Elementary Composition – Night

This site is a group effort by the students in Gord's Elementary Composition evening course at Catholic University!

Internet has merits and demerits.

Internet is very popular today. Why does it like to use? First, internet gather information and give intelligence easily. Second, we can enjoy a new movie, game or music as hobbies. Last, internet is easy to operate and there are many computer everywhere . Otherwise, internet has demerits. When you communicate electronically, all you see is a computer screen. You don’t have the opportunity to use facial expressions, gestures and tone of voise to communicate your meaning; words that is, lonely written words are all you’ve got. And that goes for your correspondent as well. So, when you’re holding a conversation online, whether it’s an e-mail exchange or a response to a discussion group posting, it’s easy to misinterpret what your correspondent is a person with feelings more or less like your own. Computer networks bring people together who’d otherwise never meet. But the impersonality of that medium changes the meeting to something less personal


Affective filter in SLA

I take a class named ‘The Acquisition of Second Language’. I learnd many theories of SLA. There are Behaviorism, Cognitivism and Constructivism. And recently I learned “Affective filter”. This is a imaginary barrier of SLA. For example, If learners have high self-cofidence, motivation,they could learn language successfully. BUt It they have high anxiety and self-conscious, they could not acquire language successfully.Because their affective filter up when they are anxiety,and inputs that they have could be not passed. I know I have strong affective fillter. It will be tough to overcome, but I should try.


On a diet

  I’m on a diet in order to lose my weight. Last summer I went on a diet but I failed. I skipped breakfast but I ate a lot in the night. In the end, I put on more weight. This time, I decided to diet in a scientific way.  I am reading a book about dieting and found out which food  are low calory. I don’t skip any meals and   I eat low fat food regularly. I imagine that I’ll be slim in beach. 

 


My habit

 

I have a habit of going to bed late and getting up late. I always stay up past midnight. So I struggle to get up in the morning. Mom wakes me up every morning. Otherwise, I’m late for school. Today, I heard that getting up early is good for health and beauty. I’ll try to change my habit. I’ll go to bed early and get up early.  

 


I would like to speak in English

 Today I went O.B.F. with my friend, in order to get visitation ticket. The O.B.F. is English cafe in our university. On entering there, we have to speak in English. To tell the truth, at first we needed visitation tickets for our English conversation class. But now we know visiting is enjoyable, because we can feel interesting. So my friend and I enjoy going that cafe. By the way, I have a problem. That is to say, I would like to speak in English, but I can’t speak in English well. Whenever to do so, I’m very stuffy. Of course, in my foreigner professor’s class, I have difficulty in understanding that class completely. When I just see anyone who speaks in English fluently, I’m really envious that person. What can I do for myself?


Women?

 It was difficult for women to work in 1970, so there were not many women to work in society. However, the present state raise the social status of women, and it is no trouble for them to work better than before. Also women can work in various fields of society. Of course, it doesn’t mean that women can work whenever and wherever they want. They can just work easily better than before. Anyway, it is possible to be President of woman in Korea?


Life goes on..

 Now finals is coming up and a summer vacation is just around the corner. It seems like I blinked and this year is almost half gone. Time is flying so fast. I’m a little sad that I don’t have many things to remember except all those tests and assignments. I’m not sure I’m doing right. It seems that life is getting difficult and more complicated. I know it definitely could be more, but not less. Well, so I guess life goes on.