Piaras Kelly is a member of the Kerry Mountain Rescue Team. In the past, he did some hill walking, rock climbing and mountaineering, but quickly his hobby turned into passion and now he works as a guide and climbing instructor. His wife Catherine is also involved in mountain rescue as the training officer with the Search and Rescue Dogs Association of Ireland. The team consists of 35 members from all walks of life – graphic designers, engineers, and electrician. Mainly, they were called out to assist walkers who were lost or in trouble on the Reeds, but unfortunately there were also one fatality. He feels privileged to be one of the team, because his work is very important for unknown hill walkers. Many people underestimate the dangers of the mountains. The weather can change quickly and you can get lost easily. Kelly loves his job especially, on a satisfied day with his clients. 

 Travelling abroad offers various benefits for open minded people. To widens the traveller’s perspective and the knowledge about knew culture is one benefit. Moreover, the interaction with other people seems very delightful. On the one hand travelling offers the experience to improve language skills, on the other hand the knowledge of independence. Travelling abroad tend to be the right choice for open minded people. 

·       Introductory verbs

·       Modal verbs

·       Adverbs of frequency

·       Phrases

·       Modal adjectives & adverbs

·       Modal nouns

·       That clauses

·       To-clauses + verb

Unfortunately, I still have some difficulties writing academic texts and paragraphs. By practicing and leaning different methods, I am getting more and more confident. 

·       Introduction – to orient the reader

·       Body – which includes a topic sentence, supporting sentence and a concluding sentence

·       Conclusion – summarise the statement

Afterwards we did some exercises on the worksheet “Essay introduction” to get familiar with the features of an introduction (the rationale, the thesis statement, contextualizing material, a statement to gain the reader’s interest, a basic definition). First, it was a bit confusing, because I am not used to this feature, but by analysing the second paragraph I did very well. I am still uncertain with academic writing and now I am uncertain to write an essay, but due to our essay homework I hope to get more certain and used to this kind of writing. 

They contain a lot of immuration in a shorter phrase and  help to paraphrase a text.

2)      Make a list of the main ideas and find alternative words and phrases

3)      Change the structure of the text, identify the meaning relationships and express these relationship in a different way

4)      Rewrite the main ideas in complete sentences

5)      Check your work and make sure meaning, length and style is your own

These 5 steps help me a lot to organize my paraphrase. At the beginning, I did not know exactly how to write a paraphrase, but now I am able to focus on these 5 points. That help me a lot. 

2)      Assumption (sth you consider likely to be true but you have no proof)

3)      Speculation (sth that is possible)

First of all, we did the warm up, Autonomous learning. It can be seen that learning on our own has some advantages and some disadvantages. Personally, I prefer to learn on my own because it helps be to concentrate better, but I also like to attend additional seminars to exchange and deepen my knowledge. Furthermore, to ask questions as well.