Self study

Writing task..


Why E.U and the member states proposed 20015 as a possible time frame for the implementation of this common corporate tax base.


The common corporate tax base is clearly one measure which will undowtedly put one very strong stone in the common European trade and economy. According to my opinion this measure will help all these countries ,which in reality have feeble trade to develop. It is a fact that, 55% of the member states believe that , 2015 is a actually possible time frame for the implementation of this measure.

When this measure is successfully applied the countries which have a stronger economy than others ,will slowly start to invest in countries which have small rythms of growth. And this will happen because the countries which undowtedly have high growth rates also have the most power full companies.

2015 is clearly a possible time frame for the implementation of this measure because in 2012 London will actually host the Olympic games. This event will obviously attract the largest companies of the world market. The competition on the Olympic market will be very high and the common corporate tax base will create more competitiveness in the market. After the Olympic games the companies will see the results of growth and they will make a new investment strategy.

My own predictions are that Greece will have a problem with this measure because the small and the medium companies are afraid of the competition and the investment capital which is present in the Greek market. The time which E.U gives to the states members is creatively enough in order to make some clever movements to improve all these difficulties which every country have.

Background

Over the last few decades motivational theories have been developed steadily and used from people to increase the growth personal and corporate functions. The motivation of the pre – session English course is a function which everyone could develop and manage their own way. There are a number of theories with different meanings for everyone who want to increase steadily their personal results.

Especially for this research we try to found how much the pre - session English course have been motivating the pre- session international students. According to the theory of Abraham Maslow’s people search for these motivations in two categories, the first one is the Intrinsic force, which it is constituted from the inside forces, such as the knowledge, the future aims, or the needs to fix same personal functions that they have been made with the need of human communication between persons or in academic or in a social level. The second category is the extrinsic motivation, which is the outside force such as, the main social current, or the political and economical developments. However the family and the friendly environment are forces for the outside environment. Most of the times these forces has a common direction and of course if someone attend all these functions of motivation, he will see the reactions between intrinsic and extrinsic forces.

We tried to categorize intrinsic and extrinsic forces which have relation with the quality and the quantity of the motivation which the pre- session students used to increase their language skills. For this occasion, tutorial teaching or other methods of teaching such as the conversation class are the most essential motivation function. However, the motivation is a characteristic which have a personal use for every student.





Aims

The purpose of this research is to find out how much pre - session English course motivate international students to learn English.

The second aim of this research was to see the individual students that motivate themselves to make a progress with their language studies.

Finally we have been done this research to recognize if these motivates are intrinsic or extrinsic forces. Probably the sample of this research was so short but the collection data was very important academic information.

Method

It would be beneficial for the next pre – session English course to collect and analyze the factors of the motivations which can increase the effectiveness of the course. Also, we can find new ways to improve the communication, between teacher and student. In specific research we used the quantitative research to collect all the data which we need.
We determined the purpose of our research and then we organized the questionnaire. We have been chosen the quantitative research because we need to know how much the pre – session English course motivate the international students.

Data collection

for the data collection we used the questionnaires in sample of 34 students. Through the questionnaires we asked the opinion of the pre - session academic students about the importance of motivation in pre - session English course.


Findings Results

In the first question we asked the pre –session English students what is the most important motivation for them to learn English. 53% of the respondents believed that the inside force was more important for them that the outside force motivation. In contrast 47 % of the sample said that the outside force was more important for them to motivate.

When we asked the respondents how much do you feel that the teacher motivate you, the majority of the students (97%) said that the teacher motivates them very helpfully and only 3% they had different opinion for this function.

In the questions which we analyzed the activity of teachers, 25 of 34 pre -session English students answered that was more helpful for their progress to take feedback for the teacher than to participate in the conversation class. Generally most of the students (30 of 34) answered that the teachers in this course motivate them to do best work. In contrast, only a minimum percentage of the respondents had different opinion.

Furthermore when we asked how important is for the students to have multinational class mates, a very few respondents of this survey answered that it was not important for them o have multi - national classmates.

Finally there was an upward trend for the respondents who believed that it was more useful for them to read a book or a journal than to watch television. The number of the pre -session students who believed that is more important to watch television programs was 25 less than the students who believed that the book and the journal text has a better motivation.


Discussion

This survey wants to analyze all these functions which can do the pre-session English students to have a significant motivation to improve their English skills.

The respondents of this survey believe that the internal force is a better way to achieve the motivation. This could mean that those students have the needs to take feedback from the teacher and probably if they want to have a direct communication about their progress with teacher.

It is true that the majority of the pre-session students have the same opinion for the help that they get from their teacher for this course. This could be indicating that, this course maybe has a specific aim which the pre –session English students understand, and they want to have an effective corporation with the academic staff.

The minority of students believe that is not very important to have international classmates. Perhaps this means that those students had a basic problem with their English language and probably they had a problem to understand the rest of foreign students.

Finally, many students believed that it was more effective to read a book or a journal text. This could seem that the pre –sectional English students have seen better results of their language skills after they start reading books or journal topics.

Conclusion

Motivation was for thousands of years a very essential function which people used to motivate other people. In this research we focused to find how the pre-session English course motivates the international students and what kind of motivation the students needs. A very important finding was that the students were motivated much more from teacher than the outside force such as the family environment. This result suggests that the communication between pre - session English students and the academic staff were very strong.

Writing task for self study.
Health care should be free for every one

Nowadays it is extremely difficult for someone to make ends meet especially , when you have to pay for the health care. For this reason in a typical urban area the helthcare should be free for every one. For the last 10 years the healthcare is one function which the hospitals ,as well as ,the medicines actually have transformed in organizations which had as the first aim the doubling of theirs profits.
This is a clearly illustrated thesis which obviously create the bad profile of public or private helthcare. It is very important for the people to have a free helthcare because nowadays the income of a typical family is very small. This is the first reason why the helthcare should be free. A person or a family actually have a big problem with every day difficulties which are colled to solve. When a family with 3 members have a 1.500 euro income every month ,it is very difficult to make ends meet.
Furthermore the helthcare should be free ,because every one should have this simply right in the life. In other words it is undoubtedly illegal for a child who have cancer or other seriously illness to pay for their life. Sometimes people die with out reason in counties such as China because the hospitals are not enough for the People who live in a urban area.
Finally all of us should be think all these children who died in Africa because the medicines for helthcare were unsuccessfully or obviously they used for live experiments on the human beings.
For this reason in the developing world it is extremely unfair for helthcare not to be free for all people who need it.

Common spirit or not ?
‘’I have i dream’’

My Secret life...

The home i grew up in....Was a big house with 6 rooms and fantastic garden. My house was in my home town which is called Volos. But my own house was in Athens where i go when i want to meet my friends.


When i was a child i wanted to be .... Actually when i was child i wanted to be rich. I don't care about the occupation.


The moment that changed me for ever.... When i started my undergraduate course in my university in Athens.


My greatest inspiration.... Actually i am waiting for my PhD.


If i could change one thing about my self.... I f i could change one thing about my self , i change only my broken nose.


At night i dream of.... Nothing. In recent years i haven't had see dreams.


What i see when i look in the mirror.... It depends for my psychology. That's why when i have a bad day i prefer to avoid the mirror


My style icon.... Actually i don't have a style icon. My style it depends for the moment.


My favourite item of clothing.... My ties are my favourite items which i have probably all the colours.


It's not fashionable but i like.... All the oldest phones of Nokia. Because they have more simple functions.


All my moneys goes on.... On my clothes.


I f i have time to my self.... I will travel to Tokio. But in my every day life i just read a newspapers or my book.


I drive.... My beautiful Ford Fiesta ,but not here.


My house is.... A simple apartment (studio) such as all the residents.


My most valuable possession is.... My family first and second my academic development.



My favourite building.... Obviously the Parthenon in Athens.


Movie heaven.... 007 , American ganster , EL GRECO and some else.


A book that changed me.... Actually it was a book which he wrote it one of the most important professor in management in my country. He said that if we have two lifes ,we spent the first one with out rules and the second one to leave with out mistakes.


The best invetion ever.... All the function of marketing.


In 10 years time , i hope to be.... In my apartment or to my office in New York city.


My life in seven words.... Life goes on..Don't let it go.

Survey Results

The table bellow presents the results of the motivation survey which collected on 29 October 2008. In the 3.1 question we observe that most of the students believed that the feedback of the teacher was very important activity for their progress. In the next question the majority of the pre - sessional English students 30 of 34 respondents believed that the teacher in this course motivated their to do best work. In a other question more students answered that was more important to read a book and prepare its summary than to attend the English conversation class.A very few respondents of this survey believed that was not helpful for them to have multinational classmates. Finally there was a upward trend for the respondents who believed that was more useful for them to read a book or a journal than to watch television. The number of the pre -sessional students who believed that is more important to watch television programs was 25 less than the students who believed that the book and the journal text has a better motivation.

Analyse your own abilities and needs According to my IELTS results


Listening 5


Reading 5


Writing 5,5


Speaking 6


Overall Score 5,5