Thank you! ;D

Dear Profesor:
I'm really grateful of your patience, I know that I always ask you for my doubts.
I will remember this days.

My opinion about using Blogs to learn English

This is a way to make your class more interesting and fun. The students could be more interested and learning more about bloggs and practicing English. I hope find a way creative for teaching my students.

Summary about parts of speech

"Parts of speech" are the basic types of words that English has. Most grammar books say that there are eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections.

A NOUN is a naming word. It names a person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality, or action. Examples:cowboy, theatre, box.

A VERB is a word which describes an action or a state. Examples:walk, talk, think.

An ADJECTIVE is a word that describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun. Examples:big, yellow, thin, amazing.

An ADVERB is a word which usually describes a verb. It tells you how something is done. It may also tell you when or where something happened. Examples:slowly, intelligently, well.

A PRONOUN is used instead of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun. Examples:I, you, he, she, it, we, they.

A CONJUCTION joins two words, phrases or sentences together. Examples:but, so, and, etc.

A PREPOSITION usually comes before a noun, pronoun or noun phrase. It joins the noun to some other part of the sentence. Examples:on, in, by, with, under.

An INTERJECTION is an unusual kind of word, because it often stands alone. Interjections are words which express emotion or surprise, and they are usually followed by exclamation marks. Examples:Ouch!, Hello!, Hurray!

An ARTICLE is used to introduce a noun. Examples:the, a, an

Websites: Parts of Speech

http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html

http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/StudyZone/330/grammar/parts.htm

http://www.gamequarium.com/partsofspeech.html

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/partspee.htm

http://quizlet.com/set/176036/

http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/GRAMMARANDPUNCTUATION/PartsSpeech.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/65832.html

http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2719337

http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/speech.htm

Quiz 1 and 2

1. If he comes, we will go to lunch.
2. I would buy a new house if I inherited a million dollars.
3. If she misses the bus, I take her to school by car.
4. If I had known you were in town, I would have bought you some flowers.
5. If he studies a lot, he is going to pass the exam.
6. I would get a new job if I were you.
7. He will surely fail his exams unless he begins to study.
8. She would live in New York now if she was to stay.
9. They would have bought that new car if they had had the money. ç

Quiz 2

1. I leave on Saturdays if she comes to visit.
2. If he were President, he will help the poor more.
3. If they had had enough good sense, they would have moved to Santa Monica.
4. She will go crazy unless she leaves you.
5. If this storm gets worse, we have to get inland.
6. Watch out! If you touch that cable, you will get a shock.
7. I might have had time if you had asked me for help.
8. I'm afraid I can't understand you if you don't speak clear.
9. She would have gone if she had been in your position.
10. You would certainly have been angry if you had discovered what he knew.

Tic-Tac-Toe

This kind of game is really interesting, you can join sentences with your basic skills, but on the other hand you must think and see what is the best way that you can join the sentences and finally find the way that you can win.
This kind of game also can be played in pairs, and you should think with your teammate, make a good job.
Other fun way to teach conditionals could be reading tales and make a summary using conditionals, and after that you could give them extra points in the next exam.

Conditional

Zero Conditional: We can use zero conditional with the structure:

If + Present Simple + Present Simple
Exampe: If you feel tired, you rest for some minutes

The same idea by reversing:

Present Simple + If + Present Simple.
Examples: / I'm sad if you leave.

First Conditional: We can use First Conditional with the structure:

If + Present Simple + Will/Won't
Example: If you sing this song, I'll feel better.

The same idea by reversing:

Will/Won't + If + Present Simple".
Example: My heart will cry if you travel away.

Second Conditional: We can use Second conditional with the structure:

If + Past Simple + Would

If I had money in my cellphone, I would call you.


The same idea by reversing:

Would + If + Past Continuous

Example: I'd like to be in Iquique if I weren't studyng in Chillan.


Third Conditional: We can use Third Conditional with the structure:

If + Past Perfect + Would have
Example: If I had done my bed, I wouldn't have slept well.

The same idea by reversing:

Would have + If + Past Perfect.
Example: You would have a beatiful house if you had been a good worker.

My Comment

The first Exercises were easy, but I have one doubt with one exercise.
I think that it is very interesting, but I need to understand some sentences. I shouldn't forget the final "S", I think that this is a very common mistake, so I need to be more careful.
Has it ever happened to you that you write something and believe that is correct? but, when our teacher checks my text, she finds many mistakes... yes this is my life...
Some day, I'd like to impress her, yes some day...

The Man's Space

Sometimes people think that only women can have a big imagination, or they believe that just "they" can be in the space, but not! I'm going to show you something different. I'll hope that you enjoy my Blog.

My Name is Felipe Valdivia, I'm a student of English.

In this moment, I'm in a cyber-room with my classmates, trying to create and improve our English language skills, I hope I can improve!

bye.