Two full days left of study.
It’s been a busy weekend. I’ve had some work I needed to do and it’s distracted me from study but I’ve had quite a bit of lazy listening time, a little reading and worked through one of the Modelos. That’s 3 of the 5 done now. I definitely want to do the last one because it’s the real CAPLE one but I might be more selective with the other. I still haven’t done the Amor de Perdição Scuba Diving exercise and I’ve decided I’m not gonna. I’ve also only done one of the three batches of old fill-in-the-blank exercises I wanted to do this week. I’d still like to have a whack at those because they account for quite a big chunk of the compreensão da leitura exam as well as just generally boosting my competence.
I’ve got the house to myself though because Mrs Luso is in Madeira getting her passport renewed. I would have liked to go with her, but I’ve already blown my budget on Lisbon. Anyway, tough luck, no bolo do caco for me.
Well, while I’m weeping into my porridge, if I can be strategic about switching between work and revision I can really focus and get stuff done.
Planning this fairly ambitious pile of stuff:
Monday
- Practice my apresentação 20 minutes
- Watch last half of Gatos, practice, do copycat exercise on some of her dialogue (definitely not his!)
- Modelo 4 compreensão do Oral
- Half hour “scratching”
- 1 hour fill-in-the-blanks, probably using some of the material from Modelo 4 and maybe some of Portuguese Outra Vez if I still have time.
- 1 hour writing. Why not do one of the written production exercises? Because I want to hit some of my list of words and phrases to practice, so I’m going to pick a subject that gives me some elbow room to do that.
Total 4.5 hours work
Tuesday
- Early Doors Produção & Interação Escrita
- 9AM lesson, verbal interaction
- Lunchtime, Compreensão Oral
- Afternoon, Compreensão da Leitura
- Half hour “scratching”
Total 5.5 hours work. Annoyingly I have a residents association meeting in the evening. Terrible timing, but it’s quite an important one because we’ve got a council rep turning up to help us deal with the HA. I’ll go, but I’ll tell them one hour cut off and then I’m bouncing no matter what is happening.
Ugh, this is stressful. I might need some downtime in Thursday and Friday.
Luso 