Reflection of the seventh class

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商务电话是英语学习的高级阶段，除了日常听说的基本要求外，商务电话的背后还包含着西方商人的商务沟通习惯、沟通模式与文化特征，因此需要特别的学习。

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林见捷

Reflection of the seventh class

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About panel discussion
I have heard about this kind of group work years ago, but began to enjoy it after I listened to Advanced Studio Classroom on the radio about two years ago. We had our first panel discussion last week, focusing on the topic education. Since I didn’t prepare, it became a tough task for me to exchange ideas with my group members. It seemed that some of my partners were experts in that field, they could say a bunch of words in Chinese but failed to convey their thoughts in English. Sometimes we felt something was right there but we could not express it properly. The reasons, according to my opinion, can be analyzed as follow:
1.	Without enough preparation, we couldn’t have organized talk and very often, we could not say the exact words. 
2.	We were not familiar with this new pattern of discussion, so we needed some more practice in order to go further.
3.	We didn’t like to be the host or hostess, always. But sometimes I might like to have a try.
And suggestions:
1.	Use the Advanced Studio Classroom pattern. We can have some material at hand to help us, but instead of reading the whole passage, we choose key words to further our discussion. 
2.	Know the topic several days before to let us collect those materials.  
3.	Learn something from real panel discussions on TV.

Our topic was inequality in education. We discussed how it impacted us, be it in rural area or in urban area. We also discussed the cause of it, and some solutions were mentioned to improve the situation. After that I felt frustrated about myself, so I surf the Internet and found something useful about this topic. Some main ideas are listed here:

Education is capturing heightened global attention. At the World Economic Forum in January 2005 in Davos, Switzerland, business and political leaders ranked education as a leading global concern, recognizing it as a key to beating poverty.

investment in teachers is critical. 
the quality of learning materials strongly affects what teachers can do.
Improving education quality does not happen in isolation. Early childhood care and education programmes help with subsequent achievement in school. 
In the past, the key assessment of educational performance was the number of students enrolled in school in relation to the population of corresponding ages. 
and so on……
hope we can have more practice in the future

2008-04-20 22:50:06| | 1 评论 | 0 同感 | 我也有同感

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PeggyDing

about panel discussion

7 months ago

Thank you for your good advice. I've actually prepared a video, but due to the video quality and length, I didn't play it in class. As for the topic, I did tell the class one week in advance, but not expecting the students would prepare for that. And for the input part, I have asked the class to listen to some news related to it. Maybe next time, I should give more input and require the class to do something before the discussion.

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