Tag: EAP

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Today I will be reflecting on a letter that I wrote to myself at the start of this year.

When I read this letter, I felt a sense of nostalgia and accomplishment. I managed to achieve in getting an endorsement this year, and I have managed to forget about most things that happened back then. From this, I managed to realise how many lessons I have learned throughout the year and reflect on how much I’ve grown as a person in general.

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Today, I will reflect on what we have been doing in EAP over the past two weeks. For the past two weeks, we have been preparing for our assessment. Our assessment is an interview. For the past week, we have been doing exercises to help us confidently and formally answer given questions during a formal interview. During this week, we have learned new and valuable skills. We have learned about how to prepare before the interview, including what to include in our answers. The things we have learned can be really beneficial in real-life scenarios. For example, during job interviews, we could apply the things we have learned to increase the chances of getting hired.

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Today, I will be reflecting on what we have been doing for the past week. This whole week, our teacher has been absent. Since she was absent, we were left with tasks that we had to do by ourselves and with a partner. This week, there were two learning objectives, they were:

• To develop integrated skills: reading, speaking and writing around the topic of festivals
• To learn and practice vocabulary for describing festivals

This whole week, we had a total of 6 activities. The first four activities were all reading activities about festivals around the world; we had to read a short text and then answer questions based on the text – this was the same for all four activities. For the last two activities, we had to make our own activity. We had to write a paragraph about a festival. I chose the Diwali festival, and then wrote a few questions related to the text we wrote. This week, I was able to achieve the learning objective because I managed to practice my vocabulary to describe festivals and also develop my integrated skills. Throughout the week, I have learned to skim-read for information after reading the questions that were presented. The things I learned this week can be beneficial for me and my everyday life. For example, when I am given a set of instructions, I can understand them better. This is because I managed to improve my reading skills.

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Today, I will be reflecting on what we, as a class, have been doing during week 2 of term 3. During this week, we have been learning listening techniques in preparation for our listening assessment. The learning objective for the week was to practice our oral skills. The first activity that we did for this week was a true or false and a synonym matching activity. These two activities were done before the short article was read to us. After this activity, we received a worksheet with blank spaces in it. The activity we had to do was listen to the text and fill out the missing spaces. After doing these activities, we then partnered up and did a group activity, which involved us talking to each other. The first part of this activity was us asking questions to each other — one question was, “Who is the greatest leader that your country has had?” For this question, I answered, Andres Bonifacio from the Philippines; we then had to share our answers with the class. During the week, I was able to achieve the learning objective of “practice our oral skills”; this was because I learned some new synonyms for words, which I applied to the discussions that we had during class. Next time, I will try and be more vocal about my thoughts. The things that I have learned today can help me with my everyday life, not just now but also in the future. The oral skills that we learnt, I can use them while I am talking to people, or giving a speech. Additionally, the new synonyms that I picked up throughout the week could help me with assessments for my subjects. In conclusion, this week has helped me improve my oral skills through activities. I learned new synonyms and more. These skills will be useful in everyday conversations and future studies.

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Today, I will be reflecting on what we have been doing for the past week for EAP. For the past two weeks, our EAP class has been learning how to write a recount. The learning intention was “to know how to use new writing strategies to improve our writing”. I think I was able to achieve this learning intention because I did manage to improve my writing with the new language features and other writing techniques that I have learned. For the last two weeks, we learned multiple literary techniques; the use of adverbial phrases, conjunctions, em dashes, semicolons, past tense, verbs, etc. With the newly developed literary skills, we practised for our assessment. Our assessment is on a recount of something that has happened in the past. My recount was bout my migration journey to New Zealand. In the future, I will be able to apply the things that I have learned in situations which require me to write texts or short passages. I can use it in my English classes — we are currently doing an assessment right now for English.

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Today, I will be reflecting on what we did last week for EAP. Last week, during EAP, we were just doing practice assessments in preparation for the 1-hour assessment that was held on Friday – We did worksheets and online work. The learning objective of the week was to “develop our skills in identifying the main idea and supporting details”. I was able to achieve this learning objective because, as the week progressed, I was able to more confidently identify the main idea and supporting details of a text. This made me realise that, the more that I practice one thing, the more confident I will be able to answer the question. I will be able to apply the things that I have learned in the future, in situations when I need to figure out the main idea of a text, such as in English, when the main idea needs to be identified.

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Today I will be reflecting on this week’s EAP. For this week, the learning objective was to develop our reading comprehension skills. This week, we have been practising our reading and comprehension abilities. We have done multiple exercises such as trying to find the main idea of a given passage, figuring out what the story will be about just by looking at the cover page of a book, identifying key details, writing out our own passage and having other people try to figure out the main idea. The skills that we have learned during this week will be quite beneficial for our learning, not just now but also in the future. It can help us understand certain passages we read, like news articles or poems. For now, knowing how to figure out the main idea can help us with our learning in subjects such as English. Furthermore, reading comprehension is our next assessment; the practices that we have done this week can help us with our upcoming assessment.

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In this blog post, I will be reflecting on what our EAP class has been doing for the whole week.

This week, we have been taking tests. The tests consisted of vocabulary tests, English tests, and 7 listening tests. After completing each test, we had to record our results in a table, which included the name of the test we did, the date we completed it on, and our results.

Here is my result:

During this week, I have learned many things, such as the different meanings of words and different synonyms there are for that word. This is really useful as I could use these words in future assessments or reports.

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This week for EAP, we created our own assessment to give to our classmates. After we finished a vocabulary table, which consisted of instruction words (eg, explain and analyse), we created our own essay that included questions that had the words that we had learned. We also had to pick a text that they needed to read and answer the question on. The text that we chose was a poem by Siegfried Sassoon, “Aftermath”. During this week, I have learned a lot of words that expanded my vocabulary. Understanding these new words will be very beneficial for understanding instructions that will be given to me in the future.

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Today I will be reflecting on what we have been doing in EAP for week 7.

The learning intention for this week was to be familiar with some instruction words. This week we have done around 3 tasks. They were, to fill in a vocabulary table, identify what the instruction was in a sentence given, and define the meaning of the instruction words. The learning objective was to become familiar with instruction words and I have achieved the learning objective. During this week I have learned the meaning of two words; asses and evaluate. Asses means to judge somethings, value, quality, or importance whereas evaluate means to form an idea of something. Learning these words can help me in real life because knowing these words can help me further understand a set of instructions that are given to me.

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