preparing for futher study

After Pre-sessional English I'm going to study MA in International Tourism Management.
The first module is Tourism Marketing. The course leader will be Denise Cole.
The books that I should read to prepare myself for this module are :
1. Successful in Tourism Management by Kogan Page
2. Marketing in Travel and Tourism by Butterworth Heinemann
3. Destination branding: creating the unique destination proposition by Butterworth-Heinemann.

phrasal verb and words from background reading

1. benchmarking = the process of comparingis the cost, time or quality of what one organization does against what another organization does. The result is often a business case for making changes in order to make improvements.
2. priority = to be treated as more important than someone or something else.
3. allumni = formal student of a school, college or university
4. eligible = legally allowed to do or recieve something
5. sufficient = enough for a particular need or purpose
6. sustaintially = to continue something over a long period
7. correlation = a relationship in which two things happen together and may have and effect of each other
8. hardship = a difficult situation, such as lack of money or food, which causes great suffering
9. draw up = to form and write a plan or and agreement
10. draw on = to use something : writter have to draw on their imagination and experience

Collocation

Collocation is the words that combine with each other

Collocation with research are such as

• research report
• research funding
• research method
• research institute
• research project

Collocation with purpose

• studying purpose
• environmental purpose
• travelling purpose
• multi purpose
• product purpose

Summarise how to form questions

1. Yes/no questions

1.1 Question with the answer yes or no are form with an auxiliary verb + subject + main verb.

The auxiliary can be do, be, have or a modal verb like can, will, would.

For example,
A: Do you like London?
B: Yes, I do./No, I don't

A: Will you go to the party tonight?
B: Yes, I will/No, I won't

A: Did you get the mail from me yesterday?
B: yes, I did/ No I didn't

1.2 The main verb be comes before the subject in a question.

For example,
Are you ready?
Was it a beautiful garden?

2.Question word
2.1 Questdion words are : What, When,where,which,who,whose,why and how.

2.2 After the question word we use the same structure as yes/no question : auxiliary verb+ subject +main verb

For example,
What do you usually have for breakfast?
When will you be break?

3.Question phrases
3.1 We offen use what and which with a noun:

For example,
What food do you like?
What subject are you good at?

Which is more usual with people and organisations, and when there is a limited number of possible answer:

For example,

Which way is it?

Which customer service representative were you speaking to?

3.2 We can use which of or which one

For example,

Which of the proposals did you accept?

Which one did you accept?

3.3 We can make phrases with how : how many, how much, how often, how old, how far

How often do you get drunk?

4. Question words as the subject

4.1 Sometime the question word is the subject of the sentence:

For example

Who did you meet in Argentina?

Analyse my language abilities and needs

My current abilities in English.

Very good---------------------------------------> very week

Speaking -----------x

Writing --------------------------------x

Reading----------------------- x

Listening----------- x

Prononciation -----------------x

Grammar -----------------------------x

Vocabulary ----------------------------x

Academic skills ------------------------x

The chart above shows my English abitities. My strongest ability is Listening. However, I find it difficult to listening to academic speech. Also I don't know a lot of vocabularies. My weakest area is academic skills and writing. It take me a long time to write something and I alway make mistakes with grammar and spelling.
To improve my weakest area I shoud practise more on writing and read more academic articles to learn more vocaburaries and how the articles are structured. Also try to keep time when I'm writing.

Hello

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my blog. This is the first week in London Metropolitan University. I enjoy studying here and I try to push my self to study as much as I can.