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ESL writing
Lydia Jung
15-12-09
Three Things that I Learned
I have taken the ESL classes for almost 5 months, and I learned many things from the three ESL classes.
First, I learned Grammar. When I came here my grammar skills were very not good, so I couldn’t speak, and write English well. For example, I couldn’t speak and write anything accept my name, age, where am I from. These days, I think my English gets much better than at the first time when I came here because of the grammar skills that I learned such as, the past participle, the past present perfect, the past present perfect progress, when I use to, how to use that, whom and who, which verb use with ~ing, and many words from that sections. At the beginning of the class, I thought that this class is nothing different with grammar class in my country, but it was very different. For example, after I learned about to, I started use it naturally when I talk in English. When I learned English in the Korea it never happened because I learned it in Korean language. That’s why I was excited about it because I thought my English is finally getting better. In my opinion, Grammar is most hard part of English, but if I learn grammar it’s very useful and makes my sentences more long and special. Also, it made me can make new sentences in speaking. Anyway grammar is important, so I think I have to learn and study hard.
Secondly, Listening/conversation class was very easy to me because I already learned about it, but this class made me use basic words and order of grammar of English in the conversations naturally. Also, Mrs. Walter always fixes my pronunciation, if I pronounced wrong. It made me care about pronounces of my speaking such as; pronounce of R, L, F, TH, Z, and V. For example, In the physical science class, I need to read a book in loud voice, so Before I read a book, I check words that have Alphabets R, L, F, TH, Z, and V. Then I try to pronounce those words correctly, so Mr. Howell said” Good job”. In my opinion, this class make me sure about my speaking was right or wrong, so I can speak more confidently.

Third one that I learned is writing skills. Before I came here, writing was most hard part of the English for me. For example, when I was in the English academy, they order to me write about you, and I could only write my name and age. In this class I need to write journal every day, and I need to use some words in my journal such as, before, after, than, so, and, but, and because. It was hard and took a long time for me to get it done. However, exactly It made my writing skills improved. For example, I can write journal least 40 minutes and longer than 8 sentences. Also, my sentences in my journal changed to longer than 7 words and there are many examples. In my opinion, make sentences was very hard for me, but now I have wrote journal every day, it made me writing sentences easily. I think write journal everyday was hard for me, but it helped a lot for my writing skills.
In my opinion, my English skills are not enough to have a chat with American or take a normal English class, but I’m happy about my English skills are improved. I think in next semester, I need to study really hard for my next year to take normal class with American students.