A GOOD VOCABULARY IS THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION

MARCH-MAY VOCABULARY

A-F acceptance, accident prone, accommodate, accompany, achievement, advantageous, aim, ample, animated, anxious, apologize, archipelago, ashamed, aspire ,assail, assemble, assign ,assorted, assumed, astronaut food, awkward, baffled, barefoot, barehanded, benevolent, bet, borrow, certain, chappy, chose, clarify, coleslaw, colossal, come up with, compensation, compete, concentrate, congratulations, consecutive, convey, cope with, courage, coverage, cremate, cremate, crumbs, decisive, deposit, depressed, deterrent, detrimental, dictates, discern, disclose, displeased, distorting, diversion, drill, drunkard, Dutch treat, eavesdropping, enormity, erroneous, essential, expose, extreme, facilitating, faithful, famine, famished, faucet, feature, flare up, flip, flowing out, for a, fortune, forum, fought, fringe, frizzy, frolicked, frugal ; G-L grant, gratitude, graze, graze, grievance, grudge, gullible, handling, harassment, has to/needs to, hid/hide, hinder, hold back, humor, hyperkinetic, imprisonment, in a nutshell, incentive, inconsistent, infant, inhibition, innumerable, instead, instead of, integral, intervention, invasion, isolated, jiggers, lately, lax, liquidated, lively; M-R manipulation, marathon, mayor, menace, mince, mingling, misheard, misplace, missed call,, morbid, munch, municipal, nagging, necessarily, objective, offensive, oppressed, optimistic, overlooked, overwhelmed, paddle, paranoid, ponder, portion, prayerful, procedure, prompt, proposal, provision, publicized, puddle, pump, punctual, pursuit, quiet, quit, quite, ransacking, rare, ratio, recently, regret, reimburse, reminisce, remorse, repeal, resumes, returnee, reward, rigid, ruin, running out; S-Z sacrifice, scary, scold, scorned, scoundrel, secluded, second half, shiver, shrank, significant, signify, simplify, simultaneous, sleep on it, snuff, solely, spur, squandered, stalking, starters, stew, stiff, stimulates, studious, sudden, supply, tandem, tangles, technophile, technophobe, therapeutic, therapeutic, threat, threat, till/until, to lend, toddler, top-level, trace, transact, treatable, trend, trout, unstable, unwind, urge, urn, valley , variant, veto, vice, vital, vulnerable, welfare, well said, well-expressed, whether/if, withdraw  ------MORE WORDS TO COME! 

MARCH TO MAY NARRATIVE (STUDENT’S PROFILE)

TS01 A Chinese wife living in Osaka, she has studied for almost 4 months. Successfully, we finished her Side by Side 4 book. One month ago, she needed to stop because she had given birth to a healthy baby girl.

TS02 She is the youngest student I have. Thanks to her father TS03 who always assist in me translation. She can make sentence beginning with “I have” and “I see”.  She is very little girl. (active student)

TS03 He is the father of TS02 and until now he is studying with me. He is a teacher and I’m happy to say that he can freely express his ideas. He can manage to have a free conversation for a long time now. He types during lesson so he can also practice spelling and writing. (active student)

TS04 She is a housewife who loves studying so much. She has a high comprehension in reading and can be considered as an Advance Level 1 student. She reads between the lines and good in context clues. (active student)

TS05 He is a government employee and he takes his lesson only twice a week. He is using Side by Side 4 and can make it to make longer sentences to further explain his ideas. (active student)

TS06 She is young university student who aspires to become one of the best travel guides in Japan. She is using a book DIALOG 1200 to improve her vocabulary. (She has sent the pdf file of her books to me). Unfortunately, she stopped  due to her busyness as a student and part time pilot secretary) (active student)

TS07 He works for GAP Clothing Company. He used to study early in the morning or late at night. He took BUSINESS ENGLISH LESSONS. He went to a business trip and became busy to his work.

TS08 She is baker in Abu Dhabi. She used to depend to her electronic dictionaries but now I am happy that her vocabulary is expanding. She has joined a meet up to improve her English more in Abu Dhabi. (active)

TS09 She is the oldest and senior. She loves travelling a lot. She has been here in the Philippines to study English too. By July, she will travel to Denmark. She is using Side by Side 3 to improve her English, however she enjoys free talk too. (active)

TS10 He is a university professor and a president of an NPO. He studies DIPLOMATIC ENGLISH with me because he usually participates in conferences in Japan or in abroad. (active)

TS11 He is a manager in Car Company in Japan. He needs to study English because his work will soon to have foreigners. (active)

TS12  She is a housewife and part time tourist guide. She can speak English very well  because she often mingles with foreigner. She opts to learn how to be more polite and respectful in the use of English language.

TS13 She is a kimono, ikebana, and piano teacher. She has her own kimono school and swimming is her hobby. (active)

All of them have same purpose which is TO STUDY AND IMPROVE THEIR COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGLISH

MARCH TO MAY NARRATIVE 2014

TECHNICAL PROBLEM

A.      INTERNET CONNECTION

I have been using a DSL BROADBAND for almost three months now. There were two common problems I always encounter. First would NO PRIOR NOTICE when there will be a day of disconnection due to fixing or upgrading the facilities and POOR RECEIVE DATA that during skype call, the other party cannot hear or vice versa. This has somehow an UNAVOIDABLE ISSUE and beyond my control resulting to cancellation of classes.

B.      POWER SHUT DOWN

A sudden power shut down is also another thing especially this summer season. Philippines, Metro Manila in particular has been said to have power shortage.

SOLUTION

·         Lessons have to be cancelled and be extended to compensate the lost of my students

·         A speed test is conducted with my internet provider

·         Make-up class is given if necessary and student wishes to.

OVERVIEW OF MY ONLINE TEACHING

OFFERED LESSONS1.       TEXTBOOK provides grammar, reading, and speaking activities.
Books: Side by side 1-4  Third edition

2.       FREE TALK provides you articles/text of different topics as well as dialogs for pronunciation, vocabulary improvement. Comprehension is highly given a time through divergent questions to improve critical thinking skills.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1.       In case I fail to give you a lesson at certain period of time, you’ll be entitled for additional 25 minute lesson.

Example: I suppose to give a lesson for 50minutes to miyaka8476 but I’ve failed to serve her. Miyaka8476 will receive a free 50minute lesson.

2.       In case, you fail to come to attend to your booked lesson, you’ll be considered absent. More so, if you are 7-10minutes late, it is also considered absent.

3.       In case, there is a technical problem like poor internet connection, computer shut down, unexpected disconnection, make-up class is served depends on the number of minutes lost as free talk lesson. The time is provided by the teacher.

4.       In case, power shut down or no internet connection on my side, this issue is beyond my control nor your control but an attempt to reach will take place.

5.       If the problem lies to me as a teacher, the time for make-up class is chosen by the student but if the problem lies to your side as my student, I have the prerogative to serve you a make-up class at my chosen time.

All make-up class scheduled is given by the teacher through e-mail, line, or viber

TECHNICAL CONCERN	DETAILS	INTERVENTION	You are entitled to
1.        Poor Internet Connection	·         Lesson is not served properly		·         25min lesson for free ·         Time is chosen by the teacher
2.        Power Shut down	·         Lesson can’t be served. ·         Issue is beyond teacher or student control	·         Notification via LINE or viber is sent	·         Nothing
LATE/ABSENTEEISM			·
1.        Teacher is late.	·         3-5mins late (Teacher is considered absent)		·         Make-up class+25min lesson for free ·         Time is chosen by the student ·         Make-up class is applied for the next week
2.        Student is late.	·         7-10 min late (Student is considered absent)	·         A notification or offline message is sent	·         Nothing
CANCELLATION OF CLASS	·         Student must notify the teacher hour before the class is served.	·         Time must be agreed.	·         To move the lesson to another time within the day

WELCOME TO MY ONLINE TEACHING BLOG

A pleasant day to all aspiring english speakers, especially to all EFL learners!

It has been a big attempt to put up this blog to advertise myself as an online english teacher. This blog is result of a very good encouragement that I have received from my online students in Japan. With all their words of appreciation intertwined ups and downs of the online english school company which I used to work, here I am continuing such teaching career. I used to be a high school english teacher with focus on language development and literature. After such teaching career in real classroom, I've tried online teaching and I can say that I've had so much fun because it proves that learning takes place when two or more people share and talk about their ideas.