using Korean characters. At lunchtime, there was a Korean fan dance performance in the Bamboo court and everyone was invited to come and watch the performance. The Korean Fan Dance was lead by Jessica and Na Hyeon in Grade 10 and the dance group was beautiful unforgettable. Some of audience tried to follow the steps of dance and it looked great when other nationalities learnt about the culture about Korea. While we have fewer Korean students than Indonesian students at SWA, we were still trying our best to raise the awareness of our country in a fantastic style.