English Blog

This will be my english proyect for this semester.

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Reading Report #3

Title: Furious Customers are deleting the Uber app.

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/delete-uber-hashtag-jfk-airport-taxi-strikes-2017-1

Summary

The drivers from Uber continued giving service to the JFK airport despite it was a protest in there and it was over Donald Trump. The New York Taxi Workers Aliance announced a one-hour work stoppage at JFK International Airport out of solidarity with the protesters. But this was not the case for the Uber company so the people got angry because of that reason, so they started to delete the app. This situation became a trending topic during the night of the Saturday 28th.  The company has been under fire for its ties to Donald Trump since Uber CEO Travis Kalanick agreed to serve on Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum. The company was acussed as a strikebreaker. The hashtag #deleteUber began trending.

Glossary

strikebreaking : rompe huelgas, 

spokesperson : portavoz

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Reading Report #2

Title: Are zoos a good thing?

Link: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/are-zoos-good-thing

Summary

The number of zoos that exists is very high and some people approve this but other people don´t. The people who think this kind of places are bad is because they are sure that this “parks” usually cause a big impact for the animal in a mentally and physically way. They never learn how to live like a wild animal because they don´t have the enough space to do it. Another reason why someone’s don´t think this should exist is because when the hunt the animals they usually affect and separate family’s. Other point of view is that some parks teach the audience how to treat the animals and respect the nature, to be more aware about the animal’s life.

Glossary:

Breeding programmes: programas de mejoramiento/ cría

Threatened: amenazado

Poachers: cazadores furtivos

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Listening Report #1

Listening 1

Title: Are People Who Speak More Than One Language Smarter? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ye-BeVyJ5M

Summary This listening is about an article that talks about how does knowing more than one language could help you in some skills. The ability to understand and to use more than one language is a challenge for our brain because is like if you are using part of it when you are talking in Spanish and you have to change it when you start using the english. If you are bilingual you can prevent illness like the Alzheimer's. Glossary Executive- ejecutivo Override-supera

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Reading Report #1

Title: Are celebrities bad for you? 

Link: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/are-celebrities-bad-you

Summary 

This article is about the kind of people that uses to follow celebrities a lot. Scientists have made studies that showed that there are three kind of fans. The first group usually talks about their favourite celebrity in the social networks. The second group is constantly thinking about this people no mattering if they don’t want to and finally the third group is completely obsessed with the celebrities, they affirm that they will be able to do whatever if they were asked by their favourite celebrity. But in the point of view of a celebrity they are narcissistic and themselves is the only thing that is important. 

Glossary: Ruthless- implacable 

 Worthlessness- no lo vale

 Willingness - dispuesto

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Presentation

Hi! My name is Andrea and I am nineteen years old. I usually waste my time at social networks so I decided to write using this site. I will satrt talking about my self and my hobbies like any other blog. I started playing tennis when I was five years old, but because of a lesin on my knee I needed to quit. Now I like to read a lot, my favorite book is “Aristotle and Dante, the secrets of the universe” because the story is very interesting.