Lesson 16

 

Dear Natsu,

 

Thank you for your sixteenth message. My comments and corrections follow.

Sincerely,

Prof Sue Garreis

 

 

Dear Professor Garreis,

Thank you for your reply and corrections of my English.

I will answer your questions and reply.

 

>She is a Catholic nun. She celebrated her seventieth (70th) anniversary as a nun.

>That is a very long time to do anything!!

 

→The image of Catholic nun is holy woman.

She works as a Catholic nun for 70 years and is great.

 

>She taught school for a few years. She became a nurse working in a few

>hospitals, became a teacher of nurses and later director of nursing. She

>spent ten years in Taiwan.

>She left for Taiwan when she was sixty years old! She learned Chinese, too.

 

→She is ambitious and very caring!

I want to learn from watching her.

 

>The celebration of the anniversaries was a marvelous experience.

>It was a great time for all.

 

→That was good!

 

This email is the last reply to you.

Weekly lesson were very hard, but it was fun being able to email with you.

Thank you for everything you have done for me.

Please take care of yourself.

 

Thank you for reading my email.

I’m waiting for your reply.

 

Sincerely　yours,

 

 

Natsu

 

<Home work>

 

1. Please complete the evaluation of this lesson.

How easy was this lesson for you?

 

The accounting was: Somewhat hard

The English was: Somewhat hard

Getting to and using the linked web pages was: Very hard

 

2. Do Japanese professors offer evaluations of their classes?

 

→No, they don’t.

 

3. Please complete the evaluation of the entire course.

1. Why did you take this course? (You may give more than one reason.)

 

→I've always wanted to talk with foreigner!

And, I wanted to improve in English.

 

>>I hope you feel you have improved your English. Thank you for working so hard on this course.

 

2. What made your learning easier in this course?

 

→I got the knowledge of accounting by this class.

 

3. What made your learning harder in this course?

 

→It was difficult for me to translate English into Japanese.

 

4. Can you think of anything to make this course better?

 

→I think that this course very good.

 

5. What was the hardest part of the course? Why?

 

→7th e-mail was so difficult.

I cannot explain well about accounting in English.

 

6. What was the easiest part of the course? Why?

 

→13th e-mail was easy to me.

Because, that site was easy to find for me.

 

7. What could you do for yourself to make this course better?

 

→I could say what I want to in English a little.

 

8. What could the American professor do to make this course better?

 

→There are no problems in particular.

 

9. How easy (or hard) was it to get to the weekly lesson attached to the email?

 

→They were hard for me.

Because I am not good at accounting and English.

 

10. How helpful was the weekly lesson?

 

→I was able to know the accounting in Japan and the United States.

 

11. What problems did you have in getting to the web sites?

 

→I sometimes didn’t know where I click.

 

12. Each lesson had several links to other web sites, such as Applied Materials.  How helpful were the web sites given in each lesson?

 

→They were very useful.

 

13. Did you learn anything new from the holiday (i.e., July 4, Halloween, Thanksgiving) web sites?

 

→Yes! I was able to learn about American culture

 

14. Was the English used in these lessons too hard?

 

→It was difficult for me to do these lessons.



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