Monday, March 25, 2013

Voicethread for speaking project

That's the link of our voicethread with the powerpoint :)

https://voicethread.com/?#q.b4327281.i22089004

Definitions

Hectic: Intense environment, agitated.

Schedule: Routine for a day, chart with meeting or things to do at a exact time.

Hanging: To hung something in a wall a neck, ears, etc.

Dig: To break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer,or claw; make an excavation.

Kneeling: To go down or rest on the knees or a knee.

Hauling up: to cart or transport; carry: He hauled freight.

Pottery Shards: Piece of pottery.

Beads:a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it,often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.

Lodging: A temporary place to stay.

Wares: articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods: a peddler selling his wares.

Allay: To rest, to calm.

Impoverished: poor enough to need help from others

Pounding: Repeated hard hits or heavy attack.

Outfitter:b a business providing equipment, supplies, and often trained guides (as for hunting trips); also : a guide working for such an outfitter

Volunteering trips

Trip: Crow canyon archeological center
Destination: U.S.A
Activities: Hauling up buckets of dirt, the chance to find pottery shards, turquoise, beads and other remmants of this ancient community, a tour of Mesa Verde National Park.


Trip: Biosphere Expedition
Destination: Oman, Slovakia, Azores and Honduras
Activities: Work with scientists as they protect the Arabian leopard of Oman, wolf of Slovakia, whales of Azores and the reef of Honduras.


Trip: Sierra Club
Destination: Colorado, Aspen and Colo.
Activities: Maintain Trails, cleanup trash and restore woodland.




Trip: Cross Cultural Solutions
Destination: Morocco, Peru, Costa Rica, China, Guatemala and Brazil
Activities: Volunteer in orphanages, child care centers, schools. Also a teen volunteering program, teaching young artists. Also teaching english, empowering woman in Guatemala, helping with childcare in Brazil or giving a hand to rebuild a community in Peru.




Trip: Global citizens network
Destination: Kenya, Nepal, Guatemala and Minnesota
Activities: Build a medical clinic in Kenya, construct a roof for Tibetan Refugees in Nepal, weaving in Guatemala and harvesting rice in minnesota.




Trip: Habitat for Humanity
Destination: New Orleans, Cameroon, Malaysia, Paraguay and Romania
Activities: building programs and works to improve cities after a natural disaster.


Trip: Earthwatch
Destination: 49 countries and 18 States.
Activities: Study rhesus monkey feeding behaviour in Nepal, map coastal wetlands in the Polynesiam kingdom of Tonga, help protect the pacific grey whales in british Columbia, or excavate mammoths in South Dakota at a site which has been a museum educating 100.000 tourists a year about issues of extinction.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

anwsers of choose your vacations

1-) First video
2-)Because I like the cruises and the sea
3-) my familie because they are funny and like to be with they

INSIGHT VACATIONS.LISTENING ACTIVITIE

1-) Flexibility
2.)Is expensive and you waste time
3-)Evnets, sightseeing, restourants and local coming and going of the city
4-)Select the place you want to go and choose how much nights you want to stay there
5-)transportation, premiun hotel, breakfast service
6-)He will provide commentaries, local insigths , and inside introductions
7-)yes, because is almost the same than planning it yourself but another people do it for you and you just enjoy it


Thursday, March 14, 2013

ANWSERS

A
1-)Is american tradition work with not pay
2-)Raparing national parks and raparing trails
3-)Because they want to do the difference
B
1-)That managing free time would be a problem
2-)A time faminemeans that we are hungry for time
3-)Some peolple choose to have less possesions

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Welcome

six ways to have a better year

6 of march 2013 Dear sarlos, I miss you, o I want to tell you what I did in my holidays. The first thing that I wan to tell you is that I drove less because I dont know how to drive, also to a school partner I gave him a cokie, and I hink that count like a charity, and of course in the hot days I went to the swimmingpool and obiusly I swam. Yersterday I returned to school and is very boring spetially english class beacause the teacher made as wrote a text of 150 words. The thing that I dont do and I want to do that things in the nexts holidays are do more sport like cycling, run and other things. good bye