Final project: SL English learing survey

Shayan SL language school

The topic of our final projcet is doing research on SL English learning institutes. I responsible for Shayan SL language school.

With the unique ancient Rome building, Shayan SL language school can always impress its visitors. This language institute is established by 007 darwin in 2008. Though Shayan is a quite young school, it already has 164 students at the moment. They offer classes in many languages such as English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Arabic at present.

So far I have interviewed with the school manager, who is a very nice and friendly lady. The following is my survey questions:

Teaching Goal and Objective:
What are your teaching goals and objectives?
Year:
How long has your institution been found?
Features of school:
What kind of teaching method do instructors usually use?
Teaching Method
Which skills do you focus and what teaching methods do you use?
Media:
What kind of media do you use? (ex: video clips, PPT, podcast)
Teaching Material:
Do you use any teaching materials?
Schedule (Time):
Do you have classes for students in different time zones?
How long is each class?
Teacher:
How many teachers are there in your institution?
What are the backgrounds of the teachers? (American, Europeans, Canadians, British?)
What are the criteria for choosing teachers?
Student:
How many students in each class?
How many students in your institution?
What is the major age group of students? (18-25, 26-34, 35-42, 43-50, above?)
What are students’ nationalities?

Class fee:
Are these classes available for free?
How much for each class?

Do you have website ?

Watching Movies in Second Life!

Eating popcorns and watching films with friends is also an enjoyable entertainment possible in SL!

There are many kinds of theater out there; Drive-in Theater, Home Theater, and special ‘Action’ theater are available! Most of them are free of charge. The very thing you will have to do is getting Quick Time settled on your computer, and do not forget to check out the audio & video preferences are in the right condition.

Pick a comfortable seat and sit down with popcorn on your right hand, soda on your left hand, when you are ready, click on the screen and follow the steps you can spend a great time. If there are some specific movies you would like to see, you can look for them among different theaters for every theater has its own movie schedule and videos. You can also buy new films in the shop if you are not interested in those free but old films.

Oh! And do not scare yourself seeing people having sex in their seats if the movie in theater now is a specially ‘Action’ Film.

Participate in Gossip Girl, Visiting Second Life Now! (Revised)

No matter where you are, you have a chance joining Gossip Girl’s world and enjoy your time visiting the upper east side of NYC.


‘Gossip girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite’is the most familiar opening remarks to all Gossip Girl fans, yet it seems that now for those fans who are second life users get another access to their favorite celebrities. As one of the most popular U.S. TV series, having numerous fans all over the world, Gossip Girl even becomes one of the hot spots in second life. Let’s be a happy idolater and have a look at this fantastic virtual GG city.

Walk on the street and follow the road sign. Exploring each character’s house will bring you a lot of fun. Take a look at Serena’s dressing room, and you will no longer be surprised at her changeable glamorous outfits. Nate, the prince-like boy, is so adorable that a huge personal profile poster which is not seen in other actors’ houses hang on the wall of his living room.

Want to know other GG fans in second life? GG fans always gather at the hotel where Chuck lives though this day does not have any events. If you get a little bit tired, feel free to sit on the stairway where Queen Blaire usually occupies having lunch with her following girls. Besides those leading roles’ houses, Rufus’s gallery and the park where many scenes happened are also worth watching.

If you think sightseeing is all you can get from Gossip Girl in second life then you are totally wrong. They have regular events every week. To get related information you can visit their website ( http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/gossipgirl-uppereastside) or pick the note card at Chuck’s hotel. Reform yourself in those fashionable shops on GG streets and join these events held by the beau monde, you may have a chance to run into Queen B in dancing parties or drink cocktail with Nate on Sunday night.



Can’t wait to see it? The fabulous upper east side of Gossip Girl in second life!

Participate in Gossip Girl, Visit Second Life Now! (Original)

No matter where you are, you have a chance joining Gossip Girl’s world and enjoy your time visiting the upper east side of NYC.

‘Gossip girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite’, this is the most familiar opening remarks to all gossip girl fans, yet it seems that now for those fans who are second life users get another access to their favorite celebrities. As one of the most popular U.S. TV series, having numerous fans all over the world, Gossip Girl even becomes one of the hot spots in second life. Let’s be a happy idolater and have a look at this fantastic virtual GG city.

Walk on the street and follow the road sign, exploring each charact
er’s house will bring you a lot of fun. Take a look at Serena’s dressing room, and you will no longer be surprised at her changeable glamorous outfits. Nate the price-like boy is so adorable that a huge personal profile poster which is not seen in other actors’ houses hang on the wall of his living room.

Want to know other GG fans on second life? The hotel where Chuck lives always gathering GG fans there though this day have not any events. If you get a little bit tired, feel free to sit on the stairway where Queen Blaire usually occupies having lunch with her following girls. Besides those leading roles’ houses, Rufus’s gallery and the park where many scenes happened are also worth watching.

If you think sightseeing is all you can get from Gossip Girl in second life then you are totally wrong. They have regular events every week, to get related information you can visit their website (http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/gossipgirl-uppereastside) or pick the note card at Chuck’s hotel. Reform yourself in those fashionable shops on GG streets and join these events held by the beau monde, you may have a chance run into Queen B in dancing parties or drinking cocktail with Nate on Sunday night.

Can’t wait to see it? The fabulous upper east side of Gossip in second life!

Bubble Tea Becomes A New Trend of Tea Tasting

The tea drinking custom in Taiwan is deeply influenced by Chinese Tea Culture, and till nowTaiwanese basically still followed the Chinese way of Tea Tasting. Nevertheless, the invention of “Bubble Tea” not only added a neologism for tea vocabulary but it also created a new era of Yum Cha; the later appearance of “Pearl Milk Tea” (or “Boba Tea”) with its invincible popularity even turned out to be the national drink of Taiwan. It could be said that bubble tea to Taiwanese is what soda and coffee to Americans.

Bubble Tea Originated in Taiwan in early 1980s
Bubble Tea is a kind of soft drink with tea, syrup, and crashed ice shaken in a cocktail shaker created in 1980s, and the fair bubble floats on the top of tea gave it the name. This refreshing and cool new way of tea tasting became well-known in years. The creator of bubble tea then went on adding tapioca pearls into shaken milk tea and this came to known as “Pearl Milk Tea”. With the fad of this new type of beverage, bubble tea bars popped up all over Taiwan and they quickly became the hottest hangouts for young people and students in 1990s.

Bubble Tea Bar in Modern Taiwan
Nowadays there are more and more optional flavors open to customers in bubble tea bars. Besides various kinds of tea, there are also many different fruit juices and other soft drinks available, and customers can pay about extra 30 penny choosing one topping such as tapioca pearls, egg puddings, konjac jelly, grass jelly and chewy things like that for their drink. The busiest time for bubble tea bar is in summer, yet they are still welcome in the rest of the year because most drinks could be served hot and they have winter-only special drinks like ginger milk tea, too.

It is for sure that among those drinks “Pearl Milk Tea” is always the best loved. It may be difficult for uninitiated to understand its charm. Tapioca pearl is sweet and its mouthfeel is in-between chewing gum and soft sweets. You need to use an extra-wide straw to suck them up from the bottom of the cup with milk tea. It is fun to enjoy the drink and most people found it addictive.

In recent years most bubble tea bars evolved into “Instant Bubble Tea Bars”, which means the shop usually has no seats and its products are just for to go. Still, there is one feature which makes Taiwan bubble tea bars so unique: only those shops in Taiwan use automatic cup-sealing machine instead of traditional lids, a brilliant invention in case of people spilling their drink and in the meantime making it easier for them to go.

This Bubble Tea Bar craze based on Taiwan has spread to East Asian, Southeast Asian, and North America; most of them are introduced by overseas Taiwanese. I believe bubble tea will be a "trend" rather than merely a craze in Tea Tasting. Just give it a try and you will see it is too hard not to love it!

Bubble Tea Becomes A New Trend of Tea Tasting (Revised)

The tea drinking custom in Taiwan is deeply influenced by Chinese Tea Culture, and till nowTaiwanese basically still followed the Chinese way of Tea Tasting. Nevertheless, the invention of “Bubble Tea” not only added a neologism for tea vocabulary but it also created a new era of Yum Cha; the later appearance of “Pearl Milk Tea” (or “Boba Tea”) with its invincible popularity even turned out to be the national drink of Taiwan. It could be said that bubble tea to Taiwanese is what soda and coffee to Americans.

Bubble Tea Originated in Taiwan in early 1980s
Bubble Tea is a kind of soft drink with tea, syrup, and crashed ice shaken in a cocktail shaker created in 1980s, and the fair bubble floats on the top of tea gave it the name. This refreshing and cool new way of tea tasting became well-known in years. The creator of bubble tea then went on adding tapioca pearls into shaken milk tea and this came to known as “Pearl Milk Tea”. With the fad of this new type of beverage, bubble tea bars popped up all over Taiwan and they quickly became the hottest hangouts for young people and students in 1990s.

Bubble Tea Bar in Modern Taiwan
Nowadays there are more and more optional flavors open to customers in bubble tea bars. Besides various kinds of tea, there are also many different fruit juices and other soft drinks available, and customers can pay about extra 30 penny choosing one topping such as tapioca pearls, egg puddings, konjac jelly, grass jelly and chewy things like that for their drink. The busiest time for bubble tea bar is in summer, yet they are still welcome in the rest of the year because most drinks could be served hot and they have winter-only special drinks like ginger milk tea, too.

It is sure that among those drinks “Pearl Milk Tea” is always the best loved. It may be difficult for uninitiated to understand its charm. Tapioca pearl is sweet and its mouthfeel is in-between chewing gum and soft sweets. You need to use an extra-wide straw to suck them up from the bottom of the cup with milk tea. It is fun to enjoy the drink and most people found it addictive.

In recent years most bubble tea bars evolved into “Instant Bubble Tea Bars”, which means the shop usually has no seats and its products are just for to go. Still, there is one feature which makes Taiwan bubble tea bars so unique: only those shops in Taiwan use automatic cup-sealing machine instead of traditional lids, a brillant invention in case of people spilling their drink and in the meantime making it easier for them to go.

This Bubble Tea Bar craze based on Taiwan has spread to East Asian, Southeast Asian, and North America; most of them are introduced by overseas Taiwanese. I believe bubble tea will be a "trend" rather than merely a craze in Tea Tasting. Just give it a try and you will see it is too hard not to love it!

Bubble Tea Becomes a New Trend of Tea Tasting (Original)

The tea drinking custom in Taiwan is deeply influenced by Chinese Tea Culture and Taiwanese basically followed the China way of Tea Tasting. Nevertheless, the invention of “Bubble Tea” not only added a neologism for tea vocabulary but it also created a new era of Yum Cha; the later appearance of “Pearl Milk Tea” (or “Boba Tea”) with its invincible popularity even turned out the national drink of Taiwan. It could be said that bubble tea to Taiwanese is what soda and coffee to the Western.

Bubble Tea Originated in Taiwan in early 1980’s
Bubble Tea is kind of soft drink with tea, syrup, and crashed ice shaken in a cocktail shaker created in 1980s’, and the fair bubble floats on the top of tea gave it the name. This refreshing and cool new way of tea tasting became well-known in years and bubble tea bars further replaced juice bars which were previously quite popular in Taiwan. The creator of bubble tea then went on adding tapioca pearls into shaken milk tea and this came to known as “Pearl Milk Tea”. With the fad of this new type of beverage, bubble tea bars popped up all over Taiwan and they quickly became the hottest hangouts for young people and students in 1990’s.
















Bubble Tea Bar in Modern Taiwan
Nowadays there are more and more optional flavors open to customers in bubble tea bars. Besides various kinds of tea, there are also many different fruit juices and other soft drinks available, and customers can pay about extra 30 penny choosing one topping such as tapioca pearls, egg puddings, konjac jelly, grass jelly, coffee jelly and chewy things like that for their drink. The busiest time for bubble tea bar is in the summer, yet they are still welcome in the rest of the year cause most drinks could be served hot and they have winter-only special drinks like ginger milk tea, too.

It is sure that among those drinks “Pearl Milk Tea” is always the best loved. It may be difficult for uninitiated to understand its charm. Tapioca pearl is sweet and its mouthfeel is in-between chewing gum and soft sweets. You need to use an extra wide straw to suck them up from the bottom of the cup with milk tea. It is fun to enjoy the drink and most people found it addictive.

In recent years most bubble tea bars evolved into “Instant Bubble Tea Bars”, which means the shop usually has no seats and its products are just for to go. Still, there is one feature makes Taiwan bubble tea bars different from other countries: only those shops in Taiwan use automatic cup-sealing machine instead of traditional lids, a brillant invention in case of people spilling their drink and in the meantime making it easier for them to go.















This Bubble Tea Bar craze based on Taiwan has spread to East Asian, Southeast Asian, and North America; most of them are introduced by overseas Taiwanese. I believe bubble tea will be a "trend" rather than merely a craze in Tea Tasting. Just give it a try and you will see it is too hard not to love it!

Online Temple Benefits Modern People (original)

The prevalence of internet has changed a lot of traditional doings, but have you ever heard of online temples?

This virtual temple website not only introduces Taoism classical, doctrines, pictures of their gods but it also enables believers practice divination online. All you have to do is keying in your name and birthday on the website, and click, then you can ask gods for a prophecy. Furthermore, it also supports the lighting of Bright Lamp, Wen Chang Lamp and etc; This service benefits modern people who are too busy to go to the temple by themselves, but unlike online divination which is free of charge, lighting any kinds of the Lamp requires believers swiping card online and that the prices vary according to kinds of Lamp and locations of the temple where they want to set up their Lamps. Though this online service is convenient, it would be a little bit expensive than usual price.

Still, some people doubt if it is meaningful to do so. Well, according to the website: ‘A faithful heart makes wishes come true’. So you just have to keep the faith in it.

Online Temple Benefits Modern People (revised)

The prevalence of internet has changed a lot of traditional fashions and devoloped innovate applications to many fields, but have you ever heard of online temples?

Like Christins go to church, Taoism is the most important religion in Taiwan and Taiwanese also go to the temple worshiping gods, yet nowadys it seems that people have another choice to express their piety.

This virtual temple website not only introduces Taoism classical, doctrines, pictures of their gods but it also enables followers worship gods and practice divination online. All you have to do is keying in your name as well as birthday on the website, clicking, then you can ask gods for a prophecy. Furthermore, it also supports the lighting of Bright Lamp, Wen Chang Lamp and etc, which are believed could bless people with good health, promising career and other aspects. This service benefits modern people who are too busy to go to the temple by themselves and in the meantime it is environment-friendly for reducing burning of incense.

Nevertheless, unlike online divination that is free of charge, lighting any kinds of the Lamp requires believers swiping card online; The prices vary depending on waht kind of Lamp and the location of temple they want to set up the Lamp. Though this online service is convenient, it would be a little bit expensive than usual price.

Still, some people doubt if it is meaningful to do so. Well, according to the website: ‘A faithful heart makes wishes come true’. So just keep the faith in it and be respectful while visiting the online temple.