Category: Hanga | Create

Hello, my past self, I’ve just read your letter to me. To be honest, though, it was such a relief that many of what you like haven’t changed today, and many struggles and insecurities you express to me, don’t weigh a heavily feeling in my heart as much anymore.

I am still that girl who’s such a foodie but also a picky eater, loves to watch Chinese drama, and my hobbies in drawing and painting haven’t changed either.  We both don’t have a favourite subject yet, and I think we will never have a favourite subject either. You said that you would study hard in calculus….but you didn’t even study (such a disappointment). But don’t you worry about your problems in calculus, struggling every day with it. I am trying to improve myself by studying every day now (for real now). Did you hope to be an aircraft maintenance engineer before? Don’t worry, that is still my goal today.

You ask me that you hope we’d be more confident in ourselves and not focus too much on our flaws. Well a good news for you, I don’t really care about those flaws anymore, although I do still think about them from time to time, it doesn’t affect me that much. You also told me to refrain from fighting with our parents all the time. Well, don’t worry, every time I wanted to be mad at them, I refrained them for the sake of getting allowance from them ( I really need a job).

DON’T YOU WORRY ABOUT ME, I AM MUCH STRONGER THAN YOU THINK!!!
THAT’S ALL

This term was enjoyable and stressful at the same time.  At week 7, we did our speech presentation, at week 8 we did a practice job interview with a lot of student teachers, and at week 10, we did the real job interview assessment.

At the speech presentation day, I was very nervous and wasn’t prepared, and so at the end, I had to do it in week 8 during lunch.  But thankfully, during the speech presentation, I wasn’t that nervous because my friends were my audience and therefore, I thought that I did great during the presentation. I didn’t stutter much, I spoke clearly, and made eye contact. The only thing that bothers me is that I didn’t quite remember the end of my speech, so at the end, I kept looking at my script.

In week 8, we did a practice interview with the student teachers, who taught us what to do during the interview, such as the STAR method (situation, task, action, result).  My friend Jam and I ended up being friends with two of the student teachers; they were really kind, along with the other student teachers. During the practice interview, I was nervous but not that much.

This week, week 10, we did our real formal interview with a different teacher, where we videoed ourselves in the conversation. This time again, I was very nervous; my hands were sweating so much, but thankfully, the interviewer was really sweet, and I liked her very much. Anyways, as I reviewed the video, I felt that I didn’t do my best, I kept moving around, my voice was very low, and on top of that, I couldn’t think straight. So I ought to really improve myself since I am also starting to apply for jobs now, and I wouldn’t want the same mistakes I made here to be applied to a real job interview.

THAT’S ALL!!! (^v^)

Hello people!!!! I want to share what we did in EAP last week, we did  preparations, practice, and then the actual assessment. I think that I did well in the practice activities Tita Delia gave to us in preparation for the assessment. I was able to understand the learning objective which is developing our skills in identifying main ideas and supporting details. The activities were quite easy and this was very helpful in my English subject. Since all we did in my English class in reading a book and doing activities about it, I would use the learning objective of EAP (identifying main idea and supporting details) to make it a lot easier for me to answer my English activities. The activities, practice, overall preparation is really, really, really helpful!!! and so we went on doing the assessment.

In this week of term two we focus on learning in identifying main ideas. Tita Delia gave us 1 – 5  activities solely to deepen our understanding in identifying the topic, main idea, and supporting details of a text. I made some mistakes as I was taking the activities but it wasn’t that much of a big deal because Tita would call us one by one and explain it to us until we understand it.

What I was having difficulty with though is on the activity 3, task 5 where we have to identify our classmate’s main idea based on their topics and key details. It took me awhile to figure it out but in the end I was able to guess their main ideas. I am happy to be able to understand and learn this topic much quicker so that I can apply my learning to my other subjects, especially in English. So now at the end of week 2, I am writing this reflection as I have completed all of the activities. That’s all!!!

22.08.24

The activity that we focused on today was writing about the festival that we and our family celebrated. I wrote about how All Souls Days is celebrated in the Philippines since we have to think of the writing as a school article or for something formal. So, I use a formal, present tense and third person for the writing. We did this activity so that we could develop our writing with the topic of the festival. The challenging part was that I sometimes wrote in past tense, forgetting that the writing should be in present tense so I always have to rewrite it again. Also, I have to reduce the word count because it was too long.

I learned that I am more into long writing because I have to remove and change some words for this short form writing, which I found difficult. I was able to achieve the learning objectives by writing words like ‘celebration’ describing festivals. I learn to write short forms and new words which is really helpful for my other subjects, especially in English. 

In the 1st week of term three we focus on practicing our listening. We practiced five different strategies, after that we did some practice activities. The first one was  about “My School Holiday ” and in this activity there were 4 tasks that we answered on our device. Task 1 is before listening, it was really easy because I just focused on the clues given on the sentence, and I got all of it correct. Task 2 is while listening, Tita Delia reads the text and we listen and fill in the blanks. This task was where I was a bit confused, thankfully Tita read the text a 2nd time and made it a lot easier for me.  Task 3 is listening again and answering true or false and it was easy. Task 4 was after listening, we answered some questions on what was said on the listening text and it was also easy. The second one was about “Anita’s Holiday in Cuba. In this task we again listened to Tita Delia reading the text while we wrote the answer on our papers. I answered all of it correctly. This task was easier as it doesn’t have  many blanks to fill. In this lesson I learn that it is really important to understand and listen to the details of what the speaker speaks. Overall, I really like this week’s lesson, it was easy and made me learn a lot. 

Term 2 Reflection

01/07/24

Throughout the whole 2nd term our focus has been to learn, deepen our understanding and elevate our writing, reading, and listening. We learn correct usage of verb forms, writing recounts, practicing past tense verbs and sentences, writing using RID strategy (my favorite lesson), identifying main idea, topic and supporting details, doing practice listening tests and vocabulary challenges. 

It was somewhat easy for me to grasp all these learning objectives. It did have some difficulties but I solved it by studying repeatedly. I could say that it was really helpful knowledge, especially the writing part. I have always had a lot of problems writing, I would sometimes overthink, having problems with words I want to put, struggling with structures, and grammars. Now it makes it easier for me to write, although I couldn’t say that I am an expert in writing but I could say that I have improved very well. And on the other hand I was thankful that listening and reading was easy for me to follow. 

So overall I was really grateful for the lessons. It was a great help for all of my shortcomings in writing and also satisfied with my performance and improvements. I hope that next term we’ll be studying speaking as it is also one of my shortcomings. 

25.06.24

REFLECTION (PRO)

This week we did practise finding main ideas, did the vocabulary challenge, and did a lot of listening practice tests. We did all of this for the learning objective of developing our skills in identifying main ideas and supporting details. I now learned to identify the main idea easily through reading but now the new thing that I am struggling with is listening practice. When I listen I tend to repeat it again and again because I can’t quite identify the context of what is being said. I am trying to improve my listening by actually focusing on the details of what I listened to and to also keep doing listening practice because trying again will definitely help improve my listening. Watching videos will be easier when I can listen and understand what is being said. 

20/06/24

Reflection (Pro)

The activity was about identifying the main idea. What the topic is, if it is stated or implied and what are the supporting details of the main idea. And also one of the activities is doing groupings, helping each other on identifying main ideas. The learning objective was to practise identifying the main idea. I have learned to identify the main idea by the help of the supporting details on the text whether it is stated or implied by the author. Although some of the tasks I have read were hard to understand, I can understand most of them. So I can say that I did achieve the learning objectives and will further enhance my learning. I would just say that I felt good on this experience because I get to learn a lot and know where I am at disadvantage. I will do better by studying more and doing more practice identifying main ideas, topics and supporting details. By learning how to find the main idea, I can apply my learning when I read books, this will help identify the main idea of the book, what it’s topic and supporting details which will make it easier for me to read and understand.

Reflection 

Name: Grace E. Rallos    

Date: 07.06,23

PRO  (Write two to three sentences for each question.)