Revisit your summer

learning experience

and

write a reflective story

‘Making Memorable Introduction’s by English Online Inc.

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What you will learn here:

Our Summer Course is almost over –

time to reflect on it:

1. A short introduction about reflections

2. A quick review about writing a paragraph

3. A quick review about linking words

4. Finally: Write a story using some prompts

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What is a reflection?

1 . Reflect on your learning

You may ask yourself questions like these:

What did I do?

What was important about it?

Where could I use it again?

Do I see any patterns in what I did?

How well did I do?

What should I do next?

Model developed by Peter Poppas

1 . Reflect on your learning

This means that you are doing the following:

What did I do? => Remembering

What was important about it? => Understanding / Assessing

Where could I use it again? => Applying

Do I see any patterns in what I did?=> Analyzing

How well did I do? => Evaluating

What should I do next? => Creating

Model developed by Peter Poppas

1. Reflect on your learning

Your Turn

A good way to start a reflection process is to create a mind map:

•More about mind maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

•Nice free mind map program:

http://www.mindmaple.com/

1. Reflect on your learning

2. Reflect on your learning

After browsing your mind and revisiting your

learning experience…

After making some notes….

Write down your thoughts:

we will use the paragraph

format.

A paragraph talks about one main idea. This main idea is the topic of the paragraph. The paragraph includes specific details and examples about the main idea.

Topic Sentence

1. Supporting Sentence2. Supporting Sentence3. Supporting Sentence

Concluding sentence

2. What is a paragraph?

Topic Sentence: During the Online Summer Folklorama I made a presentation about my home country.

1. Supporting Sentence: This was my very first presentation in English! I created a PPT and sent it to my e-Facilitator. It was a lot of fun to select nice pictures.

2. Supporting Sentence: Then I presented during the online class. I was very excited and nervous. But things went well. I got some feed back from my e-Facilitator regarding pronunciation which was helpful.

Concluding sentence: I realized that making such a presentation was not as difficult as I thought initially. It was also very interesting to watch all the other

presentations.

Practice: Main Idea, Topic Sentence, Supporting Detailsand Concluding Sentence

Main Idea: My first English presentation

3. Linking words

When writing a paragraph, it is very important to connect the sentences with linking words!

Linking words/phrases can be used to add ideas together, contrast them, or show the reason for something.http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode107/languagepoint.shtml

3. Linking words

• Firstly, secondly, finally…

• Then

• 2010, 2011….Sequencing ideas

• and

• In addition

• alsoAdding information

• Due to the fact

• Because

• SinceGiving a reason

• but

• Despite the factContrasting ideas

• therefore

• soGiving a result

3. Linking words

Link Collection: http://www.michellehenry.fr/link.htm

http://www.eslflow.com/transitionalconnectingandlinkingwords.html

Overviewhttp://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

Excellent interactive BBC site:http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode64/languagepoint.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/#g

Excellent, interactive U of Vic site:http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/sample/beginner/wt/wt_22.htm

3. Linking words

HandoutsTransitions & Linking Wordswww.uni-klu.ac.at/hlg/sber/downloads/linking_words.pdf

LINKING WORDS AND PHRASES - Flinders Universitywww.flinders.edu.au/slc_files/.../linking_words_phrases.pdf

Quizzeshttp://www.learn-english-today.com/wordgames/hotpot-quizzes/linking-words1.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/connectwords.html

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g67-linking-words.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode64/quiz.shtml

Your Turn to Practise

Follow the reflective questions and write a story about your learning experience this summer.

Use the prompts on the following page if you think they are helpful.

Save your reflection in your Learning Journal.

The e-Facilitators will be happy to give feedback!

Begin with a topic sentence. The topic sentence introduces what you want to talk about. It makes the reader want to know more.

The summer course with English Online was an interesting learning experience.

Add two or three supporting sentences. First you can explain what activities you did. Then you can tell the reader what was challenging or new….finally you can mention where you will use your new skills.You should add examples.

I choose the following….

Write a concluding sentence. It summarizes what has been said. You might want to add what you will do next.

Looking back this was a great……

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