Wednesday, June 13, 2012

GAP is super cool class

Read about the steps that Makram gave in "GAP is super cool class" to learn English, makes me think about what I need to do to be better in this language. He said that we need to study hard, focus on our goal and be patient in order to improve a lot. I know if everyone follow these steps, we will improve our English skills faster.
I really like this commentary "I think that English is the most important language over the world. If you need to learn this language you must follow these steps such as, studying hard, focusing to your goal and having patience"
This is a positive commentary for those people that have the desire to learn a new language. If you are one them you should pay attention  to these three steps  (studying hard, focusing to your goal and having patience) because if you do this, it can bring you success.


First, you have to study hard every day every the material that you have, like your text books and the notes that you take in classes. If you do this, you will learn faster and you can memorize more words. As a result of that you could be a successful learner.


Second, if you focus on your goals, you always could have something to work for.


Third, you do not need to be frustrated if you cannot get it at the beginning. Sometimes it is not very easy, but you have to keep going. Remember there is a second opportunity to get it.


Christian Martinez

Clear Goal

I like "Why you want to learn English?" by Ariana Valdivia because I totally agree with her. We all need to have a clear goal and focus on it. And we should practice not only on our weakness but also combine it with other aspects of the language. 

The advice from other GAP students

I read some of advices that some students gave us, and my favorite parts are using our time wisely and executing our plan efficiently. First, using time wisely is really important for college students. If we can learn how to manage our time well, then it would help us to prepare get into college/grad-school. Second, executing our plan efficiently could help us to learn better. Sometime we have really good plan to help us to learn, but if we do not execute it, then we will not improve at all. I am preparing to take TOEFL test, I knew what my weakness is, somehow, I've never tried to resolve them. Until I read the advices from other students that motivate me to change it.

Enough of sleep

I recommend every student should sleep early, so you get enough of energy to face next day's challenge. If you don't have enough of sleep, you will feel terrible and exhausted. I have done that stupid things many times, so I hope you all have a healthy happy English learning time.

Charles

I like this topic "I want to tell you what is important for me and how I achieve my goals". There are two reasons why. First of all, the person who wrote the letter tried to write essays every week without giving up. I would like to learn about the guy's patience. Moreover, the guy made goals as much as he could. Actually, I already made my goals as long as my semester, but it was so hard to try over and over for my goals. After I read the letter, I realized that I will try again. That is why I chose this letter. 

How to Learn Vocabulary Effectively

I like the advice of Alex on Mrs. Healy's blog. He uses a vocabulary textbook containing lots of words. 


First, he read vocabulary and write it into a piece of paper. Second, he pronounces new vocabulary and 


then circle the words. I did like that far, however, the difference is flash cards. I didn't make flash cards 


because I considered that it is time-consuming. So, I always forgot unfamiliar words because the span 


of reviewing new words was infrequent. I think making flash cards will be helpful since I can review 


new words frequently and effectively and can keep recording them.

How can I improve my English

Through Miss Healy`s blog I found a lot of students talked about vocabulary study, and I am totally agree. I know ELC give us a lot assignments they are helpful, but it is better to have more time to focus on vocabulary study. Maybe it will cost more time then assignments. 
Useful tip is try to remember vocabularies over and over, keep track on your vocabulary.
Gap class is helpful to me. I can spend time to improve my weakness skills. sometimes  I do not know how to study grammar or using academic vocabulary. but there is interns and teachers in SASC , so I can ask some questions and give some advice. It is really good to me
I liked Gap is super cool class. by Makram, because her advice is really useful, inspiring and interesting to read. I think use your time wisely is a really good advice, also having a lot of patience. I think the best advice is writing a lot and improve your writing, that is really helpful to write paragraphs and essays as well than with speaking. I have improve my speaking thanks to my writing, because i know how to organize my ideas. In addition i agree that doing your homework will help you to understand your teacher better, doing the homework will prepare you to classes. And finally this advice is awesome because it says we have to give our best and have fun!

Mercedes Mariella  :3

A Little Advice

I like the advice about "why do you want to learn English?" because there are many reasons for which people want to learn. He or she want to say to be focus in own goals and to practice with different task to achieve that goals. It is better to do many task and not only one for example, if you want to learn grammar, you should read a grammar book, but also you should practice that grammar in speaking with a person or tutor.