Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Creativity

Why some people are called creative and others not?Sometimes we decide about the person from appearance or reputation,but usually we look what the person has done. It does not matter what will be done creative-cooking,playing,learning. Everything can be done creative.
It is stated that creative people are those, who are open for new experience,they do not keep standarts and norms,are not very honest,more confident in theirselves.They value theirselves very much,are ambigous,want to dominate,are impulsive.Also we can include independance,intraversion,wide interests, intuition,toleration.
It is proved that creativity is related to intelect. High IQ is more related with creative behavior.However, very creative architechts',scientists',engineers' IQ usually is not higher than not so creative their collegues.
In my view everybody agrees that creativity is a positive characterisctic.

Online listening podcasts

The first podcast that I listened was about woman' pregnancy.I chose this theme, because during this year one of my best friends is pregnant and everything about this period is interesting for me.There people were talking about the influence of smoking to newborn,so I had an chance to imagine how smoking affects baby's health. There were said about illnesses and disorders that starts because of smoking and this information affected me and made me sad.
The listening was not difficult,but the rate of speaking was quite fast. I have listened this podcast two times and it was sufficient for me to understand what was said.The vocabulary was quite easy,but there were some words that I was not able to understand, so I had to use dicionary.
The second listening was also useful for me,because the theme was about computer influence to our eyes.There were said some exerices how to save the eyes,how to behave with computer that our helath would not be damaged. Also there were mentioned the importance of caring children from computer,that they would save their eyes.This problem is actual in our sociality,so this is the reason why I chose exactly this podcast.
The rate of speaking was average, so I had not difficulties in understanding the words.I have listened this podcast two times.The vocabulary was more difficult than in the forst listening,so I used dictionary more than the first time.
To sum up I can say that this listening task was useful for me because of two reasons. The first is that my listning skills improved,of course,not very much,but the use of task helped for my English skills.The second reason is that the information in these podcasts were useful and important for me,it was related to the details in my personal life.