Hi everyone and welcome to English Composition B. My name is Kristen Sullivan and I will be your teacher for this semester I hope you enjoy the class and that it is useful for your English study.
In order to become a good writer, it's important to get a lot of practice. So in this class, in addition to the essay assignments, we will also occasionally have “blog writing” homework activities. I think this will be a good chance to not only practice English writing, but also to get to know your classmates a bit better, so I hope you enjoy this activity.
So, for our first blog writing activity I want you to tell us about your summer holiday. Did you have a good summer holiday, a boring summer holiday, a bad summer holiday? What did you do? Please write about 150, and don't forget to briefly introduce yourself too. Don't forget to write your name - otherwise I cannot give you your blog writing points!!!
I'll start...
My name is Kristen Sullivan, but please call me Kris. I have been teaching at Shimonoseki City University for 4.5 years. I'm originally from Brisbane, in Australia. This summer I took 32 students to Brisbane for 外国研修. Do you know about 外国研修? This is a subject (2 credit points) at Shidai, where you can study a language overseas during the summer vacation. There are three languages available: English, Chinese and Korean. My students studied at ICTE (http://www.icte.uq.edu.au/) in the University of Queensland (http://www.uq.edu.au/) for 4 weeks. They studied English, met students from the University of Queensland, did some sightseeing, and stayed with homestay families. I enjoyed taking these students to Australia, because it was a good chance for me to introduce them to my home country. Also, I got to see my own family, which was a nice bonus. If you are interested in studying languages, or experiencing another culture, please consider participating in 外国研修 next year!!!
So, anyway, that was my summer. Now, please tell us about your summer holiday!!
Don't forget to give a short comment to the person who wrote before you. And, try to read as many of your classmates' blogs as possible!!
See you next week,
Kris
