And another student blog!

Choi Eun Kyoung of Low Intermediate English Conversation 106 also has her own blog!  Check it out!

http://blog.naver.com/eg0957/220305291189

Another Blog

Seongkyu Park, in Low Intermediate English Conversation 106, has made his own blog for his multimedia journal!  Please visit it and leave a comment for him.

http://seongkyupark.blogspot.kr/

Thanks, Seongkyu!

Modern Life and Traditional Customs

Guest post from Huang Shimeng in HIEC 109:

  Mordern Life and Traditional Customs

  Nowadays, people's life develops quite rapidly and things have changed a lot over the centuries. As the skyscrapers replacing the old buildings gradually, telephone, air-conditioner, TV, digital camera, computer and the internet have taken their place in our life. It means we've stepped into Information Age and apparently people are enjoying these newest digital products. 

   As we can see, people are leading a more colorful life than ever in their spare time with all these hi-tech products. Such as watching movies, surf the internet or just make a phone call with their friends and families whenever and even wherever. Compared to the previous age when people couldn't even feed themselves, how different the present life is! What's more, it differs a lot as well in transportation. Various modern means of transport have taken the place of human feet and horses. Airplanes, subways and even maglevs are offering people much convenience. In other word, people can save a lot great deal of time when on the way of traveling.

  However, there's always something remaining the same while people are enjoying the changes caused by hi-tech. For example, the traditional customs and festivals are typical to be carried on as the old time. Especially the customs that people gather to celebrate as well as ethical culture forms like Peking Opera, ancient architecture and traditional food. Peking Opera is spreading throughout and as to ancient architecture like Siheyuan and Hutong, people are still preserving them well as the symbol of the whole nationality's historical culture. Besides, when it comes to traditional food, people are still used to enjoy it. Even though the world has been extremely highly developed and all kinds of foreign culture are pouring into China, traditional food is still the mainstream. That's why I believe traditional culture will stay unchanged and develop further though those hi-tech products bring along unprecedented creature comforts. And on the original basis, it must create miracles one after another because it belongs to the soul of    our Chinese nationality.

Family Introduction

This is a guest post from Koo Min Woo for his multimedia journal assignment:

Hello, Professor. I am Koo min woo.

First, I am really happy to meet you.

Because it’s my first journal, I would like to tell you about my family.

Now let’s begin. To your surprise, my family consists of 5 members: dad, mom, younger brother, sister and me.

My dad is our good cook. Do you know why? Because, when he often makes a dish, our family members enjoy a meal.  

But, it doesn’t mean that my mother is not at cooking.

His hobby is watching a baseball game.

Despite of living in Pusan, he is a fan of Samsung. Of course, I am Giants’ fan

This makes a trouble, you can imagine I think.  You’re right!  

When we sometimes watch the baseball game, we support other team.

But we don’t care whether which team win. We just enjoy together.

Also, when I have a trouble, he listens to my worry carefully and offers a solution

So, I am very thankful to him for everything.

Second member, my mother is an ordinary housewife but my brother and I call her a wonder woman.

Why do you call her? You can ask me like that.

Although she loves socializing and she’s always out meeting people, she manages to keep the house spotless. So we call her like that.

Her hobby is cooking and shopping.

The funny thing is that she often takes me and my brother to the mart and department store as a porter.

As she is very humorous, I like to talk with her.

Third member is my brother. He is 20 years old and he wants to be a

Chef of Western food

So, he is now at cookery school at Seoul and lives in dormitory.

Unlike me, he likes exercise so he plays soccer every weekend.

And because he is interested in clothes, he has many clothes and often goes shopping.

I ‘am not interested in clothes so I have a few clothes.

Sometimes, secretly I wear my brother’s clothes but he doesn’t know as he has many clothes.

Now, as he isn’t at home, I can’t do that.  I miss him sometimes.

Fourth member is my cute sister. She is 13 years old.

When both of my parents work in the past, I often took care of her.

As a baby, she is very cute and beautiful but now… uncertain.

In my eye, she is still cute.

She loves puppy so she often asks me “could you buy a puppy?”

I want to buy her a puppy but we live in apartments so we can’t.

As she has played piano for 4 years, she plays the piano well.

   

Lastly, it’s about me.

I am 24 years old and about a month ago, I finished army.

So, I have a lot of plans like travels and going abroad for studying,

For all of these plans, I have to earn the money. So I am planning to get a part time job in summer vacation.  

My hobby is listening to music.

Because ballad music makes me relaxed and I can relieve study-related stress by listening to music, I often listening to music on my way home after class.

My favorite singer is Younha.

Because her voice is very clear, it makes me feel better.

Because my family members have various hobbies and characters, we have a lot of conversation each other and often have a joke.

Sometimes, although we conflicted in the opinions, we resolve that and then have a enjoy life.

Thanks for listening to my story.  

Multimedia Journals by Text

Hi everyone, here are a few examples of how to submit a multimedia journal from a text message chat/conversation.  The first is from Son Young Eun in class LIEC 105:

The next is from Nguyen Vy in TESOL Communication 1:

Some More Multimedia Journals

We have some awesome videos submitted today, as well as a business letter and audio recording of a phone call.  Keep up the good work, everyone!

Here is a video from Mingyang Lee in class LIEC 107

And here is a fun video showing a card trick by Jay Nam in class LIEC 106

A multimedia journal example

Ms. Kim Jihyeon, in the TESOL Masters level Communication 1 class, has submitted a video for her first multimedia journal assignment.

Students in Low Intermediate English Conversation, don't worry about your level of English compared to Ms. Kim.  These assignments are not about testing your English grammar, vocabulary, or usage.  It's about fluency.

Still, you may want to watch this video as an example of something you can do.  Pay close attention to how much fun Ms. Kim is having interviewing her coworker.  If you can have fun while doing this, it will make it easy!