well, i was feeling quite shock when wake up at such time because i need to attend the academic study skills at Stoddart centre at 9am although i just sleep around 2 hour when i sleep at 6.10am yesterday.
anyways, i quickly get myself prepared and went to attend the class as soon as possible.
upon arrived there, the seat seems to be almost full but luckily still have places left for me and we get some paper sheet distributed by the Lyndon tutor.
basically the academic study skills teaches about how to write a professional English in our report and assignment that can bring lifelong benefits to us.
the first part teaches on how to analyze the component of an essay title by separating the topic, focus, instruction and restriction of a sentences.
for an example, "Outline the advantages of using computers in the workplace" answer would be computers is for topic, advantages is for focus, outline is for instruction and in the work place is for restriction.
next, the tutor teaches us to further understand the meaning behind every instruction of question such as support means agree with, describe is to look at the surface of something, investigated is to look for, assumed is to believe something without evidence, illustrate is draw picture with words or writing step by step in business academic and others more example.
besides, i just realized that there was a lot of words that need to be avoid slang or idiomatic language and try to use another word such as avoiding using "like, things, lots of, little/big" replaced with "for example, factors issue, significant number and large, few many" that need to be specify.
there is one word that i remember most was "getting worst" that can be replace with "deteriorating" word.
after attending the learning study skills for academic writing in this lecture, i realized that my English level seems to be still stuck in my secondary level and there was a lot of grammar error with wrong usage while i faced a very hard time to learn or improve my English partly because i had written almost the same things for so many years.
seriously until now i don't really know which English, Chinese, Bahasa Malaysia language that i am good at other than my mother tongue Cantonese language.
after the class end at 11am, i quickly walk to Adsetts Library to print my assignment and it seems to be quite expensive to print each paper that cost £0.05 per pieces and i just reloaded £2 for it.
then i continue to walk back Stoddart and head to Student Help & Information Point (SHIP) to pass up my assignment.
well, the staff there just told me that the deadline for submission was actually 5th July and i don't really need to fill up the "Exceptional Extension Request Form" (EER1) but it was the seminar instruction to pass up during seminar class as everyone also passed up few day ago.
anyways, i just can say this would be a very "extraordinary case" for myself to have such experience.
after passing up, i do feel a bit relieve and also worried about my work as it it not very good.
then i went to top up £5 in my phone for Lebara network and realized i had used a total of £15 accumulated from last month.
on the way walking back, i went to Castle Market to see anything can buy and saw a live lobster tied with bands that sold for £12 moving around out of water just like the picture below.
during the night, the "guai lou" (foreigner) housemate suggested me to cook the "english fish pie" with milk since i don't really want to eat instant noodles again.
well, the ingredient was potato, cod fish, egg, milk, flour, beans, some seasoning pepper and he helped me to prepare it as below.
overall it was a great experience for to have some communication with "guailou" foreigner people although i don't really understand much about British English culture.
(Self Expenses note: Today £10.30, Yesterday total £6.40, Total up to date £16.70)
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