martes, 3 de diciembre de 2013

No technology? No way!


                                                                















With technology, everything is different


Albert Einstein once said: "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots." That phrase caught my attention because the reality we are living today is an advantage and a disadvantage that children have technology at their fingertips. A positive aspect is that they become very smart, but the negative of this is that we can not treat them like children who are rather a joke and analyzed what we told them and correct us saying is not funny because it is not so that way is another and it's annoying.

Children and adolescents with an electronic element in their hands can develop many skills and knowledge of many things or they can do school work, but the problem is that they might have an addiction or dependency or Internet device. It's okay for them to have these opportunities, but moderately. It is strange to the society seen children with a cell phone, maybe they need it or maybe not, but it is not necessary for them. The only cases in which they can be required is when the parents of the child are separated, so they can be in communication with them.

In my opinion electronic devices such as computers, tablets, smart phones and other must be for college students or employers where they need technology . I think teenagers of 15 years could have a cell phone because it is an age where they are a little more responsible and parrents are a little more liberal, but still care about their children and take knowledge of them so that age is necessary to have a mobile phone . Today family dinners have changed thanks to technology , many families do not agree with this as being seated at the table with family sharing, but they are distracted by the technology, like my grandmother said at my times families would sit and talk about everything and she missed it because is not the same to be with them that dial a number and called them, visiting the family has also lost a lot, so we have to let go of the technology and be more concerned about our family.


Future Perfect and Future Progressive:

Future perfect: Indicates that an action will have been completed at some point in the future. This term is formed with will + Have + the past participle of the verb. Which can be either regular or irregular in form.

Example: "I will have spent all my money by this time next year".
                 "I will have run successfully in three marathons if I can finish this one".

Singular                                           Plural  
I will have walked.                      We will have walked
You will have walked.                 You will have walked.
He/ She/ It will have walked.       They will have walked.

Future progressive: Indicates continuing action, something that will be happening, going on, at some point in the future. This tense is formed with the modal will + be + present participle of the verb (with ing ending).

Example: I will be running in next year's Boston Marathon.
Our campaign plan suggest taht the President will be winning the southern vote by November.

Singular                                          Plural
I will be walking.                    We will be walking.
You will be walking.               You will be walking.
He/ She/ it will be wallking.     They will be walking


Glossary:

Sonic: Noise.
Sending me over the edge: Frustrating me greatly.
Retaliatory: Involving revenge.
Vigilante: A person who punishes others.
Jolted: Startled; surprised.
Shattered: Destroyed.
Towed: Removed.
Wail: Long loud cry. 
Siren: Warning signal.
Banned: Prohibited.
Prompted: Caused.
Vibrations: Movements.
Frustated: Disappointed. 
Defective: Marked by subnormal structure, function, intelligence, or behavior.
Offense: The act of causing anger, resentment, displeasure, or affront.
Awful: Extremly bad or unpleasant; terrible.
Comforting: To ease physically; relieve.
Constant: Continually occuring; persistent.
Piercing: To make a hole or oppening.
Shrill: Producing a sharp, high-pitched tone or sound.







       

Finding a Niche

















Young immigrants

Many young people travel from one country to another with their parents, whether for work, had a problem in their country or because they are going to live in another country. Whenever this happens they travel to other countries temporarily and for young people it must be difficult to start again in other schools and with other people. It must be difficult because the children become fond with people who know so far that they should say goodbye  when its time to go. I've met foreigners who have left because their parents have been removed from other country or because they miss their country.

There are instances of cases where families must constantly travel to other countries as I mentioned before because the work send them or because they need to use more their passport or simply because they want to return to their native country. Changing of country affects younger since they make their friends until they have go from there. Many times to be traveling family traditions are lost either because a part of the family must be in one country and the other half on other, then families drift apart until they can ask for holiday and return together.

The people I met and who had to leave this country told me that for them it is exciting and sad to go to another country, because they like the country and they adhere much with people who get to know, then when their parents tells them that they have to go they are sad, but then they realized that they are going to know about other country.When they leave the sad thing is that rarely times they would turn to talk to people who they knew and were unlikely to see again. Well one of the people I met was my best friend in kindergarten, she left 9 years ago, she is from Argentina, she has not returned and I have not come to visit, but occasionally times we talk.
                                     
                                               Present Perfect- Simple Past Contrasted

Present Perfect: 

Use: Result of an action in the past is important in the present.
Recently completed actions.
Actions beginning in the past and still continuing.
Togheter with lately, recently, yet.

Signal Words: Just, yet, never, already, ever, so far, up to now, recently, since, for.

Form: Have/has + past participle

Examples:
Afirmative sentences
I have played football.
I've played football.

You have played football.
You've played football.
                
He has played football.
 He's played football.    

Negative sententences:
I have not played football.
I've not played football.
I haven't played football.

You have not played football.
You've not played football.
You haven't played football.

He has not played football.
He's not played football.
He hasn't played football.

Questions:
Have I played football?
Have you played football?
Has he played football? 

Simple past:

Use: Action finished in the past.
Series of completed actions in the past.
Together with the Past Progressive/ Continuous- The Simple Past interrupted an action which was in progress in the past.

Signal  words: Yesterday, last week, a month ago.

Form: Infinitive + ed.

Examples:
Affirmative sentences:
I played football.
You played football.
He played football.

Negative sentences:
I did not played football.
I didn't played football.

You did not played football.
You didn't played football.

He did not played football.
He didn't played football.

Questions:
Did I play football.
Did you play football.
Did he play football.

Spelling (both tenses):
Stopped (Double the consonant after a short vowel).
Loved (One e at the end of the word - leave out the e and add d).  
worried (Consonant before y change to ie).
  
Glossary:

Unique: Special; individual. 
Native tounge: First language.
Flourishing: Growing and developing well.
Mainstream: The common way of thinking or acting.
Tight-knit: Close; conected.
Assimilate: Adapt and adjust.
Suppresed: Not allowed to express.
Relieved: Happy that you don't have to worry about something.
Bone up on: Review; study again.
Intimidating: Frightening
Uprooted: Removed from; torn from.
Set apart: Make someone or something different.
Interpret: To explain the maening of.
Niche: A situation or activity specially suited to a person's interests, abilities or nature.
Support: To aid the cause, policy, or interests of.
Dialect: A distinct variety of language.
Have a hard time: Have difficulty.
Deal with: Do what is necessary to solve a problem.
Learned by doing: Learn in an active, pratical way.
Encouragement: Praise, support.