A good experience I had in LINC Home Study

All of us are lucky enough to be here in Canada. Even more luckier because the government itself helps us to find job, to communicate with other people and to settle here.

 

When I arrived here in Canada I was confident that I can survive living in here. I though I had a good knowledge about English especially in communication. But when I took the Canadian Language Benchmark I was frustrated with my mark. I only got level 6. When the facilitator explained to me the result and told me about the LINC Home Study I was delighted. Because I cannot just give up my job to study English knowing that I am a single mom. It was a very good relief for me that I can improve my English while I'm working.

I am one of the student in LINC Home Study right now. It is focus on learning English in speaking, writing, listening and reading. Right now I'm in Module 6. Even if I just started the said module I learned lots of rules in English that I haven't learned when I was in the university back home.   

 

One of the lesson I learned that I can treasure as of now was about the serious error that a person can commit in writing a sentence. It was funny to recall how I learned about it. There was a time that my teacher sent back my activity with a note on it saying R.O.S. I was so confused on how to revise my activity. I've searched in google.com and even in yahoo.com to find an answer but I was not lucky enough to find it. So, I noted it on my notebook as an assignment to find out the meaning of it when I chat at him the following Monday. My teacher told me about the meaning of it. He was so generous to gave me the other serious errors in writing a sentence. I wanted to share with you the lesson I've learned from him. He told me that the three serious error in writing sentence in English were the following.

 

Sentence-level errors: (SERIOUS)

1. ROS - Run on Sentence

e.g. Tom went to work his wife went to school yesterday they had ice cream together.

Correct: Tom went to work. His wife went to school. They had ice cream together.

2. CS - Comma Splice

e.g. Tom went to work, his wife went to school, yesterday, they had ice cream together.

Correct: Tom went to work. His wife went to school. They had ice cream together.

 

3. FRAG - Fragment

e.g. Went to work. His wife school. While they had ice cream together.

 Went to work. His wife school. While they had ice cream together.

 

I was able to used the rules I've learned in this Module last week. I received a mail from the CRA telling me that my account was selected for a review. One of the needed information was about my residency for the past 2 years to present. Since I moved three times, I need to make phone calls and even send a letter to my previous and present landlords. I was thankful to the LINC Home Study because it helps me gained a little more confidence than I had before in making phone calls and even writing a letter.