First of all, I would
like to tell you about the background of the topic, English is a global
language so it has played an important for international communication. Considering
the function of the English language, both English and non-English speaker use
the language for different purposes. For my reason, it’s very important for my
future career, an English teacher. Nevertheless, I still weak on some skills,
such listening and speaking, including to writing. Due to, I had studied
English as ESL learner since my primary school. So I should learn and practice
these skills more and more.
On my opinion, reading
can help me to develop my writing skill because I will know and learn how to
the native’s real speech and writing strategy. Some words or some sentences,
not same what I had learnt from my grammatical book. I think it may be help me
to improve about speaking and reading skills, too.
By the way, today I
read a comic adventure book, Sinbad, retold by Janet
Hardy-Gould. It about a man, who became a sailor after his father dead and
his adventure experiences on sailing. The story told, the beginning of the
story, Sinbad got his father’s treasure, after him dead. Sinbad was unhappy for
a few days, and then he spent all money to pay happiness for him. But after a
year, Sinbad has no more money. Moreover, he has into debt shopkeepers. Hence, Sinbad
decided to sell his father’s best tables and chairs. With the money he bought
some beautiful carpets. He thought to sail to sell the carpets for keep the
money and turn to the shopkeepers. This is the beginning of Sinbad’s adventures
surprisingly. Sinbad becomes the sailor and he spends many years at sea. He
visits strange countries, and meet some strange people; cannibals. And some
very frightening animals; a big whale, which he misunderstand that it a
beautiful island, a Roc, big snakes. He is sometimes rich, sometimes poor. But
he always can use his flair to solve the problems and can survive from the dangers.
All the time he is learning from his adventures, until finally he returns home
to Baghdad, an older and wiser man.
To summarize, the book
have tests, both of pre- reading tests and post- reading tests. There is
navigation between chapters, guessing what is happening in next chapter. It
makes the book even more worth reading. I have learnt many techniques approach
to the reading and writing in English, almost structure of grammar is used
present tense. Besides, I got new vocabularies.
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Vocabulary
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Phonetic Symbol/ Pronunciation
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Meaning
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Barrel (n.)
Roc (n.)
Turban (n.)
Valley (n.)
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/ˈbar(ə)l/
/rɒk/
/ˈtəːb(ə)n/
/ˈvali/
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A
tall round box; you put thing to drink in it.
A
very big bird, a gigantic mythological bird described in the Arabian Nights
Something,
a man head’s covering consisting of a long length of material wound around the
head, especially by Sikhs and Muslims.
(ผ้าโพกศรีษะ)
A
low area of land between hills or mountains
(หุบเขา)
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Armour (n.)
Aannibal (n.)
Wreck
Row (v.)
Caliph (n.)
Wise (adj.)
Ivory (n.)
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/ˈkanɪb(ə)l/
/rɛk/
/rəʊ/
/ˈkeɪlɪf/
/wʌɪz/
/ˈʌɪv(ə)ri/
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When
you wear this, people can’t kill you.
(ชุดเกราะ)
A
person who eats the flesh of other human.
The
destruction of a ship at sea; a shipwreck.
To
move a boat though water using oars (= long wooden poles with flat ends)
A
very important man in an Arab country.
When
a person understands a lot about many things.
This
is white and hard comes from the long tusks on an elephant’s face.
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