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.