MODAL VERBS

The previous class on Friday we do a review of the modal verbs and we wrote in team an imaginary story with the regret or end of the story ´If only I had not boarded that bus´.

My team was integrated with Berenice and Jessica, and our story was:

Finished wrote our story one person of our team read and needed remember all stories, but we lost.

In that exercise, we committed a grammar mistake with one phrase of reported speech.

We wrote the phrase in past but the correct time was past participle.

Another Modal verbs are:
Can could, may might, will would, must shall, should and ought to.

And that indicated:
ability, obligation and advice, permission, habits and past modals.

LOANWORDS

The latest class we learn the concept of loanwords and we research in teams some loanwords and their origins.

In my team, we found the following loanwords:

LOANWORDS	ORIGIN
zombie	african
ketchup	chinesse
garbage	french
lychee	chinesse
umbrella	itilian ombrello
lasagne	italian
vodka	russian
paparazzi	italian/plural
taekwondo	korean
hurricane	spanish
tourist	spanish
tornado	spanish
karate	korean

It is interesting known the origin of the words and it was useful for the reading task and for our vocabulary.

I never imagine that we use in our language words of african origins.

SAT Exams

SAT exams

In the previous class, we researched information about the SAT exams

This exam is apply to high school students or if the university requestment, the duration of the exam is between 3 or 4 hours.

The College Board states that the SAT exams measures literacy and writing skills that are needed for academic success in the university.

The SAT exams were composed of 3 sections writing, critical reading, mathematics approximately each one section will be resolve in 35, 65 and 55 minutes.

The purpose of the SAT exams is evaluating the knowledge of the students.

The minimum score of the exam is between 800 to 1600.

After exposed the research we did an example of a SAT exam but I think that it was very difficult because sometimes in other reading exams I do not know the meaning of one or two words but in this exam I do not comprehend a lot of words even my partner of the team.

However I think that exam is easy if you speak English and if you prepare for the exam.

Although I think SAT exam is easier than the exam of the UNAM, because in that exam the sections are 10 about different subjects like chemistry, biology, physic, and others, and in SAT exam, is a general knowledge not a specific knowledge.

It is interesting know what exams do in other countries to entry at the university or the requirements for a master degree or other degree.

Diamonds explained

Diamonds explained

In this entry, I will explain the song of Diamonds, by Rihanna.

That song is about a woman who fell in love, and their first impression of her relationship. 

At the beggining of the song she expected that they would be happy with their relationship

Then she explained that she appraised his love demonstrations. And she described that she felt alive when he held her.

She continued describing her feelings. She considered that she had known that they would become one right away.

She explained that she felt the energy of sun rays when she saw him at first sight.

She felt that she had seen the life inside their eyes.


Finally, she affirmed that they shine bright like diamonds in the sky for their love.

Essay: working conditions Mexico V.S. working conditions in the U.S.

Essay: working conditions Mexico V.S. working conditions in the U.S.

In that class, we continue research the themes working conditions in Mexico and working conditions in the US, for formulate our essay for the next Friday.

Also, we research the requirements of an essay.

I found this information about the organization for this type of essay:

• A comparison essay notes either similarities, or similarities and differences.

• A contrast essay notes only differences.

• The comparison or contrast should make a point or serve a purpose.

The points that need the essay are:

Thesis

Introduction

Body Paragraph 1:
Topic 1
Topic 2

Body Paragraph 2:
Topic 1
Topic 2

Body Paragraph 3:
Topic 1
Topic 2

Conclusion

The essay has two organizational structures:

Block method (subject by subject)

Point by point

Comparisons followed by contrasts (or the reverse)

In general I found the next information about the researches:

Wages and Salaries

Working hours and vacations

The Aguinaldo

Other Bonuses

Working Hours in Mexico

Holidays in Mexico

Pensions and Insurance

I decided in the essay compare differences between working conditions in Mexico and the US, to prove working in the US are more convenient. 

TIPS

3 TIPS 

The last class we listened a record about tips to learning English those are:

1.- Breathe

2.- Project words

3.- Pronouns clearly and open mouth

About these three tips I think that were different to the others recommendations that we watch or listen in other classes.

The first tip I think is when some singers use their diaphragm to sing. But I think for that tip we need to practice often for our body gets used to using this advice.

The second and third tip were really connected because if you project the words to the last one person that will be in the corner or in the end of a stadium, you need to talk clearly and strong.

A friend of mine told me that another tip to pronounce well some words in English was putting a pencil in your mouth to talk.

Things non-Spanish-speaking Latinos are sick of hearing

Things non-Spanish-speaking Latinos are sick of hearing

In that video, we can saw different persons that stereotype a man Mexican American:

For example, the man who wants to learn Spanish but at the same time kidding you for 

the pronunciation of the common Spanish words for americans.

Another situation occurs when you know someone who is Mexican and the person 

identified with you then both start talking about cultural things, and makes the talk really 

familiar and friendly.

Even his boos kidding about if he knows margaritas, tequila and other Mexicans 

beverage.

Ken Tanaka meets a Caucasian Japanese man.

In the other video, we saw the life of a Caucasian Japanese who raise in Japan but he can 

speak English because he has not the English accent.

Ken Tanaka asked him if he suffer bullying for not speak well Japanese when he was a 

child, but when he answered no Ken astonishes because he known a lot of histories of 

persons that suffer bullying for that situation.

David think that is more often suffered bullying if you are a half Japanese because in his case the people think that he was American but it was another situation of Japanese American who are living in Japan they have much harder time.

After watched these two videos, I am accord with David but told in other words, 

how the people see you they treat you, and that depends of the culture of your residence 

for example in general the Mexicans are friendly so when you meet a Mexican in another 

country commonly they are treat with amiability in a general situation.

Then explained what happened when you look like a Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, and you don’t speak the language that supposed you need to talk in that case the citizen get angry
automatically because they felt offended and attacked for you even if they don´t know
your story.

Finally, I think that videos could show us not categorization the people for their appearance. 

Sid Efromovich-Ted talks

Sid Efromoovich- Tel Talks

Regarding the suggestions exists 5 skills or techniques for learning languages:

1.- Make mistakes.

2.- Scrap the foreign alphabet

3.- Find a stickler

4.- Shower conversations

5.- Buddy Formula

There are some new techniques for me, such as the shower conversation, I have never practice this skill and I think is really useful in a travel or in our city when a foreigner asked us an address or other information and that situation is the most common way that you could use to learned a language.

Recently I had used the second skill scrap the foreign alphabet but with the words, although that sometimes confused me when I wrote a text.

Continued with the others techniques which are more common, but something is important recall, it is that we always forget the first skill and I think is the most important technique "make mistakes", Because we tried to give the best in our pronunciation and forgot the grammatical structure.

Finally, the Buddy formula and the find a stickler I think are similar because in both someone else speak well the language and then corrected us our mistakes.

Reading experience HW

READING EXPERIENCE

My experience in the last reading was difficult because there was many words that I didn´t know the meaning. The most difficult text for me was the second.

My experience in the last reading were (plural form) difficult because there was many words for wich (drafting) I didn´t know the meaning. The most difficult text for me was the second.

Note: Extra paragraph, according the indications.

That was because I did not understand Tony's attitude to the situation described on the text and that complicated to me understanding the text. That exercise was really interesting because that results proof that I am a reflective learner because I prefer think about the text before understand them.

In conclusion I think that is the reason I cannot answer correctly that questions, another difficulty was the structure of the questions because in general in the test readings we only answer true, false or do not know and that kind of questions changed our typical form of an exam.

This is my results of the first exam:

NC STATE UNIVERSITY Learning Styles Results Results for: Fabiola Alc�ntara ACT X REF 11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11 <-- --> SEN X INT 11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11 <-- --> VIS X VRB 11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11 <-- --> SEQ X GLO 11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11 <-- --> If your score on a scale is 1-3, you are fairly well balanced on the two dimensions of that scale. If your score on a scale is 5-7, you have a moderate preference for one dimension of the scale and will learn more easily in a teaching environment which favors that dimension. If your score on a scale is 9-11, you have a very strong preference for one dimension of the scale. You may have real difficulty learning in an environment which does not support that preference. According the results minds that I am a balanced on the two dimensions of that scale, because my score was between 1-3. For example: In the first graph my score was 3 and according the results that indicated I am a reflective learner and that is true because I prefer to think about a new theme before understand them. Continued with the second graph my score was 3 and according the results that minds I am a sensors learned and I think is a little be true because I am an accountant and always need to follow a established methods, for example to presented the financial situation of a business or personal financial situation and the same case presented in my other degree of lawyer which need follow the laws, in the process. In the next graph my score was 3 that indicated I am a verbal learner and I think that is not the most certainly because I remember more a face than a name. In the last graph describes me like a sequential learner and I think is result of my professional formation.