19/02/2016

Awfully frustrating vocabulary exercises

Well hello there, I bet you can't wait to hear about this week's adventure, so I'll just get on with it and tell you all about my second lesson of Scientific English.

First of all I would like to voice my frustration with the vocabulary exercises (mostly the one where we have to fill in the blanks), because I just can't seem to find the answers and it truly pisses me off. I really hope the exam won't consist of too many of those exercises, otherwise I might have to jump off a cliff and I'm waaay too young to die (so I beg you, have some mercy, pleaseee).

On a more serious note now: I remembered a lot about adverbs and the genitive from back in secondary school, so it wasn't that hard to understand the rules, but I did find it very helpful that we went over the tenses again. I know and master them, but I usually just apply the tenses based on what sounds best to me. So going over those rules again certainly was very useful.

Slightly less useful (in my opinion) was the exercise on infographics. We had to, once again, look for formal/informal elements and I personally thought we had made enough exercises on that and therefore I saw no point in making another one on finding those elements. But there's nothing wrong with repeating as it does help to remember things more easily, so feel free to ignore my drivel about this.

At the end of the lesson we had to make an assignment and finish it at home (which my brain automatically translates into: "make it at home, whenever you feel like it"), so behold my 3 lame sentences made on an uneventful Friday afternoon:


Did you see what I did there? I added a visual element to my plain and boring text (aww yeah, high-five to myself).

Anyway, I really hope you didn't waste too much time reading this baloney. Take care and we shall meet again very soon, my friend! (read that last sentence with an Indian accent and smile because Indian accents make every day a better day)

Inès

2 comments:

  1. Hello Inès,
    I really like your blog! I think it is very pleasant to read and I enjoyed watching your little GIF!
    I get your frustrations with the vocabulary exercises, I had some problems there either... Maybe it will get better at the end of the semester and after we studied the vocabulary, don't give up!!
    Your writing style is very fluent and I'm not that good at tenses, but I think you use them in a very good way.
    I won't ignore your drivel about the infographics, I had kind of the same feeling, but I think it is never bad to repeat some things, even if you already have the skills!

    I'm looking forward to your next blog post!
    Emma ♡

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    1. Thank you!
      I hope it will get easier as the lessons go on, but I will definitely not give up!
      Thanks for reading my blog!

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