Plan of the week

Well, the first fabulous thing I discovered last week is english language support centre!!! I think I am going to be a regular visitor there now. I still haven't handed in my communication's assessments. I finished the first one and still have to work on the second one a little. So that is what I did last one and a half hours, I managed to type up the second assessment which is good and know I need to polish it a little bit more and add more to it. I just want to hand it in and forget about it.
And I have to do history essay I have bee avoiding for so long because I do not find the actual subject very interesting. I have to write that and go with it to language support centre. Hopefully my style and grammar in writing will improve.
These are my main problems that things I do not enjoy doing takes me a long time, I have to motivate myself.
That's about it this week.

Active and Passive learning

Active learning:

• Well for me especially when learning the languages is important to learn grammar and new words. So one example of active learning is what I do to learn new words. I cut a little pieces of paper (like little cards)and write the word in english and spanish, so I turn pieces of paper so I dont see what's written on them. I take one by one and say this word aloud in spanish and vice versa, if i take the piece with spanish word I say it in english. I found that this work for me very well. That was how I learned words in english as well.
• For essay writing in subjects like literature or history, I usually use given handouts and if the source is utterly boring and written so its hard to read, I conspect the text, I summarize paragraphs one by one in to smaller text and put it in the way I understand it easier.

Passive learning:

• I think that watching the films can be taken as passive learning. Film watching in french or spanish helps me to understand the structure of the language and although I do not get the most of it still, I have noticed that there are words repeating more or less.
• Listening to the music in spanish is helpful, melody helps to remember words.