finished block one

With the end of Friday we finished block one of our pre-session course.

In the past one month I learned many skills of English learning especially in writing academic essay for instance the basic structure of an essay, academic words, how to paraphrasing or summarizing and so on and so forth. We also learned some knowledge of marketing which more relate to our main course.

The most thing I worried about is my presentation. I did not do well in the first time and I still had no progress in the second time it made me felt very sad. Maybe I need more practice of my presentation by myself and Alen told me that practice in front of mirror is a good way to prepare a presentation. I will try.

The most difficult is express. I can say a long sentence if give me enough time but once I stand in front of many people I can not express and what I can remember is just a few words instead of sentences. I think it is not just because nervous the majority reason is the way of thinking. Because when I want to say something I always think in Chinese and then translate it into English. But in most cases I have no time to think like communicating with people or doing presentation without enough prepare. It troubled me very much and I want to know how to change my way of thinking.

I hope it will get better in block two and can make a progress in next following days with hard work.

GLOBALIZATION

According to a survey, globalization has become one of the most controversial topics in the past 10 years. In Europe and North America there are a large amount of books use globalization as a subject and it also become a cause of major demonstrations. Some people think that this kind of globalization leads to many problems and disrupt their lives with no benefits while others argued that poverty achieved reduced significantly in some countries such as China, Vietnam, India and Uganda. It is surprising that though globalization was been widely used it still have not be defined consistently. Indeed the breadth of meanings attached to it seems to be increasing rather than narrowing over time, taking on cultural, political and other connotations in addition to the economic. Nevertheless, the most important aspect of economic globalization as this paper enphasis on is the observation that in these years global economic activity rising dramatically but seems to be happening between people who live in different countries rather than in the same country. This growth in cross-border economic activities takes various forms:

Advertisement

Advertisement can promote economic through variety kind of ways to instill the minds of people with consumptive ideal. Most people will be moved and will have the desire to buy products which appeared in advertisement. This kind of desire just like people shopping in the supermarket, they maybe just want to buy some discount goods originally but when they saw so many kinds of products in the supermarket with large amount of advertisement they bought more over except at last.

On the other hand, advertisement sent the sense and information of products which people are not familiar with and also provide popular element to people every quarter of a year. It public the fashion dress, declare the newest style of cars, furniture even the hottest rote of travel.

To sum up, it will no consumptive society without advertisement and the speed of spreading fashion can not be so fast without the impulse of advertisement. So advertisement is needed and Indispensable.

lovely town

Today I went to a small town named egham and we call it “slow town” after the visit. People live here all looks comfortable. They walk slowly work slowly and speak slowly like everything will be ok and what you should do is just to enjoy every day in your life. People sit and take a cup of coffee then talk and laugh this is a lifestyle I dreamed.

Sometimes we also need to relax ourselves and slow down our steps to have a rest.

A lovely town ! I like it

DREAM

I borrowed a book about how to write an essay this afternoon. Until now I still have the question like before I come to London: how can I to write a paper, I even can not write sentence in academic words.

This week we have more work to do and I felt obviously that this week our course tend more academic and more relevant to our main course. Many article need to be read again and again then I can understand. The more I read the more problem I found, there just little academic words I know and used to use in writing.

How perfect if I can memory all the words in one day!

FINISH

We finished presentation this Friday and through this subject I found that thinking considerate is very important. In the process of doing this presentation our group always have many ideas and we all want to add these idea into the product and try to make it more rich. The result is that we add too many ideas and we can not find the main point. FUN is the member of us and I found she is more considerate than us. She always thought many problems we have not met and when we made a decision she always want to know why. Why this way can not be available? Why the product need to be modified? With these questions we can process our subject more reasonable.

It is very helpful for me because that I am a girl do not like to ask questions even I do not know very clearly. I always think that it will be clear one day and most time I will ignore the problem it is really a bad habit. Maybe I should to learn how to ask questions on and with more “why” when I think.

I like our product very much though there are still many problems we did not solved. Anyway, it is ours.

17 Again

17 Again the film I saw last night and make think a lot of my 17. It is an inspirational move with comedy. It tell a story of a boy he give up a good chance to enter a great basketball team of a good university and decided to go with a girl he loved instead. 25 years later, he met different mid-life crisis and felt extremely sad and want to come back to his 17 to restart his life. But what deserve to mention is that he choose the same way as he did before when he realized what he really want.

To me if I have the chance to restart my life I am sure that I will still make the same decision choose the same way like the men in the film even some of them are wrong. It just to let myself enjoy what I choose rather than to make mistakes as much as possible. In the sense that life can not be restarted like film and we all made decision with our full passion at that moment at least. I do not regret what I did for instance I came to London. Furthermore, there will be more decisions we should do in the future and it will be terrible enough that I always remorse and always live in the past.

I do not need 17 again and maybe some mistakes would help me to make progress as well. And as it said in the film "when you are young everything feels like the end of the world, it's not, it is just the beginning."

SUBJECT

This week we have a subject to complete a product including design and marketing. It is very interesting to cooperate with another class and the students in this class are major in design. Two little girls joined our group and they all have many ideas. We discussed together and I felt that I come back to the period I study in university in which time I did design works everyday with classmates. We discussed and draw pictures even some times argued with each other just because the decision of colour.

That is a nice time and I like this subject. I will try my best to cooperate with our group to finish this work.

What can do with my listening

These days I am looking for houses to rent and I found the biggest problem I met with is to communicate with people through mobile.

The first time I real feel that it is so hard for me to listen clearly what people said. Until I came to London I have not talk to people by telephone use English and most time I speak English to communicate with each other face to face. Like take course in the classroom, we discuss with classmate and teacher through which I can see the mouth directly and can guess the meaning to a large extent.

After the experience that to communicate by telephone I felt so sad and really do not want to try again like this. What I can understand is just the basic means that he expressed and it is more difficult than listen test to catch the main words.

But the truth is that I still need to communication I still need to look for house and the most important is I have to improve this second language whatever in listening, writing, reading or the pronunciation the vocabulary. Maybe it is a good way to practise my listening .JESUS!!!!

SHOW OF RCA

Today I went to see the show of graduation design in Royal College of Art and I have to say their work shocked me.

Works are so amazing and beautiful and this is not just a work. Through the talk whit the owners of these works I know that all works need a long time to complete. They need enough practice to gain an idea and also need enough patience to make the idea become a product. This kind of will is what I lacked.

The first weekend

I moved my room today and I found it is really a hard thing for me. I have so many things and even don’t know where they come from though I came to London just five days. I found that the most efficient way to deal with is to throw, throw out everything I don’t need.

Sometimes I must to learn how to give up. In most time I have so many things to do and want to make everything better. That makes me can not to concentrate on and everything turns bad at last. It is so terrible.

It is a good sense to make everything clean and in order in my new room and then I need a cup of tea to have a rest.

28/06/09

Summary of Rote learning

The newspaper article “Rote learning was a winner” describes recent educational research which investigated the effectiveness of Rote Learning as a teaching method.

They studied for three years and they monitoring how it progressed of 2000 teenagers. They selected 17 schools in north of England and tried to measure the influence of the “boredom factor”. In the university of Newcastle Rote learning is still alive and this teaching method did have effect. The university researchers did the research through awarding teachers marks and the methods now frowned upon actually improved.

So they thought that the best learning method is to mixed both two techniques to match the needs of pupils.

EDUCATION ...

“What is the aim of the education” this is a question contain many answers depends on different person. When I was a primary school student I never think about this kind of question and I even do not know why I should study in school. But with the time pass and with the experience increase maybe I have some ideas now.

In China education is departs into two parts “teach” and “learn”. Teachers teach us knowledge and we learn and no matter what we learned teachers always told us that the aim is to apply what we learned into life and make life better. In our traditional view we have a goal to cultivate our character, intelligence and make our body more health after education. I think it is true and improve myself continual to achieve. Through education people have different view of treating or solving a problem and education make person more reason and consider about more sides. It is important to learn how to learn how to deal with or how to make it better.

To touch the aim of education is really a serious task but what important is that I know what I need indeed and always study to make the dream come true one day. Maybe it is a long way.