LLJ 2, Fatema Ali

This week, I used some different strategies to develop two skills which are vocabulary and speaking. I couldn’t apply writing’s strategy because I couldn’t afford enough time for it and I was working on my science project too.
For vocabulary, I started to use the vocabulary book (Words for students of English). I found that it’s really greet and useful book. It is divided to units, each unit contains a certain number of the new and high level vocabulary and there are the definitions and examples of those words. After that, I found many types of exercises on those words such as matching, true/false, fill in the blanks, answer the questions and make sentences with the word. These exercises were very useful because they helped me to memorize the new words with their meanings by repeating them more than five times in different forms. When I wrote my LLP, I thought that 15 minutes every day will be enough to apply this strategy but actually it was not since it needs at least one hour per day to finish the exercises and get benefit from them. I feel that this strategy works well since I learned many new words and I’m able to use them in writing as I repeated them many times.
For speaking, I used http://www.bbc.co.uk website in order to listen to native speakers and speak like them. I found many things for learning English in that website such as learning pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar and podcasts. I listened to many podcasts with different subjects and all of them were in fast British accent. After listening, I recorded myself trying to speak as what I listened but it was a little bet difficult since they speak very fast and sometimes I couldn’t catch up with them. It was a good strategy because I tried hard to speak as fast as possible and without mistakes and after I heard the records, I noticed some improvement in my speaking.