UNIT 6: Understanding power

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This unit talks about understanding power, this will involve three aspects that are indispensable to know, these parts are: the articles, it incorporate the definite article, indefinite articles and No article. Then there are the clauses with whatever, whoever and whenever. Besides in this unit I will talk about connectors of time and contrast.

I will write about when we need to use the articles, because there are rules people need to follow. Also I’ll write about the correct context to use the clauses and connectors too.  

Contents in this unit:

- Articles

- Clauses with whatever, whoever, whenever

- Connectors

- New vocabulary

• In class

The first activity we did in class was a pair discussion about some places and what we knew about them according to the sentences given, then we listened the record to see if the things we assumed were ok or not.

The next picture shows us a fill, with new words according to power and how these words can be used.

These phrases has their meaning, and I consider that is a useful vocabulary in many careers and real situations.

The Articles: This type of grammar is used in different statements, this articles are: a, an, the, no article. However it has many rules too. For example:

We don’t need to use: “a or an” with possessive pronouns, demonstratives or cardinal numbers. Also we use “the” for rivers, ocean and cardinal points. 

On the other hand there is the “No article”, it means that there are specific words and situations that we don’t need to use some of the articles a, an or the. The most common is when we generalize a group with the same situation, like People, it involves many kinds of cultures, and more. Another example is when we are talking about cities or towns, we don’t need to use any kind of article, but with the exception of: The United States, The Netherlands, The Philippines. Although there are more examples we need to understand.

Some practice that we did in class with the articles was: 

In that example, it can be appreciated  in context how to use the articles. 

Other activity we did in class was with the vocabulary of fashions and fads. Some classmate and I recreated a product to sell it in class, describing the product with the new vocabulary. It was so helpful.

The next picture will show the clauses with What, Who and whenever.

The practice was easy, actually this is a nice topic and easy to understand.

Connectors of time and contrast:

These connectors are important, because it help us to continuous with a logical structure in our writing and oral productions.

• Out class and
• Grammar

To recover these topics, I looked and found some extra information about these topics, the correct way to use them, rules and examples.

Some of the info I found about articles was:

For see all the information, you just have to visit the next web page, I will include the link for you:  http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/article.htm.

In the next link there is practice about it: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/artikel.htm

The clauses are use when we are saying something but we really don’t care.

For example:

To make a review of connectors, I looked a presentation on internet that talk about it:

http://es.slideshare.net/tarirotari/connectors-time-contrast-purpose-condition

• Reflection

These topics are very functional; the things we saw on this unit are basics but important, it will show how much you know. And it is helpful because this words and grammar are used every single day in our oral and writing production.