Journal

Hi!!Today I'm very happy because the last weekend was wonderful. I were in a retreat and I can say that all was perfect and I enjoyed it very much. It was very tired but it was incredible. I don't know how can I explain it but I felt many things during my retreat; I was happy,angry and tired but God gave the strength to continue.
During the retreat I can learned many things from the people arround me and many things about me. I still feel tired but don't care me because was a great experience.
This week the school has been very boring and the weather doesn't help very much really there has been much colder and only want to sleep but I can't do it because I have a lot of things to do.
Every day I have to take care of my nephews and besides I have to do my homework so I don't have time to sleep so I wait at nigth and sleep like an angel.
Well, by today is all but see you the next thursday,Good Bye and a happy halloween!!

The Lake House

Activity.
Seeing the movie "The Lake House"

This movie talks about an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006. The two are introduced and share correspondence across the years by leaving letters in a mailbox at the lake house they have both live in at separate points in time.

The Dr.Kate Foster lives in a beautiful house she's been renting; a home with glass walls that overlook a placid lake. When she goes to the house, she leaves a note in the mail box for the next tenant.

Alex Wyler a frustrated architect arrives at the lake house and finds the note.

Kate an d Alex continue their correspondence through the lake house's mystical mailbox and they confirm that they are strange as it may seem living two years apart. Sharing this unusual bond, they reveal more of themselves to one another with each passing week.

They fall in love but Kate begins to woner if she has been making a mistake focusing so much of her emotional energy on a man who she doesn't known and she asks Alex not to contact her again to "Let me let you go"and stops coming to the mailbox for his letters.

Two years later Kate discover that the man was die in her arms two years ago in the terrible traffic accident was Alex and run to the lake house to leave him a note, but is to late. Alex is runing to find her.

Finally the accident doesn't happen and Kate and Alex can be together

Reflection.

I have to practice my listening because I understand the movie but I can understand it very much.

Source.

Movie: "The Lake House"

Humans vs. Primates

Activity.
Comparing humans with other primates.

There is a large gap between primate society and fully developed human culture.However, studies of primates have revealed many similarities.

Many of the differences between humans and other primates are differences in degree rather than in kind.For example, monkeys learn from experiences, but humans learn much more.

Common to monkeys, apes and humans is the fact that behavior and social life are not rigidly programmed by the genes. All these animals learn throughout their lives.

Monkeys and apes can learn from experience.

For monkeys as for people, the ability to learn, to profit from experience, gives a tremendous adaptive advantage, permiting them to avoid fatal mistakes. Anthropologists used to distinguish humans from other animals as tool users, and there is not doubt that Homo does employ tools much more than any other animal does.

Only humans speak.However, evidence is accumulating that linguistic ability is also a quantitative rather than a qualitative difference between humans and other primates, especially gorillas and chimps.

Like people, chimps communicate through facial expressions, noises and body movements.Other primates also use calls to communicate messages to other members of the group.

Although,wild primates use call systems, the vocal tract of apes is not suitable for speech.

Several apes have learned to converse with people through means of Ameslan, used by deaf and mute people.

Humans appear to be the most cooperative of the primates.Except for meat sharing by chimps, the ape tendency is to forage individually. Monkeys also fend for themselves in getting food.

Another diffenrence between humans and other primates involves mating. Human pair.bonds for mating tend to be more exclusive and longer lasting than are those of chimps.

Related to our more constant sexuality, all human societies have some form of marriage.

Marriage creates another major contrast between humans and nonhumans: exogamy and kinship systems.

The systems of kinship and marriage that preserve these links provide a major contrast between humans and other primates.

Reflection.

Humans are very differents to any kind of life in the world because they have a lot of abilities that others don't have

Source.

Hartmann,Pamela and Blass,Laurie.(2007)Quest 3. Reading and Writing. Mc Graw Hill.

Journal

Hello!!Yesterday I haven't time to do my journal so I have to do it right now.Well,this week I had a lot of things to do. I will have a retreat this weekend and I have many things to prepare and isn't very easy. The best of all these is that I have A wonderful team and they help me very much,without they I don't know how I do it;they and God are my support.
All week I have been slept very late and arrived at school so tired but that don't care me because I love my service and the satisfaction that you get can't be compare with anything.
In my journal I always put things about my life because is the best that I can have and enjoy each moment of it.
Well I don't have much time so I say good bye,see you next thursday again.
P.D.Teacher Amber when you read my portfolio please leave a comment please because I need know if I'm do it well.

Tom Cruise

Activity.

Reading about Tom Cruise

Tom is a success.But there are problems too. At work, Tom is sometimes difficult. In love, he is sometimes unhappy.

He was born on july 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York. His name is Tom Cruise Mapother.

His family move seven times in eleven years.

There are problems at the school and he can't read or write very well.

Tom's mother and father divorce in 1973.

Tom moves to New York in july,1980.

In 1981 Tom gets a job in the action movie "taps".

In 1987 he married with Mimi Rogers.

In 1989 Tom gets a Golden Globe.

In 1989 he divorced and Tom finds new love with Nicole Kidman and they adopted two children.

Actually he's marry with Katie Holmes and they have one children.

Source.

Smith,Rod.(2002)Tom Cruise.Pearson Education Limted.

Finding the Job That's Right for you

Activity.

Writing about how to find the job that's right for you.

Most people want to love their jobs.They want to feel happy each they witn their jobs but,¿How do you find a job that you can love?

Richard I. Fein did an study about people who love their jobs and he can discovered that people in his study share certain characteristics and the must important are: They feel they are doing the best that they can do;they are doing what interests them and they believe that their work is important.

But,¿how do you find the job that's right for you?Well only need learn about yourself,discover what you do best, what interests you and most importantly discover your values.Then yo have to think about what you enjoy doing.Lifestyle is important too because is the way that you live your life.After that, don't forget to think about how important is the money for you and finally you have to find jobs that match your profile.

It's not always easy to think about you really are and what you believe in. Howevwr, it's the best way yo get to know yourself and it's the best way to find the job that's right for you.

Reflection.

Whit this activity I learned that's very important learn about yourself because when I want to find a job all the information about me can be a help to find a good job.

Source.
Hartmann,Pamela and Blass Laurie.(2007).Quest 1, Reading and Writing,McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.page 26.

Journal

Hello!!Here I'm again. Well, this week was very difficult to me because I didn't feel very well.This Monday was horrible because I felt so good all day but in my last class I began to felt very bad.My hands started to shake,my body didn't have strength and I felt an stomachache.I don't know what hapened but I felt bad all monday. The next day I were much better but my migraine began to annoy me. My life isn't easy always I'm sick but is my life and I have to live it on the best way that I can.
My family always be with me and they and God are my strength.
I'm a happy person and enjoy my life every moment because on this way I can feel me much better.
I hope that this week I don't feel me bad because I have a lot of things to do.Well, is time to say good bye.See you the next thursday.

My Family

Activity. Writing about my family.

Today I'm going to talk about my family. First of all, I have to say that my family is very big. We are eigth: my dad,my mum, four sisters, one brother and I. The names of my sisters are: Heidi,Gaby,Mónica and Helena;my brother is Ariel and I'm Elisa.Three of my sister are married, my brother too and my other sister has boyfriend since 5 years ago so I have four brothers-in-law and one sister-in-law,also my four nephews,so when all my family is in my house we are a total of 17 people.

I told you, my family is very,very big,but is the best family that I can have.

All the time that I need them they are ready to help me.

I love my family because every moment that I spend with them is incredible and they always see the good side of life.

If you ask me if I change something of my family the answer will be: NOTHING, because for me, my family is the best family in the world;obviously sometimes we have problems but always find the way to overcome any problem and obstacle.

Reflection.

With this activity I can saw that I like write in english very much but I have to practice because I don't do it very well.

Exercise of Marketing

Activity.

Match the marketing terms with their definitions.

1. Change the image of a product or service. Reposition
2. Aiming the mass end of the market. Downmarket
3. A range of minor products which all carry the name of a major product. Brand
4. Aiming at the luxury end of the market. Upmarket
5. A promotional activity over a specific period of time. Hype
6. When a famous person recomends a product in an advertisement. Pitch
7. Matching what the business organization produces with what customers want. Marketing
8. Promoting a product or service with exaggerated or intensive publicity. Campaign
9. A small,specialized part of a market. Niche
10. A product which can be recognized by it's name. Merchandising
11. When the same letter is sent to a large number of possible buyers. Mailshot
12. Supporting a cultural or sporting enterprise in return for advertising. Sponsorship
13. One with too many competing products. Crowded Market
14. A booklet giving information about the company's products or services. Brochure
15. What the sales rep says to the potencial customer. Endorsement..

Reflection.

With this activity I learned about some terms relationed with my career.

Source.

Flinders,Steve.(2002)Professional English Business:Intermediate.Pearson Education Limited.

Journal

Hi!!Well here I'm writing about mi life.This week was very hard;I had two exams but thanks God I pass both,really I think that they are very difficult but really were very easy.

Changing of subject I want to tell that only exist one thing that I hate very much and is do my homework of english.I know that it's my responsability but is very difficult to me to do it. I like english but at the moment to do my homework I can't do it.I feel that I have many things to say and express but when I try to writting I don't find the words to do it. Only think in english!!!Is my goal!!!Because for my career the english is very important.

Now my responsability is do all my homework in the best way that I can and if I have a mistake( that is the must sure )I'm going to learn about it.

Well I don't have more to tell, my imagination it's over so I say good bye and see you from the next thursday.

"Marketing"

Activity.

Well I'm going to talk about "Marketing" because this is the career that I course.The purpose of marketing is satisfy the needs and wishes from the people through the offer of many type of products.

One person dedicated to marketing have to know the different ways to convince to customers to buy something.

Marketing offer products, ideas and services to create exchange between people and organizations.

Marketing not only have to concentrate in actually needs and wants from the people, despite marketing have to think in future needs.

In marketing is really necesary divide at the people in segments of market.This mean that for each market there exist different types of needs because people have many kinds of thinking and this do that they need different products.For this reason I can tell that the must important for Marketing are the customers and they needs.

To do an excellent program of marketing it's very necesary considered four important points:Product,Pricing,Promocion and placement.

Reflection.

This activity was very difficult to me because I don't know how to write in english very well and during the activity I can't express that I want to express.

Sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing,October 8, 2008.

"A walk to remember"

Activity:

I saw the movie "A walk to remember";this movie talks about one popular and rebelious student that is punished with a mandatory service in his school.

During this service he meets a girl very different to him in all aspects but he sees in a need to ask her for help,she accepts with one condition:he has to promise not to fall in love with her.

During the time he spent with her he learned many things and finally he fell in love with her.

She had a list of all the things she wanted to do in her life so he tried to do the things of this list become true.

Finally she tells him that she has leukemia and she is gonna die.He doesn't accept this situation and tries to find a solution but was impossible.

They get married and a few months later she dies.

This movie talks about real love and all the things you can do when you are in love.

"Love is like the wind,you can't see it but you can feel it".And his movie is an example of how love can be a hope of live.

Reflection.

I like this activity because I feel is very important practice the english and doing this kind of activities I practice a lot and can see how much i need to do it.Despite I enjoy very much seeing how bad I'm listening in english.

Source.

Movie:"A walk to remember".October 8,2008.