See you soon

I don´t like it when a year ends. Definitelly, doing summaries is not my favourite activity; that´s because - may be -eveytime a year ends i have the feeling that i didn´t do enough things. Time flies so fast that the concern of making the most of something is ... no words about it. Fortunally, a year ends once per year. I would prefer singing happy days and not happy birthday or happy new year.

Let´s see. At the beginning of the semester i didn´t like the idea of taking an English course. I thought it would be like in High-School: boring classes, tests, etc. I took the class according yo my schedule, without thinking about the teacher or classmates. Thanks life it was a good decission.

I consider that the best activities were talking and talking, it´s the best way to learn: Expressing ourselves. Sometimes the subjects weren´t as interesting as i expected but, well, those are details (social scientists are talkative people, so they´re going to end talking about society or individuals anyway). If the objective of the course was develop communicative skills, it made it. However, besides that, i think that it would have to include some Grammar Units. I´m not sure if i learnt something new, but definitelly i learnt how to express myself better.

What i really don´t like was the schedule (even if i chose this class for it). Having English in two different days is easier to get focus in class as well as to asecure assistence (Wednesday is in the middle of the week!). Besides that our worst problem was THE COMPUTER LAB! I didn´t discovered anything in the "English Discoveries" because every class i came (remember: Wednesday is a busy day) the computers weren´t working.

If i failed in the Final Exam and i have to take this course again i would choose the class by its teacher first; then by its schedule. Related to develop communicative skills i consider that more activities generated by students have to be included. For example: bringing subjects to discuss, watching movies, doing interviews each other, having chilean-british parties :) etc. Now, if i wanted to continue taking English courses, i would like them to prepared me for the TOEFL exam because English is an indispensable tool for our professional life.

That´s it.

See you soon: next week!