Final self-assessment

During the second semester of my ESP class I had to do a lot of different tasks and exercises. In this last entry to my blog I would like to speak about all the difficulties and other experiences that I had this year.

Speaking. My favorite and most beloved tasks were speaking tasks. One of my strongest skill in English language is speaking. Although I would not say that my skills increased so much since I started my ESP classes, it improved more cause of my new work this semester. Sometimes the topics which we were given for short-talk I found a bit boring. I would say that most of impromptu speeches were really enjoying and negotiable. I could also say that power point presentation was quite fun too, I was given opportunity to improvise.

Writing. Cannot deny that writing is my other strong point. The idea of writing so many summaries was quite understandable because the more effort you put into the task the better you make it. Sadly, I found summary tasks quite too often and I didn't enjoyed writing them. Most of the times I just wrote summaries on the draft paper even not checking them, the idea that I will need to write a new summary frustrated me. Probably I lost motivation in this task at all.

Listening. Listening tasks were quite enjoyable because I can understand different accents without putting any effort into it so it was pretty easy for me. And during all this year I still can't tell what the difference between cassette and online listening is. Maybe the biggest difference that I noticed was quality of sound.

ESP vocabulary. There is always dry part of the science and ESP vocabulary is the best definition for it. You just need to learn it by heart and that's all. Sadly some definitions were quite hard because we didn't even learn them in Lithuanian language so it was quite difficult. The easiest part was moodle, because I had plenty of time to check answers. Class test online was quite easy too, because we checked all the words off topic at the start of lesson, so we had only to remember them. The hardest part was formal tests in class, there were so many definitions to learn that it was exhausting.

All in all, I would say that this English course reminded me of school times and improved my English even more. Some parts were difficult, some parts were even too easy, but the problem is that everyone's needs are different. I hope that my last but sincere contribution to this blog can be valuable.