What I learned about UNIT 2?

In this unit we learned about Musical Moods. In this unit we learned about: Describe the music you listen to, Explain the role of music in your life, Describe a creative person and discusss the benefits of music. The vocabulary used to describe creative personalities was very useful for example, a musician can be gifted, energetic, imaginative, passionate, eccentric, difficult, moody and egotistical. The new vocabulary was very intresting we checked some word with their meaning: a beat is, melody is and sound is. In the grammar section I recalled the use of the present perfect for finished actions and the use of the present perfect continuous for unfinished or continuing actions. I learning that We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child, when I lived in Japan, at that moment, that day, one day, etc. We CAN use the Present Perfect with unspecific expressions such as: ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far, already, yet, etc. And We use the Present Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now. "For five minutes," "for two weeks," and "since Tuesday" are all durations which can be used with the Present Perfect. Also, I recalled the use and structure of Noun clauses. In conclusion, in this unit I had to be more responsible, because the teacher asked us to complete a lot of exercises in order to improve our knowledge. The handouts were very important to learn and remember some basic grammar. Bibliography: http://netgrammar.altec.org/Units/Unit_3/a101c3_201000.html Top Notch 3; English for today's world. Joan Saslow, Allen Ascher. http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfectcontinuous.html

What I learned about UNIT 1?

In this unit we talked about New Perspectives. First, in class we socializated about a map in which we found some animals to describe different places of the world. In pairs we made a classwork, we answered some question such as: What is unusual about the way the map despicts the world? and What do you think the artist is trying to say with the ilustration?. Also, we read a converstaion between two collegues working temporarily in another country. The teacher told us we have to be careful with new expressions and new vocabulary. I had to explaint some new phrases like: "Am I ready to head home!", "I can´t get enough of this place", "I think I´ve had about enough", "I can´t get over How much I enjoy being here", "It´s a pain in the neck having to work so hard" and "There is no place like home". After that we checked the grammar about Gerunds and infinitives (changes in meaning); I learned that some verbs are followed by eigther a gerund or an infinitive with no change meaning for example: love, hate, can´t stand, like, prefer, begin, start, continue. However, some verbs change meaning, depending on whether they are followed by a gerund or an infinitive. In this unit, I learned to describe a person with some adjectives like: funny, optimistic, professional, etc. At the end of this unit we talked about a life-changing experience, then we made a writing with this topic. I write about getting a new job. I really enjoed this unit because the information I learned some time ago was useful to remember about this topic. In conclusion, I think that now I can talked about my past experiences with new vocabulary and uses new adjectives. Bibliography: http://netgrammar.altec.org/Units/Unit_3/a101c3_201000.html Top Notch 3; English for today's world. Joan Saslow, Allen Ascher.

What I learned about UNIT 10?

The topic of this Unit is "Enjoying the World". In this new Unit I studied about how to describe: where a place is located, a natural setting; also, I learned to warn about a possible risk and in the class we debated about development. In the class we socializated about a map of America and another of Ecuador, we gave some ideas about where some places are exactly located. The teacher taught us prepositions of place like: on, in and of. We use in to talk about cardinal points; on to talk about lakes, the coast , rivers and so on; and of to name countries. in that way we checked some information about geography, it was very important to can be able to talk about a place. Also, we learned new vocabulary such as: rocky, steep, foggy, slippery, dark, exhausting, a path, a cliff and a cave. We used this new vocabulary to talk about a possible risk. In this unit I learned geographic adjectives like: mountainous, hilly, flat, lush, arid, a forest, a jungle, a canyon, an island and a valley; with this new words we had to make a composition about our favorite place, I wrote about Atacames beach because it is my favorite place in Ecuador to visit it has some intresting landscapes and I really crazy about it, it is amazing place that I know. Finally in class we made a debate about Yasuni proyect. Some people were in favor of this proyect and the rest were against. We had to investigate what this proyect was about to give a description about it. So, we shared opinions about ecotourism in Ecuador. In conclusion, it was a very intresting unit because I really enjoy to visit different places, if I can study other career I will study tourism, It like me a lot. Bibliography: http://netgrammar.altec.org/Units/Unit_3/a101c3_201000.html Top Notch 3; English for today's world. Joan Saslow, Allen Ascher.