sábado, 13 de diciembre de 2014

REPORTED SPEECH



DIRECT SPEECH 

Is used when you want to inform the words that other person has said.

Expressions

*Said
*Told
*Asked


Important things




Examples


"I am going to London next week," she said that she goes to London next week. 

"I bought a car". She said she had bought a car.

"I'll see you later”". She said she would see me later.


Reported Questions

  • Direct speech: "Where do you live?"
Reported Questions: She asked me where I lived


  • Direct speech: "where is Julie?
Reported speech: She asked me where Julie was.






martes, 9 de diciembre de 2014

Writing #5


What makes a good boss?


There are different kind of bosses, are the bosses that have a dictator style and they love give orders, and on the other hand, there are other kind of bosses, the real leaders, they can have a balance between democratic and dictatorial style, because must to have a balance and isn’t convenient to go to the extremes. A good boss is someone that knows the skills and abilities of your workers; also I think that a good boss is a real leader too, therefore he or she must to provide an excellent environment in the work, without stress and without any other kinds of pressures, a friendly and relax environment also are good and allows that workers develop their skills and do their jobs very well, therefore the company will benefit. In my opinion an excellent boss is flexible; he must understand the workers, also is respectful, must takes responsibilities, is decided, friendly, also  encourages and is a great listener. . Nobody wants an ill-tempered, stressful or disagreeable boss. Be an excellent boss can be very good for the workers, they will feel better and happier in the work, also is good for the company because it will has more earnings and better products.
  




lunes, 8 de diciembre de 2014

Unit #8

MAKING CHANGES


Over time our life is changing constantly, after of childhood we move into adolescence, in a few time move into youthfulness, after we go to adulthood. During all these time there are many changes since that we born until we go to the school, we grow and go to the high school posteriorly go to the university, we fell in love, start to working, got married.













Vocabulary

Lifestyle                                 
Security
The Environment                   
Problems
Famine                                   
Standarg of living



Real vs. Unreal Conditional


REAL CONDITIONAL


Will is used to by a speaker to express opinion on the likehood of an action happening in the present or future
The present tense in a conditional clause expresses that the activity may occur- is likely to occur




UNREAL CONDITIONAL 


The past in a conditional clause express that the activity is un likely to occur
Will have are used to by a speaker to express opinion on an action that wil not or didn't happen















More conditionals 














domingo, 7 de diciembre de 2014

Unit #7

LIFELONG LEARNING

In this class we learned some vocabulary and discussed about teachers and the characteristics of a good teacher


Vocabulary

Patient
Boring
Knowledgeable
Inspiring
Frightening
Open-minded





A good teacher need and must...

Lose the temper
Talk slowly
Asks difficult questions
Punish students who behave badly
Gives clear answers to questions




Subject Questions


In this case there is no auxiliary verb and the Wh- word refers to the subject in a question

Form:  SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT

Example:

Who broke the window?

Who told you?

Who loves she?


Object question


The Wh- word refers to the object of the question.

Form: QUESTION WORD + AUXILIARY + SUBJECT + VERB

Examples:

When did you the homework?

What does he here?




Unit #6

TRAVEL TALES



Around the world there are many places to enjoy and know. these can be....

Romantic
Relaxing
Peaceful
Interesting
Convenient
Cheap or expensive





But on the other hand, also ther are palces that can be....

Dangerous
Uncomfortable
Disagreeable
Ugly
Stressful


Also you can do many activities in the different places...

For example if you visit Africa you can go to safari and enjoy  watching the animals

Or if you prefer the snow you can practice skiing

There are many other activities  and places that you can doing and visit, like...

Adventure's sport
Camping
Amusement park
Beach
Spa resort
Cruise
Safari



Learning to describe a picture


Also in this class I learn to describe a picture... to describe a picture I can use some phrases like...

  • It looks like
  • It reminds me of
  • It makes me feel
  • It is a amazing, magical, mystical, relaxing picture

In the following square can see how descibe a picture.






This is an amazing picture. In this photo you can see the quiet and peaceful water at the bottom, in the middle you can see the rocks and in the foreground there is a little waterfall flowing among they, also on the right and on the left can be seen many trees of different colors, it is a scenary really colorful and beautiful, in the background there is a small  cottage.
It makes me feel really relaxed, it scenary is exciting, Surrounded by nature, really beautiful.






Unit #5

SPARE TIME 


There are many activities  in which we spend our free time, for
example some are:

               Practice yoga                                        
               Reading
               Play any instrument                        
               Watch TV
               Dancing                                                
               Exercise
               Running                                                  
               Take a nap
               Swimming
               Computer games


              












In this class I learned to describe the histories of  movies or books, also my classmates and  I did a short conversation to describe our favorite movie or book....

I talked about one of my favorites books, it is "Where She Went"
This book is a follow up of "If I Stay", where Mía was a terrible accident and her family died.
Noe in this book Mía and her exboyfriend, Adan, ae separated because Mia was to study music in other state, while Adam live in Los Angeles with his new girlfriend and is a famous rock's start. 
Adam is in New York per a few days because is in tour with his band, and Mia also is in New York because ha a conciert with the orchestra of Julliard (the misic institude).
After Adam go to the conciert where he find to Mia, when the conciert has finished they talk and Mia say to Adam that she want to travel to NY city because is her last night there, therefor they are all night together and talk about your pass... afterwards, she confesses that she hated him because she decided to stay for he and now she don't has family, and before she prefered die.
After Adam wants to be with Mía because he is really in love of she, but yours occupations are an obstacle, but Adam found the way to be with Mia , he boke with the acctually girlfriend, when they go of tour take the decition of travel to see and be together some days.






Vocabulary to describe a movie or book


Violent                       Long                              Fantasy

Action                       Romantic                         Memorable

Boring                       Slow                                Hightly original

Dumb                        Dramatic                         Extraordinary

Bloody                       Facinating                      Epic

Suspenseful               Compelling                     Humorous

Exciting                     Dark                                Love story





Grammar


Present Perfect, is used for actions which began in the past and continue now

Present Perfect Continous, the important thing is action, not specified whether the action has ended or not




Unit #4

WEALTH


Money never made anyone happy


"Happiness comes from spiritual wealth., not material wealth"







Vocabulary



























Tag questions...

To make questions tags there are many ways like the following...

Using the main verb with an auxiliary verb.
Using the main verb with do, does or did when you don't use an auxiliary verb.
Also you can do the question positive or negative.

Examples

You weren't home last night at 11:30pm,  were you?

You really think I did it, Don't you?

You will marry me, Wont't you?

You took all that money and hid it at home, didn't you?

You did not write this, did you?