On thursday I talked with Chiness girl (Ray) about superstition. chiness people believe alot in superstition. she called China as a country of superstitions. They believe in different things such as, the clock; they don’t dedicate a clock as a gift because they believe that the person who gave them the clock want them to die!!. Also when they want to eat, they don’t put the chopsticks in the rice, but they put it near the rice, beacause they believe that it may bring them bad luck. Moreover they believe in the black cat; if someone saw a black cat it means that something bad will happen to him. Also they believe in ghosts, they believe that they are everywhere so they have to be careful from them.
So what do you think of superstition?
Do you believe in superstition?
on thursday, I talked with my husband’s classmate about majoring in biomedical engneering. I knew new things about this major and I like them. I think it’s a good major because it combines medical and engneering together. I asked him why did he choose this major, and he told that he chose this major because he likes doctor’s career but at the same time he is intresting in engneering, so he combined between these two majors. And also I asked him what he is planning to do after graduating from school, he told me that he is not sure what he is going to do, but his major would help him to work in the hospital or maybe in any company which he can earn much money because of his major.
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10 things schools don’t teach well !!
Questions :
Q1: What do you think of the teaching system here?? Or in your country??
Q2: Can you mention what are the 10 things that we don’t learn very well at the school??
Good manners and basic social skills such as taking turns are just as important to kids’ success in school as a focus on reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, a new book suggests.
Students should learn charm-school skills alongside the academic subjects that teachers must pass on to meet the demands of the federal No Child Left behind Act, said co-author Stephen Elliott of Vanderbilt University.
The top 10 skills that students need to succeed based on the authors’ surveys of more than 8,000 teachers include:
* Listen to others
* Follow the steps
* Follow the rules
* Ignore distractions
* Ask for help
* Take turns when you talk
* Get along with others
* Stay calm with others
* Be responsible for your behavior
* Do nice things for others.
“If we increase social skills, we see commensurate increases in academic learning,” Elliott said. “That doesn’t mean that social skills make you smarter; it means that these skills make you more amenable to learning.”
Elementary school kids and teachers value cooperation and self-control, Elliott said. When those behaviors are taught and reinforced, fewer children act out and there is more time for learning.
The book, “The Social Skills Improvement System—Classwide Intervention Program,” is based on a survey done in 2006. The authors found almost exactly the same list of desired social skills when they did the survey in 1989, Elliot said. “Society has not changed what it values as fundamental social behaviors,” he said.
Co-authored by Frank Gresham at Louisiana State University, the book includes a 10-week program that pre-school through middle school educators can use to teach the skills alongside academic subjects.
New Voc.
* Demand : To require as useful, just, proper, or necessary; call for.
* Commensurate : having the same measure.
* Distraction : A condition or state of mind in which the attention is diverted from an original focus or interest.
Hello, I’m Sadeeqa :))
I like this article so much because I love babies and having children.
U have to watch the video … it’s so exciting video :)
http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/18-kids-counting-parents-debut-19th-child—950
Questions:
1) What do you think about babies and having children ??
2) what do you think the best number of children you should have ??
New vocabulary:
* Premature: born after a gestation period of less than 37 weeks <premature babies>
* Miracle: an extremely outstanding or unusual event.