Survey report (follow up to class on Tuesday November 18)

Check your cell phone too!!
This survey was in a English class by San Kang on November, 18, 2008.
I asked almost every students participating in same class about cell phone.
I acquired 21 students' various answers out of 22 ones.
We can know 3 general and surprising facts about cell phone.

The first question is 'Is there any relation with your last cell phone number?'. The most common answer is that the last phone number is same with the house phone's number. I expected it but I wanted to know some special answer and got it. It is same with a car number by Hyun Kim. He said his last phone number is same with his older brother and his number is same with his car number. Isn't it unique? If you had a car and wanted to have it for a long time, it would be good choice to select car number as a last cell phone number. Another unique answer is that it's same with my boyfriend's one.
I thought this kind of answer would be a lot, but only one. My last number is also same with my boyfriend's one. However, you have to remember that it could bother you as you changed your boyfriend.
The second question is 'What's your cell phone network provider ?'.
Many people don't know the term,'network provider', so I had to explain the meaning. Actually I didn't know the word either. There are just 3 providers, KTF, LG Telecom and SK telecom, in Korea. I got to know surprising fact.
There is only one person who use a cell phone from LG Telecom though LG telecom has been also developed by many pretty cell phones and a various of fare system those days. I used to use a cell phone from LG telecom and it was not good. Most of all, the fee system was not good at me so I had to pay much money every month besides, the cell phone was too heavy to bring it. I couldn't use it for a long time. I rarely found people using a cell phone from LG telecom at that time, which was also a reason that made me change the phone network provider. While LG telecom is gotten by only 1 person, KTF by 13 people out of 21! It's an order : KTF>SK Telecom>LG telecom.
The reason KTF can be winner is I guess from the fact that the fare system is cheaper than SK Telecom's one. KTF has been developed by 'KT' and diverse fare system those days. Originally, SK telecom was the best because of the clean tone quality and feature of the sturdiness of cell phone. Nowadays, KTF has caught up those things and then less expensive KTF can be the best I think. Mine is from SK telecom. Only one thing I complain is expensive fare system.
The last Question is 'How many times did you change your cell phone'. The most answer is 3 times. I should have considered age. It's true that the older, the more people have opportunity to change cell phone, so I think it's not good question. However, fortunately I found one surprising fact that there is 2 studnets who never changed their cell phone. One of two is a 30th female student. She even got married! But she didn't change her phone ever! I didn't ask the reason, but expressed my surprised feeling. The maxim number is 5 by 3 students. It took much time more than any other 2 question to get answer to this last question. The number is not correct I guess. In my case, I have changed 3 times, so my phone I am using now is 4 times for 4 years since I started to use cell phone. I realized that I changed my cell phone once every year. I should have changed the question into 'How long do you use your cell phone in common'.

To sum up, there are interesting 3 questions about cell phone, which are about meaning of last phone number, network provider, frequency of changed cell phone. Each general answers is home number, KTF, 3 times respectively. When I had a simple paper written a word, 'cell phone', and knew I had to create 3 questions at once, I felt excited. I came across many interesting questions more than 3 ones so I picked only 3 ones up and wrote them down. He gave us about 45 minutes in order to search them from all studnets in the class. I had to do in a hurry to get answers from all of them. However, the questions that I made were not simple like O/X question instead I had to explain first question's meaning (The last cell phone number is like 000-0000-'0000') All of students coudln't understand the meaning until I gave some examples. The word,'network provider', was enough to make people confused because we hardly use that kind of word. I wrote cell phone company at the first time I made it, but a stdudent told me it was not appropriate word so I got to know the correct word from my professor. I knew the word at that time. Many people asked me the meaning of network provider and I said 'just choose among KTF, LG Telecom and SK telecom'. If there were more than 10 providers in Korea I should explain the word rather than presenting examples. What I only want for is if my professor didn't say 'get answers from every students in limited time, it would be better. I had to get answers as many as possible, so I tried to concentrate on only answers and questions instead of discussing why I thought like that and showing my feeling about the answers or questions. Most of people look hasten to get answers from many people. On the other hand, What I gained by this activity is to have many opportunitis to speak with almost every studnets who are studying together in same class. This activity is good to make familiarity with students and know other students' opinion. To search it, we had to make questions by myself, which is good to develope ingenuious ability I guess.

Hello. This is Samuel. How are you? Now I'm going to write a report about my survey.

Do you live to eat? Or eat to live? Without food, we can not live. The topic that I got was "food". Wow. I think it's such an interesting topic, isn't it? In my opinion, women enjoyed more than men. This survey was taken place in the English class with Samuel at 18th of November. 22 people answered to my questions.

The first question was "What is the best food that you have ever eaten?" Here "the best food" does not mean favorite food. When you eat your favorite food in gloomy mood, it can not be the best food. Among the 22 people, 9 people said that their best food is susi which is a kind of Japanese vinegared rice delicacies. Cause I have never eaten susi before, I want to eat it someday. One unique answer was eel, although she is a woman.(I'm not going to say who she was.) It was very interesting.

The second question was "what is the worst food that you have ever eaten?" This is the opposite question with the first question. Answers were distributed widely. Two were something about bean, two were something related with dog. But 4 people answered that they don't have any worst food!! Among them, 3 people are women. In my opinion, women like to eat something more than men. One unique question was "Bonggolle Spaghetti" in the north gate. Most students in my university like to eat Bonggolle Spaghetti.

The third question was "What kinds of foods can you cook?" As you can guess, Among 22 people, 9 people answered "noodles(ramyon)." One interesting answer was, she said that she can cook pretty much foods. So I asked her some examples, then she said "noodles." And one unique answer was "anything related to kimch'i." As a Korean, I think more people should have answered like that.

In conclusion, two questions("What is the best food that you have ever eaten?" "What kinds of foods can you cook?") had a preference answers, but one question("what is the worst food that you have ever eaten?") didn't have a preference answers. People in my class like susi most, and many people can cook noodles. Through this survey, I could realize that I can teach speaking skills in a big class. So that fact that too many students are in one class can not become a good excuse. But, I think students didn't have to write their questions on the paper. Because while one asks, the other people didn't listen to what he is saying, but he was just reading the questions on the paper!! Even I did it. If the students didn't write their questions, that would be real speaking class!!

My theme is about a book. Everyday we read various books. Novel, poem, textbook, etc. A book is indispensible in our life. So I prepared three questions about books. First, 'what is the most impressive book you read?', second, 'how many books do you read in a month?', third, 'what is the title of book you recently read?'.
As I expected the answers to my first question - 'what is the most impressive book you read?' was various. As each person is different, his or her favor and interest are different. So their answer to this question was different. Most frequent answers were the Bible and the Little Prince. Both got two votes. And all the other answers were different. As this implies, people's concerns are various.
In my second question - 'how many books do you read in a month?' I got shoking result that people really don't read many books. The one who read most book said she reads 4 books in a month. But half the respondents said that they don't read books except for text books. What is funny part is that I've been relieved after this survey, thinking that I'm not the only person who don't read books.
My last question - 'what is the title of book you recently read?' had same pattern with the first question. People gave me various respond. From this question, I could confirm people's concerns are various too. The most common answers were two. One was the Taxi Drive in Paris, and the other was the Sherlock Homes Story. Both books got two votes. And there was a tendency that the book they recently read is the most impressive book they read.
They were also the question that I've been curious about. I rarely read books except for text books. I always think that I should read some books to be a cultured man, but I couldn't. One of the reason that I couldn't make a habit of reading books is that I didn't know with what book should I start. With this opportunity I've become to know many books, so I feel good. I'll try again to be a bookworm with these book that I've become to know through this opportunity. But I'm worried about our reading is scarce. We are the people who are preparing to become good teacher. I think to become a good teacher not only special ability in his subject but also general culture earned much reading is necessary. So Let's read books from now on.

Elementary school is the true beginning of our social lives. For example, we get to meet many of the new classmates, we start to take responsibility for ourselves a little bit and maybe some will start dating. It happens for some student that they have their characters changed while they grow up, but for the majority of the cases, elementary school life would give a great clue to the person. I took a survey on elementary school from my 20 peer students in the class of Teaching Practical English, on 18th of November, as a part of the task given for us to pratice and learn how to ask and answer the questions and apply the skill learned for the future students of us. I have asked three questions, and each of them will be shown in each following paragraphs.
The first question was if they had to transfer to another school when they were a elementary school student. And if so, how did they feel? 12 out of 20 answered no. 7 out of 20 had to transfer once, and only 1 out of 20 transferred twice. Among those 8 who said yes, the feelings varied but most of them were negative; they felt alone, sad, terrible, scared. However, one person reported that she was worried but also excited. I myself had to transfer once in a elementary school, which was a really sad and worrying. As most of them replied, it often carries negative feelings when people have to leave an old place and begin a new life.
The second question was whether their first love was from elemetary school. If so, who was he/she and what was their following action? Again, 12 out of 20 delivered 'no' as an answer. For those out of 8 who said yes, 6of their 'him' or 'her' were from their classmates whereas one was from senior student and another was from private academy. Interestingly, none of them had declared their love to the people they liked, thus no one dated their first love. I am not sure if they had chance to date him or her later in their lives, but not as long as they were in the elementary school. Differ from today's young kids, the student of my age were very shy with the opposite gender back then.
The last question was if they were a trouble maker back in a elemetary school. If so, were they involved in any accidents? To my surprise, the answers were all the same which were usually a firm 'no' or 'of course not' or even 'never!'. It almost seemed to bother some of them just to imagine themselves as troublemaker. I was definitely one of the 'good students', who always does what he is supposed to do, but all those out of class size of 20, there should be some students that had been a disaster for the teacher. Otherwise, maybe we are all good students, as Mr.Renshaw refers to us.
As seen above, I surveyed my colleague students on their elementary school lives. One of them was about their unwanted experience of moving school, which is always sad for all of us. Another was about their first love, if they had any and what they did, and it turned out that for those who had any never did anything. The last was about their characters, and the result assured me of their goodness and a little bit of quietness. The survey shows that the experience we had were a little different, but if it happened, the reponses were very much the same. Through my surveyI could practice the same question over and over, which helped me to shorten my response time each time. Most importantly, I learned an important skill that I can adopt into a rather large size of the class.

A horror movie, murder, ghost, a jet-black night etc! Which one is the most fearful thing to you? There are a lot of feelings-loneliness, happiness, sadness, fears, anger etc- which human beings can have. Among of those feelings, FEARS are my general topic in this survey.
This survey which was a part of taking lessons took place in a Teaching Practical English class on November,18,2008 by Nana (Eunyoung). I asked all of students in our class and then got their answers. I could get some of unusual answers from 3 survey questions that I made.

My first survey question was 'When was the most fearful moments till now?'. The most common responses answered by 7 of 22 students were 'when they were troubled by nightmare'. This answer was the same as my case. I think this is because we are in a defenseless state when we sleep. Except that responses, I could find comparatively various answers. Among of those, Inkab, SanKang and HyunKim's responses were unusual. First of all, Inkab's the most fearful moments was 'when she gave birth to baby'. It was unexpected response to me because I have never thought about fear of giving birth to baby, so I wanted to ask her more specific situation that she had experienced, but I couldn't because of a shortage of time. Second, SanKang's was 'when she saw a naked guy', it was interesting response. Finally, HynsKim's was 'before joining an army'. In this case, only men can feel those fears so it was also an unusual response to me.
Second survey question was 'What is the most fearful thing to you?'. The most common responses were ghosts by 8 of 22 students. There are a lot of stories about ghosts, but we don't know whether it exists. I think a subject that we can't understand exactly make people more fearful. Then, one interesting response was deadline of the homework by gloria. It was a witty thing! In my case, ghosts are also fearful thing but the most fearful thing to me is my future. Because I wonder that what I will be after 5, 10 or 20 years. I think anyone has the source of trouble the same as me so I expected many students would answer like that, but there were no similar responses.
Final survey question was 'What do you do to get rid of FEARS?'. All of responses related to this question were too common things. For example, sleeping, thinking others not related to fearful things or doing mind control. Among of them, sleeping was the most common responses. Probably sleeping would be the best way not to bring a fearful thing to mind. An unusual response was reading Bibles by Lily. I could find she has a steady faith about her religion. In my case, listening to music is the best way to get rid of fears. While I listen to music, I can put all of FEARS behind.

To sum up, there are 3 survey questions about FEARS. First was the most fearful moments, the most fearful thing and the way to get rid of fears. I could find anyone may have a particular thing that make them fearful and most of them try to sleep or do mind control etc not to remind their fears from each of the responses. Through overall survey, I felt so interesting because I haven't had these experiences during English class. Actually I thought these activities were so difficult that teacher couldn't use because of a large number of students, but my thought is changed by this survey class. The most important thing that I learn is all of activities are up to teacher's ability regardless of size of classes.

Do you have such things to do as pastime? How long have you been doing as hobbies in your life so far? Have you heard of any unique hobbies that people have? I was strongly wndering about the hobbies that my coeallgues in class have. I asked those questions to my colleuages in my class this Tuesday(Nov. 18th, 2008)

My first question was 'How long have you been doing that hobbies so far?' There were half class who have been doing their hobbies more than 10years. They seemed like enjoying their lives with exciting pastime. And half were just strated to have pastime since they've started university life, for about 5 years average. One of the shortest pastime that Yoori has is collecing sticker from bread. It was like when I used to have as pastime when I was in lementary school. It was very unique that she just started to get interested in that.

Second Question was asking about the motivation of starting to have pastime. Most of student in my class started to have their own pastime via suggestion from people around, such as friends, parents, sisters and brothers. Male students whose hobbies are sports were saying that they've got to do sports as their hobbies with instinct. No one asked to do it, or suggested to do it together. They just started to do in instinctly, according to their saying. It was very intersting. The laziest hobby that I've heard was 'watching TV'. They also said they started to have that hobby naturally without any specific motivation, but it seemed that they couldn't find anything else fun in real life. It was a little pathetic.

The third question that I have was about any unique hobbies that you've heard so far. one third of students said that they've heard none, or they have no idea about it. By the way, several things that I've wrote down from rest of the students were 'scuba-diving', 'paragliding', 'surfing', 'archery'. Since we all live in Daegu, it's pretty hard to have pastime which is related to water except 'swimming'. So I think these answers are quite reliable. And I also really want to do archery or shooting as my hobbies, but I've never heard of any places to do it in Daegu. So I think it's very unique for us in Daegu.

Surprisingly, whole students in class are having pastime that they can do while they have spare time. I was so surprised. Half of them were having te hobbies more than 10years. They started to have hobbies through suggestions from parents, friends, sisters and brothers. This activity was such a good method to make students talk each other. And they could get to make friends in class via asking each other. It was such a short time, but I could get to know whole students' name in class and their hobbies.

I like English? Yes, I do! Yes I do!

As a lingua Franca, English now is the most dominant language shared by all most whole world. Whether we like English or not is not any more the subject of consideration since we are destined to struggle or reside with English throughout our entire lifes. At the Teaching practical English class on November 17, 2009, everyone in the class conducted a survey in order to find out one another's opinions on individuals’ general topics. My general topic was English.

The first question was regarding the best way to learn English. Various useful tips have been proposed showing that not a single distinctive strategy seems the promising method in improving our English ability. Among responses, watching American movies or drama, and listening to radio show were ranked as the best recommended by 7 out of 22 students. Going abroad was supported by 5 students. Interestingly, 4 students believed that reading a lot will significantly improve their English. The others indicated that continuing practice and hard working, and making foreign friends would be effective options. I believe that being immerged into English only-spoken environment would be the best way to learn English. Yet, considering high cost and time restraint, not everybody can afford to study abroad; therefore, the alternative ways introduced here seem quite appropriate for most Korean students and it implies that we could improve our English skill through diverse mediums only staying at home.

Following the first question was the best English teacher in your life. Half of the students’ choices were from elementary, middle, and high schools. Impressive point is that teachers’ affective aspects such as caring, concern, kindness, and generosity mostly accounted for the reasons for their opinions. Some mentioned that encouraging comment like “you can do it” or drawing dinosaurs (maybe for the purpose of drawing little students’ attention) still vividly remain in their mind. Among them, two students particularly noted that teacher’s organized teaching skill and competence were so impressive, and I believe these characters are also underlying factors that made nine of us considered Jason was the very teacher of our choice. Upon the results of the survey above, however, being a memorable teacher seems largely to be the matter of personality. Nevertheless, we should keep in mind teachers are the source of students’ knowledge, and competence is the top priority of being a qualified teacher of our future students.
Question moved on to the last question; why English is important in your life. The answers were roughly divided into three categories. 15 students said that English revealed its instrumental value when they try to obtain their future job. Considering most students head for being an English teacher, this result is quite understandable. In others’ cases, English is a beneficial means to communicate with others, and the rest was more general but expected to encounter the adventurous future through learning and using English. For me, English gives me a sense of freedom. It allows me to be unbound from anxiety, cares and inferiority. English is also of the utmost importance as a means of living. However, on top of that it broadens my perspective on things or beliefs by enabling for me to get acquainted with people who related to English. By sharing experiences and ideas with them. I fulfill my life with pleasure and richness, which is the most significant contribution English makes for me.

With the topic ‘English’, three questions were asked to 22 students. Those questions are what is the best way to learn English?, who is the best English teacher in your life?, and why English in important in your life?. Sufficient exposure to English by making good use of TV drama and radio show was the best way to develop English ability. Next, the best teachers are usually equipped with not only professional teaching skills but show amiable attitude to students. Finally, learning English is crucial since English is the key to a success in their future career. This survey was interesting opportunity to talk with the classmates. Information obtained from this survey beneficial; however, as Jason briefed, this activity entails more significance in terms of providing us with meaningful chances to communicate with each other. what I regret is that if we was acknowledged the purpose the lesson in advance, and had less questionnaires, sharing ideas would have lasted longer rather than hurrying in filling the blanks.

Everyone has dream and there is no exception. What is your dream? And how about other's dream? My general topic is ambitions. It seemed to little abstract topic, so I focus on to make simple question that everyone can easily answer. I made 3 questions, 'What would you like to be?','How can you achieve that dream?' and 'Do you think you are ambitious?'. It was sad that the result was usually same, but sometimes there are interesting things.

First question is 'What would you like to be?'. We can easily pridict it. Most of people want to be english teacher because it is teaching practical english class. But some people want to be 'ethics' teacher(maybe it was ethic education department student), businessmen, and artist. This shows in teaching english class, student not always want to be english teacher. And maybe studying english is helpful for achieve these dreams, so they listen this class. I was surprised that teaching english class can help become a artist.

Second question is 'How can you achieve that dream?'. Most people answered 'study hard' or 'pass the exam'. Actually, I think there are more specific and various answer so I was little disappointed. Most of students has same dream, but there is some different way to achive that dream. For example, 'having a professonal mind', 'thinking my dream', 'follow the trend', and 'luck'. I like 'thinking my dream'. Everyone can agree that answer, but they can't think that answer easily. 'follow the trend' is interesting. That person's answer for 1st question was instructor. Should the instructor have to follow the trend? That makes me to think deeply.

Final question is 'Do you think you are ambitious?'. I think there are only yes or no, but many people says middle of yes-no. Except middle answer, there art more yes then no. About half of student in this class are ambitious. And it was interesting that there are strong-yes answers. But there are no strong-no answer, maybe people want to be ambitious. One people answered 'not yet'. I think the person want to be ambitious, but not now because of something.

Most of results was same. But that emphasize other different answers. I found that not everyone in teaching english class want to be english teacher. Because their dreams are diffrent, their own way to achieve is diffrent. Also, although the same dream, the way of achieve can be diffrent. It is like climbing the mountain. We can use the way we like. Many people think be ambitious is good thing because no one has strong negative answer.

What is the attractive thing to a baldhead? The answer is the hair clearly. We now seem to ignore the importance of the hair. However, if we are going to lose hair, we eventually have realized it. And so the survey was carried out about Hair at teaching practical English class on November 18, 2008, in order to find out opinions of each person about general topics.

"How often do you go to a beauty salon?” which is my first survey question. Most people answer that they usually go there once a month. When I make this question, I think that because there are a lot of women so they go to a beauty salon more frequently. However, responses are totally against m expectation. The most unexpected response is that they go there twice a year. What a surprising it is! Of course, women like long hair; however it is not comprehensible for men to understand these responses. I ridiculously conclude that they are just students so they are likely to concentrate on their study, or they do not have a boy friend so they do not need to care about their looking.

"Do you try to follow the fashion of hair style?” which is my second question. I think you can easily expect the most responses. Yes, it is "no." however, three women who usually seem to care their hair styles say "yes." I am going to tell you about the hair style of one of them, which looks like the shape of a mushroom. I am sure that you know In young Seo, who is a singer and entertainer. If you can imagine her hair style in your mind, you can understand what I mean. OK?

"Which hair styles do you like more, straight or curly or something?” which is my last question. Most people like a straight or curly hair style. There is no one who likes some unique style. I think ordinary people are trying to imitate their favorite entertainers. Most popular entertainers are with a straight or curly hair style. There, exaggeratingly, are no men who do not like Jihyun Jun. Her long straight hair style is really fascinating enough for women to imitate her hair style.

To conclude, they are not much interested in hair style. They usually go to a beauty salon once a month and did not try to follow the popular hair style trend, of course there are three people trying to follow the trend. Jason wants us to know that we can teach English conversation class no matter how many students are there. As he says, the more, the better. I can understand what he really wants to show us. When I am English teacher of secondary school, I will be trying to provide them a lot chance to speak and listen with me and friends.

Have you ever heard "well-being"? The concept of well-being includes heath both in spirit and body. Moreover, there is a saying like "A Sound mind in a Sound body", which means heathy physical condition is based on the bright thought. So, more people are being interested in each physical health as trend of the well-being, that they are concerned which they will to do activity or what they eat for preserving or improving their own physical health. So are our class students! So, my survey is about "health" including students' - in teaching practical English - responses to 3 interesting questions regarding health such as "What kind of activities or sports usually do you do or play for your health?", "What do you think the worst food for health?" and "Do you have your own unique tips or ways for keeping your health?" If you have, let me know". Our classroom students' answers are similar but peculiar or funny. Let's look. (In addition to this introduction, I want to inform this survey was fulfilled last out teaching practical English class and the respondents are 20 persons. Thank for each student's sincere response.)

As I presented above, my first question is "What kind of activities or sports usually do you do or play for your health?". My intention to make this survey question is because I want to know our class students' sports or activities for keeping fit if they do steadily. Most of people was doing or playing more than one activity and sports. For example, most of them are jogging, running, soccer, and basketball. One person is swimming. Of course, there are some unique answer and activity such as yoga and pilates - a kind of yoga -. And what is funny response is walking, or breathing(nothing). I think, though breathing(nothing) is not activity for health, walking can be one of the effective exercise for health if doing steadily and daily.

The second question for my survey topic "health" is "What do you think the worst food for health?". Among the respondents, 6 people said alcohol or drinking is very harmful for health. And the response of the next high rate is junk food, that 5 persons answered. Besides, other responses are greasy food, fast-food, fried food and ramen. I also sympathize with what our students answered. We have to avoid that kind of food for keeping our own health.

The last survey question for health is "Do you have your own unique tips or ways for keeping your health?, if you have, let me know". As far as this question, there are a variety of response, interesting and meaningful, even funny. 2 people say what is important for their health is to have "positive thinking". That response is very unique because, as you know, strong and fit body depend on happy and bright mind as the saying above, "A Sound mind in a Sound body". Similarly, there is one person answering "enjoy my life" which is a little vague but enough valuable. And most of students think the first thing to do for their health is enough sleeping and early going to bed or eating regularly. That kind of response is very simple but very important for preserving health. Among many responses, the most unique and funny is drinking "red ginseng liquid(juice)" which is, as you know, very popular lately in Korea. As far as I, red ginseng is more healthful than general ginseng for health. Though it is not delicious, I want to eat and drink it for my health.

There have been and will be the concern of health in past, present, and future. Through this survey, I could know the students' interests in and concern about their own health in our teaching practical English. As we could observe, I think it is better to have do activity or play sports and to avoid bad food for health. And I want recommend everyone will have one or more than one own unique tip or way to keep health, as considering their own condition or taste in (preserving) health. Ultimately, you have to remember that it is natural if we have to keep in shape, we can do anything we want to do.

Do you have friends? Maybe, you have and as you know friends are essential thing to our life. I have surveyed on friends on November, 18th, 2008. My classmates are asked to answer to my questions in the class. I gave them 3 questions on friends and these questions were made by me.

The first question was “What’s the meaning of friends to you?” Most of students answered that the meaning of friends is very important thing of their life and some of them called it everything in their life, others called it partner or company of their life time. And also I have gotten very interesting answers, one of two is that the meaning of friends is a gossip partner, and the other is just little thing to him. However, we know friends are too good to be better.

Secondly, I’ve asked that you are a good friend. Do you think so? This question is a kind of yes or no question, so I could easily get the answer. If was divided into two reactions, one is yes and the other is no. Among people, some had different answer, they said “sometimes or depend on the situation or people.” I think all of us are good friends sometime and we are not from time to time.

My last question was that you think men and women can be friends. Almost said yes, but there’re also some negative responses. This question is also yes or no question, so I took a little time to get answer from them.

The concept of friends is not that simply actually, it can be profound to us sometimes. My survey was really good opportunity for me to remind me of my good friends, I’m sure that you did too. Through three questions above, we could know how people think of friends, we think friends are the greatest thing in our life and we could have time to think if we’re good friends or not. Also, we thought that men and women can be friends. It was a great and fun time to me because I could talk to all of my classmates who never talked to before. So, it was really good and fun.

Do you like vacations? Many people like vacations because they can take a rest without any worries. Definitely, vacations give people marginal times and refreshment. Thinking vacations, I came up with some questions in my mind. So, I made some inquiries and decided to research into this topic. In room no, 401 of the education college, I inquired some questions to 21 students out of whole 22 students on November 18. I asked three questions. One question is choosing between two answers and the others are subjective questions.

First question was ‘Which vacation do you like better, summer or winter?’ I expected most of the students would answer they like winter vacation more because people around me hate summer. The result of this question was similar to my expectation. 12 students out of 21 students answered they prefer winter vacation to summer vacation. There might be various reasons why people answer like this. But I think it is mainly because people who answer ‘winter vacation’ to this question don’t like wet and hot weather. (They might want to stay at home in summer.)

Second question was ‘What are you going to do in this summer vacation?’ When I made this question, I thought most of the answers would be ‘taking a trip’. (So, I made relative question as the third question of my survey.) However, most of the students (about 13 students) answered they’re going to study hard in this vacation. Although the subjects which they’re going to study are different from English to Chinese, they said they have to study hard as they’re university students. One of the unique answers I can remember was ‘working at the bar’. She said working at the bar can make new relationships with other people and earn allowance for herself. Other responses are various; taking a trip, going to skiing, etc.

Third question was ‘If you travel to somewhere in this winter vacation, where would you like to go?’ At first, I want to make relative question with before one. But the result of second question didn’t correspond with what I expected. However, the result of third question went well as I expected. Answers were various. However, most of the students responded they want to go abroad. The most spoken answer was ‘going to Europe’. 5 students answered they want to go to Europe but they didn’t say where they want to go specifically. Only one person said she wants to travel to Spain. There were also unique answers to this question. One student answered he is really going to take a trip to Hong Kong. Another person said she wants to go to PyeongChang for skiing.

I asked 3 questions to 21 students out of 22 students. The questions were ‘which vacation do you like better, summer or winter?’, ‘What are you going to do in this winter vacation?’ and ‘If you travel to somewhere in this vacation, where would you like to go?’ In spite of personal characteristics, most of the students said same answers. Especially, in second question, a large percentage of the students said they’re going to study hard in this vacation. Although they have many choices like taking a trip, having a part time job, etc., they didn’t hesitate to answer they’re going to study. They seemed to have the thought only. Anyway, I had excited time to talk with other people and learned one of the methods that can teach speaking skill in a class. After I become a teacher, I want to use this activity in my class.

Do you remember the first day you wore the school uniform in middle school? We don’t put on the school uniform any more at the university after 10 years later, graduating from secondary school. The school uniform makes students feel obligate and uncreative in the new school life because of their standardization. However, I searched their school life in many ways by asking their favorite subjects, extracurricular activities and their academic goals like expected universities. Nowadays, most of university students want to get a stable occupation in that they can earn money comfortably. And they just learn it to get a job without interest and excitement. From now on, I pointed out how prepare and enjoy their school life in middle school.

For the beginning, each student has their favorite subject to study without any requirement. 12 students, more than half, liked to study not English but the others subject like art, math end so on. Even though all students are major in English Education now, their favorite subject was various. I believe this characteristic shows that they had studied just because of their interest and passion. So, there is little stress for studying it at that time. On the other hand, 9 students had liked to study English since at that time. This is very good and lucky thing so that they have learned more thoughtfully than the others had done. Their academic eager is proved they had the favorite subject clearly and variously.

On top of that, their expected university is higher than the university they go to present, that means they have passion when it comes to academic achievement. Since they were middle school student, they had planed to which university I want to or I should go. 75% student wanted to go among the Seoul University, Korea University and Yeon-se University. These schools are very famous in Korea and then I found that students are really considering one’s name value which means its honor. However, two students answered that they have no idea about university, but that is pretty common at the others if I ask it to more students. Therefore our classmates who are taking this class are really academic person.

Lastly, they also did plentiful of extracurricular activities after school. This extracurricular activity makes students growing in mental and mutual rather than general schooling lectures. Mainly, something is not related with academic subjects is performed as the activity for more than 14 students in the class. This is said to me that they are pretty good at managing their school record by doing special activity. Especially some students were playing the music instrument like the piano or violin. I believe that it was given great chance to being given deep emotionality. But, three students did academic or more serious activity they did was making English magazine, collection of works and taking listening comprehension class as the extracurricular activity. These students are scholarly to make their affluent school life.

To sum up, the classmate seems to be academic and passionate in that they had specific academic interest and goal at the beginning of teenager. I though that they just had idea when it comes to their middle school life, but they have sweet dream for being a great human being at that time. That is great thing I found and then I also felt even most of university student are studying now in the library, they just are going to get a job. I understand that it is natural obligation for the beginning of 20s, but if we do something youthful ardor, job and money follow naturally. So, how about remind of your dream when you were in middle school?

Marriage has been an important part of human society for a long time, and will continue to be in the future. Probably, most of you have thought about what future marriage and spouse would be like. I once had fantasies about marriage, imagining a perfect husband, house, and kids. I am sure I am not the only one who once had fantasies about marriage. So, I decided to conduct a survey on marriage to see what my classmates think of this very important issue. The survey was conducted during the Teaching Practical English class on November, 18, 2008.

The first question was “when are you planning to get married?” I assumed that many people would still consider age as an important matter when it comes to marriage. Personally, I do not think that age matters, but I have heard many people, especially the old generations, saying it is better to get married before turning 30. In the past, when turning 30, most of the Korean women felt pressured. However, the notion has changed, and now the average age at marriage is going up. This is well shown in the survey I’ve conducted: about 50% of the students (12 out of 22) answered they are planning on getting married in their 30s. More surprisingly, 7 out of those who said around 30 were women. The average age at marriage especially for women has increased over time. Possible factors that brought about this change are increase in women’s education and their active involvement in social and economic activities. Some of the students said they are going to get married as soon as they are ready. Only one student answered he has no plan of getting married.

The second question was “what is the first thing you would consider when choosing a spouse?” As I expected, most of the students said personality to be the first thing to consider. 15 of 22 said that they would put personality or characteristics on top of the list. Along those lines, attitude toward life, affection, and healthy mind were mentioned. It is quite surprising that no one mentioned physical appearance, since it seems like many people are obsessed with good looks. Only one student said she would consider financial status when choosing a spouse. Some unusual answers were religion and health. For those with strong religious belief, having same religious beliefs with their spouse can be very important. For me, I want my future spouse to be caring and honest. I also think that other aspects, such as financial stability and health, are important things to consider.

The last question was “how many kids do you plan on having when you get married?” The popular trend shows that people are having fewer babies. 13 out of 22 said that they plan on having two kids. 3 out of those who said two kids have gender preferences for children. They want one daughter and one son. I can see why they are thinking of having two children with different genders. I also want to have two children with different genders, because joy of raising a child can be different depending on gender of a child. Two students said that they want to have just one child when they get married. One student said that he would like to have as many children as possible. I think that was kind of interesting. 2 out of 22 said that they want no kids in their marriage. I think having no kids was very rare in the past, but is becoming more common in recent years. It was interesting that two students who said they want no kids were women.

In conclusion, the survey proves to some extent that some aspects of marriage have changed. In this survey, three questions were asked to 22 students. The first question was about a good age for marriage. A majority of the students said they think around 30 is a good age to get married, which demonstrates the average age at marriage is going up. The second question was about the first thing to consider when choosing a spouse. The most common answer was personality as I expected. The last question about the ideal number of children was asked, and more than half of the students said they want to have two children. Although there were some various answers to the questions asked, but the variation was quite small, showing most people have similar preferences toward marriage issues. I thought that the survey was interesting overall, but it would have been better to include some more specific questions about marriage.