Fwd: [eoi-english-2013-ni2c:101] CLASS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 5th

Thanks, Luz. Very structured and effective!

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From: Luz Vioque 
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:14 PM
Subject: [eoi-english-2013-ni2c:101] CLASS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 5th
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Hi guys! This is my turn to summarise last class for February 5^th.

From my point of view, the class could be divided -in +into three parts:

1.    Reviewing passive voice: exercises, grammar and some vocabulary.

2.    Playing in group: word stress exercise

3.    Reading.

1.    REVIEWING PASSIVE VOICE

Exercises

We started the class by correcting homework which -were +was [incontable] the following:

·         Exercise 1 on page 126

·         Exercises 1 and 2 on pages 140 and 141.

Grammar

We also reviewed the “Grammar use and non-use of the passive voice” and if you want, you can have a look on page 140.

Nevertheless, I add two important constructions that we have to assimilate in this course:

The first is normally used for formal writing:

-      It is said that…(se dice)

-      It is thought that…(se piensa)

And second, we can omit the subject (participio de pasado) if it´s the same in both sentences, like this example:

-      While (----) talking on the phone, she said that…

However, we can´t omit the subject when it´s not the same. See the difference in this example:  

-      While he was talking, she said that…

Vocabulary

-For +From the foregoing exercises that we worked +on, we could learn a set of new vocabulary like:  

ORDEAL – Odisea

ATTACH- Atar

TURN DOWN - Rechazado

UNEXPECTEDLY – Inexperadamente

HINDSIGHT               vs                    INSIGHT                    vs        FORESIGHT

(Retrospectiva)                                  (Perspicacia)                         (Previsión)

CURSE – Maldición y también periodo, menstruación 

TRICK (Sb) INTO – Engañar a alguien en …

TELLER – Adivino y cajero (de banco)

2.    PLAYING IN GROUP

José Luis gave us some different words and we had to organize them depending on their stress and number of syllables.  

First, we worked in group and after a while we corrected them.

 As a result we made the following classification.  

Anx ious                             Su ffer En vy                                 Scien ce	Su pport          A ware        De pressed In volve         In volved           De press
Su ffe ring                            Sci en tist Su ffe rer                             En vi ous	Su ppor tive   Su ppor ter       In vol ment De pre ssing   De pre ssion  Awa re ness
An xi e ty                          So ci e ty Psy cho lo gy                  Psy cho lo gist	Sci en ti fic

3.    READING

We finally moved on +to pages 38 and 39 and we read the test “What shapes our personality?

We spoke a little bit about the text with exercise 1a, 1b and we saw some vocabulary too:

SHAPE - Forma

NATURE - Naturaleza

NURTURE – Educación

PERSONALITY TRAITS – Rasgos de personalidad

In the following list, we can see how some nouns and adjective can be built on phrasal verbs:  

To bring up (educar/criar)                  Upbringing (educación)

To come out   (salir)                          Outcoming (resultado/consecuencia)

To set off (compensar)                      Offset (compensación)

To put off (posponer)                         Offputing (Adj. desagradable)

To go by (dejar pasar el tiempo)       Bygones (algo pasado)

Let´s the bygones be bygones – lo pasado pasado está.

Next Monday we´ll continue working -with +on this reading.  

Have a nice weekend!!

Luz

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