The Make A Difference

This is a great site. I am a teacher, I am hopping I am the best teacher for my students. Click here to see the presentation. This is a great sign for all of us who are teachers. Mrs. Thompson is teaching us who are teachers to become better teachers. I think she is a great example of all of us. After watching this small presentation, I was in tears.

Sheng-Kung's Song

This song is composed by one of the senior 3 student at Sheng-Kung High school. Her name is Papaya. She is very good at singing and dancing. In her future, she is going to be a famous singer and composer in Taiwan. For her practice, she changed the original school song to her own style. Here is the music which is created by Papaya.

　

Christian Music Competition!

Today in my school, we had christian music competition. This competition is held at Sheng-Kung High School every two years. This year I was so lucky to be the judge, I could listen to the Christian's songs. All the songs were wonderful. All students were singing with all their efforts. Even my worst class could act like angels on the stage. My worst class, which always gave me headache, which I could not even teach. Believe me today, they sang better, they have more imagination and creativity than my better classes. I really enjoyed to be at competition.

Story Book

My assignment for Junior Two is a story book. In my ESL class, I use Impact Phrases, it has everything. I covered unites 4, 5 and 6 so students could create a story of their own using vocab from these unites.

Here is the assignment guideline:

• 3-4 people in one group
• Everyone has to have a group, no one is left out
• Create a story
• Using vocab from 4, 5 and 6 unites
• No copy from the Internet
• Pictures has to be colored
• It has to be phrases or sentences

The size of the paper has to be:

• A4 divide into two pages
• It has to have 5 papers of A4
• Must have 10 pages total
• It must have covered and the end
• Members seat numbers and names should be included
• All the pages should be full in written with pictures

The assignment is about 25 point out of 50. If student is not ready, I won't give them the full 25 points. I will grade by usage of phrases, communication, grammar and creativity.

Wonderful Story Books

After collecting my students' story books, I found, they have put all their efforts into this project. Here are their works by classes.

J2C

J2D

J2E

J2I

J2J

Weather Report

We have done unites 12 to 16 and it is time for my J1D and J1E to do their weather report. They do a wonderful work by reporting their cases. I videotape each group in both classes. The assignment is in the following:

• Three people in one group, no one is left out, no one cannot do it alone
• Using vocabulary from the weather unit "15"
• Speak laud and clear
• Use their imanigation
• No copy from the internet
• Use creativity
• They have to background picture
• They have to memorize like the news report on TV
• When they speak, they have to look at the audience, not just their papers
• Use all efforts
• It has to be three minute long

J1D did a weather report in European Countries and J1E class did a weather report in South Asia countries. All of my Junior one classes did the entire world continent, and each class are so different.

Here is the videoclip of each class and groups:

J1D Weather Report

J1E Weather Report

Mother's Day at Sheng-Kung, 2007

This year, students work so hard for mother's day's program. From junior high school to senior high school, students put all their efforts to have a wonderful program. I think, each mother will be very proud of their daughters.


Pictures of mother's day

Preparation for Mother's Day at Sheng-Kung, 2007

Each class from junior high to senior high will make posters for mother's day. They can write anything about mother. They call tell their feelings, they can write poems, or even stories. The word doesn't have to be very long, a few words but understandable will be okay. Most of the classes that made these posters are classes that I teach. They did a wonderful job doing this, I am very proud of them.

More posters

Recycling Week at Sheng-Kung, 2007

Now in these days, students are very creative. Our school provide recycling week for everyone including teachers. This means during this week we cannot use any plastic things such as bags, forks, knives, chopsticks, or even plates and spoon.

Students are in the recycling competition and they have to make things out of recycling. This kind of competition is good for them because they can use their imagination and creativity. Each of them are so good at doing that.

More pictures of students' work

Night at The Museum

English Drama Competition!

Today, senior twos have their English Drama competition. The acting was very good but their language ability was not so good enough. Sometimes, they exaggerate a little bit and sometimes they over act or change the story completely.

At the beginning of the story, I thought they could do better work then juniors but it turned out the total opposite. They did wonderful background scenery. I could see clearly their performances.

The microphone from our school is not loud enough. I can see the acting but I could not heard their voices.Overall, every class is very creative. They did wonderful job in terms of clothing, make up, stage performance and so on. I could enjoy more if I could hear them what they were saying.

La Familia (The Family)

This Saturday, for my senior one Spanish class, I am planning to introduce the theme "La Familia." Personally, I like this theme very much. I could share my family with my students. They could also ask me questions about it.

The lesson will be:
First, I will introduce family members with pictures. I will have each member of my family by drawing a family tree. This is also a great opportunity for me to introduce vocabulary of family.

Here is the complete list of the words that I use in my family lesson:

padre, madre
suegro, suegra
esposo, marido; esposa
abuelo, abuela
bisabuelo, bisabuela
tatarabuelo, tatarabuela
hijo, hija
nieto, nieta
bisnieto, bisnieta
tataranieto, tataranieta
tío, tía
tío abuelo, tía abuela
primo, prima
primo carnal, prima carnal (first cousin)
primo segundo, prima segunda (second cousin)
sobrino, sobrina
padrasto, madrasta
hijastro, hijastra
hermanastro, hermanastra
medio hermano, media hermana,
hermano de padre, hermano de madre
hermana de padre, hermana de madre
prometido, novio; prometida
novia, novio
fiancé fiancée
amigo, amiga

(Note: Novio and novia also can mean "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" or "groom" and "bride.")

After they know these above words, I will make them to repeat after me. After a while, I will ask students a few vocabulary questions for comprehension. For example, I will ask them, how did you say mother, father, great-aunt in Spanish or I will ask them, mt mother's sister is my... students should be able to answer.

Later on, I will introduce them the song, "Mi Familia" (Pimpinela). Students will read the lyrics of the song after the teacher. After reading, I will play this piece of music, students should listen and follow by their own reading. At this time, I will use power point presentation in a multimedia classroom.

Here is the lyric of the song:

Hoy estamos festejando
Entra ya no tengas miedo,
No te asustes que no muerden
Somos pocos pero buenos.

Pasa y tomate una copa,
que hay lugar para otra silla,
dejame que te presente,
a mi gente , mi familia.

Ya lo ves,
Hablan todos a la ves,
Y despues,
se pelean por un mes,
peto cuando las cosas van mal,
a tu lado siempre estan.

Coro
Quiero brindar por mi gente sencilla,
por el amor brindo por la familia

Si te tiran con un corcho ,
o al pasar te pisa un niño,
en el fondo estan solos,
una muestra de cariño.

Te estas acostumbrando,
solo es gente extrovertida,
cuando griten no te asustes es que viene ,
la comida

Ya lo ves,
comen todo y despues,
a sufrir por la gente otra vez
pero nunca te dicen que no si les vuelves a ofrecer.

Coro

Quiero brindar por mi gente sencilla,
por el amor brindo por la familia

Ya va a comenzar el baile,
quiten todo y a la pista,
que otra vez dira la tia,
que la nena es una artista.

Ves que yo te lo decia,
al final se puso bueno,
como dice el abuelo,
en el fondo nos queremos.

Ya lo ves esto sigue y son las tres,
y mañana a comer lo que quede otra vez,
para todos con el corazon yo les canto esta cancion.

Coro
Quiero brindar por mi gente sencilla,
por el amor brindo por la familia.
Quiero brindar por mi gente sencilla,
de corazon brindo por la familia.

After listening, I will ask my students if they like or not the song. Students will answer. Once I got their answer, I will show them a video clip of the song.

Students always enjoy watching the video clips. In this video clip, Pimpinela made MV with their real family members. Here is the video clip of the song.






Another version of the video clip, Pimpinela in concert.



The song of "Mi Familia" is very touching. I want my students to know the words and sing a song to be able to remember the new vocabulary.

Next lesson, I will start to introduce sentences with family members. Here are some sample sentences you can use to as models for your own:

Mi padre es carpintero. My father is a carpenter.
Mi tía es dentista. My aunt is a dentist.
Mi madre es ama de casa. My mother is a housewife.
Tengo dos hermanos y una hermana. I have two brothers and a sister.
Tengo nueve tíos. I have nine aunts and uncles.
Mi madraste vive en el estado de Nueva York. My stepmother lives in New York state.
Mis sobrinas viven en Chicago. My nieces live in Chicago.
Mi padre está muerto. My father is dead.
Mi prima está muerta. My cousin (female) is dead.

Grammar should be introduced on the second class period. On the first period, students will just enjoy the lesson and the teacher will introduce it in a fun way of learning. By end of this lesson, students will able to introduce their family members in Spanish using easy grammar and context.

Movie Lesson

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Preparing for Exam

I had this morning, my third hour of class with my Junior 1 D. This class is very active. When they get too excited, they will fotget to make less noise. They can talk very loudly with me and making me laugh.

This morning, I gave them 10 minutes to review their unites 13, 14, 15 and 16. After that, I played with them vocabulary words. A few groups were studying very hard and some of them did not even bring their books. How can I be angry with them. They were always listen to me and talk to me in English. My class policy is no Chinese or other languages, only English.

This is the only Junior One class who listened and who undertood. I like when they put an effort and tell me things but they do not know the vocabulary words. I like the explanation part. Thanks J1D for putting a lot of efforts in my class. I really enjoyed teaching all of you.