Saturday, March 8, 2008

Wow! workig.

Hi, guys, wat's up? I have not blogged for 3 weeks because I am lazy. Yes, I know it. Anyway, I just realized I needed to catch up blogging. First of all, congratulations to all the EAP3 students who survived the mid-term exams. I can't believed only half of this semester to go, and I can't wait finishing this semester. Also, I want to thanks EAP3 teachers who demonstrated valuable and useful lessons.
This week we finished chapter 7, working. I learned some very useful grammar, reported speech, embedded questions, statements, etc. reported speech can be used in essays when I want to use other people's speeches instead of quoting. Embedded questions can be implied in conversations in university level, and it makes speeches more polite. I learned about how to deal with job interviews in Listening/Speaking lessons. I think Listening/Speaking lessons for this week are more practical than before, and it is very valuable and helpful for us to find jobs in Canada in the future because we can understand some Canadian culture about job interview and have knowledge about how to prepare job interview. To avoid cultural misunderstanding, we can have more chance to succeed in job interview and working. For Reading class, I just don't want to take about it....... about 45 students class size, if I were the teacher, I would have not clue abut how to teach.
I want to talk about work. since I came to Canada, I have asked myself why I am here many times. Personally, I want to learn English because it is extremely dam important now. Well, the second reason is I like traveling, I need to know English for communication. The main reason I came here is having abilities to find a good job. The universities in North American have very high quality of education system, and they have very good reputation in the world. There are more opportunities in Canada and United States than in China. However, I still have no idea what I want to learn. First of all, I had one and half year university experience in China, and my major was computer science. I pretty much like it but it really takes time and energy to write application programs, websites, etc. Therefore, I probably not choose it again. Anyway, I like math, biology, chemistry, physics which are logical to me. if you like those stuff, what can you do? to be a engineer. Yes, I really want to try engineering, and Calgary is a engineering city, especially civil and chemistry engineering. Engineers can make a lot of money(honestly, money is one of my concerns). Business, I kind of like it, but not too much. well, my parents like me to take business, international business. since China has been the biggest market in the world, many and many companies have required people who know Chinese. If you can know Chinese and English in proficiency level, you will be really hot plus your business degree. Chinese is the biggest population language, and English is the most widely used language. Well, it is really really hard not to be hot if you know both languages. Well, before doing those, I still need to pass EAP3, and I can really think about what I like to do in the rest of my life during the semester. Hopeful, I can have a little clue.

2 comments:

Fan (*^__^*) said...

good luck man

Scott Douglas said...

It sounds like you have really learned a lot this week. I'm sure that you are going to find what you want to study. It'll come to you! P.S. 45 students is a challenge in one class!