Location: Founders 112
Date: 13:30-15:30 Wednesday, June 11st, 2008
Instructor: Patricia Glogowski
Today I went to a university skills workshop, and the topic was about YELT. In the beginning of the workshop, the instructor, Patricia Glogowski, asked us to introduce ourselves. I found that I was the only level six student in that workshop. I was pround of that. There were 12 students in that workshop including one level 5b and one level six. Patricia asked me to introduce myself first because I attended her last workshop also. Actually, I had attended the YELT test on May 2nd, 2008 or so. The topic was about children and working mother. How Working father and mother take care of their children? Compare the past, what does it change? I think the reading was easy to understand and the writing was easy to write, but I did not know how to organize the answers correctly. Finally, I got band 6 which was fail. When Patricia asked me the purpose of coming to this workshop, I said “honestly, the reason I came to this workshop was that I have to do my assignment”. In fact, I do not want to attend a lecture again because I have attended fore lecture before. This time I want to try something different; however, this workshop was the same as last one which I had attended on April. After that, she talked about the structure of the YELT such as, time, mark, and topics. I thought that technology, traditional medicine, and economic will be the general topics of the YELT this month. When we answer the reading questions, it is very important to find key words from the questions and answer the questions by using our own words which is paraphrasing. After an hour, Patricia gave us a sample of YELT to write. The article was the same as last one which talked about napping. The reading was not so difficult, but I did not have enough time to finish all questions. At last, she said “good luck” to us. “Yeah, please good luck to my next YELT.”
2 comments:
The working mothers topic is a good example of the kinds of topic that the YELT test mnakers like. It's a topic about the organization of modern social life -- in North America. That means that you can comment on it from a different cultural perspective, if the way families are organized is different in your country.
But then, to do that, you will of course have to compare and contrast the two cultures, which requires knowing something about how to compare and contrast, and also the ability to show that you comprehend what the readings say.
Remember that you can almost always use compare and contrast structure in the 5th question and/or the essay part of the YELT -- but remember also what Patricia says: time management is absolutely crucial. You really have to make a plan for each five-minute slot of time and stick to the plan. Most people who don't get band 5 or better miss it because they run out of time.
Good luck!
Haha, I still remember that workshop when I took when I was in 5a. You were also there right? At first, it was soooo boring. I don't know whether you felt the same thing as me. But, you know what, it really helped a lot, like this time ,we took the YELT test right, we became a little familiar to the test because of the workshop. So, as this is your second times, I'm pretty sure that you got a lot of important points on how to deal with YELT.
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