What will we do in Basic English 4?
Our main activity in Basic English 4 is blogging. A blog (web log) is a kind of online journal that anyone can read. It's a good way for you to write (in English) about anything that interests you. Because everyone in the class will have a blog, you can read all your friends' blogs, too. So blogging is a good way to communicate with everyone.
To enjoy blogging, it's important that you write often. If you write often, you will learn to use the blogging software, you will become a faster typist, you will think faster in English, and you will communicate better with your classmates. Then blogging will become more enjoyable and you will learn to write more naturally. So, for the first month or so, you need to blog on at least 4 days each week (including the day of the class). A key phrase for your blogging is "十分は十分": if you can find 10 minutes to use a computer, that is enough to write a post. At the beginning, don't worry how much you write each time. And you can write about anything: what you did last night, your hobby, a difficult lecture, a TV programme you watched yesterday, etc.
Another key phrase for the course is: "If it isn't written down, it didn't happen." That means that if you attend a class but don't write even one blog post, that is the same as being absent. And if you do a class activity but don't write about it on your blog, that's the same as not doing the activity.
Don't forget that you can blog from any computer with an Internet connection. Just visit www.blogger.com and enter your username and password.
I'll tell you more about the course in another post. For now, just remember: 十分は十分 !
