Week 12

This week we worked on our presentation. Our team choose India, and I really enjoyed this activity and discover more about this country.

Before the activity I already know some facts of India as the country is in Asia or that some surrounding countries are Afghanistan and China but I learned a lot of new as the form of government is socialist democratic republic or that their president is Shri Pranab Mukherjee.

For our 2º and 3º sessions all the teams did their 10-20 min presentations some of them were with clothes of the country or even better with food. I really enjoyed the New Zealand and Afganistan presentation and of course have more information about the others countries.

Regards

Cynthia

Week 11

We started week 11 with a collaborative activity about a paper by John Donne

(From: Meditation XVII)

No man is an island, entire of itself

every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main

if a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,

as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were

any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind

and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls

it tolls for thee.

Rocio and me did an analysis about the poem, and all the implications of it. We though that the mean message is that we all are connected, we need us and all together made "the all" .We think that if people follow the "Donne's philosophy" consequences of this, will be positives because you will stop assume that you are in competence with the others, you will help them. As example be eco-friendly is think in the others, not only the humans also animals.

 I really like this activity but I discover that it is hard to me express in a more deep context as the analysis of this text. 

On Wednesday we watched "Boy" after a voting for our favorite. The movie was set on New Zealand in 1983 and talk about the Alamein, a kid who after lost his mother, he take care of his 5 brothers and sisters. I liked the movie and can discover how is their English pronunciation.

Regards 

Cynthia

Week 10

Our 1º session this week was dedicate an a team activity of Homage by  Nadine Gordimer, this was different to the others authors activities because this was more about interpretation or analysis of the dialogues because some of its were implicit.

For example:

The word dyed means: To change the color of clothes or hair

 I think that was a really good activity of comprehensive reading and even if it was not to long had it grade of complex

For our 2º session we took a test about our book "English as a Global Language" was kind of the activity that you have to understand what they don't say.
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  Our session 3º we prepare our presentations about different countries that use English as a official language or semi-official. Fernando, Israel and me choose India

Regards 

Cynthia

Week 9

We started the week with a writing contest, we can write about some topics and then leave. I though that I will leave earlier but actually it was a complex exercise. Select a topic is always hard but also it was because we can't use our computers, tablets, or cellphone to check information. I tried to write two stories but I wasn't happy with them. As a positive result of this task, I want to write a story in English to improve in that area.

On Wednesday we watched a video about the evolution of the English Language, how it change and adapt. By the last session of the week, we were able to did the activity without go to the classroom.


Regards

Cynthia

Week 8

On the week 8, Rocio and me did an ethics activity. It was really interesting saw different analysis perspectives of the ethics as in the case of Joshua Daspit that he want to analice how culture influence affects the perception of work ethic or the paper of  Susan Linz that analyze if the age of the workers affects more than culture or the work by John Merlac about work ethics as predictor of task persistence.

After that activity I discover myself want to know which others paper take the ethics in different areas that can affect not just the honesty (that is in the area that we usually see it) but also in a productive perspective.

Rocio and me, talk about our points of view about this activity and conclude that work ethics can change around the world so that why have so many areas of analysis.

On Wednesday we read on teams about the "English as a global Language" and did a summary about the most important ideas.

On Thursday, Rocio and me did the Shakespeare activity about his life, work, and the mystery around his life.  I did't know that he invented a lot of words like addiction, arch-villain, assasination, cold-blooded and more.


Regards
Cynthia