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BY: PAOLA MEZA

ANECDOTE!

Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns

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Present Continous!

Present Continous

Present Simple

Present Simple

WRITTING

Through the English Class we have Reached Unit 7 and Unit 8 of the Student Book. Using as activities and excersices common activities that people do in their daily life.

The teacher has done a series of activites that includes writting letters, post cards, emails, traveling to other parts of the world and many others. Next I will explain the main ideas of the writting activities in bought Units.

Unit 7

In Unit 7 we laerned how to use infitive to give reasons, use it in sentences, ask for and give advice and suggestions, to talk about vacations and getting ready for a trip, respond to suggestions and to use I guess to sound less sure about something.

Lesson A

In lesson A two persons are getting ready for a trip they're planing, and we learned how to use

- Infinitive for reasons; It's + adjective + to (get,see,find). 

Lesson B

In lesson B we learned a several amount of words to pack when we are going to a trip.

We learned how to give advices and suggestions.

Lesson C

In lesson C we learned how to answer to suggestions watching the exmple of two guys talking in a supermarket. and using

- I guess... when you're not a 100% sure about something, or if you don't want to sound 100% sure.

Unit 8

In unit 8 we have different activites that show us things that people usually do. The Unit 8 has different Lessons, which are:

Lesson A

Lesson A talks about a spring cleaning and during this lesson we learned how to use the possesive pronouns in common sentences, for example:

Lesson B

Lesson B talks about the different vocabulary words that are in the different part of a house. Bedroom, Bathroom, Living room and the kitchen.

In this part of the book they teach us how is the order of adjectives; Pronouns one and ones.

The usual order of adjectives are:

Opinion, size, color, shape, nationality and material.

Lesson C

Lesson C talks about how to ask politely by uisng

Do you mind...? to ask for permission

Would you mind...? to ask to do something

This is what we have reached and learned until now in the Student Book. We hope to learn much more to adquire more knowledge and to have more skills to afront future situations.

By: Luis Palacios

LISTENING

Through English classes we did many actictivities of listening of Unit 7th and Unit 8th. In one of the activities the teacher put a recording with a list of words (they were things you need on a trip and things at home) that we have to listen and wrote down in our notebooks and then he shecked them. Another activities were on the blackboard where the teacher put a recording of conversations between two people and there were a serie of questions about the conversation that we have to answer. Once the teacher put a song of possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives and he gave us a paper with the letter of the song and there were some empty spaces were we have to out the words that were missing through the song that we were listening. Also all the classes are activities of listening cause the teacher and classmates speak in english so you always listen to them and you learn more of this language.

ADVISES FOR LISTENING:

when you are having a conversation with someone, you need to follow this listening skills...

1) Pay Attention: focus on the speaker. Look to the facial expressions and body language, they could communication many things in an easier way.

2) Practice Active Listening: when you don't understand or you just want to be sure that it is what you understood, ask the speaker to slow down or repeat what he/she is saying.

3) Listen to Key words: pay attention to the words that the speaker emphasizes.

This was taken from Busy teacher page.

VIDEO:

Here is a video where you can learn the things that are at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDX9tt4zoRw

Here is a video where you can learn the order of adjectives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRpKDae-eV0

EXERCISES:

I recomend you to open the following link, in this page you could find different kind of conversations that you can listen and then answer the questions to check if you understood the conversation:

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/listening.htm

By: Paola Meza

WHAT WE LEARNED...

UNIT 7TH

we learned how to...

1. Use infinitives to give reasons

Example: "I have to go online to find a flight"

2. Use "it" in sentences
Example: "It's easy to find bargains online"

3. Ask for and give advice and suggestions
Example: "You should take a hat" - It is an Advice
                " Take a a hat" - It is a Suggestion

4. Talk about vacations and getting ready for a trip
Example: Things to remember for a trip "a Towel, sandals, a hair dryier, sunscreen, toothbrush"

UNIT 8TH

we learned ....

1. To use whose..? and  Possessive pronouns "mine, yours, his, hers", etc.

Example: -"Whose brush is this"    

               - "It's my brush"     -"It's his brush"   - "It's her brush"    -"It's their brush"   -"It's our brush"

2. The Order of adjectives

Example: 1) Number  2) Opinion 3) Size  4) Age  5) Colour  6) Origin 7) Material 8) Purpise 9) Noun

3. The things at home 

Example: 1) Bedroom - "clock, nighstand, curtains, carpet, dresser"

                2) Bathroom - "mirror, shower, toilet, sink, bathtub"

                3) Living room - "armchair, sofa, coffe table, cushions, end table, lamp"

                4) Kitchen - "cabinets, dishwasher, faucet,  microwave, oven"

4. To ask politely

Example: "Would you mind opening the door"

                "Would you mind if I open the door"

5. To agree to request in differents ways

Example:   1) To answer NO to agree requests wih mind: "No, go ahead"/ "No, not at all"

                   2) To answer YES to agre to requests with can and could: "Yes" / "Sure" / "No problem"

By: Paola Meza, Luis Palacios and Estefania Jimenez

SPEAKING

Unit 7th and Unit 8th

Through the first period of english class we did different activities of speaking, most of them were games and creativity challenges. We did contest during classes, a presentation of city tour guide of Cali and we also did a video were we show to the teacher and our classmates our houses or our daily routine.

These activities makes learning english more fun, due to the fact that you don´t feel that pressure of making mistakes, because you know everyone is learning, everyone makes mistakes on speaking activities because mistakes are part of the process of learning english.The teacher is always motivating us to give our best,  he don´t only give us advises about the class and learning english, he also advises us for become better human beings, teaching us to be better people snd leaving aside mediocrity.

Classes are fun, and we can notice how far our fluency when we speak english have improve during this first period.´

By: Stefania Jimenez

THIS IS US...

Luis Palacios

 Paola Meza

 Estefania Jimenez