13-12-09 Lydia Jung

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 was came here my grammar skills were very low ,so I couldn’t speak ,and write English well. These days, I think my English gets much better than at the first time when I came here because of the grammar things 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, so I was excited about it because I thought my English is finally getting better. Secondly, Listening/conversation class was very easy to me because I already learned about it, but this class made me use basic things 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. 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 just wrote 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 get done, but exactly It made my writing skills improved. 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.