Self Evaluation

This semester we did a lot of tasks in our English classes, because this semester is the last semester. We wrote summaries, we had some listening tasks, we had to make power point presentations also we did Moodle tests, ESP test, online exercises and a lot of other tasks. I can truly say that this semester was the hardest and I am going to evaluate my work and efforts this semester.

Like last year, writing summaries were quite interesting for me, but it wasn’t very easy because when you are writing summary you need to know some requirements, but I can say that this year text which were given to us were more interesting than last year and it is the reason why writing summaries were easier.

Listening wasn’t very hard for me because in school we did a lot of listening tasks and also I did listening last year in English classes, so this activity wasn’t new for me. Maybe online listening were harder than simple listening because this task was new for me, but I think I have demonstrated to myself that it isn’t so hard, so doing listening tasks in our English classes I think improved ability to understand English in more ways.

Power point presentations I think is the most interesting and the hardest task in our English classes because you have to read text very carefully and you need to know all presentation requirements, you need to mention the leading points of the text in interesting way because people who listen presentation are very different, and also this work takes a lot of time.

New task this semester was online exercises. It wasn’t hard because quite similar task we had last year and also it wasn’t so hard because all exercises we did not individually, but in group.

Also this semester we did some speaking. I had prepared for two themes. Firs theme was about handwriting and other theme was about personality and behavior. I can say that speaking is the most stressful task for me.

Other type of our work was Moodle and ESP tests which are really important and a little bit difficult when we talk about ESP test. It was difficult to me because you have to know all definitions and say it in your own way and it takes time to prepare for it. Moodle tests weren’t a hard task because you can look in your notes and this year were some novelties in Moodle tests, so it was easy to do because you had abilities to write the answer more than one time if it is incorrect.

To summarize I want to say that activities in our English classes were hard this semester because this semester was the last one and we prepared for our English exam, but nevertheless this semester was interesting for me.


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Personality type versus behavior

People think that personality and behavior are the same things, but it isn’t true. Personality is what you are and behavior is what you do, so sometimes we behave and think different.
Personality type refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals. Carl Jung categorized people into primary types of psychological functions. He proposed two pairs of cognitive functions: rational (judging) functions: thinking and feeling and irrational (perceiving) functions: sensing and intuition. So he distinguished four basic functions: sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling. Also Jung distinguished several attitude types: extravert and introvert. Extraverts are action oriented, prefer more frequent interaction, spend time with others, while introverts are thought oriented, and prefer more substantial interaction, like to spend time alone. So Jung distinguished eight psychological types operating functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuition) with attitude types (extravert, introvert). He classified psychological types like: extraverted sensation, introverted sensation, extraverted intuition, introverted intuition, extraverted thinking, introverted thinking, extraverted feeling, and introverted feeling. Then we talk about behavior it can be said that humans evaluate the acceptability of behavior using social norms and regulate behavior by means of social control. So for example, you are tend to be introvert, you like be alone, but you need go to university, sometimes you go to a place where are a lot of people, so you behave different from your attitudes. So like we can see, our behavior differs from our attitudes and our personality because social norms and control influences our behavior.
To summarize it can be said that personality and behavior differs because social norms and environment influence our behavior. So if we are tend to be introverts it doesn’t mean that we won’t act like extraverts.


Refrences:
Jung, C.G. ([1921] 1971). Psychological Types, Collected Works, Volume 6, Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/behaviour