Post #15. This is The End.

Hello everybody!

Today I am writing my last *obligatory* post here! As my classes for English 201 end, my blog ends too. However, I do think about continuation of it after having some rest in the first half of January. But my aim today is not to tell you about my future holidays and plans but about the English 201. I want to kind of evaluate what have I learned, what I have still to improve and what are my goals in the next semester. Firstly, let me give a brief opinion about the course: it was really great, I liked it very much and I would definitely agree that you should not skip that course as there is a possibility to do so.

So, let me start from the things I really learned during that semester. Firstly, I really got used in writing different types of essays. That is the biggest and the most important knowledge I obtained. The most interesting thing is that I started using the knowledge I obtained here on another courses. It really helped me a lot. Also, that course was great for me for huge amount of teamwork and oral activity during the classes. I have always felt the lack of it during the education in high school and now I received just the needed amount of it. Finally, I liked the idea of final project presentations – I could do what I wanted to. And I did – I put all my efforts and *soul* into Pink Floyd presentation, because it is thing I really appreciate and value in my life.

Nevertheless, there are still some things I can improve. Firstly, my awful grammar. Some people say that mostly I do OK in that field, but I think I can do better. In my opinion, I can improve my grammar only through practice and communication with native speakers; actually, I am doing that at the moment. Secondly, although I studied a lot about the essays I am still having problems with the conclusion and the expression of my ideas. Conclusion may seem too general and uninteresting and the ideas – unclear. Again, I can overcome it with more practice, I decide.

Taking all the things above into account, my goals for the next semester are: to work on the problems listed below, to learn more about English literature. As you might know, in Russian schools the literature classes rarely cover some foreign books, as the result of the amount of Russian classical literature. However, that does not make English literature less attractive to me; it even becomes much interesting to learn something about it!

So, in conclusion, I would like to say a few words about my teacher, David Atterberry. I think he made a great work on improving our language! Especially I liked the comprehensive comments which he wrote about our each draft. That helped a lot, so, thanks a lot!:) I do not still know who is going to be my teacher in the next semester, but I will be happy to have David as a teacher again!

Thank you all very much for reading my blog! See you in the further posts!:)