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.
Fattoom
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This is a nice first entry with some good description. I really like the analogy comparing writing an essay to baking a cake; I’ll try to remember that!
ReplyDeleteThere are a few things I’d like you to consider when you write your next entries. First is paragraphing. You really need to use logical paragraphs to make your entry easier to follow. Can you think of how you might organize this into paragraphs? Another point is the analysis and follow-through. I’d like to see more explanation of how something worked or didn’t work. For example, you mentioned homophones, but you didn’t give any examples of homophones, or write anything about how this knowledge could be useful in the future. In another example, when you tried to use new vocabulary, how did you know your pronunciation wasn’t good? How can you avoid or correct that problem the next time?
Finally, make sure you proofread for grammar and write good, properly-constructed sentences.
Thanks!
-Julie