Cesar+Gomez

=**Task of the course**=

**__1. Introducing yourself__**
Hello everyone! My name is Cesar Alfredo and I was born in Mexico, City. I'm twenty years old and I live with my family. I don't have sisters so I have one younger brother. Unfortunately, I don't have family abroad. My family and I are in touch with my grandparents because we usually go to see them on Sundays so we have reunions those days. On the other hand, I'm studying informatics in the third semester. In my free time I like watching anime as I think that the drawing technique that Japanese use for creating the cartoons is awesome and also for the stories about different worlds, TV series and movies like ,"The Pursuit of Happiness" which is my favourite one since It talks about what difficult is to have a life where you are not able to buy at least a chewing gum and how the main character fight for his marriage but mainly for his little son who is four years and he is in the elementary school. The most amazing part is how he managed to leave all those problems to become a very rich person, also the technological blogs are very interesting because there you can learn about different things about technology and I think the most interesting part is when I'm with my family and when I go to swim, go out with my friends also I like to learn about different countries like their customs and traditions. I want to go to another country and learn about the people and their customs.

//**2.** __**Kitchen tips**__//
__-**Bowl**__ It is used to put salad or something like that inside it. -__**Glass**__ It is used when you are drinking wine. __-**Oven**__ It is used to heat food but in a faster way. -__**Spoon**__ It is used when you´re eating liquids like soup, etc. -__**Fire**__ When something is ready to be eaten. -**__Kettle__** It is just used to heat liquids at high temperatures. -**__Saucepan__** Saucepan is used to make food and not to heat water. -**__Toaster__** It is used to heat bread. To fry food. It contains a certain portion of water. It is the place where the plates are cleaned.
 * __-Frying pan__**
 * __-Mug__**
 * __-Sink__**

__**-Exercise: Conversation with Marlene**__

On a hot summer´s day, Marlene likes to drink lemonade. In the morning at breakfast she likes to drink orange juice and at dinner she likes to drink a milk shake but when is winter she prefers to drink tea. On the other hand, she doesn't care what she is drinking when she is sad. In other words, she likes to drink soda, water and enjoy the different kinds of beverages.

**__3. Reforming PEMEX: Awaking the Mexican Bronco__**
__**4. Invictus **__ //__**Habits**__// Mandela united black and white people to get a better coexistence between them and he is always nice and friendly with the people around him. //__**Description**__// He works with black and white people and some of them are his bodyguards and assistants.

__**5. Report about classmate**__
Claudia is a very clever person and I´m glad that I can be her friend and also her classmate but what I´m going to tell you about her is that she studies economy and she likes dancing and sports.

__**6. Strategies ti improve our Englis**__
I think to improve my English. I have to speak with foreign people and learn about their ways of talk and also read a lot of things in English.

**__7. Present Simple and Present Continuous__**
1. Luis likes to be in the computer. He's probably talking with his friends.

2.My brother goes to the school from 7:00am to 1:00pm. It's half past one so he's probably going back to home.

3.Marco always goes to the bar at nights. He's probably drinking.

__**8.USED TO**__
I used to go to the farm to see the animals especially the duck. I used to play videogames with my brother when we were ten years. I used to swim every day when I was in primary school elementary school. I used to smoke when I was in high school high school.

__**9. Speaking page 17**__
Luis is 19 years old. He is studying the same career that me so we're classmates. He doesn't work and he lives with his family. He is not very tall, he has some weigth, he has short black hair and his skin is not very white.

__**10 .Self-Evaluation**__
As I see I am good in the grammar because I don´t make a lot of mistakes but in the part of the speaking is different as I don't speak all the time in other words the lack of practise is one of the matters that I can't get a good pronunciation.

**__11. Pulque__**
We have to wait for 8 to 12 years for the maguey plant to ripen after that we cut the plant´s stalk and we have to wait for six months to the heart of the plant can ripen. Finally when we pick the maguey up below it there is a hollow where the maguey´s sap is falling.

__**12. Pop groups.**__
Ingrid and Cesar
 * Reik
 * Coldplay
 * Jessi y Joy
 * Motel

__**13. Pemex (The most important points of Lazaro cardenas and PEMEX reform)**__
Advantage:
 * 1) He distributed the land to peasants.
 * 2) He nationalized the land resources.
 * 3) He established the bases of the PNR

Disadvantage:
 * 1) The UK and USA broke diplomatic relations with Mexico.
 * 2) The personal who was working in the country came back to their countries.

**__14. Education Reform__**
I think that the "educational reform" is a good way to improve the education but unfortunately we live in a very corrupt country which means that if they want to do something to benefit the society actually they will not do it as instead of they do that they will do it to their own benefit so I think that this is a big problem as if the authorities are corrupt means that there won't be stability in the country. As I see it, I disagree with this reform as it means that there will be more harmed people instead of benefit people.

__**15. Page 40**__
Last summer I went to a concert given by Vasco Rossi. He is one of Italy´s most famous rock stars and one of the best lives artists in the world. He is also a good songwriter so he writes great rock songs and also very nice love songs. He has many fans in Italy and every summer he gives four or five concerts in big Italian stadiums and thousands of people go to listen to him there. The concert took place in Rome's Olympic stadium and there were very many people there so all the tickets were sold out. I arrived at the stadium at three o'clock in the afternoon so I had to queue for six hours but I was very excited to see Vasco Rossi. The concert started at 9 o'clock in the evening and it went on for a very long time, maybe three or four hours. When Vasco Rossi started the concert everybody shouted and in the middle of the concert the crowd sang with him. It was very nice. When the concert finished there were many security guards and everybody went home very quickly but without problems. I was very tired so I also went straight home but I was happy because of the excellent concert.

**__16. Complete the story Page 33__**
I was happy when I received the sculpture, but I didn't know its secret because inside of It there was an old number so I started to research who was the owner of the sculpture and what I discovered was awesome as the owner Martin Spencer was a very rich collector in 1889 so the number that I found out was one of the house where he had saved all his treasures. I had to do a very exhaustive investigation which wasn't easy and after some days I was able to arrive to the house. My first impression about it was not very good because the house was in very bad conditions and I thought that there would have nothing there, but I started to look if I could find the treasure and after many hours of being investigating I managed find it that was a real treasure. I couldn't believe it because I was rich.

**__17. Report about CEPE__**
First I have to say that It was a marvellous experience since the first day because I knew a new place that I'd never gone before and also as I knew foreign people so I think that this experience is something that all the students who are learning a foreign language would like to have and I guess I'm very lucky to have been part of this. I'm going to start with things that I really liked and learnt so the first was that in each reunion I could talk with different foreign people and their countries and how some of them didn´t know things like some fruits and vegetables. About their countries It was very interesting to know how medical services are very different in other countries for instance in Korea medical services are free for everybody who cannot pay one and for everybody who can pay the service is normal compared to the USA where medical services are not free for the people who don't have enough money but that's not very different in Mexico where people have to pay very expensive drugs and medical services too. On the other hand, I could learn things about Salvatore who is from Congo and he said me that there are two Congo one bigger than the other one and he grew up in the biggest but he was born in the smallest and It was new for me as I never imagined that there were two Congo so that was interesting. Furthermore in Canada the main sport is the hockey and in the USA is the American football but I also learnt the Koreas' baton that they use in football soccer games and It was very fun. In addition thanks to Pablo I picked up things about Poland where the food are not very different from the Mexican's food is just that they use a lot of potatoes in the food. Pablo said some words and also that he was learning Spanish because his sister's husband is Mexican that's why he wanted to know more about Spanish. Finally I have to say that there were a lot of new vocabulary and phrases for me but I couldn't get all and some of them were "All at sea", " puddle" and something that was new and fun was a song in English which was similar like "de tin marin de do pin we" but It was in English and It was like:

" Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,  Catch a tiger by the toe.  If he hollers, let him go,  Eeny, meeny, miny, moe."

 I'm sure that there were so much things that I'm forgetting to say but at least these are the ones that I remember. I have to give all my  thankfulness to the teacher who saw a great opportunity to take us to CEPE and have reunions with foreign people from different countries such as Germany, Australia, Congo, Poland, Holland, USA, New Zealand, Korea and Canada of which I learnt a lot things so again all my gratitude to the teacher for this experience and what I take with me is so much effort to go abroad to know more about the cultures and may be one day live in another country.

**__18. Grammar__**
I listen to English music in the transport when I go back to home and I watch series with English subtitles.

Hello César:
===I'm sorry but I won't be able to go to your birthday party. I have a fever and I can't do some activities. I went to the doctor this morning and he told me that I should stay in bed and take some aspirines. I hope I will be better tomorrow.===

Your friend Marlenne

 * Dear Marlenne **
 * I'm sorry to hear that you're not feeling well and that you're not coming to my party but don't worry about that because I'm going to give you a very big piece of cake when you come so I hope you get better soon. **


 * See you soon. **
 * Your friend Cesar **

__ 20. E-mail for Ingrid__

 * From:** cesar@nime.co
 * Date:** Friday, October 25, 2013 8:08 p.m.
 * To:** ingrid@mail.co

How's everything? I hope well. The reason I'm writing is bacause I want you to invite to go to the cinema to see a movie so I hope you can go with me. I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Cesar
 * H**ello Ingrid.

Ingrid

From: <span class="wiki_link_ext">ingrid@mail.com To: <span class="wiki_link_ext">cesar@nime.com Hi! Cesar. Sorry for answer you so late. Of course I'd like to go to see the 2nd part of The Hunger Games. What date would you like to go? Would you like to go this weekend? I hope you can. I'm excited to see that movie! :D See you later.

__**21. The Hunger Games**__

 * 1) **Katniss:** bravery,trustworthiness.
 * 2) **Gale:** loyalty, love and support.
 * 3) **Peeta**: confusion, love and waverer.
 * 4) **Cato:** pain, confusion
 * 5) **Effie Trinket**: frivolous, luxury.
 * 6) **Haymitch Abernathy**: two-faced, hurt.

**__22. Superlative form__**
One of my friends is the funniest person who I've ever spent time with. I have ever spent at least four hours on the internet. The Lord of the Rings is the best film that I've ever seen. Mollejas has been the strangest thing that I've ever eaten. La marquesa has been the coldest place where I've ever been

__23. Report about the partner who is below me in the list of the Personal Wiki__
The partner who is below me is Christoper. He were responsable at the begining of the semester and I think that something happened with him as his performance went down at the point that he didn't care enough the class so I think he just didn't like the course.

**__24. Self-Evaluation__**
Name: Gomez Monjaras Cesar Alfredo || Self Evaluation || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';"> in class: ||
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Attendance: || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The only absences that I had were because I went to some conferences about technology in the Faculty of Engineering so I think I had no problems with the attendance. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Progress: || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I’ve learnt a lot of things along the semester. The most important ones were some advice about things that foreigners do in their countries and other things. ||
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Participation
 * || I made a lot of questions about things that were not clear for me but I also participated in the activities that were made by the teacher so I think I had a good participation along the semester. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">on the wikis: || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I made most of activities that were left on the wiki and I tried that them were good which means with the less mistakes that I could do. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Homework || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I did most of the homework to compare it with my partners and we could work along the class ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Exchanges: || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I went to all the reunions that we had with the CEPE partners and I participated in all the activities so I think I had a good participation there. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Readings (on the wiki) || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I made the reading on the wiki like Pulque and others and they were interesting. ||
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Extra activities ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I try to learn all words that I don’t understand and I made sentences with them. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mini-Checks/ ||  ||
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Workbook (cd) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">I work with the first CD along the semester and it was very useful. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Qualification: I had a good performance along the semester and I learnt a lot of things. I asked all my doubts and also I participated in most of the cases so I think that in my self-evaluation I had the qualification of nine. **