Do you know who you are?

  Do you know who you are exactly? Do you know what type you are in? Do you know the things you love and the things you hate? If you cannot answer to any of those questions, maybe MBTI can help you. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions (from Wikipedia).
   There are four pairs of preferences or dichotomies: (E) for extroversion and (I) for introversion according to one's attitudes, (S) for sensing and (N) for intuition according to one's cognitive functions, (T) for thinking and (F) for feeling according to one's judgmental functions. (J) for judging and (P) for perceiving according to one's lifestyle.
  You can easily divide whether a person belongs to an E or I. Their difference is brought by the gap of one's energy; people who want to do some active things and people who want to do some quiet exercises. The person who belongs to an E doesn't like to be at home, so many E types of women in traditional Korean home will have many troubles with their family members.
  Next ones are S and N. Sensing and intuition are the information-gathering functions. They describe how new information is understood and interpreted. Individuals who prefer sensing are more likely to trust information that is in the present, tangible and concrete: that is, information that can be understood by the five senses. They prefer to look for details and facts. For them, the meaning is in the data. On the other hand, those who prefer intuition tend to trust information that is more abstract or theoretical, that can be associated with other information. They may be more interested in future possibilities. They tend to trust those flashes of insight that seem to bubble up from the unconscious mind. The meaning is in how the data relates to the pattern or theory.
  Usually, T follows S and F follows N, because the thinking and feeling functions are both used to make rational decisions, based on the data received from their information-gathering functions, sensing or intuition. Therefore, the people who are in ST are logical, causal and consistent while the people who are in NF tend to come to decisions by associating or empathizing with the situation, looking at it 'from the inside' and weighing the situation to achieve, on balance, the greatest harmony, consensus and fit, considering the needs of the people involved.
  Now it's turn to J and P. Judging types prefer to "have matters settled." types with a preference for judging show the world their preferred judging function (thinking or feeling). So TJ types tend to appear to the world as logical, and FJ types as empathetic. Those types ending in P show the world their preferred perceiving function. So SP types tend to appear to the world as concrete and NP types as abstract.

(from Wikipedia)

  Then, let's look into the type of famous drama character. In these days, the drama IRIS is very popular, and she is the main character of the drama. She is an intelligent agent of NSS(National Security Service). Then, let's analyze her character.

ENTJ

  She must belong to E rather than I, because she socialize with strangers easily, and she expresses her opinion straightly. Also she is energetic of all matters.

  And She belongs to 'NT.' The type 'T' usually follows the type 'S', but it can also be paired with N, because the MBTI assessment is to measure the degree, not exact typical type. Also, the environment of a person, like parents and the job can affect to the person strongly. The inborn temperament can be hidden to the deep inside of one's mind.

  Anyway, why her type is N is that she likes to behave according to her intuition. There were obvious proof that TK 1 agent, Byung-Hyung Lee died, but she didn't belive it. Rather, she had a strong belief that Mr. Lee would survive in somewhere, and started to track of his trail.

  Her T type shows her agent characters well. She is thoughtful and rational. For example, when she was captured by her enemies and was moved in the trunk, she counted the number of speed bumps and their interval seconds.

  Now for J. She is a professional profiler. She profiles everything and catagorizes all of her beloings. Somehow, this is a natural characteristics as an agent. Like all agent in this drama, she is also strategic and thorough for every matter.

  Now, can you get the feel of the types of MBTI? Then can you identify yourself?

The way of learning English through the Internet

  There is two way for learning English through the Internet. One is weekely mail, and the other is through music and quotes of a certain movie.
  Do you know the YBM site? Everyone might have visited this site to apply for TOEIC test. This site is very useful to people who are eager to learn English. And once when I entered this site to apply for TOEIC, I found out that there were a lot of useful information for learning English. So, I decided to get weekly mail from that site. Every Wednesday, I get e4u weekly e-mail from the site. It is very useful. There are many things to do in one mail. Its contents seem to be well-organized.

  First, I can learn new words for TOEFL. I can see what they mean and their example sentences. Furthermore I can learn synonyms and make a sentence with that words. Of course, I can check wheter the sentence I make is right.

  Then, I make a composition with other words. This is also for TOEFL. This time, I can check the answer through the on-line lecture for the composition. The teachers teach me skill and tips for TOFEL writing.

  And, the third one I do is reading some useful column for iBT. If I click 'more' button, I can see the detail of the column. This week's subject is that do not memorize how to make subjunctive mood sentences like a formula.

Last thing I do is this one. This is aother column, and through this, I can learn the culture of English speaking countries, especially U.S. Sometimes it speaks about an idiom like this week, and sometimes it tells me about the culture: The 10 Best Careers in America.

If you are interested in this e4u weekly e-mail, try to vist this site.

http://e4u.ybmsisa.com/

  Another way of learning English through the Internet is movie OST and the quotes. It's a very easy way to put them into practice, because I already got interest from the movie. Whenever I watch Hollywood movie, I surf the Internet to find its OST and the good quotes from  the movie. I replay the favorite songs again and again and repeat. So do with the good quotes.

These two ways were very useful for me and it must be very good for you.

The Snowman

  This week's book is The Snowman, Raymond Briggs. This is a very famous book. There is a translated version book in Korea. Many children said that they have read this book as a translated version. Here is the first part of an animation The Snowman.

  This is a story about a boy and a snowman. A boy named James makes a fine snowman. And that night, he sneaks downstairs and meets the snowman. Surprisingly, it moves! He invites the snowman inside his house and also they fly the sky. They have a wonderful night. In the morning, he wakes up and run outside, but the snowman has gone.

  Actually my students is two, but one of our mentors had an accident, so I got his two students. Therefore, I had my class with four children in this week. I was worried about that they cannot concentrate on me well, but they followed me very well, without any problem.

  At first, we greet each other and talked each other. They seemed to have many things to say; their school life and about the moon whether there is water. They were very talkative so I let them talk for about 5 minutes, and started the class.

  The reading was smoothly proceeded. There was no difficult words for them and the length of a book was short, so they liked the book:)

  I planned two post-activities. One is just checking whether they remember the new words. We learned get dressed, pile, add and sneak. They remembered well. Especially, when I promised to give two stickers on their sticker board to whom demonstrate the word sneak exactly, they were very active.

  The other post-activity was playing with play dough. I made children make snowman, but first, I showed them the whole process of making snowman teaching important words. For example, when I was mixing the two different colors of the dough, I asked them what I was doing. Then they answered "mix". I used this way on learning other words like make a pile, roll, add and etc.

  After that, it was their turn to make a snowman. They was cheered up! Though there was a lot of messy, I was glad to see them happy.

  When I first started the mentoring, it was difficult to proceed the class for me; both preparation of a class and controlling of inattentive children. But now I feel I became a professional teacher whenever I had a great time with them.

The result of my last week's teaching

  The children liked the book Do Not Open This Book very much. They were curious when they read the title. They pressed me to turn the page quickly. They wondered and imagined what the terrible things awaited them. There were a few words they don't know; terrible, horrible, awful and etc. But their pronunciation was inaccurate, so it made me harder. However, in overall, the book and the class was good.
  Since the book was short and the letters were big, they gave a sigh of relief at first. And, I speeded up too, not to lose their attention and interest. Finally in the end, they turned pale with surprise and even one of the children said that the book smelled like awful, though it wasn't real.
  After reading, we did many activities. First, we made a mini-book. Actually, that was not my plan, but children created it~! I prepared four different pictures of the book and the mouse's script. It was the activity about summarizing the story in order. They organized it orderly, then they cut their papaer into some pieces and made small book.
  Secondly, we learned about the expression "Do Not~". I had three scenes of famous story. One was from Snow White. The princess was nearly eating the apple. Then children fill the blank. "Don't ____ the apple". Another one was from The Shepherd Boy. He was lying that the wolf came to there. Then the children fill in the blank "Don ____ a lie". Last one is The Red Hat Girl and A Wolf. She was inside of the door and the wolf knocked. She came to the door. "Don't ____ the door".
  Lastly, the background of the story was the inside of an old house. So, the children were supposed to draw pictures that the things which are expected to live in the house; among a ghost, a mouse, a spider, a monster, a cat and a bat. They were all good painters. I was surprised at their drawing. It was excellent~!
 
  I had a very good time with them and through this class, I learned that many art and craft activities is good for children's learning. I'll post this week's class plan later. This week's book is The Snow Man.

My friend's baby's first birthday party.

  Last Saturday, November 21, was my friend's baby's first birthday party. She lives in Cheon-An, so I and one of my friends went to there to congratulate their family. Actually, she got marry to her husband so early than others; when she was 22, and her husband was only 20. They had a tough time to persuade their parents and manage their marriage life at first, but now they are happier than any other couples. We were glad to see the couple.

  As the place was too far for us, we had to take a train, but since it was weekend, there was no seats for us. So we were just standing during a long journey. However, there was a wonderful place for standees. It is called "train cafe". They made a cafe with one of the trains and decorated its interior like a real cafe. People can eat foods, drink coffee, enjoy games and get massages from massage machine. We were tired when we came back, so we sat down on the floor of the train. The heating system of the train was near to the floor, so we enjoyed our sauna :D

  Anyway, we arrived there on time. There were some events and special things for the guests. Since many Koreans throw a big party for their babies' first birthday, that kinds of events and the services are well developed in Korea.

  At first, we greeted each other and congratulated their family. And we wrote a message on the postcard which was made of the baby's picture. Here are her pictures.

  And then, we applied for "what things will Ye-Jin pick up?" It means that people guess what thing the baby pick up when she operate a 돌잡이, and put a coupon into each baskets according to their guessing. Each coupon has a number and each baskets has stuff's name . And later, the baby's mother or father pick up one coupon. It is a kind of a gamble. 돌잡이 is a traditional Korean custom. The parents prepare some stuffs―a pencil, a thread, a stethoscope, a code of laws, money, and etc. Each thing has its meaning like this. a pencil-to be intelligent, a thread-to live long, a stethoscope-to be a doctor, a code of laws-to be a lawyer(doctors and lawyers are best careers in Korea), money- to be rich. In these days, money is considered as a best choice, so many parents expect and encourage their babies to choose money.

  When 돌잡이 was started, the baby's father added microphone to be a celebrity. And the baby, according to the daddy's hope, she picked up a microphone~!


  It was a great time for us, but I felt that it wasn't a good party for the baby, because the baby got very tired. Their original purpose was to celebrate the baby's first birthday, but it made the baby feel more tired. Before beginning of 돌잡이, she fell asleep and we waited for about 20min, but at last we awakened her. We were very sorry....... So I made a decision that when I get my baby, I'll give a small party for my baby's first birthday party with only family members. First birthday party is a pleasure for grown-up people, but it is an annoying thing for the baby-!

The person who I admire

Can you guess who they are?


  They are Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. Most people admire Helen who made something from nothing. Nothing could she hear and see. Naturally, she couldn't speak. Hellen Keller, however, made herself possible from impossible. I also admire her.

  But, whom I respect most is her teacher, Anne Sullivan. If Helen Keller could done everything without Anne? I think the answer is "No".

  Here is a famous episode about learning language with them.



Anne Sullivan had made a lot of progress in teaching Helen Keller, a deaf blind girl. She would both spell the word on Helen's hand with her finger and have Helen touch the object. But even though Helen could repeat these finger movements, she couldn't quite understand what they meant. Then one day, Miss Sullivan brought Helen both her hand in coat and they walked down to the water pump together. On that day, Miss Sullivan not only pumped the water over Helen's hand, but also spelled the word water on her hand. Somehow, this explain the meaning of the world to Helen. Miss Suliivan saw from Helen's face that she eventually understood. Helen then asked her to spell the name of the pump and the name of the trelliss. Helen learned the name of everything she touched on the way back to the house. She nearly exhausted Miss Sullivan. But now she had a way of learning about her world. She could learn everything had a name.

(from Zenith's Grammar Book)

This is about her biography.


  Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy was born in April 14, 1886.  Her mother suffered from tuberculosis and died when Anne was eight years old. Her father was an alcoholic farmhand who abandoned his three surviving children after his wife died. when Annie was ten, she and her brother Jimmie moved in with other relatives, who later sent the two siblings to the Tewksbury Almshouse (today Tewksbury Hospital). Annie spent her time there with Jimmie, in hopes that they would not be separated; however, his condition resulting from a tubercular hip weakened him and he died three months later.


  When Anne Sullivan was three she began having trouble with her eyesight as a result of the eye disease trachoma, a bacterial infection that often causes blindness by scarring. Sullivan underwent a long string of surgeries. Doctors in Tewksbury had made a few vain attempts to clean her eyelids. However, in 1880, she entered the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in Boston, where she underwent surgery in 1881 and regained some of her sight.


  After the improvement of her eyesight, and graduating as class valedictorian in 1886, Michael Anaganos, the school's director, encouraged her to become a teacher for Helen Keller and she received special training to do this. In 1887, Sullivan had an additional surgery which restored more of her vision. When Helen was six years old, in 1887, Anne moved in and acting as her governess started teaching her.
  Sullivan began by teaching Helen Keller nouns using the sign language alphabet signed into Keller's palm that had been developed by Spanish monks in medieval times. After its adoption by French educators, it was adapted by British and American educators including the founder of the Perkins Institution, Samuel Gridley Howe.

(from Wikipedia)

  Anne Sullivan gave Helen Keller a hope and an enthusiasm that she could do. Also Anne contributed to progress of teaching methods; how could she find out the way which spell the word on one's hand and touch the object? At that time, it was only ealry 20c's and I think it was a revolutionary method. I think today's educators should follw Anne's way, instead of teaching students boring textbooks, in a boring way.

  I want to be that kind of teacher who always encourage students and give them hopes.

I'm interested in children's book.

  I'm very interested in children's book. Today, there are so many children's books in the bookstore. Many parents are considerate to choose a book, worrying about whether their choice is good or not. Although I'm not someone's parents, I'm the one of them, because I teach 10-year-old students English, every Tuesdays.

  I get some advice from prof. Yoo, when I choose my textbook. The book I chose for this week is Do Not Open This Book, by Joy Cowely and Illustrated by David Lund. This book draws readers' interests just by title. A mice is shown on the cover, pleading not to open the book. In the book, the mice says like this.
"Why did you turn the page?",  "You did open this book.", "Whatever you do, do not turn this page.", "There is the most terrible, horrible, scared thing you have ever seen." It arouses the curiosity from readers, what things is awaiting for them in the end. At last, a disgusting picture appears; meanies devour their spaghetti.
I think it is not educational, and less disgusting picture will be appropriate for the children, but, at the same time, I can give them the moral that the greed for food is not good.

  And we will learn about the expression "Why did you~?". Also, since the background of the book is inside of a house, we will learn about the words related to the house, rooms and furnitures. I'm look forward to seeing my children on Tuesday. I'll write again the post about the result of the book and the teaching.

My favorite sites

1. Google Image

  I visit this site very often, to get some images for making flash cards. Actually, I teach children English once a week. (Some of you may take the class "In-Ha English Mentoring", with me.)

  To attract young children's attention and let them remember long, I need some brilliant pictures for each expression. This site has many pictures and there's no barrier to save pictures, unlike Naver Image.

2. Naver English Dictionary

  I visit this site almost everyday. I'm not a native speaker of English, so I need to find the meaning that I don't know, and check if what I want to say is right. Not only can users look up meaning of the words in English, but also they can view it in English(I mean an English-English dictionary), and there are a lot of example sentences. It has various kinds of dictionary, even Korean-Korean dictionary and an encyclopedia. It is useful when I have to type an essay writing in English.

3. Naver Movie

  I visit this site when I have an interesting movie. When a movie is released, and it seems to be interesting, I check the movie whether it is fine, through this site. Sometimes, some posts contain too many information for non-watchers, but overall, I make a decision if I should watch it after checking this sites.

  Also, I like to rate what I watch it with someone, and this site can have a discussions or arguments. In addition, everyone can post his or her favorite quotes. I also got a lot of aid from this site when I complete my wiki page.

10 things I do with my computer

01. I do my report
02. and my paper for graduation
03. Sometimes I listen to music
04. Other times I attend on-line classes.
05. I read some gossips
06. and also some social news.
07. I enjoy on-line shopping,
08. and I save my photos and upload them on my blog
09. I like to chat with my friends,
10. and watch movie, too.