My progress in this class.

I have been attending English class at HSE-NES for almost 2 months, so I think it is a good time to evaluate my progress in English.

The first thing is my speaking skills. As you possibly know, before I began attending this English class, I had never talked with native English speakers. Never! So when I knew that my English teacher David would be from USA, I was so happy about it. The first lesson was hard to me, because I  was afraid of saying something to my classmates and my teacher because I though I would not been understood because of my lack of practise.  Therefore, I began to attend consultation at Writing and Communication Centre. Since then, my speaking skills improved. It began easier for me to talk with other students and my teacher David. However, it is continue difficult for me to formulate long phrases when I talk.  For this reason, I' m going to attend consultations at WCC and practice English as much as I can.

Another thing is my listening skills. They became better. I began to understand movies and song much better than earlier, and of course, now I understand properly what my English teacher says. It is incredible to notice how your English skills tend to improve!
 To improve my skills I'm going to watch movies and listen to music in  English, and also communicate with partner on Skype (David gave us a link to the site (https://languagecenter.cla.umn.edu/tandem/)  where people from foreign counries register and  can communicate with each other, helping each other to learn their languages.) I registered and was chosen by partner Alyssa Hertig. She is from USA. And today I have a meeting with her on Skype. I think it will be great experience!

It is also important to say what  I've learned in this class. I  learned properly how essay should be organized, and how it is important to connect all the essay's details with thesis statement.
Unfortunately, my grades of writing assignments leaves much to be desired.  It's continue hard to me to write essays which connect with all standarts. If I was more concentrated on these, my grades would be better. I think, it is often happened because of my lack of experience in writing and speaking in English. Earlier I thought that academic writing was easy to do, but now I realized I made a mistake.

I enjoy lessons with David. Every lesson I and my classmates talk only in English, watch video, work with handouts,  work in groups, take different exercises which help me to understand new material better .  I'm never bored in this class and I like it!     
   
In concusion, I'd like to say that  I'm going to continue work hard in this class and also attend consultations at Writing and Communication Centre at NES so that to develop my writing,listening, and speaking skills. I'm also going to watch movies, read books and newspapers in English so that to learn more vocabulary. I hope to speak in English freely, and I think the NES is the best place to realize my dreams. I'm looking forward to next lessons to make my English better!