Firstly, I apologize for the delay in my post. The overwhelming workload of the final exams had me convinced that there were only five blogs to do, and I completely overlooked the fact that there was one more to go.
Now let's dive into what happened on the last week before finals. Wow, can you believe it? We are already done and dusted with finals! Time really does fly when you're having fun, or in this case, loaded with studies. Finally, it's over and now we can enjoy a long-term break. Hooray!
Monday morning was off to an exhilarating start as we entered our beloved AEP room. We immediately noticed that the SQUARDLE webpage was open on the smartphone, and we knew that we were in for a thrilling challenge. Our task was to find 73 words, and though it seemed daunting, we were up for the challenge. 15 of the words were already filled in, making the task somehow easier. With excitement and determination, we set out to find the remaining 58 words.
Next, we did vocals after so many days. We read an article on DOGONews that was titled "Adidas "Super Shoes" Help Tigist Assefa Shatter Women's Marathon World Record". It was the same as before. We each read one sentence and after reading we went around the room and stated a fact that was mentioned in the article. The article discusses how Adidas "Super Shoes" played a significant role in Tigist Assefa's world record-breaking women's marathon performance. The facinating thing about it is the price of the shoe. It's worth $500.
The next day consisted of only two periods. We started with Sqardle again, but this time we had to fill in only 22 words. Completing the task was relatively easy and took us less time. Afterward, we started working on our vocabulary in the same way as last time. Each of us was assigned some words that we had to find the meaning of using a dictionary. Later on, we took a quiz on the vocabulary webpage where we had to answer for the word that was assigned to us.
These vocabulary lessons have been incredibly helpful to me in many ways. In our English syllabus, we had to do narrative writing, and I found myself using a lot of the words I learned in these lessons during my exam. Moreover, I have noticed that some of these words have started to appear randomly in my everyday life. It's amazing how once you learn a new word, it seems to pop up everywhere.
Finally, we were tasked with writing another essay. This time, we had to write about the number of hours that young people in Chester spent engaging in different activities weekly between 2002 and 2007. When I first saw the graph, I was intimidated by the sheer number of bars present on it. My mind immediately convinced me that I would not be able to jot down anything coherent. At the end of the class, I managed to write down some of the most noticeable trends. Honestly, that was the toughest essay writing I have ever done. But phew, I ended up getting a 90% at last on the seatwork.
The rest of the classes before the finals just consisted of us playing contexto, unscrambling a scrambled essay, and our vocab quiz as well. In our last class of AEP, we took our finals. We were informed that there would be three essays in total - two of them would be from the ones we practiced before, and one would be new. We just had to write one out of the two old essays. I was happy to see my favorite essay among them, which was about aquatic species. The new essay was not difficult to comprehend, as it was about comparing the drinks sold in two different cafes. We were given two periods to complete the two essays, so I was quite relaxed throughout.
That was all covered up of all the tasks we did before term 1 finished. The finals are over! However, the thought of my upcoming results is constantly on my mind and it's starting to make me anxious. Gotta enjoy the long break though! Goodbye tilll Term 2!
Signing off,
Naboni
