Entry 10

                                             Wrap-up: Outcomes of the Course.

To begin with, I have experienced a lot of useful online methods of learning through this subject. I become aware of improving my computer skills along with using them in language learning. As a result, I combined them and I tried to develop my IT skills as well. One of the activities we did, was doing anime video through animaker.com as you  might guess it was very difficult for me, I could not complete this during several weeks. Another final task that was given to me on this subject was to write a blog and post several posts. It is not only was about writing I had to think about to make it easier to read and not difficult to understand, after that I conclude with, may be in near future I will keep a diary because it is very good when you write your thoughts.

Entry 9

                                Pros and cons of different social media applications.

The social media applications that I use are Facebook and Instagram. There is also well known social media such as Twitter but I do not use it. Both of them have a lot of advantages and disadvantages, I will try to describe the most important key aspects. On the one hand, you are connected with all your friends, relatives through that social medias and there is no need to tell everybody what is going on in your life, you can just post a photo or video and it will be seen by all your mates in  Facebook and Instagram, respectively. On the other hand, there are lots of advertisements on both of them and your mind will become somehow manipulated, I mean, after watching those advertisements you will remember them subconsciously.

Entry 8

                             How useful/effective are online self-assessment tests.

Online self-assessment tests are good to check general knowledge of learner about that language he learns, but it will not give you detailed feedback about your knowledge, it will just say your level and how many correct answers you get. Basically, so far, all self-assessment tests I have done only will check your grammar and it is rare for them to give you other sections of checking your knowledge, but who knows hopefully I might be wrong. The reason why there is only grammar I guess it does not take a lot of time , whereas reading takes a lot of time and effort and it difficult to read on computer or cell phone, it is more convenient to read it when it is printed. Also, Listening is about note-taking skills it might seem difficult as well.

Entry 7

                                        The best project I made/Presentations I made.

The best presentation I made was approximately two weeks ago about reading section True/False/Not Given. First, I tried to grasp the attention of the audience and tried to speak loudly so that my speech is clear to everybody. Looking in the detail, I began with describing the difference between True/False/Not Given and Yes/No/Not Given. After that, I give information about why True/False/Not Given is one of  the most difficult questions. In brief, IELTS candidates doubt between False and Not given. It is all about Vocabulary, in most cases it is paraphrased in the given question statement comparing to the statement given in the text and it always comes in order. Eventually, I gave handouts to everybody to practice, certainly, to check their comprehension of my presentation and it was quite good at all.

Entry 6

                                                        My test taking strategies.

Test taking strategies is one of the assessment criteria of entrance exams in our country. There are usually four alternatives given for each question and logically your chance is 25% to find the right answer. First of all, read the question carefully and do not look at the answers immediately after reading them, try to guess the answer from the question. Secondly, cross out the ones that are exactly wrong because they will put you into confusion. Lastly, if you know right answer it is all right , but if you do not know, according to statistics, there should stay only two close related answers and only one of them is right answer. So, your chance is 50% to 50%, that is really better than 25%, isn't it?     

Entry 5

                                 Critical analysis of online language learning skills.

Telling the truth, online language learning websites are not as much useful as learning with real books. In my opinion, such kind of websites were created for lazy persons. Normally, it is okay to learn language skills through the Internet. In addition, it is said that language learning websites have modern ways to learn a language, but I did not find them helpful for me, may be it is effective to others who really addicted to the internet. I found Duolingo very useful among other websites it really has necessary information for learning and improving your language skills. Also, in my view, it is important are you learning online or not , the key is to learn, so whether you decided to study online or offline, keep going.

Entry 4

                                                      Am I slow or a fast reader?

I strongly believe that anyone absolutely can become a fast reader, but it takes a lot of time and effort. As for me, my reading skills are good enough to consider as a fast reader. I have read a lot of articles and did I did skimming and scanning as well as learning complex academic words. Also, the only way to improve and expand you vocabulary is reading, but do not read everything, read only the topics you are interested in. I do not consider anyone as a slow reader, the only reason is that, someone practised more than others to become fast reader. It is obvious that reading is the most vitally important aspect in developing language skills at all.

Entry 3

                                                      Listening podcasts and applications.

Listening podcasts and applications are not popular in our country as far as I know. No one has never advised me so far to listen to podcasts and it my first time when I heard about that. The only way the teachers of mine gave recommendations about improving listening skills is to listen and watch movies in  English as well as music. Also, I tend to watch American and British channels online on Facebook and I do not know can we mention it like app or not. According to research, podcasts are radios, but it is rare in our country to listen to radio before and during the breakfast. As a result, the best is yet to come and in the future in our country I hope listening to podcasts and applications will be daily activity to listen.

Entry 2

                My computer skills: Strengths and weaknesses.

It is undeniable that computer based technology has significantly developed over the last few decades and it is not so easy to follow all instructions as it is  becoming increasingly complex to understand all of them. As for me, I can not say that I have any strengths in computer skills, the only thing  I can do is  sorting out the materials in the Internet and being able to find the most essential and appropriate ones. When it comes to weaknesses, I can mention that I have a lot of weak sides and I will describe the most vital ones. I type on computer very slow and it is one of my basic weaknesses. Next, I am not capable of doing presentations on power point that is why I always ask my friends to help me with that. In addition, I can not set up Microsoft Windows on my computer, certainly, I ask others to do it for me.  

Entry 1

                My first Impressions and Expectations of the University classes.

When I came to the university for the first time I was extremely excited as it was very huge and modern. My first impressions were fantastic and expectations were very hopeful. I was happy when I heard that I was accepted to the university. To be candid, my first impressions about my classmates were not so good as a expected. As a result, I could not get along well with them for a certain period of time, but eventually we become good friends. In addition, university has got eminently qualified teachers and I was happy to be a student of them. At the beginning, I could not adapt to university life because it was like something I have never felt before. The university building is very huge even I have been getting lost first two weeks and were searching for classes.

The importance of self-discipline and self-development in relationship or marriage. In my view, in information technology era most of the basic concepts about love are significantly changed over the last few decades. It seems that your opposite gender is not paying more attention to your appearance rather than to your intellectual and emotional intelligence as well as how much money you earn. Also, I partly think that true love is not so much as it was in 19th and 20th centuries. As a result, in 21th century is going to be an awesome challenge for all adolescents and young adults whether will we continue our ancestors' tradition or not. To be candid, I still do not believe in true love it might be because of what we see in the movies and what happens in a real life. To conclude with, keep going how you do no matter what others think about you and do not forget nobody is perfect.     

Today, I want to continue talking about finding yourself in a community as well as certain ways of setting realistic goals which is undoubtedly necessary in our life. First and foremost, I strongly believe that being in an English speaking country will definitely improve your chance of achieving goals in any sector you want. Secondly, you should have a year-plan, by this I mean that, you should set goals throughout a  year and do list of them which you were able to do and not, and to what extent your abilities have changed. Lastly, keeping diary and writing all your thoughts in it  without showing it to anyone because it is  your personal life. By doing that, you will see in what way you are improving day by day. That is all so far.

It today's short blog I will talk about finding yourself in a society, even if I still could not find my own road, but I have some clear and precise plans about that and I will try to share it with you. First of all, it is about time management, do not postpone anything for tomorrow if you can do it today, as Eminem said "Opportunity comes ones in a lifetime" it clearly means you should take full control of your time. Secondly,  whenever you see any elusive goals do not panic at the beginning ,anyway, nothing is easy in  this world). Lastly, try to find individuals who shares with you the same goal in your daily life. It is proven that team work is one of the best alternatives. To sum up, believe me it is all about self-discipline and self-development.  

Self-discipline and Self-development are two topics that is connected to one another. I mean, if I will mention a statement, it refers to both of them, respectively. Let us talk about success. Success is well-known notion to everybody. It is like setting goals and achieving them. It might be described as academic and financial education in a way of becoming independent representative of our fast changing community. Academic education is obvious to everyone, it requires you to get high marks in any subject given, throughout your educational period of your life. When it comes to financial education it does not mean becoming financier, economist, accountant etc. It means to be familiar with controlling the money and how to expand them in an appropriate way with no illegal consequences, in short it is about investments and take under control all the risks.    

To begin with, self-discipline is connected with emotional intelligence. It might be a new concept for you, let us give a look what it means. It is universally acknowledged that there are two kind of intelligences. They are intellectual and emotional intelligences. In this blog we will talk about second one. Emotional intelligence is controlling your emotions in a hard situation. In most cases individuals make their choices according to their intellectual intelligence. For example, it is undeniable that majority of people like arguing in order to prove their right arguments for given topic in any sphere, even in a daily life. It also means to stay calm in a difficult situations and when you face fatal problems, in that very case you should not let yourself to be angry.   

Self-discipline is mostly about behaving yourself in a military department and everything connected with giving orders as well as following to the orders with no discussions and comments. Self-development is like motivating yourself for achieving certain types of goals, also, one should has clear and detailed plan about his personal growth at least for a year forward. As you can see, both of terms begins with "self", that is clearly means that one should better be concerned about himself with no judging statements towards others' side. My humble suggestion to everyone, always keep in my mind that " An expert in anything was once a beginner". It clearly says that whenever you see an expert in any sector do not be so admired about his elusive achievements because anyone can do that, certainly, it takes huge amount of time and effort, just do not panic at the beginning.

In today's fast changing world it is vitally important to be familiar with basic concepts about human beings' behaviour and character. The highly selected aspects are self-discipline and self-development. In my blog I am going to write about these two notions as well as to give my personal point of view. Initially, both of terms have very ancient roots in civilizations' foundation. Self-discipline was a must-have attitude towards to oneself and individuals who had obtained this kind of behavior was exceptional ones so far, moreover, it is still has not changed. Self-development is also has some similarities to this concept, however, it is about setting goals in one's life and moving further after achieving them. To sum up, in upcoming blogs I will try to give more detailed answers and we will look through them step by step.