1. Study skills

3. Listening, reading and comprehension skills

4. LISTENING
Active listening: thinking about what is said to understand and remember more.
Listen carefully to what is really being said.
Listen with your ears and your eyes
Make notes (key words)
Continuously ask yourself questions
(What does this mean? Where does
this fit in to
what I already know?)
Ask the speaker questions
Repeat in your own words, to yourself, to check if you have understood.

5. Reading
Good reading habits help you to find information you need, helps you to understand and remember what you read.
Decide why you are reading something:
Do you want to find a particular piece of info, such as a name? Scan through the material.
Do you want a general idea of the material? Quickly look at the headings and at the main ideas in each paragraph (Skimming)

6. Difficult reading material you need to understand:
Read slower than usual, maybe more than once
Read out aloud to help you understand what you are reading
Ask yourself questions about what you are reading: who, what, where, when, how?
Make notes, underline and highlight important
Look up new words in a dictionary
Make sure you understand what you are reading, don't skip difficult parts.
Read small sections at a time, do not try to read a whole book in one go.

7. INCREASE YOUR CONCENTRATION AND MEMORY SKILLS

8. CONCENTRATION Find out what distracts you, such as noise,
friends, boredom or nervousness. Find ways to
deal with these distractions:
Find a quiet place to study
Switch off your cell phone/radio/ipod
Use different study methods
Take regular breaks, walk around (after 40 min)
Study in a group with other learners
Reward yourself after you finished a section

9. MEMORY You can train yourself to remember things:
First understand what you need to remember
Make summaries and learn them
Practise repeating the summaries to yourself when you are walking, standing in queues etc
Close your eyes and make a picture of what you are trying to remember
Learn actively: stand up and walk around while trying to remember. Use your fingers to count points you remember, read aloud, talk to yourself, explain your work to someone.

10. Make acronyms (a word made up of the first letters of other words
Make acronyms (a word made up of the first letters of other words. (CAT = Creative, Animal, Theatre)
Make up your own questions and try to answer them the next day in a mock test.
Andi Bell se kaart tegniek = skakel tegniek
Deel 1
Deel2

11. 1.3 Organise and manage your time
Identify your favourite ways of wasting time – games, facebook, cellphone.
Plan your stydy times at the start of each week/term = table or schedule – be realistic.
Balance your study times with time to rest and have fun.
Take regular short breaks.
Try and spend more time on your weaker subjects.
Decide what time of the day you have more energy and concentrate best – study difficult subjects then.
Keep all your things that helps you study in one place.
Keep away from the things that stop you from studying.
End of week, look at what you have to do in the next week.

12. UNIT 2: STUDY METHODS

13. 1. NOTE-TAKING Listen carefully to the teacher / speaker.
Listen with an aim; know what you want to learn from the talk/lesson.
Use abbreviations and symbols.
Use short sentences, key words, mind map.
Write down only the main points, make short notes – will not be able to listen carefully and miss information.
Group ideas together.
Use your own words: helps with understanding.
Connect ideas: draw lines and circles to link words and ideas.
Underline or highlight important facts that you have to remember.
Put question marks where you don’t understand / could not hear.
Rewrite notes asap – help you remember what your symbols and abbreviations meant.
File your notes

14. 2 MIND MAPPING Why do we use a mindmap. P104
How to make a mind map. P105

15. 3. SELECT CONCEPTS AND CONTENT
When studying for exams, you cannot study everything – usually lot of info.
Have to choose the core, most important things, concepts, ideas.
Look at headings, subheadings in chapter.
Keywords
Understand keywords

16. 4. CONSTRUCT AN ASSIGNMENT OR ESSAY
Understand the topic
Plan your task/essay
Write an introduction
Write the body of your essay
Show what you know
Keep to the topic
Write a conclusion

17. Make comparisons
Compare = to look at two or more things / people and identify ways in which they are the same / different
Contrast = compare two or more things / people to show how they are different
p. 108 = words that show similarities and difference

18. Critical thinking
Fact = can prove (seeing, touching, hearing, counting)
Opinion = what someone thinks
Belief = a feeling of being sure that something is true
Generalisation = a general statement (all swans are white)
Core information = information that will help you solve a problem
Who? = is the person qualified and knowledgeable?
Same / different = from what you have heard?
When? = information up to date?

19. Creative thinking Generate, produce, make many new ideas
Many possible answers
Brainstorm ideas
Draw pictures
Questions: What if…? Suppose I…?
And get like 20 different answers for these questions

20. Creative thinkers Curious, think different:
Why are things the way they are?
Reasons behind decisions, solutions, events and facts.
Ask many questions.
Need to improve things.
Believe that most problems can be solved.
Do not judge new ideas that seem strange or silly.
Etc.

21. Problem solving
P. 110 Know the 6 steps.

22. Unit 4 : Internal and external assessment
Summarise the difference between internal and external assessment.
To plan an annual study plan:
Dates of tests / exams
Tasks due dates
When do you have time to study
Other events: Grey, Paintball, cricket, senior dance