Juba's journal

week 1
When I came to first lesson of this course I didn't know that it was an oral course. We talked about the final oral test and the plans of the course. I'm not so good at speaking English so I think that this course might be good for me. My main goals is to speak and understand English better.
I haven't learned much yet but I hope I'll get better with oral skills.

week 2
Pretty much same things we did at first week. We have talked (or at least tried to talk) English in many kinds of conversations and situations.
Since the first lesson I have done some improvement with oral skills.
I think my English speaking skills are getting better day by day. At the moment my English sounds almost understandable.

week 3
On week three we did did all kinds of oral exercises again. We did a lot of funny exercises from the book. For example the warm up exercise from the page 73 was awesome.
We also had some kind of quiz about politics. In my opinion it was a little too difficult for me. The topics were strange and there were too many unknown words to me. Fortunately I learned some new words.
Week three was full of oral exercises but we had also time for phrasal verbs. At this point I was done with almost all of the phrasal verb exercises. We had to do all of them because of the phrasal verb test was coming next week.
Also the final oral test is coming soon. So we did some practices for the final test.
The topics of the practices were so strange and random that I don't know how I will survive the real test.
Anyway...I have done some progress with my English skills since the first lesson.

week 4
Exercises we did this week were as fun as the previous ones. We played a game called Circus. It was a different type of exercise. I guess it was good exercise for general education about circus. I also learned some new words.
One of the funniest exercises we did in the whole course was the card tricks. The difficulty level of the card tricks was easy. It was still hard to explain the trick to the partner. I wasn't able to explain the trick well for my partner though it was kinda easy trick.
In my opinion this week was good.

week 5
We didn't have so many lessons this week because we had a listening comprehension test. I got 53 points and I am satisfied for it.
This week we did good practices for the final oral test. All of them were difficult.
We also had a phrasal verb test. It went bad because I forgot to prepare for it. I feel poor because it was an easy test and I should have been rehearse for it.
This course has been useful for me. I have become slightly more confident and  better English speaker( or at least I feel so).
If there would be more oral courses like this I would probably take them.

The final oral test
I was a little bit nervous during the final test. In my opinion I succeed pretty well I guess. The topics of the final test were something about volcano safari and studying abroad. The hardest topic was the second one where I had to translate an Finnish text into a English text using own words. There were too many difficult words to translate.
Anyways I am satisfied of my performance.