During our English 1 course we had to give presentations, which were graded. We had to give them in pairs, so I and Joep decided to do it together.
We chose Audio wire for our project, we had to give them advice about their bad website and tell them what they needed to improve.
Still can't put my powerpoint presentations on this blog, think i'm not technical enough. But when you're interested just comment, and i will send it to you.
Grade: I first wasn't really positive about what my grade was going to be, because i was really nervous and thought that everyone had seen it also it was already a few months ago when i had given my last presentation which made me more nervous. Thank god this wasn't right, because the teacher gave me a 7,3 which made me very, very happy.
Also the reflection which the other students made about our presentation were mostly positive.
Like 'Meryl' said: A nice presentation and you explained the points well.
also when you look to my grade you can see that is was sufficient.
Of course they also gave improvements about our presentation but they can help for the next time when i have to give an presentation.
12/26/2011
12/21/2011
Video
Was Just surfing the web and found this funny video about Learning English pronunciation.
again i'm not very experienced with computers so here is just the link of the video.
Hope you enjoy, I did.
12/18/2011
Practice, practice and practice
To improve our English we keep on practicing with writing assignments and presentations.
we had to write a memo-report which is being graded, It's about Leatty which runs a project in Shanghai who has a lot of problems, and i have to advice what they should do to save the project. I will give you feedback on it when i know the grade and the teacher has given her feedback.
we had to write a memo-report which is being graded, It's about Leatty which runs a project in Shanghai who has a lot of problems, and i have to advice what they should do to save the project. I will give you feedback on it when i know the grade and the teacher has given her feedback.
Memo report
To: CEO of Leatty.
From: Managers of Shanghai works.
Date: 12 December 2011.
Subject: Devise strategy to rescue the project.
Introduction
On 12 December, the managers of Shanghai works and managers of Leatty discussed how they have to devise the strategy to rescue the building project. We urgently need to improve the strategy, involving the bad communication which causes delays and complains of both companies. We have agreed on the following plan to rescue the project.
Information exchange and coordination tasks
We propose an videoconference at 8.00 am Toronto time on Monday, Wednesday and Friday so that both companies can talk to each other on the best time for both, this makes it easier to exchange information and to coordinate the tasks to both parties. Furthermore they can react quicker in case of emergency and a ‘blackboard’ will be introduced which is accessible for all the employees.
Communication, morale and work practice
We advise that the employees should get more to finish their job, which improves the quality of the end-product. Moreover the morale can be improved with extrinsic rewards and the so called ‘get together’, which can be trips with employees to create more understanding to each other. Furthermore with these points we hope to create a strong culture among the employees by both companies.
Atmosphere
Finally, it is important to improve a good atmosphere during the project by both companies. Both companies should ensure jobs to their employees, which creates a good feeling among the employees. Which lead to better work performance and a better atmosphere between the employees.
Conclusion and recommendations
All managers suggest that implementing these recommendations is the best solution costly and might cause some reorganisation. After thorough research and discussion, we firmly believe that improving the information exchange and coordination of tasks are core for improving the company’s project.
We look forward to your reaction and hope we have the opportunity to present you a more detailed action plan for this urgent issue.
Pascal Corée
Manager of Shanghai works
12/11/2011
Language Learning History
Hello,
To make my blog a little more personal, I wrote an essay on the language learning history of my life so far. I will talk about the things that I have learned so far and what my experiences with English are, and there are some experiences which I rather forget, but I will also talk about the things that I expect to learn at the university and already learned.
I started to learn English when I was around 8 or 9 years old. It was at the primary school in Zwolle, the Netherlands, they started with really basic things and it wasn’t useful because most of the things they teach, I already knew. Probably I learned that words and sentences from the television and from the traveling in foreign countries with my parents . So it was a begin, but a rather limited one.
At the secondary school it changed, we had to learn English on a different level. First of all they started with learning the grammar of English which I found very hard. We had to make an small exam once every 2 months, this were exams were you only had to learn translations from both English-Dutch and Dutch-English. This made it very easy to get a good grade, because you only had to study these words. But this was only the first year.
After the first year they started to focus more and more on the grammar of English, but unfortunately we had another teacher than previous year. His way of learning me English was totally different than previous year. He started that we only were allowed to speak English during the lessons, so when you had a question you first had to think how you could translate it into English. I found this was a very good way to learn English better and to improve my vocabulary. I was wondering why we didn’t do it previous year during lessons, but we had to keep going on. Of course we had to write letters and started giving presentations during the years, so my vocabulary was still improving. Still had some problems with English grammar and decided to get some extra lessons in English after school. This helped, but after a while I found out that my reading skills weren’t so good.
Eventually I reached my final year of the secondary school and I hoped I should graduate and already saw myself walking at the university. After a lot of nerves the told me, I had failed in graduating the secondary school. Disappointing as it was, couldn’t change anything more, because I didn’t had a resit I just failed. After they showed me my results it appeared that I failed because of my English exam, which I made horrible.
So just study one extra year to pass English.
So just study one extra year to pass English.
One year later..
After the failure of last year this year I graduate, unfortunately not with a good grade for English but because my other grades were better and I passed. After this negative experience with English, I was thinking. Apparently my English wasn’t so good, even after one year extra I hadn’t passed my English exam with a good grade. However I was able to go to the university. A lot of people didn’t understood my choice of my study, because my English was worse and I choose a study which is given in English.
I made my choice because I thought when I talked English every day and learn in English always, that It should be a matter of time for my English was good enough.
I made my choice because I thought when I talked English every day and learn in English always, that It should be a matter of time for my English was good enough.
My expectations before I came to university was that I should give presentations, learn and speak English for the total length of my study. My expectations where correct. Is turned out that it was just what I expected. I learned a lot of all my presentations and writing assignments I had to make during the lessons. Still the formal English and Academic English is still difficult but I’m don’t worry about it, because I think I’m capable of learning it.
So this are my experiences with English both positive and negative ones but from both I learned something.
but when I have to give advice to next-year students I would so just practice a lot, not only with speaking English but also with writing and reading. When you level of English is already at a higher level when you start at the university it would probably be a lot easier to pass all courses.
but when I have to give advice to next-year students I would so just practice a lot, not only with speaking English but also with writing and reading. When you level of English is already at a higher level when you start at the university it would probably be a lot easier to pass all courses.
So thank you for reading and I hope you learned something from it.
12/01/2011
Treasure Trove presentation
To practice our presenting skills everyone gave a presentation about presenting.
We had to choose one of the different subjects given by the teacher. we were able to choose from these different subjects:
We had to choose one of the different subjects given by the teacher. we were able to choose from these different subjects:
- The Three Ps of Presenting
- Five ways to transform text-heavy slides
- Presentation Tips for Public Speaking
- Handling Questions
- Designing an Influential Presentation
- Stop Annoying Audiences with Bad PowerPoint
- Dealing with Disasters
- Five tips to Make your Presentation More Effective
- Power up your Power Point Presentations
- How to handle a disruptive questioner
- 5 Steps to Preparing a Quality Presentation
- Become a dynamic presenter: 7 tips
- Lose the fear: Get out there and speak!
I gave my presentation about:'Become a dynamic presenter'. It was only a short presentation but because you had to present about presenting you learned a lot about it. Also the presentation of the other people in the class gave a lot of information about how you should to present and what not to do while presenting.
This presentation was useful for the presentations we should give in the future.
If you want to see the powerpoint presentation from my presentation just mail me (pascalcoree@hotmail.com) and i will send it, this because i couldn't get the presentation on my Blog.
Thank you for you attention.
Hazel
Hazel
The teacher gave us another assigment to improve our skills about a company which is called 'Hazel'. We had to improve the companies image and introduce a new product to attract new customers and make a mission statement (the core qualities and aims the company has). The assignment was made in groups of five persons.
First a little background information about Hazel.
The teacher gave us another assigment to improve our skills about a company which is called 'Hazel'. We had to improve the companies image and introduce a new product to attract new customers and make a mission statement (the core qualities and aims the company has). The assignment was made in groups of five persons.
First a little background information about Hazel.
Hazel is founded in 1972 and is one of the world’s largest direct sellers of cosmetics and beauty products. Located all over the world and a market leader since the foundation of the brand. Hazel is a company with over 30,000 employees and is still growing. Sells products which all people are able to buy, but also high level beauty products are available. Quality and satisfaction of the customers are core for the company Hazel.
Toghether we made a mission statement which we thought would fits best to the companies core qualities and aims.
Mission statement: The goal of Hazel is to enrich the busy life’s of all women and giving them the chance to look amazing every day, by offering them good quality cosmetics
Finally we had to make a press release individually, which includes an introduction and explanation of the new product, the range of the product towards the customers and background information of the company.
Press release:
Press information
Groningen, Netherlands, November ’28
New product for Hazel: ''Ultimate-All''
Hazel cosmetics announced the launch of a new product called the ''Ultimate-All''. ''Ultimate-All'' is a product especially made for a matching eye and hair color. The product includes mascara, eye-liner, eye- shadow, lipstick, foundation, blusher. The new product will be launched at the end of 2011.
‘’ We made a new product for our customers which is attractive and will help to seduce new customers,’’ Lennard Stoon said, Hazel’s sales manager. ‘’ with this new product we convince all women to always have such a package with you just in case, this is why this product will be a well sold product.’’
The new product from Hazel includes all the needs for all women in today’s life. It includes the all basic make-up in a handy package which can easily be carried with you of put in a purse.''Ultimate-All'' will be Launched on approximately the end of 2011.
Hazel Founded in 1972, Hazel is one of the world’s largest direct sellers of cosmetics and beauty products. Located all over the world and a market leader since the foundation of the brand. Hazel is a company with over 30,000 employees and is still growing. Sells products which all people are able to buy, but also high level beauty products are available. Quality and satisfaction of the customers are core for the company Hazel.
After making this assigment I noticed that the more assignments you make, the easier it becomes to write and speak English. I already noticed that my vocabulary improves and becomes bigger.
Hope you have learned something out of this last blog.
The more you practice, the easier you develop you academic skills.
The more you practice, the easier you develop you academic skills.
Thank you for following my blog.
First Exam
Exam.
To prepare to our first exam our teacher made an example exam to pratice. After making the pratice exam almost the whole class was dissappointed, because a lott of mistakes where made.
My trust in the exam decreased and i started getting nervous. I learned ass much ass possible and was hoping I should pass the exam.
We had our first exam and when I was finished I had my doubts about my results.
It seemed that my doubts were good, because my grade wasn't sufficient (5,0).
First expected it to be worse, is was still not sufficient but it wasn't an one or something.
After discussing the Exam in class, I found out that my Grammer and Reading skills weren't developed well enough.
Now i know on what skills I have to pratice to become an academic English writer and reader.
Have a nice day.
To prepare to our first exam our teacher made an example exam to pratice. After making the pratice exam almost the whole class was dissappointed, because a lott of mistakes where made.
My trust in the exam decreased and i started getting nervous. I learned ass much ass possible and was hoping I should pass the exam.
We had our first exam and when I was finished I had my doubts about my results.
It seemed that my doubts were good, because my grade wasn't sufficient (5,0).
First expected it to be worse, is was still not sufficient but it wasn't an one or something.
After discussing the Exam in class, I found out that my Grammer and Reading skills weren't developed well enough.
Now i know on what skills I have to pratice to become an academic English writer and reader.
Have a nice day.
Memo-report
Dear readers,
To practice and improve our writing skills we had to make a memoreport. I'm now going to discuss how i prepared for this and what the results are.
Memo report,
We first had to write a few example memo-reports to practice. Our teacher gave us the link of a program which will evaluate the text when you are uploading it on this page: http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/. The program will search for the type of words you use in your text, the so-called K1 words, K2 words, AML words and off-list words.
- K1 words: 1000 most frequently used English words.
- K2 words: second 1000 most frequently used English words.
- AML words: 570 word families which are frequently used in a broad range of academic texts.
- Off-list words: words which are not in the other three word list
You can see my score of the practice memo-report in this table:
Looking to this score it should be good. But to become a more native English writer is should improve the K2 words, because of the low percentage.
I really thought this wouldn't be enough to get a sufficient grade but after the teacher graded the last memoreport I was happy. The result was good even my score was low on the K2 words. My grade was a 7,37 so more then sufficient.
Thank you for reading my blog.
To practice and improve our writing skills we had to make a memoreport. I'm now going to discuss how i prepared for this and what the results are.
Memo report,
We first had to write a few example memo-reports to practice. Our teacher gave us the link of a program which will evaluate the text when you are uploading it on this page: http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/. The program will search for the type of words you use in your text, the so-called K1 words, K2 words, AML words and off-list words.
- K1 words: 1000 most frequently used English words.
- K2 words: second 1000 most frequently used English words.
- AML words: 570 word families which are frequently used in a broad range of academic texts.
- Off-list words: words which are not in the other three word list
You can see my score of the practice memo-report in this table:
Words recategorized by user as 1k items (proper nouns etc): NONE (total 0 tokens)
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Looking to this score it should be good. But to become a more native English writer is should improve the K2 words, because of the low percentage.
I really thought this wouldn't be enough to get a sufficient grade but after the teacher graded the last memoreport I was happy. The result was good even my score was low on the K2 words. My grade was a 7,37 so more then sufficient.
Thank you for reading my blog.
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