Last week I was really pressured by a lot of homework and assignments, especially the application of Language Learning Plan which I started to apply. Before that, I thought that I couldn’t start and keep working for my plans. But actually, I have tried to mix between studying and some fun to be interesting and start hardly. I have studied for three skills which are vocabulary development, reading and speaking. I used the Oxford Word power Dictionary to memorize five words by the Alphabetical order with English and Arabic meanings but I skipped some words that I knew before. For example, I learned the word “aback” which means to surprise or shock somebody and I learned “abandon” which means to leave somebody or something that you are responsible for. And I tried to use them in sentences. I thought that I can memorize more words but I just wanted to be careful with these words and concentrated on them. Then, I felt bored when I studied from the Dictionary, so I moved to study from the Internet websites. For instance, I used http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/ which I found a lot of good vocabularies that I can use in speaking and writing. So, by this website I can catch two birds by one stone. In addition, I have practiced on http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary which offers good words for special situations like people’s meeting, shopping, weather and personality description. I noticed that I knew a few things but there are extra sentences which are related to these situations that I did not know where I should use them. For example, I did not know the meaning of departure date but now I will try to use it when I speak and not forget. Besides, even I did not like reading but I have to increase my ability to read and the skills that are related to reading. I have read a very exciting novel which is Teacher man by Frank McCount. I wrote a short summary for this story in 20 minutes approximately. Maybe I didn’t spend much time because I like the story and it was really attractive and wonderful. However, I have discussed this novel with my friends who are in B.Ed two and compare between what they understood from the story and what I understood. And I found that we are similar to each other. I liked it because it was talk about teacher’s experience which will help me in my future’s career. However, I noticed that I can improve with memorizing five words every week with their meaning in Arabic and English and I will focus on these words only with having a spelling test for what I learned this week and next week. Also, I will start recording my voice during the speaking practice and I will keep reading the weekly newspaper and borrow a new story to read and write a summary for it. But I will avoid learning new vocabulary from different websites because it took a lot of time.
Ayesha,
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ReplyDeleteThis is a good first entry. You've got lots of details and description, as well as some plans for the future of what you will do differently.
One thing I'd like to see is more explanation about how you know you learned something or understood something. In at least one case, your example does not show me that you understand a word - in fact, it shows me that you may not understand it! (The example is aback, which by itself doesn't really mean what you say; it needs to be in combination with another word, specifically, take.)
It would also be helpful if you use paragraphs to organize your entry. I think there are some natural breaks where new paragraphs could start. In addition, make sure you check your grammar and spelling.
-Julie
Thanks Ms.Julie.
ReplyDeleteI got your message.
-Ayesha.