Week 3 : Recount

Monday 23th January 2017

First, teacher reviewed the lesson from last week about 'Recount'. It made us understood the text clearly that who was involved, where it happened, when it happened. We highlighted the action verbs/past tense, linking words to do with time and specific participants.she gave us the corrective feedback in the handout that she assigned it last week.                     

It was exercise 3 that was “An Excursion to the Botanic Gardens”. Next, exercise 4 that had two texts. Before she gave the corrective feedback, she read the texts for us understood the texts. After that, she gave the corrective feedback again in the factual recount. It was the news report about “The arresting of Vietnamese who was stealing”. Then, we read text that was the police report about “Investigation report”. So, she told us to make a group and summarize the text. After we summarized finished, the represent of each group told the story that they summarized in front of the class. Then, she told us to answer the questions.

Next, the teacher gave us the handout that was “Chapter 2:Narrative”.  Before she explained narrative, she told us that “I will teach you by using the activities to bring into the lesson. So, she told us to do the activity that was “put a cross on the line in the circle, at an appropriate point, to show how I felt as a child.” After that, she asked us that “What is this story?” so it made us predict the story. It had a lot of idea from my friend and I. For instance: the good story of the childhood, the behavior when he or she was young, and the bad story of the childhood, etc. Then, she told us to read the story in the first paragraph and she asked us “What is happened in the story”. And she chose someone to tell that. And then, we found the specific noun in the first paragraph. Before time up, she assigned to homework.

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In my opinion this lesson is not too difficult for me and I didn't like to read the long text in English because the text wasn't interesting. Absolutely!! I had a problem with my vocabularies. Every week, I will studied  new vocabularies and I can't remember more.

Week 2 : Recount

Monday 16th January 2017

      Today, when I come to the classroom. I find the problem that the air conditioner don't work so we must study in the bad environment.

sourse:http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/11/recount-freakout.php

      Next, the teacher come to the classroom and checked who absence today. Then, she give us the hand out that about the "Recount." A recount is unfolding of a sequence of events over time.

Purpose: to tell what happened
Types:
1.Personal Recount-(e.g. diary entry)
2.Factual Recount-(e.g. report of a science experiment, police report, new report, historical account)
3.Imaginative Recount-(e.g. a day in the life of Roman slave how I invented...)

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      The recount generally begins with orientation giving the reader/listener the background information need to understand the text.(i.e.who was involved, where it happened, when it happened) Then, the Recount unfold with a series of event ordered in a chronological sequence. At various stages of there maybe some personal comment on the incident (e.g. we had a wonderful there)

Text organization
-Orientation = introducing the person, place and time.
-Events = describing series of the happened in the part.
-Reorientation = personal comment of the writer to the story.

Then, we study " My Grandpa's Funeral in Toraja'' it was about funeral  Toraja, Indonesia. I also know that the funeral was perfromed in two phases. First, they butchered the pigs and buffaloes and moved the corpse to face north. After that, the corpse was placed in a sandal wood coffin. Then, it was brought out of the house and placeed on an open platform beneath the granary. The next phase of the ceremony was held in this place. The coffin is borne from the house and placed in the lakian. During the day, there were also buffaloes matches. In the might, we care feasting, chanting and dancing.

What did you find easy?
-The recount wasn't hard for me but I had to try to understand it.
What did you find difficult?
-I think that language features and text organization were difficult to separate.
What did you solve the problem?
-There was many difficult words that I didn't know the meaning.
What are you attitudes towards the lesson?
-In my opinion, I think that this lesson easier than last course. 

Week 1 : Course introdcution

Monday 9th January 2017

Today was the first day of second semester in 2016. I couldn't be bothered going to classroom because it's raining good weather to sleep a lot. When teacher came to the class. She ask " How are you? " And then, She checked the member in the class but one of my friend absented because flooding in south of Thailand.

Then, she explained about this A Discourse Approach in Reading course. She told us to speak with my friend about " What did I do on the last vocation? " by we must not to write before speak.

After that, she gave me the course outline and the work cheese or handout. It had three direction. First, match the following words with the correct genres of text. Second, complete the sentences of each paragraph by sing the words in the box. And, rewrite the sentences using the connectors in parenthesis. Make the necessary changes. For these activities had a lot of difficult vocabulary by teacher searched  the words that we couldn't pronounce for Cambridge dictionary online.

Finally, the type of text is not difficult and not easy for me because I spent time to find discourse marker. In my opinion, the vocabulary is difficult because I never find it in daily life. I tried to read more text. I think that this course is harder than last course because the text made me confused.