Week 3

v  We solved a mystery about a story the professor gave us.

®    Alec Crabtree was found dead at the desk in his study last night. He had been hit on the head with a blunt object. He had been sitting at the desk with his back to the door, and was in the middle of writing a letter. He was found by his wife when she went in to bring his bed time cocoa at 11:15pm, but his watch, which had been smashed in the struggle, had stopped at 11:05pm. The suspects are the people who were in the house at the time. Mrs. Crabtree (the dead man´s wife), Daniel Crabtree (the dead man´s brother) and some others. And after reading the clues we found out that the killer was his wife.

v  We had to do a history related to news, mine was:

Huge storm: In today news; a huge storm arrives to La Fortuna, San Carlos. As a consequence of the rain, houses were destroyed and people were evacuated from their houses. A lot of rain is expected for the weekend.

v  We learned about gerunds:

®    Use the base form of the verb+ ing.

      Read+ ing   reading.

®    Use the gerund as the subject of a sentence.

      Writing is very important to Frank.

®    Use the gerund as the object of a sentence after certain verbs (enjoy, recall…)

      Frank enjoys writing.

®    Use the gerund after a preposition. (of,in,for,about…)

      Frank is interested in writing.

v  We learned about infinitives:

®    Use to+the base form of the verb

      To read

®    Some verbs are followed directly by an infinitive.(learn,decide,agree)

      His students lerned to write about English.

®    Some verbs are followed by an infinitive or an object+ an infinitive (want,ask,need…)

      He wanted them to write about their experiences.

®    Some verbs are followed by an object+ an infinitive (urge, persuade…)

      He urged his students to write about tourism.

®    Use the infinitive after certain adjectives (free, able, hard..)

      His students were free to write about whatever they wanted.

®    Use the infinitive after certain nouns (ability, freedom…)

      His students had the freedom to write about any topic.

v  We read a short story named “Children on a country road”