English Language Center
Spring 2015 – Issue #1
ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER INSIGHTS A Newsletter for and about our Students and Faculty JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2015
Looking ahead Conversation Partners First Wednesdays – On March 4th and April 1st we’ll meet in the New Center Conference Room
Activities Sunday, March 22nd – NBA Game (Timberwolves v. Hornets and Wednesday, March 18th – Movie Night at Winona 7
LOOKING INSIDE
What’s up with those Shenanigans? Written by Katie Subra
Teacher Feature – p. 2 A Word from the Director – p. 2 Student Writing – pp. 3-4 Crossword Puzzle – p. 5
This semester has gotten off to an awesome start and we hope you keep up the energy! The ELC and its friends enjoyed the human hamster ball spectacle at the Shenanigans arcade in La Crosse on January 24th as well as the climbing wall, laser tag and other general shenanigans! In addition, we had a great Conversation Partners Night on February 4th. We have two more Conversation Partners Nights, trips to museums, games, and outdoor adventures planned for you. Not to mention, your teachers aren’t going to go easy on you with the homework. We know you’re up for the challenge! Thanks for being such an outgoing, hard-working, and smiley bunch of students! Vocabulary Key: 1) spectacle: an event or scene that can be regarded visually; 2) shenanigans: silly or mischievous behavior; 3) to go easy on someone: to make things easier or to not challenge them too much; 4) up for the challenge: willing and able to complete a difficult task
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Teacher Feature: Meet Karla Krause!
Interview Conducted by Hamad Al Dowais and Hamad Al Hashel 1) What is your goal in life? To save the world! 2) What is the place where you wish to travel to? Why? Comoros because I love secluded beaches. 3) What are your hobbies? I like to go to the beach, practice meditation, and ski. 4) What makes you angry? When I meditate and someone talks to me, I get angry because I want to focus. And beards. 5) How many times a day do you look at yourself in the mirror? Three times in a day. When I want to laugh, I make a funny face in the mirror. 6) Who motivates you at work? Students making eye contact and students sharing what is on their mind.
A Word from the Director, Dr. Holly Shi Dear students, It is hard to believe that soon it will be the mid term. Mid-‐term means a time to pause and reflect upon how much you have learned so far. This semester I am teaching a TESOL graduate course in grammar. Let me share with you a few tips about how to apply your grammar knowledge to your daily use of English. First of all, remember learning grammar is not the end; rather, it is a means towards meaningful communication—your daily use of the English language while in the classroom answering questions, ordering food in a restaurant, paying your bills in Warrior HUB. The best-‐learned grammar rules are often those you figure out through careful observation and analysis. You remember better the self-‐discovered grammar rules because they often make sense to you. Secondly, you must try to use the rules. For instance, you just learned the present perfect tense in class today. Try it when you talk to me. Say for instance, “Dr. Shi, I have just finished my tutoring session with Mitch.” Now you are using it. Initially, it might take some time to get the tense right, but with repeated use, you will eventually find it effortless. That’s when a learned grammar rule becomes truly yours, part of your acquired knowledge. In addition, you must try to increase your vocabulary size. The more words you know, the better the chance you will find the words you need to try out the grammar rules in sentences. Learning a word means more than just how to spell it; you must know what it means and how to use it in a sentence. Often grammar is determined by words. For instance you can say, “I love to see you,” but you cannot say, “*I enjoy to see you.” This is because the structural property of the word “enjoy” forbids an infinitive phrase as its object. I encourage you to learn at least 10 words a day. You can DO it! My message is this—you need to learn grammar rules, and the best is to learn them m eaningfully and to use them in your daily communication with your teachers, classmates, with people in the cafeteria, in the library, in Target, and in all other places.
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ELC Students putting on their ice skates at the Lake Lodge
Spring 2015 – Issue #1
It was a cold night‌ better for ping-pong perhaps!
005 Writing Students Talk about Their Classmates Written by Abdullah Al Dharfan There are ten students in my writing class. Joe is our teacher. He is a fun and active teacher. He has a beautiful smile. Khalid is my classmate and my partner, always. His personality is different and grand. Another classmate is Rakan. He is shy and the tallest in class. His eyes are dark and big. Abeer and Noof are women in class. They are cute. Another classmate is Ali. He is skinny, and he dances when he walks.
Written by Rakan Al Muhathil There are nine students in my claas: Mohammed's body is short and neat, Hamad Alhashel's glasses are big, Hamad Alyami has handsome face, Khalid's color is has attractive and Abdullah has hair beautiful black hair.
Written by Hamad Alyami
There are nine students in my writing class. Dowais, Hashel and I living together. They are wearing a pair of glasses. Mohammed has curly hair and he is short . Ali has brown skin and Written by Hamad Al Dowais average length. Abdullah and Khalid are funny. They are nine students in my class: Al yami is The tallest one in class is Rakan. I have two smart majoring in law , Ali and Mohammed are good students, Rakan, Abdullah, and Khaled are live in women in my class, Abeer has two children. Noof is the mother of a child. same house, Hashel and I studied in the same school last year, Abeer and Noof are smart.
Written by Hamad Al Hashel I have nine classmates in writing class: They Written by Abeer Al Subaie are seven men and two women. One of them is In my class in ELC, I have good classmates. All of them are boys. Nouf and I are only the girls in my cousin is Hamad Alyami. All of us from the class. She is my best friend. Hamad is student Saudi Arabia. Abeer and Noof are the women in my class. He studies a law. Khaled also studies in this class, they are married. Rakan is the tallest one. Mohammed has the best smile. a chemical engineering. Abdulah works hard in class. Ali is smart student, and Rakan is quick Khaled and Abdullah come on time every class. witted. All my classmates and I are from Saudi Hamad Al Dowais has glasses like me. Ali has Arabia. soft and medium sized hair. 3
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Why I have chosen Winona State University Written by Mohsen Alsaffar Donec I chose Winona State University because my cousin is studying here and he advised interdum me to choose it. He told me Winona State is a good university, has advance technology, the tuition is cheaper than another universities, and it is acceptable to our Ministry of Education. Also, the city of Winona is a safe place to live in and cheaper comparing to other places in the U.S.A. In addition, the Minnesotans are really nice; they always smile to foreign people and help them when they need help. So, that is why I chose Winona State University.
Academic Article Summary Written by Yiran Zhong
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In the Article, “The biology of altruism: Good deeds may be rooted in the brain”, the Author Michelle Trudeau talk about what and why is altruism. There is a example, her name is Angela Stimpson who donate a kidney, but she don’t know name of recipient, and she don’t have any remuneration. In addition, because other person help Marsh when she will die, so she want to research altruism. She find 39 people to help her research. Final, she find amygdala, if you are a donator, your amygdala is bigger than other people and more sensitive of emotion. Other experiment is for psychopaths, the psychopaths’ amygdala is smaller than normal people and more bluntness. In short. The amygdala is control of emotion of a person. It is a reason of altruism.
“The biology of altruism: Good deeds may be rooted in the brain” Written by Young Joo Choi
A article’s title is “The biology of altruism: Good deeds may be rooted in the brain”. This Consectetuer: article is written by Michelle Trudeau. There are three main idea. First, It is a story about Angela. She donates her kidney for no pay as a anonymous. Because she is looking for her purpose in her life. Second, talk about Abigail Marsh. She is a professor of psychology and a researcher about altruism. She had a accident when she was young. If someone doesn’t help her, Marsh was died. After this incident, she decided to study about altruists’s brain. Third, last idea is about test of brain. Through This test we can find a difference of amygdale. Altruist has lager, many amygdales. Besides, psychopath has a small amount of amygdales. 4
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Thank you to everyone who submitted! Thank you to all of our contributors!: Abdullah Al Dharfan, Hamad Al Dowais, Hamad Al Hashel, Rakan Al Muhathil, Mohsen Alsaffar, Abeer Al Subaie, Hamad Alyami, Young Joo Choi, Karla Krause, Dr. Holly Shi, Katie Subra, Yiran Zhong If you have an idea for the Newsletter, please send it to Katie Subra, ksubra@winona.edu. Name:
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1. a possibility that something bad might happen 3. something that is made in a factory or grown 4. to be attractive or interesting to someone 7. demand for product; a group of people who might buy something 8. a new idea, invention, or way of doing something 10. classification of people as male or female 13. a person who buys something
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2. the effect that something will have in the future 5. a plan used to achieve a goal 6. developed using new ways of thinking 9. the money that you make from selling something 11. a research project about a particular subject 12. Chief Executive Officer: the highest person in a company