Adjectives on sentences

Write 5 sentences with an Adjective, 5 with an Adjective comparative and 5 with an Adjective superlative.

• Angel is a cool dude.
• Angel is cooler than Rodrigo.
• Angel is the coolest dude in the classroom.

• My brother is very tall.
• My brother is taller than me.
• My brother is the tallest boy in my family.

• My sister is young, she is 12 years old.
• My sister Danna is younger than my little brother, Sergio.
• My sister Danna is the youngest girl in my family.

• There's a big tree tangled between the pole cables.
• That tree is bigger than yours.
• That tree is the biggest tree on the block.

• That girl is really hot. XD
• She is hotter than Rosa.
• She is the hottest girl in the school.

• Sandra is really beautiful.
• She is more beautiful than Karla.
• Sandra is the most beautiful girl on the world.

Giving Directions

Give directions to follow these routes:

1. From Universidad to tecnológico de La Paz.
2. Universidad to Ley on Las Garzas.
3. Ley to CCC Palacio.
4. Ley to tránsito.
5. Tránsito to CCC Palacio.

1. To Tecnológico de La Paz: Get out to Forjadores boulevard and turn left on the stop light, go on about one mile, you'll cross one bridge and about two stop lights after, a foot bridge, close from there is Tecnológico, you'll see it at your left hand side about 50-100 meters ahead.
2. To Ley on Las Garzas: Get out to Forjadores boulevard and turn left on the stop light, two blocks later there's another stop light, you have to turn left there. Is a long vay and about three stop lights later, you'll take the highway to right, on the next stop light next to that, you have to turn left because Ley is on your left handside.
3. To CCC Palacio: Get out to Las Garzas and turn left. Go straight ahead about four stop lights (don't count the turned-off stop light), it's a long way. On the fourth stop light you'll see a Mc Donalds in front of you, that boulevard ends there, but you have to go ahead and take the intersection to “Isabela Católica” street, go straight two extra stop lights and CCC Palacio is one block ahead at your left handside.
4. To Tránsito: Get out to Las Garzas boulevard and turn left on the third stop light (don't count the turned-off stop light) turn right on Colima street, and go on two blocks to México street. Tránsito in on the corner at your left handside.
5. To CCC Palacio: Get out to México street and turn left, go ahead one block, and turn left on Jalisco street, go on two blocks to the stop light and turn right. On the next stop light you'll see a Mc Donalds in front of you, that boulevard ends there, but you have to go ahead and take the intersection to “Isabela Católica” street, go straight two extra stop lights and CCC Palacio is one block ahead at your left handside.

Write a 100 words article about yourself

Write a 100 words article for a teen magazine about yourself and the place you live in. Write:

• full name
• jobs/studies/habits
• name of the place you live in
• reasons why you like it

Guten Morgen! My name is Alfonso Cásarez, and in first place my work is about computers technical support, I work half time because I'm student too. I left my work about three months ago just to work by myself and be able to study. And by now, my plans are limited to the school. I'm studying “Lenguas Modernas”, basically is about learn to teach English and German. I'm stopping a lot of activities to make it works. For example, I used to bicycling on weekends, go to the beach, go out drinking some times, and reading on weekdays. Now I'm spending my money, time and efforts to make the things as good as I can at school.

I used to live in Ensenada BC, but I have 7 years living into La Paz BCS, I love this small city, people is kind, girls are beautiful, and the works lets me live unstressed (Until now, I hope it keeps like that in the future). When I came here, I was 18, I found the work I wanted to have (where I worked 7 years) I found the girl I wanted to find (who is my girlfriend since 5 years ago), and I grew up in different aspects of my life. Here I started writting for example, I write a poetry blog that I prefer to keep in secret because of my privacy. It's complicated to write being honest with yourself if the people you know, reads your most deep side. But the important part of this is that here I found that I can express myself in a different way.

I love the beaches, something makes me happy at the beach, and I don't know what is it, but I feel free there. I enjoyed a lot to bicycling too, with my brother Raúl, there some beautiful places to drive like “La presa de la buena mujer”, the circuit there is nice, but however, my brother doesn't live here anymore.

For those reasons and more I think I met the beauty of the life in this city and I'm involved with people that I appreciate with all my soul, here, in La Paz.

Country/City life

Advantages/Disadvantages of living on country:

Advantages

• Lot of space
• Privacy
• No traffic
• No pollution
• Limited social life

Disadvantages

• There's no doctor
• No hospital
• No schools
• No shops
• No gas station

I don't know about country life because I have never lived on it. But I can guess it depends on the lifestyle. Lazy people vill get boring and active people willl be happy. Persollally I would try that, but there's no chance. Here where I live I think we are in a place between two worlds. There's no pollution like into big cities. But neither the extreme to don't find doctors.


Advantages/Disadvantages of living on city:

Advantages

• Lots of places to go
• schools
• Rock and Roll
• Girls are easy to find
• There's shops
• Gas stations
• hospitals

Disadvantages

• pollution
• crime
• noise
• traffic
• stress

I hate city life, like I said before I think I like to live in a place between both, and I like where I live. Life on cities is stressful and f**king hard. Everybody competes to everybody and nobody wins ever.

Answer the letter

My friend said:

“I feel very lonely in my new neighbourhood. I have no friends and I'm really depressed. Any advice?”

I'm sorry you feel that way. Don't worry buddy, it's not so bad. What you can do to let out your frustration is to take some activitie you like. I recomend you some contact sport, you can try boxing. It's very relaxing. Learning how to fight will help you feel stronger and safer in general and you will make friends. It does not matter if it's not in your neighborhood.

I assure you, you'll feel better from the first day.

Giving Advice.

*Write an advice about something.

-I'm too tired, since last week I have no time to sleep. My routine has been too hard, and I think it will keep in that way about two weeks. Do you know how it feels?

-Well, I think so. What I do when I have problems to sleep is to program my alarm clock to ring when I have slept in multiples of 90 minutes. For example, if I went to bed at 12:00a.m. And I have to go school at 7:00a.m. What I do is to program the cellphone at 4:30a.m. And the alarm clock at 6:00a.m. If the first one does not work, the second will almost always do the job. The 90mins multiples is about something I read about the REM sleep cycle. I have understood that REM cycle does a change each 90mins, so it's better to put the wake up alarm in that time because the REM cycle disables the ear sense. And if you force the things and you wake up at the middle of a REM cycle (someone has to slap you on the face), no matter if you have 10 hours sleeping, you'll feel tired in all ways. You can try that, I have found it true.

*The author is not an expert about the theme, so use your criteria.

Advertising something

Write an +50 words advert:

*Disclaimer: All data in this advert is unreal and any appereance with realty is coincidence.

*The Image has been taked without permission from here.

Describe the characters.

Describe the characters on page 9:

• Joanna is an old woman, she has white hair, she is short, a little bit fat and she has a white complexion.

• Ann is a old woman too. She is tall and slim, and, like Joanna, has white hair too.

• Sam is short, and he has dark brown, long, curly hair, he has a informal style and has beard and mountache.

• Chris has short, dark brown curly hair, he is tall and has a big smile.

• Laura is a young woman, she has shoulder *lenght length, blonde, straight hair, she is slim, short and pretty.

• Alex has short, *dark straight *dark hair, he is thin, medium height, he has beard and moustache.

• Helen has long, *weavey wavey, dark brown hair, she is tall and slim.

• Tim has short, brown hair, and a moustache, he is slim, medium height. He looks like a boring person.

• John has red, short hair. He has beard and glasses. He is tall and looks very serious and elegant.

• Peter has short, dark, straight hair, he is tall and has strong build.

All corrections made by Teacher Joe.*

How would i like to be...

 Well, *i I don't want to be obvious, but the nature of the *cuestion question lets me do that. I would like to find the way to make legal money, easy and fast. With a supertopsecretmagicformula for bussiness that *i I still have no idea how works, or where to start looking for it... XD

Getting that, my plan is very easy, *i I would like to buy a company, for example, a clothe manufacturing, then *i I'll buy some people at Gobierno del Estado, and they will keep buying my clothes at the price *i I want the next 4 years, more or less. Repeating this schema with three or four kind of companies will let me stop working.

So *i I will buy a little boat, *i I'll take my girlfriend and *i I'll take a little vacation, lets say about three months. I want to browse all the Mar de Cortés. Of course, *i I'll pay to some people to go with me and teach me how to browse the boat, and how to fish and things like that. Because *i I don't know how to fish, and less about browsing a boat. x_x

Finishing the Vacation, *i I want to go studying to Germany three years. There *i I want to concentrate in getting a suscription into a gym, going to partys and grow at college, and make some international bussiness with German people to get even more money, and even more rich. 8-)

Three years later *i I want come back México and make four or five “movements” to keep me rich the next six years. I'll be about 29 at those days. So *i I'll go back to Germany to get a German girl and get married. I want to have a child, have a happy family.

Of course, that about the fammily won't works, and *i I'll get divorced. Then I will make a World Wide travel, to Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Chile, Argentina, Perú and Canada. Three months for each place.

And then.....

I will take a little time to think about what's next...

But summarizing *i I want to be rich, well trained for life and bussiness, attractive, simpatic, and overall free like wind.

All corrections and comments are corrections by Teacher Joe.*

Updated 30/sep/09

Little Child History

I came into this world at 1:45p.m. *in on September 5th, 1984. That day was Wednesday and like here today, the weather was hotter than hell in Obregón Sonora.

Firstborn into a young family, *i I was a superhappy baby until my brother Raúl *borned was born two years later, *w We used to fight a lot, but now we are good friends. I was a happy child, shy with girls and friendship with boys, at *kinder kinter garden *i I was part of the school escort, moderately good student, and superfan of ninja turtles, Donatello was my favorite.

I have no memories about details of that city, *i I only remember that my street that was placed into a suburban zone, two or three things about the area and Daniel, a unique character, sometimes friend, sometimes enemy. I remember something about a girl too, her name is Rosa, lovely and commonly called Rosita, she was indescribably beautiful, her long brown hair used to have a slow motion movement, and her pink smile completely stopped the rest of the world. Once *i I had the opportunity to take her hand, and walk with her into a march-past, *i I remember that day like one of the most wonderful days of my life. I loved her with all the honest, clean and pure love that only children can offer, she was my first true love but like you can imagine, she never knew about that. I have no idea about her destiny.

There was my superfriend Daniel. He was a problematic child and we had a bittersweet friendship, we used to drive our bikes kilometers and kilometers far away, trough the Seed Fields, sometimes burning things, playing races, jumping ramps and things like that. He is with me in all my memories about the neighborhood. I remember one water channel, used to irrigate the seed fields, people used that place to sheltering of the heat, there was a lot of trees and obviously water, *i I got a lot of fun there with children that *i I can't remember. We used to visit a park, placed into another neighborhood, between the water channel and my neighborhood, we had a lot of friends there, and we used to play a lot of obsolete games that children simply don't like in this days, like marbles, yo-yo and trompos, la traes, and a lot of things like that.

I don't know why, but Daniel was horribly explosive, most of the times he was nice and he was skinny and short, so he wasn't able to fight with me because *i I always had been a little fat boy and only in those times, tall. However, when he used to explote, nothing was able to stop him, he used to break everything, and after unsuccessful tries to make him calm down, first nicely, fighting later, he used to run away and always defeated me blowing me with stones. He has an extraordinary talent to do that. Our moms always got angry because of that, and they kept angry for weeks and other next day, Daniel and me were playing like always. Like Rosita, *i I know nothing about him.

I know that world no longer exist, but sometimes *i I would like to get back into it. Unfortunately my parents sold that house years ago, and however that part of my history is closed.

All corrections and comments done by Teacher Joe*

Updated 30/sep/09

Conozcan a Grammar Girl

Ésta página en especial, me gusta muchísimo, trae tips de gramática en un podcast que se puede bajar completo ¡en MP3!, y con el texto de apoyo, es fantástico si ya hablas un poco el inglés. Es en realidad poco común encontrar recursos como éste, las páginas suelen ser muy celosas de su contenido, por ejemplo, hay una página que era muy buena que se llama yappr.com trabajaron algunos meses muy bien, traía videos con audio en inglés con subtítulos simultáneos en español y en inglés y ahora los videos están limitados a 30 segundos y por si fuera poco, necesitas registro, una buena idea, que duró poco. se ha vuelto de paga. Bueno, les dejo la liga:

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

Radio Vaughan

La programación de esta estación de radio española (Radio Vaughan) está destinada a ayudarnos a aprender inglés, lo he encontrado útil para afinar el oído y para aprender pronunciación de palabras.

fuente: http://javimoya.com/blog/2005/10/27/aprender-ingles-escuchando-la-radio/

Aprende inglés escuchando

IlearnWords es una página donde pueden encontrar palabras y su correcta pronunciación, es un poco básico el diccionario, pero puede ayudar.

Upstream Pre-Intermediate B1

El libro de inglés que nos ha asignado el Profr. Joseph Lyle Lack Deslinger es el Upstream Pre-Intermediate B1, la verdad lo pienso comprar después, pero por ahora he navegado un poco para ver si lo podía bajar, encontré esto:

Student Book
http://rs681.rapidshare.com/files/250910757/Upstream_Preint_Stsbook.pdf.zip
fuente: http://englishtips.org/index.php?newsid=1150802972

Workbook
http://www.zshare.net/download/20323580efdb6239/
fuente: http://www.taringa.net/posts/downloads/2392252/Estudias-Ingl%C3%A9s-Quer%C3%A9s-libros-Entra!!-(Pre-Intermediate).html


Audio
http://rapidshare.com/files/34139069/UpPre-Int-mp3.rar
fuente: http://www.taringa.net/posts/downloads/2392252/Estudias-Ingl%C3%A9s-Quer%C3%A9s-libros-Entra!!-(Pre-Intermediate).html

Test Booklet
http://rs617.rapidshare.com/files/211430133/Upstream_Pre-Intermediate_Test_Booklet.rar


El workbook y el student book parecen estar bien, el audio y el test booklet no los he revisado bien, ya nos daremos cuenta si tienen problemas, pero avisen en los comentarios.

Actualización: El audio también parece estar bien.