My time here is coming to an end and I am feeling a bit stressed about making sure I have done everything and am ready to leave... send stuff home, buy everything I need to etc.
Classes are going well. I'm trying to mop up all the bits and pieces I still have doubts about. In conversation this week we have been looking at inventions. Yesterday we looked at some Spanish inventions and today we fed back about some from our countries. I had done a bit of research and talked about the TV, the telephone and penecillin. I also found out that steel rimmed umbrellas, cats' eyes, gas masks and viagra were all UK inventions!
In grammar, we looked at reported speech. For example, making John said "I hope you like your present" into John said that he hoped that I had liked my present. It seemed to be rather complicated, especially when you take into account the subjunctive and various pronouns. I have just spent about an hour on my homework and I wasn't too happy with it! In the private class, I have Sergio this week and today we (at my request) focused on the accent. It has a very unique role in Spanish and I was kind of aware of how to use it, but kept finding what I thought were exceptions and I now know are just the other 2 rules (ie there are 3, not 1 as I had thought!)
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