There had been news about the death of an athlete in the 2010 winter Olympics at Vancouver. I haven't seen the whole details but it was said that he died during his final training run before the opening of the games. He flew out of the course and hit the metal pole, and at that instant he died.
Well that's a very sad news to start Valentines day and it was really a disaster. News even said that their country was to withdraw from the winter games. I felt really bad, since they came to compete and left without a fight, and tragic one at that.
Now questions are being raised, what are the safety measures being done at this moment to prevent accidents such as this from happening again in the future? Are there any assurances that the athletes participating in the competition will be safe?
In any way, I just hope that such accidents would be prevented from ever happening again, so that athletes can perform well without ever worrying about their own safety during the course of the competitions.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
My big problem
I got myself a job which started just last Monday. What do I do? I teach. Yes, but not actually a teacher. It's more like a tutor. I teach English to Korean students. I liked the job since I already had teaching experiences before, and I enjoy the company of children. They are fun to talk to, and they are fun to be with.
My student is on category Beginner 2--Intermediate, which will probably give you a hint: he speaks well yet he has limited vocabulary. He have some difficulties in pronouncing some words but when corrected, he could easily adapt. Also, he needs to improve his writing skills. Not his penmanship, but his sentence constructions. But overall he makes sentences that makes sense.
Yet I have a big problem: stating that, how can I actually teach him to write profound, thought-generating essays? How should I start? Well more problems: the school I work for wanted us to do essays every Friday, starting this Friday, and they wanted different types of essays (declarative, persuasive, informative, etc..).
Now how can an eleven year old kid, with limited vocabulary, write a thought-generating, informative, profound essay?
Well I tried to ask him to give me some topics that we could talk about, and topics we could write about. And most of the topics he gave me were so simple they could not be expounded to produce a good essay. And I suggested some topics which he didn't like, so we discarded it.
Now I'm in a pinch. Tomorrow will be the day we have to make a draft. With fingers crossed, I'm hoping everything will turn out okay.
My student is on category Beginner 2--Intermediate, which will probably give you a hint: he speaks well yet he has limited vocabulary. He have some difficulties in pronouncing some words but when corrected, he could easily adapt. Also, he needs to improve his writing skills. Not his penmanship, but his sentence constructions. But overall he makes sentences that makes sense.
Yet I have a big problem: stating that, how can I actually teach him to write profound, thought-generating essays? How should I start? Well more problems: the school I work for wanted us to do essays every Friday, starting this Friday, and they wanted different types of essays (declarative, persuasive, informative, etc..).
Now how can an eleven year old kid, with limited vocabulary, write a thought-generating, informative, profound essay?
Well I tried to ask him to give me some topics that we could talk about, and topics we could write about. And most of the topics he gave me were so simple they could not be expounded to produce a good essay. And I suggested some topics which he didn't like, so we discarded it.
Now I'm in a pinch. Tomorrow will be the day we have to make a draft. With fingers crossed, I'm hoping everything will turn out okay.
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