Saturday, August 16, 2008

English Oral

Yay! English Oral's over....finally? As I stepped into the exam hall, I was so nervous that I kept swallowing my saliva until my mouth and throat felt so dry. My nightmare came when JX(the candidate before me) stood up from the preparing table and moved towards the 2 examiners. I then proceeded to the table with anxiety, picked up the file with the question and started reading...
READING ALOUD
PREPARATION:Hell...the word "designated" was rather confusing as I was wondering whether it was pronounced as "design-nae-ted" or "dair-seeg-nae-ted". In the end i picked the 2nd one because it sounded more difficult.
ACTUAL: Stuttered like mad as my eyes seemed to deceive me after every word i read...wth i was so nervous that i forgot to enunciate all the word ending consonants sobsob =(
PICTURE
PREPARATION:Moved on to picture and wow! I saw a disabled person and people helping him up the bus... tried to interpret everyone's feelings and thoughts like andre told me to.
ACTUAL: Surprised that 1st question was "how do you think the people are helping the disabled person". I always thought it would be "What do you thing is happening in this picture?"As usual i didn't talk a lot about this and the examiner prompted me 3 times X(
CONVERSATION
PREPARATION:Then I tried to speculate the conversation topic to be something about disabled because both reading and picture have disabled people.
ACTUAL:To my horror, it was about nature...wtf? The picture didn't even have a scent of nature in it. WHAT IS THE COMMON THEME THEN??
1st Question was "Tell me about a time when u went to a natural conserved area?" and someone like me...go out? go natural areas?...maybe when i was dreaming? So i talked about Bukit Timah Nature reserve and randomly took out my favorite animal---MONKEY =) Again 3 prompts altogether =C
2nd Question was so much on geography-"Do you think natural areas should be conserved and wildlife should be protected?" Well, that was probably the only time i loved geography... I took out the concepts of ecotourism and spammed the definition and benefits (ie. countries should set aside National Park to promote eco-tourism as well as minimise environmental damage.) Good news...or bad news...There is NO prompt for me for this question...It may imply that I talked extensively enough =) but it may also mean that the examiners are bored with me speech and don't wanna hear me speak anymore.
After the oral i went down to canteen to watch LiJiaWei vs a china table tennis player and many people cheered and LiJiaWei scored a point. Went to lan to play dota and won both games... pooned andre who only know how to use troll warlord haha my team and I got a lot of teamwork and my role was to KS!!! ^_^

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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Last week Wednesday I went to the airport to send zengruizi from 4c to shenzhen (not canada yet right) although i only know him for less that 1~2 months and took some pictures which i don't have now (see teoyingshen's blog for the pictures lololololol).... I very shy one so I didnt take a lot of pictures with the gang of sec 4 students. Benjamin from 4A didnt come because he is nerdifying in his chem lessons and yingshen and andre were sooo angry they probably wanted to shred him to pieces and have cold war with him... At 1st I also don't wanna go there because 1)very late ready around 5pm or so, 2)I was afraid that the airport would be flooded with tears n don't like soap operas...=)

Ok that's all for today n sorry for bad english because I did this post in less than 10 minutes and have no time to edit...I finally understand the importance of editing in EL Paper 1. REMEMBER TO EDIT ALSO!! =)