My teaching demonstration in the way of telling a story

This is my short video about demonstration of telling a story. And the background of video is my dorm. Ha! I hope you don't mind my pajama but only noticed on how I conveyed and taught in the video. The story in the video is Lisa and Gaspard-Friends Forever which is borrowed from Iris, my friend!

Information about me

I have taught my blogs to my friends, but they still have some confusion. Then, I decided that I gave an instruction following.

1.Pinky Una-It based on English teaching sources and feedback, and it written in English. Also, the contact in this blog is about English Teaching.

2.About Pinky Una-It is an e-portfolio about me in wikispaces. And you can go around there if you are interested about me.

3.Google部落遊記-It is my mid-term project of Computer-assisted Language Learning class by a group which is Alley and me.And the content is written for children in Chinese by the way of introduced how to use blog in Google which is by the way of comic books. I wish you can go and see around if your are interested.

4.Google部落辦公室-It is about my daily journal and I would answer questions if you have questions on our Google部落遊記.About the contact, it is based on offering some computer sources, I hope you all like it!

Mind map

The one is very popular for organizing thoughts nowdays like brainstorming. If you are interested, you can download from Freemind. It is very useful and it can insert any picture and connact, and so on. Belowing is my work!

Interesting grammar learning

The picture

This website is called 英語直通車, and it is very useful for the environment as EFL in Taiwan. It suitable for self-learning especially for students of elementary school. You can click the words which is underlined the picture for practicing. And, you also can look the flashes which is talking about one grammar in each day.

Interesting vocabulary learning

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cute picture


I found a website called Sartfall. In the website, children can click any link under cute picture and arrow, and any picture has one cute story,songs,aims for learning new words. It is suitable for children in age of kidergarten and elementary school before the third grade. It has lots of flashes so that it could attrack children in high motivation!

We are one-Parents and Children

Children sometimes can not believe themselves that they are like their parents or not. The song is a dialogue between father and children. And it is so sweet to me.

Circle of Life-Mother's Day and Children's Day

In the Mother's Day and Children's Day, there are lots of songs to talk about it. The song is taliking about the life that Lion King just joyful for new birth.And the mood is parents', so the song is suitable for tell children how parents glad their birth.

I just can't wait to be king

Children always want to be adult, wanna grow up soon. The song points out the mood of little lion like our children. The song is from Lion King 1, and through the song, we can see lots of wild animals in the film.Let's sing with the words together "I just can't wait to be king!"

Let's daning with the song

When I heard of the song, I felt relax and wanna to dance. It's suitable for children to dance and try to recognize the animals in the film!

Body's song 1

This is a film called "Big Rhino" about body in YOutube. And it also sings with numbers. It is a very cute song that you can practice with your kids.

Technology teaching English for children-Pros

Since it is time of technology, the computer literacy enters into our daily life. For children, there are so many stimuli including TV, DVD,and computer. There are so many advantages if teacher uses technology teach English. Firstly, it improves learners' self-atomicity at home through Internet. Secondly, it keep high children's high motivation through vivid pictures,animations,and audio device. Thirdly, it offers comprehensible input by step and step to keep learners' self-confidence. Also, there are advantages for teachers themselves. Firstly, teachers could save time to produce lots of flash cards which has pictures. Secondly, teachers could search any imformantaion about the compensatory materials which support course books. Thirdly, teachers could understand whether students comprehensive or not in the classroom through real projects, which could be collaborate by students by blogs, e-mail, and so on, and also save papers from trees.

ABC-TPR

This is very interesting for learners. Using TPR to memorize phonics is a very common way to learn especially beginers. And, about thess advantages, it not only can let children to remember the sound with actions but also can let children have high motivation to learn through actions.

The advantages of Computer Literacy

I want to talk about the advantages of Computer Literacy. Since the technonlogy times is coming, it have entered our daliy life from job to entertainment. We can watch famous and favorite films nomatter the film had played on TV. We might not memorize vocabulary no matter the letters or characters; however, we won't worry it since computer literacy could correct it when we type it wrong If we want to learn or know somethig new, we could use internet through computer to know everything. We also can work through our application on computer literacy. It is very great, isn't it? We also can connat with our friends who live very far from us through computer literacy. And then,the world is becoming a villagenot contries through computer literacy. The using power of computer literacy is growing!

ABC Song 2

There is a film with famous nursey rhyms in alphebate! I believe you have sung it before.Now let's sing it together with your students.

ABC Poem

First I found the poem is written in 1705. Therefore, you can change the vocabulary you like and near by our life. But there is no J line, it is very strange and a creative poem.
A Was an Archer
A was an Archer, and shot at a Frog;
B was a Blind-man, and led by a Dog;
C was a Cutpurse, and liv'd in disgrace;
D was a Drunkard, and had a red Face;
E was an Eater, a Glutton was he;
F was a Fighter, and fought with a Flea.
G was a Giant, and Glutton was he;
H was a Hunter, and hunted a Mouse;
I was an ill Man, and hated by all;
K was a Knave and he rob'd great and small;
L was Liar, and told many Lies;
M was a Madman, and beat out his Eyes;
N was a Nobleman, nobly born;
O was an Ostler, and stole Horses' Corn;
P was a Pedlar, and sold many Pins;
Q was a Quarreller, and broke both his Shins;
R was a Rogue, and ran about Town;
S was a Sailor, a Man of Renown;
T was a Taylor, and Knavishly bent;
U was a Usurer took Ten per cent;
W was a Writer, and Money he earn'd;
X was one Xenophon, prudent and learn'd;
Y was a Yeoman, and work'd for his Bread;
Z was one Zeno the Great,but he's dead.

ABC Song 1

The song can be substitute by words which begin by a~z.The purpose of teaching is letting children have fun in songs and have a little memorize with vocabulary begins a~z. You can add some TPR to let children memorize it, too! And there is a website which has lots of things that you can take a look! The song bellowing is also from First Grade Themes-Apples

" OLD MACDONALD"

Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O
And on this farm he had some apples,
E-I-E-I-O

With a _________here, and a _________there,

Here a ______, there a ________,

everywhere a _____,_____-.

Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O!

What is Podcast?

Podcast is a combination of "i pod" and board casting originally through the RSS feeding. It can downland any media like power point, fashion movies, popular music , and so on into it. It uses not only in i pod or i Tunes, it also can use digital audio player from 2005. These informations could found in Wikipedia if you are interested. However, if you are not familiar with RSS as me, I find two videos from Youtube to introduce RSS: the first one introduced the concept of RSS and show me an example of Google reader; the second one introduced the example of Freereader. And these two examples below is very easy to understand even I am not very familiar with the computer.

The first one


The second one


Now, let's talk about what a podcast is as I mentioned above, I also have found out one video from Youtube to introduce podcast by clear words in PPT and impressing picture to make the concept clear.

Introduction of Pinky Una

I am Una from English-Teaching, English Department, Providence University, Taizhong County.

In my four years in Providence University, I learned some subjects which related about English Teaching following : English Teaching Method which discussed teaching principles , the educational theories ,the history and the development of the teaching methods and techniques; Second Language Acquisition which introduced current research in second language acquisition and focused on prominent research trends in the study of the language learner, the process of acquisition, and the interaction of the learner, language, and context ; English Assessment and Teaching which is talking about how to assess students successfully by varied test types; Teaching Children's Literature in English introduced how to use the genres of children’s literature into teaching; Computer-Assisted Language learning introduced how to use technology into teaching English and improved learners’ autonomy ;English Phonetic Teaching talked about how to design varied activities to motivate learners between phonetics; English Vocabulary and Grammar Teaching discussed how to design varied activities to motivate learners between vocabulary and grammar in English classes; Teaching Listening and Speaking in English discussed about the ways to teach listening and speaking and how to design appropriate lesson plans to fit learners; English Verse Teaching introduced how to use verses to teach English successfully and motivate learners to enjoy the rhythms and sounds; Language and Culture which discussed how language effects culture by usage of language; Applied Linguistic discussed how linguistics applied into teaching and current issues; English Children’s literature talked about the components effects children’s literature by knowing fairy tales, picture stories, and so on; English Teaching Practicing shared teaching ideas through really teaching students in the kindergarten of Da- Shou Elementary School in Taizhoung City for thirty hours from September in 2007 to January in 2008.

About teaching experiences, I had a little experience in teaching English.
I had been the teaching volunteers in weekends in Li-Ming Elementary School in Tai-Zhong County for six weekends from March to May in 2005 for theme-based teaching such as color and number. And I had been the English Teacher of summer camp in Jing-Xing Village in Chang-Hua County for six weekends from July to August in 2006 for teaching Phonetics. I also had been the English Teacher in Chao-Yue Cram School in Tai-Zhong County for ten months from September in 2006 to June in 2007 for teaching the textbook of Hess Educational Organization. By the way, I had been the English Volunteer Teacher in Gong-Guan Elementary School in Tai-Zhong County for summer-camp for one week in July, 2007. Besides, I have been an assistant in Giraffe American English School in Hua-Tan in Chang-Hua County in weekends about three years from July in 2005 to June in 2008 for improve learning strategies in English and the teacher of class of Phonics improving.


About my certificates about teaching English, I had gotten An Introduction To Teaching ESL/EFL form ELT Advantage of TESOL, TKT Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, which scores are not revealed yet, The Second Taiwan Colleges English Department Career E-Training by Caves Books. About my English proficiency, I had passed the level of medium of GEPT, and score 580 of TOEIC. About other certificates, I had got the word 2003 level Advanced of TQC, the ability of dealing with Microsoft Word 2003 of Providence University.

I have been an assistant in Giraffe American English School for three years until this July, and I had the experience of teaching volunteers in Li-Ming Elementary School for three months in 2005, in Gong-Guan Elementary School for one week summer-camp in2007. I had been the Summer English Teacher in the community of Jing-Xing in Chang-Hua in 2006. I also have been the English Teacher in Chao-Yue Cram School for ten months in 2006.

Why I set this blog is that our children is not familiar with English but forced to face, learn, even remember English since English as a Foreign Language in Taiwan. Most of children doesn't like to learn English. So, to let most of children like and love to learn English, I would like to post some creative and active games, stories, chants, and songs,which relate to one theme such as colors, to offer, exchange, and share our teaching ideas with our ELT teachers and workers. Let our children have postive and unstressful motivation to learn English.

The Santa is me and the picture is taken in Da-Shou kindergarten of Elementary School when we had an activity of Christmas.

Happy to CALL

I am glad to enter the course which I entered called Computer-assited Language Learning, because I am going to be an ELT teacher and I think that I must to learn a lot about this area. I hope I could applied what I have learned and let my students in the future who would get benifits on learning English.