Introduction

This blog is part of the course that I already took in the school. Here I am going to show you many topics that I learned. The experience was enriching. I have to do mention about games, oral practices, songs and teamwork that we use to learn enjoying. Also, we are doing this blog in order to do a review whose purposes are educational.

Additionally, we used tutorials which explained some topic and at the same time it gave us practices to do. 

The evaluation of the course consists in an oral test and a writing test. 

I am part of the Ulacit students. Ulacit is a bilingual university. By the way, the English is very important there. The career has many subjects and I will have to take some of them in English. I could say that the vast majority of people in Ulacit are able to speak English.

The professor was essentially for the learning process. She is a good person and she knows too much about this. An important characteristic that she has is the patience. Very good teacher Maureen is. She clarifies the whole doubts that I had. She got the material, and you were able to realize that she spent time preparing the class.

Furthermore, I have to say that the course helped me for improve my English. I learned how writing in a different way. It is a formal way. I also learned a better use of the gerunds and infinitives. One thing, I got and I liked, it was the prepositions, the whole kinds to use them.

At this level, I got some American expressions. I believe these are important, because as we have some expression they also have. The expressions are so common when people talk.

We also did a review about passive voice. At the same time, we add some words for example: “It was reported that…” It is a different way to use the passive voice.

A big part of the course was focus on infinitive and gerunds. So, the teacher gave us some rules that explain when you have to use an infinitive or a gerund. Not only was the class focusing on this, but was it also focused on the different ways to use the prepositions, for example “noun and prepositions”, “Adjectives and prepositions” and “verbs and prepositions”.

Relative clauses with whatever, Whenever, Whoever, Wherever, etc. It will be essentially for the future redactions. Fronting was part of the course. We also did a review of continuous forms. I could say that my ability of reading comprehension has been strengthened. We did many exercises of readings.

I also get communication abilities and many things. The vocabulary was completely different. I got more vocabulary. Now, my writing part is strong. I did tree redactions for the e-magazine we did. The listening part was developed, because in every class we used to do at less one exercise.

In general, I can say that I don't feel as I began the course. I've improved my English. I am glad with the course and I hope continue learning. So, let me show you some topics.

Geraldo's biography

I’m Geraldo. I’m 19th years old. I have many hobbies as: acting, reading and listening to music. I born in a beautiful country, it is Costa Rica. My greatest support is my mom, the person who has always helped me. Not only has my mom helped me. My dad also has supported me but in a different way. I have a brother and a sister. They are really different to me, but we have a “good” relation. In general, I can say that God blessed me with a nice family.

When I went to the school, I used to be hyperactive. Not only did I was annoying, I also had concentration problems. I had two teachers in my whole school learning process. I am pretty sure they really loved me. They used to be as my second mom. My mom used protected me too much; by the way I used to be spoiled. Since I was a child, I liked the artistic field. I used to give dance presentations, acting shows. Even tough, my used to go many times at school by my bad behavior.

The school days had gone, and the high school will start. When I began it, anybody believed in me, but I believed in myself. I had even had a big mind change. It was true, Not only did I had mature, I had also been the best score of my class in my first year. I conclude my high school successfully. So, in the 2012 I graduate of Bachelor and half technique in Occupational Health and Safety. Yeah, I passed the bachillerato exam and the bad kid becomes in a good student.

I had grown up and the university phase coming up. I didn’t have so clear what was going I to study. So, I did a research and I decided studying Bussiness Administration. I continue studying it and I like it, although my bad behavior and the hard it was for my parents. The university environment is another world and the time made me change. The next year, I will have finished the bachelor.

I was a boy who nobody believed in me. My parents had even lost he hope. However, I dreamed, I believed in myself, I did want being someone. The effort, the dedication, the trust in myself becomes me in who I am. I took the entire bad thing and I became strong. I even won a scholarship thanks to my leadership. If have to give an advice, I will say: “Never stop dreaming”.

Money can't make you happy

First of all, I am going to describe what I think happiness is.  It is a frame of mind. By the way, you get a degree of satisfaction. People who feel happy, they are good, pleased and glad with themselves. Then, we have the other word. It is money. Money is a way that you use to pay some assets and services. Basically, those words are necessary to understand what I am going to talk about.

So, I do a question: Why do we think that the Money means everything in the life? Perhaps would be because since we are a child, we growing up listening our fathers talking about money, discussing about it, and the solution for our problems it is the money. I am aware it is necessary, because you need eating, take the transportation service, but It is something you need to survive in this world. Not only money, the life is. See around you, and you can realize that you are millionaire, because you have many things that money is not able to buy. 

Since our childhood, we have learned that you need money for survive in the world. Our fathers say us: “the solution of everything, money is”, but many times we do a big effort, we choose a career that we don’t want, but it is good paid, and we have money while we are not happy.

At that point I ask myself: Are rich people really happy?. I don’t know the answer because I am not, but I am sure they are really busy and they don’t enjoy life. So, they have money but not time. They have family, but they don’t harness this. Probably, their sons have everything they want, but not the most important a joined family.

Based in all I have said, Money doesn’t makes you feel happy. You decide if you want to be happy or not. Of course, there are many things that are going to help to makes you feeling happy.

Money is necessary, however it is not everything. How could you explain the happiness of the poor people? They don’t have too much, but they are happy. Sometimes they found the really mean of the life that explain their behavior. Happiness comes from the hearth not from a thing as the money. There are people rich, nevertheless they are embittered.

Put your happiness in things that are really important, essentially in yourself, your dreams, your goals and your wishes. The biggest things use to be smalls.  Money don't worth that much, at the end of our life when we die we do not carry it.

My advice is: enjoying every day as if this will be the last one, take time with your family, harness the small thing you thing don’t have value. Then, you are going to find what the life base is in.

Infinitive and Gerunds

It is a hard part of English. When you are writing you have to decide if you use infinitive or gerunds. It is a little difficult to know when to use gerunds or infinitives. You can be able of memorize a big part but not the whole verbs and they use. In this class the teacher gave us some tricks to identify when use infinitive or gerunds.

Based in what I learned, I did this box with some rules for the use of both. Thanks to this box, I have improved in this field.

                There is a video with a bigger explanation: