Questions to be included in your final speech.

1.   What have I learned?

a.   About English: The best improvement that I saw on my skills is in grammar, which was the weakness skill that I had.

b.   About other stuff: I learned to use blogger in order to share important stuff whit friends, the importance of homework and classwork.

2.   What did I do to improve? Did I try hard enough?

I could have done a better performance in this class but considering the difficulty of the other subjects that I´m taking I think that I did my best effort.

3.   What can I improve even more?

a.   About my English knowledge/skills

Grammar, it has always been my weakness.

b.   About my learning/studying habits and attitude?

Study more, not miss any classes and being less lazy.

4.   How can I improve? What is the most important thing I got from this course?

In order to achieve a good improvement I need to study every day with some exercises related to the TOEFL preparation, watch and listen in English more programs/transmission.

5.   What I am going to do in order not to lose what I’ve learned so far?

Practice everyday, seeing TV shows in English, talk to my friends in English when it’s possible-

6.   Why I think is English such an important requirement at TEC?

Because of the opportunities that it gives in the professional world.

7.   Could I survive abroad in a place where English were the only way to communicate? Why?

Yes, because I can express my ideas to others, my biggest failure is on the written skills but speaking I can survive.

8.   How important is for my professional life to communicate in English?
It´s quite important, civil engineering is on a huge demand around the world because of the big/ambitious projects that some countries have and to know, and domain, English became a very important skill for the Civil engineer.

9.   What job opportunities could I apply to due to my knowledge of English?
I think that I can take a quite number of opportunities because a have good English skills, maybe the biggest problem comes with the fact that I need a letter of certification, which I don’t have.

10.           Is English enough or I need to study another language?  Why?

No it isn’t. It is better to always keep learning because that means more opportunities in other countries.

11.           What other language would I like/need to learn? Why?

German, because I’ve always been attracted to the language and the culture from Germany. Besides the engineering field there is more advanced.

12.                     Say something to your classmates... (MANDATORY)
Well guys, I really enjoyed the class with all of you. I think that the most important fact about this is to keep the relations that we made during the course over the time in order to help us each other or just to become best friends. Good luck to everyone.