A mysterious story

For my English class I wrote with my partner Katia a story. The story was free, but the last sentence must have been "If I only hadn't boarded that bus. So this is our story, enjoy it!

The Conditionals

Zero Conditional
General truths and general habits.

• If + present simple, present simple.

Example: If you touch a fire, you get burned.

First Conditional

Possible or likely things in the future.

•  If + present simple, will + infinitive.

Example: If I study, I will pass the exam.

Second Conditional

Impossible things in the present / unlikely things in the future.

• If + past simple, would + infinitive.

Example: If I studied, I would pass the exam.

Third Conditional

Things tha did' that happen in the past and their imaginary results.

• If + past perfect, would + have + past participle

Example: If I had studied, I would have passed the exam.

Source: http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/conditionals.html

The SAT Exam

The SAT Exam is designed for College Board and is an important exam for the Junior and Senior High School students who want to enter the University. The exam have three sections: reading, mathematics and writing

In my English class I had the opportunity to take the reading part of this exam. I've admit that the first part of the test was essay, but then the difficulty was increase, so the last questions were very complicated. I hope if I continue to practice, I can improve in the future.

'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' Explain

This song is from the British band The Smiths. It was featured on their third album The Queen Is Dead in 1986

In the song he begged that she took him out of that place, because he wanted to explore new music, people and life, and he refused that they returned to his home. Finally he confirmed if they die, he would privilege to die with her.

Reported speech questions

WH Questions:
When we tell the question to someone else, it isn't a question any more. So we need to change the grammar to a normal positive sentence.

• Direct: "Where does Peter live?"
• Indirect: She asked him where Peter lived.

Yes/No Questions (ask + if/whether + proposition):

• Direct: "Is it raining?"
• Indirect: She asked if it was raining.

Interrogative pronouns (ask + interrogative pronoun + proposition):

• Direct: The policeman said to the boy, "Where do you live?"
• Indirect: The policeman asked the boy where he lived.

Source: http://www.ef.com.mx/recursos-aprender-ingles/gramatica-inglesa/formas-interrogativas-estilo-indirecto/

Results of my second Quiz

My main mistakes were words missing, re-phrase, and the spelling of some words.

How to write an essay?

Exist many kins of essays, but I'll focus on one: Compare and contrast Essay.
A comparative essay asks that you compare at least two (possibly more) items. These items will differ depending on the assignment. You might be asked to compare

• Positions on an issue (e.g., responses to midwifery in Canada and the United States)
• Theories (e.g., capitalism and communism)
• Figures (e.g., GDP in the United States and Britain)
• Texts (e.g., Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth)
• Events (e.g., the Great Depression and the global financial crisis of 2008–9)

You can organize the essay in this way:

Sources​: advice.writing.utoronto.ca/types-of-writing/comparative-essay/
https://www.tru.ca/writingcentre.html

Direct and Reported Speech

In the English class I learned about two different Speeches.

• Direct Speech

Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken. When we use direct speech in writing, we place the words spoken between quotation marks (" ") and there is no change in these words.

Example: 

  He: "We/You will have quizzes every other Friday".

• Reported (Indirect) Speech

Indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', etc.

Example:

  He said we would have quizzes every other Friday.

If the reporting verb is in the past tense, then usually we change the tenses in the reported speech:

Source: www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech.html

Results of my first Quiz

My main mistakes was some words missing, spelling, wrong words and wrong tense.

Corrections 2

For the English class I did a little essay about one question.
These were my results:

Corrections:
What would you do if you were able to read people's minds?
I would know what people think and use it to help them. For example if I read the mind of a person who feels sad, I'd try to help. Or if someone planning to commit a crime, I'd tell the authority.

Two interesting videos

My English teacher recommended see two videos.

The first video is "Ken Tanaka meets a Caucasian Japanese man". In this video two men talk about their experience like Caucasian Japanese person. Apparently Ken Tanaka was adopted for a Japanese family, while David was born in Japan. Ken asks David if he was suffered bullying during his childhood and David said no. An important point is that they think the Half-Japanese suffer more bullyng because they are not completly Japanese.

• Link to the video: https://youtu.be/cG5sqVE2J5I

The second video “Things non-Spanish Speaking Latinos are sick of hearing” is a parody about many situations that Latinos who don’t speak Spanish daily living and how other Latinos react whit them. I think you mustn’t forget your entity and it’s good you try to know it. But sometimes the conditions are different, so the rest of people must try to understand you and not prejudice you.

• Link to the video: https://youtu.be/VKJe4BTC1Vg

Corrections

Yesterday in my English class made questions for a guest who will come the next wednesday.

So this are the question and corrections:

The main errors were:

• The - Is a definite article. We most use before names of some contries/territories. Ex: the United States.
• Capital letters - We most use for languages and nationalities. Ex: Mexican, Spanish.

Tips to learn languages

For my English class I saw a video about tips to learn new languages.

The first recommendation is "Make mistakes". Many times we feel bad when we don't know if our pronunciation is right and the insecurity increase. Also when we learn a new language learn new sounds, so we need to make mistakes to improve our sounds databases.

The second recommendation is "Scrap the foreing alphabet". We must try to find a similitude in the pronunciation of the word with sounds that we know and don't try to read the words literally.

The third recomendation is "Find a stickler". We must find someone who oriented our learning and feel comfortable when correct us and in the same way we feel good.

The next recommendation is "Shower conversation". We can have conversations with ourselfs and take both roles. In this way you can find your gaps and correct.

The last recommendation is "Budd Formula". We try to find a buddy with whom have conversations to practice.

I think not exist a "formula" which you can learn better or faster a new languages. You can try this recommendations, but the important is that you can find your own learning methods.

• Link to the video: https://youtu.be/-WLHr1_EVtQ

"So" or "Such"?

In my English class saw some examples of Such and So. Here are the phrases that we practiced in class:

• It is/was such a/an adjetive + noun that...
• The noun was so adjetive that...
• The noun was just/not/too adjetive enough for PP to...

Now some examples:

1. It's such a perfect day that I don't want it to finish.
2. The movie was so fun that I hope to see it again.
3. The restaurant was not good enough for me to comeback.

What genre of music you suit most?

Today in class talked about  "Music Genres".
With my partner made a list of music genres:
Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop, Country, Reggae, Jazz, Bossanova, Blues, R&B, Indie, Disco, Soul, Folk and Funk.

So, what is my opinion of this music genres?
Here are some phrases which you can say that.

• I find _______ (boring/ annoying/ amusing/ interesting/ shoking/ disgusting/ relaxing/ amazing/ etc.).
• I get (bored/ annoyed/ amused/ interested/ shocked/ disgusted/ relaxed/ amazed/ etc.) when I hear _______.

For example:

1. I find Rock amazing.
2. I get amused when I hear Hip-Hop.

Flo-Joe Practice

My Learning Style

Today I answered a test about what is my learning style and this are my results:

According to the scale I am balanced on "Active and Reflective learning", however I have a preference for Reflective learning, consequently I prefer think first and do later.

The next learning dinensions are "Sensing and Intuitive". Here I am moderated but I have preference for Intuitive learning, so I like the innovations and fast work, 

Then we have "Visual and Verbal learning". Again I am balanced but I have a preference to Verbal learning therefore I remember best when I see or listen words.

Finally we have "Sequential and Global learning". In this dimension I am more balanced and I have a small preference to Sequential learning thus I'll learn better if I follow steps in logicall form to find solutions.