Dear Daisy,
Long time no see! I hope everything’s going well with you. How’re you doing in the States? Remember to take a good care of yourself!
As a diligent student always, you must be working hard in your studies. As for me, I’m just going to have the final exam very soon. As I go through the English exam syllabus, I suddenly realize that you could not enjoy an amusing learning process with us. Well, let me share it with you. What’s it? I enjoy the Short Stories module very much. It’s a pity that you missed this out.
Well, our class has done lots of things in the lessons. We’re not only learning the writing techniques and basic concepts through the textbook, but with the help of numerous well-written short stories, we learn many writing skills, such as characterization, setting, twist, irony and symbol during appreciating the masterpieces.
Maybe, you’ll think that the above things are quite technical and must be very boring, as I thought before. But there’re some moments that I enjoyed during the process of learning. The most enjoyable part must be the reading activities in lesson. The distribution of only half of the pages of a story about murderer case was an example. You know, after reading, the whole class needed to guess the ending, who was the murderer and so on. We got different comments and we even argued with each other. When Mrs. Chan distributed the remaining pages to us and we finished reading, we discovered the murderer was the one that we had never thought of, except Hoby (still remember her?)Wonder about what the story is like?Let me share it with you more next time! It is truly amazing!
Well, although the Short Stories module is very interesting, I must say there’re some parts that I’m not so satisfied with. The first point must be the time for learning this module was quite short. I enjoy this module very much and I do wish it either started earlier or lasted for a longer time. I hope to go deeper into the contents and the techniques, but it seems so superficial with the tight schedule. The second point that makes me feel impatient is sometimes Mrs. Chan doesn’t give us the whole story, and we need to guess the ending, which really made me jumpy. By the way, I guess these aren’t really the things that I dislike, but maybe, actually the funny part of this module.
To be honest, I’ve really learnt plenty of things from this module, such as the basic knowledge of short stories, lots of good expressions and morals. If you want to know more, for sure I’ll share with you when we meet up next time.
As you can see, I enjoy my lessons very much. How about you? Do you have any interesting things or enjoyable moments you’d like to share with me? Write soon and tell me your updates.
Best wishes,
Winnie