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The Program English Language and Culture Program --- Gordon This summer, we 15 guys joined the Short Term English Program (STEP) by English Language Program, University of Washington. There are three different programs. Most of us studied in English Language and Culture STEP program and one in Advanced English Seminar. Here I am going to talk about the English Language and Culture program and Kathy is going to tell you more about the Advanced English Seminar. English Language and Culture program is the most popular program in the STEP that there are two classes and 14 of us are separated into two classes. I am in Cindy's class and some other students in Allyson's class. They are both the experienced and nice teachers and our tour guides at the same time. English Language and Culture program is a 3-week program, from July 8 to July 26, there were lessons in the morning from Monday to Friday. As the course is called language and culture, it is absolute not boring that only lecture, but many different outings and activities at the same time. For example, we visited a wet market, went to a museum, watched a baseball game and traveled to many places that Yvonne and Priscilla will tell you more. Pike Place Market --- a wet market. Maybe wet market is not as popular as in the Western society, and maybe Pike Place Market is old enough and well organized, it is a famous visiting area in Seattle. There are many different shops selling different things like seafood, flowers, fruits and souvenir, etc. There are also many restaurants. However, things really attract us and show the American culture are the way they sell seafood --- they throw the seafood that the customer buys from this end of the shop to another end and throw it to the customer finally, it is really very funny and just like a game. Also, the first Starbucks café is just next to this market. It opened in 1902 and it is 100 year-old. We enjoyed a cup of coffee there and the singers' performance outside. 3
Burke Museum --- Museum of culture. It is a museum inside UW campus that exhibits some American-related cultures and social issues like earthquake in America. For the lower level of the exhibition hall, cultures and habitats of different races along the The first Starbucks Pacific Rim are shown. The most impressive is the loss of cultures and languages of the minorities like the Hawaiian Hula, Lushootseed in Seattle and Kohanqa Reo etc. The reason behind is that the colonists not only promoted the use of their own languages to the native, but actively suppressed native's languages. You can find all the details there. In the ground floor, the geology of North America and earthquake in America are shown. It is especially suitable for children to visit and learn more about these topics through the interactive system in the museum. Baseball Game --- Seattle Mariners vs. Texas Rangers. On July 24 night, we were arranged to watch a baseball match to experience this exciting American culture. Before the game, we were taught the related baseball vocabularies and even played a mini-game during the lesson. In the Safeco Field, the home of Mariners, there were over 40,000 fans watching the game. You can feel how they love the baseball game and how they support their team, for instant, they shouted all together to the against team when that team plays good; and all fans sing together before the home team plays her 7 th inning. I think all their behaviors are the energy for the home team. However, Mariners lost that game! About the lectures, as it's a preliminary program, the course is not very difficult and we felt very comfortable in the lecture. Teachers didn't try to teach us grammar, pronunciation or sentence structures that we all learned before, they taught us the presentation skill, idiomatic expressions, effective communication skills, anecdotes and different American cultures like the tips culture, the educational system and the baseball culture etc. All topics are very attractive and interesting and let us know more about the US. 4
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