English 1: agosto 2010

sábado, 21 de agosto de 2010

The Health

To have good health you need to have good habits such as controlling stress, sleep at least seven hours a day.
Good nutrition affects the body's good performance.

Alcohol and drug addictions are a bad influence on health.

Sport is needed at least three times a week.

Some sports recommended to maintain a healthy lifestyle are: swimming, walking, aerobics.

Physical health affects mental health too.

A sedentary lifestyle affects health and is a determining factor in obesity.

Preventive medicine is extremely important, so it is recommended to visit a doctor at least once a year.

Vocabulary

- Active: Given to action.

Example: Go to the gym.

- Adventure: Take a risk. A wild and exciting undertaking.

Example: Make extreme sports.

- Bad habit: Not to do something good.

Example: Smoke, drink alcoholic beverage.

- Challenging: Requiring full use of your abilities or resources.

Example: Learn to speak English.

- Check out: Announce one's departure from a hotel.

Example: Leave to the hotel.

- Coordination: The regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation. The act of putting in the same order, class, rank

Example: Dance a choreography.

- Educational: Relating to the process of education.

Example: Take a career in the University.

- Explore: Examine for diagnostic purposes, take an investigation about something.

Example: Travel to or penetrate into.

- Fantasy: imagination unrestricted by reality. something many people believe that is alse.

Example: Fables.

- Get addicted to: Need something always.

Example: Smoke, take drugs.

- Make someone do something: Manipulate someone to make a decision or action.

Example: The children cry to make a parents do something that they want.

- Puzzle (noun): Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide

- Violent: Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently.

Example: The murderers.

- Weapons: Instrument used in fighting or hunting.

Example: arms, gun, implements or war, instrument, knife.

An international destination that you would like to visit review

I especially would like to visit Africa or India. To know more about these countries. And I'd go to help people who live there.

Missionary friends have told me such great needs live among people in these countries as including lack of education and health systems.

I think most of the time we think about vacation paradises where but we forget that the millions of people can't read, write, or know of God, and who lack many daily needs.

There are beautiful places to visit and to learn about, but we must also feel a desire to help those who need us into our hearts.

BUSINESS MEMO

BUSINESS MEMO
COHASA- 00002

DATE: June, 2010

OF: Johanna Astúa Rendón

FOR: Alyke de Vries

SUBJECT: Etiquette

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Through this memo I would like to inform you on some aspects of the etiquette, such as:

Concept: The set of rules and customs that allows us to perform in different environments. Ceremonial and solemn act to be seen in the palaces and public places.

Among some relevant aspects that must be considered are:

• One must be timely. This is an aspect to be considered as central to the theme of the etiquette.

• You must use a low voice, well modulated.

• It is important to listen.

• You should always look into the eyes of interlocutor.

• Avoid talking excessively of your own interests.

• Avoid the excessive use of jokes.

Take into consideration the above aspects and you will obtain much satisfaction both personally and at work.

Restaurant review

One of the restaurants which I enjoy going to is Il Ritorno, since I like Italian food.

This restaurant offers a varied menu ranging from pasta, pizza, seafood, steaks and not to mention the desserts and wines.

Something that caught my attention the first time I went to this restaurant was that the chef approached our table to offer their specialty, and share us a glass of red wine ... With rarely does know the "Wizard" of the kitchen.

The focus of this Restaurant is excellent, they really strive to give good customer service.

I can really recommend. It is located in Barrio La California, 200 meters south of KFC, San Pedro, San José.

Impact of video games on the Costa Rican society

I would like to stake that I am not against video games, but the mismanagement of them.

Clearly video games have come to build up a latent problem in our society as it is:

1. The sedentary lifestyle. With the exception of Wii Sports, all video games require the player to stay in one position during the time allocated to play, which is causing obesity and health problems, as there is no physical activity.

2. Violence. In Most video games contain large-scale violence, which affects the behavior of children in schools and colleges and even at home.

3. Pornography.

4. Children grow up in a world in with they are not able to share with other people, resulting in people who are introvert and unsociable.

My criticism is directed to those whom often try to fill gaps in the family time with this kind of entertainment.

Prison life

The life of the prisoners inside the prison reform. - From what I have observed many times I've been there. - Is very sad and depressing.

When one enters one of these prisons one can feel the loneliness, sadness. However the administrators have been concerned about it' and try to provide possible means of distraction, such as to forming football teams, having a “Gymnasium”, with a few machines so that prisoners can exercise.

On the other hand within the existing Reform gift shops prisoners can work and are paid the minimum wage. This is a privilege given to prisoners with good behavior.

Prisoners also have access to education, whether primary secondary, or university. In the case of university education it is the UNED, the education center that provides education to prisoners.

To conclude the life in prison will depend on the willingness and desire to change which has the detainee.

My community

I live in Moravia for three years in the building called Mount Royal, decided to buy our house in this place since we spend little time in our house, we needed a safe place to live.

Moravia Canton is a relatively small part of the province of San José,
I really like the place where I live and that in spite of belonging to the capital also has something of the field ....

My house is 3 minutes from the center of Moravia, but I have neighbors who have lived their whole life there and have maintained a bit of their culture. An example is the neighbors who live in the back of my house has a large area planted with fruit trees, coffee, and they have horses (by the way I love). I can get I love waking up every morning and hear the birds singing.

Furthermore, as seventy-five meters there is a man who also has lived his entire life there, he has a very rustic barn, which I like.

But there are also negative aspects of the canton of Moravia, and soon he can walk the downtown streets, steal a lot, a lot of pollution from buses, the streets are a thousand holes in the end if we see from another point of view is a problem across the country level, the insecurity and the collapse in public streets.

P.O. Box 10235 San José 1000
San José, Costa Rica

June 7, 2010

Dr. Silvia Castro
Rector
Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (ULACIT)
Metropolitan Construction Headquarters Tournon

Dear Ms. Castro:

Subject: Innovation week

In the week of technological innovation offered by the university in May, was present at the presentation on teleworking given by Msc. Rojas.

At that meet may see several positive points about the evolution of teleworking in developed countries with the United States and Europe. However I believe the meet is somewhat loaded and the time factor could not be more deeply about it.

On the other hand I thought the booth at all times maintained its position against teleworking, which I think is wrong because a speaker must maintain its position regardless of what you are stating, in order to allow viewers to make their own arguments and take an anbiased approach in this regard.

Something that has always bothered me for the plenary sessions which I attend, is that students enter and leave the audience kindly many times by the front door. It leads one to get distracted and lose interest in the speaker and in the subject is being discussed at that time.

I also would like to mention that there is sometime not enough time left to wrap up the session and sometimes

I would like this to be taken into account when setting up an other.

Sincerely,

Johanna Rendon Astua
English I Student

JAR.

The perfect job

For me the perfect job is not the one that pays you better, or in which you work fewer hours, for me the perfect job is one that allows you to realize yourself as a person and professional, because why being in a place where you do not feel good and where you have to stop being himself to simply please others.

From my point of view there are several types of work: paid which is necessary in these times and the work you do for self-realization.

I work with children in the church that I attend, and I receive a salary, but I feel a great satisfaction when I can help and teach those children. That is priceless.