Sunday, June 30, 2013

Self Introduction

My name is TJA. I'm half Japanese and Philippines. My mother is from Philippines and my father is from Japanese favorite thinks to do is to play soccer and listening to musics. I love playing drums as well as I do with soccer. I do goal keeper and forward in soccer. I have 1 younger brother and he is currently studying in CIS and he is in grade 4.

I learned my English at CIS. Before studying in CIS I used to go to a after school class where they teach us how to speak English. I think I learned my English skill there as well. When I wasn't studying in CIS yet, I was studying in a Japanese public school. I studied in a Japanese school since kindergarten to grade 3 and a half.

I've known English since I was grade 1 or 2 because when I was still little, my parents wanted me to watch English cartoons and learn English so that I could go to an International school. I enjoy watching English cartoons when I was little but now I can watch any language of television program. I usually watch soccer in English channels so that at least I'm watching and learning some English from the TV.

I go to CIS(Canadian International School) in Tokyo. I went to CIS when I was grade 3. Then I moved school at grade 6 and now I'm back to CIS to continue from grade 8. Right now I'm in a summer school in CIS too. My first day in CIS when I was grade 3 was really hard because, I still didn't know a simple English and I was having trouble understanding what the teachers are teaching the students and it's kind of hard to communicate to students who only knows how to speak English.

My strength in English in spellings and grammars. I fell comfortable when I spell a word while writing it down in a piece of paper but I feel uncomfortable when spelling it out from my mouth because they words gets mixed up in my mind and say a random letters. I sometimes write a story of my own when I was still small. I think I started to like spelling and grammars when I was small with writing a story when still little.

My weakness with English is summary writing. I feel summary writing my weakness because, I'm really weak at telling a short story of what I've red and what I've seen. The events happens on the thing I've seen or red gets mixed up too and the events the is important sometimes isn't mentioned there. When I was still in grade 4~6, I was having a really hard time making a short summary of a novel. It usually takes me about 30 minutes to 1 hour to make a short and simple summary. So, I hope that I could learn how to make a summary within this summer school in CIS.