jueves, 8 de septiembre de 2016

week 11

WEEK 11


There are situations that inspire us to do something very different, for example watching an add about a girl hugging her mom, might as well make you feel loved and that you will want to sing about it, or a break up could inspire you to write a song, and as we see in class a painting could inspire you to write a poem.

Also we watched a movie called "BOY" it is a New Zealand movie and it is about a boy named boy that meets his father out of the blue to find money that he had buried years ago. Boy had very high expectations about him but he comes to the reality when he gets to know him better.

We had to do a reflecting paper on the movie and I chose the topic about influences and how they affect us and make an impact on us; furthermore, it relates also with the poem-painting inspiration because the writer had an impact based on the painting.

WEEK 5

This week was so different from the past weeks, we did many variety activities.
On Monday we watch the first part of a movie named: "Jerry Maguire" I really liked it actually I tried to watch the second half on the internet but failed at finding the movie; however,  I am still eager to watch the end.
Also we were asked to read 2 articles for the 2 session because we had an activity about relating the articles with the movie. The whole theme of both the articles and the movie it was about honesty at your work. I consider the honesty a very important thing to have, it helps you as a person but also helps to build up the company, industry, relationship that you are working at.

Sometimes we lie to benefit ourselves or our team but if we maintain the honesty, we will last long and we are going to be fearless, because we are doing things right. Even when you see that honesty won't pay you will see the reward later.

And to finish with this week we worked in teams, the task was to look up 4 countries that speaks English as it official language to compare the language, the culture and some fun facts. My team chose South Africa, Australia, Singapore and Hong-Kong and we saw a lot of differences between them.

To conclude I could say this week was so active and full of learning new things with different sources like articles, movies, internet, essays. I liked it all but the fact that there was not so much homework to do during this partial exams week was my favourite.

jueves, 1 de septiembre de 2016

The Evolution and Importance of English as a Global Language.

This week we show to the class the video that we made as team 5. In the video you can see how the English evolved from celtic language to the early modern English that we speak now.
Below I will post the link where you can watch the video. I got to talk about the beginnings of English and Middle English. Enjoy the video.

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