General Conclusion

GENERAL CONCLUSION

Finally as a general conclusion, I can say that I have learned some new things through this semester, such as how to identify a compound sentence and a complex sentence, or the use of new words, synonymous, adverds in order to explain situations or describing people in a better way. My weak areas are punctuation and paragraph structure, I need to improve them for make more comprehensible the paragraphs that I will writing in the future. 

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Hello! I'm Carolina, and I'm studying English at Universidad Arturo Prat in Iquique, this is my blog and here you can find different tasks that I've been doing during this semester, for one of my subjects, at University. This blog is a challenge for me because it's difficult to me write in English, anyway I hope this become a learning tool that helps not only me, but somebody else too.

Oktapodi

Oktapodi

This story took place in a beautiful village of Greek. It was a sunny afternoon and the weather was warm. There were two octopuses in a tank hugging and cuddling each other, they were in love. Suddenly, a strange man took out of the tank the female octopus, and put her into a container. Apparently this man worked for a restaurant because there was a logotype from a restaurant on his truck. The male octopus, who watched all the incident, felt terrified and inmediately imagined his octopus lover chopped by a cook. So he jumped out of the tank too, and run behind his partner. Just in the moment that the man was turned to the left in a corner, the octopus male jumped to the truck and held himself. After this he started to move towards the co-pilot window of the car, and tried to open the container where his lover is, but he's discovered by the man who tried to punch him. While they were fighting, the male octopus crashed against the windshield of the car. The female octopus realized about the situation and tried to help his partner octopus. She pushed the handbreak of the car and both came off the truck. When they finally were out of the car, they tried to escape, but the man saw them and tried to run over them, unfortunately for him, he couldn't do it. So the couple of octopuses started  to escape jumping from one pool, located in a house, to another until they were captured by the man. When the man captured the lovers, he didn't realize that he wasn't driving and when he realized it was too late because they were moving very fast. Just before they crashed against a wall and the car fell into the sea, the octopuses held themselves to a clothesline. At the end when they finally were safe and sound and hanging from the clothesline, a seagull took the octopus male and flew away. The female octopus saw this and it couldn't believe it, so she grabbed herself to the clothesline and jumped behind her lover. 

Reflection: 

As a reflection of this paragraph I can say that it was the most difficult to write to me because the story had many details that I didn't know how to describe. It also was difficult to join the different scenes of the short film to make the story had sense. I think that another thing difficult to me was to carry about the grammar at the moment of writing the story. 

Homework 2 (COMPOUND & COMPLEX SENTENCES)

Homework 2

Write 3 compound sentences and 3 complex sentences describing personal experiences.

*Compound Sentences:

1.- I have two brothers, one of them is a mechanic, and the other one is a teacher.

2.- Yesterday I tried to call my mom, but my cellphone turned off.

3.- I came to live to Iquique last year, for I wanted to study English

*Complex Sentences:

1.- Last week I didn’t do my homework because I didn’t know how to do it.

2.- Yesterday I went to the cinema after I finished my homework.

3.- I have to go bed early if I want to be on time tomorrow for classes.   

Reflection: 

As the previous paragraph about types of sentences, in this case the process of learning was very similar to me because it was difficult to identify the differences between a compound sentence and a complex sentence. But once I learned how to recognize a compound sentence, it was eassier to understand and recognize a complex sentence. 

Homework 1 (FANBOYS)

Homework 1

Write sentences using FANBOYS.

1) For: Peter has been living in Paris, for he is studying there.

2) And: Maria is an English teacher, and students enjoy the way she teaches.

3) Nor: He hasn't taken piano lessons, nor does he need to.

4) But: Last week she wanted to bike her bike, but it was raining.

5) Or: You need to choose one. The x-box one, or the Play Station 4.

6) Yet: I like movies, yet I don't like horror movies.

7) So: Jack won the lottery last year, so he bought 3 houses.

Reflection:

As a reflection I can say that at the moment we saw this content in classes, I couldn't identify easily the different types of sentences and the correct use of this conjunctions. But now I can say that the more I did exercises applying this content, the more I learned. I also have to say that learn about this allowed me to write other paragraphs in a better way, and at the end it resulted eassier to learn that I thought. 

My Favorite Place

MY FAVORITE PLACE

My favorite place is my home, but specifically the dining room. I like it because is large, it has large windows where sunlight goes through. The room is decorated with some house plants and on one of its wall, there is hanging a medium size whiteboard, in which we write our wishes for the day, recipes for cooking, phone numbers, or just a message or thought that we want to express. But not only me and my family write on this whiteboard, some people who come to visit us, usually write a drawing, their names or just a greeting to the family. Above this whiteboard there is also hanging from the wall a picture of Salvador Allende. I like this place because when you stand in front of the large windows, you can see far away the ocean shines, and in the evening you can see the sunset. I also enjoy it because in the summer is a very fresh place where you can sit and take lemonade, for example. Another reason why I like this place is because here is the place where the family share together, have some time to spare and talk, laugh, tell some funny stories, jokes, talk about a problem, or even about the food itself. Whatever you want to say because you know that you are going to be listened and respected. 

Reflection:

As a reflection for this artifact I can say that write this paragraph was difficult for me because I had never written about a place and I didn't know how to start to describing. It also was difficult to add some new words that I don't usually use daily, such as some adverbs and prepositions that I'm not used to use. 

My Favorite Person

MY FAVORITE PERSON

One of my favorite people is definitely my mom; she is the woman that I most admire because of her way to see life. If I have to describe my mom physically, I would say, briefly, that she is a medium height and slim person, she is middle age, she has round black eyes, she has medium length and straight, black hair, and she has fair skin. In terms of personality, my mother is a very sensitive woman because she always knows when someone in the family has a problem, she is also pretty sociable, that’s why most of our neighbors know and talk to her. She is extremely affectionate; she often hugs me and tells me how much she loves me. Finally my mother is a very active woman, despite her age; she is always dancing and singing around the house.

Reflection: 
As a reflection of this paragraph I have to say that this one was less difficult to write than the first one because I had to describe someone who I know or "my favorite person" (in my case, my favorite person is someone who I know) and I don't have to imagine some characteristics about that person. It also was a little bit easier than the first paragraph because by the time we were learning how to write about somebody in this subject, we were learning and practicing how to describe people, physically and psychologically, in our other subjects too. So this activity was such as a complement for others.