We had two assessments in 4th week and will have other two more assessments in 5th week.
About writhing assessment in 4th week, I think that I did not bad. Before the day of the test, I was a little bit nervous thinking about failing. The practice test was not so bad, but it made me more anxious. I imagined that it was thanks to just the essay question was easy for me, I could come up with logical conclusion soon. I wondered that if essay question would be difficult for me. On the other hand, I think that I prepared well for writing assessment. I read the texts carefully, took notes with paraphrasing, summarising and images. Moreover, I asked tutors about what I could not understand and be sure. During the exam, I made a good plan and felt comfortable. I made a mistake about time management because of the too much comfortableness. I am not satisfied with my essay even I could plan well because I could not express fully in writing. Thus I thought that it is dangerous to relax too much. I will try to be tense moderately.
In terms of listening assessment, I had thought that I did not have something to prepare, because we could not expect the content of the test. However, I was told to practice listening using the resources on moodle, podcast and so on in tutorial. Thus, I got podcast on my phone and tried to listen some of them and lectures on moodle everyday at least 10minutes. Moreover, based on analysing about practice listening exams, I decided to try to listen to the lecture and understand what speaker is talking rather than to take notes during the exam because even I could write down lots of things, they do not make sense if I do not understand. Especially, understanding example helps me to grasp general idea and answer questions. Thinking back from now, I could listen to the lecture being conscious of this point. However, I noticed that I am poor at listening the worst in four skills during watching a movie. I could understand what characters were saying thanks to English subtitle. The vocabulary used in the movie was not so difficult, but they spoke so fast. That is why I could not listen. In addition, I awoke that I could not understand what people talking even I could listen every single word during listening to podcast. Thus I need to train to get used to listen in native English speakers speed and to understand quickly.
In 5th week, we will have reading assessment and speaking assessment. I am not so worried about both of them, because I am not so bad at reading rather than listening and I experienced presentation many times since when I was a high school student. In addition, I read book in English everyday. Unless I will stay up late before the day of the reading test, I do not need to be nervous so much. However, I will go to London on Sunday and Monday. It may be late to come back to my accommodation on Monday. About presentation, we must have enough time to prepare. I am sure that we can make good presentation. Then if practice to perform numerous times, we can also present perfectly. I think that memorising script is essential. Thus I prefer to finish making presentation earlier. The thing that I am anxious is that I cannot decide what I will present in presentation and the time will past during thinking. So I am happy if I could know the theme of presentation.