Monday, October 31, 2011

Week 2 first reading journal

    I will explain how I study the reading English skill.
I read newspaper, sometimes. When I read one article, I can see many unknown vocabularies. I highlight them first, and I read the article to ignore them. After I read the article, I often do not understand what the article said. So, I read it again. After that I check the vocabularies which I highlighted while I read. I explain the meanings of them in English somehow or other because my main dictionary is an "English-Japanese" one. After I checked all of the vocabularies, I read the article, again. In this time, I can understand what the main idea of the article is. Then, I try to write a short sentence that mentions what the main idea is.

   But, in the TOEFL reading section, I do not the same as the above because the time is limited. So, I try to understand what the main idea of the article is, first. This is the opposite way.

   Anyway, I write a boring blog now. So, I stop writing.