Body language

Body languge is conccurent part of our communication. We allways use this non-verbal form of expressing our emotions. There are many kinds of this body movemens, such as gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice and so on..
It seems that words give just a small amount of information what we would like to send.

I think almost everyone in his own life have experienced the situation when someone is saying you one thing but it doesn't feel the truth. It happens when two ways of our comunication is incongruent. Our body gives one information and the words we say onother. For exemple.: your friend say that he feels good about you, he loves you. But at the same time he trys to avoid eye-contact, looks anxious, maybe is biting his lips or sending another signs of lying. For me it is very interesting that in such kind of situations the reciever of verbal and non-verbal messages is tend to believe what your body says.

I think, there are many immportant reasons why we should learn to understand and use body language. the main reason is that it helps to understand another people and express yourself clearly. So it helps us to communicate more effectively.

What is more, we should take a look at other cultures body language. It helps us to avoid misunderstandings when we travel in other states or meet other culture people. For this reason we shoul learn carefully about gestures and other body language signs.

In conclusion, I would like to say that body language is very strong form of expressing our thoughts and we shoul use it carefully.

Artificial intelligence

I would like to express my opinion about this quite interesting subject - artificial intelligence. the definition of these words is - "It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs". I think all we know this concept from the Steven Spielberg film "Artificial intelligence". For me this film was really amazing and I think it's really worthy to see it. This film is about the robot-boy. he is like a man and live in normal family, but really he is not a human he is some kind of computer. It's the story about the first robot who can love like human,trying to live in our society.

Many years ago people started studies about our intelligence work, I think trying to desighn the artificial inteligence also is very old task. In todays modern life artificial intelligence is tender question. I think every people have their own opinion about this subject and for me it is quite undiscovered area. As we know, artificial inteligence is very broad idea. Is it possible that one day robot could change human? Or maybe one day we would be like robots? There are too many unanswered questions..

To my opinion, human's intelligence is unique and unrepreatable. Every man is like a miracle with his own feelings, thoughts, dreams and emotions... And any kind of machine could equal or overtake it. As we know, in some states people spend a lot of many to buy robot-dog, robot-cat or even robot-house maid. I can't believe that they could be as attractive and amazing as real pets,and that robot-house maid could do everything so clearly as a man.

On the other hand we often don't notice that artificial inteligence is all around us. Some kind of AI is in computer games, our cars or computers. So it is the sign that machines step by step change humans. They help us to live more comfortable, but do they really change us? In real,all machines are programmed by poeple. So they work fork for us and just how we wish, they can't create something or go solo.

In conclusion, I would like to mention that even people are creating these AI machines, nobody wants to live in unreal world with robots around us, and everybody wants to have freedom for themselves.

Self-assessment of ESP learning-

I think it's quite difficult to evaluate yourself, but after every term we have to do this task.
So firstly, I would like to talk about my writing skills. I think the most useful task of writing was summaries. As we know after free terms we are going to have English test where writing summary would be one of the most immportant exercise. So it is really helpful that we try to learn how good summary should be written. I think my writing isn't very good, all my grades of summaries were 7. The most popular was grammar mistakes, so I should try to repeat the rules and avoid such kind of errors. Talking about ESP vocabulary tests, I think my performance at this task was better than in the first term. I think now I know what is immportant in these tests and it helps me to get ready for this exercise. Self-designed tests is one of the most interesting task and also it is the new one. I think it's really helpful task. Dictations and contributions to weblogs are very good way to improve our writing skills. My skills at this task isn't exelent, I think I should learn more about writing.
Another point i would like to talk is speaking skills. I agree to the opinion that task such as participation in class discussions or presentations improve our skills. But on the other hand, I think sometimes it's not very efficient learning. Some people are quite shy and they doesn't like talking in front of auditory. So in the class discussions they just sit and listen, and they doesn't improve teir talking skills in such way. Presentations are the most needful task, because it is very interesting not just to find information and to do this task, but also it is interesting to listen to other people. So it is a good way to show and improve your talking skills. I think I can't express my thoughts fluently so I shoul do more talking exercises and try to improve this my ability. Also I think I should learn more new words, because it helps to talk clearly.
What's more, listening skills are also very imporatant for our English use. When we could listent and understant quite clearly it also help us to talk more fluently. I like listening tasks, because you should focus your attention and be careful, also you shoud think attentively. I think it's quite atractive task. Sometimes it's very hard to do listening exercises because of your lack of words. I listen and there are too many unknown words so I can't understand the main things about the text. I think to solve this problem I also should learn more new words and phrases, and try to use them.
The last point I would like to talk is reading tasks. I think it is also one of my favourite tasks. I really like home reading, because these texts are quite useful for my vocabulary,and I learn lot of new words. also these texts gives new information about psychology and other subjects.