2013年11月28日 星期四

Topic, personal relation, main idea, and topic sentences


Topic:


What a person can learn from the experience of working holidays

 

Personal relation:


I am a person who loves traveling because I think it is great chance to learn more from this world, especially the way how people living in different places think. However, it is a little hard for people to understand a place’s culture thoroughly by being a tourist and taking a look at those tourist attractions.

Luckily, all the CAN’T can be done if people go on another special kind of travel called “working holidays”. People can live in the life how local people do, they can work for local agency, also, they will broaden their horizons through the experience of working holiday.
 
 

Main idea:


People will broaden their horizons and become more independent and better motivated through the working holiday experiences.

 

Topic sentences

 

Topic sentence 1:

Many people gain an international perspective after they've worked abroad for a year because they get to interact with foreigners and travel.

a. international perspective and getting interact with foreigners
 In a new place, people will get to know its culture very soon because they are exposed to it 24/7. Also, they will get interact with foreigners every day, which makes them understand the way foreigners think.

b. the experience of working abroad
During their working holidays, they would change their jobs after a short time. That means they might have a great adaptability on working.

Topic sentence 2:


People will be more independent and sophisticated through working holiday experiences because they don’t have anyone to rely on.

a.     independent and sophisticated
People will become tough when it comes to living in another country because they are forced to adapt to the new environment as soon as possible. They need to manage their own time and money with plans.
 
b.     danger
Undoubtedly, when working in another country, we may run into many kinds of dangers. People must strengthen their ability to deal with them.  

1.      The unexpected accidents occurred frequently as the number of people who goes working holidays increase. ROC representative office in Australia said that Taiwan's accidental death cases occurred in Australia has added up to 10 cases so far this year, including car accidents (4), drowning (3), suicide (2) and unknown reasons for sudden death (1).

Ex: (1) A 23-year-old girl from South Korea was murdered and being abandoned in the park during her working holiday to Australia.

   (2) A 23-year-old Taiwanese backpacker who works in an Australia meat plant illicitly was accidentally fell into the boiler. After being rushed to the hospital, the injury had no longer life-threatening, but the fee of helicopter which took him to the hospital cost a total of NT $ 1.38 million.

2.  Foreign medical system generally applies only to the locals. If an accident occurs to foreigners, the medical cost could be considerable.

 

Topic sentence 3:


The difficulties and frustrations during working holidays will make people see life differently.

a.     The difficulties and frustrations


b.     grow up
They became empathetic to those in a lower social status because they had experienced the toils. They found the real them because no one will have expect on you in a new place. They can do something they would never do in their hometown.










other suggestions by Hazel about the form of my presentation:

1. make the presentation more creative, catch people's attention.

2. play role-playing to make the audience understand what i am doing more clearly
 
 
 

2013年11月17日 星期日

outline


Topic:

 

What a person can learn from the experience of working holidays

Main idea:

People will broaden their horizons and become more independent and better motivated through the working holiday experiences.

 

Topic sentences

 

Topic sentence 1:

Many people gain an international perspective after they've worked abroad for a year because they get to interact with foreigners and travel.

a.  international perspective and  getting interact with foreigners

 In a new place, people will get to know its culture very soon because the culture of that country are everywhere. Also, they will get interact with foreigners everyday which makes them understand the way how foreigners think.

b. the experience of working abroad
 

Topic sentence 2:

People will be more independent and sophisticated though working holiday experiences because they don’t have anyone to rely on.

a.      independent and sophisticated
       People will grow up at a rapid pace when it comes to living in another country because they are forced to adapt the new environment as soon as possible.
b.      danger
Undoubtly, working in another country may run into many kinds of danger. People must strengthen their ability to deal with them.
Topic sentence 3:

The difficulties and frustrations during working holidays will make people grow up.

a.      The difficulties and frustrations
ex: hardly communicate with other people...
b.      grow up

 

other suggestions by Hazel about the form of my presentation:

1. make the presentation more creative, catch people's attention.

2. play role-playing to make the audience understand what i am doing more clearly

2013年11月11日 星期一

a new topic sentence for paragraph 3

 

Topic:

 

What a person can learn from the experience of working holidays


Main idea:

 
People will broad their horizons and become more independent and better motivated through the working holiday experiences.


 

Topic sentences

Topic sentence 1:



Many people gain an international perspective after they've worked abroad for a year because they get to interact with foreigners and travel.


Topic sentence 2:



People will be more independent and can deal with things in a harmony way because when they were abroad, they didn’t have anyone to rely on.


Topic sentence 3:


People may go through many difficulties during their working holidays, so they may became to cherish everything after the trip.

2013年11月10日 星期日

New entry of topic, main idea and topic sentences


Topic:

 

What a person can learn from the experience of working holidays



Main idea:

 
People will broad their horizons and become more independent and better motivated through the working holiday experiences.

 

Topic sentences

Topic sentence 1:


Many people gain an international perspective after they've worked abroad for a year because they get to interact with foreigners and travel.

Topic sentence 2:


People will be more independent and can deal with things in a harmony way because when they were abroad, they didn’t have anyone to rely on.

Topic sentence 3:


The differences and the similarities between the experiences of those I interviewed and mine.

2013年11月6日 星期三

Suggestions


Topic:

 
Working Holidays---another choice of traveling


Main idea:


 
1.      How people grow in such a special trip
2.      People’s feeling (including me)

Suggestions:

 
I didn’t talk a lot to Teacher Hazel so she gave me only a few suggestions .

1.      Ask some questions at the beginning of my presentation. Make people think about themselves. (like “what will I do?”)

2.      Go working holiday in person and record my feeling before, during, and after the trip.

 

 

 
 
 

2013年11月4日 星期一

INTERVIEW

 i want to talk to Janice's cousin in a few weeks(Janice is finding an appropriate timing for our date)

questions i want to ask:

1. What attracts you to go working holidays?
2. What gives you the courage to go working holidays?                      (most of the people in Taiwan think that go abroad for a year is a waste of time because it means a vacant space for their work)
3. Standing on a foreign land, what's your feeling?
4. The changes of your mind before and after the trip
5. What have you got from this trip?

2013年10月29日 星期二

topic, main idea, and outline

Topic: working holidays

Why do i choose this topic?
Because I love traveling, and working holidays is one of the types of travel.

What do I want to learn from it?
Working holidays is a little different from other travel experiences because though this form, i can be closer to the locals' lives.
I want to learn not only their lives but also the way they get along. I believe the way people get along with each other varys in different places.  

What i want to show in my presentation?
1. what people think about working holidays and what it actually is. (Taiwan labor...)
2. compare my experience and others' experience. (now i am trying to find an appropriate timing doing it in person)

Main idea:

Working holidays is getting popular recent years.
I want to focus on people's feeling and what they got, not just "how to prepare for a working holiday" like most of the books said.

 

Outline

1. why am i interested in this topic
2. most people's impressions and mine
3. experiences




--i am still working on it and this is what i can think of  now. --