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Last Step: My favorite!

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Hello, dears! How are you up to? Today you have to create your last entry in your blog. What is it about? simple. Since you have your blog already set, you have to describe your favorite topic related to your blog's theme, for example: if you are talking about music, describe your favorite band, including a link, a video, and a picture. Include at least 200 words. include as many adjectives you can, linking words and new vocabulary and the one seen in class. Keep an eye on this!!! DO NOT COPY AND PASTE FROM THE INTERNET!!!! paraphrase the info using your own words, I'll check them later.

What is it related to?

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Hello hello! Now that you have the theme of your blog and it's personalized, you have to start posting new updates related to your blog every class. Include a video or an image and a link related. . The title has to be catchy and the content motivating to read.

Money money money

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Hi, dears! In today's task, you'll be doing your third entry. Did you know you can make a lot of money posting on your blog? Yes! Actually, you absolutely can! Look at this link below, and you'll see. https://www.wpressblog.com/top-10-highest-earning-bloggers-of-the-world-/ Task: You have to give your blog a theme as you could see on the link. On the web, there are different types of blogs. They are about technology, fashion, music, etc. You'll have to do sort of the same. Requirements: Make it attractive/catchy/interesting Add at least one picture Explain the aim of your blog.

What's your passion?

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Hi, dear students of mine! I hope you had a good week so far. Here's your second entry. You have to talk about your most favorite hobby, your passion, what you enjoy to do the most. Write about your personal experience in about 5-6 lines and upload a video of you doing that hobby or from a random video you prefer. PLEASE! check your grammar and spelling this time, and once you finish, double-check. Dateline: Thursday, August 8th in class. Have fun!

Profundización class IV. Entry N°1

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Hi guys, welcome to my blog. Please leave a comment down below once you finish your first entry (Introducing Myself). Remember you have to include your name/nickname, age, nationality, preferences, and dreams plus a picture of you. With a 5-line paragraph you'll be ok. Make it fun and enjoy yourself!

Post Modernism

The victorian age is characterized as practical and materialistic, most of the writers exalt a purely ideal life. It is an idealistic age where the great ideals like truth, justice, love, brotherhood are emphasized by poets, essayists and novelists of the age, Literature of this age tends to come closer to daily life which reflects its practical problems and interests. It becomes a powerful instrument for human progress and the post modernism features advanced science and information technology/cybernetics, it proposes a radical change in the social order. There cannot be one or objective reality. Some characteristics of the modernist literature are Realistic embodiment of social meanings, Sense of spiritual loneliness, Sense of frustration,Two World Wars' effects on Humanity. The post.modernism emphasis dreams, drug use, paranoia, no heroes but heroic acts, honesty, constancy and kindness.

Modernist Literature

1. Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Scapegoats of the Empire. 2. In Seven Pillars of Wisdom we can read about the personal war experience of the writter and in the Scapegoats of the Empire talks about the experience of the writter in the war and when he was prisoner. Both books were written round 1900-1960 when the period of Modernist Literature was trendy. Some THEMATICS CHARACTERICS of the modernist literature are Realistic embodiment of social meanings, Sense of spiritual loneliness, Sense of frustration,Two World Wars' effects on Humanity , in those books we can found those thematics. 3. I think they are a good example of the modernist literature, because they are pessimistic, urban and negative, for example here we have few lines about “Scapegoats of the Empire”: When I arrived in Australia, I found that the grossest misrepresentations had been made by those primarily responsible for the manner of the warfare which "staggered humanity," and that they had succeeded in li...

Victorian Literature..

Answer the following questions on your blog. 01. Which 2 readings did you select from the list? I chose The legend of The Sleepy Hollow , by Irving, W and Heart of Darkness, by Conrad Joseph 02. Using these readings, compare (3 examples) and contrast (3 examples) the works with the ppt presentations on Victorian Literature and Culture given in class. Comparissions and Contrasts: 1. Literature of this age tends to come closer to daily life which reflects its practical problems and interests. It becomes a powerful instrument for human progress. Example of Comparission: “In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane,….” Ex. of Contrast: And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars. "And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one...

Wars of Roses !!!

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1. Define and explain, The Great Vowel Shift. It was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in the south of England between 1450 and 1750. 2. Name 5 dialects of Modern English. -Cameroon English, -Australian English,-Guyanese English,-Jamaican English,-Canadian English. 3. One of the problems with Early Modern English was a lack of uniformity in spelling. Which 2 people (1-English, 1-American) helped establish standardized spelling? Early Modern English lacked uniformity in spelling, but Samuel Johnson's dictionary, published in 1755 in England, was influential in establishing a standard form of spelling. Noah Webster did the same in America, publishing his dictionary in 1828; see American and British English spelling differences. 4. How many countries in the world have given Modern English official status? The Sovereign states that have given to Modern English official status are: 56 aprox. 5. The most recent statistics show that approximately ...

Middle English

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1. Approximately when was Middle English spoken? Middle English was spoken between the late 11th century up to appriximately the 16 century. 2. What were the major factors which led to the development and the spread of Middle English? The diversity of forms in written Middle English may signify neither greater variety of spoken forms of English than could be found in pre-Conquest England, nor a faithful representation of contemporary spoken English.This diversity suggests the gradual end of the role of Wessex as a focal point and trend-setter for scribal activity, and the emergence of more distinct local scribal styles and written dialects, and a general pattern of transition of activity over the centuries that follow. 3. Match the following Old English words with their Anglo-Norman equivalent: A. Pig = Pork B. Cow = Beef C. Wood = Forest D. Sheep = Mutton E. House = Mansion F. Worthy = Honourable G. Bold = Courageous 4- Compare & contrast the structure of nouns, pronouns and verbs...

Midterm assignment:

A lucky girl. She was born in a private hospital, with all the atention that somebody would wish… But she had some problems as everybody have it. She had dislexia, her sister was very jealous at her and her brother left the house too many years ago. However, she had a lucky parents, her mother was business manager and her father a teacher. One day she decided to travel abroad Chile and live alone in Europe, earning her own money and meeting new people. Years later she decided and wanted to study English language but not for be a teacher forever…

Assignment 1: Writers on writing.

4. What are some of the fears these highly successful writers have about writing? - M. Atwood says that the most difficult issue is beginning to write and convincing herself it is going forward. -J. Grisham thinks that the most difficult part of writing is laying out the whole book and when he has to face the final dateline. - I. McEwan says that for him is to catch the reader´s interest otherwise his writing would be a failure. - P.Auster fears life itself saying that life is unexpected. - S.Rushdie says that the hardest part is having complete control on a given situation, he needs to keep calm to create a new book otherwise he can´t do what he is suppossed to be doing. 5. What are some of the difficulties they have when they are writing? Some say to be calm in order to write in the right way, others to work against a final dateline, others facing boredom when writing a novel. 6. What are some of the positive aspects to writing? Some of them are that it helps you to overcome your own...

Autobiography: This is me!! well, almost..

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When I was child I had the prettiest doll in my life..Her name was Catalina and she was dressed my clothes and my panties all day long. It was weird, because she didn't have neither my height no my weigh of course. Well when I was alone in my house I played all day with her and I tought that she talked to me like an imaginary friend !! That's a crazy thing, don't you think??. That was when I was round 5 years old, then it didn't happen anymore, because my mom gave me a plush bear, it's name is North Pole, I still keep it, and I sleep with him everynight jaja... But nowadays not only I sleep with my bear everynight, I think it's very boring, but also I do others interesting things as ...teaching english in a school, as learning to drive a car, as going to the church, to the university and meeting a lot of people there, etc, etc. Well, you know, I'm an interesting and busy woman now than before, when I used to play with bears and dolls because NOW I don't...

Assignment 1b: Old english/Beowulf

1-Between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. 2-Angles, Saxon, Jutes and Frisians 3-For example, senġan "to singe" is [sendʒɑn] and bryċġ "bridge" is [bryddʒ] For example, hring "ring" is [hriŋɡ]; [ŋ] did not occur alone word-finally in Old English as it does in Modern English. 3-Similar sound, similar written and similar phonemes. 4-49 5-Beowulf 7- Between the 8th and the early 11th century 8- Scandinavia and Northern Germany. 9- Grendel, grendel’s mother and the dragon 10- Beowulf finally slays the dragon, but is mortally wounded. He is buried in a tumulus by the sea. 11- It’s unknown 12- Beowulf (1999 film) • Beowulf & Grendel (2005 film) • Beowulf (2007 film).

Assigment 7: Report

To: Director From: Myriam Pinto Date: November 26th, 2009 Subject: Common Room. This report is concerned with the common rooms that you want to set up to English students class. I have been thinking about your idea and I have looking for the best common room to us and I have found an excelent room on the 8th floor, the number 823. Here is a list of benefits: - This room is roomier than others - It's very comfortable and lighting - It's a warm room - It's close to the stairs - It's bigger than others. I would recommend you to visit this room because you will notice that these aspects are for real and the most important thing is that students will be grateful for this remedial action. There is no doubt that this idea is going to work but the room has to be doing up as soon as posible. I will be waiting for your response. Yours faithfully Myriam Pinto.

Assigment 6: Formal Transactional letter.

Dear Editor: I'm writing about the newspaper report that your company published last week about the demostration against the proposed by-pass for the town of Oldbury which is incorrect. First of all, in the introductory paragraph we were claiming because the construction of the road will lead to the extintion of animals like snails and the destruction of the forest. In the second paragraph the incorrect event was that the stimated of people gathered here were over 2.000 not 200, it was in a silent demostration and we did not sit on the road blocking the access to the site. We are pacifist demostrators. Another important think to clarify is the people that were there are locals residents and not just from other parts of the country. Finally, I would like asking the newspaper to send a reporter to interview me and explain this situation as it really was. I'm looking forward to your reply. Yours faithfully. Myriam Pinto.

Undesirable leaks !! (my experience with natural disasters)

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Two years ago I was on the beach with my exboyfriend. Unexpectedly the rain started and we had to come in the house. It was a cold day on July and the wind flew faster than never before. The door closed and the windows moved side by side. It was around 3 p.m and we finished off lunch. Then we went to our bedroom to be "safe" of the rain, we thought that was too dangerous for us jajaja so we went to bed. Five minutes went by and suddenly from the ceiling a leak of water was on our heads !!! It couldn't be possible. So he went to the kitchen and brought glue with him to fix the leak. It never happend. The rain got worst and we had to rent another house but without leaks of course.

Survey: Enviroment

What do you think about: 1-What is the best method to prevent eviromental pollution for you? 2- In few words write about the global warming. 3-Do you think that plant trees is a good option to taking care the enviroment? 4-What are the causes that produce the global warming? 5-What is the damage produced by the CO2 in the enviroment? 6-Some poeple think that natural disasters can destroit the enviroment. What is your opinion about that? 7-What is the proposal given by the GAIA Theory? 8-According to the scientic researches 97 and 98's were important to the enviroment, why? 9-What happend when the industrial revolution started? 10-Explain briefly what the greehouse effect is.

What can adolescents do to help in the fight against crime?

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For families and individuals residing in Chile the threat of violent crime is a fear that we all have to live with. Just pick up the newspaper or turn on the T.V. and see the headlines of murder, rape and assaults reported from coast to coast. There is an answer to the realization that you may be a victim of a violent crime, and that is to be prepared to defend yourself. A crime of violence or violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violence or violent force against the victim. These include crimes in which the violent act is the objective of the attack, such as murder, along with crimes in which violence is the means to an end, such as robbery.  Why is it important for adolescents to help in the fight against crime? It is important because you can make your city better than before !!! if you tell somebody that you have seen a crime and with this, only with your information, you can protect to your friends, family and yourself of course !!! Can you do ve...

Chart Bra Size.

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