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Week 1 Monday 2021.06.28
My hometown

Today, in class because there are no photos of my hometown Teng Wang pavilion, so I quoted the photos of the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, I hope you can understand, because they are really too similar, also the same spectacular. Here is a documentary from my hometown of Teng Wang Pavilion in Nanchang.

My contact information is cl2561@york.ac.uk

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Tuesday 2021.06.29
My plan and my daily life

I’m very happy  to be admitted to the University of York, so, now that I have come to the UK, I live in the student dormitory on the York campus and start my studies at York University here. As far as I am concerned, learning language well is my biggest goal, because I hope that I am barrier-free to communicate with the local native English speakers in the near future.
So I made a series of plans for my EPM academic English learning, oh, by the way, I found a good resource for independent learning English that is everyone video, this is a very good software to watch foreign video, in it can watch more English TV series and movies, this is very good for English learning, can cultivate language sense, also let a person very relaxed.
Here is the schedule that I made.

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Weekend Time Plan

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Today, I delivered the second nucleic acid test bag and captured the beautiful scenery of the York campus.

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My hometown

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Introduce myself

My hometown, my family, my present situation and my hobbies

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Today was the first day after self-isolation and was happy. After class and finished my homework, my roommate and I went to downtown York, went to see York Cathedral, ate snacks, and felt the pace of life in York Town, which was very comfortable and happy. Today is the perfect day.

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Today the class learned two aspects of motivation, the intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation, class and group teammates discussion, although out of some small situation, but fortunately the teacher to help us solve in time, behind the beginning and example sentence writing training, although a little don't know where to start, but behind still write out, also calculate the harvest full of a day. After class, I ordered a takeaway to reward myself, full of color and fragrance, pretty nice day. Is slowly adapting to British life, come on.

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The first week of study was over and it was time to summarize. Looking back on a week of study, what impressed me most was learning words and their family members, and doing a topic discussion with my classmates. These patterns of learning are something I have never had before, and it feels great to participate in discussing them together. This week's classroom learning also made me find a lot of my shortcomings, such as a lot of discussion to say, but do not know how to express it, which shows that I am unfamiliar with the grasp of English words. Moreover, the after-class learning task, I do the efficiency is not very high, I should continue to work hard, strengthen the practice, I hope that the next week's study will have greater progress. Finally finish with a nice picture I took in York.

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My study life

Today, I learning a new word “globalization”, gives me a lot of intelligence about globalization, and has met many of its word family members, is great. However, the signposting language of the lecture discussed with my teammates in class I didn't respond quick enough and I needed time to digest them.

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About learning and life

I think try to avoid the native language in second language classes. Because this will limit our learning and progress of the second language.
Today there is a more happy thing, I got my student card, later can go to the school library to read.☺️

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About happiness

The gain of happiness is actually very simple. As long as we are good at discovery and observation, there are surprises everywhere in life. Just like I got up this morning, saw the windowsill flowers open very good, inexplicably feel at this time I am happy. Today is also a nice day.

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A day of practice listening

An not remarkable day. Class, complete learning tasks, practice listening and stay the dormitory day.

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Discussion

This day, I went with my friends to discuss the learning methods of English listening. All in all, there is really no shortcut to learning, the best way is to listen to more and practice more. Finally we went to the city together, and along the way, my friends encouraged me to communicate more with the store staff. Haha. 😁 A happy Friday.

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This week I learned a lot of things to note about academic writing and reading. When the teacher said it, I felt that I really did not know the norms of academic writing before. Moreover, I am really ashamed to tell some words how to use them in academic scenes. I hope to continue to learn more academic English knowledge with my teacher, and I can learn something. Come on!
What I am deeply is grasp the time when reading. Different articles, the key information to be extracted is different, which can be divided into three ways to read. That scanning, skimming and reading intensive.

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Why study in the UK?

I offer three points of my opinion on this issue.

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Today I went to run a bank card with my friend and came back to study the school's online library. I found that the school's library is really too strong, and there is a lot of literature without ordinary access. It was just amazing. After the study, I should make good use of the learning materials of the library.

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Note-taking strategies

Today, Teacher Simon told us about two strategies for taking notes, namely, passive and active strategies. I know more clearly that different types of learning to take notes can also be adjusted accordingly. Finally, I hope Teacher Maddy's health can get better quickly.

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Visited the bank

Today and I went to the bank with a friend for the bank card, everything went well. It was a lucky day.

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Police station registration

Today is a busy day. In the morning, we had a heated discussion on the information about the essay argument. The brain really has to run fast to keep up with the teacher. Come on!
After the next class, I had brunch and rushed to the police station to do overseas personnel entry registration. Fortunately, the registration time for the appointment was 3 o'clock p. m.. I went out two hours early before I didn't miss the time. Because my navigation was not very accurate, I got lost.
Oh! Fortunately, there is no danger.

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Signposting

Today I learned some academic writing signposting and some signposting in speech. There are many, such as, similarly, because, however and so on.

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About study

Today I received feedback from Ms.Maddy, my teacher, and I still have a lot to improve about writing. Thank you very much to the teacher for your careful comments. And the discussion phrases told today are really great, very practical communication phrases. I will try to remember them before tomorrow.

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Renewable energy

Today we have done a discussion about whether renewable energy can save the Earth. We talked about many renewable energy sources like solar power, wind power, hydro power and other renewable power. I learned a lot of professional terms about energy today, that’s great!

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Summary of why TextB1, for renewable energy cannot save the Earth

The purpose of this article is to inform the reader about renewable energy may not meet our demand for all energy require, and persuade the reader that re-examine the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy sources. Like the authors Michael says that The first reason is that  we need to large of  land to build clean energy factory,for example we must have to clear the whole area of wildlife, this greatly damaged the ecosystem of the local land. The  second reason is that solar and wind energy source are unstable, for example,although we can makesolar panels cheaper and wind turbines bigger, but we can’t make the sun shine more regularly or the wind blow more reliably.The third reason is that costs and raw materials are expensive,because  dealing with energy source that are inherently unreliable,and require lage amount of land ,comes at a high economic cost.sthe trouble with renewables is not fundamentally technical. It is natural.

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Critical response

Today we learned some of the rules for critical response to articles, and learned about the strengths and weaknesses of critical responses. This is an important course because it is very helpful in writing critical summary reports later.

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Some important information about doing research reports

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Some important information about doing research reports

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Some weekend pieces of life in York

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Professional terms for social media and some social networks

Astroturfing
Bot
Flame and flame war
Meme
Sentiment
Sock puppet
Troll
Welcome to what you know the definitions of these terms in the massage section.

Some of the common social media uses are shown below. And what is the most social media that you usually use? Please leave a comment.

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Note-taking styles
1.a mind map
2.page split into 2
3.page split into 4
4.linear notes
The mind map is the most one I used.

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Today, the teacher Judy  took us to analyze the impact of advertising on children. We were very active in discussing our respective views in class. A very cheerful course. In the afternoon, I went to downtown York for dinner with my friends. Today was a very happy day!

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Introduction include
1.background
2.transition to essay focus
3.thesis statement
4.brief outline of structure of body

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Learning about essay structure
Have a 3 main parts.
1.Introduction
2.Body
3.Conclusion

And some other important academic writing information.