Working with English speakers around ten years on and off, I’m getting indulged in the Western language and culture.
For majority of English learners, studying at Beiwai (Beijing Foreign Study University ) is a dream in their hearts, I am just one of them.
Before I got used to the entire education concept in Beiwai On Line Institute, I had started my learning journey at Beiwai, learning textbooks on line, e-submission progress reports and assignments, on line forum, VOB, all these are quite new, not only for most freshmen but also for myself.
For every single semester, I get a rule called “three-one-one" that means approximately three months for textbooks learning, one month for exam preparation and one exam to the end. Firstly, arrange the initial three months in details, consider about how many texts we need to learn and put them into certain amount of session in average, for sure it is a must to learn each text by strictly following the learner’s book step by step, from Objective, Warm Up till Self-assessment and also to accomplish some related progress reports and assignments accordingly; in addition giving a short review in the period between two texts learning is also essentia. Secondly, have one month for exam preparation, key points and problems focused on methods to leads to a better understanding, make full and effective use of on line resources such as sample exam paper, assessment guideline and on line forum on AE series learning etc. Thirdly, every semester ends with the final exam, just take it seriously but not nervously.
Three or five years learning at Beiwai is limited, so take our precious time with it. “No Time to Waste” is a slogan printed in 1997 calendar card made by Body Shop, which is a very famous shop in UK, besides the slogan there is a saying, “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Confucius, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and Mother Teresa.”
