My two friends Jose and Sebastian wants to learn how to play "age of empires". Let's start by choose which of the 3 games wants to play, may be with "age of empires, conquerors" or the second one "age of empires of england" and the last one "age of empires, the age of discovery". They are very anxious and that is the reason to start with the last one, I suggest the first one because is more simple, but they didn't listen to me. Then I explain, before you begin, you should choose one country, to be represented in the war, after that, you have to create a "home" where the locals can to live and carry the meals and supplies, the next step is to gather some money, meals, stone and wood to start to create a military barracks, of differents military groups. Once you've done that, then you can to explore the map and find other villages and conquer it. When you finish that, then you win the game, but be careful with your town, don't forget it,"not neglect".
- I want something to read. I’m going to buy a paper.
- I want to make a list. I need some paper/a piece of paper. (not “a paper”)
Be careful with this nouns, they are usually uncountable: Information, advice, weather, news, bread, hair, furniture, work.
- I need som einformation about hotels in London. (not informations)
- It’s nice weather today. (not a nice weather)
- Listen!. I’ve just had some good news. (not a good news)
- I’m going to buy some bread. (not a bread)
- Sue has got very long hair. (not hairs)
- They’ve got some very nice furniture in their house in their house. (not furnitures)
- Do you like your job? Yes, but it’s hard work. (not a hard work) We sai a job (but not a work)
- I’ve got a new job. (Not a new work.)
PREPOSITIONS
Prepositions are short words (on, in, to) that usually stand in front of nouns (sometimes also in front of gerund verbs). Even advanced learners of English find prepositions difficult, as a 1:1 translation is usually not possible. One preposition in your native language might have several translations depending on the situation. The following table contains rules for some of the most frequently used prepositions in English:
Use a period [ . ] at the end of a sentence that makes a statement. There is no space between the last letter and the period. Use one space between the period and the first letter of the next sentence. This goes against the grain for people using the typography instilled by generations of old-fashioned typewriter users, but modern word-processors nicely accommodate the spacing after a period, and double-spacing after a period can only serve to discombobulate the good intentions of one's software. Use a period at the end of a command. Hand in the poster essays no later than noon on Friday. In case of tremors, leave the building immediately. Use a period at the end of an indirect question.
The teacher asked why Maria had left out the easy exercises. My father used to wonder why Egbert's ears were so big. Use a period with abbreviations: Dr. Espinoza arrived from Washington, D.C., at 6 p.m. Notice that when the period ending the abbreviation comes at the end of a sentence, it will also suffice to end the sentence. On the other hand, when an abbreviation ends a question or exclamation, it is appropriate to add a question mark or exclamation mark after the abbreviation-ending period: Did you enjoy living in Washington, D.C.? Occasionally, a statement will end with a question. When that happens, it is appropriate to end the sentence with a question mark. We can get to Boston quicker, can't we, if we take the interstate? His question was, can we end this statement with a question mark? She ended her remarks with a resounding why not?
The table shows considerable variations in cigarette smoking in Europe. The highest rate is found in Greece with 8.3 cigarette per day and Norway has the lowest with 1.7 per day. A lot of countries have a similar number of cigarette, for example, Austria, Belgium, Denmark all between 4.2 and 5.0.
Comparison of alcohol intake in Europe
The table below shows that in Europe the cigarette and the alcohol have a similar variation, several countries has more than 10 per year. The highest one is France with 14.1 and the lowest one is Norway with 4.8 per year.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
indian ocean tsunami alert lifted after earthquake
Two earthquakes hit it the coast of indonesia's aceh province but the alert of tsunami was cancelled, fortunatelly.
I have to recognize that the earthquakes don't scare me, in the last one (27/F) my parents were in home, my brothers in their homes and my boyfriend too, that was good, but in the future could happen other hearthquake and could be different. We live in a country very special, in our history chile had been hit for it, for example in Valdivia, part of it disappeared.
We have to be careful, maybe collect water, buy flashlights and batteries. Some specialists talked about dicember of 2012, they said could be horrible, because there are countries that have advanced technologies that can provoke strong hearthquake in some countries, like chile.
May be, to talk like humans, I think.... no. But we can communicate with them through signals and different sounds, I think ... yes!!!. but we have to note that comunication could be created but with a specific meaning for example, in linguistic, we saw something related with this topic, "animals and human language", inside of unit we have "displacement" I take one part of it; "When your pet cat comes home and stands at your feet calling meow, you are likely to understand this message as relating to that immediate time and place. If you ask your cat where it has been and what it was up to, you’ll probably get the same meow response. Animal communication seems to be designed exclusively for this moment, here and now. It cannot effectively be used to relate events that are far removed in time and place. When your dog says GRRR, it means GRRR, right now, because dogs don’t seem to be capable of communicating GRRR, last night, over in the park. In contrast, human language users are normally capable of producing messages equivalent to GRRR, last night, over in the park, and then going on to say In fact, I’ll be going back tomorrow for some more. Humans can refer to past and future time. This property of human language is called displacement." That will be the big different between humans and animals communication.
Having decided that a text is reliable, a student must read and understand as much as necessary for the needs of the essay. Understanding a text is not just a matter of vocabulary; the reader needs to find out the writer's intentions. Is the writer aiming to inform, persuade, describe or entertain? The anwer to this question may affect the way a student used the material.
Selecting key point
After selecting or understanding the most relevant texts, the next step is usually to make notes on the section of the text that relate to your topic.
For example, identify the key points in the text for your purpose:
WHY WOMEN LIVE LONGER
Despite the overall increase in life expectancy in Britain over the past century, women still live significantly longer than men. In fact, in 1900 men could expect to live to 49 and women to 52, a difference of three years, while now the figures are 74 and 79, which shows that the gap has increased to five years. Various reasons have been suggested for this situation , such as the possibility that men may die earlier because they take more risks. But a team of British scientists have recently found a likely answer in the immune system, which protects the body from diseases. The thymus is the organ which produces the T cells which actually combat illnesses. Although both sexes suffer from deterioration of the thymus as they age, women appear to have more T cells in their bodies than men of the same age. It is this, the scientists believe, that gives women better protection from potentially fatal diseases such as influenza and pneumonia.
Having selected these sections of the text, you can then go on to make notes from them:
British women live longer than men: 79/74 reasons? new research suggests immune system > thymus > T cells women have more T cells than men = better protection
Note-making
Effective note-making is a key writing skill, with a number of practicals uses. Good note-making techniques lead to accurate essays. Although you are the only person who will read your notes, clarity and organisation are still important.
What are the main reasons to note-making?
to me are:
a) to avoid plagiarism.
b) to create a main idea.
c) to review several times.
d) to organiize the main purpose to a future investigation.
Effective note-making is part of a sequence:
task class
40 PERCENT OF CHILEAN BETWEEN.....
Chile has the highest percentage of teenage smoke in the world (13 to 15 years old). The reason maybe is the thinking of "can make feel like adult" or "that give more prestige". I think the problem is that smoking doesn't has social level, in pubblic and privates schools, the smokers students do it in parties or in the street in some cases hidden in the school, where they aren't supervising. I'm agree with the sentence "can make me feel like adult" because in this period of their life they want to emancipate, to live apart, without rules and restritions from anybody and the cigarette is the beginning of that revelion. Consequently, that generation is growing. I can imagine, if the actual situation is terrible to the person than doesn't smoked, in the future all of us we could be affected with cancer. the passive smoker are the real loser in this problem they smoke twice when is next to a direct smoker.
