Tuesday, 20 April 2010

week 9

In this week Paul was talking about dream vacation and he explained some places that we can visit in holidays such as wildlife safari, Beach resort vacation ,historic sightseeing four, outdoor adventure, rain forest ecotour and luxury cruise. Then, He asked each students about his vacation and where he would travel in future and that what we done in the first two periods. In next two periods he took a few minute to discuss what we have taken after that asked us to do a presentation about your classmate vacation. Some students did their presentation then Paul give them some comments about their presentation which students can make s good presentation

week 7 & 8

In the first two classes in this week, Paul told us the most important things of how to avoid most common mistakes. He Showed us some videos done by some groups and it was about communication mothers. He told us about some mistakes that they have done in their meeting.In the second period, we have done our meeting in the class and it was about how to support a long distant students socially in ADMC. Mohammed was the chairman, Omar the note taker, Abdulla distributed the surveys and he told us about them and I was the note taker. we did our meeting in almost 21 minutes. It was very good and well organized as Paul said.
We had an English progress test on Monday, so we did not have a class because there were in the same time of the test. On Wednesday, almarsoqi group did their meeting and Paul gave them some opinions about it. At the end of the class he started talking about the minutes and how to do it. He also mentioned the report that we have to submit after the minutes done.

week 6

In this week Paul talked about the meating that we should do. this is the first assignment in this course and it is counted as 15 % from the overall score. Paul explained hoe to condiuct a good meating. he played a meating video for some students who have done this meating and it was more useful for us. we took some notes that could help us to prepare a good meating.At the end of this class we decided to form 3 groups from 12 students. our group members are Mohamed Alhashmi.Salem Ali,Abdullah Aljabri and me.There were some topics that we should talk about.Our group chose the topic which was (how to support a long distant student socially) and all of members group were agree with thes topic.

week 5

Paul talked about organizing a presentation about motto. He told us how to avoid some common mistakes in the presentation. The presentation should be in 3 minutes. Some students presented their mottos in the class. They talked about what is the meaning of their mottos, what is the personal value, some past experiences and how their mottos help them in their life. Paul gave some comments on their presentations. I didn’t give my presentation in this week because there was no enough time.

week 4

In week 4, the main topic was about moto and personal values .the first two periods on Monday was about understanding the personal values and the meaning. Also he was asked students to share about their personal values and why these values were important for them. The next two periods Mr.Paul speaks about clarification of the Moto’s and how to prepare and practice for giving a great presentation. In addition, he played record for someone did a presentation about his Moto’s to get ready for giving an presentation about our previous situation and do presentation next class.

week 3

During the week 3 we had only two periods of English Combustion . Mr. Puaul has taught as about how the preparation of a presentation in general. In addition to that he has explained to as how to create a blogger account. Finally, he gave us bit information about the upcoming class which it was about the Moto.

week 1 & 2

This is a summary about first two weeks of academic communication .Paul spook with us about this course and how it will be. after that he introduced his self to the students. Then he told us to present ourselves. Such as where we live, our names and what we think about this course. When we have finished he told us about the grades and how it will be divided and this was what we did in the first week .In the second week he gave us a viewpoint book. then, he told us to choose any one of the students and meet him and make a presentation about him so that what all we have done in the first two weeks.