first draft pg.145 [200601955 Won Duho]

How to Get a Good Grade   All the students want to get a good grade, but it seems to be hard to get a good grade. However, it is not an impossible mission. I am one hundred percent sure that anyone can get a good grade. Students who get a good grade have some good habits. The first one is planning and second one is preparation and review. If you plan well and prepare the class and review the class thoroughly, you can get a good grade.   The first secret to get a good grade is planning the study. Plan is one of the most important things in our life. If you want to success, you have to do plan at first. Especially in studying, you have to plan what you study. Planning study has several advantages to get a good grade. First, you cannot miss what you have to do. For example, when you are studying English vocabulary, you can allocate the amount that you have to memorize by planning, so you can achieve your goal. Another advantage of planning is that you can do what you have to do fast. In other words, plan is your short-term goal so you achieve the goals and then you can achieve your real goal that is to get a good grade.   The second way to get a good grade is preparation and review. The advantage of preparing study before class is that students can concentrate the class well because they know the contents of the class. On the other hand, students who do not know the contents of the class cannot understand the class so they are not interested in the class. Review is also important as well as preview because we cannot memorize everything in the class for a long time. Therefore, a student who wants to get a good grade must review the class as soon as possible. In this way, they can reduce the amount of study when they are preparing the exam.   As you can see, there is not special way to get a good grade. All you need to do is that you plan what you study well and preview and review the class thoroughly. There is no next time. Never put off what you have to do today until tomorrow. Then, you must not only get a good grade and but also your life is successful.

pg 145 essay first draft [Seung Ah Lee 200902496]

Good English Writing

 

A great number of non-native English speakers find it more difficult to speak or write than to read or listen. This is probably because expressing one's ideas and thoughts is not an easy job. Producing some pieces of information or knowledge in written form requires quite a few steps and extra efforts. Among them, there are two most important factors for good English writing: idea or information gathering and language features

Firstly, one has to know what he or she is writing about. Before writing, there should be brainstorming where the writer gathers relevant and useful information or knowledge to develop the writing. Depending on the topic type of the writing, one has to decide what kind of content is needed. At the same time, the writing needs to be processed in an organized with a structure. In opinion writing, for example, one has to have rigid reasons for his or her opinion. Examples and details should be included to support the ideas. In all writings, the writer's stand should be clear and the readers should be able to catch the message from the writing.

Another factor that contributes to good English writing is language. Because it is writing in second language, more emphasis is put in language features. For non-native English speakers, it is hard to produce perfect English. They might have punctuation problems, grammatical mistakes or wrong vocabulary selections. Such mistakes are not big problems if messages are delivered. However, if there are too many mistakes, readers can be distracted. This means the piece of writing work is not very good one. Thus, it is important that the writer goes through editing process. Careful reviewing of writing will give a chance to the writer to find mistakes and correct them. Eventually, it will result in refined, though not perfect, English writing.

In short, two requirements for good English writing are idea gathering and editing language features. Therefore, one has to be able to get together information and knowledge and refine the writing after finished. It is exactly the same as buying fresh and quality ingredients and cleaning well in cooking.

pg145 essay first draft [Tae Eun Kwon]

Losing weight   Losing weight seems to be one of the hardest things to succeed. There are so many delicious foods in the world and it's hard to bare the lure to eat them. Also some circumstances like dinning with people makes it hard to do a diet. However, some people succeeded in losing lots of weight and what all those people advice to be the most essential thing in succeeding in a diet is: balanced diet and exercise, great patience.   The first thing you have to do in order to lose weight is watching what you eat. Don't reduce a huge amount of food you eat in a short time. It's important to help your body to get used to the decreased amount of food. If not, after accomplishing your goal and going back to the usual diet, you'll go under the yo-yo effect. Also, eat low calorie food, especially protein. Avoid liquor and coffee as possible as you can and don't eat greasy food. With the balanced diet, you should exercise consistently. It helps your muscles to grow and since muscles burn fat, it is important to exercise while watching your diet.   Moreover, in order to do both things I mentioned above, having great patience is another important thing you need in succeeding a diet. A lot of people quit easily because they don't lose weight in a short time. Also there are some reasons that make them hard to keep to the diet and the exercise. So many people just give up for diverse reasons and end up gaining more weight than before they started to be on a diet. So the people who succeeded in losing weight say you should be patient and should do image training which is to think constantly about your well fitted body after you accomplish your goal.   These are the most beneficial things that successfully dieted people advise that you should do.  With a balanced diet, constant exercise and having patience to keep to the diet and to wait for the results, you'll be successful in losing weight.

pg 145 first draft 200903726 han soo jung

 

To Make A Successful Relationship With People

 

"Human being is a social creature." This is what Aristotles said. And it is very true. Every day we make relationships with other peoples. Family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and even slight ones like mailmen and securities; these are all relationships you make for your whole life. And there are two things to make this relationship successful and great: sincerity and consideration.

 

To make a relationship, the most important thing is sincerity. If you face people with a true heart, at first they may not face you truthfully, but finally they will realize your heart and do the same to you. Because they can feel that you are respecting them and have interests to them. So they decide to get close with you. But if you are acting dissemblingly, they will notice and won't be close to you. Sincerity works everywhere. Like in a speech, confession, or propose. This shows how important this is. And it is sure that it's a best way to get close to peoples.

Another thing is consideration. How do you feel when you see a selfish person? Does he look great because he has a perfect self-esteem? No, maybe. You might get tired and turn away from him. Same with this, if you don't think of others and just do what you want, you might have peoples around you, but really just "around" you. You are not making a good relationship. Think of others feelings first, and think how my actions will affect them. And they will do the same thing to you, too. Then this leads to a nice relationship without a conflict.

 

  With these two things; sincerity and consideration, there will hardly have problems with making a relationship. It sounds very simple, but it is not very easy as we think. It takes time and effort to show these. But if these are understood, it lasts almost forever. So just show what's inside your heart. Then there will be always good peoples around you.

p.145 first draft 200902461 Lee Su A

 

Finding a Job as a Private Tutor

 

     After my graduation from high school, I had to looking for some part-time jobs because I needed pocket money, but my parents want me to earn my pocket money by myself. Many university students give private lessons for making pocket money, so I tried to find some of it. But it's hard to do by myself for the first time, so I planned to practice two specific strategies for finding jobs.

 

One strategy was used to looking for a tutoring job. I tried to make some project for finding students who want to take private lessons and put them into practice step by step. First, I chose the subject, math that I can teach confidently. After choosing the subjects, I made fliers including my personal information for a tutoring job. I wrote down my cell phone number, majors, the name of the university, and all grades related to the subjects I would teach and my work experiences as a tutor. I had to be careful at this step because I should prove a special ability of mine that makes me different from other people who also find students taking private lessons. And then, I went to a stationary store and a book store located near my home and asked a clerk that if I put the fliers up on the walls. I waited for someone to call me. And finally, I got a phone call from a mother who was looking for a tutor for her daughter. I was so glad to take that job and talked with her to decide a pay, proper time and place to visit.

 

The other one was forming good relationship with the student that I have taught. When I met my student for the first time whose name was Bo-Yung and attended to high school, I tried to show my kindness and willingness to be friendly to her. Because I already knew from my own experience that teens are very sensitive, so I tried to understand them and teach them patiently. And I just did my best to teach her by giving her proper homework, checking it weekly, and talking about her grades with her parents regularly as well. I found that it is also important to give advice not only in the study field, but also the sources of troubles that she had, even a small thing to a university students as I am. By sympathizing with her and giving sincere advises, she could open her mind to her and tried to study hard more than she ever had been. After 3 month later since I have studied with her, she grades improved and I could get extra money for that.

 

     By doing these two strategies, I could find my tutoring job to earn my pocket money, form good relationship with my student and be confident myself for achieving my goal as a tutor, improving Bo-Yung's grades. Therefore, it's my experience for being successful and it could be possible based on two reasons.

 

p.145 first draft 200903141 Jung Sun Hoa

Before she became a star

 

Kim Yu-na is the most popular person all over the world. We call her a big star. She became an irreplaceable person in figure skating. She has made people watch her every show with breathless interest. We all know that she has made efforts day and night for her perfect performance. But there are two main reasons to make her a big star.

 

First, she gave up many things, especially friends. I had ever seen a TV program about her. It was when she was not that famous, but I was interested in her because she was around my age. She looked so cute, and the image she practiced staking seemed nice as well. I felt just envious of her. After a few years, she became very popular. And many media cover her story. I got to know that she had hard time training because she had no friends. Her mother made her alone, which was a kind of her strategy only to make her daughter be absorbed in practicing. Kim Yu-na confessed that she hated her mother because she really wanted to go out with many friends and enjoy freedom, but she couldn't. I felt sorry for her to envy her because of her great appearance a few years ago. But for her mother's strategy, she could practice more and grow strong. So she also confessed that she wanted to thank her mother. I think it is really hard thing for her to be alone and practicing just for career. But she finally overcame it.

 

The other factor to make her a big star is that she really enjoys what she is doing. There is a saying that a genius can't win one who does his best, and a person who tries his best can't win the one who enjoys what he does. She had to give up many things and practice a lot, but she could overcome all these things because she has loved and fully enjoyed figure skating. In one interview, she said she wanted to be a figure skating player again even in another life. And in her website like cyworld homepage, she sometimes uploaded her pictures. In her pictures, she always looks so happy and satisfied. Of course she is in the top position and gains fame and even a lot of money, so many people including me are easy to think that there is no reason not to be happy. But she lives under strong pressure to maintain her spot and she has to practice much harder. It might be much distressed to live as a star. But she can do better because she really enjoys skating.

 

I think she shows well that perseverance and patience are necessary to achieve something. And also we have to enjoy what we do first. Actually we all know well about these things leaded us to success. But it is not easy to put them into practice. She did it. What we really should follow her is her hidden efforts.

[200601955 Won Duho] the first draft

The Two Legends in Korean Baseball     The best baseball players made a debut for Korean baseball league in 1993.  They were Lee Jongbeom and Yang Junhyuck.  They were outstanding players when they were rookie. All the fans were surprising at their fantastic play. They are competed in rookie award and Yang Junhyuck won the award. However, when their teams met in the Korean series in their rookie season Lee Jongbeom led his team to win the Korean series and he won the Korean MVP. I think it is hard to distinguish their superiority when they were rookie. After that, they became a good rival each other.   They must have been the best player in Korean baseball league, but their play style was quite different. First of all, Lee Jongbeom's position was a shortstop. He was more famous for defense than batting. He was good at running. He ran 100 meter in 11 seconds. Thanks to his speed, he caught almost all of the balls in his areas. He was the best shortstop in history of Korean baseball league, but he is also the best hitter. He has the largest hit record and stolen base record a season. According to KBO (Korean Baseball Organization), he hit 196 hits and stole 84 bases in 1994. In contrast, Yang Junhyuck was not good at defense but he was a homerun hitter. He was famous his unique batting style which is hurrah batting style. When he batted, he threw his hands up in the air, as if he hurrahed. Despite his rough batting style, he has largest homerun and hit record during his carrier. According to KBO, he hit 350 homeruns and 2280 hits. I think his record is hard to break in 100 years.    They are player of quite different style; however, they have something in common. They have a lot of fans who thinks they are the best baseball player in Korea. People who do not know baseball even know their name, Lee Jongbeom and Yang Junhyuck. Another same thing is that similar to Yang Junhyuck, Lee Jongbeom hit a lot of homerun although he is not homerun hitter and he had a small frame. He always hit homerun more than 20 and his best record is 30 homerun a season. They are well known for their hustle play Lee jongbeom always dived to catch a ball or steal a base so his uniform was always dirty and Yang Junhyuck was always dead run for the first base, although he was definitely out. Finally, they are the anchor of their team. They were not simply a player of their team, they are revered as a father and coach in their team.   They were in competition with a good faith and thanks to their good rival, they can be the best player in Korean baseball history. Unfortunately, Yang Junhyuck, however, announced his retirement in this season to give opportunity for other young players to play, although he was one of the best players in the league. Not only his fans were sorrowful but also all the baseball fans were sad. Lee jongbeom was also truly sorry about his retirement. Even though we can see his paly anymore, his passion for baseball lives in the baseball fans' mind.