The reason why we need to use technology

Since the dawn of man we have looked for more efficient ways to manipulate our environment, we have developed new technologies that help us to work, record information and communicate. With every new information the world is changed forever. New technologies effects economics in nearly every field that affect what we do in our leisure time, they affect how information is shared. Technologies can improve our lives, they can light our way to a better future. HOWEVER, if we don´t adopt or adjust to new innovations we can get left behind. Technolgy is changing fast, new technological innovations are occurring everyday. THEREFORE, it's important our children learn how to use this new tools, we need to invest in the tools, training and infrastructure to engage students in learning tasks that emphasize creation, manipulation, innovation and are appropriate tools for active engagment in authentic learning tasks. The studets  are ready " we need to engage them or enrage them" they want to learn, they want to learn with the tools that will shape their future.
We need to be there to help them learn how to critically analize information, we need to be there to make their experience with these tools safe, we need the tools to make this happen

parts of speech

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parts of speech

Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.

Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show how a word's part of speech can change from one sentence to the next, and following them is a series of sections on the individual parts of speech, followed by an exercise.

Books are made of ink, paper, and glue.

In this sentence, "books" is a noun, the subject of the sentence.

Deborah waits patiently while Bridget books the tickets.

Here "books" is a verb, and its subject is "Bridget."

We walk down the street.

In this sentence, "walk" is a verb, and its subject is the pronoun "we."

The mail carrier stood on the walk.

In this example, "walk" is a noun, which is part of a prepositional phrase describing where the mail carrier stood.

The town decided to build a new jail.

Here "jail" is a noun, which is the object of the infinitive phrase "to build."

The sheriff told us that if we did not leave town immediately he would jail us.

Here "jail" is part of the compound verb "would jail."

They heard high pitched cries in the middle of the night.

In this sentence, "cries" is a noun acting as the direct object of the verb "heard."

The baby cries all night long and all day long.

But here "cries" is a verb that describes the actions of the subject of the sentence, the baby.

Greeting students

My dear students in this new year we are going to know many exciting things about English that may be you ignore, but the idea is everyone can understand everything in the best way, for that reason I need that you have a positive attitude toward the language and remember this is an important tool in your professional lifes.

What's your Learning Style?

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place. Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves. The performance of understanding that try matters are the ones we carry out as human beings in an imperfect world which we can affect for good or for ill.

VISUAL
Visual learners take information best with their eyes. They love to watch someone else do something before they try it themselves. They love colour and are typically organized. Visuals often maintain a neat appearance will use visual language when they talk..."I see"...."Imagine"..."Look at this."

AUDITORY
Auditory learners use their ears to take in information. They love to listen to others and often like to talk a bit themselves. They need to talk with others to cement what they are learning and are easily distracted by noise in the learning environment. Auditory people use language like, "I hear what you're saying"..."Listen to me".

KINESTHETIC
These learners need to move their bodies to keep their brains fully functioning. Most kids in a classroom are highly kinesthetic and have a hard time sitting and listening for long periods of time. Use body shots and frequent state changes to keep them alert and to manage behavior. Kinesthetic people dress with comfort in mind (loose) and often use language like, "I feel tired"..."Can I try that?"

A mini English Grammar Lesson for Visual Learners

This mini - grammar in intended for visual learners and teaches them to use various visual material ( diagrams , pictures , tables , photographs between others ) in order to memorise some of the key points of English grammar .
It is composed of 7 exercises to be done by pupils , labelled A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Depending on the pupils with whom it is studied , such or such exercise may be removed.

It includes 7 key points of English grammar:
Articles
Quantifiers
Demostratives
Comparative and Superlatives
Frequency Adverb
Preposition
Modals

The Forbidden City - Zijin Cheng - 紫禁城-

Tourists can only see a portion of the city; now and then I would peek through the crack of a locked gate and see alleys and passages stretching off into the haze, the pavements overrun with as rich a carpet of weeds as any of the rugs in the great ceremonial halls. Whether intended by the Party officials in charge or not, there's a melancholy feeling about the whole place, more than anywhere else in the exhibits given over to the unfortunate last emperor Puyi; although much of my sympathy for him was lost when I leafed through his English-language memoirs in a gift shop and found him luridly praising the Communists. The Forbidden City everywhere hints at a decline: peeling paint and crumbling pavement and gutted treasuries all hint, like an empty church or decaying palace in Europe, at a cultural heritage that the present can't manage to equal. I am as big a fan of the Olympic constructions as any Chinese nationalist; but when you have something like the Forbidden City in town, a few new awe-inspiring buildings really just aren't enough.


In the old days, of course, there were feasts and pleasure gardens and armies of eunuchs and concubines waiting on the emperor's every need, but the life of an Emperor of all China doesn't seem to have been all that enjoyable. In room after room of the Forbidden City, here in the Hall of Middle Harmony, the Emperor would have been trussed up in ceremonial robes while all sorts of obscure rites were conducted. The emperor was not really thought of as a god, as far as I know, but he had religious duties as well as political. A sign on a minor building pointed out that Chongzhen, the tragic last emperor of the Ming, had retreated there to fast in reparation for natural disasters that struck China during his reign. Overally, the layout of the city, designed as it is for ceremonial processions and large-scale rituals, reminded me a bit of the Vatican, at least until I stumbled upon the concubines' quarters. Each major concubine had a small palace of her own; I got lost in the 后宫 or Imperatricial Palace and think I found my way into every concubine's quarters before I found the way out. Except for the names over the gates (in Chinese and Manchu, a reminder that the Qing rulers were not themselves Chinese), every alley and court in the palace is more or less identical, an obession for hierarchy and order playing itself out over yellow-roofed acre after yellow-roofed acre.



After I had seen enough of the Forbidden City (including the very pleasant Imperial Flower Garden where I completely forgot I had a camera), I decided to head out to Tiananmen Square for a walk, since I had never seen the place by day. Even since I passed through on my way to the Forbidden City, new banners, trees, and displays had been set up to welcome the Olympics. "The Five Continents and Four Seas Celebrate the Olympic Festivities," proclaims the banner at left, using a classically Chinese idiom referring to the whole world; to its right an incomplete banner was getting ready to praise the policies of the Party. Elaborate displays of trees and flowers had sprung up, where a few days before the plaza was paved straight across. The days of Confucian ritual may be gone, but the rulers of China can still pull off pomp and circumstance if they feel a need for it.


I walked a little farther, to the very south of the square, where I could catch a train back home at the Qianmen subway stop. Right above the station is the Qian Men, the Fore Gate of the ancient wall. Mao demolished the walls and used their paths for roads and subways, and the roads live on in the names of subway stops, most of which end in -men, meaning Gate. The Qian Men and a few other places were important enough to preserve, and the traffic in this city would be even worse if there were massive stone walls everywhere, but like the weeds that find homes on the roofs of the Forbidden City, the unnaturally truncated walls on either side of the Qian Men hint at something that's been lost. But it's hard to be melancholic in Beijing for long; the city just won't let you. The walls may have been demolished, but three new subway lines opened last week; the emperors may have been laid low by European gunpower and internal disorder, but it's an Olympic year. Every third person I saw on Tiananmen Square, excluding the legions of Olympic volunteers, had some bit of clothing on celebrating the Olympics. They may no longer bring tribute to furnish the palace, but the Five Continents and Four Seas are converging on Beijing again, and everybody in Beijing knows it.