Friday´s class!!

Last Friday we had our " surprise speaking exam" . Well first of all we had to read the dilemma & Decision in the book entitled " Selling up or selling out?", that was about Hershey's company and a problem that was facing related to sell or not to sell the company, we had to read and write some notes in order to discuss with some of our classmates and finally we presented our speaking exam to our teacher, it was not complicated because the topic was easy to understand.

2 ClAsEs AfTeR hOlYdAyS

We came back from holidays and we were talking about that; some of our classmates were talking about their experiences in holidays and how amazing is the city without traffic jam, we also were checking modal verbs of obligation ( have to, ought to, needn't, musn´t, shouldn´t, need to, must, and don´t have to ; and we learnt how to classify the modal verbs:

• obligation , necessity or prohibition


• lack of obligation or prohibition


• advice or recommendatio

Finally on Tuesday we were practicing the BEC exam at the lab, we were using a computer programme about the BEC exam and we started with the reading part but we didn´t finish because we didn´t have enough time but I suppose we are going to practice it several times in the following classes.

2 CLASSES BEFORE HOLIDAYS

Well, before holy week we were analyzing the text in unit 12 that is about how different organizations try to persuade people in order to be more conscious about the big problems that is facing the world, such as poverty, corruption, violence, racism etcetera. And precisely one of the most common facts in order to persuade people is to use celebrities and famous people as "spokesmen". In my personal opinion that kind of strategies are important in our society becase we can avoid a lot of problems.







On the other hand we were doing some exercises in the book, first we learnt some differences about trade and lobbies; it was a confused exercise because there was alot of new vocabulary, then we read "the new networked lobbies" an article that is about how internet and technology has become very important in order to help organizations to create a consious in sociaty.

UNIT 12 "LOBBIES" FINDING A VOICE

Today we were talking about the exam and we started the unit 12 that is about lobbies.
We learnt some new vocabulary, we also were talking about how some organizations make come activities in order to help poor people and third world contries, I think this topic is interesting, because as we know Mexico is considered as a third world country.

My opinion about the exam.

Well, I think that the exam was very confused, there was some things (specially vocabulary) that we didn´t check in the book and in my opinion the exercises about conditionals were difficult, in the book the examples were clear and easy to solve but in the exam were more complicated, also in the last part in the green exam, the instructions weren´t so clear, so to conclude I can say that the exam was difficult!!!