Many people use the term of ‘chance’ mixed with ‘opportunity’.  The two terms have similar meanings; probability, a way of expressing the belief that an event will happen. However, the two terms have some differences with their not only the meaning but also the usage. The meaning of the two terms are different that the words used to positive or negative events. In addition, we can divide them with the usage: whether it fluently was used in spoken or written English ?  Moreover, you could compare the two words with what words usually come  before? In these three aspect, i will define the differences of two terms chance and opportunity.  

  First of all, opportunity always means the probability of good luck, but chance is not. Chance means the probability of something that will happen. We don’t know whether it is good luck or bad luck. However, opportunity means that probability of good luck. Therefore, if you want to say that you got a probability of something that you really admire, you should say opportunity.  Otherwise,  you cannot judge the chance will be helpful for you or not.

   Second,  chance was fluently used in spoken language but opportunity was used  in written language more. Change used 16122 times in spoken English but, in written English  it used only 5445 times.  Opportunity used 11620 times in spoken English, in written English it used 13253 times. Opportunity used many times both in spoken and written English. However, it used fluently in written English. Therefore, I could find out that opportunity is more proper in written English, and it’s more formal word.

   Lastly, they have differences in words that usually come before. Usually, chance used with ‘fat’ or ‘surviving’. The two words have the most high rank. However, ‘window’ and ‘equality’ are fluently used with opportunity. ‘Fat chance’ means that it could be impossible. In addition, opportunity of window means the entrance of probability. They have different meaning according to the words that come before.

   In conclusion, there are some differences in two words; chance and opportunity.  They have differences in their meaning, usage and the words that usually come before. In addition, I could find out these differences through search the terms in corpus. It is really helpful not only find the meaning of words but also the usage and the relation of words.

  Davies, Mark. (2008-) The Corpus of Contemporary American English: 450 million words, 1990-present.

 

Introduction

It is tremendously true that most of students study English in private academy. Some people say that the private English academy makes students do not study in school. The other people, however, agree with the private English academy. Therefore, I survey about the experience of students who major in English education in Chongshin University to know the efficiency of private English education.

The cognition of private English education

First of all, I ask to students about the cognition of private English academy  It has 4 choices: totally agree, it is necessary to students who have some problems with their study, It could be necessary but I don’t want to, and totally disagree. All of students answer that ‘It is necessary to students who have some problems with their study’. Through this question, many of students do not have any negative awareness about private English academy. They think that it could be necessary for some students.

Experience in private English education.

9 students answer the survey. Every student answered that they have an experience in private academy. Then, I ask them ‘when did you first go to the private English academy?’ Five students answer that they went there when they were middle school students, and three of them answer that they went there when they were elementary school students. There were many reasons that they chose the academy. Most of students answer that they went to the academy to improve English ability. The others answer: mom’s recommendation, all the other students did that.

Effectiveness of private English education

Then, I asked to students whether the private academy is helpful to students or not. There are 5 scores and the higher number means that it is more efficient. 6 students answer score 4, and 2 students answer score 5. All of students have experience in private English academy and most of them think that it was helpful to study English. One person, however, answers that it was not helpful. Because it was not useful in real situation.

Which contents that private English academy emphasizes?

4 people answer that the academy emphasized reading and listening section based on grammatical method. The others answer that the academy emphasized pre-learning or vocabularies. Then, I ask them which skill is the most important in the academy. The four skills in English: Reading, Listening, Writing, and Speaking. Five students answer the most important skill is reading, and four students answer that listening part is important. However, in academy they do not study about writing and speaking much ,  and they think the two skills less important.

Conclusion

Overall, the survey revealed some topics that the private academy could be helpful to students. In general, the students think that the academy is necessary to students who have some troubles with study English. However, in the academy they do not study speaking and writing skills hard as much as reading and listening skills. They will need some special instruction to improve their speaking and writing skills.

 

 

 

I choose “to a daughter leaving home” to teach to high school students. There are several reasons that I recommend this poem. First, it has meaningful message. Second, it is valuable to teach students about the language in this writing.

 I choose “to a daughter leaving home” to teach to high school students. There are several reasons that I recommend this poem. First, it has meaningful message. Second, it is valuable to teach students about the language in this writing.

Through “To a daughter leaving home” high school students can realize parents’ love toward them. In the poem, the writer reminds the memory that she taught how to ride a bike when her daughter was young. Her daughter was dependence to her mother. The writer couldn’t take her eyes on her daughter because she worried about her daughter. Now her daughter is old enough and she is about to leave home. After study this poem, student realize that parents love that raise them with careful and always do their best. In addition, It could makes students decide to be a good sons or daughters.

 In addition, high school students could learn not only about the genre of poems but also some demanding vocabularies. The genre of “To a daughter leaving home” is a poem. The writer describes the situations or her feelings with metaphor. It helps students to perceive the genre of a poem. Also, they could understand how to understand the poem that use metaphor. Vocabularies in this poem is not too demanding for high school students. Some vocabularies are difficult but it’s not too challenging.

In conclusion, I want to teach “To a daughter leaving home” to high school students because it’s meaningful messages and It’s appropriate to students to study of it’s language. For these reasons, I want to teach to high school students “To a daughter leaving home.”    

 “To a daughter leaving home” is the most popular poem in our class that students want to teach to high school students. However some students disagree. They say students won’t feel sympathy through this poem because the speaker wrote this poem the aspect of the parent. Nevertheless, there are some reasons that the poem is so popular to students. First, it has a valuable message. Second, it has appropriate languages.

 First of all, all of three bloggers mention that the poem has a valuable message about parents’ love. Jihyun Lee points out that while high school students read the poem they can understand parents well. She says, most high school students don’t have any chance to think about parents’ love toward them. Therefore, the poem could be the chance that they realize the parents’ love(2014.10.09). Seongeun Ryu agrees with this idea. She mentions, “Since the poem shows parents being worried about their children when they try to leave the parents, students would be able to remind their parents’ love for them” (Ryu, 2014.10.07). Furthermore, Bongyul Choi said, “it will give an appropriate message to students that parents always keep (sic) on eye on them even if they try to be independent because they deeply love their children” (Choi, 2013.10.07).

  Secondly, all three bloggers point out that the language used in the poem is appropriate for high school students. According to Ryu, “To a daughter leaving home” does not have many complicated metaphors unlike other poems. Therefore high school students will understand easily compare to other poems(Ryu, 2014.10.07). Choi supports this idea that he says, “The level of his poem is intermediate, so it will also be helpful for them to improve their English proficiency” (Choi, 2013,10,08). Lee figures out why students feel difficult when they study about poems. She mentions, “Not many students study poem during the class because it is not accustomed to read it.” Thus she suggests to study this poem. Because students could learn not only a figure of rhetorical devices but also expression to use of the poem. Therefore it leads them to be accustomed to the genre of poems (Lee, 2014.10.09).

In summary, these three bloggers choose “To a daughter leaving home” to teach to high school students because of its’ valuable message and appropriate language level.