My Interview

I interviewed Ms. Xueqin Weng. I want to know about her background and interests,
such as where she comes from, her education, family, and etc.
She told me that she comes from China and she has been here for nearly two years. She intends to go to college next year. Now she studies ESL at Milpitas Adult Education Center.

In her free time, she prefers playing on computer and she enjoys using Google and Yahoo to link with her key-pals. She's also interested in reading newspapers.
In the meanwhile, I asked her how to judge the objectivity of the information from these papers. She told me that she uses her brain and experience to judge them.


Posted by Hsikeng Tien

My Interview

My name is Vy. Today, I interviewed Bopha, who comes from Cambodia. Her interests are listening to music and cooking. The most memorable event for her is her wedding day. She wants to get a job in a bank first and dreams about becoming a restaurant owner in the future.

She sometimes follows the news. Her interests include world news, local news, national news, headlines or top stories, entertainment, health, technology, education, business, traffic report, and weather forecast. Everyday she gets news from T.V, radio, and internet. Here are some sources she likes: CNN News, ABC News, Bloomberg News, and WWW.Yahoo.com. She believes CNN News, and she thinks they tell the truth.
She also thinks her perspectives are being presented and sometimes she shares news with her husband and her father in-law.

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My Interview

My mane is Ngoc. My homework today is “My Interview”, which talks about my partner’s opinions to get news. My partner is Anh Ngo, Vietnamese. She likes shopping, seeing movies, and visiting her husband’s relatives. Her dream is to have a good job to buy a big house, and to save a lot of money to open a company in Vietnam.
She lives with her husband. They sometimes follow the news on TV about three times a week. She is interested in World news (especially political news), and local news (especially crime), and entertainment. Her favorite channel is CNN news, and she also likes to go on internet at www.yahoo.com too.
She just believes in herself. She told me “when I see some news about Viet Nam here, especially politics, I believe half and half”. Because almost people in US follow The Democratic Republic of Vietnam; but in fact in Viet Nam, the people follow The Socialist Republic of Vietnam. They have different political system, and only positive things not negative ones about themselves are talked about. So, she often discusses news with many people and follows many channels. I think she is right, because I am the same.

posted by Ngoc Dinh

My Interview

Today is November 10, 2011. I interviewed my partner, Phuong Nguyen. She is from Vietnam and she has been in the U.S.A. for more than three months. She is interested in surfing the internet and watching TV every day. The most memorable event for her was her wedding in Dalat, Vietnam, which is the most favorite wedding place in her home country. She dreams about owning a new house. Sometimes she doesn’t always believe the news because she thinks it is not 100% true. She likes to read and watch weather forecast, world news, local news, and national news. One of her favorite TV channel for news is BBC. She also enjoys listening to radio on KSJX - 1500 AM, a local Vietnamese radio station, when she drives in her car. She doesn’t comment about the news.

Posted by Anh Lam

My interview

Georgina is from Mexico. She is married and she has 2 children, and she likes clean her house every day. She said: clean house is not work, it’s her interest, clean house can let her happy all day. And she likes cook her home county food to her family to eat. She memorable are her wedding and when her daughter and son born. She has big dream, she want to buy big house.
Georgina need take care her children, so she doesn’t has enough time can watching TV news every day! But she said when she watching news she likes watching world news, local news, national news, and headlines news, health, sports, technology, and education, weather forecast…etc. and she also use internet and TV, and newspaper. She specific source is CNN News.
She believes her country's news is true, but not necessarily advice or to give her feedback, she just wanted to use to seen news to miss her home country.

By Sarah Kuo

My first interview

Today I interviewed my classmate Mr. Zhao. He is a very smart man. He likes to fix things. For example: electrical, radio. He really enjoys family time. He has two daughters and one son. The most memorable event is his wedding day and when he got his first child. He was very touched. If he has free time he likes to drink tea. In the future he wants to visit some places such as Egypt because he enjoys exploring.

He usually reads news after lunch time. He likes to go to Internet, radio or TV to look for every thing. The website he always uses is YAHOO in Chinese language. And every night he watches DONGSHEN ET news, a Taiwanese TV station on channel 57, with family. He can find everything including news, weather forecast, health…If he drives he listens to FM105.1.a Chinese radio station for some traffic report.
So I think he really likes to follow the news. He told me he usually believes all of the news but he will check various resources to make sure his perspectives are being presented.

Posted by Meiyan Piao

How Do You Stay Informed?

After studying the lesson on staying informed in our Side by Side book, we conducted classroom interviews. We found out that we stay informed in six ways: TV news, the newspaper, the radio, magazines, the Internet, and community meetings.

Some of our classmates follow the news more than others and we are interested in many things. For example, Hoa likes to know about local news in our community. Jingsen is interested in world news. Hien reads the Vietnamese newspaper to find jobs or look for an apartment. Behzad from Iran loves cars, so he looks for news about cars in magazines.

Where do we look for news? Yan Ling read the Chinese newspaper and goes online to Chinese news sites. Some Vietnamese students read the weekly Vietnamese paper called Thang Mo. Orawan, who is from Thailand reads the Milpitas Post. The TV news program mentioned most was CNN. Behzad likes to watch CNN for news about his country and world news. Dat enjoys going to the Voice of America website (VOA) to practice his English and read news in Special English.