New day, new week, new AEP session! But this time, we walked into the hands of a vocabulary quiz. Dun dun dun!
Luckily, we started off with "Diffle" so we had time to relax our brains. The word was "escort."
Then, the real test began. I went up first and spun the wheel. It landed on "ambidextrous." The definition practically came spilling out of me: "the ability to use both hands with equal skill or ease." I quickly used it in a sentence and once Miss Disa had approved, I proceeded back to my seat.
One by one, everyone went. When finished, we decided to give the same IELTS writing task 1 from last meeting another shot. I recalled the steps in starting a summary and found myself much faster and more efficient than before. However, improvements on the body portion still needed to be made.
The next day, AEP started with a different word game called "Evil Wordle," which tries to not let you guess the word. We got it after about 7 tries. Then, in order to hone our paraphrasing skills, Miss Disa decided that it would be best to practice more IELTS prompts. After 3 exercises, we then discussed the "Chunking Method," which is supposed to help us paraphrase better and faster. It basically illustrates that the best way to do so is to cut up the sentence into portions/chunks and then paraphrase those chunks. It's done in this way to help your brain not feel overwhelmed.
After trying on another exercise, we had a short lecture about how to turn nouns into verbs. An example of this would be, "stores that have opened or closed" becoming, "store closings or openings." This helps in not only paraphrasing, but also in cutting down the amount of words used, which is especially useful when you have a word limit of about 150.
As there were only 20 minutes left in the session, we moved our attention to "DOGONews" and read an article about hammerhead sharks and how they use their gills to stay warm in cold waters. We took turns reading 2 sentences each. Then, we proceeded to talk about facts that we learned from the text. Mine was about how hammerhead sharks resemble the actual tool, which is where their name derives from. The day later ended with a sensational feeling of productivity and exhaustion. Working our brains really tired me out.
Nonetheless, it was a great session overall. The only thing I really miss are our "Scrabble" days, which I hope will make a comeback soon! Till next time!
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