Significant learnings from English 1 [pt. 1]
TABORA, Tim
It’s amazing that we’ve learned so much about English in just a short amount of time, both in class and on the “eLeAP”. Among all of them though, I have to say that the most significant thing I’ve learned about would be about the ‘Context Clues’. Why this topic? It helps us understand one another when we don’t understand a certain word in the sentence. I’m pretty sure that you’ve already experienced speaking to someone wherein you didn’t understand one of the words he/she used. Then thanks to context clues, you were still able to understand what he/she was talking about. Learning how to use context clues is definitely very beneficial. There will be times I won’t understand a word from a sentence, but since I know how to use context clues, I’ll be ready for it.
ROBLES, Melchor
Learning English is a never-ending story. Each year in class, you will be amazed at the new things which you can still learn from your English class. This year, I am into my first year of college at the University of Sto. Tomas. I was wondering what my English class would be like. It was actually fun. First, I like the teaching style of our English teacher. She made use of group activities wherein lessons are learned through practical applications. This way, we learned our lessons fast. I learned new things on paraphrasing, how to read fast thru skimming and scanning, more things to discover from the library, how to quote, how to make a nice outline, the “if clauses”, how miscommunication can happened due to speech acts. Each year is indeed a new discovery for me to further improve my skills on the use of the English language effectively.
TAGASA, Marielle
Using the library effectively, Reading techniques, Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Quoting, Outlining, The clarity in communication, subject-verb agreement, transition/signal words, examinations, if clauses, expressing one’s opinon, etcetera.. etcetera.. These were some of the things we studied for our English 1 class. And yes, some of them had already been taught in high school or grade school, but this time, the topic was ’expanded’ and we learned about things we didn’t know before/ got a better understanding of the lessons that had been taught before. All this knowledge was applied/ put into good use when we answered our e-leap activities, wrote essays & reaction papers. I consider all of these lessons important, but the top 3 most significant and most useful things i’ve learned are the reading techniques, paraphrasing, and context clues. Paraphrasing and skimming/scanning are very useful techniques for me, since there will be a lot of situations in college that these 2 will be needed; situations that require a lot of reading and writing (reading for a quiz tomorrow, and/or writing research papers!). Context clues are very important also as to avoid having miscommunication with others.
