How Can I Improve my Reading Skills

Sometime, reading English sentences is boring.  Because there are some words which I can't understand, or I just can't find what main idea is.  So I decided to improve my reading skill. Especially Skimming and Scanning and Predicting.
In task 2 I learned ...
Skimming means to find main idea.
Scanning means to find information.
Predicting means to predict vocabulary.

In task 4 (Reading strategies) there are practice of skimming. When we have specific questions about the text, we should read questions first before read the text. Then I can concentrate what should I skim.
I recommend task 4 and 5 because it seems like IELTS reading test.

Brithday-Party:)

 Last wednesday after school, we had a lunch party in my tower's flat.
May 7th was my brithday and 8th was Arisa's brithday.
There were 2 thainese, 4 japanese. 
Most of all food were prepared by Arisa (thank you Arisa!).
Gread cooked delicious spicy pork.
We, japanese, cooked Niku-Jaga(which is left in the pan)
All dish were very delicious.
I want to do this every wednesday after school.

About my english

 I am going to write about strengths and weaknesses in terms of my use of English. In my opinion, my strength is grammer. In Japanese school, English classes lays a stress on grammer. I studyed a lot of grammers like past participle,present perfect, passive,etc...

 On the other hand, weaknesses of my English is speaking. My IELTS score of skeaking is now 4.5. It is quite difficult for me to form a correct sentence in my head during  I am skeaking with people. I feel sad when I really want to express something, however, sometime due to my poor speaking skills I cannot even talk. These facts lead me to think of that I want to improve speaking skills during the presessional programme ASAP.

Normally, I practice English by using  movies. I watch English movies with English caption.


thank you for reading
Miri