Studying English

Hello everybody, you know when I was studying english at UNAM, our teachers used to give us different stories every semester in order to improve our vocabulary. They were very good and entertaining. At the beggining they were very weird but as long you were reading them, they become more interesting. They usually have a funny end. I really enjoyed reading those kind of stories. Another thing that we used to do was to make a speech in from of all the group, what made me feel very nervous because I'm not use to talking in from of a lot of people. Talking about the speech, you had to look for information about a topic that you were familiar or maybe something that you were interested in share with your partners. In this case you had to look a lot of information about the topic you were going to talk and tried to understand everything because you were not allowed to read anything during the speech. And WHAT if someone asked you something and you couldn't answer it?. The teacher made you feel nervous when she or he wrote in their notebook every detail that you made wrong and that was awful but anyway you had to continue until the end . Another thing we used to do was to read a complete book. The good thing was that you could choose the kind of book that you prefer. At the end of the course you had to talk about the story with your teacher and she asked you some questions about the characters and sometimes they asked you : What would you have done in this case? or what if this situation would have happended to you? . IT WAS HARD but anyway nobody says that learning a language was going be easy.