Friday, November 29, 2019

November 26th 2019

  Today, I finished improving the essay by using AWL and reading levels. It was difficult for me to go over seven percent, but it was fun learning new words. I was very excited when the paragraph's AWL went over seven and had a huge sense of achievement.
  However, I did not know the way to improve the reading levels, but I cleared the 11 points for all paragraphs only for the first time, so I was very happy.
  I would like to learn more words and write a high leveled essay, and to do this, I want to appreciate the AWL and the reading levels to know my ability.

November 25th 2019

     Today, we edited our brochures and checked our AWL's. I don't have many numbers of vocabularies, so there was a part that I relied to the dictionary. However, It was a very meaningful way to increase my vocabulary. I did not finish it, but actually, it was fun using words that I did not know and learning new words.
 I want to learn more vocabulary and be able to write essays without using the dictionary many times and do it in my own words. My aim is to increase my vocabulary that I can use it in my own way.

Saturday, November 23, 2019

November 19th 2019

 Today, we learned how to write a good conclusion, and we got to know many techniques to make the reader remember the point we want to say.
  For the conclusion of the body paragraph, we learned it is important to make a sentence to go to the next topic smoothly. Our topic and the topic were not stuck and continued smoothly, so after we added the sentence for going to the next topic smoothly, it was easier to read and I thought the reader would not be confused and understand the main point that we want to say easily.
  For the conclusion of the first paragraph, we had to include the summary, conclusion, and the limitation in one paragraph. I think it was easier to write than the introduction. However, also, it was difficult to make the paragraph that the reader can remember the inside of the whole essay.
  The conclusion has huge importance to make the reader remember the main point of the essay, and that means, we need to make a paragraph that can catch the reader's heart.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

November 18th 2019

  Today, we checked how to make an effective Home page, and the page that we introduce our selves.
  I got to know that the photos need unification to make the reader do not have any discomfort. I learned that we need a page to introduce the teammates because it is important to know the presenter's personality, the values. Our team did not take photos, so it was not enough for the reader to know who is who, and who did anything. I would like to improve that part. Also, the thing we should write on the homepage needs to be something that connects to the topic.
  I thought it is important to make everything completely perfect. The audience looks at everything, so I want to make everything perfect.

Friday, November 15, 2019

November 12th 2019

  In today's class, we improved the introduction, mainly hook, and the theses statement. We were writing the introduction very boring so there were many places to improve.
  Our hook was too simple and we can imagine that we can catch any readers. We did not use any of the skills to catch the reader, for example, using questions or using a word having a huge impact. Also, we used some words that describes limited people, such as "we".
  For the theses statement, we were told to include a topic, claim, and the reason, but we did not write the claim clearly, and the reason specifically.
  I want to make an introduction that catches the reader and have a persuasive brochure.

Monday, November 11, 2019

November 11th 2019

  Today, we had a class to make our group's essay improved. There were many points that we need to go over again, so it was difficult to correct all of the mistakes.
  One of the mistakes were personal pronounces, which limit the case to use "I", "Me", and "You", which describes limited people. I was always using that, so we need to fix many places. It was difficult to use other words instead of using "I" or "Me". We were told that we can only use these words when you had exactly experienced.
  For contractions, we were not allowed to use words such as "can't" or "don't", and replace tose to "can not" and "do not". I was being careful about that, so there weren't many mistakes.
  The last point was the phrasal verbs. We need to shorten the sentences as short as possible, as we are writing a brochure. it was difficult to find phrasal words and also, it was hard to find a word that has the same meaning as the phrasal verbs.
  There were many things that we were needed to fix to have a perfect essay, so I want to be careful to not use these things.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

November 5th 2019

  Today, was the first class in November, We started thinking of an essay we write in our groups. writing skill is a skill that I want to improve, so I am very looking forward to having better writing skills.
  We couldn't think of any topics that we write, and it was hard to find out a topic that is easy to write and easy to understand for the readers. We need to have at least some common understanding, but it was difficult for me to find that. Also, the point I thought it is difficult is that by writing an essay, we need to have many points of view to write one of it. This is a thing that I am very bad at, so I want to build up my skills to have many perspectives.
  I am looking forward to writing an essay, and build up my English writing skills.

Saturday, November 2, 2019

October 29th 2019

  Today, we were told to use this class for editing our presentation, continuing from yesterday. Also, Mr Paterson told us about "mapping the room".

  I was very influenced by what Mr. Paterson said to us, about "Mapping the room". Mapping the room is to use the space effectively while having a presentation. Use the space by moving, and I thought it is a very good idea what Mr. Paterson said for the example to use one part of the room talking about one country, and for the other part of the room, use it for talking about other countries. However, I thought it will be hard to master "Mapping the room", because I don't have any margin while speaking. In reality, I never moved and used the space while having a presentation, and I did not even think about the effective use of the classroom space for presentation.
 
  For fixing the slides, and the home page, I still continued to find effective pictures that makes people remember it for the long time. We fixed most of the slides, but we are not done with the home pages, so we want to edit it and fix it perfectly before the class.

  For the end of this term, I want to have a margin to think about many things while having a presentation too, and prepare perfect items which is going to support our speaking.