My study plan

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WEEK BEGINNING: 29/09/2008

Targets for the week

Target
To do Communication essay for Jerry for Thursday, will start it early tomorrow morning at library to get it started
Progress
It’s not been started yet, need to get a move on with this really. I do have ideas it’s just writing them down, I’ve had a block on this essay for a while, I think once I start it will be easier. That’s what I found with the essay for literature.
Target

Do Spanish homework tonight, looking at corrections needed to previous homework, and then giving advice on other 3 problems in Activity 5 for tomorrow.
Progress

Started it at the weekend, was supposed to be for yesterday, but seen as not enough people in Advanced higher had even attempted to start it, has been delayed till tomorrow.

Target

To look over Maths on Thursday night along with French homework.

Progress
Started looking over it at the weekend in preparation for next week’s second test. Revision for last outcome paid off, I got full marks. So guess I should continue how I started. I will start Higher French this afternoon so don’t doubt there will be homework for it.

Target

Read over Chapter 2 of History book. We don’t have a history lesson this week although I’ll probably look over both the 1st and 2nd chapter again before the weekend.

Progress

Reading 1st chapter as a refresher, we did discuss democracy in class, will probably look over history notes.

Target
Need to look over subjunctive mood for this week, and some prepositions as well as doing some revisions of other tenses like conditional, imperfect and irregular verbs conditional, aim to look over that for 2 hours on Friday afternoon.

Progress

I haven’t managed to do much on this due to the literature essay and having an outcome to pass for literature as well as the maths outcome to pass as well. So will make concerted effort to resolve this as it’s causing trouble with my written assignments, which is what we’ve had so far.

Target

Investigating Europe, will do the rest of the sheets required before having a personal interview tomorrow with Jo.

Progress

I haven’t managed to complete them all so far due to the same above reason. Therefore will fix this tonight as it’s due for tomorrow.

study plan week beggining 29.09.2008

Monday-few hours in the afternoon,preparing the essay for Literature.
Tuesday- 1 hours studying Spanish(vocabulary and numbers,days of the week etc.)
Wednesday-finishing off the essay for Communications.
Thursday-revising for Maths(2-3 hours)
Friday and the weekend-if I get any time off I will revise some stuff in Spanish.

My study plan!

Communication – write a draft for the essay on education for 25th Sept. Maybe check with a tutor if that is OK and talk about some improvements.
Spanish – more practice and do listening of Pimsleurs programme at least 30 mins a day. Repeat all new words and the old ones as well.
Investigating Europe – To write a plan for the presentation. Also speak to Joe about the plan, maybe he will be able to make some points and help with the layout.
Literature – I have completed the homework already!!!!!! And there is nothing so far given to do!
Maths – do at least one drop in class, and do the homework so I can discuss with the tutor what I need to look at more.
History – to read a first chapter of the book for 26th.

general

I hope you are all enjoying the access course so far. We have a great mix of students from many cultures and backgrounds and I hope to get a chance to know you all in the course of my studies. I'd like to make a suggestion that we can arrange a study group if anyone is interested, as a problem shared is a problem is a problem halved. It will also probably be the case that each of us have aptitudes for subjects which others don't have and vice versa. Anyway, I hope that we can all see this course through to its conclusion and progress to univesity. p.s. this blogging thing is completely new to me and I hope I am not the only one. Good luck to you all and see you soon.

09-09-08 - Spanish Internet Time

Today during class I planned to go on the BBC website in order to catch up on some basic Spanish. I felt this website was really useful as it taught me a lot of good vocabulary and some good sentences. The website I think works very well because it teaches you the words and makes you do activities so they stay in your mind. Also the fact that it uses sound files helps with the pronunciation and gets you used to listening to Spanish. A negative point was that a some of it was a bit different than what the rest of the class had learned but that was more my error of choice, had I picked a more relevant topic from the list I'm sure this would not have been a problem! For the last ten minutes just to change it a little I went on a newspapers website and tried to read a soccer article about a famous player on international duty, to be perfectly honest I understood next to nothing I understood only a few things due to my knowledge of soccer not my knowledge of Spanish.

What have I done for the past 2 hours?

My plan was to take a random article from a newspaper in Spanish language, try to read it and understand it. So I've choosen the one about the huricane "Ike" in Cuba and I was surprised how much of it I was able to understand. I took all the vocabulary I thought might be useful for me and saved it in a file on my pen drive.
I did not fully use my time,as I was jumping from one website to another and waisted quite a lot of time,but I learned some new words.
That's all.

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