Reflective Journal

Tuesday 19th June.

Today we created new blogs for this communication course, N101. We filled in our personal details and  I read & corrected them where necessary..

Wednesday 20th June

I introduced the students to the vocabulary quizzes in WebCTVista. I did quiz 1 in class.

Thursday 21st June

Omar has completed  all 10 quizzes in double-quick time.

Sunday 24th June

The 4 students held their meeting activity this afternoon. The personnel, venue, agenda, minutes & recommendations are above.

Monday 25^th June

The meeting was about traffic congestion. The students worked together to produce a clear & coherent agenda.

Mohd Shams opened the meeting, read out the items on the agenda, and guided the discussion from one item to the next; he did this quite well but occasionally the discussion flipped from one item to another. Mohd was aware of this and pointed out that, to some extent, it was inevitable as several points in the discussion were inter-connected.

Hasan took notes throughout the meeting and afterwards the four students divided up the task of typing up the notes for posting in their blogs.

Omar and Ahmed Saleh were active participants. I thought beforehand Omar might prove rather reticent but, nicely encouraged by Mohd, he made his opinions known clearly and often quite forcefully.

The discussion was quite wide-ranging with Ahmed making observations about the traffic system in Seattle and Hasan about Los Angeles.

When it came to recommendations, Mohd invited each student to say which of the possible solutions they had discuseed was the most viable and why. Mohd & Omar went for road improvements, Hasa for an integrated, co-ordinated traffic light system and Ahmed, while agreeing with the importance of road improvements was very keen on an educational programme aimed at young drivers. Mohd suggested that a combination of all solutions might be best and the others all agreed, so the meeting ended harmoniously.

It was an interesting and informative meeting and a pleasure to attend & listen to; very worthwhile & enjoyable.

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Vocabulary

One of the interesting things about being a teacher is watching how different personalities interact with each other in the classroom.


More and more Gulf countries are looking at schemes to diversify their economies.


The novel 1984 was written in 1948 and  first published in 1949.


My powerpoint presentation illustrates some of the attractions of Istanbul.


How did he react when you told him he had failed the exam?


There is a lot of emphasis on speaking in this course.

What is your main criterion when evaluating student success?


Were you implying that he is not up to the job?


We can deduce from the nature of the wound that the victim was killed with a blunt instrument.


I would like to specify exactly what I am looking for in a presentation.


Most of inland Brunei is inaccessible except by small boat or sometimes by helicopter.


Her Majesty conferred a knighthood on him last year.


My hypothesis is that a teacher's ability to directly motivate a student is extremely limited.

I predict that your team will be promoted next season.


Subsequent events have proved him right.


The government's plans are good, but will they be able to implement them?

 These two roads run parallel to one another.


The government imposed severe restrictions on the freedom of the press.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics..


The immigrants have integrated well into their new country.