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.