1. Tips for dealing with a speaking task
1. Find ways to assess your performance:
1) record your oral work (play, analyze and revise)
2) find a speaking partner
3) write it down after the oral practice
4) compare it with a speaking model
2. Assess your performance in several aspects:
1) overall structure (beginning, ending, the order of information presented, the overall structure)
2) sentence structure / vocabulary
3) a full use of what has been dealt with in the tasks
3. Relate it to everyday events.

2. Tips for dealing with a reading task
1. Follow the tasks in the course using the required reading strategies.
2. Analyze the major comprehension problems:
vocabulary / grammar / background knowledge / reading strategies
3. Do follow-up work:
1) copying 2) filling in the blanks
3) rewriting by following questions, notes, outline, flowchart, etc.
4) writing a summary 5) translating