Week10

When is the last time you went to a movie theater?
Which movie did you watch?　
Let us know which movie is your favorite one?
It’s because you like the plot or the movie stars in that movie?
Do you prefer Asian movies (e.g. Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, or Thailand) or Hollywood movies?

Week9: Art & Design

What do you think art is?

What do you think design is?

What are the differences between art and design?

Please share your opinion about art and design.


Topic contributed by May. Next one is Maggie.

Week 8: Do you think you are fat ?

In fact, many girls think they are too fat, so they keep trying all kinds of ways to lose weight.

What’s your opinion about this weight-losing phenomenon?
Do you think it is necessary for these girls to lose weight?


Topic contributed by Joy. Next one is May.

Week7: literary Chinese vs. vernacular Chinese

Since junior high, we have learned many articles or poems about literary Chinese. But when we become a college student, we have less time to read or use classical Chinese if we are not in Chinese Literature Department. So…
What is your view toward learning literary Chinese?
Do you think it is necessary? Why or why not?
Also, you can share your experience about learning classical Chinese.
Do you like literary Chinese? Why or why not?
You can choose several questions to talk about it.
Do not feel like taking an exam and feel stressful.
Feel free to make a comment.

Topic contributed by Tina Lee. Next one is Joy

Week 6 :Facebook

Do you have an account of Facebook?

If yes, are you addicted with Facebook?

If no, do you want to have one?

Topic contributed by Maggie. Next one is Tina Lee.

Week 5: Clothing in campus

Week 5: Clothing in campus

Girls, this week let us share our opinion about clothing in campus.

What do you think is the proper clothing style for a college girl?

There is a link of an article below.

You can read this article if you have time. It is an interesting article.

Clothing Tips for College Girls: Practical Campus Fashion Advice for Freshman Year and Beyond

Topic contributed by May. Next one is Maggie.

Week 4: Cheerleading

What's your opinions about cheerleading?
Do you think cheerleading should be abolished?
If yes, why?
If no, why?

Topic contributed by Joy. Next one is May.

Week3 : Death penality

Recently, the issue of death penalty is discussed drastically in Taiwan.
What’s your view toward the death penalty?
Do you agree to abolish the death penalty?
Why do you agree or why do you disagree?
If you are the Secretary of Justice, will you agree to execute the murders?


Topic contributed by Tina Lee. Next one is Joy.

Week 2: Pet

Week 2

Do you want to keep a pet? If you have a chance to keep a pet, what animal you would choose? Why?
What kind of activities you would want to do with your pet? If you don’t want to have a pet, what are the reasons?



Topic contributed by Maggie. Next one is Tina Lee.

Week1: Your favorite cartoon in your childhood

Week1: Your favorite cartoon in your childhood
Talk about your favorite cartoon in your childhood.
Dose this cartoon has any influences on you?
Why you like this cartoon so much?
You can share anything that you want to share with us.
You can even share a film of that cartoon if you can find one on Youtube or other websites.


*Topic contributed by May. Next one is Maggie.

New start (Please read this first)

Hi! My name is May. This semester we have a new group blog project. There are four members in our group, Maggie, Tina Lee, Joy and me. I am very happy to work with you guys.
Since I am the host of this blog, I have somthing to tell you and hope that you can observe it. Each one in our group has to take turns to contribute a discussion topic for each week. I am the only one who can post a new article on this blog, so I hope that someone who contribute the topic for that week can send me the topic and other things you want to post on this blog before the first day of that week. You can send me the topic by MSN or E-mail. Here is my MSN and E-mail: may7998@msn.com This is the work mode of our blog. If you are still not clear, you can ask me on MSN.
*Here is the sequence: May→Maggie→Tina Lee→Joy
Thank you for your attention : )

The final task

1. I think the weekly writing prompts are good. It gives us some questions to think. However, I think they are quite boring because they are all related to serious topics. They are inspirational but I am not interested in them. They are not close to my life. I think their range is too small. Most of the weekly writing prompts are related to academic topic. I would like to have some special theme, such as how do we think about homosexuality.
2. I like the two-way online discussion, but I think it will be better if there are more people in a group because we can get more different ideas. We can also see many different writing styles and learn from each other.
3. I think everything is fine during the progress of blog project. One difficulty is that I have to do very hard to meet the require of words. When I have nothing to say and did not meet the require, I have to take a long to think out what to write. It brings a lot of pain to me.
4. I like the project website very much. I think it is quite comfortable. The design is simple and not too complicated. The content is good. I think there can be more relevant links. Dr. Chen gave us a lot of good websites. I think the links of these good websites can also be put on the project website.
5. I gain a lot from this blog activity. I have learned something new from the weekly writing prompts. I think the most important thing this activity gave to me is that I can write regularly and will not lose my ability to write in English.
6. If I had opportunity to start over, I will extend my view of weekly topic. I will spend more time on it and find more information. I try my best on this semester. As a freshman, I have too many activities to take part in. I am still learning to manage my time well. If this project would start over, I definitely will make more efforts on it.