Portfolio of english

STATE POLITECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF

CARCHI

PROFICIENCY ENGLISH PROGRAM

PORTFOLIO TASKMANE: Andrés Campoverde

TEACHER: Iván Fuertes

LEVEL: 7TH

DATE: August 6, 2012

INTRODUCTION

My name is Andrés Campoverde.

In this portfolio I present all the tasks that I have done

over the whole level of English.

The different tasks contain all the activities that my teacher

has taught at this level.

TASKS OF THE FIRST

SET

AND TO CONNECT VERBS

State Polytechnic University Carchi since its creation has been growing very rapidly but it has been unfairly situated in a category E belonging to universities with lack of quality in education.

The Government gave another opportunity for these universities provided they improve the quality of education that is why in March the UPEC was subjected to a second and final assessment, however not all universities passed the tests.

The results of these evaluations were announced on April 12, 2012, being the UPEC, which got the best results but 14 universities were closed so that 38 000 000 students according to the state were victims of a scam, however, has created a contingency plan for these students.

The authorities of our university have raised the need for further improvement, so that, in the evaluation of next year, we are located in a category A. our university aspires to be in the near future the best university in our country.

DO 2 EXERCISES FROM THE WEB LINK

Exercise Number 1

English Exercises > past simple exercises > Because You Loved Me

Because You Loved Me

Fill in the gaps using the past form of the verbs in green:

For all those times you stood /stand by me

For all the truth that you made /make me see

For all the joy you brought /bring to my life

For all the wrong that you made /make right

For every dream you made /make come true

For all the love I found /find in you

I'll be forever thankful baby

You're the one who held /hold me up

Never let me fall

You're the one who saw /see me through it all

You were /be my strength when I was/be weak

You were /be my voice when I couldn't /can't speak

You were /be my eyes when I couldn't /can't see

You saw /see the best there was in me

Lifted /lift me up when I couldn't /can't reach

You gave /give me faith 'coz you believed /believe

I'm everything I am

Because you loved /love me

You gave /give me wings and made /make me fly

You touched /touch my hand I could /can touch the sky

I lost /lose my faith; you gave /give it back to me

You said /say no star was out of reach

You stood /stand by me and I stood /stand tall

I had /have your love I had /have it all

I'm grateful for each day you gave /give me

Maybe I don't know that much

But I know this much is true

I was /be blessed because I was /be loved by you

You were /be my strength when I was/be weak

You were /be my voice when I couldn't /can't speak

You were /be my eyes when I couldn't /can't see

You saw /see the best there was in me

Lifted /lift me up when I couldn't /can't reach

You gave /give me faith 'coz you believed /believe

I'm everything I am

Because you loved /love me

You were /be always there for me

The tender wind that carried /carry me

A light in the dark shining your love into my life

You've been my inspiration

Through the lies you were /be the truth

My world is a better place because of you

You were /be my strength when I was /be weak

You were /be my voice when I couldn't /can't speak

You were /be my eyes when I couldn't /can't see

You saw /see the best there was in me

Lifted /lift me up when I couldn't /can't reach

You gave /give me faith 'coz you believed /believe

I'm everything I am

Because you loved /love me

I'm everything I am

Because you loved / love me

Exercise Number 2

English Exercises > past simple exercises > was or were?

WAS OR WERE?

Choose the correct past form of the verb to be.

1- Susan and Mark were at home yesterday night.

2- She wasn’t at home. She was at school.

3- Blimpy, the cat was sat near the sofa.

4- John and some of his friends were playing soccer.

5- Yesterday night wasn’t raining. It was snowing.

Complete the questions with was or were and write answers.

1- Were they with you at home?

No, they weren’t

2- Were you at home on Monday morning?

Yes, I was

3-Was John working last week?

Yes, he was

4- Were your parents at the cinema on Saturday?

Yes, they were

Write the words in the correct order.

1- Garden / wasn´t / the / yesterday / he / in

He wasn´t in the garden yesterday

2- Home / were / my dad / and I / all day / at

My dad and I were all day at home

3- Was / Susan / library / the / in

Susan was in the library

4- Park / girls / the / the / were / at /?

Were the girls at the park?

5- Tom / last night / happy / wasn´t

Tom wasn´t happy last night

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

Verb Tense Exercise 7

Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous

Robin: I think the waiter (forget) has forgotten us. We (wait) have been waiting here for over half an hour and nobody (take) has taken our order yet.

Michele: I think you're right. He (walk) has walked by us at least twenty times. He probably thinks we (order, already) have already ordered.

Robin: Look at that couple over there, they (be, only) have only been here for five or ten minutes and they already have their food.

Michele: He must realize we (order, not) haven't ordered yet! We (sit) have been sitting here for over half an hour staring at him.

Robin: I don't know if he (notice, even) has even noticed us. He (run) has been running from table to table taking orders and serving food.

Michele: That's true, and he (look, not) hasn't looked in our direction once.

Tense Exercise 8

Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous

1. Judy: How long (be) have you been in Canada?

Claude: I (study) have studied here for more than three years.

2. I (have) have had the same car for more than ten years. I'm thinking about buying a new one.

3. I (love) have loved chocolate since I was a child. You might even call me a "chocoholic."

4. Matt and Sarah (have) have been having some difficulties in their relationship lately, so they (go) have been going to a marriage counselor. I hope they work everything out.

5. John (work) has worked for the government since he graduated from Harvard University. Until recently, he (enjoy) has enjoyed his work, but now he is talking about retiring.

6. Lately, I (think) have been thinking about changing my career because I (become) have become dissatisfied with the conditions at my company.

7. I (see) have been seeing Judy for more than five years and during that time I (see) have seen many changes in her personality.

ENTERTAINMENT

HOMEWORK

I am very funny and when I have free time, I like playing with my son on his play station II, this is the activity that I enjoy because I love my son, but when we play he doesn’t like losing, I also like much internet chat with my friends because here, I have known many people.

Another activity I like is cooking but then I eat what I cook alone and I like to play casino with my father, finally I like to listen romantic music, all this when I’m in my house.

When I am away from home I like to do many activities with my friends one of them is going to dance to the disco and then sometimes I drink alcohol.

Usually on weekends I'm going to play volleyball with my friends or neighbors of my neighborhood, usually we bet 10 dollars, sometimes I win and others lose my money.

That's all I can say you about my favorites activities.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES ABOUT SCHOLARSHIPS

HOMEWORK

WRITE DOWN AN ESSAY IN WHICH YOU MENTION WHAT YOU THINK ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED BY THE ECUADORIAN GOVERMENT. (SENESCYT)

SENESCYT announced the opening of the 2012 scholarship programs aimed at Ecuadorians who want to study for degrees in third and fourth levels. I think these programs are very good because poor students can now study abroad, no matter that they haven't money, is only important to be very intelligent.

I think one of the main advantages of the scholarship is that all Ecuadorians can follow studied, regardless of economic conditions; another advantage is that I believe that a country develops; only educating its people.

I also think that now if Ecuadorian State is giving the money belongs to education, but it is also important that people, who earn a scholarship student, return the country to contribute with their knowledge to local students.

I believe that there are no disadvantages but if the government does not give specializations agricultural, people will leave the field, and then there won't be food for people.

To finish my homework I think the scholarship is the best that the Ecuadorian government has thought, because I believe that in a few years, Ecuadorians have a better life.

M2 TRIP

TASK OF SECOND

SET

HOMEWORK

PLEASE WRITE DOWN ABOUT A TRIP THAT YOU HAVE EVER HAD. INCLUDE INFORMATION LIKE THIS:

When was the trip? Where did you do? Who did you go with? What places did you visit? What did you do there?

Last year I went to a wonderful trip with my family, we went to Santo Domingo, First we got home from my wife's grandparents, Here we were two days, the first night we went dancing at a nice disco, In this beautiful place, we danced all night and also I drank a little alcohol, Then returned house and slept all morning, after I went to fish in a large river, while my wife was cooking dinner and my son was playing with his cousins, The next day we went to the pools, because my son likes to swim.

The next day we went to Pedernales and stayed at a beautiful hotel called Palma Seca, first we went to eat at a restaurant but my son wouldn’t eat because he was playing on the beach, in these beautiful beaches we were only one day because we didn’t have

much money. What most enjoyed on these beaches was building sandcastles with my son.

The next day while we are returning to Tulcan, called me my aunt who lives in Chone, and for this reason we went to visit her, then we went to visit a great zoo, we were very happy because there were many exotic animals.

Finally returned to Tulcán night and when we reached the bus station Tulcán, I fell and broke my shoulder then I went to the hospital because it hurt much.

MY IDEAL TRIP

HOMEWORK

If I had a lot of money, I would travel all over Europe, I always wanted to visit places like: the wonderful Rome tourist attractions, such as: The Vatican and his lovely, St. Peter, According to Catholic tradition, the basilica is the burial place of St. Peter, who was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus of Nazareth, I also like to know the Roman Coliseum, this beautiful place was the setting for scenes that the film has played in films such as: Ben-Hur or Gladiato.

But the place where I've always dreamed of being is the Torrre Pisa, this beautiful building, has an inclination of 5.5 degrees Celsius, because the land where he built was in poor condition.

For me it would be very important to make my dream my whole family, with them I would go to all these beautiful places, I like to travel around Europe by plane, to see how it feels to fly.

finally all these trips would be possible if I had money, but I'm sure working hard I can get what I have dreamed, because I want my son and my wife know all these beautiful places.

RESEARCH ABOUT CONDITIONALS

RESEACRH NUMBER 1 (CONDITIONALS)

TASKS OF THE THIRD

SET

English learners should study conditional forms to speak about past, present and future situations that depend on other events happening. There are four forms of the conditional in English. In general, conditional sentences have the word "if".

Note that there is no conditional tense for the English and available in Spanish. At the same time, use the auxiliary verb "would" to form the conditional in English.

CONDITIONAL TYPES

Zero Conditional (Type 0)

Using this type of condition is when the condition and the result is always true, such as scientific facts.

IF Condition ResultIf. Present simple Present simple

Examples:

If you heat water to 100° C, it boils. / Water boils if you heat it to 100° C.

If I don't practice the piano everyday I play poorly. / I play the piano poorly if I don't practice everyday.

Does your mom get mad if you don't call her? / If you don't call your mom, does she get mad?

Note: We can change the order of the sentences without changing the meaning. Also, in general this type of conditional, we can replace "if" to "when" without altering the meaning.

First Conditional (Type 1)

This type of conditional uses: for the future and in cases where it is likely that the condition will pass.

IF Condition ResultIf. Present simple Future simple ("will")

Examples:

If Bill studies, he will pass the exam. / Bill will pass the exam if he studies.

If it doesn't rain, we will go to the beach. / We will go to the beach if it doesn't rain.

Will you take the train if you miss the bus? / If you miss the bus, will you take the train?

NOTE: You can use some modal verbs instead of "will" to change the likelihood or express an opinion. For more information, see the lesson on modal verbs.

Examples:

If it doesn't rain, we may go to the beach. If it doesn't rain we should go to the beach. If it doesn't rain we can go to the beach.

Second Conditional (Type 2)

Type 2 is used to express an unreal possibility in the present, as a wish or a dream, or for an action in the future not as likely.

IF Condition ResultIf. Past simple "Would" + infinitive

Examples:

If I won the lottery, I would travel around the world. / I would travel around the world if I won the lottery.

If Rachel had more time, she would learn to play the guitar. / Rachel would learn to play the guitar if she had more time.

Would you be happy if you were to get married? / If you were to get married, would you be happy?

Note: As in type 1, you can use other modal verbs instead of "would" to change the meaning and possibility.

Third Conditional (Type 3)

In contrast to types 1 and 2, we use the third type of conditional when talking about a condition in the past that has not happened.

IF Condition ResultIf. Past perfect "Would have" + past participle

Examples:

If I had known, then what I know now, I would have done things differently. / I would have done things differently if I had known then what I know now

Suzanne wouldn't have had the heart attack if she had gone on a diet as her doctor recommended. / If Suzanne had gone on a diet as her doctor recommended she wouldn't have had the heart attack.

Would you have liked to go to university if you had been able to afford it? / If you had been able to afford it, would you have liked to go to university?

Note: As the types 1 and 2, you can use other modal verbs instead of "would" to change the meaning and probability.

MY FUTURE

I imagine a very good future for me and my family, because I believe that in two years, I’ll graduate at the university and then I think I’ll have a very good job, and for this reason, I’ll have lots of money, and I’ll actually many dreams.

if all you plan to, I get it, I may give my son a good education in the best universities in the world, that my son follow in my footsteps, but I also want my wife has her own beauty parlor, but I also like that my wife has her own beauty salon, and also able to realize his dream of study in University.

if all these things come true, I'd be the happiest man in the world because I think my family is more important to me, well if I had a lot of money, I could help poor children and the elderly, If I study hard I'm sure this will come true.

CONDITIONAL SITUATIONS

HOMEWORK

I study in the university and I have a teacher who is very demanding on punctuality, when we arrived late, my teacher doesn’t make us come to the classroom and also, if I don’t do the task, the engineer

University of Cambridge in the UK

Mora, doesn’t take me my final exam, Most students lose the semester with this teacher.

I am very happy in the university because I have many friends, my best friend Diego invited me to a party on Saturday but if it rains I'll stay in my house, Diego also tells me that there's a party in the university next week, but when you take alcohol, loses his mind and often fight with people, for this reason I tell him not to go to the party because if you have problems the university probably fails the semester.

Finally I believe that when a person has problems all her life goes wrong, because people do not want troublemakers in their companies, therefore, I am worried about my friend Diego, I'm sure with this behavior he will have many problems in the future.

WORKING IN TEAMS

HOMEWORK

I think that our authorities believe that teamwork is good, because, always organizing this work as a team, for example: Seminars, where teachers have to work together to make this event goes well,

also, the university is organized, open houses scientists, students and teachers here must work together, to do well these important events.

ADVANTAGES OF TEAMWORK

I believe that teamwork has more advantages than disadvantages; I think the main advantages are the following:

Teamwork has more information than any of its members separately, therefore always learn new things; I also believe that group work allows different points of view when making a decision. This enriches the work, and minimizes frustrations.

I think the teamwork we get better results than any individual work, and also team members achieve greater motivation. The fact of being part of a team member makes to increase their motivation to work, generally, all group work, have greater acceptance by group members because they have all actively participated.

DISADVANTAGES OF TEAMWORK:

The main disadvantages of working in university group are:

Often work in groups bring discomfort, because usually not all members of the team, help make the work, for this reason the

members that if they work, they feel very unhappy, is also very difficult to find acceptance by all decisions made in group work.

Also another disadvantage is the lack of cooperation from members of the team to go to meetings, this occurs when there is a leader in the team.

Finally differences in ways of thinking can lead to arguments that divide the group.

COMMENT:

I believe that the university had the best result in the assessment for the good teamwork that has been done, and our authorities need to continue working together to continue to have successes

TASKS OF THE

FOURTH

WRITE AN ESSAY

PRACTICES IN THE LABORATORIES OF THE UPEC

The UPEC has many laboratories, with much technological equipment, In these last six months, the authorities of our university, have given more money to equip laboratories, especially in our career, For this reason we students of EDIA, now are doing many practices in the laboratories.

With the help of these laboratories all students of EDIA, we have many advantages but the main one is that we can apply the

TASKS OF THE

FOURTH

knowledge in the laboratories that we learn in classroom and also we learn to properly handle laboratory equipment Thanks to these advances, that our university has had, we the students of our career, we will be competent professionals.

The implementation of these laboratories also has some disadvantages, such as students have shown that even are not prepared for this technology and are not aware of how important laboratories and therefore break the lab materials.

In conclusion, when our university authorities help us, implementing the laboratories, students can learn many things we can’t learn in the classroom, because our career needs of many practices, we students of the EDIA need, "learning by doing", first we learn in the field but also need laboratories to process the food we grow on land.

RESEARCH ABOUT PASSIVE VOCIE

Passive Voice

Use of Passive

Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known; however, who or what is performing the action.

Example: My bike was stolen.

In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my bike was stolen. I do not know, however, who did it.

Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice, as the following example shows:

Example: A mistake was made.

In this case, I focus on the fact that a mistake was made, but I do not blame anyone (e.g. you have made a mistake.).

Form of Passive

Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle (3rd column of irregular verbs)

Example: A letter was written.

When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:

the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence

the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)

the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped)

Examples of Passive

Tense Subject Verb Object

Simple Present

Active: Ritawrites a letter.

Passive: A letter is written by Rita.

Simple Past Active: Rita wrote a letter.

Passive: A letter was written by Rita.

Present Perfect

Active: Rita has written a letter.

Passive: A letter has been written by Rita.

Future I Active: Rita will write a letter.

Passive: A letter will be written by Rita.

Hilfsverben Active: Rita can write a letter.

Passive: A letter can be written by Rita.

Examples of Passive

Tense Subject Verb Object

Present Progressive

Active: Ritais writing a letter.

Passive: A letter is being written by Rita.

Past Progressive

Active: Rita was writing a letter.

Passive: A letter was being written by Rita.

Past Perfect Active: Rita had written a letter.

Passive: A letter had been written by Rita.

Future II Active: Rita will have written a letter.

Passive: A letter will have been written by Rita.

Conditional I Active: Rita would write a letter.

Passive: A letter would be written by Rita.

Conditional II Active: Rita would have written a letter.

Passive: A letter would have been written by Rita.

Passive Sentences with Two Objects

Rewriting an active sentence with two objects in passive voice means that one of the two objects becomes the subject, the other one remains an object. Which object to transform into a subject depends on what you want to put the focus on.

Subject Verb Object 1 Object 2

Active: Ritawrote a letter to me.

Passive: A letter was written to me by Rita.

Passive: I was written a letter by Rita.

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As you can see in the examples, adding by Rita does not sound very elegant. That’s why it is usually dropped.

Personal and Impersonal Passive

Personal Passive simply means that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. So every verb that needs an object (transitive verb) can form a personal passive.

Example: They build houses. – Houses are built.

Verbs without an object (intransitive verb) normally cannot form a personal passive sentence (as there is no object that can become the subject of the passive sentence). If you want to use an intransitive verb in passive voice, you need an impersonal construction – therefore this passive is called Impersonal Passive.

Example: he says – it is said

Impersonal Passive is not as common in English as in some other languages (e.g. German, Latin). In English, Impersonal Passive is only possible with verbs of perception (e. g. say, think, know).

Example: They say that women live longer than men. – It is said that women live longer than men.

Although Impersonal Passive is possible here, Personal Passive is more common.

Example: They say that women live longer than men. – Women are said to live longer than men.

The subject of the subordinate clause (women) goes to the beginning of the sentence; the verb of perception is put into passive voice. The rest of the sentence is added using an infinitive construction with 'to' (certain auxiliary verbs and that are dropped).

Sometimes the term Personal Passive is used in English lessons if the indirect object of an active sentence is to become the subject of the passive sentence.

ROOM PROJECT

ROOM PROJECT:

Hello teacher and partners….

In the room project, I am going to talk about the importance of field practice in our career.

I think our race is very important to the practice field, it is necessary to obtain more knowledge, I think when I am a professional I need to solve the field problems of farmers in our province, because that is how you gain the confidence of farmers.

Thanks to the farms that the university has, to the practices of field is very easy to make, for example in the San Francisco farm we sow many crops that are cold climate, such as: potatoes, corn, carrots, green onions, wheat, radish, cabbage, etc.

The university also has a farm in the parish of "Conception", this is the route to "San Lorenzo", in this beautiful farm we plant many crops of warm weather, For example, watermelon, peach, lemon, orange, lime, tomato, melon, etc.

PHRASES AND SENTENCES

IN

MY FATHER WAS IN A BAD MOOD YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE DOESN'T SPOKE WITH ME ALL DAY.

MY WIFE AND I HAVE MUCH IN COMMON FOR THIS REASON WE LOVE MUCH.

EVERYONE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO EVACUATE IN CASE OF EARTHQUAKE

TODAY I COULD NOT GREET MY BEST FRIEND BECAUSE I WAS IN HURRIED, I HAD CLASSES AT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON ALREADY IT WAS ALREADY FIVE AFTER THREE.

TO ALL THE PEOPLE LIKE FASHION IN PARTICULAR WOMEN.

ALL STUDENTS IN GENERAL MUST PERFORM COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FOR GRADUATION.

OUT OF

MY BROTHER ENDED HIS EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT AND IS NOW OUT OF WORK.

I THINK I'M TOO FAT BECAUSE WHEN I WAS RUNNING OUT OF BREATH.

I HAVE MANY PROBLEMS IN MY HOUSE AND NOW MY FRIENDS ARE OUT OF ONE'S MIND.

MY CHEMISTRY TEACHER FLUNKED ME BECAUSE I GAVE MY HOMEWORK OUT OF DATE.

IN / OUT OF

I THINK MY BROTHER IS IN DANGER BECAUSE IT HAS BAD FRIENDS.

MY FRIEND'S SON IS OUT OF CONTROL BECAUSE IT IS A TEENAGER.

SOON WE COME TO SANTO DOMINGO BECAUSE IS IN SIGHT ALLURIQUÍN.

ALL PEOPLE "BAÑOS" ARE IN TROUBLE BECAUSE THE VOLCANO CAN ERUPT.

YOU SHOULD MAKE THE FINAL PROJECT OF ENGLISH IN ORDER TO AVOID PROBLEMS.

ALL, THE MACHINERY OF THE LABORATORIES UPEC, ARE IN USE BECAUSE THEY ARE NEW.

COMMENT

Thanks to these tasks I was able to advance far in my

attempt to learn the important English

language.

I aspire to the next level and to improve my way of speaking,

listening, writing, etc.