Week 14 (Final class)

This last week we practice for the oral and grammar text.

We practice themes sauch as:

Week 13

This week we practice about the Direct Speech and Indirect Speech. I will put some examples.

•  I am going to meet Marc.          He said he was going to meet Marc.
•  He didn´t buy it yesterday.       She told me he hadn´t bought it the day before.
•  Tom has been late every day.    He told me Tom had been late every day.
•  
  

Week 12

This week we learned about the Direct Speech and the Indirect Speech. And also we learned how to change the direct speech from Indirect Speech.

The reported speech usually uses say or tell. If we use the verb say/tell, we have to mention the listener.

Here are some examples:

Direct Speech

will

She said, "I´ll teach English online tomorrow."

can

She said, "I can teach English online."

must

She said, "I must have a computer to teach English online."

Indirect Speech

would

She said "she would teach English online tomorrow."

could

She said "she could teach English online."

had to

She said "she had to have a computer to teach English online."

Week 11

This week we saw some ing/ed adjetives.

We use the -ing form to describe a quality someboy or something has. And we use the -ed form to describe how somebody feels about something.

Some verb forms:

Some examples:

Week 10

This week we saw about the If Conditional.
We use the If Condition to talk about things that are always true.

The If Conditional uses the simple present plus the simple present.

In this picture above I will show you some examples about the If Conditional:

Reality                                         Fantasy

I don´t have a car.                        I wish I had a car.                          

If I had a car, I wouldn´t have to take a bus.

We saw also the diffrent Conditionals.

The Zero Conditional that is used for present, real/factual situations, the First Conditional that is used for future, real/factual situations, the Second Conditional that is used for future unreal, imaginary situations, and the Third Conditional that is used for past unreal, imaginary situations.

Examples:

Week 9

This week, we saw a little review of the themes we`ve been seeing.

Like: the past tense, past progressive, the use of since and for, prepositions, the passive voice, tag questions, infinitive and gerund and past perfect.

Also we saw Unit 7 named Lifelong learning. In that unit we saw about how to describe a teacher. Words like: patient, boring, knowledgeable, understanding, inspiring, frightening, open-minded.

In grammar we saw about the Habitual Past: Used to and Would.

Used to is to talk about about past habits and states which are no longer true. Would is to talk about past habits only, and verbs that are in action.

Both can be used when talking about a repetitive action in the past.
Example: When I was a kid I used to play at the park/When I was a Kid I would play at the park.

When the verb is static use used to.

Some Common Stative Verbs are: (used to)       Some Dynamic Verbs are: (used to/would)
live                                                                         go
hate                                                                        make
love                                                                        cook
like                                                                         say
have                                                                       read
believe                                                                   drive
know                                                                      walk
think                                                                       write                                          
need
be
prefer

Week 8

This week we saw some words to describe a place, or an image such as:
At the bottom, in the middle, in the top, in the foreground, in the background etc.

For example:

In the middle of the picture, there is a little mountain, in the top there are the clouds and the sky looks blue and yellow with orange, in the foreground there are beautiful flowers with beautiful colors.

Week 7

This week we saw the Present Perfect.and Present Perfect Continous

Present Perfect: Examples

I have gone to Chicago before.
I have been to Limón many times.

Present perfect Continous

I´ve been looking for my glasses everywhere.
I´ve been running since 8:00 a.m.

And also we saw gerunds and infinitives.

Verbs followed by -ing (gerund)
can´t stand, enjoy, don´t mind, avoid, dislike, adore

Verbs followed by the infinitive
agree, promise, want, choose, decide, forget, refuse, expect

Week 6

This week we saw Unit 4 Wealth. We talk about differet things.

We made an interview like we were on a real tv show. The person I interview was Barack Obama, like I say on Week 5.

On grammar we saw Tag Questions

To make question tags, use the main verb/ an auxiliary verb. If the question is positive, the question tag is negative/positive. And if the question is negative, the question tag is negative/positive.

Examples:

You are a singer, aren´t you?         Yes, I am.

They have arrived, haven´t they?   Yes, they have.

You aren´t Costarrican, are you?    No, I´m not.

Also we saw about the factual conditional with if/when/unless/

Examples:

Unless you buy this (face cream) you will look old.

If I buy a lot know, I won´t have to come back later.

And the simple present form of the verb and will plus verb

Examples:

I will buy a new car as soon as I can afford it.

If you won´t pay the bill on time, you pay a late fee.

If they offer me the job, I will take it.

And also we talk about the movies or books we liked most. I choose the movie God´s Not Dead. It is a good movie.

Week 5

This week, on Monday we talk about a city that the teacher assign to us. I talk about the city of Vancouver, Canada.

Then we have to play a role of an actress, an actor, a politician. My partner was Barack Obama and I have to make questions like we were in an interview. It was fun, and also I learn things about I didn´t knew of the president.

Week 4

This week the topic was Home Sweet Home.

We saw about the diffrent types of houses, what does it have and the names. Some of the examples we saw are:                           

Apartments

Townhouse

House

Duplex

Also that many families like to do house swaps. In the class we saw a video of a program in The U.S.A. of a women that came to Costa Rica. She lives in Playa Tamarindo, Guanacaste. It was very interesting.

Also we learn abot the diffrent places of the house like the: AtticBasementFireplace

In the grammar class we saw the words will going and going to

Will is for the moment and going to is for plan.

1. Ex:What woul you like to drink? I will (I/have) some water, please.
2. Ex:Why are you moving all those books? I´m going to (I/change) offices tomorrow.

And also we saw comparative and superlative words like:

Superlative   Comparative

expensive      more expensive

peaceful        more peaceful

bad                worst

Week 3

In this week the topic was about the media.

Did you know that the most watch TV Show is: China´s Got Talent?

In the grammar lesson we saw about the active and passive voice.

The active voice is use to describe what someone or something does or has done. And the passive voice is use to describe what happens or has happened to someone or something.

For example:

Active sentence: The man kissed the baby.

Passive sentence: The baby was kissed by the man.

Also we saw about the simple past and past continous. For example:

1. Someone stole (steal) my wallet while I wasn´t looking (not looking)
2. I was driving (drive) home when I saw (see) a black cat on the side of the road.

Week 2

This week we saw about diffrent topics.

This Monday we didn´t have class because it was a holiday.

We saw about the present and present continous and learn how to use it in a sentence. 

Ex1: How is your English?

Not bad. It is getting (get) better.

Ex2: This train is (be) always late.     

And on vocabulary we learn how to use this diffrent words:

• get along
• get to know
• have a lot in common
• have the same sense of humor
• keep in touch´
• enjoy his company

Examples in sentences:

1-You should try to get to know Angela. She´s nicer than she seems.

2-Darren and I do everything together. I enjoy his company.

Week 1 (First class)

In this week that was the first one we introduce ourselves, the teacher also introduce himself.
The topic was relationships.

In the first class we saw prepositions like:

• about
• on
• in
• for
• to
• at

Also we saw about generalizations. It was so interesting. Also we saw a video about how men and women tend to be.
Some examples about the diffrent generalizations we saw are:

• Generally
• The average
• Tend to
• Most
• In contrast
• However

My name is Sinphonie Rosales Watson. I was born in 1996 Limon, Costa Rica.