Time pressure is one of the techniques too. Let me tell you this: Most people find that time-pressure helps, so set yourself a time limit for reading a piece of text. However for me, I simply dislike time pressure as it really 'kicks me off' from getting the main ideas from the whole text! Well, I just merely like spending my 'own sweet time' reading certain texts and enjoying it!
Apart from that, by charting the reading rate(progress) can help me to record my speed of reading and thus, I can choose a fairly easy book for speed practice. Besides, I found out that I don't have to use the dictionary that often as I can figure out the meaning of a word from the context. But, if I still need it, I will try to look it up.
And yes..the more you read, the better you will become at reading and the more you enjoy it! Hence, there's a quote which goes: "The more you read, the more you know." :)
*Cindy remembered her wonderful time during EN 101 course*
I've been continuously packing up my room this afternoon. Yucks, it's so dusty and I go on.... *sneezing* I didn't know that I've got so many files (big files, small files, heavy files....etc!) That's many, don't they? And yeah, there's a lot of books too (my college books)...it's so heavy! Oh my! My EN 101 books are still with me. I haven't sell it yet. I just hate one of those books... that Mrs. Jones in that Power Play really ..... you know what I mean, right? Guess you're on the right track. On the contrary, I just appreciate that Paragraph Power book! It has help me a lot in my sentence structure and has taught me to develop my English further- more towards a higher level of English. And, I still could remember my lecturer, Mrs. Tan... she has been a very good lecturer, easily approached (perhaps her friendly look) and guess what? I was her 'fovourite pet student' at that time!
In fact, my wonderful time at EN 101 had not only improved my English regardless of the good lecturer as I've got a very friendly friend named 'Tai Ling' who will always help me bring out my inner feelings. We will always laughed and joked non-stopped eventhough we were in the lectures and Mrs. Tan will go......"Is there anything funny?" And both of us will give her a lovely grin! And after the lectures, both of us will usually head to the nearest cafeteria to have our lunch, which is also known as our "common" cafeteria as we were still not sure where we can have our lunch since HELP's ADP has just moved to KPD at that time. And let me tell you that we were so lucky on one of those days whereby Mrs. Tan brought us and showed us some places nearby to get our nice and lovely lunch! Don't you think she's so kind? Indeed, very kind of her, right? Yeah..definitely!!! ;) Moreover, the places really offered a great variety of things....for instance, vegetarian corner, the mixed rice, 'soupy stuffs' and lots more!
And, sad to say, Mrs. Tan is no longer lecturing at HELP anymore. I really miss her a lot and if I would to meet her one day, I would really take that opportunity to say a big, big, big......... "Thank You!" for her guidance as well as her encouraging words during every lectures! *bows* And Oh yes, she also gave me the assurance that I will do well in my EN 102 (the final english course) and she advised me to read up more articles in the newspapers during that term break and of course, I listened to her advice and I just hope that my EN 102 results that will be out in a few weeks time will be a miracle or somewhat good enough to prove that I have done my best(the efforts that I've poured in) and God is in control of EVERYTHING!
Well, look out for my next unforgettable moments at HELP Institute during my summer semester. Let me tell you this: Summer semester has been a wonderful one and I will always cherish it anywhere I go! No doubts, no worries, no stress and it's a GREAT one!! I simply enjoyed it! ;)
*Cindy went off cheerfully after she posts this entry*
