Reflection Note

This semester has been filled with work and I believe me and my classmates have been very productive. I liked the system of our work: not only did we write essays, but we could learn about groupmates’ opinions and comment on them. What I found useful was constant practicing of writing. It helped me improve my skills for sure. Also I am very glad that we continued using The Guardian as it is a very good platform filled with many interesting news from all over the world. Besides, now I can easily find information on any topic I am curious about. Moreover, reading articles in English has really improved my vocabulary as the articles were rich in new words and expressions.

Unfortunately, I was disappointed with the website Blogger because sometimes it wouldn’t load the page for too long or had some technical difficulties. However, those are not really problems, just small disadvantages.

In the future I hope we can continue practice our writing and only improve it. Hopefully, next semester will be even more busy and productive because only practice makes perfect. I would like to learn more about the ways we can brighten up our written speech, maybe some techniques that can make our essays more unique or “native speaker-like” like using inversions, for example.

Some topics I can suggest for discussion in our classes are abortion, homosexuality, poverty, ecology. I think these problems are quite debatable, and it would be interesting to hear what my groupmates have to say about it.