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IELTS Listening The next task I had to conquered was the listening part of the assessment, for this I used the British Council website  . This website offers a large range of practice tests and the one I took was a Listen practice test that consisted on downloading the audio and answering to some questions. It also offers the sample test questions and the expected answers so you are able to grade yourself. This type of exercises help students be less nervous about what to expect on the day of the exam.  The first time I took it I had training from my High School, but this time this type of online exercises have proven to be a great tool.

IELTS Preparation The IELTS is a certification exam, I have taken it already however it has an expiration date so I need to retake it in order to apply for my Master's In order to prepare I searched for some exercises online that will help me study for the written part of the assessment.  For this I used the IELTS-UP website   The exercises consisted on writing a report describing the information shown on different graphs with a minimum of 150 words.  With this tasks you improve your understanding and synthesising skills. They help students practice their written skills by giving a minimum amount of words. They also give you the parameters needed to write a good paragraph and they show you an example essay so you are able to understand what is expected from you. I also worked on my vocabulary, they offer different exercises that gives you academic words that you are able to work into your essay. Overall this page helped me improve my writing skills,...

Scientific English Exercises For this exercises I will be diving into the grammar and construction of scientific sentences, for this i used the University of Chile portal that allows you to do different subjects. The course aims at  developing skills in reading comprehension of various kinds of  reading material, namely, textbooks, manuals, scientific articles and papers to mention a few . The first exercise I tried was Antioxidants vs Free Radicals; the mission is to create sentences in 5 minutes using the vocabulary provided. During this exercise I scored 96% and the paragraph I constructed was: Free radicals are unstable, reactive molecules formed during metabolism. They can seriously damage healthy cells and may be responsible for cancer, heart problems and diseases of aging. Antioxidants can bind to free oxygen radicals, neutralizing them and preventing their harmful effect on health.    The second exercise was a filled in the blanks exerci...

Reading and Understanding Scientific Articles Part of having a scientific background means reading technical articles that include scientific vocabulary. Scientific articles are considered complex as a product of the the linguistic, the rhetorical and the conceptual variables.  For this learning exercise I chose two food related articles and made a list of the new words and after searching for their meaning. Below you will find the list of words with meaning and a short description of the articles. Public views of the benefits and barriers to the consumption of a plant-based diet Perceived barrier.-  a person's estimation of the level of challenge of social, personal, environmental, and economic obstacles to a specified behavior or their desired goal status on that behavior Pattern.-   a particular way in which something is done or organized, or in which something happens Food intake.-   the daily eating patterns of an individual,...

Reflecting is an important part of the student life, during my 3 years of university I have written multiple reflections that have help me further develop my analytical skills. There are multiple tools that can help us reflect, we can use for instance the six hats. So with this tool we ask six questions that help further develop the subject.  For example if I were to reflect on my Organic Production class the six hat method would go like this: What are you learning?  The course is focus on exploring what makes a crop organic from the soil used, crop rotation up to the marketing or organic produce and fair trade. Why are you learning this? As a Food Technologist is important for me to understand the supply chain and as a consumer is my duty to be aware of the origins of my food. How are you going to achieve this learning?  I will achieve this learning by attending the course, doing the homework and my own project by doing online and literature research on organ...