Praxis Santa Paula

2009-11-24T07:40:00.000-08:00

-What do you think of the Internet?
-Why is Internet such an addiction?
-What would you do if your son, daughter, brother or sister develops an Internet addiction?
-How can it interfere with their normal day life?
-How many hours a day do you spend on the Internet?
-Do you think that spending too much time on the Internet can affect family relationships? Why? Why not?
-Does Internet have more effect on boys or girls? Why?
-Are you addicted to the Internet? Why? Why not?
-What would you say to a person who is addicted to Internet?
-Have you ever had an addiction? If so, to what?
-When does it go from being a hobbie to an addiction?
-Is it difficult to control an addiction? Why? Why not?
-What kind of addictions are there?
-Why is it easier for a young person to fall in an addiction?
-What would you do to prevent falling in any addiction?

How to: Start your business online

2009-11-20T04:09:00.000-08:00

What kind of business would you start?
Which type of people would you target?
What is a trade mark?
Would you consider having two names for your company? Why? Why not?
What is marketing?
How would you attract people to come to your business?
What legal matters would be involved in opening a business?
What is a supply chain?
What is wholesale/wholesale store?
Do you prefer competing with prices or quality?
What is a team player?
Do you consider yourself a team player?
What is a pyramidal structure?
Would you consider giving your employees bonuses to motivate them? Why? Why not?
What is a universalistic company?
What is a particularistic company?
Speaking about the questions above, What type of company would you prefer?
In your country, is it possible that an employee makes more money than his boss? Why? Why not?
Do talent and knowledge have anything to do with promotions and raises?
Would it be embarrassing if someone younger than you earned more money than you? Why? Why not?
Do people who work more always make more money?
What is a labor union?

English the international language

2009-11-05T04:42:00.000-08:00

English has become the most important way of communication of the modern world. If you are traveling, you may have trouble with situations like: hotels, airports, restaurants, and sights because of not mastering the english language.

*Your next conversation club will be held in the following way:
1. The student must have read the article on the news paper.
2. Please identify any unknown vocabulary.
3. After you have identified the unknown vocabulary, try to find the definitions.
4. For a better understanding of the vocabulary please write one simple sentence with each word.
(ex: Unemployed, I was unemployed for 6 months before I found a stable job.)
5. After you have read the article, tell somebody about the article in your own words.
6. Before you come to the conversation club you must have thought/written down any benefits that you have obtained from learning the English language.

WHAT ABOUT FOOTBALL?

2009-10-05T06:50:00.000-07:00

What are the basic rules of football?
Would you consider playing football? Why? Why not?
How do you score a touchdown?
When was the first game of football played?
What is a Super Bowl?
Why is it called a Super Bowl?
Which were the first teams to play a Super Bowl?
Who is considered " The Father of American Football"?
What is the difference between collegiate football and professional football?
What is the job of the quarter back?

BOGOTA WILL MOVE AT METRO RYTHM

2009-10-05T05:54:00.000-07:00

Stay calm!
In Bogotá we are going to have a dramatic period for traffic and time. If you think traffic in Bogotá is horrible, delays are just starting.

Is it a good idea to have a metro in Bogota? Why?
What do you think will be the benefit, for the city and for the citizens?
What is your opinion on paying more taxes for the constructions of transportation routes?
What do you consider is the problem of transportation here in Bogotá?
If you had the opportunity to change something about the traffic in Bogotá, What would you do?
What is your opinion on the plate restriction for the entire day?
Do you consider that the government should reduce car taxes?
What is car pooling?
Is it a good idea to car pool?
In your opinion, what is the best means of transportation in Bogotá?

How to cook: Curry Chicken

2009-09-30T09:02:00.000-07:00

Three course meal.
Ingredients:
- 2 pounds of boneless chicken breast.
-4 slices of lamb ham.
-200 grams of curry sauce.

Preparations
-Place the open chicken breast on the table, about 1 cm thick and 4cm wide. Put the cheese and ham pn top of it and roll it up, hold them together by inserting a couple of toothpicks through the rolls.
-Marinate the rolls in the curry sauce for at least 3 hours. Put the rolls in a sauce pan and cook for about 30 minutes, at medium heat.

Rice Pilaf: Make your rice as you normally would. Roast the sesame seeds separately. After you take the rice off the burner, evenly mix the rice with sesame seeds and cover for about 10 minutes.

Spring Salad Ingredients:
-2 Apples
-2 Peaches
-Half a Papaya
-2 sweet mangos
-5 big spinach leaves
-Cream
-Double cream cheese

Spring Salad Preparations
- Dice all the fruit.
-Cut the spinach into long thin strips.
-Mix everything together.
-Pour the cream over and mix it in.
-After serving, you have a delicious meal to share with your family and friends.

“ASKING FOR A FLIGHT”

2009-09-29T09:09:00.001-07:00

Teacher: Thank you for calling Air International, How may I help you?
Student: Excuse me! Do you have any information on flights from The Republic of Bananas?
Teacher: Yes sir, I do. What is the flight number?
Student: The flight number I have is 2503.
Teacher: Do you want to know the time it took off or the estimated time of arrival?
Student: I want to know the estimated time of arrival?
Teacher: It should be landing at 11:00.
Student: What gate does it arrive to?
Teacher: International Flights, Gate 1.
Student: Thank you very much.

Walt Disney

2009-09-29T08:58:00.001-07:00

Not only one of the biggest amusement parks in the world but also a great person.

Schedule your next conversation club and come talk about Walt Disney. Where was he born? How old is he? How many movies has he made?

Walt Disney, another great person to talk about and learn from.

NOBEL PRIZES ARE BORN

2009-09-29T08:07:00.000-07:00

Do you know who was awarded the first Nobel Prize?
Do you know in what date the first Nobel Prize was awarded?
Where was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
Why is this prize awarded?
What is awarded to the Noble Prize winner?
Why is the ceremony always on December 10th

Let´s come to the speaking workshop about Nobel Prize history, Call to schedule your class as soon as possible!

Karaoke Night

2009-09-29T07:59:00.000-07:00

Do you want to practice your listening? Do you want to Practice your listening? Do you want to learn and have fun at the same time. You are cordially invited to our Karaoke night on Friday.
Here is sneak peak of what we will be singing,

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tell Me Baby

They come from every state to find
Some dreams were meant to be declined
Tell the man what did you have in mind
What have you come to do

No turning water into wine
No learning while you're in the line
I'll take you to the broken sign
You see the lights are blue

Come and get it
Lost it at the city limit
Say goodbye
Cause they will find a way to trim it
Everybody
Lookin' for a silly gimmick
Gotta get away
Can't take it for another minute

This town is made of many things
Just look at what the current brings
So high it's only promising
This place was made on you

Tell me baby what's your story
Where you come from
And where you wanna go this time
Tell me lover are you lonely
The thing we need is
Never all that hard to find
Tell me baby what's your story
Where do you come from
And where you wanna go this time
Your so lovely are you lonely
Giving up on the innocence you left behind

Some claim to have the fortitude
To shrewd to blow the interlude
Sustaining pain to set a mood
Step out to be renewed

I'll move you like a baritone
Jungle brothers on the microphone
Getting over with an undertone
It's time to turn to stone

Chitty chitty baby
When your nose is in the nitty gritty
Life could be a little sweet
But life could be a little shitty
What a pity
Boston and a kansas city
Looking for a hundred
But you only ever found a fitty

Three fingers in the honeycomb
You ring just like a xylophone
Devoted to the chromosome
The day that you left home

´´S´´ A NEW WAY TO COMMUNICATE

2009-09-28T08:56:00.000-07:00

Guglielmo Marconi, who took the world into a new phase of communication. Share with your classmates some history about the telegram, the first effective way to communicate, think about questions that can cause debate, for example:

-When was he born?
-Where was he from?
-Where did he get the idea of the telegram from?
-Who contributed to his idea?
-Was he the only person working on this idea?
-What is the meaning of "S"

Newspaper reading -Number 001

2009-08-31T14:20:00.000-07:00

I want to invite all of you to come with your questions and opinions to help you out and have more practice thuesdays and thursday, this week we are going to work on Texas Oil

Praxis Tour Sept

2009-08-31T13:40:00.000-07:00

I want to invite you to the next Praxis Tour, that is gonna be on september 26th and 27th