Writing sample of an informal letter by Norma

Dear Yolanda,

         How are you? I hope you're well, I'm happy for your letter, I knew that you're excited because of your dancing class.
        I want to tell you that I'm still in my English course and I'm really happy, it is incredible how I've been learning during this time.
       Currently, I'm studying university my major is in languages, in here, I've learned French, it's a little difficult, but I'm trying to do it well. It's been fantastic because I've met people who speak an excellent French and it's motivating for me.
         I can tell you that I know a bit of English and French, so it's really interesting for me and I know that you're interested in French, so I will be able to teach you some just if you want.
       I would like you could come back in order you to meet my new friends and see how are my classes.

P.'s. My English and French classes are from 7:00 am until 11:00 am,with two hours for each subject, my first class is French just in case you'd want to join one day.

Wishing you the best,
NORMA

Thank you!

By Norma Estrada Mendoza

Present Simple

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

This book was written by J.K Rowling, this book is the part five of all his movies, it was in 2006, this part is interesting for me, because it explain the life of the Harry potter between dementors, where in here is development a real history of how Harry is dominated by them.

All this, started when he was of vacations in the house of his uncles and he passed their free time with them, but his uncles always told him that he was a bad guy and all his studies in Hogwarts was stupid, for them, it didn’t have sense.

This history is development when Harry took a walk to look for his cousin and when they came back to uncle’s house Harry and his cousin found with a strange noise and sense that was the presence to dementors and they wanted to attacked to Harry, but he try to defended of them and he used his potency using his wand and did some magic to defended of them, but by the school of the Harry it was impossible, because they shouldn’t use the magic,  then, when he can defeat the dementors, he and his cousin came back to the house and for instance he started to receive a notification about of that he need to leave the Hogwarts college by used the magic wand.

Harry can’t go out of their uncle’s house, so he decided to sent letter for his friends to they can do something, but he never received answer, and he couldn’t do nothing about of it. After, he recieve some letters, where said that he could came back to Hogwarts to curse the other school year, so, he can discover what happen with the dementors and which was the objective that they had and why they want to attack him.

Then Harry had a lot of fear of the dementor, because, he thought that these dementors want empower of his mind and known all his movements; Harry known that all of this was happening by Voldemort, that he wanted look out to Harry for kill him and can obtained his power, and so, that Voldermort can obtained his destructive power that he had before, it’ll be by Harry’s die.

As conclusion, I can say that this book looks really interesting, because the author relate like Harry is involve between severals tramas and how he can resolve the mistery, thankful to help of his friends and is impressing how is related each seccion where happen the accions, it try to catch your attention with the good description that it have. I couldn’t finish of read it, because for me it has result difficulty, because it had a lot of brittanic words and i couldn’t understand it very well, so, I had to return for understand it, but I could have a good vision of this book, because I saw the movie and I can give me an idea about this history, but I can’t remember very well it.

Thanks for your attention!

By Norma Estrada Mendoza

Sentences of page 27 of student's book

1. For harvesting the grain is important removal the husk, stalk, dirt and debris.

2. The top of your scalp may be replaced by itching.

3. We must rekindle the overriding feeling that we are building a good country.

4. Always In each person we can seeing more anxious, a lot of burnout and increase in addictions.

5. I've been lumbered with my neighbour's cat while they're away.

6. Now, just with the technological system we can have climatic breakthroughs at work level possible.

7. Many are downhearted because statistics show falling numbers of people who go to Church.

8. The situation of indigenous children in some countries is dismal, thankful to the government that don't nothing.

9. When the bottom falls out of an economy there can be enormous knock-on effects.

By: Norma Estrada Mendoza

The persistence of the memory

By Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí

Salvador Dalí was painter, sculptor, engraver and writer, he was considerate as one of the most popular representatives of surrealism, also he was a famous painter of century 20, in all his painting he showed a lot of ideas during his life known like pass of the time or the immortality and one of his most representative piece was: “The persistence of the memory”.

The persistence of the memory was painted in 1931, it represent a coast envelope of clocks melt and in his painting also he showed work surrealism, it was characterized by strange images. Inside of the art, the surrealism signify talk about of unconscious that have in each man, in here each character or object that is painting recognize the surrealism and Dali always tried to showed in his pictures the real life.

Dali in his picture of persistence of the memory showed that the time endure like stone, then in the picture not important just the clocks that we can see, if not also all the scenery that is surrounded the clocks, by there he painted the stones and the clocks to show that the time endure with the life.

Dali painted tree different clocks and the hours are different, he explained that he painted one tense clock where it didn’t show the time and the other two clocks are smooth and it showed different hours, because the time is personal and also that the clocks was the representation of the memory that in one moment it finish. Also in this paint he showed a face under one of the clocks and he explained that he was involved in his mortality.

I like this picture, because is interesting the manner that the author painted the clocks and all the scenery, also I think that the time in our life is important and all the things that we make, is impact how in this picture we can see that the time undertake with each person. Also, I like how by this clocks the painter try to show us that our thoughts, our concepts and our science it’ll be finish by the time or for something, for create new concepts, new science and it erase the memory, because we must to know that with the pass of the time, maybe our memory will be erase, the reason is because we don’t live of the past, cause in some moment it’ll be erase and the time will be finish. Finally, I can say that the time is gold, because if we don’t live the moment that we pass with the time it never come back and it finish, so with this picture we must to have in considerate that not is life if we live with the moments that It has passed for it I think that we should to use the moment in our life.

Thanks!

By: Norma Estrada Mendoza

WHAT’S TRUE LOVE FOR YOU? 

The true love for me is some really beautiful, because all my life I’ve learned this meaning. Nowadays I can say with security that the true love is in our house with own family, because my parents taught me that for love I need to start with me, so, I have to accept me with my defects and virtues, then accept my own family, although we have differences.

I’ve learned to love of the form that my family love me, and each day I’ll try to be the better, also I’ve accepted millions of things that my parents and my brother have/has, because I know that we aren’t perfects and that we can try to be the better and that each one can to be proud.

I don't agree when the people say, that the true love is other person that can to be our complement to live, because we can’t to love other person if we don’t teach us to want us, less, if we don’t accept us like we are; in another hand I don't agree with the people that say that we need to feel love by other person to our life has sense and I think this is stupid for me, because we don’t need other person to live or to complement our thoughts.

With the pass of the time I’ve know that the true love give us our parents, after our siblings but mainly the true love is starting with our personality to continue with the other person, I’m really impressing the manner that my parents love us and like they teach love by themselves, because the true love is like a rose that if we don’t care or we don’t teach love, smiles, caress, the beauty that has it can to be destroy.

One day I saw a phrase that said: “for talk about of the love, we must to be fall in love or stay without love”, thing that I believe that it isn’t correct, because like I said previously the love start accept us like we are with all our mistakes and our defects. Also we can talk about the love with our experiences that we’ve had with own family, isn’t necessary to be in love of other person.

Finally, I want to share my thought about the true love that my parents have, because they love themselves and each one teach true love one of the one, I think that they have true love, they try to be the better person for the other, also they show us their form to love and they told us that the true love in our family, it start with the trust, well I can finish that the true love is in our family and the form that they show us the love.

Thanks!

By Norma Estrada Mendoza

THE RISE OF THE BICYCLE

The bicycle is a tool important between our life and fundamental piece in all the people, because since it invention our life started to be more easy and the transfer could be most effective for the people.

Is impressive how the bicycle was a perfect vehicle to the people, because they could transportation in differents places and it did the easy life to them. Also is incredible when you could to know about the evolution of bicycle and how it takes importance in the life, it was thankful to all the technology that was increase during all the time.

Is amazing how we are involved inside in this change that is going to evolution of the technology, because if we are involved inside of this, our change is possible and our life is other.

Nowadays this tool is very important in our life, because we can transporting some place quickly and easily whenever we want, but it can't be possible by all the inventors that were back of it.

In my point of view, is very important know about of the rise of the bicycle, because it was as the principle of the differents ways to that the people can transport easy and it be economic in their lives and it was an important event, because it changed our mode of life. 

Thanks!

By Norma Estrada Mendoza

NEVER FORGET FACTS AND FIGURES, DRUGS TO BOOST BRAIN POWER WILL BECOME AS COMMON AS COFFE

This three topics talk about our mind/brain and the effects that have if we don’t eat well or with the pass of the time causes in the mind/brain. So it’s important, because our mind/brain need a lot of care and if we don’t care or don’t put attention we’ll have a lot of problems, all the advices in this readings maybe it is good but, I think that not all, because for example, I don’t agree with the drugs because I think that if we use it can damage our brain, also we can catch an habit or get use to all the life. Although it can serve in some cases, but with the time we can fell the necessity of take the drugs always and if it happen, it is very impossible change our life style, so in my point of view it isn’t good by our mind/brain and our life.

On the other hand the readings mention different things to do, for example, the exercise is good, because you can have less stress and more time of activation, other things that I consider important is the water and with it our brain have oxygen and we can have more energy in our day, it should be accompany with a good food, the reading mention the liver, broccoli, fish, etc., these help us to have a lot of vitamins and that we can’t suffer some illness in our brain and our main. On the one hand, mention that the people that suffer of the Alzheimer with this type of food and this advices they can have less of this illness, personally I think that we should to give importance all of this things that recommend us for that our mind it be more effective or it be with more energy.

Finally, I believe that we should know all the things that damage us and can change own life style, so can to have a better life and development more our skills to communicative between us and without any illness or any deficiency in our brain/mind.

Thanks!

                                                     By Norma Estrada Mendoza           

What do you think about the stereotype of princess in movies or TV?

I think the stereotype of the princess in the movies is bad for me, because the life is different that in the real life. The movies show us women really thin, high, and the majority blond, although not all the women are equal, also though us how we should be in reality life and that we should to endure, for example, in the cinderella show us that our apparience is very important to impressive all the people, thing that I think is stupid, because in my point of view, it must not for us matter the criticize of the other people or do something for impressive the people or better even all the men.

 Also in the snow-white and the seven dwarfs, show us that the women should care of the men and it isn't really that happen in here, maybe in the old life it happened, but actually don't happen unlike now the men and the women are the same and all the things that do, they do by equal.

Maybe I'll say you about all the princess, but it will not finish, as conclusion I think the movies say us how we can should to endure or how we can follow our life, nevertheless it isn't correct, because we can't found own life and we can't life how it should be.
Finally I think that the life that have the princess in the movies, always are the color pink so, not always show us all happen in the real life, also we don't follow the stereotype that show us in the movies, always we should find own stereotype to can live as we want.  

Thanks!

By Norma Estrada Mendoza

Bachelorette party

The bachelorette party of my best friend was really nice. It was on Saturday, February 7th, 2015, I went with my cousin and other friends. We could enjoy the different activities that did do this day. Also in this party, I could see my old friends of high school, we enjoyed it a lot of. also we talked about our life, and our plans that we have actually, and all the things that we did during 4 years ago that we didn't see. We ate pizza and drank Vodka, Tequila and soda, we were very happy because, we could  to drink a toast for the next wedding of our friend.  My best friend that was the bachelorette party she looked happy with all, and she said us that she enjoyed our attendance, and all the things that we had. The last saturday was a nice and beauty day with all my old friends, I really enjoyed it a lot of. Well, that's all and it was all that I did the last saturday.

Thanks!

By Norma Estrada Mendoza