Sunday 17 June 2018

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 
todaythat day
nowthen
yesterdaythe day before
… days ago… days before
last weekthe week before
next yearthe following year
tomorrowthe next day / the following day
Place
herethere
Demonstratives
thisthat
thesethose



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.