Interview Questions

1.      Where are you from?

2.      How do you like the life in St. Cloud till now?

3.      Any difference between the life here and in your country? (if yes) And how do you get used to this new life?

4.      Do you prefer living here or in your country?

5.      What kind of food you like most in your culture?

6.      What is staple food in your culture? (Rice, noodles, etc.)

7.      How do you spend your spare time? (Sports, activities, meetings, etc.)

8.      Do you have any special festival during a whole year?

9.      How do you celebrate your special festival? (New Year, Christmas, moonlight, etc.)

10.  Any kind of feature of climate in your country? The differences between the climate here and in your country.

11.  Any special custom in your culture? How to comply with it?

12.  Any difference between contacting with a man and a woman? How to make it more proper?

13.  How to deal with wedding, birthday, funeral, etc?

14.  Any difference between the school rules and systems here and in your country? (may repeat Q 2, if yes) How to live with a new study environment?

15.  How to arrange time on study, workday, weekend, etc.

16.  If I want to make friends with a man or a woman, what I need to do according to your culture?

17.  Any special gestures in your culture? (if yes) What should I pay more attention to?

18.  Have you ever come across any special or tough experience in your life in St. Cloud?

Top 3 Countdown

NO. 3 Lee, Pa Kou

NO. 2 Schneider, Jordan J

NO. 1 Eder, Hailey L

Interview Objectives

1.      About daily life

-          What kind of food you like most in your culture

-          Do you have any special festival during a whole year

-          Something about everyday’s routine

2.      About culture

-          How celebrate new year or Christmas

-          Differences between man and woman

-          Any special customs in the culture

-          Wedding, birthday, funeral

3.      About education

-          School rules and school system

-          Time on study and workday, weekend

4.      People contact

-          Any special ways to greet each other

-          How make friends with a man or a woman

-          Gesture meanings and etc.

Operationalizing the Interview Process

1.      Take some spear time to go to Lawrence Hall.

2.      Look for 3-4 international students

3.      Meet them at Atwood

4.      Explain the purpose of the interview

5.      Make an appointment to take the interview

6.      Put down cell phone numbers or MSN numbers

7.      Keep in touch and make the right time to do the interview

8.      Make a full knowledge of their backgrounds and put them down

9.      Figure out some proper questions for the interview

10.  Printer out the questions and send copies to them

11.  Find a good place for the interview and wait for the interviewees

12.  Make a full use of the questions and get to know of their culture and backgrounds

13.  Take some important notes from time to time

14.  Buy coffee or something for them

15.  Try to make the environment smooth and comfort for the interviewees

16.  After the interview thank the interviewees and try to make good friends with them

17.  Arrange the notes and put them in aright order

18.  Ask interviewees something not specific

19.  Complete the task and check it

20.  Post the task on the blog

What is global communication and how has it promoted the globilazation witnessed in the past ten years?

Introduction: Global communication allows the communication between different countries, which may have different culture backgrounds, with that economic and technology can travel around the world faster and better. Globalization can be realized by a variety of ways with the help of global communication. Global communication pushes globalization forward to enable economic and technology keep stepping forward.
Thematic statement: Global communication throughout the world let economic and technology keep growing faster and better.
Body: Economic can let us live a better life. Take me for example, I must ride a bike or take a bus to go to school in the past time, however, our family has a private car to go to work. It is really a faster and better way. Technology can let us do what we could not do in the past decade. Take China for example, we still could not send space rocket to the space in several years ago. And not far from now, we have made it.
Technology also enable us have a better life. Date back to ten years ago, people still need send email to contact each other. And now, we have our own cell phones, so that we can send messages everywhere we want. Not everyone had a PC in the past ten decade, however now almost everyone has a PC. This kind of progress can let people from everywhere to communicate better and faster.

A decade ago, I even could not imagine that I could go abroad and study overseas. I still remember I was wandering among the fields in rural when I was around 10 years old. I was innocent and pure. Everything was so simple and peace. Life was a kind of obvious. I lived in a poor family. Economic and technology were also poor during that time.

Nowadays, I am living a rapid pace of life. Everything is growing faster and faster. Economic and technology are highly developed. We can get almost everything we want. People can contact each other easily and fast.

Conclusion: Global communication allows globalization grow faster. Economic and technology can keep stepping forward.

iciba, dictionary, Global communication,

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Communication

Outline

Introduction: Global communication allows the communication between different countries, which amy have different culture backgrounds, with that economic and technology can travel around the world faster and faster. Globalization can be realized by a variety of ways with the help of global communication. Global communication pushes  globalization forward to enable economic and technology grow faster and faster.

Thematic statement: Global communication throughout the world let economic and technology keep stepping forward.

Body: Economic can let us live a better life. Take me for example, I must ride a bike or take a bus to go to school in the past time, however, our family has a private car to go to work. It is really a more faster and more efficient way. Technology can let us do what we could not do in the past decade. Take China for example, we still could not send space rocket to the space in several years ago. And not far from now, we have made it.
Date back to ten years ago, people still need send email to contact each other. And now, we have our own cellphones, so that we can send meaasges everywhere we want. Not everyone hada PC in the past ten decade, however now almost everyone has a PC. This kind of progress can let people from everywhere to communicate better and faster.

Conclusion: Global communication allows globalization grow faster. Economic and technology can keep stepping forward.

On-blog-Quiz

According to what I have learned from the website, I have a better knowledge of passage writing. It provides me a new style of learning in writing. First, the word use. Take that of, for example, sometimes I will omit them, but it is a wrong use. Through the exercises, I can have a full knowledge of words use, such as that, that of, whom, etc. Second, the tense. I sometimes will forget the tense of the whole passage. And it is also a common mistake to everyone. As a result, my passage is full of mistakes of tense. While I am doing the exercies, I can make a good knowledge of tense through compare two different sentences. And third, the structure. This is most difficult to me. Even sometimes, the sentence can make sense to others, while I still think it right. During the exercises, the tructure of the senteces provide me a lot of common examples of mistkes to classify. And this is a good lesson to me. I can not only correct myself, but get new knowledge through the exercises.

Top 3 Countdown--Story in a Box

NO. 3
Story in a box
by Laci Brune
This story maybe a little bit long, but it tells me a lot. It is easy to follow, and make good use of structure. I may feel the emotions of characters in the story. It is a good story.
NO. 2
The drummer
by Haley E
This story uses a special way to put all the inventories in a proper way. I have learned a lot from this story, especially from the boy named Charlie. A good use of word and easy to follow.
NO. 1
Accidents Happen
by Chris Crawford
This story catches me a lot, even from the beginning, and throughout the whole passage. It is a fantastic story, word use, good flow. Outstanding!

Evaluation Criteria of Story In a Box

1.  appropriate in length______ (MAX 5)

2.  structure, design______ (MAX 4)

3.  logical, make sense_____ (MAX3)

4.  on the track, no mistakes_____ (MAX2)

5.  word use_____ (MAX1)