News

I am "free" so I want to whatever I can't did the last 6 years so I am searching of scholarships so I found this: beca de  movilidad internacional estudiantil sep-unam-funam but I need TOEFL or IELTS https://www.ielts.org/what-is-ielts/ielts-introduction

News and government

The last two classes of the second week of May.

9th May, 2017.
At the beginning of the class we did an exam of reporting speech, here is my exam:

Then we were looking at News in leves site and the teacher put us the following note:

https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/first-chinese-plane-level-3/

that is about a plane. Then we made reported verbs sentences about the note in teams. Here are all the sentences per teams:

1. The journalist mentioned that the plane was designed to compete with the Airbus 320 and the Boeing 737.
2. She explained that the plane had taken off from the Shangai Airport.

1. The journalist (said) reported/announced/explained/added that the C919's maiden flight took/had taken 80 minutes.
2. She described that the C919 had been considered as a success by a Chinese company.

1. The journalist reported the jet was had been built by COMAC.
2. She explained that the C919 was designed to compete with Boeing 737 (also: as a competitor).

And the teacher gave us the following homework:

Choose a piece of news of News in Levels I choose https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/japanese-and-american-warships-level-3/ and I made these two sentences:

1. The journalist mentioned that Japan had dispatched its largest warship.
2. She described that Izumo was escorting a US supply vessel within Japanese waters.

11th May, 2017.

This day we talk about different types of government.

My team and I talked about the types that we knew that are the next:

• Anarchy
• Democracy
• Monarchy

And the last three we did not know:

• Commonwealth
• Emirate
• Sultanate

Laboratory class

8th May, 2017

This day we had class in the laboratory. When I arrived there was only 2 persons in the class, so my teacher told us that we had a problem. So the problems is this

Problem: Many people in this class are constantly late or absent. Next he gave us a solution.
Solution: A 10-15 minutes quiz from 17:10 -17:20 or 17:10 - 17:25.

This situation was a motivation to begin to talk about 3rd conditional, the regret is this:

Regret: I didn't know these many students were going to be so irregular

3rd Conditional

• Had I known this, I would have given 10- minute test from day one.
• If (only) I had known  this, I would have given 10 -  minute test from day one.

Then we did some examples. The next sentences are my examples:

1. If I had known that it was raining, I would have brought my umbrella.
2. If I had saved money, I would have bought more manga books.

After of doing this exercise more people arrive and the teacher gave us another activity in teams, the activity consisted in report what happened in the class since he arrived. Here is my activity:

The last activity was another exercise of reported speech. I only had some answers because the picture I took is blurry. Answers:

1. She said me to come quickly.
2. She asked if he arrived before seven.
3. She said that she would have visited the hospital if she had known that he were sick.
4. She asked if he usually cooked at home.
5. He tell that they had never been to Scotland until last year.
6. She asked me how my holidays had been.
7. She told me not to touch.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (first part)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

My father began to buy the books published by audiobooks that are stories of several authors. These books are bilingual (Spanish and English) and they have a CD that a narrator tells the story in English.

I choose The Curious Case of Benjamin Button because it is the first book I haven't seen the movie but  I heard that is a good movie.

Well, I only read and listened chapters 1 and 2 and I understood this:

In these Scott Fitzgerald describes Benjamin Button's family, they had money and good reputation. Then the Mr. Roger Button  entered that his baby was born and he asked for his wife and the baby but the physician of the family answered rude and tell him that he doesn't  want to be his physician anymore.

Then Mr. Button go to the hospital and  search his boy and all the nurses he cross look scary, finally he find his boy but he is an old man and he doesn't believe it but the nurse that help him to find him tells him that he is his son, this boy can talk perfectly. Mr. Button search cloths for him and at the end the newborn ask him about his name and Mr. Button tells him that he probably will call him Methuselah.

That was everything I understood of the chapters 1 and 2.

In the book there are a lot of words I didn't understand and phrases too, here are some of them.

Phrases

Talk sense! (Sea coherente)

Pull yourself together (Cálmese)

Shifting his ground (Cambiando de opinión)

Words

Obdurate (Obstinado)

Scraggly (ralo/a)

Seized (agarrar)

Shears (tijeras largas)

Sternly (Severamente)

Whitish (Blancuzco/a)

I also search about Methuselah and he is a character in the Bible his father was Enoch. Methuselah appears in the Genesis and he lived for 969 years. I think Roger Button said this because Benjamin looked old.

Connectors

25th April, 2017.

This day the teacher explained us when he will check our blogs and what he expected to see about our work.

Then he showed us websites that we can practice our english and we did an exercise of this page https://elt.oup.com/learning_resources/?cc=us&selLanguage=en I only have the answers:

• We were having dinner when sally called.
• John got to the cinema late and the film had started when he arrived.
• I was driving home when the accident happened.
• Were you watching TV when I phoned?
• I'd Studied really hard but I didn't pass the exam.

And we have homework, that is research about connectors that express addition and find examples fo these words in sentences, so here is the homework:

Furthermore

He was cold and tired, and furthermore, he was hungry.

Moreover

This idea, moreover, was conceived in circumstances that were to prepare the way for its realization.

Apart from

Apart from the ending, it's a really good film.

That is 

I read the book, that is, I read most of it.

Namely

One group of people seems to be forgotten, namely, pensioners.

In other words

We are all the same, in other words, national differences count for nothing in these psychic regions.

That is to say

Our people is like us, that is to say, like the Europeans themselves.

For instance

When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive command dependent one on another.

For example

I can play quite a few musical instruments, for example, the flute, the guitar and the piano.

That is the case

That is the case, for example, with the integration of new components into existing systems of the modernization of these systems.

Song

April 18th, 2017.
The teacher said us that we must bring a song and try to say what was the song about it. I chose Don't You Want Me by The Human League, here is the song with lyrics:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqtXyQEHC58

I chose this song because it was easy to understand. Well, the song is about a man who met a girl in a bar and he fell in love with her, then he helped her to have success in life but then she doesn't want to see him anymore and he thought that she doesn't love him anymore and if that is true he will take revenge on her. Then is the part of the woman, she said that he still love him but she wants to be independent and thats all.

Then our classmates had to make reported speech sentences with reported verbs of what they heard about the song and what they understand.

Others songs were:

1. Freedom by Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton (Django Unchained movie soundtrack)
2. Englishman in New York by Sting

My sentences of the first song are:

• She refused didn't to be a slave anymore
• She felt that the wight of the world was on her shoulders
• She remake that she wants to be true
• They agreed that one day everything would be better
• They refused to living in slavery

My sentences of the second song are:

• He boast his nationality at New York
• He stay at New Your
• He was a legal in New York
• He reused to drink coffee wit a stranger woman

Reporting verbs

April 17th, 2017.

First we remember what are the reporting verbs:

• Reported verbs are verbs that we use in reported speech
• The most common are say and tell
• Tell and make more efficient the communication.

We try to gave a formula but it was difficult and we did examples with some verbs instead.

Encouraged (To motivate)

Jack encouraged me to look for a new job.

Argue ( To debate) 

She argued that she was correct

Apologize (To say sorry)

He apologized for being late.

And we talked about the verbs deny, think, admit and refuse

Deny is to say no but in special situation like "No I didn't do it" or "No I don't have it"

Refuse is no thank you, is reject an offer

Think is having an opinion

Admit is I did it or I have it