Week 3 -- So Busy!!!

This is really a busy week!!

Although Monday is a public holiday, and we do not need to go to the class, I still feel busy at home in preparing for the whole week and doing my homework because this week is so important that may influenced my overseas study life.

On Wednesday, we have an exam of writing a critical response to an article about English language with no less than 500 words in 90 minutes. Although we discussed the whole article in group for more than an hour, and Robyn helped us analysed four main arguments that the writer claims, it is still difficult for us to write this response. I have prepared some opinions during the break. However, when I picked up my pen and began to write, my brain is empty. I cannot remember anything. When Robyn told us there only 10 mins left, I haven’t begin with my conclusion. Disasters pile up on one another. When I try to focus my mind in the last two mins in the last few sentences, someone’s mobile phone rang, and rang, and rang, and rang…OK, I gave up!! How can I finish the essay with a good ending under such situation?

This week we began to compare two essays and then response to them. It is much difficult than one. At the first day, I even cannot followed Carla's step. How come?! And the lecture listening on Thursday shocked me again. There are all bed news for me.
However, the most bed news for me is that, I need to take the IELTS test this Saturday, and I haven't prepared anything about it. OMG!


I now really hope there are 48 or even 72 hours a day...God bless me!!

Busy...busy...busy...

Week 2 -- Critical Response

The main aim of the second week was to practice how to write a critical response essay.

Actually, it confused me. Among "A BELT", these five elements, I think the most difficult one is "L"--logic. On one hand, sometimes it is difficult to distinguish the argument is logical or not, because I am not familiar with topics that about language. On the other hand, the way I write about how the argument is illogical is not easy, sometimes, I response in an illogical way. I am now so worried about the text that will taken on next Wednesday. I need to practice more and to be more familiar with all the aspects. Hope everything goes well!

Except critical response, we also learnt reading for comprehensions, listening and taking notes… All of these practice are a bit harder than week 1, however, I found myself can do a better job compare to week 1. So happy!!


Now, two weeks past. Comparing to E6, E7 keeps me busy. I need to spend time finishing my discussion board and reflection in advance, or I do not have time to practice my oral presentation. All of this requires me to arrange my time rationally, or I may have trouble in the EOC. I believe if I can deal them well, I also prepared better for my university life.

I heard from a recent E-mail that our enrolment to the university has been moved up. Time is not enough for me to improve my English, no time to lose, FIGHTING!!!!

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Week 1- A New World for Me

Before entered into E7, I heard many information about how difficult E7 is and have no confidence to pass the final exams.

In the first day, we met Robyn, the teacher who teach us from Monday to Wednesday. She gave us a reading list, articles in the list are all come from real journals or magazines. I felt so shocked at first sight in the very cramped, close characters. However, after I followed Robyn's advice, highlight all the words that I knew of the first three paragraphs, WOW! I was really surprised how many words that I actually did know, and most of the new words are always not really important to understand the whole section. As a result, I felt a bit more confidence after the first day learning. Back to the reading list, all the articles in the reading list are about English language. We have to read these before class, and then, we will discuss the topic in a small group, as a tutorial group. It offers us a chance to communicate with new students and speak with more courage.

On Thursday, I met another teacher - Carla, and faced a new problem, that is creating my own blog. How to create a new blog, how to follow my classmates, and how to beautify my blog, all of these basically problems seem impassable for me, not mention that post my course goals or link my blog with Discussion Board. Until now, I cannot use the tools smoothly, however, I believed I can control it in the near future.

I borrow some e-books from Vina about ielts test and advanced grammar and vocabulary and printed them out. It is really helpful for my English study, and I introduced these books to my group, hope these can help us in proving our English.