PREPOSITIONS

Hello everyone,
here you have the links we talked about last class.
If you want to brush up on prepositions and practice with the dependent ones, here you have two options.
I hope you can really take the time to check them out.

Lists and a quiz:
http://englishwithjames.wordpress.com/prepositions/

Click below if you´d like to download the:
English Prepostions E-book and List

Steve Jobs' Stanford University Commencement Speech and more....

Hello everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful time and are ready to get back to class work next Saturday.  Better late than never, here I am with the links I mentioned during our last class which I highly recommend you listen. 

The first link takes you to the video of Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford University. Listen and make a list of the key events Jobs mentions and describe in a few lines your own point of view about what he says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Now, let's talk about writing a cause-effect essay. Having a clear idea of what a cause-effect essay is and how it should be organized are basic steps to get your work started. Besides providing you with the links to videos with information about this process, here are a couple of links with explanations that you might find helpful, try:

http://www.writeawriting.com/essay/cause-and-effect-essay/   and

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/lgarret/organiz1.htm

http://www.hqessays.com/info/cause-and-effect-essay/

I am also e-mailing a couple of diagrams and other useful information.

The links to the tutorial videos are:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8o_mWSwjE

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcUg4ACQEao

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7ZI2NmJfQ

Finally, the link to the film "Educating Rita" I really hope you have a chance to watch it and enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smKTxgQp8S0&list=PL4342CDA84D093566

See you on Saturday!

ABOUT SAINT PATRICK´S DAY

MARCH 17TH

JUST 4 U 2 KNOW

Can you name these objects??  Good Luck!!

Last class we mentioned Saint Patrick´s Day and just in case you didn´t know about this festivity, I will post here some links and videos with diverse facts and information.

I hope this can contribute to increase culture about other English-speaking countries.

HISTORY IN NUMBERS (History Channel)   Watch some of their videos too!!

BET YOU DIDN´T KNOW, DID YOU??  (Video)

AND FOR THE CHILD WE ALL HAVE INSIDE, A CARTOON WITH THE STORY...

JOKES

If you want to laugh for a while and as a plus, practice your english, click here.

In this site you will find some jokes and riddles.  What I liked about it is that you have the audios besides the scripts.   Listen to as many as you want and let me know which did you enjoy the most.

See you in class next Saturday, please be there on time and try not to miss it.

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS...

BIG ISSUES??

Hello everyone,

here you have the videos we couldn´t watch in class due to an everyday issue: a technology failure... 

Your duty is now to please give advice to people with this kind of problems by posting your words below.

In this second video you will find a guy who is already giving advice to FWP.

Listen carefully to the 3 concrete pieces of advice and say whether or not they are helpful.

Can you think of any other...?

See you next Saturday, please be there on time and try not to miss classes.

BULLYING

Im going to star with a definition from bullying.- "Persistent, offensive, abusive, intimidating or insulting behaviour, abuse of power or unfair penal sanctions which makes the recipient feel upset, threatened, humiliated or vulnerable, which undermines their self-confidence and which may cause them to suffer stress"

For me bullying its an important issues that everyone we wetiness in our daily life. A common example   could be in the work when the boss  harassment his employed female or sexual discrimination. Other example that can see or percive now in days its the bullying at the schools when  Men/ famele usually bully other boys in physical ways like pushing, punching, and aggression, whereas females are more likely to spread rumors, talk bad about the person Bullying can also be perpetrated by teachers and the school. So in conclusion i think the bullying its a way to manifest inability to recognise the effect of their behaviour on others or that there could be better ways of behaving.

The global issue of disordered urbanization

The global issue of disordered urbanization

Information taken from the article: ”Urban Planet: How Growing Cities Will Wreck the Environment Unless We Build Them Right”, from: http://science.time.com/2012/09/18/urban-planet-how-growing-cities-will-wreck-the-environment-unless-we-build-them-right/

The issue of the fast and disordered growth of cities is one that affects all the world’s population, because it creates a vast impact in the generation of pollution and consumption of natural resources around the globe.

2008 was an important year in human history, because for the first time more than half of the world’s population was living in towns and cities. A Yale University professor said that today the urban zones occupy around 4% of the surface of earth, but between now and 2030 that percentage will increase to reach a little less than 10% of the surface of the earth. Most of the cities that will show the biggest growth are located in Asia, and they lack adequate urban plans to prevent the chaos and ecological impact that generates this accelerated urbanization process.

One key fact is that urbanization is not bad in itself, in fact, in the developed world their effects prove good for the environment. This is because they put in practice effective urbanization plans. The problems happen when the city growth occurs without order, and that’s the situation of the poorer places in the world.

In the end what the experts say is that we can’t stop the migration of people to the cities. What we need to do is to transform the phenomenon in something more ordered and positive.