LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Longman ---preparation  course for the TOEFL TEST

STRATEGY # 1 Focus on the second line.
STRATEGY # 2 Choose answer with synonyms.
STRATEGY # 3 Avoid similar sounds.
STRATEGY # 4  Draw conclusions about who, what, where.
STRATEGY # 5 Listen who and what in passives.
STRATEGY # 6 Listen for  who and what with multiple nouns.
STRATEGY # 7 Listen for negative expressions.
STRATEGY # 8 Listen for double negative expressions.
STRATEGY # 9 Listen for "almost negative" expressions.
STRATEGY # 10 Listen for negative with comparatives.

some, any in sentences and questions - Exercise 2

much, many - Exercise 2

much, many - Exercise 1

some, any in sentences - Exercise 1

some, any

some: affirmative statements, offers, requests and in questions when you expect the answer "yes"

any: negative statements, questions
Have you got any bananas? No, we haven't got any. But we've got some oranges.

much, many, a little, a few

Countable/uncountable nouns

much or many

much: uncountable nouns (milk, marmalade, money, time etc.)
many: countable nouns (bottles of milk, jars of marmalade, dollars, minutes etc.)
Examples:
How much money have you got?
How many dollars have you got?

a little or a few

a little: non countable nouns (milk, marmalade, money, time etc.)
a few: countable nouns (bottles of milk, jars of marmalade, dollars, minutes etc.)
Examples:
He has a little money left.
He has a few dollars left.

Comentary of University Education

In the case of Tec de Monterrey  use both in the first semester the student receive general subjects before they decide what is the  topic  that they like to enroll and focus to specialize and  they chose concentration matters in their final semester.

I think is important  that  the  student focus in a subject but they need to know all the  topic or point  for make a idea  that  what they  like to do in the future.

They  need  a general education, taking classes in many fields before concentrating on a single field, in that case the student  have the opportunity to learning more and know the mayor topic that is more important for the industry or the wherever the application of  the study is relevant .

There are many point of view for different country, and the university try to focus of the need industry and the changes occurring in our world and that is how for some parts need specialized people, but sometimes it takes others people with vision and ability different and the university help to the student to found the ability for each student.

In conclusion  the university should provide the tools for the student to found the ability and focus or specialize as requested of  the necessity of the industry.

Global Warming

Global Warming

Science > Topics > Global Warming

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html#

I think this topic is one of the most important in our times, every human suffer the impact that they cause in the natural life, plants, animals, and all suffer effect greenhouse gases produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.

As mention in the text has become perhaps the most complicated issue facing world leaders. On the other, the technological, economic and political issues that have to be resolved before a concerted worldwide effort to reduce emissions can begin have gotten no simpler, particularly in the face of a global economic slowdown.

All these aspect the liders of the world should consider very quickly, they World leaders gathered in Copenhagen in December 2009 and the meeting in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2010. to make decisions on what will happen in the coming years, new alternative energies that will help reduce pollution, identify new strategies to make our planet back to be free of pollutants and can continue life on earth without confront  to high temperature or drastic climate changes.

In addition, as global warming increases, surely poverty, malnutrition and other problems will increase This is because climate change causes droughts and floods that severely affected agricultural and livestock systems of the countries that depend heavily on agriculture. This will lead to reduced food production for both domestic and foreign markets and increase the loss of agricultural jobs and increase poverty.

We care for our world, commence from our homes to make a world free of contamination.

Joining independent clauses with coordinating conjunctions

When joining one independent clause to another, select a coordinating conjunction that logically expresses the relationship between the two clauses.			Place a comma before the coordinating conjunction to separate the independent clause from the dependent clause.
CONNECTOR	CLAUSE 1	CLAUSE 2	COMPLEX SENTENCE
FOR  reason	He couldn't go home.	He had no place to go.	*He couldn't go home , for he had no place to go.
AND  addition	I took a taxi.	She drove home.	I took a taxi , and she drove home.
NOR   and not	He didn't want help.	He didn't ask for it	He didn't want help, nor did he ask for it.
BUT   contrast	I wanted to go late.	She wanted to go on time.	I wanted to go late, but she wanted to go on time.
OR    options	She cooked dinner.	He took her out to a restaurant.	She cooked dinner, or he took her out to a restaurant.
YET   unexpected outcome	She owned a car.	She didn't know how to drive it.	She owned a car, yet she didn't know how to drive it.
SO    result	She had to go.	She called a friend to drive her.	She had to go, so she called a friend to drive her.

TOEFL Grammar Exercise

day of movie

Men of Honor (released in the UK as Men of Honour) is a 2000 drama film, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film was directed by George Tillman, Jr. It is inspired by the true story of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear, the first African-American Master Diver in the United States Navy.

Carl Brashear (Gooding, Jr.) decides to leave his lifestyle in native Kentucky in 1948 and the life of a sharecropper by way of joining the United States Navy. As a crew member of the salvage ship USS Hoist (ARS-40), where he is assigned to the galley, he is inspired by the bravery of one of the divers, Master Chief Petty Officer Leslie William "Billy" Sunday (De Niro). He is determined to overcome racism and become the first African American Navy diver, even proclaiming that he will become a Master Diver. He eventually is selected to attend Diving and Salvage School in Bayonne, New Jersey where he arrives as a Boatswain's Mate Second Class. He finds that Master Chief Sunday is the Leading Chief Petty Officer and head instructor, who is under orders from the school's eccentric commanding officer to ensure that Brashear fails.

Brashear struggles to overcome his educational shortcomings, a result of his leaving school in the 7th grade in order to help his family's failing farm. He receives educational assistance from his future wife, an aspiring doctor, who works part time in the Harlem (New York City) Public Library. Brashear proves himself as a diver by rescuing a fellow student whose dive buddy abandoned him during a salvage evaluation that turns into a near disaster. Unfortunately, due to the prevailing racism of the commanding officer, the student who fled in the face of danger is awarded a medal for Brashear's heroic actions. Likewise, during an underwater assembling task where each student had to assemble a flange underwater using a bag of tools, Brashear's bag is cut open. Brashear finishes the assembly and successfully completes the diving school, earning the quiet and suppressed admiration of Master Chief Sunday and his fellow divers. Master Chief Sunday is later demoted for standing up for Brashear and allowing him to pass, having since been demoted to Senior Chief. His career begins to wane as he continues to lose his composure around the officers that disrespect his accomplishments, until he is finally demoted to Chief Petty Officer and relegated to menial duties.

The paths and careers of both Brashear and Sunday sharply diverge as Brashear rises quickly through the ranks, even becoming a national hero in recovering a missing atomic bomb and for saving the life of Navy crew, while the latter becomes a brooding alcoholic and is reduced in rank from Master Chief to Chief Petty Officer. The two eventually meet again after Brashear loses his left leg in the atomic bomb incident and must fight the US Navy bureaucracy in order to return to full active duty and fulfill his dream of becoming a master diver. They are successful and Brashear is reinstated.

In the epilogue, it is noted that two years later Brashear becomes a master diver.

Actually I practice structure and written expression from the Logman book.

Skill 1:  Be sure the sentence ha s a subject and a verb

 A sentence in English must have at least one subject and one verb.

Skill 2:  be careful of objects of prepositions

A preposition is followed by a noun or pronoun that is called an object of the preposition.

If a word is an object of a preposition, it is not the subject.

Skill 3: be careful of the appositives

An appositive is a noun that come before another noun and has the same meaning

An appositive is a noun that come before another noun and is generally set off from the nuoun with commas. If a word is an appositive, it is not the subject. The following appositive structures are both possible in English.

Subject,  +   APP,  +   verb

APP,   +   Subject,  + verb

Skill 4: be careful of present participles

A present participle is the –ing form of the verb. The present participle can be (1) part of the verb or (2) an adjective.

Is part of the verb when it is a accompanied by some form of the verb be.

It is an  adjective when it is not accompanied by some form of the verb be.

Skill 5:  be careful of past participles:

The past participle is the form of the verb that appears with have or be. It often ends in –ed, but there are also a many irregular past participle in English.

A past ´participle is an adjective when it is not accompanied by some form of be or have.

Activity reading and listening

Hi ...Seamus
This week I've been practicing my English in a page of a company that would like to join me at the end of my career, part of what I'm doing is reading the areas of opportunity offered by the company to develop my career in this page is also find  videos to help me learn more about the company and show the history and new developments in enterprise I feel I have found a way to learn English by learning from the company and I  practice : reading listening
the company  is Schlumberger..... Since the early years of the 20th century, Schlumberger has been measuring the world – providing precise analysis and detailed interpretation of the subsurface of our planet. We supply our clients with the advanced technologies and expertise required to identify, develop and manage hydrocarbons effectively.
the link

http://careers.slb.com/whoweare.aspx

Personal Journal english practice

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=p4kpgr9jtim9mk63plm9804i4c%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Mexico_City

Vocabulary spanglish words

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjHCp09gTRsVdHFhSDg5LXQ2bjVyanRLODdaMkpfQWc&hl=en&output=html

PRESENTATION

hi i am Adrian Elias Dominguez Garcia and  i create this blog to upload my tasks and practice my english  .
this  blogger side is used  by my techer to interchange  information and  requirement for improve my  english .