Work
Well, well, well… This chapter is called "work", I think it's content is quite obvious without any comment.

Truth be told, I hate doing self-study. I can't force myself to do something I don't want. But I have to admit : self-study works! And really helps you to amend your English.

This semester I didn't do much. But, still, I did complete some exercises.
I decided to repeat articles and nouns. I completed some simple exercises in Round-Up 5.
Than I decided to try learning vocabulary and found a really great website :

vocabulary.com

I have my own account, and this website even shows your progress. You can pic up any topic you want.

I decided to learn words from Abraham Lincoln's speech "Gettysburg Address". Here you can see my progress in it:

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Than I decided to hear it and wrote down all words I heard (btw this approach I know from my classmates!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCMHVmNc5w

After first listening (without stops) I succeed in noting only a few words. And I realize that this low result is because of my typing/writing speed. That's why I decided to hear it for 3 times, and see my progress.

1 time :

Four score and 7 years ago, our furthers new nation conceive in liberty and dedication that
Testing that this nation or any nation
We are come to dedicate
It is all together fitting
We cannot dedicate, consecrate, and hallow this
Brave men how lived and sacrificed
To be dedicated hear to an unfinished work
We take increase devotions from that part
And had got in vain
A new birth of freedom
And that

2 time:

Four score and 7 years ago, our fathers on this continent for new nation conceive in liberty and dedication that
Now we are in civil world testing that this nation or any nation
We are come to dedicate the force of that feel, for those who gave their lives so that this world could feel.
It is all together fitting
We cannot dedicate, consecrate, and hallow this ground.
Brave men how lived and sacrificed who struggled here have consecrated.
They never forget what we did here
To be dedicated hear to an unfinished work who made
It is rather for us to be here
We take increase devotions from that part
And had not died in vain
This nation, under God, will have a new
A new birth of freedom
And that

3 time:

Four score and 7 years ago, our fathers on this continent had been fighting for new nation. Conceived in liberty and dedication to that proposition so that all men would be equal.
Now we are in civil world testing that this nation or any nation succeed in dedicating
We are come to dedicate the portion of that feel, for those who gave their lives so that this world could feel.
It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
Bu in a larger sense e cannot dedicate, consecrate, and hallow this ground.
Brave men how lived and sacrificed who struggled here have consecrated to add or detract
The world will never remember what we said here but never forget what they did here.
To be dedicated hear to an unfinished work who made
It is rather for us to be here
We take increase devotions from that part
And had not died in vain
This nation, under God, will have a new birth of freedom.
And government by the people won’t perish
A new birth of freedom
And that

My text was definitely far that long and right as the sample but I understood every word he said, and I made a small review of Abraham's Lincoln's speech :
He wanted to reinforce people in fighting for their liberty and for their country. He used their forefathers trials to catch their interest and to inspire nation to struggle. He wanted people not to let their forefathers pains be gone in vain.

And finally the sample :

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

My self-study of 2 semester consisted mostly from watching videos (from ted.com) and writing (exercises taken from IElTS writing parts)

2 semester

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