Why study English for Education

At first, I didn’t exactly know how should I interpret this task, how to make the advert so it was both clear and brief. But I came up with the idea of asking questions at the very beginning of the advert and then following up these questions. I made more persuasive than informative, but I wanted to make it like this. Maybe I should say some information about day, place or time when the entrance exam takes place or something like that. I exaggerated sometimes, but this added more like persuasion into the speech. I think the exaggeration made my pronunciation better, because I spoke quite slowly and with enthusiasm. The intonation and melody really matter in English. I think I connected the words nicely and tried to differ from weak and strong forms of prepositions etc.

Individual task

I listened to some scenes from the series Friends this week and decided to imitate Phoebe and Monica in one of the scenes. It was quite difficult to choose the scene, but I chose this one in the end, because there are some useful phrases and connected speech etc. I had troubles with the very first sentence. Phoebe said it so quickly that I recorded it maybe twenty times. But that is English so I didn’t give up. We learnt that in English the tempo, the way you say things is very important. So I tried to emphasize things that should be emphasized. If Monica or Phoebe sounded ironic, I said things ironic. I tried to speak as quickly as them and it wasn’t so difficult in this particular scene. Maybe I should have chosen some monologue so it was easier to get the point of the scene, but that is quite difficult with the Friends. Anyway, it's not easy to imitate both Monica and Phoebe like every actor in the Friends I think.

News report

This task was quite difficult for me. I watch TV news reports every day and it is known that their style of speaking is a special one, but when you must record some news like them, you will find that their job can be difficult. I tried to record an interesting story, I think the story I recorded is up-to-date and can attract people. I spoke not too fast, not too slowly and I tried to pronounce everything correctly. I noticed that I should say v and w better – e.g. the very first word welcome – I should have said welcome with ‘open’ w. The same with working etc. Generally, my speech could be more fluent and natural, too. I know that I should focus on that.