The first week's journal

I came back the school after over ten days holiday.

First time, I feel very happy because I passed E6 and I met my friends in REW. Begin a new level, Sara introduced general information about E7 that it will be overloaded. At that time, I could not imagine how it is difficult. When I began to study E5, my friend from E6 said that E5 is easy, E6 is more difficult and I passed E5. After that, I stydied E6, my friend said that E6 it not so difficult but E7 is much more difficult and I passed E6. Therefore, I thought I will pas E7. Nevertheless, Sara gave us a listening and reading practice on the first day and it was really difficult. I felt nervous and fidgety because I did know how I will study effectively. My weakest skill is listening so I went to ILC to practise listening after the class time. 

On the second day, our teacher talked about the critical response essay. It was very complicated and hard to understand clearly about structure of this essay. Critical essay is very different from argumentative and discursive essay or cause and effect essay, therefore it make me confused a lot. I did not know how to write a completely essay as the requirement. What is the difference between the bias, tone and language? How to identify and evaluate the author's arguments? About the oral presentaion, I also did not understand clearly about the requirement of topic. It is very difficult to choose an appropriate topic to do the speaking test.

Next days, Sara and Rosie guided us  a lot about critical essay so I could figure about this and I wrote the first critical response essay. It was not really good but I received the feedback from Sara and I though I can improve next week. The listening assessment requires the note taking skill but I am not good at taking note; thus, I am worried a lot. In the last weekend I practised two listening tests and set up my goals and strategies to achieve my goals. I hope that I will be better this week.