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