ClauHerrera

**Introducing yourself. **
====Hello everyone. My name´s Claudia and I'm 19 years old. My full name is Claudia Sthepany Herrera Curiel but people call me Clau for short. My nickname is Clao. I was named after my mother. I was born in Mexico City the twentieth of November, nineteen ninety-three. I live in Iztacalco, exactly on Puebla 159, Agrícola Oriental, where I live with my mother and my sister, who are my family. My mother´s name is Claudia and she is a secretary and she works for CONACULTA. My sister´s name is Daniela. She´s 8 years old and she goes to the primary school. She is very funny and restless. She always plays with her friend Brandon in our house. Sometimes I play with my sister and with my dog whose name is Chiquis. ==== ====Now I'm studying economics and I'm in the third semester. In my free time I like dancing, listening to music, reading and going out with my friends. My best friends are Fernanda and Irlanda. ==== ====Fernanda is young. She's 19 years old. She has a brother whose name is Sergio. She lives with her brother and her parents. Fer is slim, medium-height and fair. She has straight, curly and blond hair. Also she has blue eyes. She is beautiful and very friendly. Fer is studying law. I met her in high school, in this period we were always together but now we are often in touch for talk about us, also some Saturdays we go to parties. Well, in the case of Irlanda, I met her at University. We go together to lessons of dance because we like it. We help us to learn choreography and steps of different rhythms. Moreover of this information, I would like to share my ambitions with you. For example, in ten year's time I'd like to finish a master's degree in International Economics, and then work in foreign trade, or in Monetary and Financial Economics and then work in the BMV. If I were inmortal, I´d choose to study all the specialties that there are in Economics because it´s very important to help society. In the future I don't know If I will have children but If I have them, I´ll have them with my husband when I'm 32 years old. In my dreams, I see myself at 30 with a great job and in an economic stability. Also, I'll travel all over the world and I'll have a beautiful house. I´ll have a great life. ====

====I think I'm good at grammar but my pronunciation isn't very good. I'm good at understanding reading texts but sometimes in the text I don't understand some words. ==== ====I have one difficult, it is the listening because I don't understand very good the conversations or texts in listening because the people talk quickly. ==== ====To learn better English I listen to music in english and I look up the words that I don't know. Also, I write in english when I talk with my friends on internet. ====

Report about César.
====César doesn't have a big family. He has one brother. Also, as his family is small and all their live in Mexico City so he doesn't have family in other countries. He is in touch with his grandparents once a month because most of his time is spent at university. Certainly ... he hasn´t family reunions because all his family are always busy. ====

====Bryan likes to drink a can of beer on a hot summer´s day. He likes to drink a glass of juice in the morning with breakfast and he likes to drink a glass of milk after dinner. He drinks a cup of tea in the winter, when it´s cold outside. Also he drinks a can of cola in the afternoon, a cup of tea in the morning, a sip of wine on December and a bottle of water in the meals. He is always happy, so he never feel sad or miserable and for this reason he drinks of all. ====

**A short history. **
====Mark was sitting in the most comfortable armchair when he heard the strange noise again. It was a man's voice that saying "come here " so Mark turned and saw a ghost. Mark was shocked and asked for help while he was leaving of the room. ====

*When Mandela arrives anywhere, he always greets everybody.
====*Mandela is dark, slim, tall and a mature man. He has short and black hair. Also he is a kind person with everybody. He cares about the welfare of others. ====

====We need some ingredients to prepare a hamburger: two onion, tomato and lettuce slices, a little mayonnaise and catsup, a slice of hamburger's meat and hamburger´s bread, a slice of yellow cheese, a knife, a frying pan and a little oil.Now, for prepare the hamburger:1. In the frying pan, fry the hamburguer's meat with a little oil for 10 minutes, each 2 minutes you have to turn the meat. 2. With a knife, cut two slices of tomato, lettuce and onion. 3. Take each slice of hamburger's bread and put them, with a knife, a little mayonnaise.4. Then in a slice of bread, put a slice of lettuce, two slices of tomato and onion, a slice of yellow cheese, and then put a slice hamburger's meat, which was fried. 5. Finally, on hamburger's meat put a slice of lettuce and then one slice of bread. OUR HAMBURGER IS READY TO EAT!!! You can accompany the hamburger with potato chips. ====

====Ownership of all natural resources of the continental shelf and submarine shelf of the islands…all minerals or substances...from the earth itself, such as…solid mineral fuels, petroleum and all solid, liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons; are vested in the Nation. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Trauction: Pertenecen a la Nación los recursos naturales de la plataforma continental y los espacios submarinos de las islas; minerales, sustancias, combustibles, petróleo e hirocarburos. ====

====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I´m going to tell you about lemon pie. It´s a delicious dessert and it´s one of my favourites because when I do lemon pie I like to share it with my family and my friends. Sometimes my mom prepares it in my birthday, so when she prepares it, she need some ingredients:1. A can sweetened condensed milk.2. A can evaporated milk.3. 20 Maria's cookies.4. 7 lemons5. A squeezer6. A small wooden shovel7. A container for mixing8. A mold.Now, for prepare the lemon pie.1. In the container pour the sweetened condensed milk and then the evaporated milk.2. Mix it with a small wooden shovel for 5 minutes.3. Then squeeze seven lemons into the mix and then stir it again for 5 minutes .... and we have our mixture.4. On the other hand, in the mold accommodate the cookies in 3 columns and 4 rows. Then pour the mixture over the cookies. Also 4 times more.When you finish, put it in the refrigerator for 6 hours.Finally, it's ready for eat! ====

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Carlos: I buy food in the supermarket twice a week.
====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Claudia: Wow. It´s interesting. In my case, my mom is who prepares the food and I accompanied her to the market for food. But tell me more of you, what meals do you eat with your family? ====

====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The solution to improve education lies not in removing teachers from their posts with an "evaluation", the solution could be to improve the living conditions of the population (health and nutrition), the infrastructure of all places, have the material for teaching and learning, and train teachers who could be evaluated to see the deficiencies they have and correct them. ====


 * 1) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">PEMEX will have better technology. ====
 * 2) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">PEMEX will have more production of oil. ====
 * 3) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">PEMEX will create more employment; from 2013 to 2015 there will be 3 million new jobs. ====


 * 1) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Higher profits for the private sector and less for the Mexican nation. ====
 * 2) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The workers will have lower wages. ====
 * 3) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">There won’t be transparency of the information, so there will be more corruption. ====


 * 1) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nationalized the oil. ====
 * 2) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">He was concerned about wages and living conditions of oil workers; he defended the rights of the oil workers. ====
 * 3) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">He sought social and economic benefit for all Mexicans. ====


 * 1) ====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mexico broke economic relations with some countries, so the Mexican Economy was stagnated. ====

====<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">The honey water is collected manually twice a day by the "tlachiquero" magueys, once collected the sap is taken to a cold room with very high ceilings called a "tinacal". ====

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Abraham and Claudia.
====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Our conversation was about music. Abraham told me that he listen metal music. For example one of his favorite groups is Iron Maden. I told him that I only like one song of this group but in general I don’t like this music because is very noisy (the Abraham’s mom thinks the same). ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Then we talk about concerts. For Abraham is wonderful when he goes to the concerts although sometimes these are dangerous because the people throw bottles and these can hurt him. ====

On the other hand, Salvatore told us that he was born in Kisangani but he grew up in Bukavu. Also he told us that in Sudafrica there are two parts of Congo and one is bigger than the other.
====I don't understand some words that Salvatore said because he spoke very quickly. For example Salvatore tried to ask me which are some bad things of mexican people... but I am not sure if Salvatore wanted to say this.====

1. I liked to practice English with foreign people because I knew the real accent and tone of the American English. I think this because in the conversations of CD’s the tone is acted.

I liked to practice the English with them because if I didn’t know a word or a expression they help me with this. I learnt new words and expressions of a good and funny way.

On the other hand, I liked to know a little of their life, of the sports that they practice (in USA American football and beisbol, in Korea football and in Canada hockey) and how do they celebrate Halloween.

====2. I learnt that the way of celebrate Halloween in Mexico and USA is funny for the children and in both countries they ask candies. American’s children say “trick or treat” and in Mexico say “me da mi calaverita”.====

Finally I learnt that in Canada the health service is better than USA and Mexico, because in USA and Mexico you have a service depending on your income.
3. I learnt new words, for example insurance (seguros), haunted house (casa embrujada), mask (máscara), pumpkin (calabaza), scarecrow (espantapájaros) and witch (bruja). Also I learnt some expressions, for example give someone fear (darle miedo a alguien) and manage time (administrar el tiempo).

4. I suggest that the club the conversation should be more extensive, for more sessions because is a little time for practice English. Also, I think that last activities were better than the first.

By Claudia.

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 * 1) ====You should take a warm bath before bed.====
 * 2) ====You should sleep on a good bed.====
 * 3) ====You ought to see a doctor if the problem continues.====
 * 4) ====You shouldn’t smoke before you go to bed isn’t a good idea.====
 * 5) ====You should get some exercise during the day.====

** I hope to see you soon. **
Writing page 59.

I enjoy dancing because I fell well when I practice it. It's relaxing. I rehearse on Friday and Saturday because I'm going to a national dance competition in three weeks.

Christopher's questions. What does rehearse mean? Where is your competition? What kind of dancing do you do?

I enjoy dancing because I feel well when I practice it. It's relaxing. I rehearse (practice some steps and choreographies) on Friday and Saturday because I'm going to a national dance competition in Deportivo Benito Juárez in three weeks. In the competition I'm going to dance chacha and samba (latin style).

Claudia

Optional exercise. Pag. 59. Running is very relaxing. I'm not very interested in smoking. I'm good at dancing. I don't enjoy watching TV alone. Some people find playing videogames a lot of fun, but I think it's boring.

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The coldest place Emma has ever been is Canada. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The strangest thing Salvatore has eaten is Jicama <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">The best film Hector has ever seen is Hunger Games

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">I think the most important technological advance-well for me personally recently has been a hard disk recorder for recording TV programs [says his opinion]
 * 1) __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Because __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> it means I can record everything very easily [gives a reason]
 * 2) __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">because __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> I can see exactly what I have recorded by looking at everything on screen [adds another reason]
 * 3) __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">and __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> I don’t have to find lots of video tapes and different things like that [adds more information]
 * 4) __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">so __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">it is much easier now to record TV programmes than it was in the past [explains a consequence]
 * 5) __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">and __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> because of digital television we have lots more programmes to choose from [adds another reason]
 * 6) __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">because __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> there’s much more variety and choice [explains a consequence]
 * 7) __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">so __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> that means you need to record even more programmes than in the past. [explains a consequence]