Week 4

Writing

For the last week, I did many exercises in internet to improve my weak skills in order to practice the topics that will be in the TOEIC exam. Those were did in the English lab, and it helped me to know my weaknesses, and at this point are lesser than the previous weeks. Also, I still chatting with Samantha, the girl who I met in the application "Tandem", and I think it helped me in order to apply the concepts that I have seen in the summer, not only in the way to improve my English, but also to improve how to express myself wit other people.

Speaking

In the summer course we practiced our speaking with presentations of the book, in other words, the teacher gave us a vocabulary from the book and we presented that to our partners, saying the meaning in English and answering their questions about that.

I tried to improve my English with something more, so I asked Samantha if she can helped me with that, so in the application we send voice notes and she says me my mistakes.

Listening

In this week, we weren't able to go to the English lab, but we did in the classroom another listening exercise similar to the TOEIC exam. I can say it was different in comparison to the others because those were in a computer, if we wanted to make a pause, we just did it, but in this time we weren't able to do that.

Reading

As other weeks, I wanted to read articles in online newspapers because I think it is the best way to learn and view applied the grammar rules learned in classes.

The "new" thing I made for reading was read journals about biotechnology. I say "new" because I already do that in all the semesters, but in the summer I didn't do that. I am really interested in the agroindustry and many information about that is in English, so in that way I can learn more.