Reflective Section

During this Q I learned a lot. I really appreciate the teacher her way of teaching because in some way or another, it has influenced my learning. I really appreciate all those videos, songs, laughs and conversations in group we had; I know that all those activities were really helpful for me because now I feel really comfortable talking in English and participating in different activities that involve the use of the language.

One of the challengues I had was losing my fear of speaking in English. Generally, I don't have any problem singing in my bedroom or talking to myself, but when it comes the time to speak to others I used to get a little bit insecure because it was stressful for me to identify if my fluency wasn´t good or if my pronunciation wasn't as it should be. I am really proud of myself because I have improved my skills when talking in front of others. A few weeks ago in my work, I had to answer a call from USA and I felt really secure. I took the call and the words just where like water; it was very nice! A security guard that was near to me turned his head to where I was because it sounded like a professional :D

One more challengue I had was my comprehension when listening to others speaking or even listening songs. But, I have really noticed a big step regarding my understanding. Now I identify the lyrics of the songs without looking at them and that's really exciting to me because it seems it will be a fruitful growth in both my personal and professional development. 

Grammar

In this blog I have to tell you which grammar topics have been difficult for me and how have I dealt with them, and which materials and extra practice I had to use to improve those topics.

I found difficult two topics during this Q:

1. Future Perfect 
2. Future Continuous 

I did the practice we had to do in the Work Book and I realized I needed to practice it more. Here you will see my homework. It wasn't so good at that time, but now I understand how this tenses are used and soon I will explain them to you :)

Now, I want to show you how I understand this topics that in their times were difficult to me:

Future Perfect: The future perfect refers to things that will be in a determinated state in the future. Generally, there are finished things, but it is used to talk about a situation that will have ended

Future Continuous: The future continuous is used to talk about situations that will be happening in the future; that is to say that we are talking about a continuous situation on the future

(I marked in bold type those words that I used in the explanation that are actually in the rule of that tense)

More than just "non-understanded" topics, I also tried to focus on little doubts I could have during the Q. It was because I understood a determinated topic but I have some insecurity with something so I decided to analyze it and learn from it.

For example:

Here you can see more from my learning...

I decided to call this "IMPORTANT LEARNING"

First, in this picture you will see in my book where I wrote my doubt:

And here I wrote my own explanation and learning in my notebook:

One more!!

I wanted to save some words I didn't know at the beginning of this course,so I decided to create my own vocabulary in a specific place. It contains even drawingsto remember the words easily:

I tried to put in practice different things to improve my english with the learning I've obtained during this course. One of my techniques was identifying the topics in my homeworks and in readings.
For example:

I WON A CANDY IN CLASS FOR IDENTIFYING THIS :D