9/14 Vocab in Lesson Two

Taiwanese Ss are used to heavily rely on what the teacher or cram schools prepare for them. Guiding Ss to check new words and find important usage or phrases in the dictionary is a very good way to help them learn on their own. Karen (昭芬老師) used to ask us to do the same thing. In the past when less teaching materials are offered by the publisher, such as the vocab quiz. Karen would ask us, each of us to design a ten-question vocab quiz (filling in the blank) by using the sentences we found in the dictionary. Although the quality of the quiz might be slightly uneven due to individual effort and individual point of view about which ten are the most important words in a new lesson, the challenge of making a quiz on our own and the uncertainty of which version we would get push us to make more efforts to preview and review the vocab.