LEL Assignment #2

Courses chosen: "Grammar Practice 1" and "Synonym and Antonym Practice"

GRAMMAR PRACTICE 1

1 - Interest Level: This grammar practice was a bit tedious to go through (it made me remember me the endless sequences of grammar numbers I had to do in High School), but it was nonetheless an helping exercise. Not having practiced this kind of exercises in the last months, I was surprised to find how helping they can sometimes be. Its numbers mainly consisted of basic grammar elements - mostly punctuation, verbs and the use of capital letters.

2 - Difficulty: I didn't think the test was really difficult while actually doing it, altough I realized I obtained a rather poor result at the end. It was not a very hard exercise in itself, but you have to be really careful to each questuion. I missed a lot of questions concerning punctuation, maybe because I wasn't paying enough attention. These questions require full concentration. A lot of them were thoroughly tricky. Also, some questions (though not many) were poorly constructed in my opinion.

3 - What did I learn: I didn't learn anything new, but it was indeed helping in making me realize that I often need exercises like this to refresh my memory. The mastery of a language comes with practice, and this is a type of exercise that needs to be done monthly, in my humble opinion.

4 - My result: 26/40 (65%) - Not entirely satisfying. I did the exercise a second time, and got 35/40 (88%), a much more worthy result.

5 - Course rating: 8/10 - A standard but essential course, that needs to be taken seriously and more often.

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SYNONYM AND ANTONYM PRACTICE

1 - Interest Level: I always enjoyed synonym and antonym exercises, mostly because they often teach me new words, or valid the meaning of words I was unsure about. I have always been pretty good at it, and it didn't change with this test.

2 - Difficulty Level: I don not think this was a very difficult course, at least for me. While I had a lot of facility doing it, I strongly recommend it to people having mild difficulty with the meaning of words and their synonyms/antonyms. If there is a difficult or unknown word, you can always get a thesaurus and a dictionnary after the test to learn the meaning of the word and its different uses. I even learned some new words with this exercises, like abate, distort and pungent. I finally do think it was a bit too easy for my taste, though.

3 - What I learned: I learned a couple of new words, including the ones mentioned above. Overall, this exercise taught me four or five new words but nothing else new in general.

4 - My result: 100% in the synonym part and 80% in the antonym part.

5 - Course rating: 7/10 - An easy but pleasant course who will be of great help to those having difficulty with antonyms and synonyms, or to anybody who wants to learn new words.