Nelly Chen昭菁英語教學工作室-Nelly Chen's English Workshop

Pain

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

**English Learning Tips**

1.palm勝利;棕櫚

2.thorn棘刺

Learning

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

---Ernest Hemingway: Death in the Afternoon

English Learning Tips:

1.Heavily:大量地

英文版
When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara was practicing the profound Prajna Paramita, he illuminated the Five Skandhas and saw that they are all empty, and he crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty.
Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So too are feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness.
Shariputra, all Dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not produced, not destroyed, not defiled, not pure; and they neither increase nor diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or Dharmas; no field of the eyes up to and including no field of mind consciousness; and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, and no Way, and no understanding and no attaining.
Because nothing is attained, the Bodhisattva through reliance on Prajna Paramita is unimpeded in his mind. Because there is no impediment, he is not afraid, and he leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind. Ultimately Nirvana! All Buddhas of the three periods of time attain Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi through reliance on Prajna Paramita. Therefore know that Prajna Paramita is a Great Spiritual Mantra, a Great Bright Mantra, a Supreme Mantra, an Unequalled Mantra. It can remove all suffering; it is genuine and not false. That is why the Mantra of Prajna Paramita was spoken. Recite it like this:

Direction

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we

stand, as in what direction we are moving:To reach the port of

heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes

against it---but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Using Multimedia in EFL classrooms Grades 4-6 

Chapter 5

Conclusion and Recommendation

5.1 Conclusion

In order for Taiwan to become a competitive, global country, English needs to be taught and learned using effective methodologies. This paper has discussed some possible reasons why English instruction needs to improve and some feasible ways to improve the English learning environment in Taiwan .

Using Multimedia in EFL classrooms Grades 4-6  

Chapter 1

Introduction

Being an English teacher, I do love my profession very much. I have learned what to teach and also how to get along with different kids. Before every class, I have to prepare some handouts for the instructions. I always search for websites or go to bookstores to find out new ideas and games. I try to make my classes interesting and varied. However, it is not easy to achieve all my expectations. What I hope to develop for my English classes is a series of innovative English teaching methods.

Consequently, I prepared some songs, instructional videos, some animated games and cartoons for students to appreciate and enjoy. I felt the class was different from the traditional English cram school when I played some songs or videos for class warm-up or wrap-up. It made me and my students feel relaxed and happy. After class, I would hear some students sing out aloud. That really made me satisfied and glad on my way home. Besides this, playing English instructional videos, such as the famous English teaching TV program in Taiwan , “Magic ABC,” also taught students different English contextual usage. The reasons that I wanted to use videos was that students not only learned from broad topics but also from lively and vivid studio films. These films made students keep watching quietly for about 30 minutes. Furthermore, when I taught my tutoring students, I showed them animated English cartoons from one Shanghai elementary school website. They couldn’t stop watching, and wanted to know what would happen next even when the dismissal time had passed. These interesting facts above are the main reasons that I chose “Multimedia English teaching” as the topic of my thesis. 

My name is Chao-Ching Chen from Taipei County. I was graduated from Aletheia University, majoring in foreign language and literature. After completing my bachelor degree, I went to America to pursue my master degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language). I received this degree in May, 2008. I gained a lot of knowledge both in my field and in how to live and get along with different races. Therefore, I can employ what I have learned in my job.
As for my working experiences, I have learned a lot from my past working experiences such as waitress, secretary, foreign sales, and English teacher. My special areas of expertise are English and import and export trade. I have worked as an elementary and intermediate English teacher at Giraffe English Cram School in Taipei County from 1999-2001 and also gained the certificate of English teacher at Giraffe English Schools. After that, I taught English in three private cram schools. I garnered many teaching ideas by means of teaching different levels and ages of students. My teaching specialty is phonics and KK phonetic symbols. I also like to combine isolated skills into integrated instruction so that the four basic English skills become more integrated and complete.
I am one that has the liking to pursue any new knowledge and information. Moreover, trying to learn and improving myself is my hope and life perspective. My professional goal is to teach English. Through teaching, I not only learn how to teach different ages and work with students but also deepen my professional skills.
Besides, I have had trade experiences for about 2 and half years. I really like to utilize what I know in English into working environment, especially trade. Hopefully, I could have the chance of interview to work in your honored company. Thanks for your time and attention to my application. Thanks for the opportunity to be considered!
Yours truly,

As for the SPEAKING, I think I will choose N-norm as the one that when I analyze the textbook.
 

(P.S.)

S:setting and Scene 

P: participants 

In the past, students began to learn English in the first year of junior high school. Starting in 2001, English teaching programs were initiated from the fifth grade of elementary school. Additionally, the MOE (Ministry of Education) planned to start English instruction from 3rd grade in 2005. Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, instituted the teaching of English courses beginning in the first grade of elementary school. Students take the English class twice a week and each time is for 45 minutes. What’s more, some students also take the private English classes after school.
English teacher positions in the elementary school now are very competitive in Taiwan. The exam for becoming official teachers is not easy to pass or after passing the test the chance to work in elementary school is very limited. Take my friend, Jenny for example, she passed the test to take English teachers required courses at college, however, after she finished the whole classes. She can’t find any school to teach. She has no option but to work in cram school. Therefore, many official teachers can't find the vacancy to teach at the public or private elementary school.
I remembered I started to learn English since I were in the 7th grade. At that time, English teaching focused more on Grammar Translation approach. Nowadays, as the Communicative Language Teaching has come out. More and more textbooks are complied based on this approach. Furthermore, the textbooks are not standardized from elementary to junior high school. The educational policy of this is to make the learning more diverse but this makes students more stressed since they have to prepare as many different versions of textbooks to pass the entrance exam.
Currently, students’ English learning has more options and the educators set up more beneficial policy to make the English learning environment better and better in Taiwan. In Elementary schools, students not only learn the foreign language - English but also they can learn more dialects, such as Hakka and aboriginal languages. As a consequence, people are multilingual and learn to appreciate different cultures and languages in the society of Taiwan.
I think if I were a parent, I would agree with the current policy of multilingual education. But on the other hand, I will hope learning language in the EFL setting could have more authentic materials and students can learn the language subconsciously in their daily life. There could have an English learning Channel for students to watch. Connecting school learning with life, English or other language learning will be more motivational and intriguing for students.

How do you do?
When I had started to learn English in junior high school, the first lesson of the
English textbook is about greeting such as" how are you?", "hello" and "hi" these
formulas.And “how are you” is the most common sentence that shows in the formal textbook.
But when I have had the chance to go abroad to study, what I heard more often is