Freshman
composition August 30 2013
Ms.Nargiza
Matyakubova
Mingdong Chen
In the beginning, I would
like to briefly introduce myself to you; my name is Mingdong Chen who is an
immigrant from China in 2010. I am 21 years old this year. I have come to
United States for 3 years or so with my mother and old sister, my families live
in an apartment in Brooklyn, I learn to be independent in United States with
the help of my parents and high school’s teachers, and I gradually learn to
speak English but not often to practice it, I used to learn by myself instead
of discussing with others, I don’t know what reasons cause me to be like that,
but there are two things I want to share with you, my pleasure reading and my
personal experiences of writings.
I have my “tiny library” in
my bedroom created by my father; it is a desk which leans on the wall. With the
increasing of the number of my books, my father decided to make a bookshelf for
me, he installed an flat wood 12 inches above the desk into the wall with his
methods, then he continuous installed the second one same high as the first
time above the desk, he carefully constructed it and made it strong enough to
support the heavy books. With the emergence of the “tiny-library”, I can put
the book I would like to read on the desk, which can force me to open it and
read it when I see it, because I found an habit I have, if I put away the books
and put them inside the box, so that I would not see them in daily, so I would
not read them. Anyway, the appearance of “tiny library”, it looks as if a clock
that remind me of reading book on time when I see them.
In my own homeland, began from the elementary
school to middle school to high school, actually I personally seldom read the
extracurricular books, but I usually did the sports and played the basketball
with my classmates after school, and finished the homework at home, so I seldom
did the reading unless the teachers required me to do that, I am here to
confess that my personal experiences of reading are few, but which does not
means that I am not able to the reading work, I just seldom read the books from
out of class, however I usually carefully read my textbook, I will underline
the sentences or some special vocabularies while I am reading, and figure out
the meaning of words or sentences which may be related to the main idea of the
article. Sometimes I will copy down the format of sentences expressed in the article;
I may learn to use it in my personal writing of the next time. After finishing
reading, I may write down the main ideas of the article and its lessons left on
the margin side. Study English in the United States, my personal reading
experiences was changed with the movement of place. In the English class of
ESL, First I will intend to find out the meaning of vocabularies I don’t know
by looking up them in the dictionary. Second, I will try my best to understand
the meaning of the whole sentence by combining the meaning of vocabularies I
found before, however. Sometimes there are lots of different interpretations
for one word, so that I do not know which meaning of word I need to choose to
make the whole sentence sound correct.
The first high school in
United States I attended was Manhattan Comprehensive Day and Night High School
which is located in between 14th street and 15th street,
second Ave in Manhattan, maybe very few people heard about it. I spent almost
three years to study ESL English program from level 1 to level 5 with my
teachers’ help in that high school, I could have had a chance to jump from level
2 to level 4 but I insisted that I should follow step by step if I really longed
to learn English very well. In the daily English class, we usually did the
writing works, some reading works, few speaking works and very few listening
works, so I intended to be good at writing and reading parts, and the lack of
speaking and listening. Even though I could do better in writing, however I had
some habits of writing which I didn’t
know if they were positive or negative to me, I used to spend some hours
on how to arrange the paragraphs of each essay, what should I write down in
each paragraph to make it look perfect, and what kind of words or vocabularies
should I use in each sentence to make it sound vivid, I though I had a lot of
work to do to prepare the beginning of each essay before I started it, did
everyone have same experiences as me? So I profess that I cannot be able to
writing a perfect essay in limited time. Also I would like to arrange or make
sentences in my mind before I speak out to someone because my spoken English is
not good enough I think, and I would sometime forgot the spelling of words I
didn’t use them often. In the beginning of learning ESL English, I thought I learned
a lot of useful English skills or experiences from my teachers’ lectures and
the some grammar books which I studied by myself when I had free time, but I
got a strange phenomenon in the later days of learning English, which was that I
felt like I learned less and less English skills in daily English courses
later, in other words, I might considered that there was nothing could make me
interested in learning English again.
All in all, In the future
days in college, I hope teachers can provide me with lots of important and
valuable suggestion on listening, speaking, readings and writings and so on.
What’s more, the above some bad habits I have shown can be corrected, and I
long to learn lots of or different kinds of vocabularies and improve my memory
toward the spelling. So I am looking forward to the help from you.
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