I used to make several plans to improve my skills, but I didn't have a satisfying endings. I realize that I'm not a tough guy as I thought, I need some technique to make me better. It doesn't mean technique is the major problem. I believe technique can help, but works work. By the way, writting this blog is an important part of my project. It may force me to move on by exposing to public.(Tell me immediately if you find some words wrong or odd, thanks!)
Goal
I am taking part of postgraduate entrance examination and I need a high grades to enter a better university. Idealy, I want to learn English as an language which means I can communicate, read, write by English.
Materials
- Pronunciation training vidios(Rice)
- Anki for vocabulary(Cucumber)
- Podcast(Cucumber)
- Some vidios about postgraduate entrance examination(Rice)
- Test Papers.
I make two category. Rice means I don't hate it and I don't like it either. Cucumber means I hate it and it's hard for me to eat an entire cucumber. Ok, I don't like to eat them but I have to cause they are good to my health. On the opposite side Sugar (game, play, ...) is sweet but harmful.
Time required
My working time: 8-11am. 1.5-6pm.
I would take (1) and (2) in the morning, (3) and (4) in the afternoon.
There are about 1000 words I need to learn, I can finish (2) within 40 days(review needs one week).
(4) needs 50 days to be finished by two hours each day.
(1) (3) take one hour each day.
I will write something in this blog. It may take me half or one hour everyday.
Deadlines and Milestones
Entire project will end 50 days later(2018/7/15).
The accuracy of reading comprehension and cloze test is over 80% and finish them within 80mins.
I can get a reward(play games ..) if I do well during the day.
Progress
| date | vocaburary | pronunciation | podcast | vidio | reading and writting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/24 | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| 5/25 | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| 5/26 | N | N | N | N | Y |
| 5/27 | Y | Y | N | Y | N |
| 5/28 | N | N | N | Y | N |
| 5/29 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| 5/30 | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| 5/31 | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| 6/4 | Y | N | N | N | N |
| 6/5 | Y | N | Y | N | N |
| -/- | N | N | N | N | N |
Comments
5/26
One of my friend came back to Yiwu lastnight. We supposed to play overnight. But they left in the midnight, it's really strange that they call me to play then left! So I play games nearly about 5 hours without sleep and I am sleepy now. It's really awkward that there are so many 'it's' 'so' 'but' 'I' in this composition. Holy shit!
5/29
Some prosess have been delayed and didn't be finished in time. It's easy to make a plan. We always do that imagine the future everything is perfect. Plan can easily be defeated by troubles in reality. It's not time for me to regret. The only thing I can do now is working harder.
I am always confused with the usage of 'and'. There is a sentence 'A of B and C'. It's an ambiguous sentence. There are two different meanings if I insert a paired parentheses. 'A of (B and C)' '(A of B) and C'. In fact, this sentence always mean 'A of (B and C)'. So I infer parentheses has a higher priority which nobody told me before. You can use 'A of B, and C' to express '(A of B) and C'.
Milestones
week one, 5/27
The result of quiz is not bad. My accuracy of reading comprehension is 0.7 and cloze test is 0.6. It take me about 90mins.
week two,6/5
I delayed my plan for several days.I don't know why I give up. I just feel boring and tired. I found it's 5：00 when I wake up and I feel sleepy but can't fall into sleep again. I felt bad, so I give up my dayly plan. Sometimes I had to go out upset my plan too.
I finished my weekly test today. I got 19/25 in reading comprehension. That's amazing! Even if I can hardly understand what the article said, I can feel what the author write is good or wrong. I have to admit the level of my vocalurary is still low.
