Assignment

ECUADOR & PERU

After the presentation you must remember a couple of things about Peru and Ecuador so let’s make some exercises to refresh your memories.

Choose the correct alternative.

1. - what are the symbols in the Peruvian coat of arms?

a) a condor- a orange tree and a bag with gold.
b) A plane, a dog and a flag.
c) A cornucopia with gold, a quina tree and a camel
d) A quina tree, a cornucopia with gold and vicuña.

2. - what is the color that the Ecuadorian flag has?

a) yellow, green and red
b) yellow, blue and orange
c) yellow, blue and red
d) red, blue and white

3. - who were the first habitants in p0eruvian0 land?

a) The onas Empire
b) The Inca Empire.
c) The azteca empire
d) The mapuche Empire

4. - what was the main reason in the Ecuador-Peru conflict?

a) the limits
b) the exportation of contami0naded food
c) the presidents of both 0contries didn’t get along
d) a y b

5. - Peruvian land limits with:

a) With Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and the pacific ocean.
b) With Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and the pacific ocean.
c) With Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, chile and argentina.
d) With Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile and the pacific ocean.


6. - Ecuador is bordered by:

a) Peru, Colombia and the pacific ocean.
b) Peru, Colombia, Brazil and the pacific ocean.
c) Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Colombia.
d) With Peru, Colombia, Brazil and the pacific ocean.

7. - What are the regions that geographically divide Peru and Ecuador
a) The coast, the highlands and the beach
b) The coast, the highlands, and the jungle.
c) The coast, the jungle and the beach
d) The coast and the jungle.

8. - Complete the sentence.
A). - Peruvian people celebrate a festival in honor a popular
Liquor which is ……………………
b).- The most popular carnivals in Ecuador are…………………y……………………
c).- The most famous river in Peru is…………………………….. and that place is named as…………………………
d).- a famous Island in Ecuador is ………………………..

What is an acronym?

An acronym is an abbreviation of several words in such a way that the abbreviation itself forms a word. According to Webster's, the word doesn't have to already exist; it can be a new word. Webster's cites "snafu" and "radar", two terms of World War Two vintage, as examples. Implicit is the idea that the new word has to be pronounceable and ideally easy to remember.

Frequently, acronyms are formed that use existing words (and sometimes the acronym is invented first and the phrase name represented is designed to fit the acronym). Here are some examples of acronyms that use existing words

1. CNN: Cable News Network.

2. UFO: Unindentified Flying Object.

3. SCUBA: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

4. IBM: International Business Machines.

5. VHS: Video Home System.

6. DVD: Digital Versatile Disc.

7. SNAFU: Situation Normal: All Fucked Up

8. LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

9. RADAR: Radio Detection and Ranging.

10. NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

11. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions.

12. CD-ROM: Compact Disc - Read Only Memory.

13. DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid.

14. JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group.

15. ATM: Automated Teller Machine/Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

16. BCE/A.D.: Before Common Era/After Death

17. EU: European Union

18. NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement.

19. 4WD: 4-Wheel Drive: Four Wheel Drive.

20. AWD: All Wheel Drive.

21. CIA: Central Intelligence Agency.

22. FUBAR: Fucked Up Beyond All Reason/Recognition/Repair.

23. FIDO: Fuck/Forget It, Drive On

24. ABS: Antilock Brake System.

25. TLC: Tender Loving Care

CONFUSING AND BORROWING WORDS, SLANGS

Confusing Words

is a collection of words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misusSome of these words are homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently) and some are just commonly confused.

Example:

lay :to set down or place something
lie :to recline; to tell a falsehood

affect to influence, to pretend (verbs); feeling (noun)
effect a result; being in operation (nouns); to make happen (verb)

Borrowing Words

One way of creating new words is to borrow or take from other languages. English has been taking words from :
Latin. Greek, Frensh, Spanish, Arabic and Chinies….etc.

examples:

Algebra ,Zero ,Alchemy Alcohol, Sugar,Cotton, Coffee, Hakim,Jasimen, Magazine ,guide, racket , march, Tarif, Arsenal, orange, Jar, Apricot, Lemonade osque, Musk , and some others

Slangs

Slang is casual spoken language which differs from dialectical speech and JARGON as well as formal speech. Some linguists think of slang as the sprinkles of color in a language, since slang is often unique, unusual, and sometimes startling. As a general rule, slang is not used in formal spoken language, or in writing, unless the speaker is attempting to achieve a deliberate effect. Some slang terms, however, make the jump from slang to accepted common usage, as was the case with “OK.”

Examples:

• evil: great; excellent. (Maldito)

Your car is really evil!"

• eyepopper: something or someone visibly astounding.

Wow, that girl is truly an eyepopper!"

• face-off: confrontation.

I think it's time we had a face-off."fart

• "flashback: sudden memory. (un recuerdo)

In Little Tokyo I had a flashback to my days living in Japan.

• "flick: movie.

Let's go out tonight and watch a flick.

• "fox: attractive, alluring person.

Is it true that Brad Pitt is a fox?"

multiculturalism, Global Center of Pluralism, Official Multiculturalism Act

1.- First at all, the first article is about Multiculturalism many country has their own culture but with the emigration every country has to accept others cultures however exists the discrimination and people have been battered because of the racism.



2.- Global Center of Pluralism is an international center of research, education and exchange about values, practices and policies that underpin pluralist society. It seeks to foster legislation and policy that strengthens developing countries’ capacity for enhancing pluralism in law, justice, the arts, the media, financial services, health and education. In addition, it will deliver programs, facilitate dialogue, develop pedagogical materials and work with partners worldwide to build capacity to promote indigenous approaches to pluralism within countries and communities.



3.-Official Multiculturalism Act in canada was passed in 1985 with the object to recognice and promote the multiculturalism, characteristics and identity of the canadian heritage in abstract they promote themselves how to be a society without racism and show theirs own characteristics.



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What I learned

This semester I learnd how to create a blog and how useful this is for practicing English. One of the uses of the blogs was to show some of my favorites movies, my opinions and receive coments of other people.

But I am still trying to know what else I can do with my blog.

see you bye

Mass Media

The Role of the Mass media is to keep people informed about everything
because if you don't know what's happening around you ,
your opinion will be omitted and it won't be worth.
you must know everything like entertaining, advertisment, news, etc., to follow this world and don't stuck on non progress; knowledge implies information and Mass Media is a way to take it.

Goran Bregovic one of the best!!! -Chat noir Chat blanc

La, la, la, la, la.....

Lerning new experineces

One of my favorite things to do is see a good movie in special English movies, as student of English I combine my study with one of my placer; I believe it is a good practice becauce you can improve your phonetic; another thing I like to do is read when I have time and I am buying some books in English I try to buy one that I like "obviously", it is a way where you improve your vocabulary and your grammar, I do not like very much computers but when I am on the net I search pages where you can find grammar exercises.