Greetings from your 'captain' as I have been titled by previous blogs.
You must use these four days to re-charge your batteries and connect with your loved ones. At the same time, at the back of your mind, you KNOW that you should be:
- organising your folder and handouts into 10 categories
- joining the weblog
- contributing to the weblog
- starting your vital VOCABULARY lists
- studying those READING handouts I gave you
- looking at global reading skills from Insight into IELTS Units 1, 2 and 3
- sorting out 'problems' with Task 1 writing (especially the Academics)
- checking out websites - the Hong Poly one at http://www.elc.polyu.edu.hk/ielts is GREAT for all FOUR skills!
- looking at old weblogs especially http://www.ieltsdream.blogspot.com/ -the best weblog of the past two years
- watching Brazil play Argentina or the UAE against Japan - even Iraq vs Australia [yep, football is one of my passions, OK then, so what are YOU passionate about]?
Former students, a question: "Indeed, did the IELTS prep course 'wash back' into your English performance at work / studies apart from the needs of the actual exam?" What I am getting at, is that this focus on using correct, complex English appropriately gave you confidence in that you have the knowledge and the power to communicate successfully in your speaking and writing as well as to understand more effectively what you read and listen to - didn't it?
I promise not to nag or harass you, ieltscommunity21 (i-21). I will invite those who have not joined the weblog for the FINAL time now. Thereafter I will disown such uncommitted potential bloggers. For the i-21seven who have joined the blog, let's hear from more than just Saif, Yasser, Vladimir, Omar and Faisal.
Bye for now
Have fun - that's an order!
Anton
The IELTS Czar
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