Self study 08/09/08

As my self study today I read a newspaper about Hackney borough where I live. I read about rycacling action and a law which says that there are going to be financial penatly for people who drop litter and do not clean after their pupils. It is said that over 9 milion pounds have to be spent on cleaning Hackney's streets. I also watched TV's news and I found out that there was a man killed in Hackney today. This is horrible what is heppening here. I also practised my presentation for tomorrow- I feel quite confident but I need to do it few times more to be sure that I will be ready. New learnt vocabulary:
* crackdown- rozprawa(z+ inst)
* lout- cham, prostak
* launch- wodowanie, wystrzelenie
* filthy- bardzo brudny( person)
- sprosny, plugawy( language)
- ohydny(behaviour)
* weed- chwast, plewić

a little bit relax

As my today's self study I decided to read a book about yoga practise. I borrowed it from my library and it seems to be very interesting one. I am realy interested in practising yoga and this is why I love getting new information about this fitness. I have read about the "asanas" condition which cleanses the body. It can be recognized as stretches, twists, bends and inversion(odwroty) of your body. The "pranayama" condition is more spiritual and gives the balance to your soul. If you practise reguraly both asanas and pranayama it will control your breathing, recticy physical, physilogical and psychological disorders. It is very important for practitioners not to focus just on the physical health but put some attention to the mind as well. If my body is appropriately balanced it will help me to deal with stress and health disorders. In fact I found out very interesting informationa and learnt new vocaulary as well.

self study 04/08/08

Today is the last day to finish off our essays. I am afraid that there can be some mistakes. I am not going to change anything now- hopefully it will be fine. I am going to focus on my self study now- I mean practise of grammar and reading my modules books. Today I read some books about business to deep my knowledge of this subject for my presentation next week. I wrote a lot of new phrases and words to remember and better uderstand the meaning of them. I also found nice website where I can practise my english grammar. The new words are:
* to preserve- zachowywac( custom, independence)
* indeed- istotnie( certainly, in fact)
- wręcz (furthermore)
* dimensial process- ...wymiarowy proces
* inhabit- zamieszkiwac
* reinforce inequality- wzmacniac nierownosci
* pursue national interest- realizowac interes
* collaboration- wspólpraca
* enhance- podnosic( value)
- poprawiac (reputation)
* collective- zbiorowy( zespol)
* alliance- przymierze, sojusz
* engage- zajmowac( attention)
* to engage in- zajmowac sie+ instr.
* venue- miejsce
* venture- przedsiewziecie
* vested interest- ulokowany kapital
* pursuit- zajęcie( pastime), pogoń

My essay is done!

For the last three days I have been working very hard writing my essay. Today I finished it and it makes me very happy. It was quite hard work to write about my subject area because there was so many information and at the same time nothing. I had to chose appropriate information and make them sensible. By the way I learnt a lot of proffesional vocabulary during reading all these books. I can say it was very useful lesson for me due to accademic reading and writing.Classes with Susannah have been very helpful as well, otherwise I would have no clue about referencing and plagiarism. I can see that I have improved my vocaulary but I am not sure about the grammar. I will find out when Susannah assesses my work. Ops....I am a little bit scared of this. Hopefully everything will be ok because I made so much effort to do it as best as I could.

The first attempt at writing essay

Today I tried to write a first part of my essay. I found some good sources and I used them. I initialy have the generaly considered part of globalisation. I am going to do more research tomorrow. I tried to enter the university library service about journals but I was not allowed so I found a quite usefull journal website www.iop.org/EJ. I recommend to check it out to everyone.
I will also write a little bit about my last days experiences. It has been a nice weather for the few days so me and my boyfriend decided to bicycle. We found very nice park around the place where we live but it seems to be unlucky place for my bike. When we were entering the park I had a flat tyre! Luckly my brother picked us up by car from that place so we did not have to walk all this way. My boyfried fixed the tyre for me today and we decided to visit that park at last. On the way where I have never been seing anything dangerous to my bike I had a bed luck! I had a flat tyre again!!!This time we had to walk all this way home in the fully sun!It was very hard to deal with it. There must be something with that park that my bike does not want to go there:) Hopefully the third time I will be lucky:) I am going to try soon.

Essay research!

I worked very hard this evening to find appropriate examples for my essay. I think it was quite effective time because I found some realy good websites and opinions. Hopefully I will be able to use them in my work. I learnt a lot of new phrases and vocabulary as well. I also typed out the draft of the essay for Susannah.My English language self study took place at my work too.During the conversations with my clients I put more attention at the grammar and as a result I can see some successes.

Self study 26/08/08

I have been very active today. I read a little bit about student services which booklet I have taken from the Admission Centre . I also tried to find out which days I am going to spend at the university but unfortunately I did not find the option for part- time course so I will ask again tomorrow. I found some information for my essay(in particular examples which I need) and I am going to read more about it now.Maybe I will find the information capable of placing in my work. I studied with my boyfriend - we learnt the vocabulary from my blog spot and some other sources as well.
I am going to write some sentenses using new- learnt vocabulary:
* My problems may seem to be trivial to other people but I am despairing of solving them.
* Some companies exploit their employee but the trade union is going to take care of them.
* Globalisation process is a long- lasting evolution of the world, but the main question is if it will be profitable in the future.
* Working and studing has its pros and cons but the student needs to reveal a hard- working stance to deal with it.

Today's new vocabulary:
* to hold somebody in high esteem- darzyc kogos wielkim szacunkiem
* the principle- zasada; in principle- w zasadzie; on principle- dla zasady
* the compassion-współczucie
* the fad- przelotna, chwilowa moda
* the abusive situation- obrażliwa sytuacja
* to insist on sth- upirac sie przy czyms
* compliance(with) - uległość, podporzadkowanie sie
* commitment- zobowiązanie, zaangażowanie
* fragrance- zapach