台北英文書展大豐收 Good Harvest from Taipei Book Exhibition

超平美國名牌進口英文圖畫書

For Taiwan $24,000 I bought  5 boxes of "Everyday Read Box" of Scholastics - Yellow, Red, Blue, Orange and Green, 6 sets of "Go Facts", 1 set of "Magic Bus", and several sets of phonics and other picture books. The price was amazingly reasonable - cheaper than in Hong Kong or Shenzhen, or even USA.  

台灣出版超好中英對照、圖文並茂英文文法工具+練習書

Excellent tool book on English grammar - bilingual explanations, colourful illustrations and good exercises 

Excellent Content Reading Skills Practice books- less than HK$2.00 per one exercise!!!!!

用中文寫的英文兒童書教學策略老師和家長用書

Books on developing picture book reading strategies - useful to teachers and parents 

世界地圖掛氈  World Map hanging sticky mat 

Guansi Junior High School 新竹縣立關西國民中學

The school features reading and baseball. 

"We value reading," "Look at this map of Taiwan. There are different stops. Students move from one stop to another following the Reading Trail. If they complete the number of books required, they move forward." It is a virtual reading trekking activity.

Maybe one day they will make it real. Read, and visit the place they read about. Mark their footprints and then move on and explore another place which is mentioned in their favourite book. 

"This is the sports ground where our baseball team is trained. Our baseball team is often champion of the island." 

"It isn't easy to keep the baseball team. There's a lot of fund raising to do in order to support their training and sponsor their competitions." 

The school campus is beautiful. It is a pity that the number of students is decreasing with the demographic change. 

Guansi Dong Shan County Leader 新竹縣関西鎮東山里長

周里長愛家鄉,窮畢生精力把荒地變成生態保護區，

可持續發展教育基地，接待來自不同國家的青少年學生，

考察溪流生態，蝴蝶，及體驗客家文化。

Mr. Zhou Ting Chun, head of the Guansi County, treated us a Hakka lunch at a western style restaurant with sculptures and mosaics. Very special Hakka dishes such as fried yellow ginger rice, Mui Choi Pork, all with a Guansi flavour. 

"I love Dong Shan. The place is beautiful and the natural environment is good for health. There are over 12 elderly over 100 years old here. The county was abandoned and was just a wasteland. We worked together and uncovered a hidden irrigation system, a legacy from long ago. Then we decided to reconstruct the old Dong Shan farmlands. With support from the Government, we converted an abandoned village school to a conservation centre. We work together with university professors who conduct environmental research here and teach courses related to conservation to student groups from Taiwan and overseas. We provide accommodation of a wide range of prices and Hong Kong students are welcome." 

Mr.

Guansi Elementary School - A Reading School in a Hakka County

Principal Tien was newly appointed to this school. 

He had a team of senior teachers dedicated to conservation of the natural environment, the preservation of the Hakka heritage, and nurturing students' reading culture and high standard of writing. The teacher researcher culture has enabled the school to sustain and thrive in meeting the challenge of decreasing population and rise of new immigrants 

from inter-marriage. 

小食味濃情更濃 Delicacies from Kwan Si

關西Aing Gu 小食

Excellent Delicacies- a must for you 

Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center 劍潭海外青年活動中心

The Conference was held at the Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center in Taipei, which is opposite to the landmark Grand Hotel. There are two blocks of buildings with classrooms and lecture rooms for seminars and workshops, and a block for hostel services. K and I shared a two-bed room for Taiwan $2700 per evening. Contrary to our expectation, there are no facilities for sports but buffet breakfast is good with Chinese and western food. 

There are two dining halls and one restaurant for special guests. On the evening of 11 Nov, we saw heavy presence of police guarding the entrance of the restaurant- 月桂㕔. And two bodyguards with their suits hiding something like guns at the back. We were told that President Ma Yin Jiao came to dinner at this particular restaurant. 

This is a simple and modest hostel but accommodating important people and great events. 

因著他，我到了臺北。Meeting Professor Browne

因著他，我到了臺北。 單單為了看到真的他，面對面的告訴他, 我很喜歡他的設計，融合了最先進的科技和EFL 教學理論。

Just to meet him, and tell him face to face how much I love his design. I registered the conference and flew to Taipei.  This meeting put me back to the odyssey of finding an effective curriculum model for struggling EFL or ESL Chinese learners across the strait. 

Professor Charles M. Browne

Meiji Gakuin University 

Consultant and Chief Curriculum Designer of 

www.englishcentral.com 

at the 22nd International Symposium & Book Fair on English Teaching 

Organized by the English Teachers' Association of

 The Republic of China 

at Chien Tan Overseas Youth Activity Center, Taipei 

8-10 Nov 2013 

Kellet International School -new campus at Kowloon Bay

An international school at city centre - a square block, enclosed within walls are classrooms, library, special rooms, halls on fours sides, and sky-lighted centre like a courtyard -

 a modern version of the Chinese 四合院. 

Kellet http://www.kellettschool.com/366/our-school/our-campuses

The sports ground  is on the roof with artificial grassy flooring and running tracks. 

Typical furnishing and arrangement of school libraries in international schools. 

Learning environment