Language learning Plan” Journal 2”

Language learning Plan” Journal 2”

This week flew by because I didn’t have a lot of projects to do, so I concentrated on this one. I was working on my reading skills this week, and writing. I started on my reading, and read this magazine on my free time. I was reading Fashion Magazine online, using this link: Www.Fashionmagazine.com. I explored this site and what was included in the magazine. This website has a lot of different things to see, like Culture, Shops and services, fashion and many other things, and I can also see videos about different kinds of fashion. The things I liked most are Shops and services, because it makes my life easier and I can buy nice things online including the things in the magazine. I also like the contests they have. Another topic that attracts me is “Fashion loves...” the first time I saw this I thought it was about the love for fashionable clothes, until I explored it more, I discovered it was for our own comments about fashion. Another thing I liked about this magazine site was that I could subscribe to this magazine and get the magazine delivered straight to my door. I could either subscribe for 1 year or 2, I get 10 issues for 1 year, and 20 for 2 years. I learned many things when I read this magazine, for example, I learned about famous people and their sense of fashion. And some of the vocabulary I learned were; quintessential, Architecture and trend and many other words. The advantages to this are that I can not only use these words for fashion, but also for other things. This also increases my credit for vocabulary. This was the first time I read a magazine in English, and I felt like I made the right choice in choosing this magazine to begin improving my reading because a lot of girls like fashion and it was a good start for me to get used to reading magazines.
The second strategy I worked on was writing. I decided to find out more about academic writing. I visited this website: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/special/esl.shtml. In this website, I learned what I have to think about before writing, I learned about the fundamentals if a paragraph, the structure of an essay, academic argument and the thesis sentence. That helped me a lot in my writing and improved my thinking about different types of writing.

Fatima Al-Menhali