Hello everyone!
My name is Rebecca Schmidt and I will be your Academic English instructor. Let's have a good time reading and writing, learning vocabulary, and discussing interesting stories. My goal is to help you learn to love reading and writing and see it as an endless adventure of knowledge and imagination. Another goal is to help you develop good learning strategies and study skills that will further help you study English on your own for a lifetime.
I look forward to getting to know all of you better.
We will use the textbook Q Skills for Success: Reading and Writing 4BThe link to online practice is here: https://q3e.oxfordonlinepractice.com/
The class code is XXXXXXXXXXX
You must complete the online work as part of your course grade. Deadlines will be at the end of each unit. Students who do the online work slowly throughout each unit will get a much higher score on exams.
Please get used to using an English-English dictionary. Please avoid translators for learning new words. I recommend using Longman's Learner's Dictionary https://www.ldoceonline.com/
You may email me anytime at rschmidt@miu.ac.jp. My office is room 1-401. My office hours are Mondays 2:00- 5:00. If you want to meet at another time, please email me. It is very important that you read your emails!!
Although I try to answer emails as soon as I can, I cannot promise to respond immediately to emails sent after 5:15 and before 8:30 or on the weekends. You may send them, but please be patient if the reply takes time.
I am looking forward to getting to know you even better.
Let's make learning fun!
- Teacher: Rebecca Schmidt