Jhonn's English Daily Journals

On Tuesday, August 14th, We listen to Georgiana, the founder of Speak English pod, she was talking about going out at night, emblematic places to hangout in New York City and how to order a drink, So she plains that on one Friday at night and we could call a friend to invite to going out or going to a Night Club, she said that people of New York on their 20’s or 30’s they usually have a drink in a bar and then go to a Club, she suggested different locations in Manhattan which is commonly visited by fashion models, celebrities, professional athletes   and musicians but sometimes is difficult to get in, she mentioned Provocateur one of the favorites for the elite and famous and you have to make reservation and it’s very expensive for being an exclusive club, another is Avenue it host most of the elites parties in New York,   and if you are hipster she recommended look at the lower east side you can eat, drink, shop and hangout after dark, the current hottest area for bars and ...

We saw a video about how to triple our memory by using a trick by Ricardo Lieuw On, he taught us a trick that consist in get 30 seconds to memorize 10 words in the right order and after that we get 30 seconds more to write down what you remember and at the end we have 30 extra seconds to check the answers. And he said how did we memorize this and if it was the best way to do it, and he said that the generation of his parents and grandparents, being able to memorize something like this was an absolutely essential skill, but nowadays, no one thinks that we have to remember a list of thinks that we can take a picture, with all the technology we have there is no reason for memorize and it seems that memorizing has somehow become less important. He said that he flunked a grade twice in high school and it was hard to him to get his diploma, later when he was working as a bagger, he has the opportunity to talk to strangers and that year he discovered that he doesn’t hate learning, j...

On July 26 th , we begin listening a podcast about moods and words we can use to express how we feel , the podcast Georgiana start with the following vocabulary: sad, desolate, devastated, happy, enlighted, exalted, thrilled, static, boring, entertaining, amusing, mad, angry, upset, annoyed, pissed off, nervous, anxious and relaxed . She said that a person may feel optimistic about something or even pessimistic, then expose that when we feel optimistic we must expect good things in the future and in the case of feeling pessimistic then we don’t expect anything good. Later we saw a TedTalk about to Self-Love and be intentional, she began with the question “What defines us as a person?” and that some people tend to define ourselves through our physical image, by our jobs, bank balance and a lot of time what others have to say about us. Then she told a story about her life and that when she was a little in the school she wants to be likeable and popular because being that way was ...

Today we first checked with teacher Yerlin the answers of the listening test. In groups of three we made a conversation about our favorite movies and then we worked on the blue book unit 13 we read the snapshot 1 which is about a movie trivia with interesting data like actors and actress any role of the movie, the cost and the money it made, curious things that happen during the films and how long time they spend to film. After in groups we made a conversation of the following questions under that movie trivia: “Which of the movie trivia do you find most interesting?”, “Do you know any other movie trivia?”, “Which of the movies have you seen? Did you enjoy them?”. Using the previous topics movies and them we made a vs with the books to use the Participle as adjectives which is the use of Present Participles when we talk about movies, books or even things e.g. “Stephen King’s books are fascinating ” here we use the verbing , and we use the Past Participles when we talk abou...