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Hello Everyone,

貝里英文的部落格搬家了,

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歡迎大家到我們的新家走走喔!

Pagewood English

Dear Readers

We have decided to move our blog to another location. Please click on the link below:

http://pagewood.blogspot.com/

If you have any questions or comments, please call us at 02-8780-1677. Or, of course, you can post a comment on the blog.

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Pagewood English School

下午班開始上課囉

小一及小二的家長們:
貝里下午班今年已經是第4年了,
九月一號(星期三)和九月二號(星期四)是下午班的 OPEN DAY
時間是下午 2:00-3:30
可以過來聽聽我們的說明會
和您的小朋友一起試上這兩天的課程
今年我們除了可以幫家長們接博愛的小朋友過來上課
下課後小朋友也可以留下來做功課喔,
下午班由美籍ADAM老師全程教學一個半小時,
每星期一,三,四,五
其餘下午的時間小朋友可以留下來寫功課,
有興趣的家長可以來電02-87801677
找楊小姐

貝里英文 暑期輔導班 開始招生囉!

※暑期主要除了溫故知新，有複、預習課業外，也針對暑假作業的問題做個別輔導,英文方面則著重字彙加強，再搭配較活潑有深度的課外活動，讓小朋友過一個充實的暑假！
※兄弟姐妹報名暑期安親班另有優惠

參加8月暑期安親班 費用6000元
(餐費及課外活動交通費另計)

暑期輔導班 正式招生中!!

※暑期主要除了溫故知新，有複、預習課業外，也針對暑假作業的問題做個別輔導,英文方面則著重字彙加強，再搭配較活潑有深度的課外活動，讓小朋友過一個充實的暑假！
※兄弟姐妹報名暑期安親班另有優惠

參加7～8月暑期安親班 費用6000元
(餐費及課外活動交通費另計)

Pagewood 暑假不放假!

學生們期待已久的暑假又來了, 今年Pagewood English 將利用暑假多多加強學生的英文學習能力, 所以我們還是正常上課喔!
希望大家也能夠抓緊這個機會好好充實自己, 贏在起跑點上! 加油!

台大甄試放榜 英文翹楚拿下五冠王

今年台灣大學甄選入學放榜，其中一位台南女中張姓學生拿下台大政治系政治理論組、國際關係組、公共行政組及社會系、人類系的錄取資格。張姓同學拿手科目是英文，她建議多看英文國際新聞，對於文章的用字遣詞一定會有很大的助益，積年累月會越學越多，英文能力也會越來越好。張同學也說到：「我每個月都會買TIME雜誌，裡頭都是1個月來的新聞，剛開始如果看不懂，可以先閱讀中文新聞，就會知道文章所寫的內容。」可見，英文好的學生依舊占了很大優勢。貝里英文的長期英語能力培養計畫，就是希望孩子們從小就能養成閱讀的習慣，因此我們在課程規劃上閱讀小說占了很重要的地位，有許多信義學區的學生們常常會在放學回家前先前來借還我們的英文小說，這也吸引了陪同他們前來的博愛或是興雅國小同學想要加入閱讀的興趣。

Pagewood 閱讀規劃

很多學生在來PAGEWOOD之前都是用很被動的方式閱讀英文讀物， 因為他們都覺得看英文書籍既困難且無趣，自然而然的對英文書籍敬而遠之，殊不知培養出正確的閱讀習慣是讓英文進步的重要原因之一。因此我們非常重視閱讀能力並鼓勵學生"大量閱讀(extensive reading)" 。
在PAGEWOOD大家都有閱讀的習慣，從一開始基礎班的學生閱讀"Dr Seuss"，到中高級班(S5)一個禮拜閱讀課外小說1至2本，只要是下課的時間學生們總是在書架前找下一本想看的書或是聚在一起討論剛看過的內容，甚至和同學推薦哪一本好看!毫無疑問的養成課後閱讀的興趣要比在課堂中強迫式的閱讀有更大幫助，而課外英文讀物看得越多的學生在聽、說、讀、寫各方面的表現上也相較於其他學生優異!

Getting pronunciation right from the beginning

Just before the winter break this year, I had an interesting experience.  One of my good friends who had lived in Taiwan was at my apartment, talking about how he had started to learn Japanese recently.  I asked him what he’d been doing an how long he’d been at it.  He told me he had just worked for a few hours on the Pimsleur audio course for Japanese and that was it.  He said he hadn’t really learned any grammar and only knew a few words.  Then he said, “私はアメリカ人です。英語話しますか？"

His pronunciation was great!  It was better than his Chinese pronunciation and he’s been living here in Taiwan for five years!

This really got me thinking more about why so many foreign language learners, myself included, struggle with pronunciation.  Of the 1000+ EFL students I’ve taught, most of those with the worst pronunciation are those who had already studied for a few years before coming to my classes.  Similarly, the language with which I’ve had the most pronunciation problems was French– a language I studied for almost five years in high school and college classes which included little phonics training.  Sometimes early pronunciation problems can become an ingrained habit that stick even after hearing a lot of native speech later on.

So how was my friend’s Japanese so authentic sounding?  I think it’s due to his learning method, not his age or language learning experience.  The Pimsleur learning course is almost completely based on listening and trying to imitate the speech on its tapes.  One level usually has 30 hours of tapes to listen to!  Not only that, but the sounds are broken down into small pieces for the student to copy and then gradually built up.  Most importantly of all, it trains listening long before asking students to try to read written language out loud.

Phonics is already the biggest focus of my curriculum for new students.  Now, after hearing my friend speak a language he just started learning that clearly, I’m wondering what other listening activities might be good to give new students.

PL2 練習考答案

請把你寫的練習考和這裡貼的答案比較一下. 如果有答案你不懂,你下堂課考試前都可以問老師.

These are answers to the extra questions from Paul’s test:

Paul’s answer sample for practice exam’s final part

PE3 練習考答案

請把你寫的練習考和這裡貼的答案比較一下. 如果有答案你不懂,你下堂課考試前都可以問老師.

Third Semester Practice Exam L1-74-Answers

注意: 大考不會用到SBS的單字.