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Entry 16. Las Vegas Democratic Debate Bernie Sanders

Las Vegas Democratic Debate Bernie Sanders Date:  March 4th of 2020. Activity:  Watching   Las Vegas Democratic Debate  . Skill:  watching and listening Main ideas:  Learning about international political Secondary ideas. - Relate the political pulse in the United States. - Analyze the positions of the presidential candidates. - interpret the social problems of the united states. Summary: In effect, the political pulse in the United States is quite hot in the last days. In the Las Vegas debate, Sanders leftist Democratic candidate attacked billionaire Booberg, in which he explains that the rich deprive by not paying enough taxes to the less favored people of acceptable health and flattery. In this sense, Buttieg drag against Sanders telling him that they represent the extremes in the United States Vocabulary Draconian: he was a draconian and too several with his reasons Amount: If the corrupt have a big amount of power Bill:  the...

Entry 15. Documentary Giant Pandas.

Entry 15. Documentary Giant Pandas. Date:  March 4th of 2020. Activity:  listening documentary Giant Pandas, Nat Geo wild. Skill:   watching and listening Main ideas:  Understand the lives of Pandas in the world Secondary ideas. - Describe the panda survival, his food and behavior in the nature. - Identify the forest of bamboo with a important the ecosystem to save - achievements in panda conservation. Summary: The giant panda lives wallowing in the forests of the babo, its diet comprises about 99% of its diet, it is adapted to eat with its strong teeth and after eating and eating, rest and rest. In this sense, they have a very low digestion defecating about 100 times a day, their young are born blind, defenseless and small.Historically, pandas have inhabited a rather tense situation because it has many predators. finally the panda has left the red list of endangered animals. Vocabulary Spend: If I spend my time procrastinate my responsibil...

Entry 14. Speech Joaquin Phoenix.

Entry 14. Speech Joaquin Phoenix. Date: March 4th of 2020. Activity:  Watch of speech Joaquin Phoenix in oscars prize. Skill:   listening and understanding Main ideas: Recognize the problem of inequality in the world Secondary ideas. - Show the many situations as the inequality, poor, discrimination and climate change - Explain since his experience of his life and relationship with the authority voice. - Understand the feelings and expose the love, peace and education as a solution Summary: In effect Joaquin Phoenix had been a excellent actor and activist. He won the oscar prize in the category best actor, he explains that his achievements have been hard, but he talked about the inequality the world, discrimination it was to raise the voice the people voiceless. He fight for different social causes but he felt that he only see commodality as gender inequality, racism and right  for animals. Alse explain as a solution the compassion, love, peace and c...

Entry 13 TOEIC exercises practice

TOEIC exercises practice Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity:  Resolve the test IELTS Skill:   listening and thinking Summary script Part 1 Announcing the closure of a newspaper Tomorrow's issue will be the last one for our newspaper. We all knew this day was coming, and it is a sad day. We lost almost $20 million last year, and the owners have tried to sell the paper but no one wants to buy it in this economy. I want to thank all of you, all the editors, writers, photographers, page designers, printers -- everyone who helped make this paper a city institution for the past 150 years. It's been a pleasure and an honor working with you and supervising you. As you've heard, we will continue to have an online news site with a staff of 25. This re-designed website will begin tomorrow. We hope that it will help fill the gap left by the departed print product. Meanwhile, we have one more issue to put out. Let's get to work and make it the best it can be. Answe...

Entry 12 TOEFL iBT® sample

 TOEFL iBT® sample Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity:  Resolve the test IELTS Skill:   Reading and answering Summary script On Walden Pond 1   During his lifetime, Henry David Thoreau wrote over twenty books—travel books, books of poetry, and collections of essays—but none has had such a lasting influence as  Walden , an account of the time he spent in a tiny house on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Born in 1817 in Concord, Thoreau graduated from Harvard University in nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts. When he returned to Concord, he worked for his father, who manufactured pencils, and tutored the children of writer Ralph W. Emerson, Thoreau’s friend and mentor. Thoreau then decided to move to a relatively isolated one-room cabin in the woods just outside of Concord on land owned by Emerson. Thoreau began clearing the land and building the cabin in the spring of 1845 and, perhaps significantly, he chose to move in on July...

Entry 11 TOEIC sample

Entry 11 TOEIC sample Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity:  Resolve the test IELTS Skill:   Reading and answering Summary script In first part, only I complete the word in the phases. it had been grammar and alse the form correct for each phases. Part 2 letter. Dear Mr. Harris, Thank you for your letter, which I received today. I can only apologize for our failure to respond sooner to your e-mail concerning the faulty batteries which we sent you ten days ago. We have clearly fallen short of our usual  6   A averages B regulations C rules D standards  of customer care in this case. There can be no excuses, but I will at least offer an explanation. When you made your complaint we were experiencing difficulties  7   A about B beside C for D with  our computer network, and your complaint was one of a number of things which got lost in the system. Of course, the batteries  8   A will be B have been ...

Entry 10 IELTS sample listening

 IELTS sample listening  Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity:  Resolve the test IELTS Skill:   listening and answering Summary script Part 1 Tutor Hello you two, have a seat … OK. So, you’re going to tell me about the presentation you’re preparing for next week’s marketing seminar, right? Jack That’s right. We’ve drafted this plan for you to look at. Tutor OK, thanks. Perhaps you could just talk me through it, could you? Sarah, do you want to begin? Sarah Yes. Well, we’re going to compare the websites of two bicycle companies … Tutor Right … And they’re called Hills Cycles and Wheels Unlimited? Sarah Yes. And first of all, we’ve compared the content of each site, and the presentation. Then we’ve done an evaluation of each one. Tutor OK … And did you find much difference between the two websites? Jack? Jack Quite a bit, yes. Wheels Unlimited has a lot more pages, for a start … Both companies show their catalogue – I mean pictur...

Entry 9 IELTS sample reading

 IELTS sample reading paper 1 Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity: Resolve the test IELTS Skill:  Reading and answering Summary script The coral reefs of Agatti Island A   Agatti is one of the Lakshadweep Islands off the south-west coast of India. These islands are surrounded by lagoons and coral reefs which are in turn surrounded by the open ocean. Coral reefs, which are formed from the skeletons of minute sea creatures, give shelter to a variety of plants and animals, and therefore have the potential to provide a stream of diverse benefits to the inhabitants of Agatti Island. B  In the first place, the reefs provide food and other products for consumption by the islanders themselves. Foods include different types of fish, octopus and molluscs, and in the case of poorer families these constitute as much as 90% of the protein they consume. Reef resources are also used for medicinal purposes. For example, the money cowrie, a shell known locally as...