Sign Up For Reading Expo!

FKIP Reading Expo is 21 May, and so far, about 10 people have signed up to compete for the prize: 50 US dollars' worth of books written in English that the winner will choose.

If you haven't located a book and signed up, there will be more this week during English Open House (Thursday at Cary's place).

Special thanks for helping get comment threads on this blog started....to Rizky Andriawan. He's reading the story of Aron Ralston, whose experiences are the story behind the movie 127 hours.

Things we read about together

This is a long list. I can see from our email messages to each other that we read a wide variety of stories... TANAEKA posted online with study questions We read O. Henry's The Last Leaf. It's on Voice of America's web site now... The Last Leaf

Tugas Terstruktur Academic Extensive Reading

If I have been seeing you for reading in Pak Bunau's Reguler B class this semester or last semester, this blog has been created especially for you, and I hope you will soon accept my invitation to join. We're going to talk about reading in English. What do you like to read? What don't you like to read? Which reading skills do you find the most difficult to master? (For most of us, it's being able to tell the difference between the topic and the main idea.) Each week, I will post pieces from your writing - Okke's has been especially good - and examples of how difficult vocabulary words you have sent to me should and should NOT be used in an English sentence. But mainly, I just want to get a good discussion going about books and stories you have read in English. Here's a link to what you know is one of my favorites... Kirk Coningham's The Expat and Other Stories