Ruby

It was good to meet you all this morning! Please try to set up a blog by going to the blogger website - it's really simple. Also, look in your course booklet and think about the kind of tasks you want to do for self-study - what are your weaknesses? What do you need to practise most? When you have decided, post your ideas on your blog, for example:

I find it difficult to follow ideas when I listen to native speakers because they speak so fast so I'm going to listen to some lectures, take some notes then look at the transcripts to see if my notes were accurate. (look at the link above for lecture sites)
OR
I need speaking practice so I'm going to attend the Conversation Club every week and write down my thoughts about what we talked about on my blog...

Tomorrow we'll start looking at the difference between seminars and lectures and think about some useful language to use in discussions.