None of your business!

NONE of your business ... ideas ... make sense anymore.

As the business world has gone into a tail spin, technology changes the way business is done ona daily basis. Can the future be predicted at this pace? Can the past be used as a reference to work towards the future?

For this assignment you will click on the title or the link below to go to YouTube and watch a video on the future of business, which is directly linked to what we have been talking about.

Your assignment is to watch the video, take notes. You will write an essay on what you understood, your impressions, what surprised you, what you already knew, what you agree with and what you disagree with. You must apply critical thinking. You must go beyond the surface in an essay. Look at your writing tips on connecting sentences. You can also go to http://www.doctorralf.blogspot.com/ to watch the video on conjunctions.

Your essay must be at least 700 words, and should be mailed in by Wednesday, December 9th, saved as FUTURE_last name.first name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz02IhU-AuE

Webproject for Groups 12 & 33

Dear Students:

As you are all looking at quantity expressions, and mass and count nouns. Your homework/webproject is to write a recipe, IN YOUR OWN WORDS, using mass & count nouns, quantity expressions, articles A, AN, THE.

You need to write the recipe on your own because you will be asked to present the recipe for your classmates, individually.

You CAN NOT download it from the internet, copy it from a cook book or translated from Spanish into English.

The objective is for you to show that you can comunicate an everyday activity on your own.

You will make the recipe on your own. Take pictures, and make a Powerpoint presentation showing all the team members working together, with text explaining the steps, and a picture of the final result. You will mail in your Powerpoint presentation saved as RECIPIE_yourteam. Mail presentation to ralfortiz@gmail.com by Wednesday, December 2 by 11 PM. Mails received after that time will not be accepted

I wish you the best.

Present Continuous Exam coming

As you know our exam on present continuous (actions now) exam is coming up. Follow the instructions bellow to do a bit of homework that will help you prepare for the exam. Good luck.

Mail in Homework part 1 Tom's Diner

At the bottom of the page you will find a video for the song Tom's Dinner, by Suzanne Vega.
Listen to the song and complete the text bellow. Then paste it on a Word or Acrobat document and mail it in to ralfortiz@gmail.com

I____ In the morning At the diner… On the corner I ___ At the counter For the man To pour the coffee And he ___ it Only halfway And before I even argue He ___ Out the window At somebody Coming in "It ___ Nice to see you" Says the man Behind the counter To the woman Who has come in She ___ Her umbrella And I look The other way As they ___ Their hellos I ___ Not to see them And Instead I pour the milk I __ Up the paper There's a story Of an actor Who had died While he was ___ He was no one I had heard of And I ___ To the horoscope And ___ For the funniesWhen I ___ Someone watching me And so I raise my head There's a woman On the outside ___ inside Does she see me? No she ___ Really see me Cause she sees Her own reflection And I ___ Not to notice That she's hitching Up her skirt And while she's Straightening her stockings Her hair has gotten wet Oh, this rain It will continue Through the morning As I ___ To the bells Of the cathedral I ___ Of your voice And of the midnight picnic Once upon a time Before the rain began I ___ up my coffee It's ___ to catch the train

Mail in homework part 2

For this part of the homework you need to follow this instructions:

Look at this picture very carefully. What actions are happening now?

Try to describe as many actions as possible. Use a description of the character you include in your sentences. For example "The man with a dog is looking at the crowd".

Copy the image and paste it on a document. Type your sentences you may include arrows or numbers. Mail your homework to your teacher at ralfortiz@gmail.com