Unit 5: Making money 4


Unit 5: Making money 


Conditionals:

The zero conditional: 
(if + present simple, ... present simple)



The first conditional:
(if + present simple, ... will + infinitive)



The second conditional:
(if + past simple, ... would + infinitive)




The third conditional:
(if + past perfect, ... would + have + past participle)

If I hadnt been for:
is often used to show that a negative result would have occurred withoout a certain person or event.


Should you: 
is used in formal business comunications.


Provided :
can be used instead of if to show that specific conditions should be met for something to happen 

If only:
can be used to express a wish or regret


Happen to:  
can be used with real conditional sentences to emphasize that something is unlikely to occur.


If you will:
can be used as a polite form.


For this unit I have been practice with online activities

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional2.htm

Unit 4: Moving forward

I describe myself  as a technophone because I am very fast with it.

In this unit we learned a little bit about superheroes and their superpowers like wall climbing, teleportation, regeneration, super-strength, and others.

My superhero 

Name: The peculiar Gabriela 

Superpowers:

• Wall climbing.
• Teleportation.
• Regeneration.
• Flying.
• Invisibility.
• Make the people smile.

weakness: Cockroach .

Simple present:

It is used to express the idea that an action is repeated or usual, the action can be a habit, a hobby, a daily event. 



Present continuous:
 Express the idea that something is happening now, at this very moment.


Going to
We use 'going to' when we want to talk about a plan for the future.



Future Continuous
It is  used to talk about events in the future.


Future Perfect
 indicates that an action will have been completed (finished or "perfected") at some point in the future.


For this unit I have been practice a lot because I get confuse sometimes 

Unit 3: Stories

In this unit we learned the diferent types of stories:

• A fake: its something that is not true.
• A myth: stories about adventures, whether triumphs or tragedies, tales of honor or tales of vengeance of a character were passed down by storytellers from generation to generation. 
• A tall tale: stories of their adventures, whether triumphs or tragedies, tales of honor or tales of vengeance, were passed down by storytellers from generation to generation. 
• A fairy tale:  a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending
• A legend: are about peolple  and their actions or deeds. The people lived in more recent times and are mentioned in history. 
• A joke: are a form of verbal humor, including one-liners, riddles, and other things that make us laugh.

We did a short story.

Jose was working in the office when he saw a little boy crying 

because his kite got stuck in a tree, so jose srarted to 

transformer in a superhero with superpower to help the little boy, 

when  Mario came and started to fight with Jose, so the little boy 

didnt know what to do, so he called a police officer that was 

walking in the park and was a robot, so the police officer 

separated the fight betweend Jose and Mario , and also the police 

returned them to be friend again.

Simple past 

we use it  to express  an action that started and finished at a specific time in the past. 

Past continous:

it is use to  indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually a shorter action in the Simple Past.

Past perfect continous

It is use  to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. "For five minutes" and "for two weeks" are both durations which can be used with the Past Perfect Continuous

Excercise in class

This unit is  very difficult for me because I get confuse in this types of past, but now I am practice a lot in online activities .

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_02_022e?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Unit 2: Places and communities

In this unit we learned the diferrent types of writting (formal , unformal and neutral).

Informal Writting:
It is  similar to a spoken conversation, may include slang, figures of speech, broken syntax, asides and so on. 

 Informal writing takes a personal tone as if you were speaking directly to the  audience .


Formal Writting: 
You need to be as thorough as possible with your approach to each topic when you are using a formal style. Each main point needs to be introduced, elaborated and concluded.

No contractions should be used to simplify words (in other words use "It is" rather than "It's")

A formal writing style is not necessarily “better” than an informal style, rather each style serves a different purpose and care should be taken in choosing which style to use in each case.  


Exercise in class

Dear sr or madam
Good morning  I will be grateful if you could inform me more about this incredible opportunity, how many hours of work per day, and how many is the pay, because I want to improve my English and  this is the best way to do it . I think I am your better choice because I know almost the world and the best places to visit in each country, and I will be a good tour guide. I hope you might also let me know about what does it mean “the responsible for looking after the general welfare” because I have taken curse in nursing so I know how to act  and respond at any event. If you think I am a good choice, I will be available for an interview but only in evening please.

I would like to thank you in advance.
Best wishes 

Gabriela Sálamo 


Exercise out class
For this unit we wrote about some beautiful place and foods  in a country, so I choosed Venezuela Beacuse I am for there.

Do you want to visit a different country this year? What about going to Venezuela?

Venezuela is a beautiful country full of diversity culture and many festivals where you can go at any time of the year.

 If I were you, I would go to the Angel waterfall one of the Seven Wonders of the World , If you are interesting of this place remember to bring a lot of water, sunscreen, sunglasses, sweater and  mosquito repellent. This is one of the  most incredible tour because you have to camp so you will be in contact with the nature, at night you will see many stars in the sky, so you should try this tour. If you like the beaches, the margarita island is your better choice, it’s full of beautiful beaches, make sure you go to the chapel of the Valley Virgin the worship of the all Venezuelan.

If you prefer the cold you should go to Mérida, it’s a beautiful place full of crafts, in this place you can also visit Eagle peak, but make sure to bring a lot of sweater because there are snow. A  lot of people like the Dunes Choir, it’s like a desert, in my opinion it’s not so good because it’s very hot, but if you want to try something new this is the place for you.

The food it’s very varied but you should try these options:

CACHAPA:  it is made from a puree of corn, sugar, salt and oil. It is normally then folded over with a large piece of a soft white cheese inside. It is traditionally served with breakfast or at "once" a snack with tea. Sometimes it is accompanied by a side of fried pork.

 

PABELLÓN CRIOLLO: It is a simple dish of shredded beef and black beans served on a bed of white rice. It almost always is accompanied by a fried egg (Pabellón a Caballo) or with fried plantain slices (Pabellón con Barandas) the meat is sometimes replaced by fish during lent. It is the Venezuelan national dish.

If you want to know about the Venezuela culture you should go to the Carnivals, it’s the most incredible thing; you will see the people playing with water in the street, and also music and customer parades.  The best option of transportation it is to  rent a car

 

For this unit I have been practiced a lot the formal and informal writting

http://www.autoenglish.org/writing/formalandinformalexercise.htm

Unit 1

Passive and Active voice 

Active voice:
In most English sentences with an action verb, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb.



Passive voice:



If you wanna change an active sentence to a passive sentence:

1. Move  the active sentence's direct object into the sentence's subject  slot

2.Place the active sentence's subject into a  phrase beginning with the preposition by. 

3. Add a form of the auxiliary verb be to the main verb and change the  main verb's form

Excercises did it in this unit.

We saw a really short part of the movie " A dogs tale"

And we changed sentences in active to passive.

• Hachi is putted in a cage by him
• Hachi was pick up at the airport by a couple.
• The baggage carrier was accidentaly dropped hachis cage on the station.
• Hachi was found and carried by Parker.

For me this is very difficult because I dont understand perfectly the changes that we have to do it to the verb, but I have been practice in the internet.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/passive1/index.php

For this unit I hope to understand perfectly the changes we must do in active and passive voice, for that I will continue to practice more in the internet .

Unit 1: Achieving goals 

My Goals:  

• To have my own dental clinic.
• To have many patients
• To specialize in orthodontics in USA. 

My Challenges:

• Money: this is a big challenges because this career (dentristy) is very expensive and now my parents have the economic to pay it,  but tomorrow or in a few months I dont know If I will have the same economic to pay the career.
• Time: I am scared about this because dentristy is a long career and some people give it up and I dont want that this happen to me.  
• Fear: this is my big challenge, because I am scared that a patient come to my clinic and I dont know  what that patient has and what to do.

Being a succesfull person is not very hard, you only have yo:

• Be thankfull for all the support of  your family, friends, boyfriend/grilfriend.
• You dont have to be afraid of trying something new.
• You need to have possitive mind because it will be easier.
• If you fall down its ok , we are humans and we make mistakes,but you need to stand up.

• In this unit we read about a man that spoke 72 languages like Swedish, Sanskrit and Persian. In the future I want to speak 5 leanguages:

French

Iitalian

English

Arabic 

Portuguese 

In my opinion the best way to learn a language is doing this:

• Listen to music in the language we want to learn.
• If we want to watch a movie we can put it in the language and subtitles.
• Have a notebook where we can write a strange word and the meaning.
• If we know a person that speak the language, we can speak with that person only in that language.