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Readings  Sections 1-5

1)      4/5

2)      6/ 10

3)      5/5

4)      3/5

5)      7/7

Writing Part 1

We don’t have any milk in the fridge, even though there was some yesterday.

Yesterday there were milk in the fridge, but there isn't today.

It is obvious that we forgot to buy it yesterday.

We must have bought it yesterday.

I find it very annoying when this happens.

I get it irritating when this happens.

Normally we have plenty of milk in the fridge.

We don’t have regularly  a lot milk in the fridge

It is more difficult to get fresh bread than to get fresh milk.

Fresh bread is more easy to get than to get fresh milk.

Writing Part 2

Hi, Dear Jeff

Thank you very much for your invitation. Your birthday party  was fantastic, I liked the music, drink. But, the food was the best for me.

I would like to meet with you the next week because I' ll give you a present.

I hope hear from you soon.

Best whishes,

Carolina.

Writing Part 3

Dear Colin,

You say you want to have the same holiday as mine,  but I recommend you to choose another country to visit because in Scotland the weather is very cold and wet and every day it will get worse.  In this season of the year the museum and turistic places are closed because people prefer stay at home.

On the other hand, the food in this hotel is terrible, bland rice, the meat is raw and the fruit is rotten. Moreover, the rooms are very small and are not clean.The windows do not have curtains, the room service is very slow and some other problem as well.

Definitely, I  think you should go the Caribbean, you can find many  beautiful beaches and a lot places to visit. Also, the weather is sunny and hot and people are very friendly.

I hope that my advise can help you.

Best reagards,

Comment

Honestly, these activities were not easy for me because my result is not the best. But, I think that I need to practice more to get better weaknesses. In the first place  writing part 1 was difficult for me I had a lot of confusion about it . However, writing exercises in part 2 and 3 were easier for me. I liked a lot the last exercises.  It gave me many resources to improve my reading comprension and writing.

Analysing News Articles

Bbc Single mothers

Idea : Falling behind in school can have lige-long effects,an it's increasingly common in Latino communities.


 Sara, Alexandra y Jennifer talk about their experience like single mothers


Support  


-Sara :" I had no sex education"
             "Our race is afraid that if they ask too much they will be put down".


- Alexandra says the low expectations of her community and of her parents didn't help.
  It's our race. Like my parents, they came from Mexico and they brought their thinking.
  Over there a lot of kids were expected to drop school and help their parents.


-Jennifer:  "that's why the teachers ignored her".
                   "They didn't even know I was there".


Linking words:  


Now, but, Instead, Like, For up, In fact, perhaps, that's, so.


mm... I didn't understand this activity, but I looked for the handout  and I tried to do the exercise.

Understanding Headlines

1. Match these newspaper headlines into with the following categories(some headlines fit two categories):

Noun Phrases
Difficult times ahead
Unexpected Visit-Overwhelming Response of Voters
Professors Protest Pay Cuts
Noun Strings
Mustang Referral Customer Complaint
Landscaping Company Disturbance Regulations
Widow Pension Pay Committee

Simple Tenses instead of Continuous or Perfect
Forgotten Brother Appears
Professors Protest Pay Cuts
Passerby Sees Woman Jump
President Declares Celebration
Under Pressure from Boss

Auxiliary Verbs Dropped in Passive Form
Man Killed in Accident
Tommy the Dog Named Hero

Articles Dropped
Man Killed in Accident
Forgotten Brother Appears 
Unexpected Visit
Under Pressure from Boss
Infinitive to Indicate Future
James Wood to Visit Portland- Major to Open Shopping Mall

-Make these headlines into sentences (you can use simple or complex
sentences, using what you know about dependent & independent
clauses; check your dossier)

1. Difficult Times Ahead=  Difficult Times are ahead
2. Forgotten Brother Appears= A brother has  appeared.
3. James Wood to Visit Portland= James Wood goes to visit Portland
4. Landscaping Company Disturbance Regulations= A landscaping company has a disturbance with regulations
5. Man Killed in Accident= A Man has been killed in an accident
6. Mayor to Open Shopping Mall= The mayor is going to open a  new shopping mall.
7. Mustang Referral Customer Complaint= A customer complains about a Mustang referral.
8. Overwhelming Response of Voters= An overwhelming Response of the voters.
9. Passerby Sees Woman Jump= Passerby sees a woman jump
10. President Declares Celebration = The President declares a celebration
11. Professors Protest Pay Cuts= Professors are protesting   pay cuts
12. Tommy the Dog Named Hero= Tommy the Dog is named a hero.
13. Under Pressure from Boss= Under Pressure From the Boss
14. Unexpected Visit= An unexpected visit
15. Widow Pension Pay Committee= A Committee pays the pension to a widow.

Tomás Mosciatti

He's from Concepción Chile. Nowadays, he's a prominent Journalist, he works in Bio bio radio, he also manager radio in Santiago y Valparaiso. He's newsreader in CNN Chile.

He studied law in the Chile University but he never to practised  law, so, he decided to be comemtator of radio.

Tomas mochiatti have three brother and he was the first of three. His father was a bussines man of comunication , so, he established Bio bio radio.

PET

Reading part 1.  5/5
Reaging part 2.  5/5
Reading part 3.  7/10
Reading part 4.  4/5
Reading part 5. 5/10
Writing part1    3/5   


Writing part 2

I'm writing to you because I want to thank you to keep with me during our trip for London. It was wonderfull, we knew a lot beautiful places together and many people too.
Do you have any plan for tomorrow?
I would like have lunch tommorrow with you because you invited me last time.
I'm waiting your answer.

Regards,

Carolina.

Writing part 3

Yesterday, I have seem this advertisement in the newspaper I would like to participate.
Well, My perfect holiday would be in the caribbean any island of the caribbean because I love the weather, the warm sea, people are very friendly, I like style life that people have there, also I love tropical music.
My favorite plan is rest in hammock while I see the sea and I drink a Guayaba juice. Definitely, this is life that I always have dreamt.

I hope win this holiday.

Regars,

Carolina.

Opinion

Well, I think that this exercises help me  to understand more about the next test. Also, help me to have more vocabulary. I liked to write a short story. But in general the reading for me wasn't very easy. I will try to effort for learn every day.

Changing the end.

At the end of the story, Shirley and Budd came back to house with their children. Then, Lily and Jensens were to visiting to their neigbours, they were talking about the all things that they had made the last twenty years. They went to Africa, they were helping a lot children in this country. They taught children english and spanish class, also they gave a lot food  etc. By the way, Shirley and Budd  decided adopting five african children.

They were very happy at home again.

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