Taking TOEFL

In my opinion, the most stressful aspect of taking the TOEFL, is the time given. TOEFL is a test that needs a maximum amount of concentration to understand the questions and the exactitude to answer them. For example, in the reading section, you are in front of five long texts and fifty questions to answer, but all of that must be done in fifteen minutes. That's what makes stress, because when you look at the time and you realize that you did not finish reading and answering all of the questions, you feel stressed and you lose confidence; you start hurrying up so that you can finish all of it in the right time.

Studying Vocabulary

In my opinion, the best way to study vocabulary is by reading, listening, and also by being curious. When you spend your time reading novels, books, journals, or any sort of documents, you learn more about vocabulary, such as new words and expressions. Being curious means while talking to someone who speaks better in that language, don't hesitate to ask for a word you did not understand well, that would help to keep that word or expression in your mind so that you could use it one day in your speech. In addition, by listening too, this way helps you to get the sound easily. For example, when you are listening to the radio, you hear the sound of the word. If you cannot catch that sound, just check the dictionary.

Campus life

About campus life at SIU, i would tell my friends a good testimony, because since I've come here I was always enjoying the life of campus here in Carbonale. First of all, the multiculture: I've met so many people from different countries, especially people from Asia with different languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Malaysian; that is very interesting for me. In addition, I'm living with my brother in the same place; he graduated last semester at SIU, thanks to him I also met a quite a few of people from the continent, mostly African people. They are really interesting, they welcomed me well, we often play soccer together and sometimes go for the walk each Friday and Sunday together. And also they are very serious about their studies. Furthermore, something really important that I could not miss telling about is the Student Service, because I've noticed that some students are working for the university in the bookstore, in the computer lab room, in the library and in other places on campus and they are paid for that. That is very appreciable.

In conclusion, about campus life I would tell my friends about the Multiculturality, Sports, Service of Students, and the African Association, because I joined this association and I don't know how I could express my feeling about that organisation which seems to be very important for me and I liked it.

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stressful time

A time I suffered from a lot of stress it was when I was in my country. I was a leader of one of my youth church groups. So we were preparing for a big activity on the vacation and i was the one who was supposed to make a reservation for the place in which we should have gone. When I went there to ask about the conditions, they told me that we were supposed to pay for the location for everybody per night. I agreed about that because i knew that we were able to do so. At the moment of the activity, we went there all together but the money was not sufficient. We went to give the part of the money we'd brought in order to ask for a favor to stay and pay the remaning fee later. Directly the head of the place was very nervous. He decided to send all the 300 people back and demanded to know why I accepted the conditions that i could be unable to fulfill. I was very stressful that day.


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political affairs

I like so much being a political man, administrator, minister or one of the influential members of the country, especially the president of the republic. It's a really good and interesting job. But the most stressful thing about this function is to deal every day with problems thinking about solving social conditions of the people, struggling every day against the pressure from the opposition. It would be sometimes difficult to solve all the problems at the same moment, because there are so many -Economic, Security, Education, International Affairs, Financial and others.

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