Collee Success Made Easy.pptVIP

College Success Made EasyPara 5 One major problem in school comes from the amount of material; there’s so much to do that you may not know what to do first. Most people might want to do the easiest thing first, but that is a bad ideal. Entertain an alternative plan! Always do what’s most difficult first, just to get it out of way. It’s probably the thing that needs more of your energy. And if you do it first, you can put more energy into it. If everything seems equally easy (or equally hard), leave whatever you like best until the end. There will be more desire at half past eleven to read a political science article that sounded really interesting than to begin trying to study French irregular verbs, a necessary task that strikes you as pretty dull. Doing fun work may feel like you’re granting yourself a present after doing hard work. This is the second tip. WORDS amount n. [C,U] a quantity of sth an amount of time/money/information eg. We’ve had an enormous amount of help from people. vi. 1. to add up to sth.; to make sth as a total. eg. His earnings are said to amount to(总计） 300000 pounds per annum. They gave me some help in the beginning but it did not amount to much ( = they did not give me much help) 2. to be equal to sth.; the same as sth. eg. Her answer amount to a complete refusal. We were jailed for a week – well, confined to quarters, but it amount to the same thing. 我们坐了一个星期的牢，哦，是被关了禁闭，不过反正都一回事。 entertain Vt. 1. ~ (sb.) (with sth.) to interest and amuse sb. in order to please them eg. He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes. 2.(not used in the progressive tenses 不用于进行时）to consider or allow yourself to think about an ideal, a hope, a feeling, etc. eg. He had entertained hopes of a reconciliation(和解）. to entertain a doubt/suspicion 持怀疑态度 alternative adj. that can be used instead of sth else 可供替代的 eg. an alternative method of doing sth 做某事的替代方法 Do you have