Christmas in USA

Traditional Christmas Eve dinner is always turkey. It is usually so big thatwe eat turkey sandwiches for a week. The turkey with stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and peas. Santa Claus is an imaginary old man with a long white beard and a red coat. Young children in many countries are told that he brings their Christmas presents. Santa Claus reindeer pull sleigh through the sky, and he comes down through the chimney.

Red Envelop

Giving red envelopes, which symolizes luck and wealth, is a Chinese, traditional custom. Red is a lucky color for Chinese, especially for important festivals. For example, during Chinese New Year, people put money in red envelope as a gift for young children. Parents think children should spend money on purchosing useful items by themselves. In the Chinese culture, red color means to protects and keeps evil spirits away. It is better than other colors. Then children are becoming adults, getting married, having a baby and following this traditional custom.

Cooperative reading strategy instruction

For my English Reading, cooperative reading strategy instruction is the best way more than the cramming. We made a small group and discussed article with classmates at school. At first, we feel this is a new challenge for us. For example, Password 3 has a lot vocabulary and we have to do English homework every week, but we still can not understand what the author wants to say. As for Password 3 textbook, we start to read a new article and try to explain it. We are finding topic and using visualization to explain what author main idea is. Sometime we can look at the pictures on the pages of the article, then make a hypothetical question. Making the flash cards, which is helpful for us to learn English vocabulary fastly. We also discuss some details with classmates about topic or paragraph. To sum up, cooperative reading strategy instruction can help us know that studying English is not boring, it is more interesting instead funny.