Ok. Your first pieces of homework will be:
a) Read the quote in 1 Food for your Thoughts and write a fifty-word paragraph explaining your opinion.
b)Write a fifty-word composition explaining how this blog can help to you increase your English practice.
November 19th.
a) Read the quote 3 in Food for your Thoughts and write a fifty-word paragraph explaining your opinion.
b) Go to the link usalearns on top of this blog, click Practice and Reading, then click Going places, and go to Golden Gate Birthday. After you do all the exercises, report on this blog: 1. Four words from the vocabulary exercises; and, 2. Your entry for the writing section.
a)In a globalized world where cultures are combined is necessary to know another language beside ours to survive in this society. My language is Spanish and I know English too, these languages aren’t spoken only in Dominican Republic and in the USA, they are spoken in many others countries, which means that I can survive in many cultures, not only two like the quote says.
ResponderEliminarb)Like we only go to English classes on Saturday, most of the students practice their English only that day. The blog can help students to not only think in English on classes if not, everyday that the teacher leaves them homework where they have to use all that they have learned and force themselves to use that language.
att: lisbeth!! ^^
Excellent comments, Lisbeth. It`s very true, English unites many countries and cultures.
ResponderEliminarA. I think that having the ability of speak different languages can open doors for us. When we can speak such an important language as the English we can travel all over the world and we will have the facility of communication. we can find job, make friends, and basically ask for the things we need with no difficulties.
ResponderEliminarJennifer...
B. This blog can help me a lot, because even when I know that a lot of people around me speaks English, I continue speaking in Spanish, instead of speaking in English, and that does not help me to increase my level. This blog will make me practice, writing, composing and socializing with my friends.
ResponderEliminarGood comments, Jenniffer. I'm happy to know about your intentions of practicing your English. I know that you will see how confident you will become through the constant practice.
ResponderEliminarDing, dong. We have another piece of assignment. Check the second phrase in "Food for your thoughts." What do you think? Explain in 50 words.
ResponderEliminarLet's ace it!
I think that a small, insignificant piece of silver in the mine has no value until it pass through a purification process. When the silver is put to the fire, its real value comes out. In the same way we might have talents, skills, but we need to pass through an education process, and only then we will be able to use them and take advantage of them.
ResponderEliminarNice comments! Now, read it again and find a verb that needs improvement. Write it down here. Good luck.
ResponderEliminarare not is, genius is in plural.
ResponderEliminarAnother. It's in your comments.
ResponderEliminarLizbeth llamame por favor... 809-605-3922
ResponderEliminar809-570-8571
Jenny, repeat your message for Liz in ENGLISH! Keep focused.
ResponderEliminarGuys, write your entries about the reading "The Golden Gate...". It's the assignment.
ResponderEliminarEveryone forgot to write their entries about the quote referring to life, the "Golden Gate" and the character we talked about last Saturday. NO EXTRA POINTS.
ResponderEliminarHomework
ResponderEliminarIt's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I like this quote a lot.
I feel that we live, day by day thinking that we are going to be hear for ever, and that is why we don´t enjoy every moment of our lifes, expecting things, that probably won´t come. We don´t use our time here to share with our relatives or do the things that really make us feel satisfied.
But went we feel that our time here is ended, we realize, that we didn´t enjoyed as we should.
Homework 2
ResponderEliminarMurphy´s Law
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Sometimes we start something, a new proyect, a new job, anything, and at the begining we may feel like it is easy, but as soon as the things get complicated, we feel dissapointed and we dont want to keep going.
But nobody said it was going to be easy. we cant go through life expecting that everything is going to be ok. We need to learn to accept the things as they are, good or bad, and only do what we have to.
Homework... The Golden Gate Birthday...
ResponderEliminarVocabulary words:
1. Anniversary
2. Crowded
3. Parade
4. Greatest
Writing:
I haven´t visited the Golden Gate bridge. I would like to visit it because it is very popular and i like that city.
life is only one ,so i thing we have to live day by day no body knows what will happen in the future ,and you can´t change the past .we only have the present,so you have to enjoy it ,do the things that you like it,work for what you want and be happy with yourself and dont permite any way somebody run your live for you.this is the key of a succesful life
ResponderEliminarSmile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
ResponderEliminarwe have to be possitive,the world is always changing sometimes we re up and some times down,but the important is how you face the fact ;you never now what will happen tomorrow,so as popular cultures says:at the bad whether ,good face. cheer up you are alive ,and can make the things changes
All right. That's what i was talking about: active students who want to contribute with the blog. Your entries have been very good. I can comment the following: For Jenniffer: You have a great talent when it comes to explain your ideas. Keep cultivating the art of the clear speaking. In your paragraph of the quote, you need to check the spellings of some words, one in every paragraph. Read it again, and rewrite only those words that have to be corrected. Do the same with the paragraph of the Murphy's law.
ResponderEliminarGood luck.
For Isaura: Your have shown a big desire towards learning, you will get far in this language. Keep up the good work. In the two paragraphs you need to check the capital letters. Remember you are not chatting. This is writing for an audience. Check the capital letters and some mispellings, as well. Good luck.
Murphy” s low.
ResponderEliminarI think that Murphy”s low: “if anything can go wrong, it will” is older than we think because this is a simple quote that anyone might have said it centuries ago, and this guy named Murphy is the last one that “someone” remember having heard it from, but this is not where I want focus in, so it doesn”t such importance.
What I do think is that this quote is quite pessimist, I mean, there is no need to be so tragic and negative in life; the source where i got this quote from was talking about an American enginner that was working on an experiment with more people and when he suddenly saw that something was going wrong , he blamed some other guy and said that it will go wrong because it had been going wrong for a long time…the point is that sometimes things don”t turn out the way we want and we have to be pacient and humble if we want a better outcome .
About life.
ResponderEliminarLife is the most amazing thing , everything depends on each one to make of it the best or worst thing ever. My philosophy of life is to have always something to do, never stop, working, doing what we like, studying, learn to speak English, Portuguese, Japanese, any language, read an interesting book, watch movies, take classes of dancing, swimming…the target is to do new things or at least the half of what I”ve said, because once we have our lifes occupied, we”ll have less time to think in somebody else”s life and be happier.
misspellings
ResponderEliminarthink,wheather ,permit
*Murphy's Law
ResponderEliminar~In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right ... something is wrong~
It’s impossible to everything go right in our life, we need problems to make our life interesting, to have a reason to live. When something is going wrong we focus in make it right and we learn about it. If everything in life is going right, life turns boring, monotone and without meaning. People say that they would like to live without problems, but they don’t know what they are saying.
*Quote about life
ResponderEliminar~You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life~
Albert Camus
Happiness and the meaning of life, that’s what every person is looking for. There is no need to search that we already have one, happiness, we always have it, but people always try to find it in other people, in things, without knowing that it’s inside us.
Happiness is always there with us, we just have to see the positive side of everything. Is not necessary to know the meaning of our life to live, just live, do what you think is right, see the positive side, and someday when you aren’t looking for that meaning, you will find it.
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ResponderEliminarHey! You have made excellent interpretations.
ResponderEliminarNicolas, you have very deep thoughts that are well-expressed in English. Check lines 8 in the first entry, and 7 in the second. You'll find two misspellings.
Great job.
"Hopper", You give descriptions in a very particular way, and graciously.
Check "Is not necessary..." Is this a question? If the answer is NO, what is IT missing to be a statement?
Keep up the good work.
quote about live.
ResponderEliminarlive is a peace of paper in blank. Eeveryone has a pen, and can write whatever he or she wants. What i mean is, live is everything tha you say it is.
is no acctions in the past, because the past is gone. It is not actions in the future because we don't know anything about future. So, life is present, what our senses can feel. If you are a person who likes work, you life will be laborious, if you like laught in every moment, your life will be funny, if you are alway looking for the bad way of thimgs, your life will be depressed. So every single person can have the live they want, is just a decision to be made.
murphy's law
ResponderEliminarmurphy's law is a pesimist way to see the live. Jocking a little, People can't being thinking that all the things that can be wrong, will be wrong, cus we inmediately are bulding a big wall wich don't let us move one. If we whant something, we need to BELIEVE it can be possible.