Study Journal 2

This is the third week that we study in the EAP couse. The study becomes more and more intese and hard for us.

It is an interesting class of seminar presentation. At the beginning of the class, Sheila helped us brush up our minds by playing a game of guessing words. First, two students sat on heart seats against the whiteboard but facing other students. One volunteer student went to the board and filled in an adjective word which followed a sentence Things that are... Then other sudents gave the two students sitting on heart seats many clues by describing objects that have the smae feature as that word the wolunteer student wrote. Some easy words such as flying, the students sitting on the heart seat answered correctly fast, some hard words such colorless, the students sitting on the heart seat answered correctly slowly. In general, such method Sheila used is very effective to make us warm up and concentrate on the lesson.

In the reading class, the problem that my poor skill of summarizing paragraphs, expecially summarizing long paragraphs was found. i can not catch the main points. it is perhaps caused by slow reading speed.

In the listening class, I learned to adapt some wymbols and abbreviations to the not-taking. Therefore, my speed of note-taking is increased.

However, writing, especiallly academic writing is still the most difficult part for us. Now we know logical, rational, impersonal, precise features in academic writitng,Nevertheless, how to appply these characters to our own writing is challenge.

Turing to the personal issues, my customer from China contacted me this week and asked to supply wool that is one of my major responsibliltities at prvious work. Although I choose to study full-time, it seems I have to spend some in business later.