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Today we talked about many different topics: my work, my life experiences, etc.

Then we talked about aspects that have an influence on your personality

We read a short text about this and learnt some new adjectives (e.g. stubborn)

Achievements: I learned new words. I'm now aware of how I sometimes translate the past continuous literally.

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Lera Boroditsky: How language shapes the way we think | TED Talk

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There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.”

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Today we discussed the video I watched. We talked about how language shapes the way you think.

We went over some vocabulary from the video: realm, accurate, a stepping stone.

Other new vocabulary items: to gloat.

HW: On the last slide, there are a couple more sentences with words in bold. Read the sentences, and if there is a new word for you, go to Longman dictionary and look them up. Be ready to explain next class.

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We shared what we did on the weekend.

We studied some typical endings for adjectives.

Today we went through the rules of the present perfect simple and continous, past simple and used to. We did some exercises and applied them in a personality talk.

Achievements: being able to notice the difference between these tenses

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We talked a bit about safety in Arg and Spain

We did some exercises on the use of use to and on present perfect simple / cont and past simple.

We completed some sentence halves related to the work environment and talked about my company

Achievements: I noticed a little improvement in my use of "use to" expressions.

HW: use to