วันอาทิตย์ที่ 22 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2558

Online Course on Coursera


             I took an online course on https://www.coursera.org website to learn and improve my English. The course is grammar and punctuation course with University of California, Irvine.




         I have completed grammar and punctuation course, and I have got 89.3% grade. After I learnt from the course I practiced a lots, and my English was improved better. In the course is about; verb tenses and conjunctions, compound and complex sentences and more commas, parallel structure, and sentence variety.



           English learning online is very great method to learn English and moreover I can learn more other online courses on the website that interesting such as courses in the arts and humanities and business. I was fun and happy to learn, practice the online courses on website by myself.



Grammar intuition



Grammar intuition v. corpus data (Corpus grammar )
 Prepositions
sentences
Learning
-He's going to home.

-He's going home.

We can’t use to word before home word. Concordance for equals home in Corpus such as
at home/  come home/  coming home
-The people are fed up of so many elections.

-The people are fed up with so many elections.
Fed up can use with to or with word after the word and not hits to use of word with fed up.
-Tell to me everything she said.

-Tell me everything she said.
We wouldn't use to among tell and me.
-They listen the radio every morning.

- They listen to the radio every morning.
Using listen and radio have to use to among both words.
-She is interesting to watching birds.

- She is interesting to watching birds.
Interested use to tell about persson’s feeling.
Interesting use to tell about the manner of something.
We should use in after interest instead to

Singular-Plural
sentences
Learning
- Ask one of the girl if she can go with you.
- Ask one of the girls if she can go with you.
One of the use with Plural N.
- The man was met by a 10-years-old boy.

- The man was met by a 10-year-old boy.
If year is Plural N. have to add s on the end of the word.
If there is complement after old word, so it can’t add s on the end of the year word.
The weather is cold in many part of this country.
-The weather is cold in many parts of this country.
Many have to use with plural N., so part have to add s on the end of the word.
- Her dream is to open a flowers-shop.
- Her dream is to open a flower-shop.
Flower shop is name of the shop.
It isn’t means the flower in the shop.

- These shoes are made by hands in Italy.

- These shoes are made by hand in Italy.
It’s idiom in English, so hand don’t add s on the end of the word.



Word order
sentences
Learning
- He came down with a disease serious.
- He came down with a serious disease.
Serious have to be set on the left before disease word.
- Fallen branches covered completely the car.
- Fallen branches covered the car completely.
Completely is an adverb and cover is a verb, so adverb have to set before verb or set on the end of the sentence.

Formulaics
sentences
Learning
-I don't know how it looks like.
-I don't know how it looks like.
Many have to use with plural N., so part have to add s on the end of the word.
- Do you want to marry me?
- Do you want to marry me?
Flower shop is name of the shop.
It isn’t means the flower in the shop.





Gerund-Infinitive
sentences
Learning
- She enjoyed to write poems for her friends.
- She enjoyed writing poems for her friends.
Enjoy and write are verb that they can’t set together. In the sentence writing is a noun, so write have to add -ing on the end of the word.
- They stop to work at 5 o'clock.

- They stop working at 5 o'clock.
Stop and work are verb that they can’t set together. In the sentence working is a noun, so work have to add -ing on the end of the word.
-They want buying a new car.
-They want to buy a new car.
Want and buy are verb that they can’t set together, it have to set to word before the word.

Conditional
sentences
Learning
-I wish I can see her again.
-I wish I can see her again.
Many have to use with plural N., so part have to add s on the end of the word.
- If I would have known, I would have said so.
- If I would have known, I would have said so.
Flower shop is name of the shop.
It isn’t means the flower in the shop.


Past v. Perfect
sentences
Learning
- The situation changed since 1989.
- The situation changed since 1989.
Flower shop is name of the shop.
It isn’t means the flower in the shop.



วันจันทร์ที่ 2 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2558

Improved writing skill


    Hello everyone! Last week I had to evaluate my English skills and the result was as follows:



From my self-evaluation language skill I have the high scores on speaking skill but low scores on listening skill. I have to improve my listening skill to better by practice listening English on http://englishteststore.net website.

        Next, I chose litening test true or false in the column on the left.




         There are many listening comprehension tests such as easy level test, medium level test and hard level test. I have done 10 tests of easy level test.




How to do the tests:  There are passage mp3 clips for me to listen then I answered the questions by choosing true or false.



           Finally, I got the results of my test, and I passed all of 10 tests. This are some of the results from some tests.