Journal Entry #2

Cristian Mogollon

It has passed one month of classes and it was really hard to me to follow the rhythm. I have to give the best of myself to learn more and try to get the level. There was something good and interesting when we did the excercise of watching movies and then talk about it. These kind of practices help us to learn most vocabulary, expressions, and listening.
During these four weeks we have read five stories from the book "The Eye of Childhood". These stories have been difficult to understand to me because there is a lot of new vocabulary, and expressions. In addition, these are really hard to get involve in the stories because they have some abstraction content. That abstraction has helped me to improve my imagination.
It is excellent that we have to give presentations in class about a topic because we could lose the scenic panic. As often as we will do these presentations we are going to speak more. These presentations are interesting because someone could explain their thoughts or simply something about their major to everyvody.
Talking about grammar we have been remembering how to use properly gerunds & infinitives, adjectives, contrastive stress, and present unreal conditionals in the english lannguage.
Recently we have the oral and written midterm exam, I thought the written exam was going to be easier than the oral exam but it was difficult to do it. It was hard to resolve it because there was almost the whole new vocabulary included.
In fact, the most difficult part to me was the reading. There is something that I like when the teacher said if we do not something even in spanish, we will lose part of our lives or we will unplug from the world. I hope to learn more things and improve everyday.