THE NEWSLETTER
Volume 1, Issue 3 30 September, 2013
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Photo from left: Wendy 許蕙婷, Scott 林高山 and Judy 魏召欣.
These three staff have earned special recognition here for all the cheerful and conscientious help that they offer to our ILC students and staff. Scott 林高山 is a leading member of our ILC office’s crew (組員) providing
assistance with anything administrative. Wendy 許蕙婷 is a project manager (專案經理) helping to organise and support many special projects within the ILC.
Judy 魏召欣 is a technician (技士) and a great help with all the technological equipment in the classroom. Three cheers!
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A wa l k t h ro u g h Lo n d o n Flora Mary Wang Tzu-Shin 王姿心, a part-time English teacher at the ILC, shares some of her experiences of London, UK.
My advice to you all is to learn English as well as you can here and now at DYU because who knows where or when you might need to use it in the future. You might even end up living in London one day.
Autumn can be quite windy and cold in London. Nevertheless, several years ago on just such a day I went for a long walk. During my walk I came across many beautiful old buildings and would like to tell you about two churches where I took shelter from the cold wind along the way. The first church I came across was St Paul’s Cathedral. This building was completely rebuilt after the Great Fire of London in1666. Inside its dome is what is called the Whispering Gallery.
Photo: St. Paul’s Cathedral Staircase. Photo: Dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral,
London.
The second church I came across was Westminster Abbey. The current building was built from1245 onwards. Many famous royal events have taken place here over the years, such as Prince William’s wedding on Friday, April 29, 2011. After all my walking around the city I very much enjoyed its quiet peacefulness.
Photo: Whispering Gallery inside the
Dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Here you can whisper against the wall of one side of the dome and be heard quite clearly by anyone standing against the wall on the other side of the dome over 41 metres away!
Photo: Westminster Abbey, London.
____________________ Editor: Some scenes from the well known movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which was released in 2004 and based on the third book by J.K. Rowling were filmed from this staircase in the south-west tower of St. Paul’s Cathedral. If you have some travel stories and photos from Taiwan or overseas that you would like to share please e-mail the editor: martin@mail.dyu.edu.tw.
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W e Enj oy Pl annin g OU R Eng l ish WR ITIN G
Photo: Jason 魏德翔 and Judy 林芸竹
in the Language Learning Navigation Centre (語言學習導航中心) demonstrating mind mapping. Braden Rico, an ILC English teacher, shares some of his ideas on how to make English writing fun.
Many students find writing English essays so daunting that they put off their assignments until the very last moment. While it is true that writing is a challenging task for most of us (regardless of our level or ability), there is no cosmic law dictating that the experience must be painful. If you are the kind of person who finds that writing is a headache, maybe you need to change the way you think about it. You need to discover that writing can be as much fun as it is challenging.
Once upon a time when I was studying at university I happened to cross paths in the library with a classmate. As I glanced at him to say hello I noticed that he was scribbling tiny pictures of symbols. When I took a closer look I saw that the symbols were arranged along a time line and that parts of the drawings connected on a flow chart. The scribbling was organized in a way that depicted some kind of message. I thought he might be doing some engineering project but he explained that this was his way of brainstorming before writing.
ground and you can begin to get a better sense of how to organize your thoughts in a fun way. I have been introducing my students to mind mapping because I think it is a good way to approach the task of creating an autobiographical essay. I tell them that if they find themselves staring at blank sheets of paper or sitting for long periods of time in front of an empty computer screen, that’s a signal to start a mind map. ____________________
Mind maps are a great way of stimulating your thinking through drawing, doodling or scribbling. One doesn’t have to be an artist to enjoy mind mapping. Just pick up a pen or pencil and see where your imagination takes you. This is an activity to help unlock your thinking process, so that the fear of writing will fade into the back-
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Photo: Atayal 泰雅族 in traditional dress at Wulai 烏來with 馬丁老師 Martin Murray,
editor (主編)of this newsletter and ILC English teacher.
martin@mail.dyu.edu.tw
A trip to Wulai falls Walking was the most popular way of getting from the lower end of the main village of Wulai up to its upper end opposite Wulai Falls. While carrying someone up (like in the photographed statue below) would have
been completely out of the question, other options included a much overpriced taxi or catching a very small train (as you can
see photographed here on the right).
Having arrived at the upper end of the village opposite the falls (from
where the photo above was taken) there was also the additional option of taking a cable car across the river and up to the top of the falls (as in the photo here on the right).
While the falls were an amazing sight, the most enjoyable part of the trip was the chance to chat with some of the locals in the tourist shops. Some locals were even dressed in traditional dress and asked if I would like to have my photo taken with them. This was an offer too good to refuse so I did (as
you can see from the photo at the top of this page). ____________________