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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.