Spanish/Reading Assessment

Last Tuesday I have write an reading assessment in Spanish and I am very glad I have passed it. I found it a bit difficult because of the vocabulary and details in questions but manageable to do it. Today I have take an listening assessment in Spanish and let see the result. Hopefully will be passed.

"Heart of Darkness"

I am trying o get through the novel of Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness". I have red it before in polish language so for me now its easier to understand it in English. Personally I am not very kin of the novel but i have seen the film and I liked it. Now I am preparing to write an essay for Literature about this book. It seems to be a hard job.

Communication4

Oral Presentation Skills


I have prepared with my polish friends Agnieszka and Ania the presentation for Scott at the weekend. The subject of our presentation is Learning English and leaving in UK. We have done a plan for the presentation, set up the target audience, prepare the material appropriate to the purpose and visual aids. We are going to compare similarities and differences in culture, workplace and policy. Hope it will be interesting for Scott.

Monday 1 March 2010

The last couple of weeks I have spent on improving my writing tasks. I found a bit harsh to write a long essay in English language so I needed a learning support and teachers support. Finally I have understood the tasks in writing skills.

History Assessment

I have passed it so I am really happy with that. The Assessment was not very difficult for me because I chose a subject which I really like about women rights to vote . Furthermore Evan prepared us really good for this assessment. He is a very good teacher and his lessons are clear and helpful.

Powerpoint Presentations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Following last week's work on presentations, here are two links that illustrate what you should and should not do when using Powerpoint for a presentation.

www.iasted.org/conferences/formatting/Presentations-Tips.ppt

This link shows you a bad presentation and explains why it is so bad and what to avoid.

http://elmhurst.edu/~jacobh/WorstPresentationEverStandAlone.ppt

Andy's Philosophy of Language experience

Greeting oh fellow students and sufferers,


This is to tell you a wee bit about my experiences with a Philosophy of Language evening class I’m taking.

It’s a 10 week course on Tuesday evenings 6.30-8.30 at the Edinburgh Uni Office of Lifelong Learning. Back in December I saw a programme and the Philosophy of Language course sounded interesting, and the time fitted my busy lifestyle! So, I got some more info from the internet, and thought Yup, let’s do it…I plan to study Linguistics and then course should be relevant and challenging! I paid my £50, and took the course book out the library…MISTAKE…it is a well heavy academic tone and I’ve managed about 5 pages of the intro!

I decided the book might make more sense after the first class, and cheerily trundled along. We started fine, with background to language but then quickly got into heavy issues about Analytic philosophy; Plato wrote on the conventions of naming objects, but then you knew that, right?

I came away blinking in a confused rabbit like way, but determined to keep at it. I emailed the lecturer, and he sent me the powerpoint notes and some links to some sites. I read a bit, but still found the whole philosophy business to be a bit, well philosophical! Is there an answer? What does answer mean anyway?

So, the next Tuesday I persuaded Sara (you know, the Mexican lass!) to join me, and we puzzled through Frege’s theories on sense & reference. Again, fascinating but so difficult to get my head around, and I reckon Sara felt the same.

I decided part of the problem is the depth of the material…it’s just too deep! I went to the college library and took out a basic introduction to Philosophy, which provides good background to the whole subject, and a book that is about Philosophy & Language…it’s still not exactly straightforward, but through perseveration we shall overcome!

Plan is to do some revision on Tuesday afternoon, then meet with Sara to go over it with her…

Sláinte and enjoyer yer haggis!