Maria Paz Cueto Luna

Advanced 5
Teacher: Ms. Gladis Ticona Flores

UNIT 8: GERUNDS
A friendship that has been meaningful to you
The number of words: 224
Grammar used:
Simple and Past Gerunds
Gerunds as Objects and Object Complements
Gerunds as Objects of Prepositions
Simple and Past Gerunds

One of the most important and meaningful friendships I have is with my best friend Pia, We
met each other by studying at the same school, and for some team projects, we became
closer and closer. She has been my friend for a long time and I really appreciate that time
because becoming friends was one of the best things I could have done ever. Her constant
kidding and jokes are really funny so I love her.

We’ve made our friendship stronger by having a bad discussion and stop talking for like 2
months, You may think that it doesn’t make sense but after that discussion, we have
improved our communication and developed ourselves, I think we actually needed that time
because now we like each other better than before. Even if we make new friends and have
fun with them, we still have the same vibe and feeling when we are together, we like to
spend time doing anything.

We’ve stayed friends by learning that personal space is really important, so we really respect
the time of the other, also we learned that answering messages very quickly is not necessary
and childish. Right now, we both think that it’s the time of our lives so hanging out with
friends, going to parties, meeting new people, and studying is what we like to do.

UNIT 9: INFINITIVES
A situation in which you procrastinated.
The number of words: 219
Grammar used:
Verbs + Infinitives and Gerunds
Verbs + Nouns + Infinitives
Adjectives + Infinitives
Too and Enough+ Infinitives

Sadly, I can say that procrastination is my second name because it’s a big problem in my life
that I can not handle until now, I’m going to tell you one experience that I had due to
procrastinating a lot. I was going to take the TOEFL exam so I expected to study correctly to
do my best on the test, I knew that it was important to know my English level so I planned
the test day one month before, that way I would have enough time to be prepared for the
TOEFL.

But guess what, I just procrastinated all month for college and lacked organization and I
started to study the same day that I was going to take the test, obviously, I was too nervous
to give my all. From early morning until the last minute before the exam, I studied really hard
because I wanted to have a kind of good grade.

At the moment of the test, I just realized that it was easier than I thought, so I did well.
Obviously, I could do better but with the short time of studying my grade was even higher
than what I was expecting. For the next important test that I will have to take, I’m not going to
put things off and study well.