Study Abroad
Preparation
Be ready to compete with native
speakers
Students preparing to study in other
countries face two challenges; how to live in another country, and how to
succeed in a classroom filled with native English speakers.
James can help students with the "survival" skills; as an ESL teacher
and administrator, he oriented hundreds of students to life in America.
And as both a teacher and a student, he knows the classroom environment, and
what it takes to be "tops in your class"!
A special element of James' training
is to teach you the vocabulary for math, science, history, art,
literature--things you already know in Chinese, but do not know how to express
in English.
For example, can you read this
"sentence" out loud in English?
32 x 25=288
(It's "Three squared times two
to the fifth power equals two-hundred-eighty-eight")
Every native-born student in your
class will know how to do this!
Here's a brief quiz:
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What does the prefix
"mega" mean?
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What is the name of Darwin's
great "discovery"?
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What do we call the
"beat" in poetry?
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Which two countries fought each
other in the War of 1812?
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What do we call the head person
of the Roman Catholic Church?
These are not difficult questions;
almost every American can answer them.
The answers:
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The prefix "mega"
generally means large. In technical expressions, it means one
million.
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Darwin's great
"discovery" is called The Theory of Evolution.
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The "beat" in poetry
is called the meter.
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America and England
fought each other in the War of 1812?
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The head person of the Roman
Catholic Church is called the Pope.
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