Task 9.
The information , which helped me to prepare some material for the seminar, later I've summerised all information together, which helped me a lot to write essay.
Britain is 'surveillance society' Fears that the UK would "sleep-walk into a surveillance society" have become a reality, the government's information commissioner has said.
Richard Thomas, who said he raised concerns two years ago, spoke after research found people's actions were increasingly being monitored.
Researchers highlight "dataveillance", the use of credit card, mobile phone and loyalty card information, and CCTV.
Monitoring of work rates, travel and telecommunications is also rising.
There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people.
But surveillance ranges from US security agencies monitoring telecommunications traffic passing through Britain, to key stroke information used to gauge work rates and GPS information tracking company vehicles, the Report on the Surveillance Society says.
It predicts that by 2016 shoppers could be scanned as they enter stores, schools could bring in cards allowing parents to monitor what their children eat, and jobs may be refused to applicants who are seen as a health risk.
Produced by a group of academics called the Surveillance Studies Network, the report was presented to the 28th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners' Conference in London, hosted by the Information Commissioner's Office.
The office is an independent body established to promote access to official data and to protect personal details.
The report's co-writer Dr David Murakami-Wood told BBC News that, compared to other industrialised Western states, the UK was "the most surveilled country".
"We have more CCTV cameras and we have looser laws on privacy and data protection," he said.
"We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us."
The report coincides with the publication by the human rights group Privacy International of figures that suggest Britain is the worst Western democracy at protecting individual privacy.
The two worst countries in the 36-nation survey are Malaysia and China, and Britain is one of the bottom five with "endemic surveillance".
Mr Thomas called for a debate about the risks if information gathered is wrong or falls into the wrong hands.
"We've got to say where do we want the lines to be drawn? How much do we want to have surveillance changing the nature of society in a democratic nation?" he told the BBC.
"We're not luddites, we're not technophobes, but we are saying not least don't forget the fundamental importance of data protection, which I'm responsible for.
"Sometimes it gets dismissed as something which is rather bureaucratic, it stops you sorting out your granny's electricity bills. People grumble about data protection, but boy is it important in this new age.
"When data protection puts those fundamental safeguards in place, we must make sure that some of these lines are not crossed."
'Balance needed'
The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) said there needed to be a balance between sharing information responsibly and respecting the citizen's rights.
A spokesman said: "Massive social and technological advances have occurred in the last few decades and will continue in the years to come.
"We must rise to the challenges and seize the opportunities it provides for individual citizens and society as a whole."
Graham Gerrard from the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said there were safeguards against the abuse of surveillance by officers.
"The police use of surveillance is probably the most regulated of any group in society," he told the BBC.
"Richard Thomas was particularly concerned about unseen, uncontrolled or excessive surveillance. Well, any of the police surveillance that is unseen is in fact controlled and has to be proportionate otherwise it would never get authorised."
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Task 7 & 12.
The last my exibition was -Natural History Museum.
Let's start with the fact, that I'm not that kind of person, who is passionate about museums, history and all things like this. To be honest, I've never enjoyed 'historical' visits and trips with my classmates in school , when it was necessary to go. So, I would like to advice people, who found themselves similar with me, don't go to National Gallery museum - Natural History Museum is much more interesting.
The first thing that amazed me - was the building ,the houses ,the museum - it is magnificent.The inside is pretty special too. There is hundreds of exciting, interactive exhibits. What is more, there is free audio tours and free museum guidebooks, so can take some useful notes. They give a lot of information about animals, insects, birds, dinosaurs, human biology etc.The museum is split into life and earth galleries, and also the darwin centre. Also, there is very exiting section that has the bones and the animated T-Rex.
As I said, there is free audio tours, but I was lucky, because we found a guided tour and enjoyed it. She said a lot of interesting facts at the same time I've checked how I understand talks like this. I think It was easy to understand , because I was interested in all information what she was talking about.I think, I have to go to National Gallery to listen some talks, which will be boring for me to listen, only then I could decide how good or bad is my listening.

Task 2:
An analysis of my own language abilities and needs.After filling up the table It is easy to realise the weakest areas in English.The main 'trouble' in my English ,which needs the first aid is Writing and Grammar.To improve the skills, I have to get some academic level books with lots of exercises.Listening and Speaking.I think, I have enough 'training' in this part of English with my classmates,friends,tutors and colleges at my work.Reading.I found myself not improving in this area of English.I don't read enough 'high qualificated' lettings like a: Books,Newspapers(The times,Independent) .What is more, my 'big trouble' is vocabulary.Sometimes I don't feel free to speak with English people,because of it.To improve it, I have to change my Russian-English vocabulary for English dictionary with word explaining and examples in English.

Task 1:
hi there, My name is Nadia and I am one of the N.. amount students in London Metropolitan University. At the moment I'm trying to finish English Pre-sessional course, which will lead me to Bachelors degree. I would like to tell the name of my course, wchich I wish to start as a degree, but I can't.The problem is ,that I still not sure , what I want to choose. Before it was Tourism Management, but now I realised it's not mine direct way in future.
I've been living in London for 1 year already. Along this time a lot of things happend, I have changed my view on the world. It changed me as well. But anyway, I thing this step in my life was necessary. I believe in Destiny and all things that happens means smth. Even I can say, that my view on it is similar with book the Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho.
Before coming in London, I used to live in Lithuania, where I've born. To be honest I'm not proud of love with that country. It just a small country, which is not in condition to make any decision by itself and which required all the time help from the side(Europe or US). But I still grateful for giving me life and opportunity to learn other languages like: Russian,German,Polish,English and Lithuanian.