Evaluation of my memo report II

Hello everybody,

I have to say, I am really excited about the grade of my second memo report we had to hand in.
I really learned from my mistakes and I tried to make the report as professional as possible.
Furthermore, I used the program of: http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/ to evaluate my used words again.
My results are as follows:

Compared to my last report, I must say that I really improved the use of wordlist two vocabulary.
To make things clear, you can find a comparison below between a native speaker and myself:
Native speaker:
70% list one
10% list two
10% AWL
10% Off-List
Myself:
72.01% list one
09.13% list two
09.53% AWL
09.33% Off-List

I think, this is a fine step into the right direction but, of course, I still have to improve further on.

All in all, this showed me that it is possible to make improvements! Moreover, it is really helpful to make use of the possibilities the world wide web is offering to us. Online-applications can contribute to our knowledge and help us heading forward to our aims.
In my case: writing and speaking academic business English.

With this in mind,
have a nice day,

Lennard

Combine fun and learning!

G'day,
to start with an Australian salutation.
Today I would like to inform you about something really helpful, if you are not a native English speaker.
During our last meeting of "SPAA" (a meeting with our student-coach), we took a test, that differentiated us into different learning styles
Those are:
-Auditory Learners
-Visual Learners
and
-Tactile/Kinesthetic Learner

My outcome: Auditory Learner

After the tutorial I thought about it and I concluded that it always was really helpful for me to watch English spoken TV. I learned pronunciation and spelling of many words knowingly, that most of the "MTV English" is not appropriate to learn academic English. In total it was still contributing to my proper English. Futhermore, I remembered that during my travels, all people coming from countries, where English TV-shows were not synchronized spoke English more fluently than other countries.
Just to list some: Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway.

So why not combining  fun and learning, by watching more English spoken TV!?
Find a nice example hereunder:

Evaluation of my memo report

Hello everybody,

today I want to tell you something about an interesting website, which our teacher provided us with.
The link: http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/
It is useful to evaluate any kind of English texts.
The program is searching for the frequency of words, that have been used.
It is separrating:
1.) K1 (most frequent 1000 words of English)
2.)K2 (second most frequent 1000 words of English)
3.)AWL (the 570 most frequently used words in academic texts across subjects)
4.) Off-list (the remainder which are not found on the other lists)

During our tutorial we had to perform like real managers negotiating about a topic, which was the expansion of a polish airport. Afterwards, we wrote a memo report about our negotiations.

I used the program of the website to look at my personal statistic of used words.
Following my findings:

The typical educated native speaker result is 70% from first 1000, 10% from second thousands, 10% academic and 10% less frequent words.
In conclusion, I realized that I used to many words from the first list (77.04%) and less words from second one (5.19%).This showed me, that I have to focus more on using those words to improve my writing in English, to come closer to the result of  a typical native speaker.

Make the best out of your English and have a nice day,

Lennard

How to keep in time during presentations

We all know the problem, our teacher provides us issues with heaps of information and it is often difficult to accommodate these into a predetermined time.

So I took the chance to provide my audience, my English class, with helpful options and solutions to keep in time during presentations.

The information of the following presentation-slides is based on an article of the University of Leicester.

Presentation english 1 time

View more presentations from Lennard666.

After presenting, I got the chance to receive feedback.

There were several helpful aspects, that could be improved and implemented into my upcoming presentations.

One important aspect was, that I should use the “International” Logo of our University, instead of the Dutch one showing that this course is international and not just local.

Moreover, I had a spelling mistake, which I could easily avoid by looking over my presentation several times.

All in all I took a lot of useful information from this tutorial, about my performance, as well as the ones from the others and I am looking forward to implement the improvements made on them in my following performances at the University to be more professional.

Welcome, here I am! My language learning history.

Well, how should I start my first Blog entry? I think first of all I should tell you something about my English knowledge level.

I started learning English in the 4th grade of primary school, our teacher taught us words describing colors, numbers and how to introduce ourselves. Ongoing, I have been learning now for more than ten years. During my school-time I took part in several exchange programs where I noticed how important English was. Looking back, I can remember just one funny situation when I was in Severna Park, Maryland, USA. I tried to explain my exchange mum that I needed a towel. Trying to find this simple expression I stumbled  something like “May I have a serviette, please?” My host started laughing and asked: “What?”

This is to show how a multi-lingual boy from Europe mixed up a French word with a double meaning simply trying to find an English expression for a piece of cloth to dry his skin.

So far I realized that my school English wasn’t always sufficient to manage simple everyday-life situations.

After having finished school with my A-levels, I started travelling through southeast-Asia, Australia and New Zealand, to explore the world and also improving my English skills.

The result was heaps of new vocabulary, but mostly colloquial and slang. Just to show you one example: in the Bushes of Australia “rednecks” usually welcome you by asking ”How ya, mate?” instead of saying formally “How are you doing, sir?” Even if I had a good basic school education and lots of exchanges as well as a one-year-trip, I had to realize that for my professional future it is indispensable to enter a new field of English, namely, Business English, to enhance my ability to express myself properly at the university as well as on my future job.

So my aims for this study course are to improve and to get used to “Business English” itself and to be able to transfer this knowledge to other study-subjects.

In addition to that, I want to gain better presentation skills and a reliable basis of business vocabulary.

In the end, I would like to read, write and speak Academic English, to participate in discussions at the university and to be successful in my future business job.

I am looking forward to tell you something about my first presentation in English in my next Blog entry.