Final Reflection
When I entered this class since first semester I believed that this would be the typical English class, but it wasn't. This class is very different from the other English classes, it is kind of harder but at the same time it is easier, harder in the sense that the topics and the deepness in it are more complex. But on the other side, the class is so relaxing, we are not under pressure and even with some pressure, we aren't totally stressed. From this class and during this specific semester I have learned a lot of things, specially from myself or in other words, I have learned better my weaknesses and strengths. With the FCE practice (which was at least half of the semester) I directly learned some vocabulary I never heard about and some techniques to answer the exam. Indirectly I learned that my English is not very well, even if I can understand it almost to the perfection, my communicative skills are, as in Spanish, very weak. Also I've learned indirectly from this first part of the semester that I must not get confident of my habilites, because in the worst moments I forgot about the important things. Finally I also learned that I don't know we're to put "in/on/at", I'm still practicing that but I'm still not quite well. From the second part of the semester I learned a lot of things about the different types of speeches, specially from the public speech. I did not knew that speaking was that difficult! Maybe it is not that difficult, but for me it is, specially because of my poor communicative skills. With the first speech, the demonstrative speech, I learned that if I don't practice enough, even if it is a topic I dominate, I will commit mistakes and get nervous primarily because I do not know how to express what I want to say with the correct words, in general I don't know how to explain anything. From the speech we are preparing for, the public speech, it seems to be way more difficult as it is larger, we could not use a visual resource like a presentation, we need to memorise a lot of what we are saying and saying it with a tone that brings the attention from your public. From what I learned of my last speech, I will try to apply it for giving a better speech. This semester we read a book, "The Old Man 👴🏻 & the Sea 🌊". Kind of interesting, specially because of the way the author writes. The plot was not very attractive for me, but I could not negate that it was different, and the different things are the best. I identified with Santiago, the old man, as he is lonely and kind of aloof, maybe I did not see myself being a sailor in the future, but maybe I will have the attitudes of Santiago considering my current attitudes. It makes me reflect a lot of if being alone is bad or not. This semester was nice, and part of that was because of this class. Thanks.











