Reflection Note

Hello folks!

 Summer session is coming, which means that the fifth Uni semester is forthcoming. I think it is important to recapitulate the work done. During the fourth semester we’ve learned three types of essay, revised some structure rule and so on. I must say that online resources on essay-writing rules that were received helped me to stay afloat in the English-essay-writing world.

 I also think that IATEFL conference activity was pretty useful as we practiced our listening skills as well as writing ones. I picked up some new phrases on how to introduce the topic, how to make a transition from one topic to another. Now, when giving a formal speech, I usually use the following phrases from the conference session: “I’d now like to move on to the next part…; I am delighted to be here today to tell you about…; This leads me to my next point, which is…”-and many more other phrases that cannot be listed in my reflection note because they occupy too much space for it.

 To tell the truth, I didn’t quite like the Guidance Book activity, because I made small research, spent my time, but it wasn’t published, so that I made vain efforts, which disappointed me a little bit.

In the next semester, I ‘d love to focus on writing formal letters such as application for a job, business correspondence. I also consider rules of punctuation, orthography to be worth discussing because these are the rules that should be often brushed up. I hope we will have a special class of formal lexis, because, as far as I am concerned, formal style is different to informal one, and we are as linguists must be able to differentiate them.

All in all, I look forward to sharing my opinion on different topics, hope you will find my blog a somewhat wonderful.