jueves, 7 de marzo de 2013

Writing Personal Narrative: Event That Changed My Life


An event that changed my life is when moved to Queretaro; I lived in Hidalgo for 14 years and I moved to live just with my brothers, they were studying in the university and I was in the middle school.  My parents stayed in Hidalgo. That event changed my life because I needed to be more responsible from such a young age. I’m not going to say that I was by my own because my parents didn’t leave me at all.
I needed to learn how to cook, to keep my room clean,etc.  I made new friends; I was studying in a new school. So in a few words it was a big change. It was good because I was able to study in better schools.

The Alien School (Creative Writing)


I don’t know why but today I got up early so I decided to go to school early and do my homework. When I got there, I had a problem with math so I went to the teacher´s room to find Mr. Barnaby. I opened the door and was surprised to see that my teacher´s we’re all aliens.
 I didn´t know what to do in that moment because I was so afraid, everyone was listening to the principal who was a giant purple alien; on the blackboard was written “world domination”! Then like ten seconds later I realized that no one noticed me so I decided to close the door. But I did it so loudly!
I heard a deep silence,  so I ran as fast as I could, then I heard that a lot of people were running. I was at the entrance’s door when I saw my friend Daniel arriving in his bike. I yelled him and I told him that we had to go away. He didn’t ask me why, he just did what I said.
I arrived to my home and I told  everything to my friend. He was as surprised as me. We were at the living room talking about what we will do when my mother came to the living room. She got angry with us because we were supposed to be at the school in ten minutes. I tried to explain what happened to me, but she didn’t listen to us.
She drove for us to the school and left us there. We didn’t know what to do. We walked to our classroom, there; we sat far of our teacher. He kept watching me like ten minutes... I knew! He recognized me! He walked towards me and as he got closer he turned orange. He was in front of me when.... My alarm woke up. I was sweaty I breathed so fast and my heart was beating a lot.


jueves, 21 de febrero de 2013

British music


Adele
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, better known simply as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter, musician and multi-instrumentalist. With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You", she became the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964.

Beattles
There is no doubt that The Beatles have made a lasting impression on 20th century musical history. Their creative, experimental approach to music was more successful than other groups. Like most bands, they started out with a bit of uncertainty and with a mixture of different band members and band names such as 'The Quarrymen' and 'The Silver Beatles'. 'The Beatles' is the name that stuck though, and they later became known among fans as "The Fab Four".
The final and well-known Beatles consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Their music sends messages of love, peace, imagination, creativity and often evokes a feeling of liberation.

One direction
One Direction are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, consisting of members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of British television singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by the power of social media, their two albums Up All Night (2011) and Take Me Home (2012), broke several records, topped the charts of most major markets, and generated hit singles, including "What Makes You Beautiful" and "Live While We're Young".

The wanted
The Wanted are an English-Irish boy band, formed in 2009 who made their debut release in July 2010. The group consists of members Max George, Nathan Sykes, Tom Parker, Jay McGuiness and Siva Kaneswaran.
Their debut album, The Wanted, was released on 25 October 2010 and peaked at #4 in the UK. The album had three UK top twenty singles released from it, 
In early 2012, the group began to see success in the US and Canada, with hit single "Glad You Came" selling three million copies there.



Writing Personal Narrative: What Influences Me


F.

CONTRACTION PRACTICE 11/2/2013
Write the contractions on the lines provided.
are not _____   aren’t________
cannot ___ can’t __________
could not ____couldn’t______
did not _____didn’t_________
do not ______ don’t____
does not ____doesn’t_______
is not ________isn’t_______
had not _____hadn’t_______
has not ______hasn’t_______
have not ____haven’t_______
might not ____mightn’t______
must not _____musn’t______
was not ______wasn’t______
were not _____weren’t______
will not _______won’t______
should not ____shouldn’t______
I am__________I’m___
I had__________I’d___
I have________I’ve_____
I would________I’would_____
I will__________I’ll___
could have____could’ve_________
might have____might’ve_________
must have_____must´ve________
should have____should’ve_________
would have____would’ve_________
you are_______you’re______
you had_______you’d______
you have______you’ve_______
you will_______you’ll______
you had_______you’d______
we are________we’re_____
we had________we’d_____
we have_______we’ve______
we will_________we’ll____
we would______we’d_______
he is___________he’s__
he had________he’d____
he has_________he’s____
he would______he’d______
he will__________he’ll___
she is__________she’s_
she had________she’d_____
she has________she’s___
she would______she’d_______
she will________she’ll__
they are________they’re_____
they had______they’d____
they have_______the’ve______
they will_______they’ll___
they would_____they’d________
it is____________it’s_
it had__________it’d___
it has__________it’s___
it will___________it’ll__
it would_______it’d______
who had_______who’d______
who has______who’s_______
who is__________who’s___
who will_______who’ll______
who would_____who’d________
what is________what’s_____
what had______what’d_______
what has______what’s_______
what will_______what’ll______
what would____what’d_________
when is_______when’s______
when had______when’d_______
when has_____when’s________
when will_______when’ll______
when would__when’d___________
where is________where’s_____
where has____where’s_________
where had______where’d_______
where will____where´ll_________
where would____where’d_________
why is________why’s_____
why had________why’d_____
why has______why’s_______
why will_________why’ll____
why would____why´d_________
how is___________how’s__
how has______how’s_______
how had________how’d_____
how will______who’ll_______
how would______how’d_______

Contract the words in parenthesis

1. ___He's___ going outside. (He is)
2. ___They’ve_____ finished eating. (They have)
3. He ____can’t________ sing. (can not)
4. Let’s_______ go swimming. (Let us)
5. You ____shoudn’t_____ do that. (should not)
6. They ___aren’t_________ coming. (are not)
7. ____They’re_____ leaving soon. (They are)
8. _____It’s_____ a sunny day. (It is)
9. She ____didn’t__look too happy. (did not)
10. ___I’d_____ better go now. (I had)
11. I ____won’t______ stay late. (will not)
12. ____We’ll__ have fun at the show. (We will)

Add the apostrophe in the correct place.
1. He’s going outside because he’s hot.
2. They’ve finished eating and they’re full.
3. Let’s play ball today.
4. I’ve lost my book and I’ll need it later.
5. You shouldn’t run, I can’t keep up to you.
6. They aren’t coming now so let’s go home.
7. They’re leaving soon and I’ll have to go too.
8. It’s a sunny day so let’s go outside.
9. She didn’t look too happy.
10. I’d better go now, you’ll still have time for a
nap.
11. I won’t stay up too late.
12. We’ll have fun at the show. Won’t we?



Write the corrections on the lines provided.

1. Ill play with the puppies. Theyre so much fun to play with.
_I’ll___ ___they’re______
2. I wish theyd let me play with their toys.
__they’d____
3. Lets go outside and well ride our bikes.
__Let’s____ __we’ll___
4. Havent you finished your homework yet?
__Haven't____
5. Arent you coming with me today? Itll be so much fun.
__Aren´t____ ____it’ll__
6. My Dad wont be home for supper. Hes working late.
__won’t____ __He´s____
7. My brothers arent behaving today, but theyre tired.
__Aren’t______ __They’re____
8. Cant we stay up late tonight?
_Can’t_____
9. Ive spent most of my money. Wheres your money?
_I’ve_____ __where’s____
10. My sister cant walk yet but shes trying to.
_Can’t_____ ___she’s___
11. My friends havent seen Shrek yet.
__Haven’t____
12. I wont swim in deep water, it wouldnt be safe.
___Won’t___ ____wouldn’t_____
Example: He shouldn’t have gone outside in the rain.


jueves, 14 de febrero de 2013

A day in Marcel’s life



I´m a monkey living in the city, my name is Marcel. I’m a capuchin monkey. I used to lived in a circus were my life wasn’t good at all. There, sometimes I was hungry and cold but not anymore because my owner rescued me from there. Now I’m happy but sometimes I miss playing as I did in the circus.

Now I’m too happy but there was a day that I almost went back to the circus.

 I was at home It was late at night, almost might night, the weather was pretty nice. Lately it was being too cold but not today. That day my owner was going to go out but she forgot to close the door. I thought that it could go out of my house. I needed to know what else was outside for a couple of minutes. I thought it wasn't wrong.

In front of my house there is a park and there are a lot of trees and grass.  It was nice walking without a leash. I saw so many new things like grey birds who made estrange movements whit her heads, squirrels; also I saw a men jumping over the park’s fence... Suddenly I realized that it was my last owner, maybe he was looking for more animals for his circus, I was too afraid so I run too fast and I didn’t really know if he was chasing me but as fast i could I arrived to my house.

That´s was the last time I tried to go out by my own. I’m glad y could return safely so I won’t do it again.

lunes, 11 de febrero de 2013

Review about a movie


I’m going to talk about Harry Potter´s books. I’m a big fan; I started to read when I was 8 years old. The story about an orphaned boy who is a wizard. The story describes a complete charming new world where everything is extraordinary. J.K. Rowling´s books talks about everything: Invisibility coats, dragons, magic wands and more.
In my opinion Harry Potter´s books are awesome because it improves your imagination. I think although they are children´s books once you read it you can’t avoid be caught by it. And it´s good for children to read.
I highly recommend reading Harry Potter; the books are good especially for children.  It´s a good way to escape of our daily routine. And about the movies... they are good but never better than books.