Dear Students

 
Okay, guys, so your grades are now posted and our semester is officially over.

Have a great vacation and keep practicing all that you have learned. I assure you that you all have made progress and will continue to do so as long as you stay focused and put in some effort. The blog will remain open if you want to refer back to it in the future.

Thanks for a great semester (my very first class at HCC, which I shall remember fondly). I hope to see you on campus in the spring. I wish you all success, not only in your English learning, but in your lives!

Stay in touch, and please contact me if I can help you (and also just to say "hi.")
HC

Answers to the FINAL EXAM REVIEW SHEET

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-rIza1967iVZ2RnN2JRZ01uWFU/view?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I2teHAoGm-cZv0EwUDJycJam9pG57NfqAMGyQmHXT6k/edit?usp=sharing

"Review of Wish" answers

1. understood
2. would stop
3. hadn't said
4. were
5. spoke
6. would keep
7. had caught
8. had seen
9. hadn't gone
10. had gone
11. lived
12. were
13. had
14. had had
15. hadn't sat
16. hadn't told
17. had offered
18. would shut up
19. had
20. would give

Information for the listening final exam

For the final exam, we will be returning to your Pathways book. In order to be prepared, please complete the following:

On pp. 183-185, read the pages and learn the new vocabulary. Do the same on pp. 194-195.

Write your sentences from the practice grammar test (sections V and VI) here and I will check them for you.

What's on the final exam?

Parts  I & II (listening)

PART III-Fill in the blanks in a text with the simple past, past progressive, present perfect, or past perfect

PART IV (4)- used to, be used to, get used to-fill in a text

PART V (5). Gerund or Infinitive

PART VI (6)-Active or Passive Voice

PART VII (7)-Noun Clauses (embedded questions: Ex: Can you tell me where Sue lives?)

PART VIII (8)-Reported Speech

PART IX (9)-Adjectives clauses using (who, whose, which, whom, or that)

PART X (10)-use WISH for present, future, or past (like practice test 4)

PART XI (11)- Present unreal conditional: If I had the time, I would learn how to ski;
 and Past unreal conditional: If I had known you were ill, I would have called you.

Grammar #23: Wish (due Wednesday)

1. Where do you wish you were right now? What do you wish you were doing?

2. What do you wish were different about Houston?

3. What do you wish were different about your country?

4. What is something in your life that you regret? In other words, what is something that you wish you hadn't done?