LAST DAYS AT MY UNIVERSITY…SUMMER HOLIDAYS - IN THE NEAR FUTURE!!!
I will sit for my end-of-year examination this Monday. And I hope that I will pass it. Three more exams are left… 
This year was very difficult, but at the same time very interesting for me. My favourite subject is Business English, it consists of different courses and this year we studied a new course called «Time Management». When I read its name for the first time in our timetable, I thought that it would be a usual lesson for improvement of our theoretical knowledge in the sphere of management, a lesson with a number of books and a lot of homework. It turned out, that I was wrong, but not in all…
We were offered a new method of teaching: we were teachers and pupils at the same time. And we didn’t lose this opportunity. We were given a chance to use all our knowledge and skills in practice – therein lays the most important thing. We understood what it is to be a teacher. We collected useful and interesting information, prepared our own lessons, tried to attract students’ attention, to make them speak and found out that it’s not easy. And as for volume of homework, I was right!
This course had its goals and there were some problems in their understanding, but now they are clear for every body. As I see them, the most important are:
to develop our skills as future leaders;
to teach us to speak in public;
to improve our language and spoken language;
to provide us with interesting and useful information;
to increase our vocabulary;
to make the atmosphere in the group more favorable;
to teach us listen an understand different views and thoughts of others.
It was new for us both in the information and knowledge we received, and in the way the lessons were conducted. Of course, sometimes the information wasn’t very interesting, it was too informative, or vise versa – it was simply uninformative. But we did our best! The lessons made us understand different views, thoughts of the group, combine them and to choose this or that way of solving the problem. Good talks in our group were due to the round table – the way our desks were situated – it made the atmosphere in the group more open and sincere. Sometimes the opinions of different members of the group didn’t coincide, but that made the lesson more interesting. They tried to convince the group in their «correct» standpoint.
The best lessons of course were conducted by those students, who were well informed of the subject they had to prepare and by those, who tried to combine theory with practice. The theory alone is only facts and it is very dull and it makes the lesson not interactive. Interaction was very important in the lessons of «Time management» and only interesting subject and different tasks could give it.
I hope that I will the opportunity to tell you about my own lesson, which I prepared for my group at university, but now unfortunately I’m pressed for time with my exams…:(
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n the world shrinking with e-mail, fax, and teleconferencing, your single most critical factor for success in managing yourself and others is how well you develop and use your own personal ability to communicate. Men and women who most successfully profit from their ability to send and receive all kinds of information orally and in writing face-to-face, across a desk, before a group, around the world…