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.
Saturday, 31 October 2009
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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