Free extra class work...

I have done some exercises from the OM grammar webpage to improve my knowledge in that units I had not understood quite good.
Teacher, you could see the exersises I did here ===> http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/articulos/unit28.htm

The carnation hawkress' story (Review)

The story is about a typical Colombian family who manages to survive in this society with all the troubles which it is filled. In the family they are seven: the mother, 2 boys, 3 girls and a dog. The 3 girls are Maria aurora, Rosina and Adriana Andrea. The oldest boy is called Roberto and the baby is called Jose Willington. The family considers the dog as a relative more, it’s called Happy.
Every day they are at an avenue hawking carnations where the traffic lights bring cars to a dead halt. The top seller is Adriana Andrea who moves swiftly among cars and traffic lights. I think, she had something inside her which makes attracts people´s attention. They are very happy. One day a couple French driving a car stares at Adriana Andrea and got captivated by her and decided take her with them. Days later they talked to her mother to adopt Adriana. Finally the Adriana’s mother accepted and they took Adriana with them. After she had gone her family missed her a lot and remembered all the things they did together before. Roberto, who tells the story, hopes to find her some day and live with her sister again, and protect her from anything which could take her far away again.
In the end they never found her. They will carry on hawking carnations at that avenue.
The story teaches us how difficult could be the life for the poor and even for everybody who manages to survive in a society as hard as Colombia. All in all we have to face this and keep working for a better Colombia.

The pursuit of happiness!!!

The pursuit of happiness is an excellent film which tells us how difficult could be the life of a man, looking for a better job and facing all the troubles of a big city alone with his son. Will Smith plays Chris Gardner who is a bright and talented, but marginally employed salesman. Struggling to make ends meet, Gardner finds himself and his five-year-old son evicted from their San Francisco apartment with nowhere to go. When Gardner lands an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm, he and his son endure many hardships, including living in shelters, in pursuit of his dream of a better life for the two of them.
I think, this is one of the most important films in the Will smith’s career, and like always, in his films, the acting was excellent. The film is filled with some beautiful scenes between a father and his son. The scrip was really well-written and the dialogue was certainly excellent.
Don’t miss it as it will change the way you see the life and its hardships and this is a film for everybody, excellent for having a free time with your family.
"Don't ever let somebody says that you can't do something. If you got a dream; you got to protect it. If you want to do something, go get it. Period."

¡Listening exercises!

The emperor’s new clothes is a famous fairy tale, the story is about an emperor of a prosperous city who cares more about clothes than military pursuits or entertainment hires two swindlers who promise him the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they tell him, is invisible to anyone who was either stupid or unfit for his position. The Emperor cannot see the (non-existent) cloth, but pretends that he can for fear of appearing stupid; his ministers do the same. When the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they dress him in mime. The Emperor then goes on a procession through the capital showing off his new "clothes". During the course of the procession, a small child cries out, "But he has nothing on!" The crowd realizes the child is telling the truth. The Emperor, however, holds his head high and continues the procession. I think that the story teaches us a really good moral; people don’t pay attention to their mistakes and continue with their lives without thinking they have done something bad and also without trying to solve the problem.

The Little Red Riding Hood is one of the most fairy tales; this story is about a girl who was walking through the woods to deliver food to her sick grandmother. A wolf wants to eat the girl but is afraid to do so in public. He approaches the girl, and she tells him where she is going. He suggests the girl pick some flowers, which she does. In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl. He swallows the grandmother whole, and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandmother. When the girl arrives, he swallows her whole too. A hunter, however, comes to the rescue and cuts the wolf open. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed. They fill the wolf's body with heavy stones, which kill him. The moral of the story could be sum up in the words that our moms or our grannies always say to us: “Don’t speak to a stranger.” We don’t have to accept anybody to help us if we don’t know him/her because that person can make us bad.

Jane Eyre’s story (review)

This story is about a girl who grew up with her uncle’s family. In her childhood she had some troubles with them because they thought that she was like a prying girl, specially her cousins who always were fighting her. Her uncle’s wife punished her all the time and she felt sorrowful. After some time the uncle’s wife took Jane to a far away school but Jane liked it.
In that school she lived many years and she learnt many things, she met friends and also she was a teacher there. She found out a work as a governess in a small town and found out the love too. She had to face many problems there and she decided to leave the small town and her lover. Then she worked in other small town where she met some relatives. At the end of the story, the lover she left in the last town met her again in the next town and apologized her, because of the troubles he had caused her; she accepted him again and they lived together in woodland.
At the beginning, the story seems so boring but as soon as you walk over the pages, the story becomes interesting. Also, the story is so realistic and you can imagine many things while you are reading. Another advantage is that you can learn from Jane’s life. All in all, it’s a good story and I would recommend it to my friends.

Sweeney Todd 's review.

Sweeney Todd, directed by Tim Burton is a thrilling film. The story is about a man unjustly sent to prison that vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who "shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again."

I have never seen a film like this; it has great sound effects and frightening scenes. The acting was really excellent. Nowadays, Johnny Depp is one of the best actors. I think that the script was well-written and it’s filled with suspense and emotion. In all likelihood this movie is well worth seeing.

I’d recommend this film; you don’t have to miss it because it will change the way how you see a movie.

Light Exercise May Improve Quality of Life...

Heart failure patients who started an aerobic exercise program reported better quality of life after three months, though the activity only modestly reduced their risk of being hospitalized or dying over two and a half years, researchers have found.

The results appear to resolve the question of whether it is safe for medically stable patients with heart failure to engage in physical activity, since participants in the exercise group were no more likely to suffer an adverse event than those who were not exercising. Patients with heart failure have traditionally been told to rest, but that recommendation is changing in light of evidence that suggests physical activity is beneficial and may even increase survival rates in some patients.

Two studies, to be published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, report data from a controlled clinical trial sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. One analysis found that exercise improved overall well-being, while the other found that it slightly reduced the risk of hospital admissions and death.

Dr. Christopher M. O’Connor, the principal investigator of the trial and director of the Duke Heart Center at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., said: “The message for the average heart failure patient is: ‘We believe there are benefits from exercise. Quality of life is important, and physical fitness is important.”

Can we, should we, erase bad memories?

In the film Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet use a specialist medical service to obliterate their memories of their relationship. Science fiction? Only for the time being, it seems. The Dutch authors of a recent study in Nature Neuroscience think that they are on track to developing a drug to blunt bad memories. The practical applications are immense. A spotless mind pill could bring relief to millions who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Here’s what the researchers found. When 60 student volunteers saw pictures of spiders they received a mild electric shock, enough to develop a fear response. Then half of them received the beta-blocker propranolol, a drug used to steady the heartbeat; the control group only a placebo. The students who received propanolol were able to look at the spiders without fear. In other words, their emotional memory had been erased, but not the "declarative memory" of the spider images themselves.

This is consistent with previous research which suggests that emotional memory is controlled by the amygdala in the brain and declarative memory by the hippocampus. Perhaps propanolol disrupts protein synthesis in the amygdala, the researchers hypothesised. (Mercatornet's news)

North Korean rocket launch caught on film!!!

A striking satellite image released yesterday shows the moment North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday in defiance of international pressure.

The image was taken from an altitude of 308 miles (496km) by the WorldView-1 satellite moments after the rocket blasted off at 11.10am local time.

North Korea's official news agency said the Taepodong-2 rocket placed a satellite in orbit that is now broadcasting revolutionary songs. The Pentagon claimed the launch failed and the rocket broke up and fell into the Pacific Ocean.

The launch triggered an emergency meeting of the UN security council amid fears the launch was a covert military exercise. The rocket is capable of carrying warheads and has a range of 4,160 miles, putting Alaska and Hawaii within its reach.