When it comes to strengths, I reckon I can communicate intelligibly. I actually know many expressions, slangs and phrasal verbs which help me out to express myself easily.  I think I have a great potential in grammar and vocabulary skills as well. 

 

Nevertheless, I have some week spots. I know how to come up with essays, texts, summaries, and so on, but I would like to learn a little more about academic writing. The last IELTS that I took, my writing score was 6.0. I finished the task and followed the instructions, but perhaps I lacked academic writing. 

 

I believe my listening skill is great, however, in the listening part of the IELTS, I did not manage to concentrate, I was maybe nervous, but I would like to improve my listening skills as well. 


 

I suppose my weaknesses are most of all because I have never studied autonomously or taken a course in order to improve.

·         concrete actions and materials to improve those weaknesses and prepare for an international exam.

I have searched in some webs to improve my academic writing skills. Plus, as I currently do my research in my master, I am improving little by little my writing skills as I have to write academically.  Perhaps my listening is improving a lot since my master is 100% in English, and fortunately, I am getting used to listening to many accents as my teachers come from many countries. 

 

 

I think the best way to cope with my difficulties is by being autonomous and by practicing as practice makes perfect. In terms of resources, we could visit many pages to practice and learn, i.e. IELTS with liz, I love that page. 

I’m going to try to take listening mock exams which are on YouTube, that way I will get used to listening IELTS listening tests, and so, I will be more familiar with the type of listening tasks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMGL5mbWaIk

When it comes to writing academically, I compromise myself to search on the web how to learn to write n that way. Therefore, I will learn not only how to improve in my next IELTS written tasks, but also to improve in my thesis as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgkRoYPLhts

all in all, I think that the best  way to improve my writing in English is by watching videos  and taking notes. 

I will keep track of the results I get from the listening tests, and also from the things I learn about academic writing. a journal, or notebook will be used as a tool in order to achive these goals.