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A
fter 3 years from the last Beauty days later (the International Women’s Day),
Contest, female students of Miss ULIS pageant has become one of the
ULIS, VNU again had the great most fabulous events in early 2011. Our
opportunity to affirm their beauty, talent, pretty girl, Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang from
confidence and sensibility. Launched from class 08E16, with a brilliant responding
the first days of January, the contest answer, had won the hearts of the judges and
attracted thousands of contestants, and all came up with the third place after all.
the attention of not only students but also
lectures of ULIS, VNU. All beautiful girls
had to go through three extremely
competitive rounds: Online vote,
Knowledge Explore, and Talents show.
Among them, the Talents show taking place
at Vu Dinh Lien Hall on 4th March surprised
every audience with many stunning
performances from 15 beautiful girls. Four
The Olympiad VNU, which is held every usual, was the host of this wonderful event.
two years, is a very amazing competition for The organizers have worked so hard for 2
non-English majors. It now has become months to bring the competition all the best.
more and more popular to not only VNU Especially, this year, the Olympiad
students but also many non-English majors welcomed one team from FPT University
from different universities in Hanoi. Faculty with very fantastic and confident
of English Language Teacher Education, as contestants. They managed to bring a whole
new style to the competition. The finale took
place on 22nd March with an audience of
700 from many different universities. Dr.
Do Tuan Minh – The Vice President of
University of Languages and International
Studies, who delivered the opening speech,
was also one of the judges at that night.
With very fluent English and incredibly
wide background knowledge, our champion
this year was the excellent team from QT
classes.
The so-called Talents show really came to first days of registration, more than half of
ULIS. It was hot, fabulous, and largely all performances came from our Faculty.
dominated by FELTE students. From the There have been all kinds of art: singing,
belly dance, role-play, playing
instruments, etc. After 2
effervescent rounds, fifteen
outstanding talents did create one of
the hottest nights ever on 24th March
at 10-12 Hall. The result might not
satisfy all students, but each of us
still has our own reasons to be proud
of beloved FELTE.
M
y childhood was full of extremely boring as all a teacher does is to repeat
memories with wools. I the same old lessons in different classes of
remembered playing with the different years. To my mind, this is an entirely
pile of wool at night till falling asleep on them and false belief in both cases. Knitting is all about
receiving the newly knitted shirts made of the challenging yourself with increasingly intricate
leftover wools from my mother whenever the patterns in order to create more beautiful designs.
Lunar New Year was about to come. Naturally, I Teaching is all about equipping yourself with
learnt how to knit at the same time as I learnt how increasingly effective techniques in order to create
to read. Now as a teacher-to-be studying at the more inspiring lessons. Knitting requires creativity;
University of Languages and International Studies, so does teaching. Without creativity, knitters and
I gradually realized that my life-long hobby of teachers are not any better than machines and
knitting is very similar to my future career of software.
teaching in several ways. Do you knit? If you answer yes to this
Some classmates of mine often give me a question, I’m sure you are a very patient and kind-
despising look when I brought my knitting works hearted person. Just like knitting, teaching requires
to class. They considered it a tedious pastime a lot of patience and kindheartedness. In the old
which is typical of unsociable people. Similarly, I days, whenever my yarn got tangled, I would either
was the only one in my English – specializing class ask my mother for help or cut off the whole bunch.
of the Hanoi-Amsterdam high school to apply for Fortunately, as time goes by, knitting has trained
the Faculty English Language Teacher Education. me to be calmer when problems arise. I believe
Most of them thought that the career was that this virtue would be useful when I encounter
mischievous students in the future. Teaching is like
knitting in a way that you have to do it with all
your heart. Nothing feels better than wearing a
scarf knitted by your dearest mother. And nothing
feels worse than being taught by a teacher who
dislikes teaching. The greatest teachers are those
that love their students as much as their own
children and provide students with not only wait a little longer, dear.” Knitting is like teaching.
knowledge but also care and nurture. “It’s freezing It is a journey, not a destination. It is the process of
cold out here. You’re going to have a sore throat”, waiting and expecting to see the results that gives
said Ms. Hoa- my forth grade teacher as she you the greatest pleasure. With each stitch, each
wrapped the blue woolen scarf around my neck. row, you are closer to see the lovely cap. With
Such a simple sentence left a undeletable trace in each lesson, each semester, you are closer to see
my heart. the well-rounded student. The scarf is already in
the wool, all you have to do is to make it visible.
“Mom, is my jacket done?” was my
The abilities are already in the student, all you
mother’s most frequently asked question, I am sure
have to do is to give him an opportunity to
about that. It was always the first sentence that I
discover them. So I believe.
said when I came home from school in winter. And
my most frequently responded answer was “Just By Truong Hai Ha – Trainee Teacher
E
very year thousands of graduates enroll Get your qualification
for teacher training but the upsetting Don’t just ignore a degree in teaching or education
lack of qualified teachers in our country since you are required to prove your academic
still puts the authorities and educationalists under standards if you want to become a professional
constant pressure from year to year. Is this fact a teacher. It is clearly seen that benefits such as job
warning sign for those who intend to dedicate security, geographical mobility and long holidays
themselves to the profession? To be successful in act as powerful incentives before potential
any career, it is important to thoroughly research teachers realize the requirements of the
its nature before you invest time and money in profession. In my opinion, teaching is a creative,
training. intellectually demanding and rewarding job;
Now, for both those currently working as teachers therefore, the requirements of knowledge and
and those still being on the way to find a position skills for joining the profession must be high, too.
in the teaching career, let’s get out your red
Become a guru
marking pen as we take a quick look through the
Unlike many jobs, teaching is a lifestyle choice - just
highs and lows of this special profession.
think about the responsibility factor. As a teacher,
you are partly responsible for the development of a inspirational life coach, teaching is second to
young person’s life. Being a teacher is not just about none.
passing on academic knowledge, teachers may also
have profound impacts on learners’ characters,
outlook and even future planning.
Answer
• Pronunciation Differences
• Spelling Differences Differences between
• Vocabulary Differences British-English, American-
• Grammar Differences
English and Australian-
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Answer
British English and American English are more popular than the
last one. American English is the most popular throughout the world
while in Europe it is British English that predominates.
What kind of English In fact, it is very hard to say what the Standard English is because
the language varies from region to region, from culture to culture. The
above is more popular?
foreign speakers should be highly aware of the differences among kinds
Which one is supposed to
of English so that they can use appropriately in each situation.
be a stem?
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wo years ago, when I was a second- two above samples are of APA style, which is required
year student, I still believed that in our department.
plagiarism was when I copied and You can access an effective guideline on how to use
pasted someone else’s words and use them as if they APA style at the following link:
were mine. Therefore, what I did to avoid plagiarism http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
was to paraphrase them! Later, I realized that I was Plagiarism is considered a serious academic
totally wrong. If you yourself in the same situation or if offence because it is stealing others’ intellectual
you feel like you have very few ideas of what plagiarism properties. Plagiarism can be intentional or by mistakes
and citation is, this piece can hopefully help you in some (when a person do not know that they are plagiarizing)
way. but the line between the two always blurs that there can
Plagiarism is taking someone else’s words or ideas and never be a reasonable-enough excuse for this “crime.” If
then presenting them as your own (in other words, it is so, how can you tell if you are committing this
without acknowledging the source of information). We crime? Following is a good checklist I found on the
acknowledge a source by citing it. There are two types of internet that can help you:
citation: full citation and in-text citation. Let’s look at You need to cite your source, even if:
two examples: 1. you put all direct quotes in quotation marks.
In-text citation: 2. you changed the words used by the author into
Intrinsic motivation is defined as the motivation synonyms.
to perform an activity for the sake of enjoyment and 3. you completely paraphrased the ideas to which
interest “in the absence of a reward contingency or you referred.
control” (Deci & Ryan, 1985, p. 34) 4. your sentence is mostly made up of your own
Full citation: (this appears in your reference thoughts, but contains a reference to the
list) author's ideas.
Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (1985). Intrinsic motivation 5. you mention the author's name in the sentence.
and self-determination in human behavior. New From
York: Plenum. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/library/subjectsandsupport/p
lagiarism/undergrads
There are different citation styles that one might
be required to follow in academic writing, but the two Nguyen Nhue Giang –trainee teacher
most popular in social sciences are APA and MLA. The
A priest was visiting an old Lady in her home. She offered him coffe
and they sat down in the living room for a nice chat.
After a while the man saw a bowl of peanuts at the side table. He
asked the old Lady if he could have one. She said of course, help yourself.
After a little while he took some more and she just smiled. So when
he wanted even more he said: I am eating so many of your peanuts, I hope it
is ok. She answered him: Eat them all if you want! I cannot chew them with
no teeth so I have just sucked of the choclate on all of them.
Bill, Jim, and Scott were at a convention together and were sharing a large
suite on the top of a 75 story sky scraper. After a long day of meetings they were
shocked to hear that the elevators in their hotel were broken and they would have to
climb 75 flights of stairs to get to their room. Bill said to Jim and Scott, let's break the
monotony of this unpleasant task by concentrating on something interesting. I'll tell
jokes for 25 flights, and Jim can sing songs for 25 flights, and Scott can tell sad stories
the rest of the way. At the 26th floor Bill stopped telling jokes and Jim began to sing.
At the 51st floor Jim stopped singing and Scott began to tell sad stories. "I will tell my
saddest story first," he said. "I left the room key in the car!"