Nancy Carballo, 19/06/18

At the begging of the class we read our comment about of the book “A walk to remember”. Almost all the people have read a lot of the book and a few of them are finished. The majority of the people enjoy it.

Then, we had to put our cellphones in a box because the teacher said that we need to pay attention and the cellphones could be a distraction. She was right; a lot of us looked our cellphones to know the time, to send messages, or even for no reason. After that, we worked in the unit 9 of the blue book.  We talked about how the entertainment, transportation and communications have changed from the past to our days. We were agree about the telephone are the most important development of the past, and social networking are really important in the present too. Some things that a few years were impossible are realities right now, for example the self-driven cars.

A development that I would love to see is the thought-controlled video games. I watched a TV show about technology and one the chapters was about a video game you can control with your mind. The video catch your fears and then, during this virtual reality you have to fight with yours fears transformed in monsters. It was a good chapter and a development I think is close to be created. 

Then, we listened two conversations which were an example about how to use time contrasts,

After that, we spoke about different topics and answered the questions how have things changed? And how will things be different in the future? We talked about education, entertainment, environment, fashion, food, housing, shopping, sports and technology. We realized that things have changed too much. We learned how to use conditional sentences with if clauses too.

After finish the unit, we watch a TED talk about how we can organize better the time. I liked some things that she said. For example, the time is elastic because we can decided how will be used. When we say “I don’t have time” we are actually saying “It isn’t a priority”. We don’t need a lot of time to do great things; we can take advantage of the little moments. And she was right, a few months ago I had a lot of work so I tried to organize my time, I did a schedule and I had specific times to do something. Now I have more free time but I am always out of my house. I like to study in my house but I can´t. So I have to take advantage of every moment. If I really don’t have time to study English, I talk by myself in English when I am driving motorcycle.

I liked the video and share with different classmates like Johnson and Anabelle. The class was entertainment.