Self-Assessment

Hi! This is my final self-assessment and it's sad think that this is the last thing that I write in this portfolio.

1.What can I do now?

Well , the only thing that I can do is continue learning and improving, so I think that I can say that this four years has been an absolutely evolution in my English. The first years I wasn't be able to say a sentences without lock, now I able to have a conversation and also understand it.

2. Blog-Portfolio

It's an original and effective method to learn vocabulary and expressions, and also to search about grammar and it's easily to learn.

3. Skills

About my skills, has been a great evolution in all the parts; In speaking I can speak with more fluency also I can write text on any topic. About reading it's easily to me to read text and understand all the text. Projects have been a way of learning English more pleasant and enjoyable, especially with our latest project in which our evolution has been captured.

I have to say thank you to all our English teachers, especially to Cristina for giving me confidence to speak with more fluency and to teach me that we can make mistakes, Thank you and that's all.

Bye!

Final Project

Paula Final Project

Unit 7- Grammar

There are a number of different ways of referring to the future in English. It is important to remember that we are expressing more than simply the time of the action or event. Obviously, any 'future' tense will always refer to a time 'later than now', but it may also express our attitude to the future event.

Unit 7- Travel

Get away: to go somewhere to have a holiday, often because you need to rest

Get on: If two or more people get on, they like each other and are friends.

Set off: to start a journey

Speed up: to move or happen faster

Stop over: If a bus, train, etc. stops at a particular place, it lets people get on and off.

Turn back: to move your body so that you are facing a different direction

Take off: f a plane takes off, it begins to fly.

Unit 6- Grammar

Different types of sentences

When you use reported speech, you either report:

• statements
• questions
• requests / commands 
• other types

A. Reporting Statements

When transforming statements, check whether you have to change:

• pronouns 
• tense 
• place and time expression

1- Pronouns

In reported speech, you often have to change the pronoun depending on who says what.

Example:
She says, “My dad likes roast chicken.” – She says that her dad likes roast chicken.

                     2. Tenses

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
Simple Present He said: "I am happy"	Simple Past He said that he was happy
Present Progressive He said: "I'm looking for my keys"	Past Progressive He said that he was looking for his keys
Simple Past He said: "I visited New York last year"	Past Perfect Simple He said that he had visited New York the previous year.
Present Perfect  He said: " I've lived here for a long time "	Past Perfect  He said that he had lived there for a long time
Past Perfect  He said: "They had finished the work when I arrived"	Past Perfect  He said that they had finished the work when he had arrived"
Past Progressive He said: "I was playing football when the accident occurred"	Past Perfect Progressive He said that he had been playing football when the accident had occurred
Present Perfect Progressive He said:"I have been playing football for two hours."	Past Perfect Progressive He said that he had been playing football for two hours
Past Perfect Progressive He said: "I had been reading a newspaper when the light went off"	Past Perfect Progressive He said that he had been reading a newspaper when the light had gone off
Future Simple (will+verb) He said: "I will open the door."	Conditional (would+verb) He said that he would open the door.
Conditional (would+verb) He said: "I would buy Mercedes if I were rich"	Conditional (would+verb) He said that he would buy Mercedes if he had been rich"

                         3- Place, demonstratives and time expressions

Place, demonstratives and time expressions change if the context of the reported statement is different from that of the direct speech. 

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
Time Expressions
today	that day
now	then
yesterday	the day before
… days ago	… days before
last week	the week before
next year	the following year
tomorrow	the next day / the following day
Place
here	there
Demonstratives
this	that
these	those

B. Reporting Questions

When transforming questions, check whether you have to change:

• pronouns 
• place and time expressions 
• tenses

Also note that you have to:

• transform the question into an indirect question 
• use the question word (where, when, what, how) or if / whether

       C. Reporting requests / commands 

When transforming requests and commands, check whether you have to change:

• pronouns 
• place and time expressions

Example:

She said, “Sit down." - She asked me to sit down.

She said, "don't be lazy" - She asked me not to be lazy

Unit 6- Reporting

Boast: to talk with too much pride

Reply: to answer

Complain: to say that something is wrong or that you are angry about something

Reveal: to tell someone a piece of secret information

Deny: to say that something is not true, or that you have not done something

State: to officially say or write something

Unit 5- Grammar

Review of question forms

Yes/No questions

• Is he a teacher? Yes he is.

To form yes/no questions where there is an auxiliary verb or a modal verb, we invert the word order of a positive sentence. (He is a teacher > Is he a teacher?)

• Does she know you. Yes she does.

When there is no auxiliary verb we use ‘do’ to form the question.

With question words

The same rules apply when there is a question word (‘what’, ‘where’, ‘when’, ‘why’, ‘who’, ‘which’, ‘how’, ‘how much’, ‘how many’)

• Where is the hotel?

Where there is an auxiliary or modal verb, that verb is used to form the question.

• How did you get here?

Where there is no auxiliary verb, we use do.

Subject/Object questions

Sometimes you might see questions like this.

• Who broke the window?
• What happened next?
• Who told you that?

There is no auxiliary verb and the word order is not inverted.

These are called subject questions – because the question word is the subject of the sentence.

Look at these two questions.

• Who does Romeo love? Romeo loves Juliet.
• Who loves Romeo? Juliet loves Romeo.

In the first question, Romeo is the subject of the verb.
In the second question ‘who’ is the subject and Romeo is the object.

Unit 5- Manners

Appreciation: a feeling of being grateful for something

Consideration: careful thought and attention

Diplomacy: skill in dealing with people well and not upsetting them

Etiquette: the set of rules or customs that control accepted behaviour in particular socialgroups or social situations

Interaction: an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to each other

Netiquette: the set of rules about behaviour that is acceptable on the internet

Politeness: behaving in a way that is not rude and shows that you think about other people

Rank: a position in society or in an organization

Rudeness: behaving in a way that is not polite and upsets other people

Tradition: a custom or way of behaving that has continued for a long time in a group of people