English in your Mind

Role Playing

2008-08-06T08:07:00.000-07:00

Congratulation on your work!!
You were really fantastic.

Don't forget to include your pictures

HAPPY WINTER HOLIDAYS!!!

the soldier

2008-07-01T16:15:00.000-07:00

The soldier was very famous in the village because when he arrived on the village with a boat with an engine, he told people his travels around the world. He was very handsome. He had bright eyes and long dark hair.
He was a soldier, a sailor, a fisherman, and had other jobs.
He could get anything that he wanted. And he fell in love with Anita, and Rafael, too.
But the difference was that the soldier was richer than Rafael.
One day he disappeared and Anita, too. But nobody knows If they went together.

by melanie and sabrina

Rafael's description by: Matias Szpigiel, Simon Bermatov & Ariel Carrizo

2008-06-24T17:15:00.000-07:00

This is the last night, the night when Anita run away with the soldier.

Rafael was a poor crazy man who lived in an old boat-house on the beach in a small fishing village. One day he was well; the next day he was completely mad. He had a strange a terrible story. Nobody knew what happened to him. His mother name was Clara. Always, he was dirty, he had a long hair and long beard and He was very thin. Rafael had a ring around his neck. It was brillant. His father died because a white shark kill him when he was fishing. Reafael hate the sharks, once a month he went to the middle on the sea an kill one per one.

He grew up, tall, strong and good-looking and he fell in love with Anita.
He went mad because he loved Anita and she ran away with the soldier. He work six months to buy a gold ring for anita. He want to propossal her to get married but Anita's father doesnt accept the ofert because hi is poor
One night he went to a bar (with his best clothes) to saw Anita. But the same night Anita went with the soldier.

The Ring

2008-06-24T04:35:00.000-07:00

We have read this story up to chapter five. Choose one of the main characters and describe him or her. (Rafael, Anita or Carlos, the soldier.) You may include images.

Rafael`s description

2008-06-23T15:30:00.000-07:00

Rafael is a poor, crazy man who lives in an old boat-house on the beach.
In the beginning he was a dirty young man with long hair and a beard. He was very thin, he had big, empty and mad eyes.
He lived with his mother in their house at the end of the village. He became a good fisherman as his father. Rafael hated sharks because of what happened to his father.
Rafael grew up, tall, strong and good-looking and he fell in love with Anita.
He went mad because he loved Anita and she ran away with the soldier. Rafael worked hard for six months to buy Anita a ring. Then Rafael was clean and fine with his best clothes.

anita´s description

2008-06-23T04:58:00.000-07:00

Anita was the most beautiful girld in the Villiage. All the people that live in that sone love her because her beauty, her hear, and her personality. She was the Rodrigo's daughther, and his prefeared.
He taught her read and writhe, and bothe things were very strange to found in a young women that lives in that pleace. She was a very good person and sometimes she sit with children and read some books. She fall in love with Rafael and they shere a love story, but finnaly ´she run away with a solder.

by: priscila sigal and natalia graizman

the ring

2008-06-23T04:41:00.000-07:00

Anita was beautiful, the most beautiful child in the town. Everyone love her. They smiled when they saw her. Every year she was most beautiful than before.
Her father was Rodrigo, the shoperkeeper. He love her most than other people, and he love her more than he love his other daughter and his suns. He never let her go out with other boys of the village. Rodrigo had big plans for anita's future, he wanted to married her with a rich and important man, perhaps a man from the town.
She was very clever because her father teach her to write and read.
She loved reading stories of princess and prince, and she remembered everything that she read.
When she was nine or ten she sat down a tree near the house and she tell stories to her little brothers and sisters.
Rafael loved her very much and they saied her loved him too, but they can't be together because her dad didn't let her.
Poor Rodrigo, she loved Anita very much and she has lot of hopes for her.
When Anita ran away Rodrigo get mad.

Vera Fernandez y Florencia Dabbah.

The Ring

2008-06-23T04:36:00.000-07:00

Rafael:
He is mad; he lives in the beach in a very old boat, we think that he got mad because the soldier escaped with Anita.
His father died, he didn't have any brothers or sisters, his mother gives some food and drink to Rafael when he is in his boat, he felt in love with Anita so, he go to the port to won some money to buy a ring to Anita. The father of Anita (Rodrigo) doesn´t let Anita marry him because he is poor.

Rafael`s description

2008-06-23T04:34:00.000-07:00

Rafael was mad but nobody knows wy. Before he went mad he was a good looking kid, son of a fisherman, but then his father was killed by a shark, that doesn`t change him but now he was a poor boy that that needs that the people in the vilage helps him and his mother, but he still was a good looking kid. wen he could he start working as a fisherman like his father after some time he fell in love with Anita, the most beautyful daughter that Rodigo had so he go away for six month and he came back with a golden ring for Anita. Her father do not aprove his love. One thay Anita run away with the soldier, that was a traveler man that knew the world and in other times he comes to the vilage twice a week after that, everybody thinks that Rafael went mad.

Anita's description by pablo y lisandro

2008-06-23T04:33:00.000-07:00

We describe anita: She was a beautiful child . Most children are beautiful but she was the most beautiful child that he has ever seen .everyone love her little children,old people,men and women.They are loved anita.they smiled when they saw her.And year after year she grew up,and year after year she grew more beautiful

FOR A BETTER CITY!

2008-06-13T17:55:00.000-07:00

First of all, I think that people ought not to drop litter because that pollutes the environment, so in the future it will advance and pollute a lot the environment. We can recycle the litter or just keep it in our pocket. Also, I believe that we shouldn’t burn leaves because that produces a strong smell and we can’t breathe when we pass near the burnt leaves. In addition, we ought to use more bicycles. Cars or vans expel a lot of carbon monoxide that pollutes the ozone layer and so it contributes to the global warming. Finally, I think that we mustn’t put up a lot of notices and posters because the drivers can be distracted and can crash.

Our City or Neighbourhood

2008-06-12T05:42:00.000-07:00

Hello!!Here we are again. Today we are going to work on your ideas about how to make our city or neighbourhood a better place for all of us. You can use exercises 8 (page 26, Workbooks) and 10 (page 29, Student's Books) as a model. Don't forget to use the words and phrases for giving opinion and introducing ideas.

Make our city a better place for all us

2008-06-11T16:15:00.000-07:00

First of all, I think that the people mustn’t throw litter in the streets; they must throw in the trash and then recycle it.
Secondly, I believe that we should walk or use bicycles instead of use the cars, because first walk and use bicycles is healthy and a exercise, and secondly the cars pollute the environment, in addition some people doesn’t pay attention when they drive and are a lot of accidents. If doesn’t are more cars in the streets, the traffic James will disappears.
Also, I believe that should put more parks and squares.
Finally, I’m sure that if you take a walk for your pets and they do needs, you must pick up it.

Why I help my district.

2008-06-11T14:11:00.000-07:00

I would help do my district (pony). Putting in each street e sweepings tin. This would help to that people do not throw but papers to the floor. A police in each block therefore the insecurity diminishes a little. Thus it is as I would help my district.

the environment

2008-06-11T08:41:00.000-07:00

First of all, I think that people in "La Boca" pollute because they don´t recycle.
Secondlly,I´m sure that the "Riachuelo" will be a lot cleaner if we don´t waste it.
Also,we must pick up the litter on the street, because when Boca Juniors plays in there are many rubbish later, for example.Finally,I beliave that we need to use renewable energy.
Finally, I´think we have to clean up evrything if we pollute it.

`How to make our neighbourhood better

2008-06-10T16:51:00.000-07:00

First of all people should stop thowing litter in the streets and that would be easier if there were more recyclable and non recyclable trash cans. Then, streets should be re-paved.

How to Make our City a Better Place to Live by Andres Otero

2008-06-10T09:23:00.000-07:00

First of all , the city is full of litter we have to clean our streets and pick up all the litter. All the litter dropped in the streets is messy . i think we don´t pick up the litter "because we haven't dropped it ".But I we have done so; and example dogs do their things and owners don't pick that up .We have to be a little more responsible with the litter.
Secondly, we must take care of the environment , it will be dangerous if we don`t care it . It will be dangerous for all of us and the planet. We only have one environment, so take care of it!
Finally we must recycle , to preserve our resources. we can recylce a lot of things but we must recycle , to take more care of the environment ,but if it isn`t recycable you have to drop it in the trash .

What can we do about the problems we have in our city?

2008-06-09T17:39:00.000-07:00

First of all, the air is not exactly clean and the pollution caused by cars is so dangerous that people must wear masks in the street.
Secondly, if we go by underground we can avoid traffic jams, but perhaps the best way of getting around is by getting on our bike. It can be more dangerous but we can have special bycicle lanes and going by bike is a good exercise for us.
We mustn`t drop litter on the streets, in our parks and on our beaches.
Finally, we should recycle our bottles, plastic and paper and we will all have a cleaner planet.

How to make our city a better place for all of us?

2008-06-09T09:16:00.000-07:00

First of all, I think that our city needs more bins where we can throw our litter andrubbish. Wejust throw the litter everywhere and it pollutes the atmosphere. Wehave to think if we can recycleit too.
Also, I believe that the world´s temperature is gettin higher so we use a lot of air conditioning. In my opinion we shouldn´t waste nonrenewable energy in this kind of things andwe should use other energy, like renewable energy. For example: solar energy, wind energy, waves and hidro electric dam. In addition, we should walk or use the bicycles for short journeys,or use the subterrane because it don´t pollute the atmosphere.
Finally, I´m sure that our city will be better and the air will be more fresh if the factoryes disappear because they make fumes that pollute the atmosphere.

What we must have todo to have a better city/neighborhood

2008-06-06T16:25:00.001-07:00

I think that all the people must think what they are going to do twice times to do their future better, because if you do not do something well the others persons going to do the same thing that you do, and if you do something well the other persons are going to do the same you do too. Firstly, the goberment must put more parks (landscaping) so the neighborhood is more beautiful and the air does not make too bad.I believe that the public workers (taxi and bus drivers) should respect better the traffic rules, like ordinary people.People should separate the garbage in the following ways: Recyclable, non recyclable and rest (obviusly that they must not throw paper and bottle in the street). Finally the goberment must renew every things that have to be renew time ago. I think if we do a little thing from any rule we can do a better city/neighborhood.

how to make my neiberhood better

2008-06-05T18:38:00.000-07:00

First of all people could stop throwing litter in the streets, and that `ll be easier if there were more recicable and not recicable trash cans then could paviment the streets that aren`t

thanks for reading, don`t take it bad
with the best intencions
patricio

A better place for all.

2008-06-05T13:59:00.000-07:00

First of all, i thik we should use more bicyclesb in Buenos Aires, because use cars o pollute the atmospheare and this is one of the reasons of the global warming.
Secondly, we don't have to drop litter eveyware we should recycle.
I belive that we should put more sport clubs in the city, because sports are very inportant to the helth of someone.
Finaly, i think we can do more parks, because there are beautiful and we will replace a percent of the cut dow trees.
With these ideas to do Buenos Aires a better place.

Vera Fernandez

2008-06-05T13:20:00.000-07:00

First of all, the people shouldn´t drop litter on the streets or in a another place. This persons should pick up it because the atmosphere polutte. Secondly, we hould recycle the rubish but, before we should separate the rubish, for example: the plastics in a place, the glass in other place and the paper in other place.
Also, the people should clean up the oil in the beach and shouldn´t derrame it. Finally the people shouldn´t waste water and energy because we won´t have it in the future.

Julián Mana

New ideas, to make the city a good place

2008-06-04T15:04:00.000-07:00

I will say two new ideas to make a our city a good place.
One is to stopp throwing papers, food or what ever you imagine but, the most of the persons i think that they don´t know that when they throw just a gum to the floor they are contaminating all the city, no because you trhow just a gum but imagine if all de country start trhowing rubbish we´ll have a very important problem.

The environment in our city, by David

2008-06-04T13:17:00.000-07:00

I think that we can keep the ticket from the bus in our pocket and drop it in a rubbish, it isn't too difficult. We don't have to drop dead animals in the public via, and we also can make a good city if we don't fire the grass, because it makes too much smoke and, in consecuence, we can't breathe.

the invention of Microsoft, by David

2008-06-04T12:45:00.000-07:00

Following the launching of the Altair 8800, Bill Gates called to the creators of the new microcomputer, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), offering an implementation of the language of programming BASIC for the system. After the demonstration, MITS consented to distribute Altair BASIC. Gates left the University of Harvard, moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico where the MITS was established, and he founded, next to Paul Allen, Microsoft in 1975. The first international office of the company opened at 1st of November of 1978, in Japan, under the name of "ASCII Microsoft" (at the moment well-known as Microsoft Japan). The 1st of January of 1979, Microsoft moved to Bellevue, in Washington.

" To do a better school we have to ... '' By Andres Otero

2008-06-03T12:01:00.000-07:00

" To do a better school we have to ... "

First of all, i think that the school have to buy more microwaves , sometimes we have to wait a lot for heat our food. We are a lot of people to heat , they have to buy 1 or 2 more.
Secondly , i think that there a lot of classroom and they are very far one each other .they should organized more the times and the spaces.
Finally, i also believe there is a lot of LITTER drop out in tha floor and also in the wall , it is mess .They have to be more severe with the rules of drop litter , and put more trash , also to recycle.

A better school

2008-06-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

First of all, I think that we mustn´t drop litter everywhere.We have to use the bins.If we don´t do that the school will be a chaos and nobody will like it.
Also, I believe that in winter,we need more spaces to go to have lunch,because if we go outside it´s cold,and inside there isn´t any space for all of us. In my opinion the food that sell the school have to be cheaper and healthier.
In addition, there will be hairdryers in the apparels because,when we go out after we have swimming,it´s cold and we have the hair wet and we could catch an ill.
Finally, I´m sure that all the students think the same. We need more plastic glasses to drink watter,because we have the dispensers but nothing to put the water in.

2008-06-02T19:47:00.001-07:00

For a better school! First of all, I think that the teenagers ought not to drop litter. We must recycle them or keep them in our pocket. Also, I believe we need more plastics glasses. When you want to drink water you haven’t got glasses. If we had more glasses we could drink water.
In addition, we need more space. When we are in break, lots of people are in the corridors and this is a chaos, you can’t walk or move.
Finally, in my opinion we need more physical exercises because we only have an hour a week.

Making a best school

2008-06-02T16:20:00.000-07:00

I ´m going to tell my ideas to make a best place:
First of all we have to try to not throw letter in the school (anywere) because we won´t care if we throw just a paper to the floor because is just one, but now think if everybodie of this school (arround 2500 persons) throw one paper. Our school will be a totally caos.
Finally we would have to change the launch times, because if all the persons of the school (except 1º) go at the same time to launch we cant launch in pease. And if you think, is a problem because what we have to eat in 1 hour we eat on 15 minutes and then it makes stomachache and estress.
So, we area ll together and we can change this problems.

Robertino Mónaco 2º B

skills in mind writting tip

2008-06-02T05:06:00.000-07:00

Writting Tip
We saw that other people drop lot of rubbish and they pollute the atmosphere. That isn’t well. We will die soon if we don’t stop this.
First of all, we think that we can put some dust build of recycling. We can recycle plastic bottles, paper, cardboard, and other things.
It could help to recycle and not making more pollute, and litter in the school.
Secondly we can make more competitions with other schools, that would be great.
Finally we can organize dances for us, because we sometimes get bore and we want to have some parties.
That is what we think. Did you like it?
Vera Fenández and Florencia Dabbah.

2008-06-02T04:55:00.000-07:00

First of all, I think that a lot of teenagers could cycle to go to school but its very dangerous because there is a lot of traffic.
Secondly I believe that computers could make school more interesting.
Perhaps we need more sports, for example: tennis, Rugby, Hockey.
Finally, i´m shure that our school will be better in the future if we do something to help.

Robertino Mónaco & Jonathan Barmak

Our City or Neighbourhood

2008-06-02T04:52:00.000-07:00

the Jansport

2008-06-02T04:50:00.000-07:00

Tom Jansport was a normal child, every days he had to went to school with the books in his hands and this got him tired, so he had an idea.

He invented the most beautiful bag, and he called it Jansport.

Now the bags Jansport are the most popular and useful bags in the world.

Natalia Graizman

The telephone

2008-06-02T04:43:00.000-07:00

Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1847. He was a famous scientist and in 1876 he invented the first telephone.
This useful invention consisted in the transmition of sounds through the distance using electricy.
This is a good invention because it lets us to communicate easily around the world.
Camila Bosco

Inventions

2008-06-02T04:40:00.000-07:00

PlayStation (PSX) was the first video game console developed by Sony for desktop, created in 1990. This console is a pioneer in the use of CD-ROM as a storage medium for their games, regardless of conventional cartridges that Nintendo and Sega handled.

The Xbox video game console is considered the most successful of the fifth generation in both sales and popularity. He had great success in using the CD-ROM on your hardware, even though other companies have already employed, such as Sega (Sega CD), Panasonic (3DO), Phillips (CD-i) and SNK (Neo Geo CD). These companies had little success when using the CD-ROM as a support for storing games. It is estimated that worldwide Sony managed to sell 102.5 million Playstations.

Invention of System Braille

2008-06-02T04:39:00.002-07:00

I´m going to write about an important system of communication. Helen Keller invent it. When she was 19 months old she caught a terrible fever and she became deaf and blind.
A special teacher taught Helen to speak with her finguers. Helen also learnt to read and write in Braille.
Together they fought to teach the world to understand deaf and blind people

Jonathan Barmak

how was internet invented

2008-06-02T04:38:00.000-07:00

The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked web pages and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW)

the person who invented the impermiable boots

2008-06-02T04:34:00.000-07:00

Charles Maciontos who invented the impermiable boots, he invented that, because when it rain he hate get wet his shoos, and so he invented that impermiable boots, to didn't wet his fit.

JANSPORT

2008-06-02T04:33:00.000-07:00

In 1990 one man called Michel Jansport invated the most beautiful bag in the world.
While his children were doin their homework, he saw their bags. they Were horrible.
So, he thought. "I'm going to do a new bag", he took some fabric and he started to swe. AT the end of the day, the bag was done. The next month one sponsorman saw the bag and the next week, the bag were in sale! Today millions of children have a Jansport. They're confortables and very cuite.

Mobile Phone

2008-06-01T14:51:00.000-07:00

This is an invention done by Nicolas Wygiryboom (1985 ) This mobile pohe is beter than every mobile phone that exists because it have 100 megapixels and a beauty touch screen system and the best of this, is that this mobile phone can fall into the water and it won´t happend anything.

TIP: if you have problems and you go to the bathroom and the mobile phone fall into the toilet it wont care but just remember that the company wont pay any smell on your mobile phone.

Robertino Mónaco

TRAINERS

2008-06-01T13:40:00.000-07:00

I'm going to write about trainers.
The man who inventid them was Martin Strowman, from England.
Martin was a doctor and he discovered that his patients also had blisters in their feet, because their shoes were unconfortable.
One day when he was in a shoe shop he thought that he could disign (sport) trainers. And he inventid them in 1931.
I think trainers are very confortable and useful to do sports.

(This story isn't true)

VERA FERNANDEZ

The MP4

2008-06-01T13:06:00.000-07:00

Edwin MacPiro invented the mp4. It was invented between the years 2004-2005. This is a great invention because you can have a lot of music and videos in it. You can use it when you are bored. Or while you are waiting for somebody, you can see a video or listen to music with it.
In my opinion the MP4 is a great invention and very popular.

Julian Mana

the folder

2008-06-01T12:54:00.001-07:00

The folder was invented be the studant´s.
when the studant´s were to school, high school and the university they were lost all the papers that they had so they couldn´t study to the tests.
Own day a girl was very concerned because she couldn´t study to the test because all the peapers that she had were ruined and lost. Later she thought that she need something where she can keep all her papers, than she sow a carton and metal so she cot the carton in two pieces exactly alike , she put between tham a metal that she can open it and close it when she want, and she put in a los of white papers were she can write. so she toke it to the school and never again she lost any paper, and in all the test she had a good note.

MICAELA SZPIGIEL

Invention

2008-06-01T12:30:00.000-07:00

One day, a man who likes frame people, started to see that women and men didn´t had a lot hair. He thank on artificial hair.But he knew that one hair didn´t overtake. So he decided to make the wig.He put this name to his invention because his name was Martin hairwig.

Sabrina

The phone

2008-05-31T13:57:00.000-07:00

Antonio Meucci form USA invented the phone in 1876. First, he called it ``teletrófono. it was used to communicate with other people at a distance. The phone evoluted with the passage of the time.

the light book

2008-05-31T10:35:00.000-07:00

One day a man was reading in his house when it was a light down, he was very angry, and the book was really interesting so he went to his barn and he take a balloon light and a wire, so he invented: the light book

The Pencil

2008-05-30T11:12:00.000-07:00

One day a man who works ina coal mine saw that his hands were always dirty and when he touch any paper he leaves it black so he thougth "why dont use this to write" and then he put that in a piece of wood.
And there is it : The Pencil

¨who invited the pocket watch¨ by Andres Otero 2ºI

2008-05-28T14:43:00.000-07:00

¨Who invited the pocket watch¨

I am going to write about the person who invited the pocket watch . The man who invited the pocket watch was Pedro Bell from Nuremberg , Alemania.
In 1647 , he used ¨huyghens¨in the old clock . ¨Huyghens¨ divide the hour in 60 minuttes and these in 60 seconds.
I think it was one of the best inventions of the world. because people has to know the hour without asking in a house or looking in the wall.

Welcome!

2008-05-20T05:13:00.001-07:00

Welcome to our new blog! Here we will share our productions. Hope you enjoy our site!

Here is our first project. We´ve been working on inventions. Now it is time for you to write about YOUR INVENTION.

Remeber we will vote for the best one. Have fun!