week 10

  Project 3: The World: Are we in trouble? 

Mini Project 1: In-class research about animals:

Animals Rights

Definition:     It is a form legaly to protect animals of any abuse

The animals right are:

• Be free
• Don´t use for entertainment  in circus
• All animals are born aqual and they have the same rights to existence
• Every animal has the right to respect
• The animal should be submitted to bad treatment or cruel actions
  
  
• If the death of an animal is necessary this should be sudden and without fear or pain.

Causes

• One of the reason is the human feels superiority
• Sale of fur
• Animal exposed in danger zones
• Abandonment
• The humans use animals in bad things for example en the circus
  
  

Consequences

• Animals in danger of extinction
• Extended animal
• Violence
• Death

Mini-project 2: In-class research about problems and solutions: 

Health and Hygiene

Definition

Hygiene: is a set of practices preformed for the preservation of health.

Health: is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living organism. Also is a positive state of well being, where every past of body and mind is in harmony.

 Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases.

Examples:

• Enviromental  cleaning
• Sterilization of equipment
• Hand hygiene
• Water and sanitation

Consequences

• Transmission of Virus, infection and bacterias
• Food poisoning
• Cross-contamination

Solution

Wash your hands: washing your hand before preparing or eating food, after going to the bathroom, after using the toilet, after coughing or sneezing, and after handling garbage, goes a long way toward preventing the spread of bacteria and viruses.

Project 3: Design a campaign to raise awareness on the importance of protecting the environment. 

Deforestation

 Is the permanent destruction of forest in order to make the land available for other uses.

Deforestation occurs around the world, though tropical rainforests are particularly targeted. Countries with significant deforestation include Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand. The country with the most deforestation is Indonesia.

Loss of species

Seventy percent of the world´s plants and animals live in forests and are losing their habitats to deforestation, according to National  Geographic. They lose their habitat and forced to move to new location. Some of them are even pushed to extinction. Our world has lost so many species of plants and animals in last couple of decades.

Solutions to Deforestation

1. curb the felling of trees, by employing a series of rules and laws to govern it.

2. Clear cutting of forests must be banned.

3. cutting must  be replaced by  planting young trees to replace the older ones that were cut. 

Good personal hygiene is one of the most effective ways to protect orselves and others.

Causes of deforestation:
- agricultural activities
- logging
- urbanization
- desertification of land
- mining
- fires

Effects
- climate imbalance
- increase in global warming
- soil erosion
- wildlife extinction

week 9

Project 2 (First Part)

• Research additional cases of people who are making a difference in their communities by getting involved in business and making money. 
• Present the cases explaining the keys that make them successful. 

Video#1: Oprah's South African Leadership Academy for Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeR2Hw3KcyY  

1. How is Oprah using her money?

She has donated millions of dollars  to various  organization, with  most of her money going to three Foundations: The Angel Network. The Oprah Winfrey Foundation and The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast.

In  2007, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy opened its doors to academically gifted, underprivileged girls in South Africa. On Saturday, the first class graduated, with a 100 percent pass rate.

1. Why is Oprah so happy with her new role?

She is happiness and really unexpected being able to step into the mother role, friend, confidant and companion, advisor  for girls. Oprah said: “I didn´t know that I would love it”.

1. Why is education important for her? And how are students picked for her school?

The education is important for her because, she said that these girls have broken the cycle of poverty in their families, being the first to ho on the college and to do whatever they choose to do-key Word, what they choose to do with their lives, they not longer have to accept the standard that their mother and their father had to bear, because there were not oportunities.

“The education is beginning of the ending of poverty”.

The students are girls with a experience trauma and the hardships ingrained in poverty.

1. What does closing the gap mean?

I think that Oprah never imagined the reaction when the girls saw the plumbing because it means they can take a shower and she doesn´t have to go to find containers of water they can flush the toilet.

Closing the gap mean because she help to girls that never had  economic resources for to have a good education .

Video #2: Women Entrepreneurs

http://www.ted.com/talks/gayle_tzemach_lemmon_women_entrepreneurs_example_not_exception

1. Why are business skills important for women?

The business skill are important for women because, they are the population you have left. Rwanda in the immediate aftermath of the genocide was 77 percent female. In many places there are women who keep entire families, there are also single mothers and all of them must have business skills.

2.      Share some of the stories of women in the video

In the State Department in Washington and I met an incredibly passionate entrepreneur from Ghana. She sells chocolates. And she had come to Washington, not seeking a handout and not seeking a microloan. She had come seeking serious investment dollars so that she could build the factory and buy the equipment she needs to export her chocolates to Africa, Europe, the Middle East and far beyond -- capital that would help her to employ more than the 20 people that she already has working for her, and capital that would fuel her own country's economic climb.

Gayle went to Afghanistan in 2005 to work on a Financial Times piece, and there she met Kamila, a young women who told me she had just turned down a job with the international community that would have paid her nearly $2,000 a month -- an astronomical sum in that context. And she had turned it down, she said, because she was going to start her next business, an entrepreneurship consultancy that would teach business skills to men and women all around Afghanistan. Business, she said, was critical to her country's future. Because long after this round of internationals left, business would help keep her country peaceful and secure. And she said business was even more important for women because earning an income earned respect and money was power for women.

3.      Why money is power for women?

Money is power for a women because, they never had  respect and never they had earned  an income, they receive more attention when they are introduced to business and earn  money.

Second part: Based on the information from the videos, in-class discussions and activities, presentations, research, answer the following questions:

1. Does money always mean power?  Why?

I think that money if you can give power but depending on as it is used because it can sometimes destroy the person, in the world there are people with so much money they don't know to do and end making up his own life a hell. currently the money buys everything, people, consciousness, things and for this reason people who have much money believe they have the power.

2.      How does society normally measure success?

Normally the society measures success by the amount of material things that has one person  and should not be so now that success is accompanied by the effort, dedication and commitment to the goals that they have. Many people obtained the material things in a bad way and it is not correct to say that the person is successful.

1. Margaret Bonnano said: "Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time." What do you think of this quote?

I think that being rich is not having money, being rich is having time to achieve the goals that we have in life, have peace of mind and confidence in us themselves, nothing serves have money if you need humility and spiritual peace.

1. How was the research process, in-class presentations, mini-projects and Second project in weeks 6-8? What did you learn?

I during these weeks I learned that we can all make a difference and help, that there are programs to volunteer without having to give money only with our time we can help many people, that the best way to help is to make a difference and that if we want to make a difference not do always the same.

1. What can you apply to your life from the main activities develop in the last weeks?

I can apply to my life many activities develop in the last weeks, for example:

Do´s and dont´s of a job interview, different volunteer programs to help other people, It was  important  the videos that we saw, people that help the community, I believe that everyone should put in practice with the tools we have to help others.

week 8

Moviendo Esperanzas

Their misión

"they are a Non-Profit Organization engaged in receiving and administrating donations to cover the needs of vulnerable groups."

Their visión

"they will be an international organization founded on principles with excellent service and administration of projects."

Their core believes

They believe in God Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as the primary source of happiness, hope and personal realization. They  believe we are to help those who need it most, respecting their beliefs, ideology, religions and culture.

SOME OF THEIR STENGHTS

They believe the solution for poverty does not consist only in giving to the people the resources they are lacking. The needs in the communities are determined through a community diagnosis. They promote social development with the participation of the church, private companies, organized groups and the local governmet .

Volunteering

They mobilize hundreds of volunteers per year. They partake in all the programs we develop around the year. Some of the volunteers are foreigners that come to the country on a short-term mission trip. We have local volunteers as well that serve either ongoing or temporarily in a specific task or proTheir regional teams are made out of voluntees that execute in their own communities each of the programs available. They also have volunteers that help in the main office with admin work, load/unload of containers, translation, etc. When having volunteers with medical knowledge, we set up medical clinics to provide free medical care to people without access to health services. We develop for example dental clinics and eyeglasses donations reaching over 100 people in a week.

 

week 7

Great Philanthropists

Reading in class

 

Learning new vocabulary

 

• Volunteer: offer to work (usually for no money)
• Lave power of attorney: the power to make legal decisions regarding finances
• Never saw a penny: didn´t receive any of the money
• Spiraled downward: got worse and worse
• Sued: take someone to court to get money from them
• Ventures: new business activities
• Bankruptcy: declare that you are unable to pay your debts

 

 

Activities in class

We represent different foundations to receive the donation of a couple who had a lot of money, we had to explain why they deserved or needed the money.

 

"I represent the local orphanage which has been helping children for over 80 years, in this momento the goverment doesn´t get us money to continue helping children and the situation is extremely bad because we don´t have many resources and we belive in your help and you can help me".

 

 

 

 

Week 6

Conditionals

 

Sentence adverbials

Sentence adverbials show how the sentence fits in with threst of the text, and frequently go at the beginning of a sentence.
Sentence adverbials show the speaker´s attitude and feelings, and are usually separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma.

 

 

 

 

 

Profile, my superheroe is: v-woman

How to be a superheroe

 

The action of these guys is unbelievable because the world needs more people like them, that will help without any interest or expecting anything in return.

 

 

 

I will to talk about de my superheroe , she is v-woman, the versatile.woman is genetically mutant, she has a gene that mutated and gave him power.

My superheroe can regenerate and fly,she hasthe power of super-strength and invisibility.

The arch-nemeis is a crazy scientist who wants to destroy the humanity with a deadly virus and knows the weakness of v-woman.

My superheroe´s kriptonyte is the fx factor this is a liquid that is injected into the blood and destroys the gene mutant x.  



 

Week 5

Talent Fair



 



This time we made a fair of talents in classes, this was a great idea since the classmates presented their skills to other persons, there were firefighters, confectioners, a companion to  henna tattoes, swimmer, Cook, martial arts, and many more. The importance of seeing all these skills is that we can make a difference with our own hands and that nothing prevents us to grow every day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In class we do exhibitions. I talk about how to make cupcakes and at the end gave to know my final product.
  

 

Example of Articles

 

The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is one of Antoni Gudi´s  most impressive Works. This enormous church, as  yet unfinished, is in some respects a summary of everything that Gaudi designed before. the architectural style of the Sagrada Familia has been called "warped Gothic", and it´s easy to see why.

 

 

 

CLASS WORK

 

 

In class we read an article of the biographies of charismatic people for example,  Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Mahatma Gandhi and others.

Connectors of time and contrast found inthe article:

 

Time: had no sooner begun, hardly have started, when, while, during, at wich point, by which time.

 

 

Contrast; even though, although, while, in spite of, despite, hard us we try, much as.

 

Vocabulary

 

Charismatic: She´s fairly nondrescript

Inspirational: She´s not very inspiring

Dinified: She lacks gravitas

Aloof: He´s very aproachable. He always has time to talk to people

Idealistic: She´s very down-to-earth and practical

Tireless: She doesn´t have much drive or energy

Trustworthy: He´s corrupt

Resolute: He wavers in the face of problems

 

Work outside of class

 

At home I did more practices of the clauses and use this image to this very useful guide.

 

Forum 2
 

1. What is autism?

“Autism is a pervasive developmental  disorder  that  involves  abnormal development  and  function  of  the brain.  People  with  autism  show
decreased  social  communication  skills and restricted or repetitive patterns of behaviors or interests”.http://autismcenter.ucsd.edu/autisminformation/Pages/what-is-autism.asp 

 

2. What is extraordinaire about Jake?
The  Jake’s  extraordinaire  is  that  he  can  memorize  numbers  and  he  is  smart  in  Science,  he  solve  math  problems  and  he  can´t  stop  with  this  things, Jake definitely a genius.

 

3. What are some challenges he has?

The  challanges  are  many  because  he  was  lived as a child in the forma an adult, when jake already  18  yeras  old,  he  will  be graduated  from  the  university,  parnerts must  be  very  oriented  and  receive phicological  support  to  deal  with  these
challanges

4.  Based  on  the  class  discussions,  videos,  talent  fair,  etc.  Give  your  opinion:  Can  we/people  make  a  difference?

I think that everyone can make the difference  if we put our grain of sand and strive for our  goals also is important to develop different  skills and talents to grow and use them doing  good and helping to others.

5. Have you learned about yourself and your classmates in this first five weeks that you didn´t know before?

I  learned  during  these  first  five  weeks  many  things  about  my  classmates,  heard the life stories of my classmates, learned of his talents, some of them  work  for  the  community  and  someone  have  incredible  skills,  for  example,  drawing,  swimming,  skating,  cooking,  geniuses  in  PC  games,  dance  and  many others talents.

6.  Search  for  a  modern  genius.  Describe  this  person’s  special  ability  and  how  he/she  has  contributed  to  having  a better world.

Santiago Gonzalez is most likely  in  his  college  class  room discussing  the  intricacies  of  computer  code.  Gonzalez  is  a  prodigy  who  attends  the  prestigious  Colorado  School  of  the  Mines.  He  is  fluent  in   several  coding  languages  and  has  even  come  up  with  some  awesome  apps,  including  an interactive  puzzle  that  seems  quite fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXZWB_dNsw 

T A L E N T !

week #4

Past perfect

We´re dealing with two events that took place in the past, one before the other, not simultaniusly

Form (had + past participle)

Example:  Iwas sick because I had eaten too much apple pie

? Had I lived in the USA before last year?
- The hadn´t not lived in the USA before last year
+ The had lived in theUSA before last year

In this video you can see more examples about of past perfect.

In class contribution

During the class we did various activities, for example, in couple make sentences in past perfect, and the first couple who finish make the fifteen sentences earned points.

Future probability

 

 

To talk about future probability, we can use modal verbs will, could, may, and might. We can also use phrases such as those in the chart.

1- will almost definitely happen ....... It will presumably.........
                                                   
2- Likely to happen ........ The chance are that......
                                 ........ There is a strong possibility......
                                 ........It may / might well.....

3- Unlikely to happen ...... There´s a slight/ reote possibility that....
                                    ...... I doubt whether....
                                    ...... It probably won´t.....
                                    ...... The chances are Slim that......
4- Impossible ..... It is inconceivable that....

Future forms