Meu Diário de Inglês by Melissa Andreíly

AULA 01 - 06/03

melissandreily — 2023-04-20 11:31:45 UTC

I missed the first english class, but by talking to my colleagues, I could understand that the goal of the discipline is to make us able to read dynamically and understand most texts in English, especially academic ones.

melissandreily — 2023-04-20 12:59:06 UTC

Today, teacher Rachel also asked us to look for curiosities for the next class on the character Wally, from "Where's Wally?"

melissandreily — 2023-04-20 13:17:47 UTC

AULA 02 - 13/03

melissandreily — 2023-04-24 23:46:50 UTC

Today, teacher Raquel asked us about Wally's curiosities. The curiosities that I liked the most were:

Wally has a dog, the dog's name is Wolf;
He travels through time;
Wally can be found on Google Earth.

Later we talked about texts and information and I discovered that all texts transmit information, whether through verbal or nonverbal language.

In this way, I could also understand that we can abstract ideas in different textual types and therefore, reading has always a purpose. Regarding the purposes, there are three different levels, the different comprehension levels.
1° General (title, subtitle, charts, tables, etc)
2° Main Ideas (what, who, why, when, where, etc)
3° Details

After we did an activity on these three levels to enhance our understanding and I learned the meaning of the words:

upside-down;
dizzying;
polish;
ceiling;
loo.

AULA 04 - 20/03

melissandreily — 2023-04-24 23:48:08 UTC

Today I learned that first level reading comprehension is the most important thing to understand if a text will be useful to you or no. This level of understanding is the general: title, subtitle, charts, tables, etc. We also did an activity to exercise our dynamic reading on this level.

One very cool thing I learned is that gossip in English means gossip, therefore the name of the series gossip girl (this information is not very important, but I really liked it).

AULA 06 - 03/04

melissandreily — 2023-04-25 00:36:51 UTC

Today, we learned a little about cognates and about the reading map.

                    _{READING MAP:}
Step: Title
Step: Pictures 
Step: Number 
Step: Charts
Step: Tables
                (Which words I know?)

Which ≠ What
Ex:
_{What is your name?}
_{Which is your name? Suelen or Laísa?}Cognates:_{Sucess= Sucesso
Advantages = Vantagens}

AULA 07 - 10/04

melissandreily — 2023-04-25 00:57:54 UTC

Today we learned about the difference between the present simple and the present continuous. The main difference is that the present simple is used for universal truths and the present continuous for actions that are still happening.

Ex:
_{I fell (present simple)
I am feeling (present continous)}
Furthermore, every verb in the infinitive is accompanied by (to)
Ex:
_{Received (past) To receive (infinitive)
Accepted (past) To accept (infinitive)}
Another thing we learned is that the first thing we should read is the text type, because that's what we'll create our expectation from. To read an article, we need to pay attention:

Abstract
Introduction
Development (methodology)
Conclusion (results and discussion)
References

AULA 08 - 17/04

melissandreily — 2023-04-25 01:32:57 UTC

For the first sentence of the text you expect a generic sentence on the subject, a sentence of impact. This sentence will always be in the present, whithout the study is qualitative. When have dates with days, months and years, are expected to use the past simple (-ed; -ied)

^{Someone - pessoas
Something - coisas
Noun - Substantivo}

                     _{DICA SOBRE DATAS}First = 1^st
Second = 2^nd
Third = 3^rd
Fourth = 4^th
Fifth = 5^th
Sixth = 6^th
Seventh = 7^th
.
.
.
Twentieth = 20^th
Twentieth first = 21^st

^{USAR O CAMBRIDGE DICIONARY PARA APERFEIÇOAR O ENTENDIMENTO DO INGLÊS}