Auld Lang Syne lyrics and the movie exerpt

The following is the lyrics of Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns and the exerpt from the movie Sex and the City where the poem is wonderfully depicted in a song before the New Year. This is one of my favorite songs and I hope to share this feeling with all of my dear friends.

Auld Lang Syne

　Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
　　And never brought to mind?
　　Should auld acquaintance be forgot
　　And days of auld lang syne?
　　For auld lang syne, my dear,
　　For auld lang syne,
　　We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
　　For auld lang syne.
　　

　　We twa hae run aboot the braes
　　And pou'd the gowans fine;
　　We've wander'd mony a weary foot
　　Sin' auld lang syne.
　　We two hae paidled i' the burn,
　　Frae mornin' sun till dine;
　　But seas between us braid hae roar'd
　　Sin' auld lang syne.
　　And here's a hand, my trusty friend,
　　And gie's a hand o' thine;
　　We'll take a cup o' kindness yet

　　Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
　　And never brought to mind?
　　Should auld acquaintance be forgot
　　And days of auld lang syne?
　　For auld lang syne, my dear,
　　For auld lang syne,
　　We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
　　For auld lang syne.
　　For auld lang syne, my dear,
　　For auld lang syne,
　　We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
　　For auld lang syne.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_YnmHLynRY&feature=related

Auld lang syne

Tommorrow would be the last day at Penn State.

How I wish I could stay a little longer, though I know I miss home and baby daughter badly.

We all have experienced so many getting-togethers and leavings, but each time when we have to say farewell, it hurts.

Auld lang syne, my dear Penn State.
Auld lang syne, my dear Chinese friends here in University Park.
Auld lang syne, my dear instructors and friends, Ann, Jim, Gena, Nikki, Michelle, and Linda.

I will remember the warmth in Nittany apartment.
I will remember the calm on Campus, especially the awesome dignity in front of the Old Main.
I will remember the proud history of Nittany lion.
I will remember everything I have experienced here in the short three weeks.
I will remember all this in my mind, for ever.

Let us cherish every opportunity we meet together.
Let us cherish every moment when we feel the touch deep in heart.

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Ideas of using wiki in my advanced reading class

I've also got an idea of using wiki in my reading class. Here it is.

I do believe writing response to reading materials would definitely promote students' critical reading and thinking ability, which is one the goals in my advanced reading classroom. Therefore, I asked my students to use portfolio to collect their response to various topics covered in our reading before. But now I think wiki could be a more effective tool to finish this task.

We usually have a lot of contradictory topics in our reading, for example, whether gifted children should be grouped for education. In such case, students could explain thier critical opinions on our classroom wiki. I could start a topic by giving the two options for this issue and ask students to choose a side to continue their response. Besides, wiki could be even more interesting for fiction response. For instance, we read a story named The Lady, or the Tiger? and students always had wonderful ideas to continue the open ending of this story. If we could finish this on wiki next time, their works would be even more valued, and theirs could be exciting modals for the following groups of students in this course.

I gradually realize that technologies is not always big and far-aways things in our classrooms, and as our current conditions are limited, we could carry out fascinating ideas using technologies appropriately in and after our own class.

Using Wiki to create a teacher community

There are ten suggested ways of using wiki in language teaching mentioned in the paper Nikki assigned us the other day. As we discussed them yesterday, I found sharing lesson plans on wiki particularly interesting to me. I have applied a project titled Creating Teacher Community to Promote Young English Teachers' Professional Development, and as the classroom discussion went on, I suddenly realized what an effective tool wiki could be that I could take advantage of to carry out a teacher community!

I kept on thinking about this topic last night, and I've got two ideas of using wikis in teacher community up till now. The most difficult problem young and inexperienced language teachers face is that they spend too much time working on their individual lesson plans and have too little time for researches. Therefore, wiki can help us solve this two-edged problem.

On the one hand, we could share our lesson plans on wiki. Each teacher in the community would concentrate on one lesson plan in a semester. Other teachers are welcome to make revisions and suggestions to it on wiki. In this way, a lot of time would be saved and I'm sure our lesson plans would be better than those designed by us individually.

On the other hand, we could put forward some research topics through our reflection program on wiki. That is, the community members should collaborate to build up a wiki reflecting our own classrooms and finding theoretical discussions on these issues. Then we could connect our ideas by links and I am picturing a wonderful EFL forum on our wiki in my mind! In this way, we will have a lot of topics for our research and development in our own classrooms, for example, carrying out action research to solve some problems in our own classroom. The following result, no doubt to explain further, would be benefits to our teaching as well as our researching abilities. What's more, we are not diverted from our utmost purpose of helping our students with their language learning.

Individual work is valuable, but it is far from enough. Only through collaborative work and enlightening sparks can we develop professionaly. I am excited about this idea myself, and if you are also interested in this idea, would you please join me?

Refelctions on chatting in classrooms

I myself has already been familiar with communicative tasks such as information gap, jigsaw, or solving a questions. But to use them on internet thought chatting techniques is still new to me. I truly think this is a fascinating idea to carry out with young adults.

However, it is not easy to realize them in our classroom inCUMTB. First, the resources are not available. Second, the class size is huge. But I think we could start with some of them after class first. It would be a good try for developing their speaking and writing skills. I will try some in the future.

Use of chatting in Nikki's class

Using chatting in classroom as a student here at PSU is really exciting. I guess that is why many young students love chatting and spending all the time on internet.

I chatted with Nancy in Nikki's class. At first, I think Nancy was not familiar with information-gap question and so we had some difficulties in dealing with the yes-no questions. She was trying to help me with a lot of information she knew about the celebrity she pretended to be. That was really helpful in my guessing, but that was also the end of the first turn of guessing because I could easily figure out who she was. Well, for the latter activities, when we negotiated the instructions of the activities first, things got better and better.

When we printed our chattings all together, it was a big file! I really enjoyed the whole process chatting with Nancy.