New level with some goals and strategies!

Listening

Goal 1: Identifying the key information and arguments in the text.

• Strategy 1:  It should learn the signal languages and academic words.
• Strategy 2:  Reading each transcript many times after listening to find out more new words. Moreover, I can understand the content and structure of the lecture. I have to practise 5 listening tests every week.
  
• Strategy 3:  Read and listen the text at the same time to learn how to pronounce new words and identify the swallowed words.

Goal 2:  Developing note-taking skill and respond to comprehension questions.

• Strategy 1: Establish an own abbreviations and symbols system and learn by heart them carefully.
• Strategy 2: Practise how to use the phrase when I do not need to use sentence. Never use a phrase when I can use a word.
• Strategy 3: Enlarge the academic vocabulary because I have to listen the lecture. I will learn the academic vocabulary list at the end of each unit.

Speaking


Goal 1: Choose an interesting topic and prepare the content of oral presentation carefully

• Strategy 1: Doing some researches to find out the sources of information base on the focus and the aim of oral presentaion.
• Strategy 2:  Learn to develop the main points and  the details of the topic.
• Strategy 3:  Give some evidences for counter arguments to persuade the audiences. Search and show a statistic at least in the presentation.

Goal 2: Have the confidence when doing oral presentation

• Strategy 1:  Consider the use of visual materials when doing presentation.
• Strategy 2:  Design the presentation with the attractive and interested slides. I could add some pictures and video clips into the presentation.
• Strategy 3: Use rehearsal strategy to build confidence and practise many times to  overcome nervousness.

Reading

Goal 1: Improve skimming and scanning skill

• Strategy 1: Learn how to analyse structural features of acadamic texts.
• Strategy 2: Identify the signals languages such as transition words, conjunction. It should do 5 reading test per week.
• Strategy 3: Identify the argumentative languages to find out the main premises of the author's text.

Goal 2: Reading the specific information in the text

• Strategy 1:  Analyse the logic of texts by considering over-generalisations or marginalisation and so on.
• Strategy 2: Evaluate the evidence is supported in the texts by analysing the numbers and the statistics of references.
• Strategy 3: Guess the meaning of words I do not know base on the context of the writing.

Writing 

Goal 1: Understand the organisation and language of the critical response essay

• Strategy 1: Analyse the critical essays to learn to make a critical essay.
• Strategy 2: Learn the language is used in each part, for example: the language to evaluate the logic and evidence of a text.
• Strategy 3:Learn to use the parallel construction, the formal languages and academic vocabularies as well.

Goal 2: Write a completely critical response essay  Write 1 essay per week at least.

• Strategy 1: Analyse carefully the arguments in the texts to identify the main idea of the author.
• Strategy 2: Consider the article's logic and  examine the evidence about it's persuasion.
• Strategy 3:  Learn how to avoid the plagiarism and how to do paraphrase in the essay.