Joona's blog

Week 1
The first week of the course wasn't that different from the other English courses I've been part of. We conversed in English and focused more on vocabulary related to education and work. For me, the vocabulary was not all that new. I learned some new words and a little more about the difference between American English and British English. That's pretty much all I can remember.

Week 2
Pretty much the same as the previous week. We had more talking exercises and some were pretty fun, some were a bit boring and maybe stupid in my opinion. Especially the one where we had to tell jokes. First we listened them from the tape and then we had to try to remember how the jokes went and tell them to our partners. It was pretty hard to remember the jokes in my opinion. They were also pretty lame...
Then there was this exercise where we spelt different words letter by letter. It was alright.

Week 3
Same stuff, conversing in English. There was this one exercise where one was a doctor and one was a patient. The patient would tell the doctor of his/her symptoms, but they were a bit silly.

Week 4
We did cardtricks and then after doing them we explained how they were done to our partner, in English, of course. The cardtricks were cool in my opinion.

Week 5
We listened to some more jokes in different accents, for example Jamaican and Scottish. It was fun, though the jokes were a bit strange and I didn't quite get them. The accents weren't as strong as I thought they would be. More and more talking, like any other week during this course. It was alright fun, though.

The speech test went pretty well in my opinion. Me and my partner did a good job and I am happy about it. A few mistakes may have slipped in, but it's normal and we did our best, that's the most important thing.