This is the last week for applying my LLP and I am very happy that I will finish doing a lot of reading, writing and speaking. After applying my plan which are for five weeks, I will make a plan for myself that contains all the six skills. Last week, I decided to focus on all the three skills which are reading, writing and speaking that will help me to improve myself especially improve my English.
First, in reading skill, I did many things such as reading a short story and newspapers. I went to this website http://www.bedtime.com/html/jenny_s_surprise.html and I chose a short story which I thought it was interesting for my little brothers and sisters. The name of the story is Jenny's Surprise and the author’s name is Deb Hockenberry. This story is about a little girl and her baby sitter who surprised her when she told her that they will go to the park .And junny was very happy that day and she had a nice day with the animal. When I finished reading the story to my little brothers and sisters, I asked them “did you understand everything from the story?” and their answer was “yes”. I felt very happy because I told to myself that after one or three years I will read to my students and they may or may not understand my very well. I felt that I am ready to teach young students with high confidence the six sills.
Second, in writing I did something strange this time. I went to one of my high school English teachers which live in front of my house. And I gave her one of my writing essays. She was very surprised when I went to her. She said to me" Azeeza your writing is very good but you have this problem since high school which is translate thoughts from Arabic to English’’. i discussed this problem with her and I found that I translate words that have many meanings in English but can be different from one sentence to another. She gave me some advices that might help me overcome this problem. However, I made some mistakes, yet I did well in the practice.
Third, in speaking I went to my sister who is an English teacher and I told her that I want her to do an interview with me. Then, she prepared some difficult questions for me. However, the interview was for 30 minutes and I felt so nervous, even though the interviewer is my sister. I did good with great confidence especially when I spoke. However, I had some difficult parts at the interview which were grammar and answering some questions.
After doing this last week of my LLJ, I felt very happy because I saw myself improving through these five weeks. I hope I will still improving and I will make a plan to develop my English and the six skills.
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Monday, 16 November 2009
Reflection of week 10
This is my fourth week of applying my plan to improve my English skills, and until this moment, I am very satisfied with my improving. The first thing I did that I used Read Up-Speed Up program and this is my first time I practiced to the Intermediate level and I selected a story called “Doctor Crippen” and I choose to have two lines in one time. Next, I toke the quiz and I did good job. It was easy for me and difficult in the same time. The easy part was understanding the story in general but the difficult part was the speed of the lines however , I was satisfied with what I read I feel that in the next time I will move to hardest level than this level and decrease the time of each line and I will increase the word in each line. However, I am getting better in terms of my reading comprehension.
Moreover, on the 13th of November, I have read an article online from the New York Times news and the article was about Medicines to Deter Some Cancers Are Not Taken and it was written by GINA KOLATA which is a good writer in US. The article was about different types of cancer in US, how many cases are there and kinds of medicines can deter cancer. The topic of the article was little bit different from the topics I like to read and it was exciting in the way how the wittier wrote it even though I do not like to read long articles but It was a nice article and not too much hard for me in terms of the vocabulary. The first time I read an article was very boring for me but this time I felt very happy during reading and I do not know the reason for this happiness.
In addition, I practiced the English sound pronunciation through The Sky Pronunciation Suite program for half an hour. And it was very amazing and interesting in the same time because I had learned some sound which was easy for me and I had a quiz which was easy to me. Moreover, there were some sounds that I might have problem with them at future such as the letter R. This letter in some accent is silent like in United Kingdom but in the way how we pronounce it is different from UK. However, In the next day I had an appointment for my teeth and I met an English leady in a hospital and I had spoken with her maybe for half an hour and I felt that I understood everything she said which made me proud of my achievement in the speaking and pronunciation skill.
I am very happy when I compare myself now and before three weeks which were very challenging weeks. I see a big difference in my way in writing, reading and in speaking. I hope I will still improving and be much better in English.
Moreover, on the 13th of November, I have read an article online from the New York Times news and the article was about Medicines to Deter Some Cancers Are Not Taken and it was written by GINA KOLATA which is a good writer in US. The article was about different types of cancer in US, how many cases are there and kinds of medicines can deter cancer. The topic of the article was little bit different from the topics I like to read and it was exciting in the way how the wittier wrote it even though I do not like to read long articles but It was a nice article and not too much hard for me in terms of the vocabulary. The first time I read an article was very boring for me but this time I felt very happy during reading and I do not know the reason for this happiness.
In addition, I practiced the English sound pronunciation through The Sky Pronunciation Suite program for half an hour. And it was very amazing and interesting in the same time because I had learned some sound which was easy for me and I had a quiz which was easy to me. Moreover, there were some sounds that I might have problem with them at future such as the letter R. This letter in some accent is silent like in United Kingdom but in the way how we pronounce it is different from UK. However, In the next day I had an appointment for my teeth and I met an English leady in a hospital and I had spoken with her maybe for half an hour and I felt that I understood everything she said which made me proud of my achievement in the speaking and pronunciation skill.
I am very happy when I compare myself now and before three weeks which were very challenging weeks. I see a big difference in my way in writing, reading and in speaking. I hope I will still improving and be much better in English.
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Reflection of week 7
This week is the third week for applying my LLP, and the last two weeks were very challenging and interesting at the same time. I feel that I have improved during doing the LLJ in the last two weeks. Also, I hope I will still improving and developing my English skills. This week I focused on writing and speaking. The first thing I did was going to the Learning Support Center and asked for an appointment for writing. Then, I went to the learning support center and I was stressed and afraid at the same time that I might have plenty of mistakes. However, I went there and I met one of the college teachers and he was very kind to me in the way how he wrote the comments. There were some comments that the teacher wrote in my paper such as, I have problem with grammar and I have problem with not using many conjunctions in my essay. He told me that I must focus in tenses. And for conjunction, I should read essays that have been written with appropriate conjunctions to help me to use them in every essay which I will write in the future. Furthermore, I went to Google and searched for an essay that contains conjunction and I saw an interesting websites that talk about how to write a good essay .Moreover, I found a part that talks about types of conjunctions and this is the link of the website www.howtowriteessay.net. I learned some new conjunctions that might help me in the final exam this semester such as nor, yet, but and so. I practiced some conjunctions by writing a short paragraph with many conjunctions. Also, It was easy to use conjunctions in some sentences such as but and or. Yet, it was difficult to use conjunction in some sentences such as so and yet. As far as I am improving in writing, now I think I know how to put some conjunctions in my own essays in the future.
The speaking part was very unique this time. First, I was going to the learning support center to have an appointment for speaking but before going to the center, I met my teacher Melanie and we had a nice conversation at least for 10 minutes. We talked about college and what is the differences between foundation year and B.Ed year and this time, it was different from the last time I spoke with my friend. I was very comfortable with my teacher and my friend. However, with my teacher I was very relaxing in the way how I spoke because I knew her from the foundation year and I she teaches me in B.Ed this year. I noticed that I had a little bit grammar mistakes but those grammar mistakes are not that much in the way that would change the meaning of what I want to explain to my teacher. Last but not least, I should focus on writing and speaking more and more to improve myself. So far I think I have improved from the first time I wrote the journal.
The speaking part was very unique this time. First, I was going to the learning support center to have an appointment for speaking but before going to the center, I met my teacher Melanie and we had a nice conversation at least for 10 minutes. We talked about college and what is the differences between foundation year and B.Ed year and this time, it was different from the last time I spoke with my friend. I was very comfortable with my teacher and my friend. However, with my teacher I was very relaxing in the way how I spoke because I knew her from the foundation year and I she teaches me in B.Ed this year. I noticed that I had a little bit grammar mistakes but those grammar mistakes are not that much in the way that would change the meaning of what I want to explain to my teacher. Last but not least, I should focus on writing and speaking more and more to improve myself. So far I think I have improved from the first time I wrote the journal.
Friday, 23 October 2009
Reflection of week 6
Actually, I started to apply my LLP for week 6 and in this week I focused on reading skill. On the first day of week 6 I went to the library to borrow a book or a high level of adult’s stories but I decided to borrow a children story. I started looking in the library for this kind of stories. Finally, I saw this story which called “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”. The story was about a Halloween town and the things that people like to do at Halloween but there is a turning point when the Halloween guy felt bored and decided to make changes at his town. I was very comfortable and exciting about this story. I decided to read the story to my cousins, nephews, and my own brothers. At the beginning I was afraid that they will feel bored and will leave the room. However, they liked the story and they asked me to bring more stories. They felt sleepy at the beginning of reading the story but then I used my voice by adding sounds effects and it was funny for me because I used some scary sounds in some scary situations. I learned how to read faster than before, in the past I read a story for four hours but this time I read it for two hours which helped me in my speed reading. I was satisfied at the choice I made for this story and I will do it again at the next several weeks.
The second thing I did on reading was visiting a newspaper website which is The New York Times and this is the link of the website http://www.nytimes.com/ . Before beginning reading I was exciting because this is the first time I read an English news using website. And it was very unique thing to do because usually I read from a newspaper. However, I read some articles such as, the disease H1N1 and how can we protect our self and the situations in Iraq which was very boring for me. Also, not all articles were written in simple words that might help me to understand what they are talking about and they just write a part of the original article. At least there was a special article which was talking about my country which is UAE and I felt very happy because that article represents my country in a very great way. I did not learn that much from this strategy because I had difficulty to understand some words.
In future I hope I will read more and more to expand and improve myself in reading. Week 6 was little bit exciting and little bit boring. The exciting part was reading a story to my cousins, nephews, and my own brothers, however, the boring part was reading the newspaper using website and I think I might never do it again.
The second thing I did on reading was visiting a newspaper website which is The New York Times and this is the link of the website http://www.nytimes.com/ . Before beginning reading I was exciting because this is the first time I read an English news using website. And it was very unique thing to do because usually I read from a newspaper. However, I read some articles such as, the disease H1N1 and how can we protect our self and the situations in Iraq which was very boring for me. Also, not all articles were written in simple words that might help me to understand what they are talking about and they just write a part of the original article. At least there was a special article which was talking about my country which is UAE and I felt very happy because that article represents my country in a very great way. I did not learn that much from this strategy because I had difficulty to understand some words.
In future I hope I will read more and more to expand and improve myself in reading. Week 6 was little bit exciting and little bit boring. The exciting part was reading a story to my cousins, nephews, and my own brothers, however, the boring part was reading the newspaper using website and I think I might never do it again.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
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