FINAL (END OF ESP COURSE) SELF – ASSESSMENT

My ESP course is ending and I want to share my thoughts about second term, compare with first half of ESP course. 

WRITING. I have to admit, that writing summaries come much easier that it was in first term. I learnt from my mistakes and now I know how to write good summary. In this term I had my highest mark from summary writing.  Although, in every summary I had some grammar mistakes, but I hope that in future I will be able to write good summaries, without any mistakes.

SPEAKING. My speaking also is better that it was, because I speak a lot with some of my friends in English language to improve speaking skills. Some short talks, that I had made was really good and interesting. My PPP was property done. There were a beautiful slides rich of basic information. The most that I like was a speaking impromptu.  However, sometimes my pronunciation is not nice and correct.

LISTENING. I had no problems with listening tasks. I like more listening to online materials, because there are much more interesting themes. Listening to cassettes was a little bit harder, maybe because sound had bad quality and speech sound sometimes like bubble.

ESP VOCABLUARY. In second term we were able to write different kind of formal tests in class and I like it more than old way. Maybe that is why my results were much better. Class tests online were interesting, I like them a lot and I enjoy solving them. Moodle tests that we were able to do at home were easy to me as in the first term also. I am feeling free doing it, because I have a lot of time and no one is disturbing me.

All in all, I have to admit, that I collect many needful information. I improve many skills in speaking, writing summaries that I will need to face with in my future psychology studies.

Scared to Death: The Link Between Stress and Coronary Heart Disease

Summary

Researches examined coroners records from Los Angeles County and found a jump in cardiovascular deaths few months after huge earthquake struck near that state. Most of people who died had a history of coronary disease, but those people who died were not involved in rescue efforts.

Furthermore, heart specialist found that psychological stress is just as harmful to heart as many sources of physiological stress. Researchers also found out that people who had some psychological problems in their childhood later would have bigger risk of heart disease. What is more, in another study, researches asked many people who had first time heart attack. Many of these people was smokers, had high blood pressure, but also there were many people who had high psychological risk factors.

Moreover, stress hormones causes physiological changes that damage blood vessels over time – including the coronary arteries. Other research suggests that activities that reduce stress may have a protective effect.

All in all, considering that the stresses of modern life aren’t easily avoided, people should be happier. Laughter helps arteries to relax and it has a good influence on blood flow. That helps to avoid heart diseases.