The Secret of Long Life

                 According to the article “The Secret of Long Life”, I am curious that why some people live to be over a hundred years, while most of us die much sooner?  It is upon many factors. For instance, if your parents and grandparents lived a long time, you will probably live long time too. Next, the factors that affect your long live are where do you live? People who live in the country may live longer than people in a town.  People in Europe will probably live longer than people in African. These may affect some of people lives, but it is not all things for long life. There are many factors of long lives.t

              Surely that we cannot control to our past relatives, and most people have not much control by where they live. Accordingly, the first thing that can make your lives longer is eating healthy food. You can do that by stop eating junk food and eat less red meat. Though red meat provides you with protein, but it is hard for the digest. Instead you can eat fish or chicken that easy to digest to be a protein for you. There are lots of vitamins in each kinds of food. Some of them against the disease. So it is a very good thing, if you eat healthy food, your health will be better. Not only make your lives longer, but also control your from being overweight. Here there is another factor to stop you from being overweight.

                Then, getting exercise is one of secret of long life. It avoids you from being overweight that make your lives shorter. Moreover, getting exercise will make you have a lower chance to have health problems. Thus, you can change from changing your behavior. There are different types of exercise. Some exercise is good for your heart. If you get out of breath when you exercise, it will be good for your heart. Other types of exercise are food for making you stronger. Lifting and running are good example. Consequently, you should try to exercise thirty minutes a day, it will make your healthier and stronger.

          To sum up, here are good behaviors for making your life longer. Health is not only for your destiny, but it is the thing that you can control. Though you cannot change the past of your relatives and where you live, you can control it yourselves. Eating healthy food and getting exercise are not difficult things. It is necessary for everyone. Why do not you try some? 

Making Money

           Nowadays, money is all around us. Everyday people around the world use money as an exchange with the things or services. It can be said that money is one of important things in our lives. People work hard for it, and spend it in daily life. Therefore, people all around the world need to use it for the stability in their lives. Here let see how to make new money.
           Making new money take many steps. After we use the money, it will get dirty and old. But, it is replace by making new money. At first, the old money is taken from the bank to be destroyed. Next, money will be destroy by burning. Then, the new money will be printed in large pieces of paper at the place we call "mint". Afterwards, large pieces of paper are cut into bills. Next, put it in the stack and send to the bank. Besides, one of the important things in making money is security to protect the money on the way to go to the bank. 
            To sum up, the way of making money in our lives seems more difficult in these days. On the other hands, the steps of making new money seem quite easier. It can be say that everything has expired even money. So, we have to replace through the steps till can be used.  No matter how old it is, just replacing it can be back in your pocket. It is not like some of a our thought or our painful past that can be replaced by new memories.

The Amnesty Bill Protest

The Amnesty Bill Protest

                Do you agree with the amnesty bill protest? What will happen of the amnesty bill, giving some benefits to Taksin Chinnawatra and his colleagues, is passed. It represents that the authoritarians in Thailand can easily help their group from the wrong things they did. Surely, it is not a fair way for civilization social. Accordingly, protest is one of the right ways for Thai citizens to express their opinions against the government’ dishonest actions.

                Both worldwide and nationwide news agency reported that the protest started with a large group of Thai citizens from several careers, for example doctors, actors, civil servants, businessmen, farmers, and so on. Besides, it started from disagreement about  passing a controversial amnesty bill which allows the former leader, Taksin Chinnawatra, to return home without punishment from what he did. Thus, amnesty bill protest has been widely supported.

                Nowadays, the protest is not only against the amnesty bill, but also the government’s rice subsidy and other schemes. These schemes wasted our tax more than 400 billions baht in two years. It lost our country with a lot of money for nothing benefits to the Thai. Consequently, protest is a good way to stop these schemes that can lead our country go bankrupt. Moreover, this protest is called for Thailand’s reformation in the future.

                However, Prime Minister Yingluck Chinnawatra said that, the protest must be stopped for the peace of our country. Then. she invoked the security power and forced the protesters. These increased the disagreement between the government and the citizens harder and harder. Nevertheless, the Civil Court said that, the protesters could join the protest freely without the violence. The government cannot use the enforcing to stop the protest because it will be illegal. Therefore, the protest within the democratic law keeps going with a large amount of people.

                In conclusion, the amnesty bill protest spread wider and wide against the injustice. People have many different ideas about the situation in the protest. The politic conflict in Thailand is severer and hard to control.  Now what will the government do? Do we let them continue their corrupted actions, and stand on the ruins of our country together? If your answer is ‘No’, join the protest against the tyrannic government.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Eating at Cafeteria

Advantages and Disadvantages of Eating at Cafeteria

                Many schools, colleges, universities, or workplaces usually provide the cafeterias. If you are ones who work or study and do not have time to cook by yourselves, eating at cafeterias will be a good choice for you. It is quite convenient. However, everything has both the pros and cons. You can see the pros and cons from the followings.

                The advantages of eating at cafeterias are saving eating cost, saving time, and providing various kinds of food. The cost of food sold at most cafeterias is controlled by each organization. Accordingly, the food is not expensive. Thus, the eating cost can be saved. Besides, eating at cafeterias is also time saved and easy for buying food because they are usually located nearby the study buildings or offices. Furthermore, there are several food options for you to select. For example; Jook’s Restaurant, one of the most popular restaurants in Nakhon Sri Thammarat Rajabhat University’s cafeteria provides more than thirty menus. Consequently, having a meal at cafeterias is as pleased as punch.

                The disadvantages of eating at cafeterias are low quality of food, crowded atmosphere, and insufficient seats. In addition, the ingredients that they use contain a lot of toxin. These may lead customers to both long term and short term illness. Not only the low quality of food but the cafeterias also are crowded. We can be annoyed and disturbed while we are having a meal. Finally, sometimes there are no available tables and chairs for us especially at lunch time. How hungry and angry we are! If we go to restaurants which are not so crowded, we can find comfortable seats and have our meal happily.

                In conclusion, eating at cafeterias can help us save both time and money. We can also choose food in several options. Nevertheless, some food may be poisonous. Lastly, everything has both pros and cons. It depends on us to decide where the best and most appropriate place to eat is.

David Copperfield

                 David Copperfield is the story which related to Charles Dickens, a writer of the book, when he was a child.  When I have read it, it suddenly becomes one of my favorite books now. According to the story that Charles Dickens wrote inspired me to continue and concentrate on the destination of my life again. It was the story of the poor boy named, David Copperfield. He faced many troubles and misfortune. However, his enthusiasm and his attempt made his life is better. The story was happened in the Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The story tells the David Copperfield's life when he was a child till adult.   

                 David's father died before he was born. His aunt left him when she knew he was a boy, because she likes a girl. Afterwards, his mother get married again with Mr. Burdstone, a greedy man. So David's life was not so happy. Fortunately, he had got his mother and his nanny called, Peggotty. . The Murdstones treat David cruelly, and David bites Mr. Murdstone’s hand during one beating. The Murdstones send David away to school. Peggotty takes David to visit her family in Yarmouth, where David meets Ham and Little Emily. After this visit, David attends school at Salem House. David befriends and idolizes an egotistical young man named James Steerforth. David also befriends Tommy Traddles. 
                
                Unfortunately, David’s mother dies with harmful illness, and David returns home, where the Murdstones neglect him. He works at Mr. Murdstone’s wine-bottling business and moves in with Mr. Micawber, who mismanages his finances. When Mr. Micawber leaves London to escape his creditors, David decides to search for his father’s sister, Miss Betsey Trotwood—his only living relative. He walks a long distance to Miss Betsey’s home, and she takes him in on the advice of her mentally unstable friend, Mr. Dick. Miss Betsey sends David to a school run by a man named Doctor Strong. David moves in with Mr. Wickfield and his daughter, Agnes, while he attends school. Agnes and David become best friends. Among Wickfield’s boarders is Uriah Heep, a snakelike young man who often involves himself in matters that are none of his business. 

                On his way to Yarmouth, he would like to visit Peggotty.  David encounters James Steerforthr to go with him. They arrive in Yarmouth, where Steerforth and the Peggottys become fond of one another.  David apprentices himself at the London firm of Spenlow. Mr. Spenlow invites David to his house for a weekend. There, David meets Spenlow’s daughter, Dora, and quickly falls in love with her. Afterwards, Miss Betsey comes London to inform David that she is broke because Mr. Wickfield trick.  Dora and David marry, and Dora proves a terrible housewife. Nevertheless, life keep changing all the time. Dora falls ill and dies. His love for Agnes grows. When David returns, he and Agnes get married and have several children. David pursues his writing career, Pleasingly, his writing is very popular and success.

                   To summarize, story give me inspiration to be strong to face with the fate. Although, you will face tough time in your life, do not be get up. To the goal of success, you should work hard and enthuse with your goal. Surely, on the way to reach your goal, you might get tired. Sometimes, you may lose your way, but David Coppefield told me that 'be patient'. No one has only tough times, the happiness will come to the people who are aware in themselves and never give up to the fate. Remember that "You can fate your fate".

                                                                          Vocabulary

Word                    Function       Sound                             Meaning   

egotistical                  adj.      /ˌiː.gə ʊ  ˈtɪs.tɪ.k ə l/         to consider ones'self to be better or                                                                                                           more important than other people
neglect                        v.          /nɪˈglekt/                        to give not enough care or attention to                                                                                                      people or things that are your responsibility

The Call of the Wild

                The story that I have read lately is "The Call of The wild". It is the story that talk about the dog, named Buck. The story presents the instinct of the dog "Buck". Once, it was a wild dog and people take care of it as a pet. Accidentally, there is an accident that brings its instinct again. Moreover, the story shows the ways that some kind of people treat to the tame and animals like dogs. What I can get from the book is the dog can be your best friends, but harm.

               Buck,is a huge and good dog. It is living the good life in California. Next, he gets stolen and put into dog slavery. He was pulled a ridiculously heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice with little or nothing to eat and frequent beatings. As the definition of a domestic dog, Buck is out of his element until he begins to adapt to his surroundings, and learn from the other dogs. Buck also starts having strange dreams about the primitive days of dogs and men, before the advent of cities or houses or culture. There are no rules or justice here, save for what is called "the law of club and fang," a kill-or-be-killed, ruthless way of thinking.

                Buck has a fight with the dog named, Spitz.  Afterwards, the sledge team changes human leader to control the sledge and the new people don't seem to be very competent. They’re bad drivers and end up killing everyone, including themselves into the ice. Fortunately, Buck is saved by a kind man named John Thornton, moments before the group death in an icy river. Buck becomes Thornton's dog who saves his life several times. Buck sets off on a journey with his new master and several other men, loving his new life, except for the need to run off and kill things in the woods every once in a while. Buck fights with temptation: stay with Thornton, or kill things? Be civilized, or be wild? And naturally there are several missed phone calls from The Wild and a lot of angry messages. 

                       At the end of the story: Call of the Wild, Thornton is killed by the Yeehat tribe, on which Buck later extracts vengeance. Buck is then free to join to the wild dog packs, but only on the condition that he is leader. The story represents that, if human is kind to the animals, the animals like a dog can be their friends. However, if human treat them cruelly, it will be harm to them. Therefore, both of human and animals want the other to be good for them. Likewise, all things can be beneficial and harm. 

Animal Farm (movie)

Animal  Farm

         Animal Farm is one of good movie. The story was happened in Manor Farm. The owner of manor farm always gets drunk. His name is Mr. Jones. He was cruel and his animals in the farm are very upset  about him. His wife always complains him. Most of the animals in the farm do not like him. So the farm atmosphere is not so good.

      

  One day, an old pig who is the old master of the animals in the farm are meeting about the oppression of the man to animals. While the animal are singing the song of freedom, Mr. Jones hear the voice and accidentally shot the gun at the old master . After dying of the old master , two pigs named Snowball and napoleon will continue the old master trough. Next, he doesn't feed the food to the animals. The animals are hungry and try to help their friends to be free. Then , they try to fright  with the man , and the farm belongs to them . Snowball teaches them to write . They change the name of the farm to Animals farm . They construct the animalism . They set the concept  “ All animal Are Equal”. Next, Napoleon and Snowball cheat the food for them while Mr. Jones and his gang try to take the farm back. The war between animals and Mr. Jones are beginning. Mr. Jones wins the war. Afterward, Napoleon oppress the other animals . He command the others animals to work hard . The animals escape from the farm because of the trick of Napoleon . Finally, the new farm owner comes to manage the farm. That brings happiness to the farm again.

     It represents that the oppression of the man to animals and animals to animal . Every man should be kind to animals. They give the benefit to us , so man should give the sympathy. One of the most saddest scene  is the scene that Boxer works hard and he is sick. the man brings him to slaughter factory . It is very sad scene . All factory are told by Jessie , the bitch dog. She is very good character . She loves her friends. I am very glad that at the end of the story she and her son which is sold meet up again. the story shows that  no matter who you are, you should emphasize to others and happiness will come to you.

A Passage to India: One of the Most Valuable Movie

                ‘A Passage to India’ is the name of valuable movie. The movie is set in the 1920s during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement over administration of England. The main characters in the story are Dr.Aziz, Mrs.Moore, Miss Quested, Mr.Fielding, and Ronny. The characters of the actors represent the differences of the Englishmen and the Indians in that time. Many Englishmen looked down at the Indians. According to, the differences of cultures, lifestyles, wealth, and so on make people far away to each other. Hence, A Passage to India can reflect people lives in that time well.

                The story begins with, Mrs. Moore and Miss Quested; two ladies from England come to India. Mrs. Moore comes to visit her son, the magistrate in the city of India, Chadrapore. Miss Quested comes to engage with Ronny, Mrs.Moore’son.  One day, Mrs. Moore meet Dr.Aziz accidentally.  Mrs. Moore is very nice to Indian like Dr. Aziz. Dr. Aziz is very glad to meet Englishman that can be friend to the Indian, so he invites her to visit Marabar Cave. Dr.Aziz invites Mrs.Moore, Miss Quested, MR. Fielding, and Professor Godbole to visit the cave. Unfortunately, Mr. Fielding and Professor Godbole miss the train. Dr. Aziz guides them to the cave but Mrs. Moore is so old and tired, then she waits for Dr. Aziz and Miss Quested below.  In the front of the cave, Miss Quested asks Dr. Aziz about his love to his ex-wife. The question is so offensive, so he goes to the other place of the cave. Miss Quested comes in to the cave. It was very dark, the she light the matchstick. Suddenly, Miss Quested runs away from the cave and goes to the car on the road below. It is very frighten Dr. Aziz. When Dr. Aziz reaches Chadrapore, police arrests him on the rape of Miss Quested. His friends know that he is innocent, so they try to help him from the accuse.  According to the injustice of the court, there are riots in the town, people call for set Dr.Aziz be free. The only one eye-witness in this case is Mrs. Moore and she comes back to England. Fortunately, Miss Quested declares that she lied because she does not want to marry with Ronny, the rude man. Afterwards, they set Dr. Aziz be free and people yell loudly. Mr. Fielding and his friends are very glad. Next, Dr. Aziz thinks Mr. Fielding; his Englishman friend gets married with Miss Quested, his enemy. So he is angry with Mr. Fielding and leave Chadrapore.  Next, Mr. Fielding finds him and tells him the truth that he gets married with Mrs. Moore’s daughter. Therefore, the relationship between two friends who are different race, religious, and cultures become to be the same.

                To sum up, human value is not about the race, religious, money, culture. It is about how good they are. As you can see from A Passage to India that reflects people lives in society. The poor is always insulted by the rich. However, the thought in their mind is the most important thing. Likewise, Dr. Aziz wants to be friends with the man who comes from the land which is far away. Unfortunately, with his race, people think they are bad, and easily believe the accuse.  Every society has both good and bad man, dark and light, so do not justice people because their races, or how the dress.

Teenagers and Grammar

                Grammar is one of the topics that make teenagers get bored from learning English.  Many teenagers confuse from its complex structure and rules.  However, grammar is one of the most important things in learning languages effectively. Accordingly, teacher has to find the way to solve this problem. If teenager-students can learn grammar without pressure, the lesson will be meaningful and good to their language skills also. To enhance teenager-students enjoy with English grammar is not an easy burden for teacher, so teacher has to prepare a lesson plan to teach them carefully. There are many ways to encourage students to learn grammar. Here are some ideas for making grammar teaching more teen-friendly; to break down negativity, to use texts and to choose the involve students.

                Break down negativity can release students’ pressure in learning grammar, because they think grammar is a difficult thing to learn. If your students are very resistant to grammar, show them why it’s necessary. Record someone using correct vocabulary but confusing grammar and ask them what the problem is. You could also give them written messages without any grammar words and ask them to make sense of them. Sometimes students are put off by metalanguage, such as the names of tenses, or the G–word itself, so avoid it! Talk about language for –ing instead, e.g. ‘Today we’re going to look at language for telling stories’.

                Use texts in teaching grammar can make students easier to understand the rules and the structure. Present grammar in the context of a reading or listening text, an authentic video extract or a song. This way it’s easier to see how the language is used and work out the meaning from the context. Often the key to motivating a class is an interesting topic, so choose a text which will engage your learners. Many grammar areas can also be reinforced through extensive reading or listening. Graded readers are very useful for teenagers. If your students use public transport, encourage them to read on their e-books or look at magazines etc. on their mobiles or listen to podcasts while travelling.

                Involving the students in teaching methods can help them to memorize the lesson. Avoid lecturing on grammar – nothing is more boring – but continually questions the students, either in a whole class situation, or by giving questions about the language to groups/pairs/individuals. Experiment with getting the students to teach each other grammar areas. You could get them to research new areas or revisit areas that you have looked at but which are still problematic. You’ll need to provide or recommend ways of researching the items. Remember the saying: if you want to learn something, teach it to somebody else! Moreover, learning grammar can be fun activity, if teacher choose the new and interesting media to teach the teenager.

                To summarize, it is the fact that most of teenagers do not enjoy learning grammar. Nevertheless, there are the ways to encourage them.  To break down negativity, by avoiding the name of tenses or the name of grammar rule, then give them the errors and ask them to find the error instead. Next, to use the text, students can learn and memorize the grammar point from the context. Then, let students to involve in classroom situation in learning grammar and provide them opportunities to work in group or in pairs. In addition, using the interesting materials and media to show the teenagers that learning grammar can be fun.  Finally, it is very important to the teacher to choose the grammar that match to students challenge. If the students learn happily, the valuable knowledge they can get.

Refrence: Helen Hadkins, 2014, Teenager an Grammar, (cited 23, August, 2014), Available from: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teenagers-grammar

็H-O-R-S-E Game

Have you ever heard of H-O-R-S-E game? Right, what I would like to do today is to show you what H-O-R-S-E game is. H-O-R-S-E is an activity that helps students to memorize the vocabulary what they have learnt without pressure. It can be applied to all level of students, from the beginner through the advanced. To do this activity teacher will use the time about 10 minutes or more. It depends on how teacher manage the time.
The goal is focused on learners to practice spelling in a fun and interactive way
The next section I will explain about preparation. First of all, you will keep a list of words the class has studied, then add to the list each time your class learns a new word. Then, keep the list on a large piece of paper where students can always see it. Students can also keep their own lists in their notebooks. You can play the H-O-R-S-E activity anytime you have a few extra minutes in class and want to review vocabulary and spelling.
Ok, we will talk about the background of this game. H-O-R-S-E is a popular game in which players practice shooting a basketball. We have adapted this game for the English classroom.
Now let’s take to procedure steps consist of ten steps that students have to pay participate in.
The first step is to put students in groups of about 5 and let each group stand in a circle.
Secondly, in each group, have students count off (from 1 to 5, if the groups have 5 students); tell students to remember their numbers.
Thirdly, have Student 1 stand facing away from the list of words and all out one of the vocabulary words so all groups can hear you.
Afterwards, Have Student 1 in each group spell the word (quietly, so that the other groups don’t hear).
Next, have the other students find the word on the list and check whether Student 1 has spelled the word correctly or incorrectly.
After that, if Student 1 spells the word incorrectly, he or she receives an “H.” If Student 1 spells the word correctly, he or she does not receive a letter.
Next, rotate so that Student 2 (then Students 3, 4, and 5) gets a chance to spell a word in the same way. Continue rotating.
Then, each time a student spells a word incorrectly, that student gets an additional letter (first H, then O, then R, then S, then E). Once a student has five letters (H-O-R-S-E), that student is “out.” The student should stay in the circle and help check other students’ spelling but will no longer spell words.
Right, let’s move to the last procedure, when all the students in the group except one have gotten H-O-R-S-E, the remaining student is the winner of the group.
Well, let’s me summarize by saying, H-O-R-S-E game is the game which can encourage students to learn about the vocabulary more enjoyable and memorable. Moreover, it helps students to learn how to working in group. Besides, it can be applied to all level of students. So, what are you waiting for? Just take the idea of this effective game and applied it to your students.

Visiting Nakorn Si Thammarat

                Good ………….. Ladies and gentlemen.   Today I’d like to take you all here to the land of old history meets with the fantastic nature.  Surely, I’m talking about my hometown: Nakhon Si Thammarat province.  If you are the one who would like to keep the impressive memories of your valuable holiday, waking up with NK can be glorious memories for you.

                Visiting NK through the sightseeing route, it was located on Ratcha Dhamneon Road, on which, a lot of historical and religion sites are there. Well, let’s start at Nakorn Si Thammarat's city pillar shrine. It is in a mixture of styles which includes both Thai and the Srivijaya style of Summatra. It houses a golden city pillar that is two meters tall and crowned with four faces looking out of the four doors. Afterwards, the opposite of NK city pillar shrine was Hor Pra Sung, where one of the most sacred Buddha image was established. . It believed that the images are either from the 18th-19th century or from the late Ayutthaya period And behind of Hor Pra Sung, it is the Hatta Kam street, where is famous for silverware, traditional niello ware, accessories, and plentiful local products along the street.  If you want to by some impressive souvenirs for yourself or someone special, don’t forget Hatta Kam Street. Moreover, not far from Hatta Kam Street to the east northern side, it is OTOP shopping center of Nakhon Si Thammarat, for people who love to shop local products. Just about 10 steps from OTOP shopping center, you will find the City Wall, the historical site and the statue of King Sri Thamma Soakkarat, the great king of Nakhon Si Thammarat.  Next, our destination is Pra Mahathat Temple the oldest and biggest temple in southern of Thailand. At Pra Mahathat Temple you will be excited with the gorgeous Buddhism architecture and the enormous pagoda which was built for 1700 years. In the chapel is painted and decorated with mural of Lord Buddha’s life.  Furthermore,   you can make a merit, worship, and buy some handicrafts and local food there.

               Moreover, Nakhon Si Thammarat  is also well known Tasting NK local food at Krua Nakorn Restauran is  very famous at local food of Nakhon Si Thammarat.  When you finish from travelling at Pra Mahathat Temple, maybe your stomach is required for some delicious food. Whenever you visit NK you shouldn’t miss Krua Nakorn restaurant, on which, was located on Nang Ngarm Street, not far from Ratchadamnoen Road. With its cost and cuisine you will find something satisfy you. It has a great selection of traditional Nakhon cuisine. Order a sharing platter, which comes with five types of curry (including an unpalatable spicy fish sauce), or try the kôw yam (southern-style rice salad). 

Swimming along with pink dolphin on/at Khanoam Beach

                One of the fascinating beaches of Nakhon Si Thammarat is Khanom beach .The beach curves along a mountain range. It can make you captivate with the warm sea and the overall scenery is one that features perfect nature, including a clean, white beach and shining sun. Moreover, there are pink dolphins at Khanom beach you can sail the boat to watch or swim with them closely. In the evening, you can be enchanted by watching the sun burn an orange streak in the sky.  And that’s just a short moment on Khanom beach -the fascinating beaches of Nakorn Si Thammarat.

                Among the huge complex mountain range of Khao Luang National Park, there is a fantastic waterfall called Krung Ching waterfall. It has many levels and the most breathtaking level is Nan Fon Saen Ha where water drops off a sheer cliff 100 metres high, splashing down creating a mist covering the area like rain. Additionally, you will enjoy with the fresh cool breeze, and excited with the variety of florae, the wild animals. Furthermore, you can swim in the clear water and the fish around; afterwards, you can have a picnic while birds are singing, the stream is gurgling over the rock, and fish are swimming below. I’m sure that all of these can fulfill your unforgettable trip perfectly. .So don’t be hesitated, let pack your bags to Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Nature for Kids

     The sky, the ground, the forest,  and the desserts are the wonderful gifts of nature. Nature is the things that around us. Moreover, our lives are never far away from lakes, rivers, seas, plants. and animals. It is the things that made by the nature. It is easy to find in the in the downtown or the rural areas. Nature can be the On the other hand, many big cities are lack of the natural places where can be the lungs of those people who live e in the cities. It can be our food, home, or relaxing places.  These natural places have lots of benefits for everyone. It can be our food, home, or relaxing places.
          Nowadays, nature are taken away from most cities in the world. However, it is still important for those people in the cities for many reasons. Plants could clean the air and help people to relax their mind from busy lives. In addition, scientists have found other benefits of nature. They have found that nature helps children feel better and study better in school. The children who have trees and plants near their houses felt happier than those who did not. Other studies say that the children who live and play with the nature will be healthier than other students who live in the places where there are no trees and plants. The scientists comes to meet the students whose homes have a lot of natural places around, they meet children are often become friends. Children who live near nature are happier and more kind. They have more chance to play near the nature. Scientists have also found that students who have a chance to play and relax are study better. These  would be explain that nature can helps children to do better in studying and living.
            In conclusion,  nature are the necessary things for the living. Though the world keep changing all the time, people still need it. Nature provides food, lives, water, home, and so on to the living things. For the sake of nature in this article, nature can benefits to children's mind and their learning. It helps them to be kinder, happier and better at learning. If the family give them a chance to play an live near the nature they will be more lively. For my own experience, my home is surrounded by mixed-fruit orchard and there are a lot of animals.  Not only the children that can get the benefits of nature, but also adults and everyone. When I got stressful of anything, I was just walk along the orchard or play with my dogs. It helps me relax a lot. It provides everyone the good advantages. However, if people destroy them, it can destroy the people also.

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Reference: Nation, Pual, 2007. Reading for Speed and Fluency: USA. Compass Publishing

The Educational Assessment

Reference:http://www.edudemic.com/the-6-types-of-assessments-and-how-theyre-changing/

Sitting and Working Out

Sitting and Working Out.

            How often do you do exercise?  Some people love it and do it a lot but some people do not. Many officers might not have free time to go work out. They have to do the job or finish the burden in a small space where they might not get relaxed. Likewise, most of students do not get enough exercise. When they spend the time in school, they just sit at the table. At home, most of students spend their time in front of computer or television. That lives’ activities could make them forget to do the exercise.  However, there are still ways you can exercise, even if you are sitting down.

            One of the useful exercise ways that you can do while you are sitting is to stand up and sit down again. You should do this at least ten times. Nevertheless, if you cannot stand up and sit down, you can do the arm and shoulder exercise. First of all, raise your hands above your head and then bring them down to your shoulders. Then, do this ten times. Another way to do this exercise is to put your hand together in front of your body. Push your hands against each other for 30 seconds. Next, hold your shoulders, and then let them down again. You should do this ten times again.  Moreover, while you are sitting to study or do your job can help you to keep your mind.  It will be benefits for you to do exercise, even though you just sit on a chair. These can helps you a lot when you have no time to go to the gym.  Now you do not have any excuses to refuse doing exercise anymore. Let’s do it. Your health and your body will be please for it.

            In conclusion, working out while sitting will be benefit for both students and officers who have to sit and work for a long time. It helps you to relax and keep your mind. However, sitting down more than 30 minutes at a time is not quite good for you. You should go to drink water or go to somewhere that you move your body. Moreover, to talk to someone on a telephone should talk in another room. Do not talk on the desk. You should walk to another place to pick up the phone. Then, you can take short exercise break. Therefore, taking short exercise can make you more relaxed. It is a useful way to help you think clearer while studying or working also.

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Reference: Nation, Pual, 2007. Reading for Speed and Fluency2: USA. Compass Publishing

Communication and War

Communication and War
                 What do you think when talking about the tools in a war? Some people might think about the weapons, fighting and other violence. It is true that powerful weapons make the armies stronger and more confident. However, only the weapons, they cannot work to attack the enemies well enough. In the war, there are many obstacles that could make the fighting change. Then, the strong armies have to thing to other factors that can help them to be the conqueror. One of the most important tools that the armies should emphasize is communication tools. With the communication tools, the armies who live far away from each other can help to make plan and send the exclusive information to defend themselves from enemies. Here there are some of communication tools in the past.
                  A long time ago, there were no telephones, radio, or any internet. The armies used pigeons as an communication tool.  They could send the message for people who live far away by using pigeons. The birds are good at the way to finding their homes or destination. Moreover, they can fly very fast. It was very convenient for the armies in those days to use the pigeons. Firstly, the message could transfer from one person to another person quickly.  Secondly, the birds are hard to shoot. They could control their moving in many ways, and they could fly away if there are something strange. That way the enemies cannot shoot the pigeons and read the message.
Thus, the information of the armies would be secret. They could know the information of their team and the enemies movement. That was one of the wisdom of the people in those days, which was happened because of the wars. Nevertheless, things are much more easier and completely change from the communication in the wars in the past. There are lots of communication tools. For example, telephones, radio, internet and many high technologies that people invented. Most of communication tools  these days were developed from the war in the past. People are not only using them in a war but also using them to communicate in daily lives.
                In conclusion, not only the sadness, losing, power, or fighting that caused the war, but also it could create new technologies also. One of the advantages of  wars was communication tools.  People in the army always look for the better way in communication. At first communication of the war was pigeon sending mails. After that the communication tools were developed to be the thing that more and more convenient to use. Therefore, it can be said that people can use various kind of communication tools in these days because of the war.

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Reference: Nation, Pual, 2007. Reading for Speed and Fluency2; USA. Compass Publishing.

                   

Telephone History

Telephone History
              Communication in these days is very convenient. There are many ways and channels you can use. Nevertheless, in the past, it was much more different. At that time, communication between people who lived far from each other was very difficult. Afterwards, telephone was invented to be a tool of communication.  More than 130 years ago, telephone had become a part of people lives. There were no numbers on the phones. People held to their ears and another part they talked to anyone who had a phone. Moreover, the price of telephone was high, so not many people had them.
              More and more people got telephones, so the companies started using operators to connect people. The operators would connect the name of person people wanted to call. Sometimes, it took too long time to make a call.  Later in 1892, the first telephone system that did not need an operator was built. People could ring the number the person they wanted to call. The telephone system was easier to use, so more and more people had telephones at their homes. By 1970, nearly every house in the United States had telephones. Afterwards, there were telephones for people to use in the street, on stores, office buildings, and other public places. Then, the communication was much more easier.
              Nowadays, there are many news communication tools. Things are changing again. Some people do not need telephones any more. It is because of  new communication tools called 'cell phones'. Moreover, some people think that the telephones are 'old style'. They do not need it anymore. With a cell phone, they can call anyone from anywhere. Since cell phone services are less expensive, fewer and fewer people use telephone at their homes. The communication tools between people are more and more convenient to use. Perhaps, cell phones, the modern thing in these days, could be the old style like telephones in the future.

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Reference: Nation, Pual, 2007. Reading for Speed and Fluency2; USA. Compass Publishing.

The Use of Task-based Learning to Develop English Speaking

The Use of Task-based Learning to Develop English Speaking

Bancha Yooyong. (2008).

          Speaking English, the international language, can open your ways and give you a lot of opportunities to do many advantages thing in 21st century. Not only in school lessons or working, but English could bring you to the other cultures and wisdom. Following the before sentences, it can be said that English is the powerful language. However, it is not easy for most of English for Second Language (ESL) learners to speak English fluently. Especially, ones who have not learnt since they were young. Accordingly, it is the responsibility for teacher to find the ways to solve these problems. One of the ways to encourage and improve students' English speaking ability is task-based learning.  Accordingly,The Use of Task-based Learning to Develop English Speaking study will be guided.  Could the task-based learning develop students English speaking? And what are they consist of?

         Before teaching someone effectively, to try out the way to teach them appropriately is still needed. In this study task-based learning plays the important role in teaching method and learning style.The purposes is  to develop English speaking ability of Mattayomsuksa 2 students at Banmarkkaeng School in Udon Thani Province through task-based learning. The

informants were 20 Mattayomsuksa 2 students gained via random sampling. The instruments

used for collecting data were three lesson plans, a pre-post speaking test, a teacher’s

observation form and a students’ self-assessment form. The data were statistically analyzed

by mean, standard deviation, and t-test for dependent samples.

 The results of this study indicated that the English speaking ability of Mattayomsuksa 2

students through task-based learning after the experiment was significantly higher at the .01

level. It means that the task-based learning was very useful in English language learning for Mattayomsuksa 2 students. Students can improve their English speaking skill through the tasks.

It encourages students to learning by doing that could make them more memorable.

           To summarize, to teach students speaking fluently is not an easy task for teacher. Moreover, if teachers teach the speaking skill in the the language that is not the mother tongue, it will be more difficult. Teachers have to find the the way to teach and support them in learning speaking appropriately. According to this issue, the task-basked learning  is focused. Besides, the result of the issue was good. The students could learn speaking through doing the tasks. Their English speaking ability was developed. The use of task-based is not only to develop students English speaking, but improve students the ways to communicate in real world also. Therefore, task-based learning is a good choice for developing English speaking that should be applied in EFL classes.

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        Word                 Function          Sound            Meaning

     statistically               adv.                                information based on a study of the number of times                                                                                                        something happens or is present, or other numerical facts

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Reference: Bancha Yooyong, 2008. THE USE OF TASK-BASED LEARNING TO DEVELOP ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY

                    

Storm at Sea

1. Storm at Sea   (23/6/2014)

               Have you ever heard about powerful disaster before? You might be seen its effect from the news. Some of disaster is very severe but some of them are not. There are many fearsome natural disasters that no one hopes to experience it in the world. However, one of the most dangerous disasters is a storm at sea. With its strength, ti can blow the wind to whip the wave in the sea horribly. Hence, the unfortunate ship can be broke easily when the storm comes. It is harmful and destructive lots of thing in a very short time.

                A storm at sea may be marked by a strong wind, heavy rain, lightning and other severe weather. Moreover, it can go on for many hours with constant vigor. There are many kinds of storm. One of the most well-known storms was a Hurricane or we also called typhoons. They can cove ran area as wide as 450 miles as they move across the ocean.  It can make the howling winds, the gigantic waves. Many ships have faced that situation before and some of them are sunk. Accordingly, it is very harmful for the ship. In the emergency situation, the navigator has to select the best direction to escape from the storm. The direction and location of a typhoon can be predicted by weather report. The weather report can help captains to avoid the storm. If they follow the weather report, they will know the direction of the storm. So, captains can change course away from the storm. It is true that the storm at sea or the natural disasters are strong and cruel, but humans should find the ways to protect themselves and avoid from it. 

                To sum up, no matter how large or how powerful engines the ship is, it is always feeble and easily ruin when caught in storm. Surely, no one wants to face it, but sometimes we cannot escape from it.  People have to learn how to do and survive when face that horror experience. For people who had faced the storm at sea and could help the ship from sinking was excellent. Therefore, the easy way to keep away from the sea was following weather report before shipping, itcan be a good way to avoid storm at sea and unexpected tragedy.

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Words                                   Function           Sounds               Meaning
vigor                                        (noun)             /ˈvɪg.ə /                 strength, energy or enthusiasm/
                                                                                                  ความแข็งแรง

Reference: Enconcept Winter, 1998. Read While You Breathe1.(ไม่ปรากฏสถานที่พิมพ์หรือสำนักพิมพ์)