What I did in the second week of applying my Language Learning Plan?

Everything has an aim. And the aim that I hope to Achieve from my Language Learning Plan is improving my English. I had written many strategies in my plan to develop my skills in English which are vocabulary, writing, speaking and pronunciation.
A few days ago I discussed with my father about my improvement in English and he advised me to give the best effort if I want to achieve my goals and he said “if you want to develop your speaking skill quickly, you should try to speak English in your home, then I told him that this idea is one of my strategies in my plan then he said “I’m ready to help you if you want any help”.
I started to speak English in my home with my cousin two days ago. In that day, we decided to speak English throughout the day. It was difficult for us because it was the first time and every one in our home was laughing when they heard our Conversation. Although it was a difficult experience, we benefited from our mistakes because we shared our ideas together to avoid our mistakes at the next time.
I was always confusing between two words which are nature and nurture. These words I learned them from my Academic Reading and Writing class, and my teacher tried to help me to understand what is the different between them and how I can distinguish between them. But I did not get the idea clearly because some students were noisy. So, after I returned to my home, I worked on the two words. Firstly, I looked for their meaning in Oxford Dictionary. When I distinguished between their meaning I understood what my teacher were talking about to help me to distinguish between them by their form. She said that nurture has to two letters “R” and it means the help, education, care, etc. that is given to a child who is growing and developing whereas nature has one letter “R” and it means all the things in the world that were not made or caused by people.

My first journal entry

Learning English became one of the main aspects in my study life. So, it is important to have a learning plan to know about my improved and poor areas in my studying. When I started to apply my strategies in the first day, I felt that I can’t do what I planned but after a few days I found that I did what I planned. To improve my speaking skills, I used the Sky Pronunciation Suite program and I felt that I had benefited from that program. It helped me pronounce the difficult words correctly. Also, I learned that in English there are many homophones. Last Thursday I went to the learning support center to take a lesson in writing skill at 10:30. It was difficult to discuss with the teacher about what I want him to teach me because I forgot my notes which were about my areas of weakness in writing. However, I immediately opened my essays that I brought them with me and then I remembered my notes. After that happening I repent from forget my notes. That lesson helped me to be more attention in the ideas which I must write them in my essays because if I write an essay with poor ideas, I will get a low grade like making food, if I make a cake with less flour, I will get a damaged cake. To improve my vocabulary, I picked up three words from the book (Inside Reading The Academic List In Context) and I defined their meaning, spelling and part of speech from my Oxford Wordpower Dictionary. Then I used them in sentences to be more sophisticated with them. When I want to use the three words in speaking I felt it was difficult for me because they are new vocabularies and I can’t pronounce them fluently.

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