Summarized the Gist

Let’s take a look at the first slide, from this graph you can see the red line is the reading quantity in Taiwan.

As you can see here, the numbers of reading quantity stayed the same between 2 million in the first 3 years. The number had risen to 6 million since 2008. And by the end of 2010 the reading quantity will reach over 7 million.

The reading quantity became higher and higher recently so how to read effectively is very important.

Summarized the Gist-Opening

Do you know reading is very important for your life?
Do you know how to use reading strategy when you read?
In order to let you know more about it.
I’m going to show you how to read effectively as well as the mistakes we normally taken when we use “Summarize the gist”
My today’s presentation is divided into four main points.
As the quantity of reading has been increased year by year the first part of my speech will be focusing on the graph and it’s about reading situation in Taiwan.
Followed by the what usually happens? when we summarize, that you may find some common mistakes we taken.
As you may still don’t know how to do to summarize
What should we do is therefore the number three focal point I would love to talk about.
Conclusion will be introduced in the last part of my presentation.
The whole presentation will take about 5 mins, and there will be a Q&A session in the end of my speech.

New Year Festival

The first day of the New Year Festival, people have ritual to respect their ancestors. They wear new clothes and visit the temples to worship and pray for good luck. They also visit friends, neighbors and relatives to exchange good wishes of “gong xi fa cai” which means “congratulations and prosperity.” The second day of the New Year Festival is the day that married daughters return to their parents’ home. Her husband must accompany her and bring gifts to visit the family. On the fourth day, it is time to welcome the Kitchen God back to the world and people prepare offerings of food to thank the gods. Day five almost brings the New Year Festivities to a close. All offerings are removed from the altars and life returns to normal so many stores and businesses open their door for the first time. Finally, on the ninth day, numerous offerings are set out in the forecourt or central courtyard of temples to celebrate the birthday of the Jade Emperor.

Though the festivities held on Chinese New Year have been handed down for millennia, they still retain the significance today. Indeed, no matter what changes may occur over time, the idea of getting together with the family will always lie at the heart of Lunar New Year celebrations.

Lunar New Year’s Eve

On Lunar New Year’s Eve, family members who are no longer living at home make a special effort to return home and share in a sumptuous meal. At that time, family members hand out hong bao, lucky money, in red envelopes to elders and children. They also try to stay up all night to welcome the New Year as they believed doing this on New Year’s Eve that their parents would live a longer life. Thus, lights are kept on the entire night. It’s not only to keep Nian away but also to make the most of the family to get together. In addition, some families even hold religious ceremonies after midnight to welcome the God of the New Year into their homes. It’s a ritual often ended with a huge quantity of firecrackers.

Chinese New Year

Beginning in mid-December, families start preparing for Chinese New Year, the Lunar New Year, and creating an atmosphere of joy and renewal. It is a very special occasion because it is the time when people take a break from work to get together with family and friends. The origin of the Lunar New Year Festival can be traced back thousands of years and it involves a lot of colorful legends and traditions. One of the most famous legends is Nian, a cruel beast, that the ancients believed would eat people on New Year’s Eve. To keep Nian away, red-paper couplets are pasted on doors, torches are lit, and firecrackers are set off throughout the night because Nian is said to fear the color red, the light of fire, and loud noises. The next morning people feel the victory and renewal fill the air and they believe to keep Nian away successfully. Then, gong xi, congratulations, is the most popular greeting that people greet with cheers.

The Effects of Cooperative Reading Strategy-5

This reading program did affect me very much in facilitating my English proficiency. Gregory taught us the phonetics in the beginning of the class and this enhanced and improved me a lot on pronunciation. I learn not only useful reading strategies from this course but also I can use some of them to help reading myself. I can guess the meaning by using context clues when I don’t recognize the word. In addition, the quantity of vocabulary that I keep in mind is much more. Thanks to our teacher, Gregory, he always keeps pushing us on studying English. And it has a great impact on me and it’s my pressure to be one of Gregory’s students.

The Effects of Cooperative Reading Strategy-4

The effects of Cooperative Strategy-based Instruction on my attitudes towards reading are inspirited me a lot and made me feel more confident. It also strengthens and enhances me on learning motive and emotion. One thing I had done is I try to speak English as much as I can even when I talk to my children.

The Effects of Cooperative Reading Strategy-3

Regarding the effect of cooperative learning, it’s really a great idea while reading. First, we can divide the homework or report into three to four main parts and team work will save our time because we all have daytime job. Second, we will have the interaction one another when we discuss any issues. Sometimes our member will correct me that I never knew I was wrong. The best part is we can think and learn more from different viewer because we have 10 groups in this class. Then each group can share his experience and the matters he has learnt.

The Effects of Cooperative Reading Strategy-2

The difficulties I encounter while I am using strategies are: First of all, vocabulary I knew is not enough. Also, the pronunciation for some words is hard for me to read especially the longer words. These two difficulties are influenced each other and when I don’t understand the meaning of a vocabulary it is hard to realize and pronounce. Next, my English grammar is not good enough. So when the sentence is too long it’s not easy to know what’s the actual meaning that writer wish to express.

The Effects of Cooperative Reading Strategy-1

There are several reading strategies, for instance, applying text structure, summarizing the gist, using context clues, using visualization and so on. You can use any of them but I think we should not just use one single reading strategy while reading. Moreover, how to choose the reading strategy I suggest it is depend on which kind of theme, essay or the structure of text. I prefer to use summarizing the gist and combine using context clues normally. Sometimes I will also use visualization to imagine and guess what the author wants to tell us.

What I did to reduce our own carbon footprint?

1. Separate the garbage and recycle paper, plastic bag, plastic can….

2. Eat at home: Try to cook at home and bring lunch box to office

3. Eat out: Bring our own tableware, like chopsticks and spoon

4. Go to work by riding bicycle when the weather is nice.

5. Usually bring my daughter to school by walk and sometimes by bike.

6. Don’t drive car to Taipei City instead of taking train and MRT.

7. Set the temperature of air conditioner at 27-28 degree C.

What are people doing to reduce carbon emissions?

Government and some environmental groups pass leaflets or take films to let people understand the world is changing now. Everyone has to do something to protect our environment and it’s not for you only good it’s all for everybody who live in the earth.
Government ask citizens to “ keep trash off the ground” the garbage separated, recycling program..
We have to buy garbage bag to pack our trash
These policies are all for reducing the quantity of garbage.
Some people don’t drive car or ride motorcycle to go to work instead of taking MRT or train.
If the distance is not too far they will ride bicycle or work to the office.

Global Warming

We have read a lot of articles and papers about global warming. It is really happening and whether we like it or not we are part of it. We might be just an ordinary citizen, but we can do something about it. There are many environmental issues attributed to global warming like climate changed. There is so many the increased in frequency of extreme weather events. The temperature becomes higher and higher and climate changes year by year.
Ex: We don’t have cold weather in winter.
However, sometimes the temperature is extreme cool in spring and summer.
The weather is very unusual during these years.
EX: Tsunami in Southeast Asia;
Hurricane Katrina in America;
Earthquake in China
Volcano eruption in Iceland