These are the handouts prepared by Professor Richard Hudson for the first-year students taking B.A. Linguistics at UCL. Here Hudson was teaching how to understand grammar by doing (analysing) it by the learner himself.
Quit talking - Start Doing! Motivate Yourself When No one Else Can
Procrastination is a big daily problem for many or most of us. It is the feeling that you know you should do something but you don’t do it. You know you should go to the gym, but you stay at home and watch TV. You know that it’s time to do the homework, but you went online and check Facebook. You know you should make a business plan today, but you decide to do it tomorrow.
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Stop doing busywork. Start doing your best work. Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office? The world has changed and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace.
K-Gr 3-Bright double-page sections combine advice about politeness with large, often full-page illustrations. Ingalls emphasizes that manners are based upon respect and consideration for others, and her suggestions for developing good habits are clear and understandable. Occasional jokes and humorous suggestions enliven the text and are age-appropriate. Most of Rooney's colorful cartoons depict a diverse group of kids doing the proper thing, but a few show examples of selfish or unmannerly behavior. "Did You Know?" factoids provide additional information or tell readers about customs in other countries.
Intensive reading is reading that requires intense concentration and the unravelling of difficult sentences and technical vocabulary. IELTS reading is intensive.
The importance of extensive reading cannot be stressed enough. Simply doing IELTS reading papers is not enough for most.
While studying, if you spend all your time ploughing through past papers (intensive), your score will increase. However, a solid study timetable containing extensive and intensive reading will give your English the extra lift it needs.
Find a reader, make sure it is the correct level and read for 30/40 minutes per day as well as doing past papers.
