What I learned about UNIT 9?

In this unit with my class we talk about Controversial issues. I learned to discuss a topic, controversial issues politely and to create a debate.I learned to express my point of view using expressions of disagreement and agreement like: I agree with you... I couldn't agree more... That's exactly what I think... Or I don't agree... I'm not sure, etc. Also in the classroom we talked about causes, effects, possible solutions for some controversial issues such as: censorship of books and movies, compulsory military service, lowering the driving age, prohibiting smoking indoors, etc. In grammar the teacher taught us Non-count nouns for abstract ideas, non-count nouns usually have no plural.They deal with things that we do not usually count: tea, sugar, water, air, rice, etc. or for abstract ideas or qualities such as knowledge, beauty, anger, fear, love. I had to review again my notes about Verbs followed by objects and infinitives from my last semester. I learned that certain verbs can be followed by infinitives, but some verbs must be followed by an object before the infinitive. In class we learned new vocabulary such as: radical, liberal, moderate, conservative, reactionary. To learn all these topics the teacher gave us some extra handouts and she sent us a lot of homework in which we had to: Investigate the positive and negative aspects for Democracy, Dictatorship and Monarchy. So, I had to write some paragraphs about these topics.In the homework I write a composition to express my opinion about "Lowering the driving age", and I proposed a plan to solve "Racism and ethnic discrimination". In the classroom we made a debate about some controversial topics I had to work with some classmates to debate the topic, all of us had to take notes about the other expositions to create a debate in the class. It was very intresting because all of us have different points of view. In conclusion, I believe that I can apply all this new knowledge to create an interesting debate about a controversial issue. I think that this unit was very intresting because I can express some ideas when I have a different point of view in class with any topic. Bibliography: http://netgrammar.altec.org/Units/Unit_3/a101c3_201000.html Top Notch 3; English for today's world. Joan Saslow, Allen Ascher.