Self - assessment of ESP leraning

Writing skills:
In the ESP course I find out new instructions about how to write summaries . I knew that there are so many kinds of summaries, like restatement, analytical or critical. Now I think that I am able to write a summary much more correctly, and this activity now looks easier for me.
ESP vocabulary tests also now looks a little bit easier, because my vocabulary is expanded and I can remember more information.
Dictations for me it is a quite hard task. Sometimes I can't remember what it is dictating and so I can't do a task very well. Also I did many mistakes of speling and punctuation. But I think that my skills are becoming better after every dictation task.
Self- desined tests it is a new and very interesting task. It helps me to summaries important information, and to remember it better. But of course this task isn't very easy, because if I want to prepare a good test I should be very accurate. And I think that not every test which I prepered it is very good.
Contributions to weblog for me it is interesting but hard task. Because sometimes I have lack of ideas. And also when I'm writting I did many spelling and grammar mistakes.
Speaking skills:
As I mentioned before, after ESP course my vocabulary it is expanded, and now I am able to talk much better. However sometimes I forget some words and can't express my opinion very accurate. Speaking in pairs it is easier than speaking in class discussions for me, because speaking with one person isn't so thrilling.
For me it is very hard to prepare and to represent a presentation that everyone could understand it. Sometimes while speaking I am doing many mistakes and I could be misunderstood.
Listening skills:
Listening sometimes looks a difficult and sometimes easy task. It depends on my concentration, the accent of speaker, and the theme of the text. But now listening tasks there are easier to do, than at the begining of ESP course.
Reding skills:
Home reading for me it is easier than class reading, because at home I can use a dictionary and so I understand the material better. Also when I am reading in class, sometimes I don't read the material very carefully, because I haven't enough time.
Computer tasks aren't very hard, because for me it is easy to find the information on the internet.

I think that after few month of ESP course my skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening in English become much better.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence could be defined as the intelligence of machines.
In our daily lives computers and other new technologies are becoming more and more important. Computers help us to do many activities easier, so it is natural that we become dependent on them.
I am amazed of all the new technologies, especially the robots. They can do anything what people want and order them to do. All the programs are prepared so good, that they can behave like humans. For example, robots can serve drinks or food. Also they are very important for many researches, especially in the space. It is much more easier to send the robots in the space rather than people.
Of course it is very interesting or even funny to see how robots are behaving like humans, but I think that they will never exchange humans. Because robots don't have the features which are unique for humans -feelings and creativity.
As long as humans understand the importance of feelings, all the machines would be just the machines.

Body language

Body language is a communication by using body movements or gestures instead of verbal language. Many people are using body language all the time but don't notice that, because the gestures usually are unconscious. There are thousands signals of body language which express various emotions and I wanna talk about a few main signals.



One of the most basic body-language signals is when a person
crosses his arms across the chest. This could mean that a person
is putting up an unconscious barrier between themselves and
others. But this can also indicate that the person's arms are cold,
which would be clarified by rubbing or huddling the arms.

Tapping toes, swinging feet or drumming fingers can mean that person are bored of something. Also person could show his boredness by the signals of tiredness like yawning. His whole body may sag as he slouch down in his seat.

Anger people usually are baring of teeth and snarling.

Sad people we can noticed by trembling lip or tears.

Raised eyebrows, widening of eyes and opened mouth shows that a person is surprised.

It is very simple to recognise happy person by his beautiful and shining smile.

Body language it is very important because it could say much more about people than words.

Restatement summary ''Babies show social intelligence''

It is known what babies at the age of six months have learned to sit up, talk or walk, but also it is believed that babies can assess someone's intentions toward them.

Killey Hamlin and colleagues at the Yale university done the experiment with 12 six-month-old and 16 ten-month-old babies, in order to find if babies have social intelligence. The experiment was done with using toys by giving them different characters. It was noticed that babies recognise the positive behaviour. It is believed taht the reasons of this could be that the experiment was done when babies were sitting with their parents.

Scientists believe that this experiment proved that babies are able to show their social intelligence.

The person who influenced me...

I was allways complaining about my life, my friends, what I have too little money, how I looks. I thought that my life is the worst in whole world. But one day I heard a terrible news about my best friend Jolita. She was ill and her illness probably untreatable. She said to me, might be that she is living her last days. At first I was just shocked and couldn't think clearly. But after some time when I saw how she is enjoying her life I feel better, and started to believe. she allways was the optimist, and said me that everything would be all right. And she was right. It's a miracle that now she is healthy.

Jolita teached me to be the optimist like her and enjoy of every second of my life. After this event I become much more stronger. Now I know that my life is the best it could be, my friends are amazing and I am absolutely different.

I am proud of my friend Jolita. She helped my to grow up, to become a personality.

Phobias...

Once I saw a documentic film about the people who have various phobias life. There was very interesting to watch, because their life are a little bit strange. Sometimes people are afraid of very unusual things such as gold, books, microbs and so on...

First of all, I was very interested in people who have phobia of microbs, which is called microphobia. These people who have this phobia allways are afraid to touch anything because they imagine that all around them exist lot of microbs and they can cause the hard diseases. These people are washing their hands about fifty times per day, that is very harmful for they skin. Also these people everytime eat with a fork or a spoon even a chips or candies. But besides this they can live quite normally.

Also I was interested in people who have Uranophobia- Phobia of paradise. They imagine, if they behave badly they won't go to the paradise. So these people are enjoying their lives by doing whatever they want. And their behaviour usually is negative.

I think that these people who have some kind of phobias are unique and worth of attention.

Sleep and dreams...

Today I wake up early in the morning, as allways with a hate to my alarm-clock... Every morning it waken me up when I'm dreaming the most beautiful dream and don't let me to sleep any more. I can't stand to wake up early in the morning... If I had an apportunity I would sleep half a day. Maybe it can sounds a little bit stupid, but it is so. Sometimes in the weekends when I'm lieing in my bed half a day, my parents laughting of me that if noone would say nothing to me, i just could live in the bed all the time. Maybe... :)

If really I think that I like to sleep so much because I allways haven't time for that. Also, of course, the sleep is needed for me to have a rest, after a hard day, like for all people. It is strange, but people usually haven't enough time for sleep, what is very harmfull for the health.
One of the most interesting things that we could feel during the sleep there are dreams. They are like a little movies created in our uncountious. Each night we could see the unique ''film'' with familiar ''actors''. Even though someting dreams are scary, they bring a lot of joy to me. :)

If someone now is reading this message, I want to wish you: sweet dreams... ;)