Independent Work No 10.

Todd: Al, are you a big movie fan?

Al: Yes, I am.

Todd: What do you think of the amazing technological special effects that they are doing now?

Al: I think it’s going to lead to a point where you don’t need actors anymore.

Todd: Seriously.Al: Yeah.Todd: I mean, how could they do that though?

Films:

Al:What you will be able to create?You’ll be able to completely create a believable character.

Todd:So, you’re saying in the future they will just write a story and just like animation …

Movie Staff:

Actors will be only important for reference.

Directors…

In the future

Independent Work No 11

Listening 1: Fast Food

its a conversation between Mike and clare, where they are discussing about fast food nowadays, clare says that America was the first continent where fast food apears, also, that this kind of food is eaten when we dont have so much time to cook, but this is a bad solution because eating this food may be you get sick.

Listening 2: Speak English

Brian and Fanny are talking about beijing games, but Brian has a problem with it, he does not speak chinese, so Fanny helps him to resolve his problem.

Independent Work No 15.

Doctor: How can I help you

Mr. Daniels?Mike: well I started having bad headache a couple of weeks ago and they are getting worse. I can sleep properly, I’m tired all the time and the worse thing is my hair is getting gray and I’m only 31.

Doctor: I see, let me ask you some questions. Do you smoke?

Mike: No, I gave up a month ago.

Doctor: Right, I see you’re a salesman. How hours a week, Do you work?

Mike: well I normally do eight hours a day, but at the moment I’m working at least ten hours and some Saturdays.

Doctor: that is a lot.Mike: well, I often sit in front of the TV with pizza and a few beers.Doctor: Hmmmm! Are you doing any exercise at the moment?

Mike: nor really, but I’m losing a lot of weight and I don’t know why.

Doctor: I think you are suffering from stress. I want you to eat a more varied diet and to do some exercise. Come back and see me in four weeks. I will check you again.

Independent Work No 17.

Prepare your answers to the following questions for next class. Module 6 in your books may offer useful vocabulary to talk about media:

1. What is your position towards media?
2. What is your opinion about it?
3. How do you support your opinion?
4. Which counter-arguments may be considered?

1. The mass media are a product of the technological advances, therefore, it is a creation of the society to keep the people informed but especially to create culture from the interests of the media.

2. I think that they are the best tool of our epoch: thanks to them we can communicate and know what happens in the whole world. Nevertheless, some personal interests of the owners of these medias, do that in occasions they give us partially certain information.

3. A clear example of these interests, it is one of the privates channels of our country: RCN. The owner of this channel is the owner of the company POSTOBON too and in his channel only he does advertising to POSTOBON, does not do it the same with COKE.

4. Internet is an example from which already the big capitals are not needed to communicate with the others and at the same time, to publish our interests only we have to open a web page and everything is ready.

Video!

Violence Against Women!

To see the video, please click here: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=qgSiMpzqFXg

Reading Challenge No 8.

Monkey see, Monkey recognize.
New Words


1. Echocolate:

2. Dye:color from dyeing

3. Lack: To be deficient or missing.

4. Dogged: Marked by stubborn determination.

Reading Challege No 7.

Publis or Perish.
New Words.

1. Perish: To become destroyed or ruined .
2. Enthused: To make enthusiastic 2 : to express with enthusiasm.
3. Purgeth: I din not find nothing about this word.
4. Chutzpah: Supreme self-confidence.
5. Blemished: I din not find nothing about this word.

Reading Challenge No 6.

A Vote for Democracy.
New Words.

1. Granted: To consent to carry out for a person.
2. Lagged: To move, function, or develop with comparative slowness.
3. Thorny: Full of difficulties or controversial points.
4. Tackling: To stop with something.

Forum!

I believe that even inside the democratized countries there exist many differences between the voters and the candidates, which generates a wrong democracy, since there is not born in mind the will of all the voters.

Reading Challenge No 5.

Please Pass The Sugar.
New Words.

1. Darned: To mend with interlacing stitches
   
2. Ails: To give physical or emotional pain, discomfort, or trouble to.
   
3. Nicked: To catch at the right point or time
   
4. Copes: To maintain a contest or combat usually on even terms or with success.

5. Relief: One that takes the place of another on duty.

Forum!

I believe that many of the positive effects of the grians that send us the doctors owe to themselves the mental disposision that we have at the moment to consume them. It explains the placebo effect , but in turn, can generate the nocebo effect, that it would not be not advisable at all in any sircunstancia.

Reading Challenge No 4.

The Wolf Effect.
New Words.

1. Prowl: : to move about or wander stealthily in or as if in search of prey.
2. Ungulates: hoofed typically herbivorous quadruped mammal (as an artiodactyl or a perissodactyl) of a group formerly considered a major mammalian taxon (Ungulata) .
3. Warblers: any of numerous small chiefly Old World oscine birds (family Sylviidae) many of which are noted songsters and are closely related to the thrushes .
4. Elk: a large gregarious deer (Cervus elaphus) of North America, Europe, Asia, and northwestern Africa —called also red deer wapiti c: any of various large Asian deer.

Frum!

I think that this article is true, because it shows how the wolves are important inside the yelowstone national park, in order that they make a balance inside the ecosystem. If they are not in there, the elk would eat up all the plants of cotton and the willows, so thats why the wolves are so important because they feed of the elk and these are afraid about them, therefore they are not so close to these plants since the wolves live in there and the elk avoid to be in dangerous places where they can be hunted.

Readin Challenge No 3.

Volcanology.

New Words.

1. Ash: The solid residue left when combustible material is thoroughly burned or is oxidized by chemical means
   
2. Scatter: To cause to separate widely b: to cause to vanish
   
3. Lung: One of the usually paired compound saccular thoracic organs that constitute the basic respiratory organ of air-breathing vertebrates
   
4. Heartwarming: inspiring sympathetic feeling.

Forum!

Actualy, I think that this type of natural phenomena can end the human race anytime, because of it I don`t believe that the human has control over the nature.

Reading Challenge 2.

NEW WORDS

1. Monsoons: 1 : a periodic wind especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia 2 : the season of the southwest monsoon in India and adjacent areas that is characterized by very heavy rainfall 3 : rainfall that is associated with the monzón.
   
2. Surroudings: The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded: environment
   
3. Wobbles: to move or proceed with an irregular rocking or staggering motion or unsteadily and clumsily from side to side b: tremble , quaver.
   
4. Blast: A violent gust of wind b: the effect or accompaniment (as sleet) of such a gust.
   
5. Ponder: 1 : to weigh in the mind : appraise
   2 : to think about : reflect on.

Green Sahara:

I agree with this theory because we have a nearby example is that of our city: Bogota. Bogota was a lagoon thousands of years ago, but with the change of the climate it turned what is today. Because of it, it is not rare to thinkin that at any time our planet could change. .

World Problem Awareness Video Task 3.

Possible Solutions.

- One of the best solutions in this type of problems is to foment the communication inside the familiar core in order to be the dialog the best way of solving the differences.

- The best way of offsetting the abuses and for ende the reduction of the women infected by the virus, is that they have the value to sue the persons who takes unfair advantage.

- A good serious solution is that the governments of the countries were supporting more projects like that it develops UNIFEM (Fund of Development of The United Nations for the Woman). This year, UNIFEM is doing a summons for the contracting of an institution - organization realize a " Research on violence of kind towards the girls, teenagers and women from the vision of the diversity and interculturalidad ".

Reading Challenge No 1.

NEW WORDS:

1. Bent: strongly inclined: determined —usually used with on
   
2. Ditch: a long narrow excavation dug in the earth (as for drainage)
   
3. Sniper: to shoot at exposed individuals (as of an enemy's forces) from a usually concealed point of vantage.
   
4. Fence: A barrier intended to prevent escape or intrusion or to mark a boundary; especially : such a barrier made of posts and wire or boards.
   
5. Sap: to gradually diminish the supply or intensity of .

Forum!

I believe that the problem between Palestinian and Israel has such a distant and so complex origin, which would be ingenuous to believe that with a simple wall the differences will be ended. On the contrary, i think that the unique thing that it does is to enlarge the differences between both cultures.

Problem-Solution Essay.

Woman needs our help.

Violence against women is one of the oldest problems in the history that yet is present in our society. Every day injustices are frequently committed against them and these do not seem to have any solution. This type of problems make women’s role inside the family and the society less important than men.

First of all, gender inequality is one of the principal problems in some countries, especially in Latin America. It would be a good solution that the governments of these mentioned countries support more projects like UNIFEM (Fund of Development of The United Nations for the Woman) are developing. This year, UNIFEM is doing a summons to contracting an institution - organization that realizes an "Investigation on gender violence towards the girls, teenagers and women from the vision of the diversity". If this type of summons had a better support of the governments and of the private company, we could have better relations inside and outside of the family.

Secondly, this gender inequality generates an increase of domestic violence. According to UNIFEM's surveys, one of the best solutions in this type of problems is to foment the communication inside the family nucleus in order to be the dialog the best way of solving the differences. In this way, the women affected by violence will have a different end, because they have to bear the blows of their husbands and their children will grow with a better life.

Finally, lamentably, one of the worst consequences of violence against women is sexual abuse. This problem can lead even to the death because in a big number, the abuses are committing without protection, which can spread the contagion of the AIDS. The best way of offsetting the abuses and the reduction of the women infected by the virus, is that they have to be strong to sue the persons who take unfair advantage. Also, the habit will be created in the society of not guarding silence after these abuses.

Taking everything into account, I think that these problems are more frequent than seems, but that have not taken serious measurements to face them. However, as I showed it, there exist many solutions that can help to create a new thought towards women, that men have to know the importance that they represent for them and, at the same time, to create a culture of respect in women.

Independent Work No 19.

Internet Vs Books.

Nowadays, modern technology has had development because a lot of people can use resources like Internet so that they find information easier. However, we think that this media will never replace the books and their information.

To begin with, Internet shows a lot of information but some of this information is not really trustable like books information. For instance, wikipedia.com, which is one of the most visited information sites of the Internet and It`s possible to search good ideas there, however, a big part of these ideas are posted by people don`t have authority about the topic.

Secondly, Internet does not have a legal regulation, It sees to us that whoever can use this media in order to put wrong information. Therefore, It could be said that book (that has to pass to a review by publishing house) is better to find good information about whatever we want.

On the other hand, We parcially agree with Internet because is an interesting tool in some cases. For example, to communicate with our friends or our family, nonetheless, Internet has to wait a few years in order to improve their security.

Taking everything into account, We think that all that Internet offers a good service, but books are better source to find information because has a specific things. To sum up, Internet can not replace book in a long time.

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World Problem Awareness Video Task 2

Short Background to the Problem.

One of the principal cuasas of the violence against the women is that culturally it is believed that the woman belongs lower than the man. Another reason is small communication that exists inside the homes: the families every time speak less and do not use the dialog as mechanism to solve his problems. Finally, in the affected women there has not been created a conscience to inform her aggressors to the police yet, which prevents the performance of the law in order to above mentioned cases.

World Problem Awareness Video Task 1.

Ending Violence Against Women
Fighting gender-based violence is a major concern for UNIFEM, because violence against women is a universal problem and one of the most widespread violations of human rights. One in three women will suffer some form of violence in her lifetime, becoming part of an epidemic that devastates lives, fractures communities and stalls development. Despite some progress on this issue over the past decade, its horrendous scale remains mostly unacknowledged. New dimensions include the global trafficking of women and girls.

UNIFEM Responds: Strategies That Make a Difference.

UNIFEM works on several fronts to interrupt the cycle of violence against women, with an overall objective of linking violence to the source that feeds it: gender inequality. UNIFEM multiplies the power of its groundbreaking strategies through advocacy campaigns and close partnerships with governments, women’s groups and other branches of the UN system.
Protective laws and national actions: In a number of countries, UNIFEM works with its partners on establishing legal frameworks to combat violence. Laws alone, however comprehensive they may be, must be followed by plans for specific national actions, which is why UNIFEM is active on this end as well.

Measuring the problem: UNIFEM has been at the forefront of supporting the collection of data and research on violence against women. Much of this information would otherwise not exist, making it impossible to understand the scope of the problem, or devise the means to stop it.
Prevention: Strategies to stop violence before it starts are essential, but lack resources and visibility. UNIFEM supports prevention initiatives from the local to the international level, including in conflict and post-conflict situations, where violence against women is prevalent and horrific.

Support for women’s organizations: Women’s organizations have developed some of the most creative and effective responses to violence, often in societies where the problem is otherwise largely ignored. UNIFEM helps draw attention and resources to these efforts, and brings the voices of activists together across countries and onto the international stage.

The Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women: Housed within UNIFEM, the Trust Fund offer grants to innovative projects to prevent violence that are run by community, national and regional organizations. With relatively modest sums, grantees have passed new laws, trained police, and involved men and boys in stopping violence. The Trust Fund also collects and shares information about effective strategies that can be replicated or implemented on a larger scale.

Text taken by: http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_against_women/at_a_glance.php

Independent Work No. 18

Example 1.

Lastly, the TV shows doesn’t means any risks to children, at least not always if they see it with her parents or with an adult that can explain the contents to them. Also, the responsibilty of educate the children is not exclusive of the mass media, is responsibility of the whole society too.

Example 2.

In my opinion, TV should check the content of its programming before emit them because in this way television can control dangerous things for kids. Nowadays, is so much frequent to listen a kid talking about television programs that on things that could help to his intellectual and personal growth.


Example 3.

Taking everything into account, We think that all that Internet offers a good service, but books are better source to find information because has a specific things. To sum up, Internet can not replace book in a long time.

Example 4.

Nowadays, we watch in the television many programs that show a high level of violence which is not good for the children. In addition, in many cases children imitate what they see in these programs. Taking everything in account, the children should be accompanied always by responsible adults when they see television.

Example 5.

Taking everything into account, television is a good tool in order to children amuse themselves and simultaneously they learn. Nevertheless, as not all the programs are suitable for them, the parents should see television with his children so that protect them of bad things.

Independent Work No. 16 About Succes

Page 48.
1. A
2.B
3.B
4.B
5.C
6.C
7.B
8.B
9.A
10.B
11.A
12.C

"I think that the better way to be succesful is work hard for what you want to be; become to be a better person every single day. Also, have a good relationships with people around you, learn from others; research for the audences in your carrer, those tips will make you a successful person in your work and in all your life".

Independent Work No. 13 Soap Opera Review.

Ugly betty was a soap opera written by Fernando Gaitán and lead by Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello. This program won three India Catalina awards in 2002 for best principal actor, best principal actress and best direction.

Ugly betty is teh story of an inteligent woman that works in company called “ecomoda”. The plot of this soap opera is that Betty is in love with Armando (her boss), but he, and everybody, think that Betty is so ugly so no much people like her. But then, after a lot of things that happen in the story, Armando starts to see Betty with another eyes.

This is a typical comedy where we can find the different personalities that colombian people have. Is a funny story and at the begining we can know what the end is going to be, but the development of the plot makes the story really interesting.

The only recomendation that I have is just that everybody has to see it because ugly betty is one of the best soap opera that I have never seen. Also this story is not only produced in Colombia, you can find it in USA, Spain and Russia too.

Independent Work No. 12 The Movie Review

Forrest Gump is a movie drama story adapted in 1994 of a novel of the same name published in 1985, written by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and led by Tom Hanks. Besides Hanks, act prominent figures like Robin Wright Penn (Jenny Curran), Gary Sinise (Lieutenant They Give), Taylor Mykelti Williamson (Pvt. Benjamin Buford 'Bubba') and Blue Sally Field (Ms. Gump). Forrest Gump had 13 nominations to the Oscars and won in 6, like Better movie,Better Director and Better Actor.

The plot revolves around Forrest Gump`s life. This story begins when Gump was a child; he has a serious problem is his legs, but one day this problem desappears. Forrest is a sweet young man that suffers a mental delay. However, this mental problem is not a barrier because he, after many unbelievable events, becomes to be very famous and very rich. He has the opportunity to share experiences with another very famous people, like the president Nixon, Mao Tse Toung and others. Also, He creates with one of his best friends, the lieutenant Dan, Apple.

This movie shows us that, if we want, everything is possible. It is a movie where love and the power of our mind are two pricipals things that have to be present in live. It is possible that a lot of people feel identified with Forrest because he fulfills all his problems having a lot of difficulties. Also, the cast is excellent, especially Hanks, who demostrated that he can do this kind of role furthermore of comic characters.

I can thoroughly recommended this movie because may be it will change what you think about the problems that you have. Only when we watch this kind of films, we can see that not everything in our life is so bad. Also, everybody should find the “Forrest” that is inside.

Independent Work No. 9

I can thoroughly recommended this movie because may be it will change what you think about the problems that you have. Only when we watch this kind of films, we can see that not everything in our life is so bad. Also, everybody should find the “Forrest” that is inside.

Independent Work No. 8

The plot revolves around Forrest Gump`s life. This story begins when Gump was a child; he has a serious problem is his legs, but one day this problem desappears. Forrest is a sweet young man that suffers a mental delay. However, this mental problem is not a barrier because he, after many unbelievable events, becomes to be very famous and very rich. He has the opportunity to share experiences with another very famous people, like the president Nixon, Mao Tse Toung and others. Also, He creates with one of his best friends, the lieutenant Dan, Apple.

This movie shows us that, if we want, everything is possible. It is a movie where love and the power of our mind are two pricipals things that have to be present in live. It is possible that a lot of people feel identified with Forrest because he fulfills all his problems having a lot of difficulties. Also, the cast is excellent, especially Hanks, who demostrated that he can do this kind of role furthermore of comic characters.

Independent Work No. 7

Forrest Gump is a movie drama story adapted in 1994 of a novel of the same name published in 1985, written by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and led by Tom Hanks. Besides Hanks, act prominent figures like Robin Wright Penn (Jenny Curran), Gary Sinise (Lieutenant They Give), Taylor Mykelti Williamson (Pvt. Benjamin Buford 'Bubba') and Blue Sally Field (Ms. Gump). Forrest Gump had 13 nominations to the Oscars and won in 6, like Best Movie, Best Director and Better Actor.

Independent Work No. 6

"When I was a child, I was a very bad student because I did not pay attention to the teachers. Sometimes, my teacher used to send notes to my mother in order to tell her that I was bad-mannered.I hide all this notes in a secret place, but One day my mom found them and she punished me for two months".

Independent Work No. 5

1.a. I take a shower everyday in the morning.
b.I need to take a break between clsses.
2.a. I have a coffee at 3 pm and I have a dinner at 8 pm.
3. I have got a cold so many times and yesterday I got a stomachache.
4. I never have got brown hair and I never have got a new look either.

Independent Work No. 3

- I need to ask my boss something about the project.
- Las night, I stayed to sleep-over at my cousin`s house.
- Always, my Father and Me go to my aunt`s house on vacations.
- I have to do homewprk with my classmate today.
- I still loving my ex-girlfriend.
- I`m going to be an excelent husband.
- My niece is so sweet and special.
- My dad and my stepmother came to dinner.
- I`m going to movies with my best friend.
- I wish to become a colleague of Javier Hernandez Bonett.
- Santiago has some problems with his mother-in-law.
- I live with my parents and my sister.
- Jorge Gallego was the headteacher of my school.
- Joe is an acquaintance of my family.
- I have a bad relationship with my neighbour.
- Susan, my flatmate is sick, so i have more work to do.
- My child doesn`t talk with any stranger.
- I meet up with some relatives that I din not know.