And the theme of the second lecture? Mistakes. Not the easiest topic. The teachers asked us to discuss in small groups about the mistakes we remember from school regarding our English and how traumatic these mistakes were. In our group we talked about traumas we've had and for all of us the most 'traumatic' mistake, if you want to call it that, was about oral presentations. The ones where you are alone standing in front of the whole class and try talking in English, which isn't very fluent for any of us. When you're not the most comfortable in front of a whole class and on the top of that you're supposed to talk in a language you're not totally fluent in. Not the best combination. Although I don't remember having any bad response I was always nervous for those lessons and presentations. We discussed in our group about the feeling when you get caught up on some words and you have a hard time to continue.
The teacher asks us later what we think about our mistakes - were they positive or negative? My thoughts are the following: positive if you want to try harder next time and you feel that you learned something and you know what to do next so that you'll get better and not to make the mistake again. Negative, if one's self confidence gets worse and you don't feel secure when next time having an oral presentation or whenever you made your mistake. Whether the mistake is positive or negative depends much on one self and the situation around the mistake, that's what I believe.
Our teacher points out that there are different kinds of mistakes: the ones you don't know about and those you can correct straight away.
At the end of our lecture we watch a video (with English subtitles that I see right before the video ends) about metaphors that is really interesting to watch. Apparently we are going to talk about it the next lecture, which is tomorrow. Until then!
- Anni
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