finished block one

With the end of Friday we finished block one of our pre-session course.

In the past one month I learned many skills of English learning especially in writing academic essay for instance the basic structure of an essay, academic words, how to paraphrasing or summarizing and so on and so forth. We also learned some knowledge of marketing which more relate to our main course.

The most thing I worried about is my presentation. I did not do well in the first time and I still had no progress in the second time it made me felt very sad. Maybe I need more practice of my presentation by myself and Alen told me that practice in front of mirror is a good way to prepare a presentation. I will try.

The most difficult is express. I can say a long sentence if give me enough time but once I stand in front of many people I can not express and what I can remember is just a few words instead of sentences. I think it is not just because nervous the majority reason is the way of thinking. Because when I want to say something I always think in Chinese and then translate it into English. But in most cases I have no time to think like communicating with people or doing presentation without enough prepare. It troubled me very much and I want to know how to change my way of thinking.

I hope it will get better in block two and can make a progress in next following days with hard work.