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The reflection on this pre-sessional course 

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The reflection on this pre-sessional course 

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In this pre-sessional course, I learned a lot of things like how to do a poster, how to give a presentation, how to write an essay and so on.

At the beginning of this course, I felt a bit nervous because I thought I was not good at English, especially speaking skills. And also, I didn’t know if classmates were very nice to get along with. But everything that I worried was disappearing when I arrived in class. Everything was great, it out of my expectation because Jamie was cheerful, students in this class were wonderful.

In the first week I found that Amber and Jackey they are very good at speaking I think and I learned a lot of from them like take it easy to speak because I think when they are speaking, they are very relaxed and enjoyable. Obviously, I have many progresses, and I want to pass this exam. 🥹But not everything was going well, firstly I won’t submit the notes on time. secondly, I think I were not doing well in today’s presentation because I was so nervous, so I was forgetting what I need to say at the middle of presentation.

In conclusion, I learned many writing and speaking skill, I believe it will help me to study abroad. And I need to protect more about my presentation and a good mentality to face all kinds of emergencies calmly. The most important thing is that I will submit homework earlier at least one hour, it will let me on time.

In the future, I will more read on the website and listen to the Six-minute news from BBC then read it everyday to practice my skills. I hope these will helpful.

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In this presentation, I think I do better than the last time, because today’s poster was help me to speak clearly, and it makes me more logical. However, I think this presentation has a lot of shortcomings. Firstly, the biggest shortcoming is that I didn’t do this presentation emotionally, and my talking is a little bit monotonous, I don’t know why, maybe because I was a little nervous. Secondly, I am still not fully prepared because I add a lot of new information into this poster. Thirdly, I didn’t use many signposting languages as I didn’t remember any sign words when I am speaking.

So, at the final presentation I will be relax more, make my presentation more emotional, prepare more fully and to memorize more link words and signposting language.

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Reflects the presentation and the video.

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Reflects the presentation and the video.

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In today’s presentation, I think I have a lot of progress. First of all, in the first presentation I am not doing well, because I don’t prepare too much so I need to reference a lot of my notes and read them. But in this presentation, I wasn’t read my notes because I prepared many times to practice the words, voice and to think about what else I need to do more exercise. Secondly, I was not too nervous at this time, I don’t know why, maybe it’s because I have had several presentations experience, so I learned that I should keep practicing.

This video is taking about how to do a good presentation, and it reminded five points. First, prepare the stage, we can switch the screen concisely. Secondly, prime your audience, it can make our presentation more sense of interaction. Thirdly presenter view. Fourthly, be brief, we need to be confident, and it can let us look more convincing and powerful. The last point is using your camera.

So, at the next presentation, firstly, I will try many times to let myself more confident and briefer. Secondly, I will adjust my camera to make me look better. The last but not the least, I should make my presentation more sense of interaction, and use more body language, it will make my presentation more vivid.

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Task 1:

This task is taking about the artist play an important role in changing the society, and they use art to create social or political change in many different ways. Then it gives many examples such as Banksy, he used his artworks to solve some events like poverty, war, and racism, and Keith Haring used public art to awareness about AIDS and Homophobia in 1980, during the influence of visual information to promote social justice. They use their creativity to motivate action and highlight important issues to contribute to a more justice and equality world.

Task 2:

Nowadays more public trust businesses than the government, so people wish that companies would be able to solve the social problems like bellwether although it is beyond the company’s traditional responsibility. And these companies must participate in brand activism actively to maintain the people’s trust, promote positive change and make sure success in the future.

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It’s named Victory Monument, more than 200 meters high surpassing the Washington monument in the US. It’s a landmark building in my hometown, on an island in the middle of the lake. It looks like a pencil, so we always call it pencil tower. It doesn’t have a long history, just built at the beginning of this century. This monument has many monumental significances, the original meaning was to memorize the flood fighting in 1998. Actually, I want to choose an interesting public artwork at first, but I can’t find it in the street. By contrast, public activism art is everywhere. I don’t know why, maybe because the culture and political reasons.

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 Reflects on my choices so far on the project.

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 Reflects on my choices so far on the project.

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So far, the project step one has been completed. I found that I have many questions should be improved in the process.

Firstly, I think I am not doing well at the beginning of the project, because when I chose the artist I didn’t read all the artists, I just read three or four artists and then I decided. If I choose another artist, maybe this work would be more easily to finish. Secondly, I am a bit dissatisfied with the second artwork. The second artwork called Other of pear, I want to change it because this work isn’t really famous, so I can’t search a lot of information about it in Google. If I had chosen another art work, I would be find a lot of information on internet. I will change this work if I find a better one.

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I chosen two installation art works, they’re both Jenny kendler’s works. The project 1 its name is Birds watching, project 2 named is The other of pear. They are similar in that they are all have a meaningful part in their exhibition but not all the same. In the project 1, the visitor can translated their vioce into birdsong when they visiting but in project 2 , the money can be given to the organization that protect the environment. But I think this is not the most different thing between project 1 and project 2. The most different is the factor. The first project use the bird’s eye as the main body, however the project 2 use marine life to complete her work.

So these are the differences and similarities between project 1 and project 2 that I chose.

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In this lesson, I learned some skills called CRAAP and this word can help me to identify the content of the website.

This class is very useful for me,because I don’t know what messages that I can choose. Yesterday, I checked my website I chose, and I found that one of them is unbelievably. So now I know how to choose the right website. I will compare the requirements one by one according to this picture, make sure that my website is qualified

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The reflection on academic writing style 

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The reflection on academic writing style 

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Today,we are talking about how to make your article in the academic writing style.  In that class I realized that my writing is very Non-academic, because I always used personal pronouns and vague language not only that I constant repeating the same words. So I need to memorize more academic vocabulary, and more use the tentative language such as could,possible,seems and so on. The most important point is that I should use the complex grammar structures (noun structures), this way can make my writing more expressive

In conclusion , I think that academic writing style is not very hard to study, but it needs us to spend more time

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Reflects on my experience of Padlet so far~

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Reflects on my experience of Padlet so far~

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So far, I have written five padlet, I used plaid to be the background because I think this decorative pattern is very like a paper. The color is sky blue, and I think this color is very pretty and fresh and can make me feel good. In each post I wrote almost 150 to 200 words. Most of them are talking about the course reflection and one of them is about activism. When I write these posts, I will think what I learned in this class, how I feel about it and think is there anything that I didn’t do good enough.

It is hard for me to describe what I feel, so I will read the posts that classmates write, so I want to try writing something that I really feel. When I finish my Padlet task I feel a sense of achievement and relaxation. But I feel pressure when I write this padlet now.

I believe that I do so much practice about writing padlet, I can finish this homework well, even if there are some problems. Looking back, I think the main important problem is that I have to think it for a long time when I am writing padlet, and even sometimes I can’t think anything out.

In conclusion, writing padlet is not a very hard thing to do if we seriously summarize the course and try our best to feel ourselves. So, in the future I will try my best to do each homework and improve my reading and writing skills.

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My reflection of Active  Listening and Seminar 

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My reflection of Active  Listening and Seminar 

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In today’s course, I learned about how to be a good listener and how we can do in the seminar.

To be a good listener we need to be attentive, it means we should look at the speaker when someone talking, we can’t play our phone or do other things that are not polite. We also need to ask some open-ended questions like what? why? How? But in my experience, I think I am not doing well in this part. So, I need to change my behaviors and make more efforts to be better.

I also learned a lot from that video about seminars. In that seminar, there are lots of people from different countries, some people are native speakers, and some people’s speaking are poor, but all of them are very brave. They are talking about their ideas as if language can’t bring them any problems. I want to become same as them, because I think I am a bit shy in this class. 😱

I think I can’t be shy, but I can control myself. After that, I hope I will be braver, more courageous to express myself, and not afraid of making mistakes.

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JR is a very special artist I think, and he evoke people’s consciousness by making a mount of photos in the place where poverty and chaos caused by war. He believes that art can change the way we see the world and can change our mind. His works always discussed the ethnicity, society and humanitarianism, but he never thinks he is a political artist. In his art works, there are no political thoughts in his works. He uses his art to make people think about and reflect on the society.

At the first time in the class when I know him, I think he is crazy because he takes the street as his gallery. At the same times I also think he is so smart because it will be more extensive, faster to spread his art works.

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This work named Untitled, it is Tania Bruguera’s work from 2000. The artist said that the year 2000 was very significant for several reasons. One of them was that the government stated that all their political, social, and economic promises would be fulfilled in the year 2000, but these improvements never came into effect. So, she wants to criticize them, and this work showed in the Cabaña fortress. This is the place that people were tortured, kept prisoners, and killed from colonial times through the Cuban Revolution's early years. She used performance art to express her political dissatisfaction.

At the beginning, I think performance art is just a dramatical and exaggerated art form, don’t have any practical meaning, but after watching her work, I realized that performance art can be so touching heart.

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My activism journey is using a project as a medium to express my thoughts. As for me, I personally think art is a good way to convey somebody’s feelings and evoke deep emotional responses. Last year I made a project about how to deal with the influences of sea level rise. This work depicts a house that half in the ocean and guesshow long it will completely sink into the sea or slowly surface completely. Actually, I don’t know what the sea level rise is but with the completion of this work, I gradually understand it and had my own thoughts. Through this experience, I learned that artnot only is about aesthetic but also an important tool to communicate building and social transform.

Besides, I always use TikTok and other social media to advocate social justice. These let people know more about social issues by vision and hearing. I wish to make this social environment better in this way, and I I know the importance of the activism.

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What are my first impressions of the pre-sessional course ?

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What are my first impressions of the pre-sessional course ?

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Before this course begins, I feel very nervous about the upcoming course because I don’t know if I can follow this course, I don’t know if the teacher and classmates are friendly. But after the beginning, I found that I was overthinking. The classmates are very warmhearted and if I have some questions they will answer me patiently. ☺️Obviously, the tutor is also great. He will listen to us very carefully, and we don’t need to worry about making some mistakes. The most important thing is that he is so cute! His actions are really like Disney characters, a bit dramatic but really super cute.

I feel that I have some progress through this lesson in the past few days. Actually, in the first class, I was always hardly getting the teacher’s means, but in the next classes I gradually became more familiar with the class steps and I can understand correctly what the teacher is saying, so I think that was my progress.

At the beginning I also have some questions about how to do the homework, this software is not easy to use for me at first because I never use this kind of software before. But after I use it few more times, I realized that it was not complicated.

There is no big problem temporarily, but I think I need to get more exercise in my speaking and reading. So, I will try to expand my vocabulary and speak English more!

Hope I can finish this course smoothly.🥳