activity: watch the tv show and writte your comment
this is one more chapter from the big bang theory i hope you enjoy it
refleccion: this was a very funny tv show and a very good way to improve my listening because they talk very fast and whit new and different vocabulary.
source:http://www.megavideo.com/?v=3JW9FR95
lunes, 8 de diciembre de 2008
bad day
activity: follow the karaoke
a few years ago i heard this song and i liked so much so i decided to memorise the lyrics.
Also the video is beautiful, so join me singing bad day of Daniel Powter
Refleccion: singing is a very fun way to practice your speaking skills, i really don't know how to upload how did i make singing because i'm really bad at it
source: www.youtube.com
a few years ago i heard this song and i liked so much so i decided to memorise the lyrics.
Also the video is beautiful, so join me singing bad day of Daniel Powter
Refleccion: singing is a very fun way to practice your speaking skills, i really don't know how to upload how did i make singing because i'm really bad at it
source: www.youtube.com
phone conversation
activity: talking by phone
yesterday i called my cousin and her husband answer me (he is from the us and he speaks just a few words in spanish) and i was talking whit him and ask for my cousin and their dauthers and he told me that they went to the supermarket and that all of them are all right he ask about my family and i said that we all are right.
reflecction: this was a very helpful activity because i could use all my speaking on my real life.
yesterday i called my cousin and her husband answer me (he is from the us and he speaks just a few words in spanish) and i was talking whit him and ask for my cousin and their dauthers and he told me that they went to the supermarket and that all of them are all right he ask about my family and i said that we all are right.
reflecction: this was a very helpful activity because i could use all my speaking on my real life.
convers
activity: talk whit a friend about an interesting topic
a few days ago my friend Sara and I talked about the coming exams and she told me that she was having a lot of exams and she is very stress about it she also told me that she have more than one exam for a single day finally she told me that she have a lot to study.
reflecction: this was very helpful not practice my speakin skills but letting stress out
source: na
a few days ago my friend Sara and I talked about the coming exams and she told me that she was having a lot of exams and she is very stress about it she also told me that she have more than one exam for a single day finally she told me that she have a lot to study.
reflecction: this was very helpful not practice my speakin skills but letting stress out
source: na
martes, 2 de diciembre de 2008
stress in the workplace
activity: rading about stress in the work place and explain what you understad
the stress in the work place is one to the most important things in a organization besuase it will be reflected on the productivity an d creativity of the employee, there are somekinds of stress in the workplace the ones that are related to the workplace and the other employees and the other one that is related to the politics and directives of the organization.
Reflecction : knowing about the stress of the organization and what it can cause on the people is very important because you might need to control it or make less stress to my employees.
source:http://www.humannatureatwork.com/Workplace-Stress-2.htm
the stress in the work place is one to the most important things in a organization besuase it will be reflected on the productivity an d creativity of the employee, there are somekinds of stress in the workplace the ones that are related to the workplace and the other employees and the other one that is related to the politics and directives of the organization.
Reflecction : knowing about the stress of the organization and what it can cause on the people is very important because you might need to control it or make less stress to my employees.
source:http://www.humannatureatwork.com/Workplace-Stress-2.htm
types of advertising
Activity: read about types of media and explain what i learn
Every day we found a lot of advertisings in the buses, the tv, the radio, on the walls almost everywere.
that's why it's importat to know the kind of advertisings
Covert advertising: this one you can found on movies or tv programs, you can see the logos or somebody saying the name of the brand.
Television commercials: the common ones this are displayed during a tv program
Infomercials: there are two types of infomercials the short(2 minutes long) or the long(30 minutes)
Celebrity advertising: this uses the power of a famous person, it can show a famous person using or recomending the product.
Reflecction:learning about adveritising is very interesting because you can analise the ad and not believe everything they said
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising
Every day we found a lot of advertisings in the buses, the tv, the radio, on the walls almost everywere.
that's why it's importat to know the kind of advertisings
Covert advertising: this one you can found on movies or tv programs, you can see the logos or somebody saying the name of the brand.
Television commercials: the common ones this are displayed during a tv program
Infomercials: there are two types of infomercials the short(2 minutes long) or the long(30 minutes)
Celebrity advertising: this uses the power of a famous person, it can show a famous person using or recomending the product.
Reflecction:learning about adveritising is very interesting because you can analise the ad and not believe everything they said
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising
miércoles, 26 de noviembre de 2008
last journal
wow!!! i can't believed!!!! this is going to be my last journal activity.
Actually i enjoy a lot doing this because i could share some experiences even if nobody reads it i don't care, this was a space to think and write in english although sometimes i feeld like i didn't have enought time to do this i allways liked to learn something diferent. And one of the most important things was that i also have to use my accounting knowledge to do the academic part.
Some other thing that i like about this was checking on my classemates blogs because they have some other interesting things to say.
Finally i would like to say..... leave a comment!!!
Actually i enjoy a lot doing this because i could share some experiences even if nobody reads it i don't care, this was a space to think and write in english although sometimes i feeld like i didn't have enought time to do this i allways liked to learn something diferent. And one of the most important things was that i also have to use my accounting knowledge to do the academic part.
Some other thing that i like about this was checking on my classemates blogs because they have some other interesting things to say.
Finally i would like to say..... leave a comment!!!
conversation
Activity: speaking conversation
Last friday i was taking a bus from progreso to merida and i was sitign next to two american girs and sudently a children start to sing for money and they were talking about that children thinks like might be he didn't have parents but i knewed the boy because he is one of my mom's studentes and (might be i was rude but) i told them that he had parents and he was just making money to play video games or things like that. And then the conversation started we continue talking about holidays like they were very exciting about havin thanksgiving out of home and after we talk about school and finaly about tv series.
Reflecction: it was a very good experience because they had diferent acents and make my brain go faster to try to understad all of what they were saying.
Last friday i was taking a bus from progreso to merida and i was sitign next to two american girs and sudently a children start to sing for money and they were talking about that children thinks like might be he didn't have parents but i knewed the boy because he is one of my mom's studentes and (might be i was rude but) i told them that he had parents and he was just making money to play video games or things like that. And then the conversation started we continue talking about holidays like they were very exciting about havin thanksgiving out of home and after we talk about school and finaly about tv series.
Reflecction: it was a very good experience because they had diferent acents and make my brain go faster to try to understad all of what they were saying.
Chuck
activity: whatch a tv serie and write what is it about
I'm posting the video but i didn't saw it whit subtitles, the page that i used to saw it was all in chinesse and i couldn't found the url to post it here so i foun one but is subtitled in spanish
this is the first chapter of the chuck series in which there is a guy named chuck who is a buy more and one day on his birthday he recived an e-mail from a bad friend named bryce in this e-mail he got all the USA goberment secrets and he became the only one to know all of this, then the CIA and the NSA send him two agents that try to kill him until he explain that he is not working for anybody else that he only open the wrong e-mail.
Reflecction : this is my favorite way to improve my listening skils because i watch it every week and i learn diferent acents and words that i didn't knew.
Source:http://tu.tv/videos/chuck-1x01-subs-espanol
I'm posting the video but i didn't saw it whit subtitles, the page that i used to saw it was all in chinesse and i couldn't found the url to post it here so i foun one but is subtitled in spanish
this is the first chapter of the chuck series in which there is a guy named chuck who is a buy more and one day on his birthday he recived an e-mail from a bad friend named bryce in this e-mail he got all the USA goberment secrets and he became the only one to know all of this, then the CIA and the NSA send him two agents that try to kill him until he explain that he is not working for anybody else that he only open the wrong e-mail.
Reflecction : this is my favorite way to improve my listening skils because i watch it every week and i learn diferent acents and words that i didn't knew.
Source:http://tu.tv/videos/chuck-1x01-subs-espanol
phones
activity: read about the history of telephones and write about it
The telephone is one of the most important gadgets that we use on our days. But the telephone history start since 1876 when alexander Graham Bell realized his artefact.
Now on the telephone makes our life easier, because everyone have one and they are very important because the telecomunication increase day by day, the tecnology also increased that now we can talk very fast to people from all over the world or having videophone calls, the comunication betwen people is n0w on one of th most important issues on our days.
Reflecciton: this was very interesting becuase the telephone is something that we use allways and finfing information is very interesting and usefull for my future
source: http://www.telephonymuseum.com/History%201940-today.htm
The telephone is one of the most important gadgets that we use on our days. But the telephone history start since 1876 when alexander Graham Bell realized his artefact.
Now on the telephone makes our life easier, because everyone have one and they are very important because the telecomunication increase day by day, the tecnology also increased that now we can talk very fast to people from all over the world or having videophone calls, the comunication betwen people is n0w on one of th most important issues on our days.
Reflecciton: this was very interesting becuase the telephone is something that we use allways and finfing information is very interesting and usefull for my future
source: http://www.telephonymuseum.com/History%201940-today.htm
Computeres and girls
Activity:
I read a cnn article and afther answered the questions
Computers and girls
From a news story byCNN San Francisco Reporter Don Knapp
The girls in this sixth grade class in East Palo Alto, California, all have the same access to computers as boys. But researchers say, by the time they get to high school, they are victims of what the researchers call a major new gender gap in technology.Janice Weinman of the American Association of University Woman says, "Girls tend to be less comfortable than boys with the computer. They use it more for word processing rather than for problem solving, rather than to discover new ways in which to understand information."After re-examining a thousand studies, the American Association of University women researchers found that girls make up only a small percentage of students in computer science classes. Girls consistently rate themselves significantly lower than boys in their ability and confidence in using computers. And they use computers less often than boys outside the classroom. The instructor of this computer lab says he's already noticed some differences. Charles Cheadle of Cesar Chavez School says, "Boys are not so afraid they might do something that will harm the computer, whereas girls are afraid they might break it somehow."Six years ago, the software company Purple Moon noticed that girls’ computer usage was falling behind boys. Karen Gould says, "The number one reason girls told us they don't like computer games is not because they're too violent, or too competitive. Girls just said they're incredibly boring."Purple Moon says it found what girls want, characters they can relate to and story lines relative to what's going on in their own lives. Karen Gould of Purple Moon Software says, "What we definitely found from girls is there is no intrinsic reason why they wouldn't want to play on a computer; it was just a content thing."The sponsor of the study says it all boils down to this, the technology gender gap that separates the girls from the boys must be closed if women are to compete effectively with men in the 21st century.
Reflecction: it was a very old article from 1998 it was very interesting but actully i think that the girls are as interested as boys on the computers because its a very common and importan on our days.
sourse:http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/computergirls/conclusions.html
I read a cnn article and afther answered the questions
Computers and girls
From a news story byCNN San Francisco Reporter Don Knapp
The girls in this sixth grade class in East Palo Alto, California, all have the same access to computers as boys. But researchers say, by the time they get to high school, they are victims of what the researchers call a major new gender gap in technology.Janice Weinman of the American Association of University Woman says, "Girls tend to be less comfortable than boys with the computer. They use it more for word processing rather than for problem solving, rather than to discover new ways in which to understand information."After re-examining a thousand studies, the American Association of University women researchers found that girls make up only a small percentage of students in computer science classes. Girls consistently rate themselves significantly lower than boys in their ability and confidence in using computers. And they use computers less often than boys outside the classroom. The instructor of this computer lab says he's already noticed some differences. Charles Cheadle of Cesar Chavez School says, "Boys are not so afraid they might do something that will harm the computer, whereas girls are afraid they might break it somehow."Six years ago, the software company Purple Moon noticed that girls’ computer usage was falling behind boys. Karen Gould says, "The number one reason girls told us they don't like computer games is not because they're too violent, or too competitive. Girls just said they're incredibly boring."Purple Moon says it found what girls want, characters they can relate to and story lines relative to what's going on in their own lives. Karen Gould of Purple Moon Software says, "What we definitely found from girls is there is no intrinsic reason why they wouldn't want to play on a computer; it was just a content thing."The sponsor of the study says it all boils down to this, the technology gender gap that separates the girls from the boys must be closed if women are to compete effectively with men in the 21st century.
Reflecction: it was a very old article from 1998 it was very interesting but actully i think that the girls are as interested as boys on the computers because its a very common and importan on our days.
sourse:http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/computergirls/conclusions.html
jueves, 20 de noviembre de 2008
Disney Party
November 18th is the Mickey's 80th Anniversary!!! the most famous spokemouse in the world is celebrating his first 80th years.
But actually he had become animated six monts before the anniversary date but the disney brothes never got the distriubution deal thas why they celabrate november 18th as the mickey's first apperance on the big screen.
this first apperance was at the Colony Theater in New York City in 1928. this was the first synchronized sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie.
For the disney brothes this was their fist big sucsses, and the start of an endless sucssesful carrer on the entertaiment bussines.
this was very interesting to know because we all know mickey and get knowlege about him is very interesting.
But actually he had become animated six monts before the anniversary date but the disney brothes never got the distriubution deal thas why they celabrate november 18th as the mickey's first apperance on the big screen.
this first apperance was at the Colony Theater in New York City in 1928. this was the first synchronized sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie.
For the disney brothes this was their fist big sucsses, and the start of an endless sucssesful carrer on the entertaiment bussines.
this was very interesting to know because we all know mickey and get knowlege about him is very interesting.
viernes, 14 de noviembre de 2008
how to write a memo
Activity: read the information about how to write a memo and afther write your oun memo
A memorandum It is written in note form and is used to inform or remind people
A memo should contain the following labels: from, to, date, subjet
My memo:
to: Teacher Amber
from: Veronica Gamboa
date: 14/11/08
subjet: Missing class
please teacher as I inform before i'm not attending to tuesday 18th class, please send me the homework whit sara or by email.
Refeccion: this was very interesting because i didn't knew how to make a memo, and this will help me.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/writing/format_and_structure/factsheet4.shtml
A memorandum It is written in note form and is used to inform or remind people
A memo should contain the following labels: from, to, date, subjet
My memo:
to: Teacher Amber
from: Veronica Gamboa
date: 14/11/08
subjet: Missing class
please teacher as I inform before i'm not attending to tuesday 18th class, please send me the homework whit sara or by email.
Refeccion: this was very interesting because i didn't knew how to make a memo, and this will help me.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/writing/format_and_structure/factsheet4.shtml
Paragraph Revision
Activity: Read a paragraph and look for the mistakes. Afther the page would teache you how to change the mistakes
This is the paragraph just as I readed.
Green house effect is one of the phenomena caused by industrial pollution. From the data taken by scientists, our earth has been warming up since the Industrial Revolution. Why does it happen? The factories' emissions have created smog on the atmosphere. The earth's atmosphere becomes like a green house, and the earth and everything inside of it have become like the plants in the green house. The sunlight can pass trough the ozone layer but the heat transferred by the sunlight can not escape easily from the layer of smog and is deflected to earth's surface again.
this is the correct one:
The greenhouse effect is a phenomenon caused by industrial pollution. Because of the greenhouse effect, the temperature of the earth is increasing. According to the data taken by scientists, our earth has been warming up since the Industrial Revolution. Why does it happen? Emissions from factories have created smog in the atmosphere. The earth's atmosphere becomes like a greenhouse, and the earth and everything inside of it have become like the plants in a greenhouse. The sunlight can pass through the ozone layer but the heat transferred by the sunlight can not escape easily from the layer of smog and is deflected to the earth's surface again.
Reflecction: this was very helpeful because there were some mistakes that i didn't notice and it will help me to improve my writting skills
Source:http://eslus.com/LESSONS/WRITING/REV1/LC.HTM
This is the paragraph just as I readed.
Green house effect is one of the phenomena caused by industrial pollution. From the data taken by scientists, our earth has been warming up since the Industrial Revolution. Why does it happen? The factories' emissions have created smog on the atmosphere. The earth's atmosphere becomes like a green house, and the earth and everything inside of it have become like the plants in the green house. The sunlight can pass trough the ozone layer but the heat transferred by the sunlight can not escape easily from the layer of smog and is deflected to earth's surface again.
this is the correct one:
The greenhouse effect is a phenomenon caused by industrial pollution. Because of the greenhouse effect, the temperature of the earth is increasing. According to the data taken by scientists, our earth has been warming up since the Industrial Revolution. Why does it happen? Emissions from factories have created smog in the atmosphere. The earth's atmosphere becomes like a greenhouse, and the earth and everything inside of it have become like the plants in a greenhouse. The sunlight can pass through the ozone layer but the heat transferred by the sunlight can not escape easily from the layer of smog and is deflected to the earth's surface again.
Reflecction: this was very helpeful because there were some mistakes that i didn't notice and it will help me to improve my writting skills
Source:http://eslus.com/LESSONS/WRITING/REV1/LC.HTM
from Proposed Roads To Freedom
Activity: read the lecture and fill the blancs whit the correct word and finally answer the questions.
Most men and women pass xx1xx life without ever considering or criticising xx2xx their own conditions or those of the world at large. They find themselves born into a certain place in society, and they accept what each day xx3xx, without any thought beyond what the immediate present requires. They seek the satisfaction of the needs of the moment, without much forethought, and without thinking that by sufficient effort the conditions of their lives xx4xx be changed. A certain percentage, guided by personal ambition, make the effort of thought and will which is necessary to place themselves among the more xx5xx members of the community; but very few among these are seriously concerned to secure for all the advantages which they seek for xx6xx. Only a few rare and exceptional men have that kind of love toward mankind at large that makes them unable to endure patiently the general mass of evil and suffering, xx7xx of any relation it may have to their own lives. These few, driven by sympathetic pain, will seek for some new system of society by which life may become richer, more full of xx8xx and less full of preventable evils xx9xx it is at present. But in the past such men have, as a rule, failed to interest the very victims of the injustices xx10xx they wished to remedy.
Adapted from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell
Refecction: this was a little difficult for me althoug I knew the word, I did't put it correctly in some of the questions.
Source: http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/CLOZE/R8.HTM
Most men and women pass xx1xx life without ever considering or criticising xx2xx their own conditions or those of the world at large. They find themselves born into a certain place in society, and they accept what each day xx3xx, without any thought beyond what the immediate present requires. They seek the satisfaction of the needs of the moment, without much forethought, and without thinking that by sufficient effort the conditions of their lives xx4xx be changed. A certain percentage, guided by personal ambition, make the effort of thought and will which is necessary to place themselves among the more xx5xx members of the community; but very few among these are seriously concerned to secure for all the advantages which they seek for xx6xx. Only a few rare and exceptional men have that kind of love toward mankind at large that makes them unable to endure patiently the general mass of evil and suffering, xx7xx of any relation it may have to their own lives. These few, driven by sympathetic pain, will seek for some new system of society by which life may become richer, more full of xx8xx and less full of preventable evils xx9xx it is at present. But in the past such men have, as a rule, failed to interest the very victims of the injustices xx10xx they wished to remedy.
Adapted from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell
Refecction: this was a little difficult for me althoug I knew the word, I did't put it correctly in some of the questions.
Source: http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/CLOZE/R8.HTM
martes, 11 de noviembre de 2008
The big bang theory
This is one of my favorites tv shows i started watching this show about a year ago and it's hilarious, But i have to be honest they talk with a lot of unusual words that some times i don't get the half of it but the half i undestand makes me laugh.
It's about leonard and sheldon two brilliant theoretical physicists but socially inept and they meet a new neighbor penny a stereotypical beautiful dumb blond
i hope you enjoy the chapter as much as i did
this is the pilot, it's just 22 minutes long
Remember that listening english with out subtitules and diferents acents will help you to improve your speaking
It's about leonard and sheldon two brilliant theoretical physicists but socially inept and they meet a new neighbor penny a stereotypical beautiful dumb blond
i hope you enjoy the chapter as much as i did
this is the pilot, it's just 22 minutes long
Remember that listening english with out subtitules and diferents acents will help you to improve your speaking
jueves, 30 de octubre de 2008
Culture and the behavior of elites in Latin America
i just realized that this didn't post anything whatever...
Activitie: I read a article and wrote what I understand.
The lecture said that the latin American cultures could became more important economicaly to the world but also said that there are some elites that restring the grow of the latin American societies, the autor clasifed the elites on:
politicians
military
bussinesmen
clergy
intellectuals
the left
Reflection: i belive tha this is a very important isue in latin american societies and we just thought that its normal but they are a very importan influense for the economical develpment of the countries.
source: Culture and the behavior of elites in Latin America, Montaner Carlos Alberto; chapter 5
Activitie: I read a article and wrote what I understand.
The lecture said that the latin American cultures could became more important economicaly to the world but also said that there are some elites that restring the grow of the latin American societies, the autor clasifed the elites on:
politicians
military
bussinesmen
clergy
intellectuals
the left
Reflection: i belive tha this is a very important isue in latin american societies and we just thought that its normal but they are a very importan influense for the economical develpment of the countries.
source: Culture and the behavior of elites in Latin America, Montaner Carlos Alberto; chapter 5
weekend
Hi las weekend was very fun i went to the publivoros night with my friends and I had a lot of fun.
Basicaly the publivoros night is five hours of ad's, there were a lot of funny ad's some others were really boring but afther all i enjoy the night and the gifts that they gived to me.
I will post ome of my favorite ad's but i will do it when I ask Laura how to do it and i get home because the school internet is very slow and I can't charge the video.
i don't nkow if i really get how to upload this thing and this is experiment #1
Basicaly the publivoros night is five hours of ad's, there were a lot of funny ad's some others were really boring but afther all i enjoy the night and the gifts that they gived to me.
I will post ome of my favorite ad's but i will do it when I ask Laura how to do it and i get home because the school internet is very slow and I can't charge the video.
i don't nkow if i really get how to upload this thing and this is experiment #1
Brief History of Vancouver
Activity: this is a grammar activity where you have to fill the blnc whit the correct verb form. this test have arround 61 questions i'll just present ten.
1.-In 1986, Vancouver __hosted_ Expo 86 to which more than 22 million came.
2.-In 1886, a 1,000-acre military reserve that would later become Stanley Park _was leased__ from the federal government.
3.-In 1875, the first white woman _came__ to live in West Vancouver with her husband. The couple's third child, James was the first white child born there (April 25, 1876).
4.-In 1940, Canada's first all-Chinese-language school _was dedicated__ at 571 East Georgia Street.
5.-In 1839, Fort Langley moved to its present location but soon _burned__ down so it was rebuilt in 1941.
6.-In 1829, native women _helped__ with salmon curing for commercial export at Fort Langley.
7.-In 1887, the first CPR passenger train _arrived__ in Vancouver from Montreal.
8.-In 1884, William Van Horne, general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, visited Granville and selected it as the line's western terminus. He also recommended it _be__ renamed Vancouver.
9.-By 1848, Fort Langley _became__ the largest fish exporter on the Pacific coast.
10.-In 1864, the first session of the Legislative Council of the colony of British Columbia _was held__ in New Westminster.
reflecction: this is a very interesting activity because it remainds me how to use the verb tenses and also I learned about some other place (vancouver)
source: http://a4esl.org/q/j/dt/mc-vancouver.html
1.-In 1986, Vancouver __hosted_ Expo 86 to which more than 22 million came.
2.-In 1886, a 1,000-acre military reserve that would later become Stanley Park _was leased__ from the federal government.
3.-In 1875, the first white woman _came__ to live in West Vancouver with her husband. The couple's third child, James was the first white child born there (April 25, 1876).
4.-In 1940, Canada's first all-Chinese-language school _was dedicated__ at 571 East Georgia Street.
5.-In 1839, Fort Langley moved to its present location but soon _burned__ down so it was rebuilt in 1941.
6.-In 1829, native women _helped__ with salmon curing for commercial export at Fort Langley.
7.-In 1887, the first CPR passenger train _arrived__ in Vancouver from Montreal.
8.-In 1884, William Van Horne, general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, visited Granville and selected it as the line's western terminus. He also recommended it _be__ renamed Vancouver.
9.-By 1848, Fort Langley _became__ the largest fish exporter on the Pacific coast.
10.-In 1864, the first session of the Legislative Council of the colony of British Columbia _was held__ in New Westminster.
reflecction: this is a very interesting activity because it remainds me how to use the verb tenses and also I learned about some other place (vancouver)
source: http://a4esl.org/q/j/dt/mc-vancouver.html
sábado, 25 de octubre de 2008
sheds light on
Activity: i found a web page where they put an article and i had to anser the following questions
- Guessing from context, what do you think "sheds light on" means in the title of the article?
- What do the different colors represent in the brain scan picture?
- What were the results of the MRI scans?
People who learned a 2nd language as children used the same area of the brain to process language as those who learned as adults.
Those who learned as children used different areas of the brain than those that learned as adults.
Those that learned as children used one area to process both languages, while adult learners used different areas for each language. - How does the MRI help brain surgeons?
- What is the "map" that the article refers to?
- True or False: The study shows conclusively that children learn language more easily than adults do.
- Do you think children learn languages more easily than adults do? Why or why not?
Reflection: it was very funny because i never thought that my brain could be tested in that way and i really don't know if mine will get orange or red and yellow because i started learning english when i was six but i just star to talk in english when i was 12.
source:http://www.eslwonderland.com/activities/reading/language/index.html
A Halloween Journey
Halloween can be a dangerous time to travel, if you're on your own.
I learned this several long years ago, having just hopped onto a train late one chill and stormy Halloween evening for a brief but important journey through the deserted middle part of our country.
After taking a seat near the rear of what I at first believed to be an otherwise unoccupied car, I removed a from my bag -- a novel by a purple-prosed horror writer much given to using capital letters and a lot of exclamation points -- and was just about to settle in with the hope of finding some sort of dreamy escape from the ills of real when the conductor padded down the aisle so quietly that he was almost upon me before I saw him.
"Tickets, please?" he said in a rather ragged voice that he barely raised above a whisper.
I was to see that in addition to the usual blue uniform and dark conductor's cap he was wearing a black cat mask that sported long dark whiskers on either side of his neatly sculpted feline nose. He took my ticket in his thick-fingered paw, paused a moment, and said, "And who are you supposed to be?"But I was not in the for Halloween antics. "Just a traveler," I said wearily.
The answers to the blancs are book, life, shocked and mood
Refleccion: this was very interesting because i hat to listen very carefull to the story to make it work
source: http://www.eslwonderland.com/activities/index.htm
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2008
Delayed
Delayed
My friends usually the delayed queen because I ’m always late for everything
Benign delayed is a very common thing for me because I go by bus and it makes me get a little late, there are some other times that I really try to get early but there are some other things that makes me get late.
There are some places that a know that i shouldn't be late like the school or the theater because i know that if i get late they don't let me get in.
But for a party getting late is almost a requirement because if you go at the time that the invitation said not even the planers are going to be there.
It is a Mexican custom to get late to everywhere and it's hard to fight against that but I learned that getting on time to everywhere is very important and it's a way to show respect to the others.
My friends usually the delayed queen because I ’m always late for everything
Benign delayed is a very common thing for me because I go by bus and it makes me get a little late, there are some other times that I really try to get early but there are some other things that makes me get late.
There are some places that a know that i shouldn't be late like the school or the theater because i know that if i get late they don't let me get in.
But for a party getting late is almost a requirement because if you go at the time that the invitation said not even the planers are going to be there.
It is a Mexican custom to get late to everywhere and it's hard to fight against that but I learned that getting on time to everywhere is very important and it's a way to show respect to the others.
jueves, 16 de octubre de 2008
mother or monster?
Activity: I writte a paragraph about an old new.
I was looking some old news and I found something that shock me.
A "mother" (China Arnold) was convicted to life in prison for killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven. She was found guilty afther three years of investigation.
Prosecutors said that she put her baby intencionally in the microwave afther fithing whit her boyfriend about she been unfaitful to him. China's cell mate testified that she confes that she put the baby in the microwave and when she ask china how she do it she said that the baby fit well on the microwave.
I was really shocked the very fist time I read about it because I couldn't believe that a mother could do something like that.
Reflection: this activity was very interesting becuse I practice my writting skils but also i learn about doing resech on the internet
Source:http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/china-arnold-monster.html
I was looking some old news and I found something that shock me.
A "mother" (China Arnold) was convicted to life in prison for killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven. She was found guilty afther three years of investigation.
Prosecutors said that she put her baby intencionally in the microwave afther fithing whit her boyfriend about she been unfaitful to him. China's cell mate testified that she confes that she put the baby in the microwave and when she ask china how she do it she said that the baby fit well on the microwave.
I was really shocked the very fist time I read about it because I couldn't believe that a mother could do something like that.
Reflection: this activity was very interesting becuse I practice my writting skils but also i learn about doing resech on the internet
Source:http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/china-arnold-monster.html
Christmas in UK
Activity: Read the text and answer the questions.
my answers were:
1.- b) so it is said
2.- c) money paid by the bride's family to the groom's family
3.- d) someone who gives help
4.- d) dropping
5.- c) wind that blows outside
6.- b) custom
7.- a) magical
8.- c) keep away
9.- d) originally
10.-c) Scandinavian
11.- c) 8th and 9th century
12.-b) sink
13.-d) drink
14.-d) cake or candy maker
15.-b) coming from
16.-d
17.-c
18.-b
19.-b
20.-b
21.-d
22.-b
23.-b
24.-d
25.-b
Source: www.geosites.com/Athens/Academy/1929/Xmas.
Reflection: this activity was very interesting because i learn a lot about the chistmas customs that are from the UK like the chistmas crakers.
my answers were:
1.- b) so it is said
2.- c) money paid by the bride's family to the groom's family
3.- d) someone who gives help
4.- d) dropping
5.- c) wind that blows outside
6.- b) custom
7.- a) magical
8.- c) keep away
9.- d) originally
10.-c) Scandinavian
11.- c) 8th and 9th century
12.-b) sink
13.-d) drink
14.-d) cake or candy maker
15.-b) coming from
16.-d
17.-c
18.-b
19.-b
20.-b
21.-d
22.-b
23.-b
24.-d
25.-b
Source: www.geosites.com/Athens/Academy/1929/Xmas.
Reflection: this activity was very interesting because i learn a lot about the chistmas customs that are from the UK like the chistmas crakers.
journal 3
Hi everybody it's me again with a journal activity.
Today I was talking whit a friend she told me that some of their teachers heated her and she said a phrase like "the teachers won't feed me, but they give mi grades" and I told her that one day that grades are going to feed her she disagree whit me and I explain her that whit out the grades you are not able to get your degree papers that are your presentation on every where you want to work.
I believe that grades are important but the thing that really matters me is about learning and using your knowledge for good things and sharing it with others.
What do you think grades are good for? Write me a commentary with your answer
byes
Today I was talking whit a friend she told me that some of their teachers heated her and she said a phrase like "the teachers won't feed me, but they give mi grades" and I told her that one day that grades are going to feed her she disagree whit me and I explain her that whit out the grades you are not able to get your degree papers that are your presentation on every where you want to work.
I believe that grades are important but the thing that really matters me is about learning and using your knowledge for good things and sharing it with others.
What do you think grades are good for? Write me a commentary with your answer
byes
jueves, 9 de octubre de 2008
The story song
Activity: first I listened a song and I wrote all I understand then I search the lyrics and read it finally I compare what I wrote on the first part with the things that the song actually said.
This is what I first wrote about the song:
She have been through a lot of things, it implies that she have been successful because she had done a big amount of things but she needs to share what have really happened and the only one that can understand the story is him because she feel that they have been created to be together
Reflection: I was very pleased that almost a big part of my paragraph about the song was right but after I read the song I realized that I was mistaken on some words.
Source: The Story Lyrics on www.lyricsmania.com
This is what I first wrote about the song:
She have been through a lot of things, it implies that she have been successful because she had done a big amount of things but she needs to share what have really happened and the only one that can understand the story is him because she feel that they have been created to be together
Reflection: I was very pleased that almost a big part of my paragraph about the song was right but after I read the song I realized that I was mistaken on some words.
Source: The Story Lyrics on www.lyricsmania.com
Journal 2
Hi! this is my second journal and i fell like I have nothing to talk about but I will try.
Let’s talk about buses.
When I was little I thought that taking a bus was the most exiting experience ever. All the new views, I’m very short so I filed like I was the Queen of the world.
I grow and I used to spend about 3 hours every single day but now I spend about an hour and a half in buses every day, the ones that spend about the same amount of time in buses can understand me when I said that a bus is a part of your home you can do almost everything in the bus, things like homework, make up, listen to music, read a book, eat, talk by telephone or just try to relax.
The bus it’s not longer a exiting experience now is a part of the everyday routine. So try not to laugh when you see a little kid exiting about taking a bus just remember your self a few years ago.
Let’s talk about buses.
When I was little I thought that taking a bus was the most exiting experience ever. All the new views, I’m very short so I filed like I was the Queen of the world.
I grow and I used to spend about 3 hours every single day but now I spend about an hour and a half in buses every day, the ones that spend about the same amount of time in buses can understand me when I said that a bus is a part of your home you can do almost everything in the bus, things like homework, make up, listen to music, read a book, eat, talk by telephone or just try to relax.
The bus it’s not longer a exiting experience now is a part of the everyday routine. So try not to laugh when you see a little kid exiting about taking a bus just remember your self a few years ago.
Geert Hofstede's research
Inside our self we might think we are all the same. But for those who work in the business industry is amazing how different cultures are. This is very important to understand because we make decisions based on how we operate in our country.
The Geert Hofstede's research can help us to understand how to interact whit other cultures reducing the level of frustration, anxiety, and concern.
He made a research in sixty seven countries and he classified they results on four different categories:
A) A) Power Distance Index it talks about the degree of equality, or inequality, between people in the country's society.
B) Individualism (IDV) focuses on the degree the society reinforces individual or collective achievement and interpersonal relationships.
C) Masculinity (MAS) focuses on the degree the society reinforces, or does not reinforce, the traditional masculine work role model of male achievement, control, and power
D) Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) focuses on the level of tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity within the society
There are many disadvantages of Geert Hofstede's research because he generalize all the people of the country, and one important thing of the culture is that everyone is diferent.
He made a quantitative research this means that he classified a culture just by the numbers he got.
This research shouldn’t be apply literally in all the circumstances you should interpreter the research in a specific situation.
Reflextion:
I think is very interesting to understand the differences between countries because it will let you make better decisions and feel more confidence on what are you doing.
Source:http://www.geert-hofstede.com/, october 09, 2008
The Geert Hofstede's research can help us to understand how to interact whit other cultures reducing the level of frustration, anxiety, and concern.
He made a research in sixty seven countries and he classified they results on four different categories:
A) A) Power Distance Index it talks about the degree of equality, or inequality, between people in the country's society.
B) Individualism (IDV) focuses on the degree the society reinforces individual or collective achievement and interpersonal relationships.
C) Masculinity (MAS) focuses on the degree the society reinforces, or does not reinforce, the traditional masculine work role model of male achievement, control, and power
D) Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) focuses on the level of tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity within the society
There are many disadvantages of Geert Hofstede's research because he generalize all the people of the country, and one important thing of the culture is that everyone is diferent.
He made a quantitative research this means that he classified a culture just by the numbers he got.
This research shouldn’t be apply literally in all the circumstances you should interpreter the research in a specific situation.
Reflextion:
I think is very interesting to understand the differences between countries because it will let you make better decisions and feel more confidence on what are you doing.
Source:http://www.geert-hofstede.com/, october 09, 2008
miércoles, 1 de octubre de 2008
journal 1
What i'm expecting of this new version of the english portfolio is develop mi writting skils (because it's being really hard for me to writte somethig undestandable these days), increase my vocabulary, read more and also learn how to use this blog because is the first time i have one of these,and there are a lot of thing that i don't know how to use
I read the requirements the last class and i can remember that:
1 you always neet to put a label to your post
2 that all the activities must their source
3 and a reflection
I read the requirements the last class and i can remember that:
1 you always neet to put a label to your post
2 that all the activities must their source
3 and a reflection
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