Through the last month we did a competition. Its main aim was to test our understanding of written English text and our digital skills. I think the competition was organized well and most of us enjoyed it. However, for me, the absence of the variety of tasks made the whole challenge boring and repetitive. Every week there was a text and a selection of sentences that could fit in it the other couple of questions were just either true or false, or choose the correct answer. Other than that, it was fun. It is great to challenge our English kills without stressing whether we get a good grade or not.
Leonard Masný, sexta A
For last four weeks, we´ve been taking every Friday 20 minutes long tests. Those tests were part of a big competition among high schools in Pilsen region and it was made by the university of West Bohemia. Those tests were always the same but with different texts. We were supposed to read texts with blank spaces, where we then had to put a correct sentence or word. After filling the blank spaces there were questions for the text, each with 3 or 4 options of answer.
It was quite boring die to the lack of variety. The difficulty of those tests wasn´t that challenging it remained the same for all four of them. However, it was quite nice for practice. Overall, I didn´t really enjoy it but I wouldn´t say that it was bad either. It could be more interesting and fun and they should at least change the variety of the tests.
Lukáš Kavalíř, sexta A
In my humble opinion, the first rank was a bit hectic and we were slightly less informed. For example, some of my friends thought that we could return to the first exercise, which we couldn´t.
In the following weeks we knew what we should expect and did our best. It seemed that every time we entered the next round, the exercises were easier. Both the ideas and execution were marvelous. The designer showcased everything we were supposed to know, except the issue stated above.
The idea of making school compete and show their strengths is necessary and hopefully more of these competitions will follow.
Antonín Mík, sexta A
Last four weeks we were doing 4 tests. One test each week. There were all together 4 topics. In my opinion, it was quite all right. It wasn´t too easy but neither too hard for us, although 1 or 2 tests were a little bit harder. It tested our general knowledge and our abilities to understand the stuff we read. I believe it was a nice way to enrich our lessons. Overall, I would say that these kinds of lessons are beneficial for us and it would be great if we had something like that again in the future.
Michal Kavalíř, sexta A
