lunes, 9 de mayo de 2011

First April week

This week we are still hungover from last Friday...
On Tuesday we continued doing the practice from de last week, we did exercises about linking word and changing the meaning of the phrases using the correct connectors. We did this via internet in some webs and in a handouts too.

On Wednesday the teacher continued explaining the theory unit 3 and we ended it. The last part of the unit 3 was one text for reading and comprehension about the marketing and the teenagers. After that we had to find many synonyms in the text and answer some true or false statements.

Paellas week and weekend in Madrid!

This is a very special week for the EPSA students, maybe this is the most special week.
In the practice class on Tuesday we did exercises of linking words with connectors, express cause and effect and contrast. We did that in some web pages. We read a text for reading and comprehension too.

In the theory class on Wednesday we corrected the homework from last week and listened several speeches from different companies.

The paellas had to be thursday but was postponed by rain to friday. Paellas is the main festival for all the EPSA members, it also are known like a Pumpkin festival, I don't know why...
The paellas consists in each class makes its paella for lunch and all the members of the class wear the same t-shirt with a joke or a funny phrase printed on it. The paellas are celebrated in the parking of the university and this year the festival started at ten o'clock and finished at eight o'clock. Paellas are my favorite festival!

This week my team and I won the paellas cup from the futsal competition! It was great and we had to receive the cup the paellas day.

After paellas I had to go to Madrid by train to be with the family business at the fair of Madrid related with pastry and confectionery and accessories. Here you have some photos from paellas and the fair of Madrid:


Another week!

Hello!! This is the summary of the week 14/03/11 to 20/03/11:
In the tuesday practice class we did exercises of reading and listening about the new technologies and the wearable computers. In the second part of the class we had to get in groups and try to invent or imagine a future invent related with the wearable computers. It was a bit difficult for us!

In the wednesday theory class we started the unit 3 called business. We have to answer some questions from texts about brands and brands names. We also learnt vocabulary and specific words related with business and jobs.

Sixth week of class!!

Hello mates!! In the practice class of this week we did the classroom practice number 4. To begin we talk about how laptops work, the emerging technology and wearable computers and also we saw a video about wearable computers from the web page www.howstuffworks.com. After that we continue with the second part of the fourth practice, in this part  we learnt about modal verbs (can, could, may, might, must, ought to,  shall, should, will and would) and their forms and uses.

  In the theory class of wednesday we finish the unit 2: Computers. The last part of this unit is about future trends, nanotechnology, nanobots and nanocomputers. After we continue doing exercises about prefixes and suffixes and finally we learnt how to differentiate the verbs do & make. These verbs are very often confused, theirs meanings are similar but there are differences.

Fifth week and carnaval in Jijona!

Hi bloggers!! Here are the things what we have done during this week:
On Tuesday in the practice class we did the last practice about oral presentations, we finished the units four and five, their titles were "The right kind of language" and "Visual aids". We did exercices of communicative functions: transport and travel, with exercices of questions, complete sentences, listening and speaking from web pages.


In the theoric class on wednesday morning we continue with the unit 2 "Computers" doing some different kinds of exercises about vocabulary  related with computers and informatic or electronic terms.


This weekend was the carnival in my town, Jijona, and I was disguising as a harlequin. I really like this kind of events that people dress up and go out.

martes, 8 de marzo de 2011

fourth week!

In the practice class of this week we started with the classroom practice number 3. To begin we did a grammar revision about the verb tenses, the teacher review with us all the verb tenses and then we did some exercises of the practice and correct them. After that, we started with new unit of the oral presentations, in this unit we learned some connectors to linking parts in a presentation. Finally we saw some formal and informal verbs whose mean is the same for both. This helps us to know in wich context we have to use each one.

In the theory class of wednesday we started the unit 2: Computers. As the title says, it talks about vocabulary related with world of the computers, programs and more electronic machines. First we did the vocabulary exercises for the first pages and then we learned how to express ability with some grammar exercises. Finally we saw some rules about the second conditional and completed some sentences with the correct form of the verbs.

Third week!!

In the first class of the week we started the classroom practice number two. It is the continuation of the first practice and it also and the subject is also how to make good oral presentations. In the first part of the class the teacher explained to us what are the relative clauses and then we did some exercices about defining and non-defining relative clauses.
In the second part of the class we listened two oral presentation about a man who was trying to make a presentation of his company and we did two exercises in which we had to complete the texts with the corrects words of the listenning.

In the wednesday theory class, we started checking the  homework of the last week. After, we did the exercises of the last pages of the unit 1 and finished it. Finally we complete a sheet of paper with the vocabulary that we have learned in this unit related with the engineering materials, iron and steel. And when the class ended we say to the teacher the groups for the exposure that we have to do at the end of the course.