On the Job

Aprecciating your Job

I´ve heard a lot of people complainning about working at their job, for me it´s bad that people complain so much because in every job you have a lot of chances and oportunnities, for example you can grow professionally, personally, and socially. 

No matter what kind of job you have you have to aprecciate it, so you can succes in life, and watch every job as a new oportunnite to grow up so value your job because it could be your best oportunity in life, you´´l never know.

Conditionals and Reported Speech

Reported Speech

• If the person uses simple present, we use past perfect.

example: I didn´t sleep.

She said that she hadn´t slept.

• If the person uses present progressive, we use past progressive.

example: I´m sleeping

She said that she was sleeping.

• Will / Would

Looking Back in the Time

When we want to talk about some things that happened in the past we use those kind of structures:

• Used To

I used to have short hair.

• Would

• Could

By the time she was seven, she could already speak 5 languages.

• Was- Were

The fog came down and I wasn´t able to get to the top of mountain.

• Able to

I´d like to be able to swim like Jack, He swims like a fish.

At the age of five I couldn´t ride my bike. When I was seven I managed to ride it with the little wheels. By that time I was unable to ride it without the little wheels. I was sad because my cousin that is my age could ride his bike without the little wheels. I started practicing for hours and days. Now I´m able to ride any kind of bikes. At this moment I´m a profesional biker and I´m very glad because only practice took me where I´m at this point.

Describe a teacher from your past and I used To...

How was my teacher in 4th grade of school?

My fourth grade theacher name was Custodia. She was a such knowledgeable professor. I remember her  so well, she was very patient with us, and always was worry about our good education. When we wanted to talk to her she was so understanding and opend mind. However sometimes she lost her temper and started screaming to us, but that was because we were very annoying.

I Used To... (=

I used to be the unique child in my family, but now I have a little sister, her name is Izabella and she is two weeks old. She is the most beatiful baby in the world, and now I´m the most happy sister ever.

When Izabella hadn´t born I used to be the only girl in the family. For that reason when I was a child I used to play alone. I didn´t use to know what share your things with other person was. Now I´m starting  to change of those kind of things that I used to be.

 

How to describe a photo?

Describing a photo

• In the top left hand corner we can see some palm trees.
• At the top we see some more foliage.
• In the rigth top corner are some more palm trees and other type of trees.
• Half way up on the left we can see some flowers and leaves.
• In the background in the middle we see part of a big tree and some foliage.
• Half way up on the right we can see a blue butterflyl and leaves.
• In the bottom left hand corner we spot a little girl playing with a owl a chicken and a tiger.
• At the bottom we see part of the tiger´s head and the lower part of the tree, and some more foliage as well.
• In the bottom right hand corner we see a beatiful orange rare species kind of flower.
• In the foreground there is no main idea, we can see the background.

Photographs are very important cause they captured special moments of our lifes and we can inmortalize our best memories. We can also remember places we visited long time ago and if we see photographs we can refresh those experiences. It´s a shame that technology has changed the way to save our pictures exchanging them into a digital format and not a physical one.

Plot of a Story

Conflict

• External Conclict:

-The struggle between a character and an outside force.

-Might be another character or nature.

• Internal Conflict:

-A struggle within a character´s mind ( A character must deal opossing thougths or feelings)

My Favorite Movie: 50 First Dates

One of my favorite movies is 50 First Dates. It´s a romantic movie made in Hawaii. It is starring by Drew Barrimore and Adam Sandler, ones of my favorite actors too. I love this movie because it´s not a predictable one, like  most of the romantic movies used to be, so I think that the conflict of the story is highly original. At the beginning of the story appears the main characters in the location of Hawaii. The guy tries to get in love the girl every day, like it was the first time, that´s because the girl had an accident where she lost her temporal memory, so everyday that she woke up she doesn´t remain anything about the day before. At the end the couple live together and happy, and had a little pretty girl. She never recovered her memory.

Tag Questions and First Conditional

The tag questions are INDIRECT QUESTIONS.

example: It´s sunny, isn´s it?

CASES:

• FIRST: possitive     QUESTION: negative
• FIRST: negative      QUESTION: possitive

First Conditional

Unless = If not

example:

              If the driver doesn´t stop, he will crash.

              Unless the driver stop, he will crash.

Hymalaya Herbals

If you want to have a perfect smile and white teeth, you must use the Hymalaya Herbals toothpaste.

You like to have fresh breath, don´t you? So  you definitely need to buy our Hynmalaya Herbals product.

Hymala Herbals is not just a tooth paste, it´s a north pole in your mouth. Unless you want to have bad kisse, you must brush your teeth. Hymalaya Herbals helps to have have  healthy gums and is recomended by professionals.

It´s so important for us to have a good care with our teeth. If we don´t brush our teeth, they will star to fall, and this is not a thing that you want to happend, do you??? To have good care with our teeth it´s not just a thing of been healthy but been gorgeous too. <3 So if you want to feel comfortable with your smile, you will have to start brushing your teeth at least 3 timess a day.

Comparatives and Superlatives

*When it ends in y: er

*Double T when it ends in AT

Who Inspires Me?

There are a lot of inspire peope in the world. Many people want to be like some artist or some famous person. But in my case the only thing that I want  is to be like my mom. She is the most inspiring person that I have never know. She always know what to say and always find a solution for the problems. I have no doubt that she is my favorite person in the world, she is the best mom that any person can have. She inspires me because of her effort, pacient, worker, and so many other things that if I start to say I might never end writting.

House Swapping

"You give yours, I give you mine"

Generally, in our country this practice is not so commun, in contrast with other countries where people use to change their houses with other families even from other countries. Some reasons of why people use to do this kind of thing is because they want to know other language, or might want to know form another cultures. This kind of idea catches my attention for complety because I think it would be awesome to know how do other families live. Maybe I would like to do a swapping with a family from Europe or maybe a place in USA, it would be nice to live in other place far from Costa Rica. Also it´s a chance to know many other people with different types of lifes.

Interrumping Actions

Structure:

past progessive + simple past

Helpful Linking Words and Expressions:

• As
• When
• While
• Suddenly
• All of a sudden
• Out of nowhere
• Out of the blue
• Accidently

*The interrumping action is always in simple past.

*It can be two actions in progres. Example: The mother was cooking while her children were playing.

When I found my doggy Ringo..

I found my dog Ringo three years ago. I was doing Pilates in a place near my house when I found Ringo outside the place. It was rainning when I saw him. He was looking at me while I was looking at him. I´ll never forget that night when I decided to keep Ringo with me. Now, he is the most happy dog I have ever know, and I love him with all my heart.

Passive Voice

Structure:

To be + Past Participle

Examples:

• They told me a secret./ I was told a secret.
• They gave me a present./ I was given a present.
• She asked me to wait./ I was asked to wait.
• They allowed us to enter./ We were allowed to enter.

In the media: Internet

In the times were we live nowadays the media is an escential thing in our lifes. I think that the most important media thing might be the internet. Today people use a lot their computer and their cell phones especialy because of the internet. Internet is one of the most usefull things that can have ever exist. We use internet for do works, to comunicate with our friends, to keep in touch with people from other countiries, in other words internet is now our WORLD. However, we have to be very carefull when we use and how do we use the internet, because it has a lot of dangers. It´s very important to supervise the kids from our homes if they have the permission to play games in the computer. Also we have to be carefull with the people that we know in the internet because there´s not going to be always people wuth good intentions. In conclusion, internet is a powerfull kind of media, but be sure to be carefull with their uses.

Present Perfect

Present Perfect

Have: main verb or auxiliary.

Structure:

Have+ verb past participle

Examples

• I have gone to Tamarindo before.
• I have been to Limón many times.
• I have never eaten that food.
• I have flown several times in my life.

Have you ever past participle.....? (never, always, only)

-I have never eaten beatles.

-I have only woken early when I have class.

-I´ve always lost my cell phone.

Have you past participle yet?

        answer:     Yes, I´ve already rented it.

                          No, I haven´t yet.

My Life Experiences

All people have their own story to tell about how their life have been.

In my case I have always going to remember the time when I was a child,  I think that was the best time of my days. In that days I have always used to play with my cousins. We have always gone to our grandfather house and played there all they long. I have always woken up so early to see my cousins because for me it was the best time ever! There´s no doubt that I have never gone to forgget that especial days. <3

Contrasting and Collocations

Contrasting Words
-However
-On the other hand
-Unlike
-In contrast/ to

Examples:

• Women unlike men, open up about their feelings more freely.
• Men like to drive a big car, women in contrast don´t.
• Women spend a lot of money on personal care. In contrast, men don´t.

Collocations Words

What are some difference between a boy and a girl?

Well maybe there is not so difficult to find what kind of things are different between  boy and a girl. In general, there are things that are very obviously, especialty in girls.

• In general, women take more time to go shopping. Mend tend to go and shop only what they really need.
• Women tend to travel with a lot of bags. Men only travel with just one bag and a few things on it.
• The mayority of women take more time than they need while they are packing,
• Usually in the arguing women talk more than men.
• In general, women cook better than men.

There was just a little things that make the difference between girls and boys. However, I think that something that is very important and nowdays we really have to have in mind is that we all are the same there´s no matter if you are a girl or a boy, we all have the same duties, obligatios, and we all deserve to be treat by the same way.

Relationships

Relationships

There´s no doubt that nowdays it is very hard to find someone that really worth for you. In relationships on average, people use to cheating each other and the word of faithfulness definetly get out of the map.

I think that the most important things for a relationship can works are:

• Faithfulness
• Interests
• Income
• Trust
• Loyalty
• Physical Intimacy
• Respect (the last one, but not the least important)

However it is not impossible to find a person with this features, is it? haha No! You only have to be pacient, and that especial person will came! <3

So.. GOOD LUCK WHIT THAT! (=

Personal Presentation

Hi!

My name is María Fernanda Carvajal Rivas, but I prefer to people call me just by my second name (= I´m 19 years old. I live in Heredia with my mom and my three dogs Molly, Tana and Ringo. My parents get divorced when I was in High School, they are very young because they had me when they were just a teenagers, so by the moment I´m the unique child but nearly in July I´m going to have a new Sister, her name is gonna be Izabella Victoria but she is only my dad´s sun.

I´m studying dentistry and this is my second semester here in Ulacit but I already did one year in Universidad Latina. I have no words to explain how much I love my career the only I can say is that I´m so blessed to have an oportunnity like this one. (=

I´m a girl who LOVES dogs, seriously <3 especialy street dogs, absoluty I picked up from the streets my three dogs, and I think that is the most perfect race in the world, they have no comparation with any other dog race.

I have so much expectations with this English Class because I really like English and I want to enforce my English abilitys.

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