Task 10: What did you learn and your feeling about this course?

Before I began to study this course, I have not expected a terminal goal. I thought we would learn how to write applications, essays, passages or whatever that use academic, difficult and formal words, however, it was not like this. Reading was alright. I have improved my reading skill and expanded my vocabularies. For writing course, although I wrote a lot writings, I did not know they were academic or not. I thought I used general words though the topics were academic.

I have doubted and confused about word “academic”. I studied Listening and Speaking for Academic Purposes, the teacher who taught this course said it related education, teaching and learning strategies. I was not sure the meaning of this word. It meant writing or speaking that use the difficult and formal languages, for example, using the word “adequate" or “sufficient” to replace the word “enough” or related education.

After finished this course, I have got many knowledge and experience, especially my reading skill. I acquired variety of vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms. I enjoyed writing weblogs because I could develop my thinking skill and share my opinions, ideas and experiences. I loved to think and write. I am not worry about my score. I wrote because I liked to do it. I would like to say “thank you very much” to my teacher that allow me to write by my heart and not limited time. However I thought there are too many topics. I would like to choose only five topics from ten that I like to create to publish on weblog. For my assignments, I did not like to create task 4, 5, 8 and 9. It made me unhappy to write. Finally, I would like to pay respects to my teacher and realize her gratefulness. Thank you very much, teacher.

Task 9: Global Issues

What do you concern about global issues?

There are many global issues or problems in the world. We have received much information about the global issues in many ways such as mass medias and the internet, especially the issues that my classmates presented to the class last month. I have been informed many problems, for instance, economy crisis, environment problems, population and terrorism. Some does not affect us directly, for example, racism although we should concern about its effects.

The most problem that affects us extremely and wide spread is the global warming. In Thailand, nowadays we have experienced drought condition that has been evident on diary newspapers and television. It influences on human, animals and plants. There is lack of drinking and consuming water and using in farming. Thailand is not only one that has faced the crisis. There are many developing and undeveloped countries also have experienced this condition.

I think we have concerned to attempt to protect and solve the problem. Global warming is a public problem so we have to do many ways as much as we can, like I said on task 8 Climate Change. If we ignore the natural warnings, the global impacts will be more extreme and longer.