Hello!!

My name is Luis Barraza. I am 24 years old. I live in Palmar de Varela. I am a 7th-semester student of mechanical engineering at the Simon Bolivar University. In this blog I will be informing you how my English classes are progressing

Frist Class english VI-G36

 

06-08-2022

Topic 1

GRAMMAR Expressing intentions and plans that changed: Was/Were going to and would

 

Express and ask about past intentions and plans that changed with was/were going to a base form. I was going to get married (but I didn't).

Was she going to take the course?

Weren't you going to study law? (Yes/was/No, I wasn´t)

 Where were they going to work? in Kuala Lumpur)

Who was going to teach this class? (My sister was)

They were going to study art but they didn't

You can also use would (the past of will) + a base form to express plans and intentions that changed, but only in a noun clause following verbs such as thought, believed, or said.

She thought she would be a doctor (but she changed her mind)

 We always believed they would get married (but they never did)

 They said they would pay for their daughter's studies (but they didn't)

Exercise

Expressing intentions and plans that changed: Was/were going to and would

1         She's going to go to the movies.

She was going to go to the movies.

     2 Are you going to study economics?

Were you going to study economics?

3         My friend is going to speak to the manager about the bad service in the hotel.

My friend was going to speak to the manager about the bad service in the hotel.

4         Are there going to be a lot of people at the meeting?

 Were there going to be a lot of people at the meeting?

     5 This is going to be my last car

This was going to be my last car.

Topic 2

GRAMMAR Perfect modals

 

Use perfect modals to express feelings and beliefs about past actions and events:

Regrets or judgments: should have past participle

I should have studied medicine. (But unfortunately, I didn't.)

She shouldn't have divorced Sam (But unfortunately, she did),

Possibility may have /might have + past participle

 I may (OR might) have failed the final exam. It was really hard

He may (OR might) not have been able to make a living as a painter

Ability (OR possibility) could have + past participle

He was the driver. He could have prevented the accident

The museum was closed, but she couldn't have known that it's usually

open on Tuesdays

Certainty: would have past participle

You should have gone to Rio. You would have loved it

its good he broke up with Anna. They wouldn't have been happy together

 

Conclusions must have past participle

Bethist here She must have gone home early

Second Class english VI-G36

13 de agosto de 2022

Main idea

always be available at any time so the company knows you are ready for any job. You must be nice to people whatever your position and you will receive help from people when you need it. have a list of the most important tasks at work so you can be more productive and efficient. have a positive mind because when you are positive you are focused on the goal. make good decisions so you can solve any problem

Third Class english VI-G36

We held a workshop on 'Simple Past or Present Perfect-test'

Third Class english VI-G36

We pactice with some exercises 

We finished by conducting a workshop to solve in class

Fifth Class English VI-G36

27/08/22

We start the class with a review

 

We did some exercises to be clear about the concept

Then we saw 3 important holidays

1 Ramadan first

2 Birthday of Simon Bolivar

3 Chinese New Year

Sixth class English VI-G36

24/09/22

Inventions and Discoveries

Next, we review a vocabulary of “Describing manufactured products” and we listen to a conversation

Then we turn to the topic of “Unreal conditional”

And we did many exercises because we were not very clear about the subject

Seventh class English VI-G36

01/10/22

We started the class practicing the topic of the last class” unreal conditional”