The aim of this report is to present what is popular in Argentina. I interviewed all my family by telephone, and my best friends, by chat, or in person, and some by telephone. The questions concerned food, free time, sport and music.
Food: All my friends prefer fast food like hamburgers, chips and pizza. In my family the 60% prefer traditional food like “Asado” or “Empanadas” and the other 40% like “Pasta”.
Free time: Most of my friends, near the 70%, do sport, they prefer football, basketball or tennis and the other 30% prefer watching TV or playing video games in home. In the case of my family near the 60% stay at home watching TV, another 10 % go out with friends to see a film or only to go shopping and the last 30% do sports like football or tennis.
Music: Nearly the 90 % of my friends listen to national music preferently rock music, the other 10% listen international pop music. And in my family the 50% listen rock music and the other 50%, which included all y grandparents and my old family, they prefer tango.
Places to visit: More than the 70 % of my friends interviewed say the most beautiful place in Argentina is the Perito Moreno glacier, which is in the south of the country. The other 30 % said that the obelisk is the niciest part of Argentina. And all my family agree that the best place of Argentina are the Iguazu Falls which are one of the bigger
Falls in the world.
The most surprising aspect of the report is that it seem to be a tradition that the families of Argentina eat “Asado” or “Pastas”. And i was also surprised to find out that it is quite common for the adults to listen tango.
jueves, 22 de mayo de 2008
Images of Argentina
Images of Argentina
Images of Argentina
The aim of this report is to present what is popular in Argentina. I interviewed friends (teenagers).
The questions concerned food, free time, sport and music.
Food: Over 50% of my friends say that the “ASADO” is the tastiest food in Argentina and less of 40 % prefer the MILANESA. About three quarters like go to Mc Donald’s if they have to choose where to go eating. More than half accompany the food with coca-cola.
Free Time Activities: The majority of my friends play or chat with the computer when they have free time. On weekends almost go dancing and around the 7 % that don’t go dancing play computer games.
Sports: Everyone say’s that football is the most popular sport in Argentina. Under the 7% prefer other sports and a lot of them practice football in sport clubs. In the second place the basket is ranked. 3 in 5 say that the best football team in America is Boca jrs.
Music: Most of people like Rock National. The most popular singer is Gustavo Cerati.
Over the 60 % listen music from other countries and the two thirds of them prefer the British group Oasis.
The averages say that the favorite food is the asado and the most popular free time activity is dancing on Saturdays. I didn’t think that almost like Gustavo Cerati as singer.
It is quite common that people play football.
Ya examine las imagenes y no me las deja subir....
sergio
IMAGES OF ARGENTINA
The aim of this report is to present what is popular in Argentina. I interviewed all my family, and my bests friends, by chat, in person, and by telephone. The questions concerned food, free time, sport and music.
Food: most of them prefer traditional foods, but the others prefer fast-food. There are different typical foods like “locro” and “asado”. But 30% of the respondents prefer the pizza.
Free time: most of them (48%) like playing sports like football, tennis, or basketball. Other prefers watch TV or go out with friends. And the 9% go shopping once a week.
Sports: more than a half of people prefer football than another sport. A quarter of them loves orts:basketball and the others are interested in tennis, volley, baseball, between others.
Music: My grandparent loves Tango. My brother and my friends prefer national rock; my mom loves relax music, and my dad queen.
I think the results where near that the once that i expect, I was surprised when I saw that my grandparents loves Tango.
Images of Argentina (NICOLE SZN)
The topic of this report is to present the most interesting sides of Argentina.
I have interviewed 5 friends and my family (all under 20 years old) about where do they go on vacations, which are their favorite places to meet somebody and their favorite food.
VACATIONS: more than a half enjoy going to the Atlantic Beach, Miramar and Mar del Plata, Necochea, San Bernardo. About a quarter choose going to Santa Teresita, and the rest of them prefer going to the mountains, and the interior of the country (Cordoba and La Pampa).
FAVORITE PLACES TO MEET IN THE CITY: most of my friends prefer going to the shopping center, but about a tree quarter of my family would rather going to a park or to a museum (Parque Centenario, Plaza Francia, Museo de Ciencias Naturales) a quarter prefer the cinema, and the rest of them just go to someone’s house.
FOOD: my friend’s favorite food is fast food, but my family’s favorite food is the homemade (pasta), more than a half think that the healthiest food is the salad and meat, and they really are interested about eating healthy food.
CONCLUTION:
1) I am surprised about that only my parents (within the ones I’ve interviewed) think that healthy food is important. My friends eat all the time things full of grease and their favorite house food is Mc Donald’s, and it’s not really good for their health.
2) The places where they go on vacations are like I had supposed.
Images of Argentina
The aim of this report is to present what is popular in Argentina. I’ve interviewed ten of my friends and all the people in my family, by telephone and in person. The questions concerned food, free time activities, sport and music.
FOOD: well over 50% prefer Argentinean food- especially asado- a food very popular here- to food from other countries. The 25% like pizza and the other 25% said that they love fast food (like Mc Donals). Over half said that their favourite drink is wine, preferably which is make in Mendoza.
FREE TIME: more half young people like going dance or spending a lot of hours in the computer chatting with friends. The other half prefer goes to the shopping and spends a lot of many in clothes. The adults that I interviewed said that they like going out, like to restaurants, with friend or family.
SPORT: all the boys that I interviewed answer that their favourite sport is football. About less than quarter prefer basketball. The other quarter said that the sport is not important to them. But the girls that I interviewed said that they love play volleyball and hockey in their clubs.
MUSIC: the majority of adult people I interviewed answer that they love music of the 80th. The young people prefer actually music, like electro, rock or pop. More than a half prefers music which is sing in English than music in Spanish
Conclusion: I was surprised about the result of sport because I thought that less than the quarter of the girls didn’t do any sport. Also I was surprised about the answer of young people when I asked them what kind of music do they listen, and they answer that they prefer music in English than in Spanish.
Images of Argentina
The objective of this report is to present what is popular in Argentina. I interviewed friends by messenger.The questions concerned free time activities, sport, food, the perfect place to go holidays, and music.
Free time: Almost two thirds of my friend like going out with friends and playing computers games.It is quite common for girls think shopping is better than playing a sport. A lot of them tend to spend their free time with friends.
Sport: A lot of girls prefer handball to football. However, a lot of boys prefer football to handball.
2 in 5 say that the best football team in the world is Manchester.
The perfect palce to go holidays: The question was ¿ beach or mountain?
3 in 5 boys say the best place to go holidays is the beach. The others prefer the mountain.
The boys who say beach prefer Mar del Plata or Pinamar.
All boys who say mountain like San rafael, a place in Argentina.
Music: All my friends prefer music in Spanish, they don’t like music in English.
They like bands such as "Babasonicos" or "Los autenticos decadentes".
I agree with most things in this report, but, for example,I desagree with two things because I prefer chinese's food to pasta or beef and the best place to go holiday is San rafael, a place with mountains.
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miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2008
Images of Argentina
Food: the majority of my friends prefer junk food to go to, for example, a restaurant. More than 50% of my family like to go to a restaurant than junk food, like Mac Donalds. And the majority of adult people, I talked to, said that the best food is pizza and asado, and said that it is a tradition to eat that food.
Free time: some friends of mine like music. They play piano, guitar, etc. Over three-quarters of my friends like sports like, football (most of them), basketball, handball, and others.
In my family, 45% like to read books, watch the news, and rest. The other 55% like doing shopping and going to the supermarket. The 75% of the other people I talked to, prefer sleeping to doing any sport.
All of my friends like cumbia.
Sport: more than half people in my family like Football. Some in my family prefer Basketball to golf.
All of my friends said that football is the most important sport in Argentina.
Conclusion: I agree with most of the things people said. The most surprising aspect of the report is that it is a tradition to eat pizza and asado and that most of the people said that football is "the sport" in Argentina. I was also surprised that it was uncommon for my friends to sleep in their free time.
Images of Argentina
Food: More than half prefer barbecue than fast food. About three-quarters of my family usually eat pizza on Sunday. The majority of them say their favourite drink is Coca-Cola.
Music: All of my little cousins listen to national music. Over three-quarters of the adults say they prefer international music. The best singer ever is Freddie Mercury for less than half of them.
Jobs/studies: 60% of the adults work on full-time jobs. 1 in 15 is unemployed and 2 are independent-workers. About two-thirds of the children in my family usually have good marks at school.
Places to visit: More than half the people I interviewed say the most beautiful place in Argentina is the Perito Moreno glacier, which is in the south of the country. About a quarter went to Bariloche last holiday, and say it’s a beautiful place too.
The most surprising aspect of the report is that is a tradition in most of the families to eat pizza on Sunday. I was also surprised to find out that it is common for the adults to listen international music.
The Aim of this report is to present what kind of food, sport, music and what the Argentinian people do at their free time.
I intereviewed 10 of my friends and some people in my family, by chat. The questions concerned food, free time activities, sport and music.
Food : Most of the people interviewed prefer “locro” , a quarter say that homemade food, like "tortilla de papa", "guiso", etc, are better. The other people interviewed like fast food.
Free time : More than a quarter people like playing football or play basketball or going out.All the adults interviewed like going out with their families. Just under 5% stay at home and play computergames.
Sport : Football is the most important sport for more than half of the people interviewed. But now the rugby and the basketball are making to much popular.
6 of the 10 friends interviewed begin to practica rugby and basketball in the last 2 years.
Music : The majority of my friends like “Rock Nacional”. The people in my family with more than 40 years like more another type of music like disco music, blues ,tango, etc. In
I think the results of the interview are good. I feel good with the results that are near of what I have expected..
martes, 20 de mayo de 2008
Images of Argentina, Raymi Salas
Images of argentina
The aim of this repor is to present what is popular in Argentina. I interviewed my best friends and all the people in my family by telephone, personaly, chat and e-mail. The questions concerned food, free time activities, sport and music.
Food: Well, all the pepople under 40 years old (about three quarters) like fast food and prefer it to other kind of food. Mc donalds is the fast food company most popular at the time of choose. However everybody I interviewed said fast food is unhealthy and they don't go more than one or two times a month.
The other quarter prefer meet and salad. Especially the kind of meet what they call "asado". It's the tipical argentinian food and everybody sometimes eat it. Most of argentinians eat "asado" on sundays lunch.
Free time: The majority of boys like playing football with friends and girls like watching them while all the adults like going to restaurants or coffes Most of girls like going to the shopings, buying clothes and then going to the cinema, however most of boys hate going to the shoping. Nobody of my friends or my family like watching T.V or playing computer games.
Sport: Football is the most important sport for three-quarters of the boys who I interviewed. The other quarter prefer basketball, tennis or swimmings to football. All the girls prefer dance to other sports. But it's beacause they are dancers!
My family said they didn't like sports.
Music: About the haf of my family prefer slowly and pacific music. They said Dido, Michael Bubble and Geoge Michael are they favourite singers.
Among my friends, the majority listen to pop, rock and electro songs by American singers
Conclusion: The most surpising aspect of the report is the number of people who prefer unhealthy food to fruits or vegetables. I also could't imaginate over 70 year-old-people listen american and british singers.
IMAGES OF ARGENTINA.
The aim of this report is to present what is popular in Argentina. I interviewed 12 of my friends and all the people in my family, by e-mail and in person. The questions concerned food, free time activities, music and sport.
Food: well, the majority of teenagers prefer fast food-especially mc Donald’s-to food from this country.
More than half of adult people like the barbecue and under 10% say their favorite dessert is the tiramisu (a cheese desert).
Free time: over three quarters like playing football and watching the matches in the TV. All the adults like going to a restaurants.
Less than half of my friends go shopping every Sundays.
Sport: football is the most popular sport for a lot of the people interviewed. It is uncommon for the teenagers to prefer baseball or hockey.
Music: about three quarters of my family prefer national music to that from other countries. Almost of my friends like pop and international rock.
The most surprising aspect of the report is that a large number don’t like a barbecue .I was also surprised to find out that it is uncommon for my friends to watch TV in free time.
Images of Argentina
I intereviewed 6 of my friends and some people in my family, by chat and in person. The questions concerned food, free time activities, sport and music.
Food : The majority of the people interviewed prefer argentinian barbeque, the "Asado", but under a quarter say that argentinian homemade food, like "empanadas", "milanesas", etc, are better. The other people interviewed like Oriental food and fast food.
Free time : More than half people like playing football or going out with friends. All the adults interviewed like going out with their families. Just under 10% stay at home and play computergames.
Sport : Football is the most important sport for more than half of the people interviewed. Over a quarter of my friends interviewed prefer rugby to other sport. The rest of the people don't like any sports.
Music : The majority of my friends like International Rock & Roll. The oldest people in my family like Tango and hates noisy songs. Under a quarter prefer National Rock & Roll and music in spanish.
I agree with most of the things in this report, i fit in to this people. I'm happy about the results in the interview.
Next week
Remember next week you are having a short test on Units 1 and 2. Study grammar, vocabulary and communication from both the student's book and the workbook.
See you, consult me in class this week if necessary,
Jimena
Images of Argentina
The aim of this report is to present what is popular in Argentina. I interviewed five of my friends and some people in my family, by telephone. The questions concerned free time activities, sport, food and music.
Free time: The majority of people like going out with friends and playing computers games. The adults of my family like going to the cinema and then going to restaurants. My friends love go to shopping all weekend.
Sport: All of my friends love football. Some people in my family prefer volleyball to football. And the rest of the people in my family don’t like any sport.
Food: Most people interviewed likes food Argentina and homemade (Argentina beef, empanadas). Some of my friends like fast food. And to others like food from other countries. All love to take liquefied.
Music: People of my family prefer listen Argentina music, most likes to tango. All my friends love American and British songs, they don’t like music in Spanish.
I agree with most things in this report, but, for example, I am surprised that my friends not like music in Spanish.
martes, 13 de mayo de 2008
Writing Task
New books
Here go some addresses where you can buy English in Mind 3. There are many others, try searching in Internet. Good luck!!
SBS: J B Alberdi 2380, Flores Phone(s): 4637-4336
ACME Agency: Camacuá 87, Flores Phones: 4631-8559
Kel: Av. La Plata 63, Caballito Phones 4901-5647 / 4903-5306
SBS and Kel have a special discount for ORT students.
If you find it is available somewhere else, please tell us on this blog.
Have a nice weekend,
Jimena
Some important dates...
Some dates to take into account...
Friday 16th: Study present perfect/simple past, questions with when/how long, and time expressions (ago, last, in..., until, already, yet, still, just,since/for, etc.)
Tuesday 20th: Test unit 1. Just 20 minutes so please bring your books and material.
Friday 23rd: Deadline to post your report "Images of Argentina" (Unit 1, ex 11)
See you, Jimena
viernes, 9 de mayo de 2008
New Coaching sessions
As from May 19th, you will have the opportunity to practise and train for your oral exam in coaching sessions here at school.
These are the possible timetables for you to pick the one which suits you best. The sessions are just 15 to 20 minutes long and will mock a real exam situation.
As you did last year, you should go to the English Lab and ask Fernando or Geraldine for an appointment, go in pairs (of the same level, of course).
Timetables:
Mondays: 14.40 to 16 or 16.10 to 17.30
Tuesdays: 14.40 to 16
Wednesdays: 14.40 to 16 or 16.10 to 17.30
Good luck, and consult me if you need to.
Jimena
Next Class
Next Monday we are starting with the new book, English in Mind 3 (student's book and workbook).
Remember to bring the material.
Finish at home what you were not able to complete today, I'll check your scores.
See you, have a nice weekend,
Jimena
More listening activities
Today we´ll continue practising with some situational listening activities.
Try the 6 situations HERE
Check the volume and sound settings before you start.
Bye, Jimena
Passive Voice
This goes especially for Maxi, but of course you can all practise!
Introduction to passive voice, form and use.
Activities with active and passive voice: Passive voice in the past
Good luck! and consult me whenever necessary.
Jimena
jueves, 8 de mayo de 2008
jueves, 1 de mayo de 2008
New classrooms for May
Please pay attention to the following classroom numbers for the month of May.
Tuesday 6th: 3º G
Tuesday 13th: 3º E
Tuesday 20th: 3º I
Tuesday 27th: 3º F
On Mondays and Fridays we are meeting at our usual rooms.
That's all for now, see you later, Jimena
New Book
Hi, this is just to remind you about the new material for NEXT WEEK.
New covers for your Portfolios
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