2010-01-01から1年間の記事一覧

After big snow in UK

The Big snow from on 18 Dec to 20 paralysed the public transportaion such as bus, train and airline in UK. Unfortunately, the period I got back to Japan was the same as the terrible occasion. Before one day I got on my flight at Heathrow a…

Distruption in Heathrow airport

Yesterday was the one of the my worst day in UK as a result of big show. Although we got on a coach operated by National Express from Sheffield to Heathrow terminal 4, the coach was stopped suddenly in Conventry on account of the informati…

Robber

After I had taken my speaking IELTS exam on Tuesday, I parked my bicycle near Sheffield Hallam university for a couple days. When I fetched it to the place, I could not find my bicycle. Even though I locked my bicycle, my chain was cut. In…

Overwork

It was snowing heavily this afternoon. In general, I am preased to see any snow, which result in making the landscape look better. However today's snow let me down because I must have gone to my English school all the way from my distant a…

Ielts and party

Yesterday I took IELTS speakign exam due to the unexpected situation which the admission of Sheffield Hallam University explained us. My examiner looked like impatient and appeared to pay attention to something apart from me as a result of…

my IELTS is suspended

Today I took IELTS exam in Sheffield Hallam University in this morning. After I had done my listening, reading and writing exam, I went out in order to prepare speaking exam. But to my surprise, admission office staff called me that my spe…

IELTS writing part1: How ocean thermal energy conversion works

This essay is my homework my teacher game us yesterday. The topic is "How ocean thermal energy conversion works".The information I learned about grammar is; which results in e.g. The turbine spins which results in the generator being spun.…

fish bone stuck in throat

Today I am really relieved because an emergency operation which my father underwent was a big success.What he suffered from was that an extremely hard bone fish stuck in his throat. Although he tried eating plenty of food in order to remov…

Writing part1: describe the process of making electricity by hydropower

This is the today's homework my teacher gave us about IELTS writing part1, which force us to describe some diagram. The topic is that the process of making electricity by hydropower. This diagram shows that how electricity is produced from…

Withdraw my college

Today finally my final exam,which was made up of writing two essays, was finished. Even though my classmate looked happy and excited on account of the end of this term, as far as I am concerned, there is nothing interesting and exciting at…

IELTS writing section1: describe the diagram the process of making plastic

This is my ad hoc essay for IELTS section1. As for me, it is difficult to describe some diagram. This diagram shows the process that raw material is changed into finished plastic products. Overall, it can be seen that this process is made …

NHS

Today I brought my wife to a Hospital called Northern General Hospital, which is located suburb in Sheffield. It took us 8 pounds to get there by taxi. As I have never been to any UK hospitals, I was slightly nervous. After we met an inter…

New vocabulary I met in IELTS reading passage and I have not known

there are some new vocabulary I met in IELTS reading passage and I have never known. quasi- = like something else gizmo = gadget creep = infiltrate drudgery = hard boring jop envisioned by = predicted by precision = accuracy messy=complex,…

Defference of medical system between UK and Japan

Today I cannot find my mobile phone, but it was right under my nose. In other words, although my phone was in my bag, I cannot find it there. I am relieved. I went to the clinic called UHS, which is for university students. Although I did …

Today's study

Although heavy snow paralysed the publich transportation system for a couple of days, our college was open as usual. Walking out snow street made me tired because I was not able to proceed along street quickly. After school, I studied at C…

The Sapporo snow festival

Although there are a lot of festivals in Japan, I believe that one of the best festival s in Japan is The Sapporo snow festival, which takes place in Hokkaido, located in the north of Japan. The festival dates back to 1950, that some high …

Creative families

Today's passage I tried reading is a Creative families, which discuss what facter in family would make childlen talented. Although a percentage definition was regarded as an important factor, it was eclipsed by the IQ test, where a serias …

unusual weathe

It started snowing at midnight and keep snowing all day long. This is the second time I have gone through so much snow in Sheffield. Although I get used to that snow is falling in Japan, I am surprised at the fact that it snow still in Nov…

After speaking exam

At last I finished my speaking exam, which includes listening and group discussion which I am not good at. In my opinion, I did better than the previous time because I tried using relative clauses and the phrases which I prepared in indivi…

Speaking Exam at my college

One of the my concerns about my school is that speaking exam will take place tomorrow morning because I have a problem with this topic, which is speaking ability, and my mark which I took in the previous exam was extremely lower than other…

Snow

Today is the first day I have ever seen that it snows in Sheffield. It is extremely cold so that I cannot go out without my gloves, which I bought in my near shop. The thing I really hate about this weather is that the streets are frozen s…

Dissertation- brainstorming

Even thouhg this is the step of brainstorming, the ideas I am thinking about my dissertaion are the following.1,Offshore business 2,lifelong education 3,motivating people 4,how to learn a lot from daily routine work 5,e business

Carpenters - I Won't Last A Day Without You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt5huMICEwU&feature=relatedDay after day I must face a world of strangers where I don't belong I'm not that strong It's nice to know that there's someone I can turn to Who will always care You're always there…

MBA in UK

MBA

MBA degree courses I am applying for are the following:Sheffield (IELTS minimum 7) Glasgow (6.5) Bath (7) Bradford (6.5) Liverpool entrpreneur course (6.5)I have already received conditional offer from Sheffield. Other university I applied…

How to become more fluent in English

One of my problem about speaking is that I cannot speak fluently because there are a lot of pauses in my conversation, which is difined by hesitation. And my teacher pointed out that my sentenses are too simple to get high mark in IELTS ex…

Reading

One of my plans about enhancing my reading skills is to read a passage a day. So today I read the passage, which title is " I Praise of Amateurs". The main topic about this passage is that even though amateurs have contributed to the progr…

IELTS writing section2

Some say that men and women are better suited to specific professions e.g. men as builders and women as nurses. Other say gender shouldn’t make a difference to career choice. Discuss.= This is my draft which is required the teacher's thoro…

IELTS exam

I took IELTS exam on 20 November at Sheffield Harram University. I expect to get 6.0 overall score, which I have never got before. My latest score is 5.5. I heard that it need to take us three months studying to improve 0.5 band in IELTS.

To be comfortable

Although there are several problems about my English, one of the worst weakpoints is speaking, especially speaking longer because what make me difficult to talk longer is that I am not good at handling linking words and making relative cla…

Expand on your sentence

One of the most useful tips about IELTS speaking is to use an strategy which is called "expansion strategy". For example, when you come up with some keywords which you want to say in speaking exam, you should use the following question wor…