Arantxa's final post

Hi everyone!

After the Easter holidays, here we are again, starting the last period of this course. And I haven’t forgotten to do my last post for the blog. So...here it is.

I feel that this course has helped me to refresh my English and to improve it a little bit more. I also think, like some colleagues, that it would have been better if it had different levels. Anyway, I think it was as good as it can be. In my opinion it was a good idea to start warming up with entretaining exercises, to put into practice vocabulary and to speak, helping to get rid of the usual embarrassment. It was always an effort for me to start the class, and these exercises helped me.

Moreover, it has been interesting to work on our grammar through the Internet and with the Wiki.

I think proposing exercises about different topics each week is a good way to learn vocabulary from different aspects of life. However, sometimes there were too many exercises, and I couldn’t to do all of them. Also, in some occasions, we almost didn’t work about these topics in the next class.

In general, I enjoyed working in small groups, and the role-playing exercises that we have done sometimes. It was indeed a very dynamic course. I still keep on being a little bit blocked when I start speaking English, or when I try to understand every single word that someone is telling me. But I hope that with a bit more practise, and a bit less fear, I will improve my level in the next few months. But I need to persist, of course!

Thank you for everything, to my colleagues and to David.

This is the end my friends

HI everyone!
Thanks you all, the ones that attended classes regualrly,and the ones who did not too.
Thanks to the ones who did a constant work throughout the entire course, and to the ones who worked occasionally for different reasons. All of you will have walked out of this course with the feeling of having learnt something from it, whether that be the language, the need to devote time to learn, or some technological skills.
Whatever your case is, along with the frustrations the course may have causesd you in terms of unfulfilled expectations from the course itself of of any other nature, I would like to express my deepest gratitude for having given me the chance to share this time with you, and have learnt from you in many ways as well.
I would like to finish this farewell by saying that do not stop the process of learning the language here, that this course should mean for you a springbooard to a lifelong process of improvement in the language, and also enjoyment from being exposed to the language and the culture it entails.
For any comments you may have about language or ways of working with it, do not hesitate to ask.
By the way, below your final reflections, I have attached a brief comment to your overall performance.
Good Luck!!!

María Jesús said...
Tuesday, April 1, 2009Mª Jesus´ comments in the English course.Hello teacher and partners, this is the end of the course and It´s a pity because I´ve enjoyed very much with the activities and performance. We laughed very much while we were working together in our English class.I had some informatic difficulties to go into the web pages and to put my works and save it in the wiki page, but finally It has been easier that I had thought.I think that this course have been very interesting; well, in order to say something negative, perhaps we didn´t have enough time to do everything because we needed more time to learn all the contents, videos,web pages...I think that the wiki is a good way to improve our English.Thank you very much.
April 1, 2009 10:39 PM