Proof of Personal Progress

Proof of Personal Progress

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  1 1 WRITING TASKS 1.1ORIGINAL TASK WITH TEACHER’S NOTES x Executive summary This survey, about the risks youngsters take these days, gives a clear insight in how much risks they actually take. The chosen risks are financial risks, risks concerning smoking cigarettes and the risks of drinking alcohol. Now, after everybody filled in the survey we came across a few surprises and jaw dropping statistics, but in general, the pupils don't take a lot of risks. Introduction This report will look at: ● our expectations ● financial risks ● risks concering smoking ● alcohol consumption in our class Findings When we were first searching for questions to make a survey about risk, we thought that the people in our class would be risk-takers. We are young students, who like to party and drink alcohol. When reading the results of the survey, we saw that our thoughts were not right. The students in our class are actually very carefully. We have chosen three questions that surprised us the most. The first question was about the fact if the bank account of the students go into the red. We thought that some people had this problem but in fact, everybody answered ‘no’. This means that the students have a good control of their money and that their bank account is very healthy. The second question is about smoking. More than the half of the class does not smoke, this is very surprising because students these days smoke a lot. But 60% of our class does not smoke. The other 40% exists of people who smoke about 10 cigarettes a day. This is again very good, because smoking is bad for your health and our class is very careful. The last question that we have chosen is about drinking alcohol. Students are well known for drinking alcohol and partying and this question is a proof of that. Only 15% of the students does not drink, this is a very small part of the class. The rest of the class drinks 1 to 4 days in a week, this is not so good because alcohol is bad for your health but the students are also aware of the consequences of alcohol. Conclusion We can conclude that the students of our class don’t take risks too often, only when it’s needed. They keep their bank accounts above zero, they are riskless when going out, they use contraceptives when having sex with a stranger and they try to keep out of danger with drugs. Recommendation
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  2 1. Stop smokingcigarettes, naturally when you know you’re vulnerable to lung cancer. 2. Keep on using contraceptives. 3. Do some research on the dangers of alcohol and the problems you can get by drinking alcohol. 1.2 OWN REVISED TASK Executive summary This survey, about the risks that our classmates take these days, gives a clear insight in how much risks they actually take. The chosen risks are about finance, smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. Now, after our classmates filled in the survey we came to conclusion that our fellow students are actually very careful, they have good control over their money, there are not so much students who smoke but 85% of the class does drink once a week. Introduction This report will look at: ● our expectations ● financial risks ● risks about smoking ● alcohol consumption in our class Findings When we were first brainstorming about questions to make a survey about risk, we thought that the people in our class would be risk-takers. We are young students, who like to party and drink alcohol. When reading the results of the survey, we saw that our thoughts were not right. The students in our class are actually very careful. We have chosen three conclusions of questions who have surprised us the most. The first question was about the fact that if the bank account of the students go into the red. We thought that some people had this problem but in fact, everybody answered ‘no’. This means that the students have a good control over their money and that they are very responsible when it comes to money. The second question was about smoking. More than the half of the class does not smoke, this is very surprising because we expected the students to smoke a lot. 60% of our class does not smoke. This is again very good, because smoking is bad for your health and our class is very careful. Our last conclusion comes from a question about drinking alcohol. Students are well known for drinking alcohol and partying. Only 15% of the students do not drink, this is a very small part of the class. The rest of the class drinks between 1 to 4 days in a week, this is not so good because alcohol is bad for your health but the students are also aware of the consequences of alcohol. Conclusion We can conclude that the students of our class don’t take risks too often. They keep their bank accounts in the black, they don’t take much risks w hen going out, they use contraceptives when having sex with a stranger and they try to be careful with drugs. Recommendation
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  3 4. Stop smokingcigarettes, or if you don’t want to quit, try to smoke less. 5. Keep on using contraceptives. 6. Do some research on the dangers of alcohol and the problems you can get when drinking alcohol.
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  4 Appendix Questions of thesurvey
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  6 Changing questions forwhole Artevelde I would actually don’t change the questions for the simple reason that I actually want to know if there are differences between students who for example study for nurse and people who study Marketing. And I also think that there would be a certain difference in risk taking because people who study for a nurse are among me less risk-takers than people who study Marketing. Link to survey http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/Nx21ai1z
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  7 2 SLIDES OFPECHA KUCHA
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  12 3 OCT URL: https://oct2016.wordpress.com/
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  13 4 EFFORTS TOIMPROVE ENGLISH 4.1 3 TED PRESENTATIONS 4.1.1 Henk Schiffmacher I was searchingonYouTube forTEDpresentationsandIhave actuallysearchedalongtime because mostof the presentationsseemedveryboring. AndthenIsaw thisguy,HenkSchiffmacher,whotalkedabout tattoos.I have alwaysbeeninterestedintattoos,becauseforme it’sa sortof art. I am not talkingabout ALL the tattoos butthere isa part of the tattoocommunitywhohasnice tattoos. HenkSchiffmacherhas115 tattooshimself,he talksaboutthe whole meaningof tattoos.Forexample, tattooscan be a helpforidentificationof deadpeople. Youcanalsogettattoos to make something immortal.Forexample,the name of yourwife.Henktellsthistoo,thateverytattoothathe has, has his ownstory. And I thinkthat’sa nice thing,thatyou can remembersomethingorsomeone byjustlookingat a part of yourbody.
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  14 4.1.2 How toControl Someone Else's Arm with Your Brain | Greg Gage ThisTED-presentationwasaboutscience,more specificallyneuroscience.Itseemsboring,I know,butitis not.This wasone of the most interestingvideosthatIhave watchedina longtime. Greg Gage came here to tell usthat neuroscience issomethingverycomplicatedandthatpeople donotgeta lot of information aboutneuroscience inmiddle school. Thatisbecause thatthe machinestocontrol the brainand learn aboutthe brainare socomplicatedandexpensive. Greg Gage has talkedaboutthiswithlabmate andtheyhave decidedtomake these machinessimple and affortable foreveryone.He hasbroughtone of those machinestothisTED talkto show how thingswork withthe brain.He has askedtwovolunteerstocome up onstage to show themveryinterestingthingslike justby connectingthe twoarms,he hasmade it possible thatthe one armcan control the otherperson’s arm. ThisTED talkwas veryinterestingandnow Iwant to know more aboutneuroscience.
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  15 4.1.3 Apollo Robbins:The art of misdirection I have alwaysbeeninterestedbyillusions,magic,mindgames,etc.ThatiswhyI have chosenthisTED-talk. Thisman talksabout controllingthe brainof someone else,justbydistractingthem. Forexample,by puttingthe attentionsomewhere,youcando anythingyouwantsomewhereelse.Inthisvideo,Apollo Robbinshasfor example putthe attention onaperson’shand,justtoput a pokerchiponthe same person’s shoulderbuthe didnotevennotice because hisattentionwenttohishand,several times. I like thissortof presentations,veryfunny,butalsoveryinformative. Forexample,he hasjustchangedhis shirtand removedhistie withoutanyonenoticingitandthat issomethingveryextraordinary.
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  16 4.2 BLOGGER FOR5 WEEKS (REPORT ABOUT HIS ACTIVITIES, INTERESTS, HOBBIES, .. 1PAGE) For thisblogtask,I actuallydidnot have to searcha lot.During the examsof january2016, I hadread a post on FacebookaboutJeremyScottFoster,the Travel Freak. SoI decidedtofollow thispersonfor5weeks.It was notso simple because he actuallypostedonce amonthso I have followed himfor4 monthsfrom januarytill april.Jeremyis30 yearsoldand has quithisjobinthe IT sectorin2010 to start travellingand nowsix yearslater,he is still travelling.He justwantsto live hisownlife accordingtohisownchoices.He is very freeminded,he hasdevelopedhisownlifestyle withhisowncreativityandfreedomandworksnowas a blogger,photographerandbartendertoearnhismoneytotravel. It looksall verynice,veryadventurousbutIdon’tthinkthateverybodycandothis.You have to give up your joband youhave to be able to live indifferentplaces,soyou’re one monthinAustralia,the other monthyou’re inThailandsoit’sverydifferentiate.Forexampleme,Idon’tthinkthatI wouldbe able todo thisbecause Ilike totravel too,but not forsuch a longtime.So I can conclude thatJeremyisa life enjoyer, a travel freak,adventurouspersonandtakeseveryopportunitythathe can. I startedwiththe post onJanuary 19 2016. The blogwas called’30 thingstodo in 30 countriesbefore you’re 30’. Jeremyhaswrittenablogfor his30th birthday,bytellingpeople 30thingsto do before youturn 30. While readingthisblog,Iactuallyrealisedwhatkindof boringlife thatIhave beenlivingtill now,whenI compare it to Jeremy’slife.Tillhis30th birthday,he hasScuba dived,jumpedoutof an airplane,hikeda glacier,bungeejumped,hitch-hikedthroughacountry,flew anairpane himself,spentaweekoffline etc.So whenyoureadabout all of his life experiences,you canconclude thathe isreallyadventurous,does everythingthatcomesupto hismind,doesnotthinka lotand actuallydoesnotplanat all. The secondblogwas called’21 spotsin Brusselsthatwill make yourmouthwater’.Sothe Travel Freakwas inBrussels.He isalsoa life enjoyersohe has travelledall throughBrusselstofindthe bestof everything. He tellsaboutwaffles,the sortof wafflesandwhere youcanfindthe bestwafflestoeat. Afterthat,he talksaboutthe chocolate.Again,he looks everyplace uptofindthe bestchocolate.Atlast,he talksabout the beerand the fritesof Brussels.Ihave evenvisitedone of the barsthat he has writtenaboutandhe was right,it wasactuallyverypleasant.Sowe can conclude thathe is a life enjoyer,he willpayacouple of eurosor dollarsmore to getbetterfoodandenjoyitmore. The third blogwasabout facingyourfears. JeremytalkedinthisblogabouthisadventuresinThailandand the seventhingsthatyoushoulddefinitelydowhenyou visitThailand. Butthe actual thinginthisblogis to face your fearsand thatyou have to do the thingsthatscare you. EvenI was convincedbyJeremy’s adventures,Iwantto visitThailandanddothat Deepwatersoloingbecause itseemssonice and adventurous.The restof the blogwas actuallya little bitlikethe firstblog,thingsthatwere recommended by Jeremy. The last blogthat I had the chance to read was‘How to Save Up Moneyfor Travel:You Don’tNeedtoStop Drinking$5 Lattes’.Whenfirstreadingthe title,Ithoughtthat he wasgoingto give recommendationhow youcan save as muchas moneyinthe fastesttime possible butthatwasnotcorrect. He justtriesto showif howyou can put awaya higher-than-average amountandsave upmoneyfortravel everymonth. He has givena lotof interestingtipsbutthere isjustone thatI have inmy mindand that I will definitelyuse startingnowand that is that you shouldnotcut costson thingsthat youreallylike,youshoulddoit otherwise andthinkaboutthingsyoudon’tlike butstill have costsfor. I reallyenjoyedreadingtheseblogs,itwasactuallythe firsttime thatIhave followedabloggerIthinkand I’mhappy thatI have chosenJeremyScottFoster. Because hisstyle of writingisverynice,youjustwantto keepreadingandinthat time,youalsolearnthingsandthat’sveryimportant.
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  18 4.3 2 ORIGINALCREATIVE ENGLISH ACTIVITIES OF OWN 4.3.1 Watching TV without subtitles I am someone whowantstounderstandeverythingwhenhe watches something.Forexample,whenI watch TV-seriesormovies,Iwantto understandanythingbecauseIalwaysthinkthatIwill notunderstand the movie whenIdon’tunderstandasentence. ThatiswhyI alwayswantto watch englishmoviesorTV- serieswithsubtitles. In january2016, I wassearchingfora newTV-serie towatch.Aftera longsearchingtime,Ihave foundone. The TV-serie iscalledSuits.A veryinterestingserieaboutlawyers. SoIdecidedtowatchthisone without subtitlesandinthe beginning itwasveryhard. Because there were law termsusedinthisserie thatI completelydidnotunderstandsoIhad to searchthemup on the internet. Now,I am watchingseason4 and I almostunderstandanything.Everyepisode,there are some termsthatI don’tunderstandbutthenI justlookitup on the internetandIcan watchfurther. So watchingTV-shows withoutsubtitlesisaverygoodidea,ithas helpedme alot. 4.3.2 Talking English with my girlfriend So thisone looksinterestingbutdifficult,Iadmit. Me and my girlfriendlike totravel alot.Soour last trip was to BudapestinHungaryinfebruary2016. I am the personactuallywhohasto do the talkingwhenwe go somewhere thatwe canexpressourselvesinEnglishbecausemyEnglishisbetterthanhers.SoI had somethinginmindandthatwas to talkEnglishalsoto eachotherwhenwe were inBudapest. We didthis,andin the beginningitisactuallyfunnyandabnormal,butafteraparticulartime,yougetused to it andit isverygood actuallybecause youcantalk the whole time toeachother. Youalsocan correct eachotherwhenthe otherone makesamistake.Now we have alsodecidedtodothismore and more and we are planningtogo ona tripto NewYork,firstof all because itisa cityof dreamsbut alsoto improve our Englisha little bit. IstronglyrecommendtotalkEnglishtoyour girlfriendorjustto yourfriendsbecause it helpsyoua lot.
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  19 5 FINAL REPORT:HAS ENGLISH IMPROVED, HAVE I ACHIEVED WHAT I WANTED, COMPARE WITH PROGRESS IN FIRST SEMESTER) Has my Englishimproved?Definitely!Atfirst,Ialwaysthoughtthatmy Englishwasalreadyverygood, because Ilike totalk a lotand because Ihad not so muchdifficultieswhiletalkingEnglishbutitisdefinitely not correct.There are so manythingsthat I have learned. Itisnotonlybecause of the Englishcourses,but alsobecause of the othercoursesthat are giveninEnglishforexample E-MarketingandStrategic marketing.These coursesare alsoinEnglishandwe alsohave had taskswe had to make inEnglish. But the mainreasonthat I thinkmy Englishhasimprovedisbecause we have totalkEnglishall the time in the class andthat’s the bestwayto learnEnglish.Youhave to improvise whatyouhave tosay because the presentationsthatyou have todo infrontof the classare most of the time a mix betweenlearningby heart,improvisationanda little bitof luck. The PechaKuchapresentation,Persuadingyouraudienceand othertasks have alsohelpedme toimprove because youare sobusyby makingthese tasksthat youstart thinkinginEnglishandthat’ssomethingverygoodIthink. Nowit isup to ourselvestomaintainthislevel of EnglishbystayingbusyinEnglishbecausealanguage is somethingveryabnormal.If youdon’tmaintainitby usingit,aftera couple of monthsyoulose a part of it. So the bigtrick actuallyisthat youhave to train it,youhave to talk English,listentoEnglishmusic,watch EnglishTV-showsandsoon.There are somany thingsthatcan improve yourEnglish, youjusthave towant it,that’s all. AndwhenI have to make a comparisonwiththe firstsemester,the secondsemesterwasmore fun. Because the firstsemester,the mainfocuswere the tasksthatwe have to prepare forthe nextlesson,but the secondsemesterwasnotlike that.We had the OCT, the PechaKucha,followingabloggerandsoon, and I likedthatmore thanjustmakingsome exercicesinourbooks. I wouldalsolike tothankour lectorMrs. Verheydenforthe nice coursesbecause Iactuallyliked the courses a lot andI have neverhad the intentionof beingbored. The onlychange thatI wouldmake are the tasksin the firstsemester,Iwouldmix the firstsemesterandthe secondsemesterbecause there isabigdifference betweenthe two. Butingeneral,Iam actuallyverysatisfied.