It has been a long time since I studied in PEP, and after one week’s break, I have adjust my timetable well. I’m glad to see that my will to speak in English is become stronger and using English has been a part of my life, but I still have some problems in writing and speaking.
First for my writing skills, from the feedback, I didn’t satisfy with my writing and vocabulary is one of the problems, so I had downloaded an academic word list in order to help me to write in academic. In last week, I had read this and remembered them, though most word I had already knew, it could remind me to use these words when I am writing but not the words which are not use in academic writing. The other problem for writing skills is the structure of the sentence, what I did last week to solve this problem is to read the news in English website, because it can describe a background and analyze the news. Their structure is good and I can learn a lot from their text, and I interested in reading news, this is not only to improve my writing skills but also can help me know the culture of Australia, such as their ways of thinking or their perspective.
I also trained my speaking in last week. The good thing is that when I talk with others in English, there are many words appeared in my mind. What I need to do is to put them in a right place of a sentence. Sometimes, the words what I want to express is not very clear, and for this problem I think what troubled me is also the vocabulary. I had mentioned this problem in the beginning of PEP class, it need a long time to solve this because vocabularies are not remembered in a short time. Last week, I trained this step by step, first is to read article and cycle the new words or some words I used rarely, next is to list them and make sentence by these words, the final step is to read these sentence. For this moment, I think I need to keep this action of study new words, only accumulate for a long time, I can use it well.