Task 2. Informal e-mail

Unit 5.
Page 111. Writing e-mails.

Dear Jane,

It's great you're having a crush with Graham, I ean, if you want I'm able to go with you.
What about going to a new place? I went to a new coffee shop on downtown. We can go there, it's really nice, with beautiful colors and a tasteful coffeee, as you like.

I can make it at seve, wat'cha think? Let me know if you can.

Hey, btw. Guess what? I got promoted, so, maybe we'll be going for coffee more often. Nice, isn't it?
Well, call, e-mail or text me. As you want, just let me know. I need your confirm. Want to meet you soon.

Hugs,
Rob

Task 1. What do you think?

Unit 5.

Page 44. What do you think?

About the four lectures of succesful teenagers.

·         A successful teenager could be any of the list, fisrt of all, because they’re trying to achieve their goals. In a monetary way, the boy with the SuperJam, Fraser, could be the most successful, because h’s earning even more money than his parents. But in a moral alternative, for Sarah is a relief knowing an organization of teenagers that are in the same situation as her, interacting with them, the caregivers.

·         Maybe Darius, because he’s making a huge effort on being the number one. Training every day, rising from the bottom of the poverty.

·         Sarah and Darius, because they’ve to face the difficulties that life give us, with their short age.

Task 3

Unit 3
Task 3
Write ten word you don't understand about the text "The Clinging Woman". Page 27.

Word	Meaning	Example
Aircraft	A plane, helicopter, or other vehicle that flies	The aircraft was about to crash with the Empire State.
Gaze	To look at someone or something for a long time, for example because they are attractive or interesting, or because you are thinking of something else	I was gazing him but he never looked back.
Vanish	To disappear in a sudden and mysterious way	The man just vanished, it was like if he had never been there.
Alight	Bright or shining	His alight eyes illuminated all the room.
Stunt	Something dangerous or stupid that you do, often to impress someone	It must be a stunt. She musn't do it.
Railing	A fence made of narrow posts supporting an upper bar	Look at the plants hanging on the railings of the houses. It's very beautiful.
Unwilling	If you are unwilling to do something, you do not want to do it or you refuse to do it	My unwilling brother, didn't want to wash the dishes.
Fortnight	A period of two weeks	I get paid every fortnight.
Acute	Very serious or severe	I have a very acute appointment, you musn't be interrupting me.
Retreat	To avoid a dangerous, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation, especially by moving away from it	After seeing him, I retreat being around him. I just feel so shy whenever I want to talk to him.

Task 2

Unit 3
Task 2

Yesterday, I was driving to home when I watched a really nice Jaguar on the street. Everything was perfect when I realized that the car was driven by an uniformated man. ¡Yes! It was a policeman. Nothing would be going wrong but there were a rich couple on the backsit. The rich couple were putting a triger on the police. They seemed to be dressed like if they were going to the theather, Apparently, the car was stolen and the driver was kidnapped.
It was an amazing scene. After all the show, I arrived home, just to watch the news and finding out that a rob  had take part in downtown. The theather was burgled and the car stolen at the same time.

I was thinking of going to the London's theather before arriving home. It was great not to go.

Informal Letter

Unit 3
Task 1

Write an informal letter

Hi, Sis!

It has been a long since I last saw you. How have you been?
Well', let me start first. You know I enrolled in college, it's very interesting let me tell you. I had to adapt so many new things, like my sleeping, meals, and tie at home... Indeed, I have no more social life. Just my college friends. But anyway, I like it very much, really. you know I always liked maths, and an engineer it's all maths.

Anyway, how are you? How was your european trip? I saw some photos in facebook, it seems very very interesting, and freexing. Haha, I hope you bought some belgium chocolates for me. You know I love chocolate. Hey, I'd like to know more about your journey and the people you met there. It must be amazing, going to another country, knowing their culture, their FOOD, and so on!

Well, sis, I've to go. Hope to hear news from you.

Love you :3

Your lil' sis.

Radiohead

This band is known by their song Creep, also Fake Plastic Trees, which made them kinda famous. But, they have so much better songs than those. Today I'll post a song I heard time ago, it's called Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, from In Rainbows (2007).

Weird_Fishes_Arpeggi-Radiohead.mp3

Résumé

100 Gral. Luis Caballero Roadway
Victoria City, TAMPS 87070
(834) 101 20 28
perla_94_5@hotmail.com

Objective

Fill the place of a good and clever worker, aporting knowledgment and helping the corporation to solve and succed. Getting a position in which my skills could be well developed.

Education

Elementary School

"Felipe Carrillo Puerto"

Class of  2006

Middle School

"José de Escandón"

Class of 2009

High School

"CBTis 24" Electronics Technician

Class of 2012

College

Victoria Polytechnic University

BS, Mechatronics Engineering

Other

CELLAP, English Course

2010-2012

Work Experience

January-May 2012

Technical Assistant, Kemet of México, Victoria.

Interests

Lecture, travel, volleyball, solving problems.

Skills

Written and spoken English

Able to manage PLCs

Basic CAD

Able to learn new skills, languages and adapt to foreign cultures

Can work in team

Availability to work extra hours

References

Patricia Mayela Banda González

Talent Coordinator

Kemet of México

(834) 318-7400 ext. 7429

Letter to Teresa

From: Dad & Mom <m.b.sayers@chatchat.net>
Subject: "Hi, sweetie..."
Date: Frid. 18 March 10.00 am
To: Teresa Sayers <teri.says@yoohoo.com>

Hi, sweetie!

We received your e-mail. We are glad because you are so far away and don't have to live with us anymores.
Now, we are really happy 'cause we are enjoying our couple life, as muhch as we could do it in our early times, because, uou know, when you were born our life changed a lot.

So, we think, you're going to do the same thing with your children. Bit, anyway, that is not really important now.

Did we tell you that while you were at the beach we were at the movies? We watched a really funny movie,
and after that we went to Starbuck's coffee. Yes, we know you always wanted to go, but we don't care.

Sorry, we have to go 'cause we're playing tennis tonight, so goodbye, enjoy your life if you can and take care of yourslef,

Love,
your parents.

Who Am I?

Hi!

This is a short introduction about myself...

I'm eighteen years old, I was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and lived there for about 16 years.

Then my family and I decided to move to the capital city. 

Since I was a child, my mom said I was an hyperactive girl,

I used to sleep so late (and nothing has changed).

Well, that's something about my childhood.

Now I'm more relaxed, at least I think so.

Likes and dislikes:

• Food:

Masala Chai Tea

I want to start saying something about food. I love tea, speacially Masala chai, wich is a combination of herbs and species, 

like cinnamon, pepper, black tea, cardamom, star anise and cloves, it can be sweetened with sugar or honey, but I like ti more with honey and milk.

Besides of that, I'm in something you can call "diet" but it's a way of live, "vegetarianism", well, for me i't more like lacto-vegetarianism.

• Music:

However, I like rock, I also listen to another genres of music but my favorite one is rock, it's something my father inherited to me.

Indeed, the like about machines and systems, is also something I learned form him.

• Personality:

As you may see, my family is my support, they're my first thing in life. 

I like to help people but I can't stand people who attack or despise others, unjust people.

That's why I prefer animals. Indeed, I have three dogs and a hamster, they're so lovely. 

It doesn't matter if I arrive angry at home, they always find the way to put a smile on my face.

Another interesting thing could be that I always change the way my hair looks, I used to have it long with bangs, then long half-shaved, and nowadays it's short with purple-blue dyied bangs. 

I also like piercings, once you have one, it became an addiction.

What about my interests and free time?

Howard P. Lovecraft

Well, I really love to read, it's one of my favorite hobbies in the world. And I spend almost all my free time reading.

I like to read novels, fiction, Mythology, tragedy and anything interesting. If I'm not reading I'd probably being watching sitcoms or movies.

I also like to watch movies, like action, sci-fi, and gore.

Oh, yes, I also like learning new languages, I think the way of people communicate result very interesting 'cause everyone use words and phrases as they can and want.

That's one of the reasons I want to improve my English, and why not? Learning a new one language, like German or Chinese.

Well, now you know something more about myself.

(I always like to put a song on my entries, so, here's the song for my introduction)

Dazed_and_Confused-Led_Zeppelin.mp3

Song, song, song.

Bungaloo Punta Cometa.

It's simple, I like it because it's different. 

Soft Pop, great for relaxing. Maybe taking a drink and losing yourself in an extraordinary world.

Interpreted by the mexican band Plastilina Mosh, from their album Aquamosh (1998), with Café Tacuba singing the chorus in japanese.

Bungaloo_Punta_Cometa.mp3

Today's Musical Project

I really love music!, so now you know why I post so many songs. Actually, I always use music as a background for doing stuff, almost any kind of work. That's why today I'm gonna post another song... Hehe!


Now, it's the turn of Gorillaz. I know this group because of my brother. He used to listen to them on the TV, and nowadays I hear them.


Their music is a combination of rock, synth, sometimes melodic voices and a bit of hip-hop rhythm. The special feature of this band is that they're part of a virtual world. How is this possible? Well, the musicians are represented by animated characters, like cartoons and they live in an odd world. This band is conformed by four "people":

2D: vocalist, melodics and keyboard. 

Murdoc: who plays the bass.

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Russel: drums and percussion

Noodle: guitar, keyboard and rarely sings. 

One fascinating things, is that in their videos they represent this odd and alternative world, an animated space where they always tell a story with their music. 


Furthermore, if you go to their website, you could find games starring by these guys, you could be able to listen to their albums and son on. Here's the link: Gorillaz


And finally the songs of the day, interpreted by this interesting musical project:


First:
Man_Research.mp3
And:
Latin_Simone.mp3


ENJOY!

Nite nite.

And now some of Radiohead... Fake Plastic Trees.



Fake Plastic Trees-Radiohead.mp3


Here's the lyric:

Her green plastic watering can 

For her fake Chinese rubber plant 

In the fake plastic earth 

That she bought from a rubber man 

In a town full of rubber plans 

To get rid of itself 

It wears her out, it wears her out 

It wears her out, it wears her out 

She lives with a broken man 

A cracked polystyrene man 

Who just crumbles and burns 

He used to do surgery 

For girls in the eighties 

But gravity always wins 

It wears him out, it wears him out 

It wears him out, it wears... 

She looks like the real thing 

She tastes like the real thing 

My fake plastic love 

But I can't help the feeling 

I could blow through the ceiling 

If I just turn and run 

And It wears me out, it wears me out 

It wears me out, it wears me out 

And If I could be who you wanted 

If I could be who you wanted all the time.

Do lemmings really commit suicide? Think about it.

After hearing about the lemming suicides I wanted to search more about them. So,first of all I searched what are those interesting creatures. What are Lemmings? They are small rodents which live in the Artic. Having that clear, I started looking for deeper information about their suicide behavior.

First of all, I found an interesting scene in the documentary White Wilderness, that supports the idea about the suicide. According to the documentary this is caused by the overpopulation of this rodents, they feel frustrated and tried to look for a new place to live, but not having in mind the climate and soil conditions. So they drop to the ocean and after a time they feel tired and die. However, it was found that these specially scene was created and the scenarios, I mean, the place where the film had part didn't accord to the place where the lemmings live, so it was a made up scene for the Disney's documentary. A filthy trick in my opinion.

Nevertheless, I didn't really trust in this information so I decided to look up for more.. And I discovered the truth, as I see. Well, this misconception has transcended for many years, since the documentary, which was made 1958, fifty-four years of fake information! But the truth it's more difficult to understand... Here's some of what I read:

Lemmings aren't suicidal. Some researches collected data for over fifteen years, they found that the populations of the rodents increase from a hundreds to over 1000, that makes the predator number to increase, which cause the number of the population to fall. After this, comes the lack of lemmings that cause the same effect, a low number of predators. This is called "Predator-prey cycles", this cycle take place every four years. 

At least lemmings have good jumps. Might a Front Flip or a Reverse help?

The study was published in Thursday's issue of the weekly U.S. journal Science by Olivier Gilg and Ilkka Hanski of the University of Finland, and Benoit Sittler of the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Finally, the truth was released. It's fake the myth of the suicide lemmings. They just suffer the episodes of overpopulation, and so on. So before believing in sometimes that we're not sure about. We should make a deep research, you never know what coul happen if we still believe in this misconceptions. We have to open our mind and think before act.

Here's an interesting video with interviews of this topic. Enjoy it!

Source: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20031027/lemmings.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming

The show you might watch...

Misfits

The British TV channel E4 launched a show on September 2009, called Misfits, a group of teenagers who were facing the problem of working in a community service program; they obtained superpowers after a storm and accidentally killed their monitor and so on. This science fiction entertainment might fascinate you because:

On one hand, the supernatural effect on each character attracts you to discover what they can do. The stories are told in a way that everyone’s connected with the other. It’s easy for you to understand what the roles of the characters are. Even though it’s a sci-fi show it involves comedy and drama scenes which make the series more interesting.

On the other hand, the TV show isn’t suitable for kids, so you shouldn’t watch it with your family. Anyway, it’s hard to realize how the actors were changed in the last seasons; this change may be a collapse for the series. Furthermore, the chapters are only available online.

Despite of the disadvantages, I could say that during the first seasons I was so excited that I wanted to see more; just waiting for the next episode to be released and see how their powers changed by time. I recommend you to watch Misfits now. You won’t regret it.

Here you have the link with the three seasons in English:

Watch Misfits Online

Enjoy!

Tonight's hit:

Camaro - Kings of Leon

Camaro.mp3

Twelfth song from the album Because of the Times (2007).
A mix of rock, weird voice and a great acoustic.

¿Do you know who's behind this can?

Almost all we've seen this picture before... This design made a revolucionary change in art. It's difficult to understand why this peculiar design was so popular. In fact, the Campbell's design was part of a artwork called The 32 Campbell's Soup Cans. Well, this singular drawing is the beginner for the movement called Pop Art; which emerged by the latest 50s. But, what is this? It's a controversial movement 'cause it involves the "popular" or common things, in a colorful represantion of them. This kind of art doesn't represent the art in his totall but the attitudes that pop culture has.

One of the most popular artist in this movement was the american Andy Warhol (1928-1987), who made art so controversial for those times. He began as an advertisment illustrator. 

Furthermore, he was a writer, film director and helped the music group Velvet Underground to release some of their albumes; such as The Velvet Underground & Nico in 1967.

However, he was better at art than as a producer. An interesting fact is that Andy Warhol sold a canvas, similar to the one in the image, for 60.000 dollars! I mean, that's crazy. Despite of that expensive cost his art is well-known nowadays.

Here's some of his work:

Marilyn Monroe, american actress.

Mickey Mouse, cartoon from Walt Disney.

Mao Zedong, chinese communist revolutonary.

Cover album from The Velvet Underground.

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca-Cola, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." - Andy Warhol.

 And finally a song from Velvet Underground:
Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground

Another song

Today's song is from the alternative rock genre, interpreted by a mexican singer whom I reaaally like:

Maldito_Jessy Bulbo.mp3

Jessy Bulbo was the bass player and singer of a mexican group called "Ultrasónicas", but she decided to start a new group.  This new experience failed so she started singing alone.  

 By 2007, a new album was released Saga Mama, with the single Maldito and suddenly, by 2009 she released his second material on 2008 called Taras Bulba, with the singles Comal, Experiencia Cítrica. And finally, Telememe on 2010, his last album which I dowload it for free :D, well, the songs I liked tho most were: La Cruda Moral, which I enterely loved! That song express how I feel almost all the time, and  Quiero Ser Tu Destino. Both are great songs.

 Her songs may not like to all the audience, they seem dumb or incomprehensible, but she's a natural representation of the talent that Mexico's have.

Note: the song will be played automatically...

Tapers

Well...

Now I have a certain addiction to piercings, yeah, may sound weird or whateva but... It's something I'm liking, sincerely a lot... But I don't want to give more details about that.

The reasons for me to write this is because I bought these ones (look for the image):

                                        

What are those for? Well, these cute things are used for expanding ears. It's a controversial topic, young people want to be different so having plugs and tapers could affect my future, but I0m sure about this for now. Also, mine are color clear on the right ear, and black with red on the left one. I just wanted to write something about things I like... For example piercings and related. :]

On my next entry I'll talk more about "Misfits", the sitcom which I spoke of in the previous post. I'll write a review of it.

Song of the day...

Echoes - The Rapture.

I heard this band time ago, like two years more or less... I like their music, firstly 'cause they're kind of alternative, and that's good. Well, the fact is that I saw this sitcom called "Misfits" and the song was the intro of every chapter, so it was on my mind all the day. Here's the song...

The_Rapture-Echoes.mp3

 The song will be automatically played in Streampad (playlist for blog)

Animals in captivity

Dear Editor,

I am writing in the hope that I can do something for animals’ lifestyle, specifically wildlife in zoos. The manner in which they live is the least effective; they’re caught in captivity for no reason but pleasure and entertainment. For example, the Tamatan Zoo’s tiger isn’t prepared for confinement even though tigers are a lonely species. Zoo management shouldn’t be able to take animals to subsist in this cruelty.

Nevertheless, some endangered species have been saved from smugglers, this could be the mainly reason why zoos are working nowadays. But, zoo’s animals are living in suffering, handling with diseases and abuse from their zookeepers. Also, it’s right to mention that animals die earlier; they don’t have sufficient space for living in and they may experience psychosis because of their confinement.

After all, there’s a well-thought plan done for solving this problem; natural reserves, which are protected areas, especially for preserving wildlife, such as animals, flora and geological features. In this way, people could care more about animals’ life and teach their kids to respect our animal friends.

Perla Berrones