Report about the English class of the 2nd semester

Artwork by Benjamin http://blog.sina.com.cn

List of vocabulary that could be helpful for lessons:
-Economics: finance (stock market, money, monetary system); unemployment; vocabulary about variations (increase/decrease, etc...);...

-History: wars & conflicts; industrialisation; transports (boats, carriages, railways); agriculture; names of cities, countries, people, treaties, battles spelt differently than in French; religion; kings & power (different types of monarchs, troubles, rules)...

-Others: ...

Now my comments about the class:

-It would have been better not to choose class hours early in the morning or after 5pm in the

afternoon (sorry, but after 2hours x2 (or 3) of courses, I know I can't concentrate anymore).

-Better to give precise essay subjects, because talking about "ping-pong diplomacy" is a bit too vast for only 2 pages, and talking about our city even orally I personnally find it uninteresting. The subject about the press was good because it allowed lots of discussions.

-The diversity of exercises is good, but spending one hour or two reading one article, even if explaining the vocabulary is tiring and boring.

-Maybe a bit more of books' extracts would be good.

-Watching TV shows for oral comprehension was good, as well as the blog idea to improve the writing.