Week 1 :)

Q1.
        . Fall Ⅱstarted in this week.  At the same time, the new classes started with new classmates. I was looking forward to see my friends and take new classes.  In GO class, we introduces about ourselves through class activity. It was very fun because I got more information about my classmates even though I already know persons. There were so many things that I didn’t know about them. I was surprised many times to get new information from my friends but actually, I didn’t remember what did make me surprised.sorry.. However, I think it was good opportunity to know more each other. In my opinion it is important to know about each other because we are studying together in the same class and same school. For example, when I want to get along with someone who is new student or I’m interested in her/ him, if I know about only their hobbies I can talk to them about their hobby. I think it’ is the first step to be close with them. I mean, I think that the more we know each other, the more we are able to be close. I was glad to have a good time with classmates and teacher at that time.


Q2.
         Today, I talked with my friend about what will we do after going back to Japan. I will go to Japan in December. I will be a junior in collage next year and start to find a job. I know that to find a job is too difficult. To be honestly, I don’t want to do that but I have to do. English is important to get a good job, so I have to improve my English skill. I was thinking that I will go to America instead of stopping to go to the university for a year because my parents suggested this idea. However I don’t agree with them because there are many risks to stop school, in other word in society in Japan, It is general to graduate for four years. I said to my friend these things and she said to me. “To study English is very important but this is not only one. There are so many people who can speak English very well, so more important thing is your personality. You can experience a lot of things in Hawaii, so you can find new thing about yourself” I don’t know if what is right but I think she is right. I can try many things in here and I hope I can grow up myself. First of all, I want to live a full life in few remaining days in Hawaii and learn a lot of things.

Q3.
       
      I think there are some differences between language learning and other types of learning. First, it really takes a long time to get or study language. In fact, most people have been studying since they were young. However even though we are studying for long time, we are not perfect. That’s why we are still learning. Also, to learn language can’t do alone. We need native persons to improve our speaking and listening skills. That’s why we are studying abroad now. On the other hand, as to other types of learning we can study ourselves. For example, when I study for exam, in case of other types of learning I can study looking my note or reading the reference book. Moreover, learning language is to make friends in all over the world. I mean, in fact I’m learning English in Hawaii now and I have many friends who are not Japanese. If I haven’t study English, I would not be in Hawaii and meet them. Thus, I think to learn language is more difficult than other learning but there is also good point. I think to learn language is more interesting than other types learning and there are not same even though both are about studying.

Q4
   
    The reason why we need strategies is that if we know the strategies, we can find or solve the questions easily. For example, I took the class, TOEFLE Listening in FallⅠ,so I learned many strategies to choose answers. Before learning strategies, I have chosen the answer without strategies. In contrast, after I knew some strategies, my score was improved by these. However actually these were not useful to get answer in TOEFLE that I took few weeks ago… I don’t know why. As for writing, when I write an essay, I think about REENS at first. I learned it from teacher and it is better to include it in essay .This strategy is very useful for me. I use this every time when I write an essay. I didn’t know how to write before knowing it, but now I know. When I write an essay, it becomes easier to image the structure of paragraphs. Since I came to HELP I have been learning a lot of strategies and these help my English skills. That’ why, I think it is important to learn the strategy. The strategy help us how to solve or how to write. We need to learn strategy.