Reading Skill

           This topic is about Nine-year-old speaking champion. Whether speaking English from a pre-planned script or speaking “off the cuff” (without planning), nine-year-old Onrampha Souvannavong from Sriwittayapaknam School is a champion.

Speaking in a second language is not easy when someone suddenly puts a microphone in your hand and turns on their video camera – even if you are a national speech contest winner like nine-year-old Onrampha Souvannavong from Sriwittayapaknam School. I think she did very well under the circumstances. The first example from Onrampha is clearly memorised, the same speech she gave at the National Speech Contest 2012 held recently in Bangkok by the Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec). Onrampha was the winner for Prathom 1-3 (Grade 1-3) category. You'll quickly notice that she speaks English very clearly and naturally. The second speaking task was a bit more difficult since it was “off the cuff”, done without having a chance to plan what she was going to say. She was given the task of explaining how she learned English so well. Here she really proves she can speak English without the need for memorisation.

I think, everybody had difference ability so everybody should to show ability of oneself for improve oneself.

 

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
script	/ skrɪpt / noun	a written text of a play, film/movie, broadcast, talk, etc
circumstance	cir • cum • stance / sɜrkəmstæns /   noun	the conditions and facts that are connected with and affect a situation, an event or an action
category	cat • egory    / kætəɡɔri /                      noun	a group of people or things with particular features in common
memorize	mem • or • ize  / meməraɪz /   verb	to learn sth carefully so that you can remember it exactly

 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-together/310431/nine-year-old-speaking-champion

 

Reading Skill

         Today I practice reading skill. I read about real life of from teacher to farmer. Therefore he changes his life to farmer and lives by adequateness.

         He is sixty-five years old with a bachelor’s degreefrom Nakhon Si Thammarat Teacher’s College. After graduation he started teaching junior high students at Pathiu Wittaya School in Pathiu District, Chumphon.  He worked there for three years and was transferred to the Provincial Educational Office. His last job was teaching at the biggest and best-known school in Chumphon, named Sriyapai. He was very proud of this because it was the school from which I graduated. Before he retired from his job, his father provided him with two plots of land and recommended that he grow oil palm. That was the origin of Srithara Farm. There are two plots of oil palms. The first is called Nai naa Oil Palm Farm because it was originally an old paddy field and the second one is named Sapan Hok Oil Palm Farm because it is situated next to the Sixth Bridge of the Petchakasem Highway.  His slogan is “harvesting palm fruit in the morning and transferring school fees to my son in the afternoon.”

From the real life of him, it can teach me that is every occupation can make money for oneself but if you don’t happy, money don’t have advantage for you because money can buy everything but can’t buy happiness of oneself.

 

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
graduation	gradu • ation / ɡrædʒueɪʃn /   noun	the act of successfully completing a university degree, or studies at an American  high school
junior	jun • ior / dʒuniər / adjective	having a low rank in an organization or a profession
transfer	trans • fer /  trænsfɜr / verb	to move from one place to another
recommend	rec • om • mend / rekəmend /   verb	to tell sb that sth is good or useful, or that sb would be suitable for a particular job, etc

 

 http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-together/295453/from-teacher-to-farmer-updated-with-slideshow

 

Reading Skill

         Today I practice reading skill. I read about Facebook makes you sad. Which, A study of young adults has concluded that the more people used Facebook, the worse they subsequently felt.

        People who use Facebook may feel more connected, but less happy. A study of young adults has concluded that the more people used Facebook, the worse they subsequently felt. The researchers recruited 82 young adults who had smartphones and Facebook accounts and assessed their subjective well-being by texting them at random times five times a day for two weeks.  The scientists also found no evidence that Facebook use was merely a symptom of feeling low. People were not more likely to use Facebook when they felt bad, although they did use the social network more frequently when they were lonely. The researchers pointed out that while Facebook creates a homogenous group of "friends," most users have different types of relationships with those viewing their postings.

       I think, facebook has important for everybody but it has disadvantage too. If everybody doesn’t use it in negative way it maybe has advantage for oneself.

 

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
connect	con • nect    / kənekt /   verb	to join together two or more things
researcher	re • search noun / rɪsɜrtʃ /	a careful study of a subject, especially in order to discover new facts or information about it
random	ran • dom          / rændəm / adjective	done, chosen, etc. without sb deciding in advance what is going to happen, or without any regular pattern
relationship	re • la • tion • ship / rɪleɪʃnʃɪp /   noun	the way in which two people, groups or countries behave towards each other or deal with each other

 

       http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/364725/facebook-users-less-happy-study

Reading Skill

           This topic is about Scientists grow 'mini human brains' from stem cells. Which the scientists had used stem cells to grow primitive human brain tissue for use in studying disorders and early development of this most complex of organs.

           They used the cells to grow what they dubbed "cerebral organoids" – pea-sized blobs of 3D brain tissue in a Petri dish, with characteristics of early embryonic brain tissue. Development of the human brain is very different from development, for example, of the mouse brain," study coordinator Juergen Knoblich of the Austrian Academy of Sciences told a telephone press conference. The technology should help biologists study "human-specific" features of human brain development and disease. It was also hoped the method would allow researchers to "test drugs directly in a human setting and thereby avoid animal experiments and get more informed results that are more easily transferrable to human patients," said Knoblich. Stem cell researchers have made progress to create 3D tissue of other human organs, including the heart and liver, but the brain has remained elusive.

          I think, the scientists are the person that important for the world because they can search or develop something that important for Department of Medical Science.

      

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
scientist	sci • en • tist / saɪəntɪst /   noun	a person who studies one or more of the  natural sciences
disorder	dis • order    / dɪsɔrdər /   noun	an untidy state; a lack of order or organization
embryonic	em • bry • on • ic    / embriɑnɪk /   adjective	( formal )  in an early stage of development
experiment	ex • peri • ment / ɪksperɪmənt / noun	a scientific test that is done in order to study what happens and to gain new knowledge

 

         http://www.posttoday.com/เรียนภาษา/เรียนภาษาจากข่าว/243518/scientists-grow-mini-human-brains-from-stem-cells

Listening Skill: How to speak fluently and natural

        Today, I practice listening skill. Which, in this video is about "How to speak English fluently and natural." The first step, you can learn this skill with practice whether you're beginner, intermediate or advanced. The first thing that you should to do that is think about your words like. The second is think in complete sentence because it's o.k. if the sentence are very simple. The most important part is to develop the habit. If you don't know how to say somthing, you should check your dictionary later. If you do this kind of mental practice rregularly, you will develop the ability to use English in any everyday situation.

Reading Skill: out of control

Reading Skill

       This topic is about out of control. The government is considering the use of special emergency laws to control increasingly violent rubber farmer protesters in the South. About 70 police officers were injured in clashes yesterday and about 10 police vehicles were set on fire.

       The government is considering the use of special emergency laws to control rubber farmer protesters in the South, Thawat Boonfueng, deputy secretary-general to the prime minister. Protesting rubber and oil palm growers clashed with police and resumed their highway blockade in Cha-uat district of Nakhon Si Thammarat province just hours after officers cleared the demonstration Monday morning. About 70 police officers were injured in the clashes and about 10 police vehicles were set alight in the scuffle. Protesters also seized a Thai PBS TV production truck and erased footage of the clash. There were several injuries on both sides, including two protesters – a man and a woman – who were shot in their legs. It was not clear who fired the shots. Both were taken to Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat Hospital. Young protestors retreat from police. Shortly afterward they came back in large numbers and forced the police to leave.

      Now a day, money is important for everyone because if we have more money we can buy everything that we want. Therefore, everybody usually want money that enough per survive of oneself.

 

Vocabulary	Pronounce	Meaning
control	heckle / hekl /   verb	~ (sb) to interrupt a speaker at a public meeting by shouting out questions or rude remarks
government	gov • ern • ment    / ɡʌvərnmənt /   noun	the group of people who are responsible for controlling a country or a state
violent	vio • lent    / vaɪələnt /   adjective	involving or caused by physical force that is intended to hurt or kill sb
protester	pro • test • er / prətestər / noun	a person who makes a public protest

 

 

http://www.posttoday.com/เรียนภาษา/เรียนภาษาจากข่าว/247278/out-of-control

 

Listening Skill: 5 tips to improve your writing

      Today, I practice listening skill which this video is about five tip to improve your write. The first step we don't use contraction such as when we make a sentence we usually use don't instead do not. Which we shouldn't use contraction in the sentence because it doesn't good sentence. The second step, we should avoid there is/there are, really, very, alot and so but we can use passive voice in sentence and we should use strong verb because it can make sentence are good.