Useful pharses for introduction

Some people consider that...
It's generally agreed that ....
A common viewpoint is that ....
It is widely believed that....
Recent research has suggested that....
It is often argued that.....
Many people say that ...........

http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/introductions.htm

Useful language from Green book

This essay will.......
give an overview of...
discuss....
try to explan the main reasons
argue that ...
put forward the...
weigh up the benefits and drawbacks of ...
consider the arguments for
try to answer/address the question of whether ....

First Draft_the introduction_B (page 52)

" We live in a world in which we are dangerously influenced by media images"

First draft :

Have you ever considered the world without technology and media? It might be quiet but, since technology and media have been invented by mankind the Earth has never slept. Nowadays, it is widely believed that media, such as television, internet, music, movies, VDO game, and others, has become a common things in daily life while some people has considered media as a potential role of their life, actor, actress and singers. However, even though in the past decade the most of people in society has been familiar with media and has seen the rapid development of media image in many ways, both positive and negative side. Interestingly, the research of the media-awareness <http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/index.cfm> has revealed that the viewers could be effected by media image such as stereotype can be problematic and viewing habit. So this essay will give an overview of the disadvantage of media image that might impact on our society

Jim's class excercise

The …aim/purpose…………. of this paper is to consider the nature of moral education in Soviet children’s literature. It is particularly …concerned……………. with the moral values presented in books published with the …purpose/aim………………. of teaching reading at primary school. The thesis …consists…………. of four parts. The first part attempts to …address……………. a number of general questions relating to children’s literature from any historical period. Parts 2,3 and 4 are ………devoted……….. specifically to the Soviet example. Part 2 is …divided……….. into three main sections, the first of which discusses the nature of the Soviet value system with a particular ……focus……….. on the work ethic.

Reading

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d66b762-5cc2-11dd-8d38-000077b07658.html

Siri's summary :

Listening _Business Lecture online

http://www.ft.com/cms/a5dd621a-e39d-11dc-8799-0000779fd2ac.html?_i_referralObject=784714690&fromSearch=n

Siri's opinion :

Verb pattern_excercise

http://www.learn-english-today.com/wordgames/hotpot-quizzes/verb-patterns1.html

I did the test for improving verb patterns ,I have got six out of eight (6/8)

Verb pattern "a useful link"

Useful link

http://www.dersimizingilizce.com/writing%20web%20pages/verb%20patterns.htm


http://www.abdn.ac.uk/languagecentre/resources/grammar/verbpatt_info.php

http://www.learn-english-today.com/wordgames/hotpot-quizzes/verb-patterns1.html

Seminar feedback_The media/television

Topic : The media/television
Friday 25 July 2008 : 12.00-12.40 pm

Written seminar report by Siri

The seminar was about the media/television was held on Friday .Perhaps the aim of this session would like to give the seminar experience for pre-sessional students,thinking ,speaking and express opinion skills, that found very useful for Master degree which seminars will be arranged often.

The seminar was devided by three parts.Firstly, the seminar addressed about television viewing habits around the world and moved to television images and finally mentioned the future for television and television viewers.The number of attendees were 6 people from China,Thailand,Japan,Taiwan and Bangladesh.

The majoritry of attendees agreed that the television viewing habits was an interesting point.Surprisingly,Chinese attendees state that more than 200 million chinese people have been spending time watching television everyday as specially housewives,like watching soap operas, and childrend has spent more time with cartoon networks or playing computer game.While Janpan is the country where the people have spent more time,four to five hours,for watching TV programmes such as comedy.Conversaly, Bangladeshi has spent just a fews hours for watching TV but, Taiwanese and Thai had a similar hours,three to four,watching chat or game show or soap opers during weekday.

Most attendees saw the same point as TV viewing habits have changed in the last twenty years and the number of viewers have been declining in the future.This might possibly that people more knowledgeable or other accessible such as internet and mobile phone.However, all attendees agreed that TV has had a positive effects as a news channels ,documentary or entertainment programmes which is cheaper than going out but, some programmes contained with violence,sexuality,not useful or inappropriate information that may cause negative effect on society,children have developed violent behaviour.

Regarding the television images ,almost five in six of attendees saw the same points that only one in five of the programmes in their countries have been showing the real things.Interestingly, young generation in Janpan ,Bangladesh and Taiwan were influenced by media or celebrities while the Bangladeshi government has set up censorship of the press and has been using for political purpose but, other countries the government has not much involved especially Janpan ,the law said that the government not be able to embroil with the press or media.As expected,over four in six agreed that stereotypes,both men and women,have been influenced by television images,normally with the children and teenager but, some of attendees have seen difference points about stereotypes and also stated that stereotypes on TV can be avoided by increasing awareness of media companies.

Unsurprisingly, the media literacy is the most important issues for all attendees and they all agreed that media literacy should be taught in school in order to making people to understand ,identify,critical media and increasing awareness of how they will be influenced by the media.Interestingly, Japan and Taiwan have already established a media literacy in school programmes while Thailand ,Bangladesh and China have not yet developed it.

Feedback for seminar : Siri's opinion

Seminar day,I felt very good when I was attending the seminar ,perhaps because of I did preparation before I was there and knew about topic ,background from my country and UK,the links that was given in the green book was very useful. After I finished the seminar I think my strong point about leadership was useful for the seminar group that need some one to led the topic and encouraged all attendees to paticipate in the seminar and be a good listener while others were speaking and write down the key agreement and disagreement but ,I still considered for my weak point about grammatical accuracy ,pronounciation and some new vocabularies that I searched before but not be able to use as much as I thought .I hope next time I will improve my weak point and share my strong point with others again.

Vocabulary for TV & Media

- soap opera

- news channel

- reality shows

- game/quiz show

- current affairs

- documentary

- comedy /sitcom (situation comedy)

- one-hit-wonder

- watershed ;9.00 pm

- rating

- censorship

- TV talents

- terrestrial

- satellite

- cable

-digital

-internet

- press conference

- in depth

- unbiased account

Note-taking skill_Website

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/notes.html


http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/notetaking.systems.html#mapping

I visited the following websites and I have found that quite usefull for me even I have learnt how to write a note when attend the lecture but still not be able to catching up in something so I will remind myself with the websites above and hope my listening and note-taking skills will be improved soon.

Preparation for Seminar_Media and TV

http://www.mediasmart.org.uk/media_literacy/index.html

Vovabularies connected to this topic

1) literacy (n) : the ability to read/write or a particular type of knowleage /ability to analyse in the positive way

e.g. : The media literacy has been putting as a key issue at 2008 media conference that will be held in London next month.

2) stereotype (n/v) = categorize, pattern, standard, typecast or a fixed idea that people have about something or someone is like ,

e.g. : The people stereotype,not only men but also women ,has been affected by TV image.

3) wisely(adv) : showing a good judgement

e.g.: At the present,media has been a big influencer in our society so we considered to provide a very wisely lesson to childrend at school.

4) multi-media society

5) appraise(v) : to examine someone or sth in order to judge their quality ,success or needs

e.g.: I was appraised by my boss last week.

6) via = through

e.g. : I did the data collection via the internet.

7) vast = extreamly big

8) critically(adv) / criticise(v) /critical(adj) /critic(n)

9) broadly(adv) /broad(adj) /broadness(n) /broaden(v)

10) toddle(v) : to walk with the short step

11) imitate (v) : to behave in the similar way /imitative(adj) /imitatively(adj)/imitation(n)

12) crave (v) / craving (n) : a strong or uncontrollable desire

e.g. Child also have a craving action.

13) desire(v) : a strong feeling that you want sth.

14) adolescent(n) : a young person who is developing into adult.

15) interpret(v) : to decide that what the intended meaning of sth is /express

16) advocacy : support /advocate (n)

17) fiction (n) / fictitious(adj)

18) imperative (n/adj) : extreamly important or urgent ,need to be done

19) convey(v) : communicate /to express ideas

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/entertainment/2006/future_of_tv/


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/16/television.socialnetworking?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront


http://www.healthypages.co.uk/newsitem.php?news=5262

Academic vocabulary in Use

1) Diploma :

2) MA :

3) core modules

4) elective modules

5) proceed to

6) opt (v) for / option (n) /optional (adj)

7) obligatory(adj) / obligation(n) /oblige(v)

8) assignment

9) dissertation

10) eligible(adj) / eligibility(n)

11) distrinction

12) defer

13) supervision(person) /supervise(v) /supervisory(adj)

14) sign up for

15) upgrade

16) tertiary education

17) higher education : provide by university or college

18) further education : education for people who left school,not provide by university

19) vocational(adj) : teaching or the skills you need to do a particular job

20) BA

21) BSc

22) Msc

23) MA

24) docterate (Phd)

Vocabulary from Jim's Class

New vocabulary :22 July 2008

1) Diagnosis (n) / Diagnose(v) / Diagnostic(adj)

E.g. When he have a flu ,he were diagnosed and prescribed the medicines by doctor

2) Storm (n) :

E.g. The south of USA were several hit by heavy strom .It could be the effect of climate change.

- Brainstorm ; e.g. Our group must have had a brainstorm before we are going to present the group ideas.

3) Drizzle (n,v) : E.g. London has had a drizzle rain often.

4) Internship (n/US) : e.g. Next month the students will be sent to be an internship in the law firm.

5) Dissertation

6) Thesis e.g. in the morning our teacher gave us the different meaning between dissertation and thesis .He said that generally the thesis is longer than dissertation and normally will be conducted by a PhD students.

A diagnostic grammatical result _Siri

Today I did a quick placement test in the class to diagnose my grammar weakness. The 3 key weaknesses has been found as
1) Collocation
2) Phrasal verbs
3) Verb patterns / word meaning

After I already noticed the key weakpoint so I set my objective to improve in the 3 key areas,collocation,phrasal verbs,verb patterns.

1) My self study time :to find a book in library to understand more meaning of collocation /phrasal verbs /verb patterns and able to write 10 sentences for each.
2) Borrow a book from library which connected to MBA /Business to be prepared for the academic vocabrularies that often use in business .

Let's enjoy the Lime class for July 2008

Useful finding pharses_words

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7504921.stm

Concern over GP skin cancer ops (Melanoma can be fatal)

- Potentially dangerous
- skin cancers are being treated by family doctors,
- the most lethal form of skin cancer - were being cut out at English surgeries.
- The research found GPs often removed too little tissue, allowing cancer to return or delaying necessary treatment.
- Extra training was needed, said the British Association of Dermatologists.

- The cancer could recur if not fully removed.
- The majority of skin cancers are not dangerous if caught at a relatively early stage,
- many can be removed safely at the GP surgery.
- However, it is crucial that enough healthy tissue is "excised" around the edges of the cancer to stop the cancer growing back.

- the National Institute for Clinical Excellence issued guidance in England and Wales which said that appropriately trained GPs could remove most 'basal cell carcinomas'

- the most common and least threatening skin cancers.
- it said that they needed to work as a team with hospital-

- The studies presented at

- Liverpool suggests that the NICE guidance is not being followed,

- GPs are not as good as hospital specialists at cutting cancers out.

- surgery revealed that nearly a third of skin cancers operated on by GPs had not been completely removed.

- a London teaching hospital showed that 14% of the tumours involved were "high risk", and should have been referred straight to a hospital specialist.

- analysis of the records of 80 patients with melanoma found that 13% of them had been incompletely excised or biopsied in primary care.

- Similar problems were found with squamous cell carcinoma patients,

- many of whom ended up waiting far longer for the cancer to be fully removed compared with those referred immediately to hospital.

- called for extra training for GPs: "

- chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said: "This study highlights the need for GPs to follow NICE guidelines, particularly those regarding melanoma.

"The majority of GPs in this country are following these guidelines, and this should serve as a wake-up call for the rest."

Grammar

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/47118fdc-51c4-11dd-a97c-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

- received the harshest possible reprimand
- The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry suspended Roche for six months
- The suspension = stop
– is highly embarrassing for Roche
- the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) statutory(adj ,controlled by law) regulator
- would submit a report to government prosecution( lawyers.
- Roche’s for­mer head of regulatory affairs in the UK
- the House of Lords = one of the Britain parliament
- unfair dismissal(n,neglecting /ignoring) by the company
- owner of a Barnsley slimming clinic, was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment(to put someone in a prison) in March
- it was a victim of criminal activity and that
- the MHRA found no evidence of its wrong-doing.
- “the potential increased used of Xenical”.
- Roche issued a statement on Monday
- “We are committed to complying with the Code of Practice . . .
- the company has already taken, and continues to take, steps to try to ensure breaches do not happen again.”

Grammar_review

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/31fc6c8a-3cb5-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.html

Drug price deal to cut company profits

- New rules on medicine pricing to be unveiled by the government
- will herald fresh cuts in income for the pharmaceutical industry in Britain.
- the health secretary, will announce the outline of an agreement to replace the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation System (PPRS) that was cancelled late last year.
- The proposals are expected to include average price cuts of about 5 per cent for existing medicines, sweetened by assurances of more rapid and widespread uptake
- the National Health Service = NHS

- Branded medicines which are still sold at premium prices by the pharmaceutical companies

- which have since gone off-patent,

- may be excluded from the new PPRS and subjected to more aggressive price competition - - rival generic products.

- The changes follow Treasury pressure on the Department of Health to cut spending as part of government

- While the UK leaves drug companies free to set the prices
- the PPRS regulates the overall profits they can make.

- The NHS has discretion over whether to purchase them after assessing their efficacy and cost-effectiveness.

- The government’s decision to seek changes to the pricing regime sparked anger from the pharmaceutical industry,

- They drew support from a report by the Office of Fair Trading last year that argued for “value-based pricing”,

- The new deal is expected to last for several years.
- Ideas based on “value-based pricing” and “risk-sharing”,
- those patients who do not show improvement, have not yet been tested on any significant scale.

Research_Citation

References

1. http://www.wikipedia.org/, Education in the United Kingdom, 11 July 2008. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_Kingdom>.

2. Vicker P and Bekhradnia B (2007), The Economic costs and Benefits of International Students, Higher Education Policy Institute, July 2007.

3. Broadening our Horizons: International students in UK universities and colleges. Report of the UKCOSA survey, B Merrick, UKCOSA: The Council for International Education, 2004,
<http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/files/pdf/BOHreport.pdf>.

Useful links for writing citation
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/harvard-theses.html

Useful link to find various words
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/problem

Siri's Research results_Discussion and Conclusion(tentative language,passive,various vocabularies)

Discussion

The purpose of the research was to investigate whether there is any difference between the sorts of problems between men international student and women international student. The findings revealed some significant issues. The respondents claimed that biggest problems were financial and visa issues (Figure 1). It is somewhat interesting that a few number of male respondents were noted in this problem (3, compared to 9 of women).This might possibly indicate a women tendency for expressing open-talk among interviewers more comfortable than men or perhaps in term of funding issue women generally spend more expenditure for shopping(clothes, accessories, others) higher than men.

Contrary to expectations, the research not found a significant important problem in male group but, almost thirty percent of the male respondents agreed with statement that they felt very dissatisfied by living in the UK. This could mean men have a positive point of view about problems or appears to suggest a need for further study to find out why male students felt very dissatisfied for staying in the UK.

With regard to the quality of pre-sessional study at London Metropolitan University it is interesting to note that more than a third of women agreed with statement that they felt very dissatisfied with quality of study. This may well mean that they are not used to the British style of education or could be a lack of British educational information.

Conclusion

The research results carried out key significant problems for international students. The most important issues of the students have been facing with funding and visa issues while these problems higher among women. The findings indicated that accommodation and language were universal problems. However, it seems to be the female students concerned about health care whereas the male students stated that opening bank account was their concern. As expected, the results shown a high percentage of satisfaction with living in the UK, quality of study and quality of staffs. In term of further research it is interesting if the University would like to find out why one in five of the international students thought that the quality of study was not very satisfied and may possibly find out a good solution for improvement

Being impersonal and formal

- In formal written English there are more nouns than verbs ,example from finding session

Finding

The sorts of problems international students

The research discovered that the biggest problems were funding and visa issues (with a similar percentage).These problems were common in the women group rather than men. (Figure 1)

Regarding accommodation and transportation issues, one in three of the respondents mentioned these problems as the important issues facing them. However, the problems are more prevalent among women than men.

As expected, almost forty percent of the respondents agreed that language was found to be medium problem. Conversely, there were a few numbers of men said that language was a problem, there was a high percentage among women. Nearly twenty percent of the male respondents indicated that opening bank account as a main problem. Whereas, women said language and health care system were their concerns.

With regard to other problems were just a little, least or no problem for the respondents and both female and male were significant no problem with child care when the research was carried out the result.

How the respondents were satisfied by living in UK?

Unsurprisingly, the research demonstrated that just over half of the respondents said they felt quite satisfied by living in the UK while a quarter cited that they felt just satisfied. Interestingly, eleven percent (11%) said they felt very dissatisfied by staying in the UK. (Figure 2)

How the respondents were satisfied by the quality of study?

In term of the quality of study more than fifty percent of the respondent stated that they thought quite satisfied. Contrary to expectation, nearly twenty percent were found to be not very satisfied at London Metropolitan University. (Figure 3)

How the respondents were satisfied by the quality of staff?

The majority of the respondents said that they felt really satisfied with the quality of staff but, one in three said that they thought the quality of staff was barely satisfied. However, a several number of respondents said that they felt very dissatisfied with the quality of London Metropolitan staff.

Finding : useful vocabularies and phrases

- ......has/ have increased/risen slightly/sharply/considerably/gradually more than ...

- ......has/have decrease/dropped/fallen/decreased/.....

Describing tables
5/8 = five eights
1/2 = a half
1/10 = one in ten
1/5 = one in five
45% = just under half
7% = minority
28 % = just over a quarter
98% = majority
57% = over half
0 = none
100% = all
Quantifiers
a third
three out of five
one in three
three-quarters(75%)
one in ten(10%)
a quarter(25%,1/4)
nine out of ten
a fifth
a tenth

Qualifiers
about /approximately
almost/nearly
more than
(just) over /under
less/fewer than

Phrases

- Almost a third(32%) of the respondents say + S...............
- This is higher among women(35%,compared to 29% of men)
- 20 % of those aged 18-24
- As common to their counterparts in the male group
- Most of the respondents say.....
- Between the male and female group have a same percentage
- The difference being in the other group
- Just over half of the ....agree with the statement that'..................' and exacly.....strongly agree with the same statement.
-

-
Express opinion in finding only one word
- Surprisingly,....
- Disappointingly,....
- Unsurprisingly,...
- Contrary to expectation...
- Encouragingly,.....

New paragraphes
- Regarding + N
- As for + N
- When it come to ....
- In term of ....
- In term of the most important aspects of ....
- As expected...
- With regard to + N

Reporting verbs

Weaker reporting verbs :
describe ,discuss,
explain,hypothesize,imply,indicate,note,propose,report,say,state,suggest + that

Stronger reporting verbs: .......+ that
affirm ,allege
argue
assert
claim
content
demonstrate
maintain
predict
recommend
say
show

Vocabulary: Give the contrast

- While
example : While the number of homework has increased gradually,students has less relaxing time at the evening.
- However,
example : The use of buses have dropped considerably .However,the number of people ,using tube as a major transportaion,has risen sharply during 6 month.
- Whilst
- In contrast,
- Conversely,

Leyton class self-study blogs : All classmates

Akiko
Elaine
Gammie
Jaguar
Jan
Mika
Mina
Miwa
Nadia
Pejman
Sheraz
Siri
Suzie
Tai-Jung
ThuBa
Xiao Xia
Yang
Yas
http://selfstudying.blogspot.com/

Direct and Indirect quotation

An Interesting self-learning websites

By B Siriporn
1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/default.stm

BBC website is contained with Big knowledge such as education news ,business news,political news,and etc ,where everyone who keen to improve English skills ,were found very useful with listening skill,via I-players ,writing skill ,reading skill via many of article ,In my opinion it is really useful with business news which is fulled of business information around the world and carry out 1,000 of business new vocabularies and phrases so BBC website is a favorable websit for me.

2) http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/#

Grammar is the top piority for academic english and myself so I considered this websit is very useful for a grammatical improvement.

3) http://www.englishpage.com/

This website were contained with many links classifies by areas such as listening ,writing, grammar and etc which really useful for students or people who like to improve English with one click and then has been found a lot of knowledge.

Steve's class Home Work_Writing comparision

Example writing comparision by Steve :

Drinking: Britain has a highly developed (maybe even over-developed) drinking culture, whereas some countries (for example Pakistan) have no alcoholic drinking culture. In Britain, it far more common to see inebriated young women in the evenings than in Italy, where getting drunk is not the only criterion for a good night out. When buying drinks for friends, a ‘rounds’ policy is employed where one person will buy a drink for everyone at the table. Even if it means that some people will not buy a round that evening. This is in contrast to Japan, where people generally pay for themselves. Men will tend to drink less sweet drinks than women who quite commonly consume alcopops (e.g. Bacardi Breezer). In Thailand, it is not unusual to see both men and women consuming these drinks."

Title : A taboos
Writing by B Siriporn
A cultural taboo has been developing around the world since the countries has been established,generally any countries has their own taboos such as drinking ,eating ,bodily function and speaking ,but some countries has been influenced by other.
Recently the international presessional students were carried out an interesting discussion results which the taboos were compared among the international students countries such as Japan,China,Thailand,Pakistan and Morocco.However, Eating in Japan,the elblows were not allowed on table and chopsticks are not tapped on the table before eating ,but in Thailand is accepted.While eating with mouth open in China is not a taboo while it is different when compare with Japan and Thailand and also Thailand slurping noodles is a taboo whereas Japan is a culture.Some Asian countries,China,Thailand,Japan, bodily functions,splitting,nose-blowing, are impolite, especially in Japan nose-blowing is not polite ,but fairly common with a spit in China less than Thailand and Japan.While in Pakistan burping among friends is accepted,but not in Thailand and the farting are accepted as a universal taboo.Normally speaking,expressing disagreement is common in the world ,but Japan men generally are recongnized as the first and important person to speak first ,not a women.Finally the world is recongnized as a multiple culture.

Gapmaker Exercises_4 July

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb2008073_344519.htm?chan=globalbiz_asia+index+page_top+stories

Gap File produced at level 8

According to the Internet analyst company's latest statement, the regional Internet audience grew at an average of 14 percent during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users.
India registered the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users, followed by China at 14 percent growth with over 102 million, said comScore.
Taiwan and Malaysia also clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent for both. ComScore said the more mature, saturated Internet markets of Japan and Singapore were at the bottom of the list, growth wise.
Additionally, it was found that Internet users in the region spend less time online than the worldwide average, with users in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan spending the most time in the region. Nonetheless, these were still below the worldwide average, said comScore.
On Web domains, comScore said half of the top 20 in the region are locally-owned, noting that five of the top 10 search engines are regionally-based, citing China's Baidu.com and Korea's NHN Corporation's Naver.com.


The following words will fill the gaps:
analyst citing corporations domains percent percent percent percent region region region regional registered

Useful business sentences by Siri

- growth Soars

- grew at an average of 14 percent

- during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users.

- the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users

- clocked double-digit growth at 12 percent

- ComScore said the more mature, saturated Internet markets

- spend less time online than the worldwide average

- half of the top 20 in the region

The difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students during summer 2008_First Draft

B Siriporn, London Metropolitan University


Introduction
More than 200 years that The United Kingdom (UK) has established a highly standard and a good reputation in the world of education so those reasons have risen significantly for international students who pursue a higher education (The independent survey 2008).A basic things as problems will come along with international students when they are moved to UK for their education such as missing home ,accommodation ,difficulties reading‚ writing‚ or listening to lectures in a foreign language and transportation(students affairs UK ,University of Kentucky) were reported.

However, even thought has a few research has been reported about international students problems in UK but unfortunately there were not up to date data so these research will carry out the new updated international students problems.

Aims:

The primary aim of this research is to discover if there is any difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students who attend the class during summer 2008 and the secondary aim is to carry out the results of how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.

Methods

The sample

The research sampled 27 respondents, 16 Females and 11 males, from the international student summer class 2008 with different ages. The respondents have been studying at London Metropolitan University.

Data collection

The data were collected by questionnaires that were contained with various student problem questions and the questions how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study and the quality of staffs then the data will identify the sort of international student summer problems and how satisfied do they feel during summer class.

Finding

The primary aim: the sorts of problems international students.

The research were discovered that the most problem for the respondents were funding and Visa, were come up with a similar percentage, despite finance and Visa problems were a major problem for female not in group of male.


One in three of the respondents were found quite problem with accommodation and about 22% have quite problem with transportation. However, accommodation, transportation and funding problems were occurred with female more than male.

The research were found that the medium problem of the respondents were language(37%) and male were found less problem than female, the main medium problem for the male respondents was a opening bank account(18.51%).Whereas, both language and healthcare system were high percentage as a medium problem for female respondents.

Other problems were just a little, least or no problem for the respondents and both female and male were significant no problem with child care when the research was carried out the result.

The secondary aim: how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.

- How the respondents were satisfied by living in UK?

The research was demonstrated that 52% of the respondents were quite satisfied by living in UK while a quarter says they were just satisfied, but 11% say they were very dissatisfied by living in UK.

- How the respondents were satisfied by the quality of study?

The quality of study just over a half of the respondent state that they were quite satisfied, but 19% was not very satisfied with the quality of study at London Metropolitan University.

- How the respondents were satisfied by the quality of staffs?

The majority of the respondents were quite satisfied with the quality of staffs and one in three say they were just satisfied by staffs however 4% of the respondents were very dissatisfied with the quality of London Metropolitan staffs.

Helen's class homework_Pronunciation : Energy Watchdog

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Energy Watchdog Expects Oil Markets to Stay Tight

10 Vocabularies from this article

1) Respite(n)= stop ,example : we worked for hour without respite.

2) Taper off (phrasal verb) = become smaller or less frequent ,example : most of that growth will come early before sharply tapering off / The mobile phone market trends to be gradually tapered off in the next quater.

3) Jibe (V) with something (US informal) = similar or match ,example :the IEA's outlook jibed with the views of oil company executives at an industry conference in Madrid.

4) Deep-seated (adj) = strongly felt or believed in something ,example : the red-hot oil market reflects deep-seated pessimism about the industry's ability to open the spigot to satisfy rising demand / The reporters were carried out a deep-seated opinion.

5) Pessimism (n)= think of the bad part of situation ,example A survey were created to find out who are a pessimisism by HR department.

6) Pessimistic(adj) ,example Tommy is a very pessimistic man when he talks about America.

7) Spigot (n) = a device unsed to control the flow of liquid ,example the industry's ability to open the spigot to satisfy rising demand / The goverment has been put pressure to raise the water spigot in rural areas.

8) Desperate(adj) = serious ,bad ,needs or want something very much,example
The IEA's report provided scant comfort for a world desperate for relief from the escalating cost of fuel/ The researcher states that he is desperate to prove his hypothesis is true.

9) Stall (v) = to delay taking action or decision ,example The BBC predicts that The member of parliament will stall the taxation bill.
- Stall(n) = shop or engine

10) Offset (v) = to balance one influence against an opposing influence ,example The sorbering situation of emerging market is a surge of OPEC oil price,but it has been offset by Russian supply.

Research : The international presessional student problems_Finding session after have got the result from questionaires

GROUP 2: Elaine, Akiko, Siri, Sheraz

REASEARCH TOPIC: INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROBLEMS

Research aim:

The primary aim of this research is to discover if there is any difference between the sorts of problems international male students have compared to international female students who attend the class during summer 2008 and the secondary aim are carried out the results of how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.

Method

The research sampled 27 respondents, 16 Females and 11 males, from the international student summer class 2008 with different ages. The respondents have been studying at London Metropolitan University. The data were collected by questionnaires that were contained with various student problem questions and the questions how the respondents were satisfied by living in UK, the quality of study, and the quality of staffs.

Finding

The primary aim, the sorts of problems international students, were discovered that the most problem for the respondents were funding and Visa, were come up with a similar percentage, despite finance and Visa problems were a major problem for female not in group of male.

One in three of the respondents were found quite problem with accommodation and about 22% have quite problem with transportation. However, accommodation, transportation and funding problems were occurred with female more than male.

The research were found that the medium problem of the respondents were language(37%) and male were found less problem than female, the main medium problem for the male respondents was a opening bank account(18.51%).Whereas, both language and healthcare system were high percentage as a medium problem for female respondents.

Other problems were just a little, least or no problem for the respondents and both female and male were significant no problem with child care when the research was carried out the result.

The secondary aims were demonstrated that about 52% of the respondents were quite satisfied by living in UK while a quarter says they were just satisfied and 11% say they were very dissatisfied by living in UK.
However, the quality of study just over a half of the respondents say that they were quite satisfied, but approximately 19% was not very satisfied with the quality of study at London Metropolitan.
While the majority of the respondents were quite satisfied with the quality of staffs and more than 30 % say they were just satisfied by staffs.
(This article was written by Siri)