STREET CRIME

The street crime is a very big problem that is caused by the poverty that exists in big cities and lack of employment that are currently.

The street crime and the drug traffic generates a millions of dollars each year and causes many deaths, as a result, this creates domination and respect on the population and all this full of corruption to the government.
The government has created a new police force that controls crime in the streets.

THINK…change…you can improve the world and make it a better place…

Street Crime is an important social problem.
The most of the crimes are carried out by teenagers, the cause of this often is the kind of friendships that have, because they have no money, disturbed children, among others.
Many examples of street crime are vandalism, all kinds of theft, clandestine fights between gangs, graffiti, sell drugs, etc.
However the government should have done many campaigns to prevent this type of crime.
Nowadays the street crime is increasing and the consequence of this is causing fear in people.

Graffiti

"Graffiti"

Graffiti consists of inscriptions, slogans and drawings scratched, scribbled or painted on a wall or other public or private surface.

The graffiti is a form of express art and is a way of demonstrating our emotions and our way of thinking, but the people use this as excuse and becomes a big problem. is very important know where paint because There are times that becomes graffiti vandalism. It is costly, destructive, lowers property values and sends a message that people of the community are not concerned about the appearance of their neighborhoods.
In our city exist a big number of houses painted by graffiti, and that makes our city look dirty.

I think that a way to end this problem is give a special place for painting and not to paint the houses of people.
It is important to worry about maintaining a beautiful city to give a good image to people who visit us.

street crime

STREET CRIME


It’s common to see that the problems increase when a city grown up, Tuxtla Gutierrez isn’t the exception. We can’t compare with other cities like the D.F but the persons that live here a lot of time can feel the change. Today it’s easy see or be a victim of the crime and the ways to solve the problems need to be reinforced, the things that the police and the government make before, today aren’t enough.

The government of Chiapas has been took measures to combat the street crime like give patrol cars, motorcycles or implement programs like “proximity policeman”. To eradicate the crime it’s important too the citizen participation.

The statistics point that Tuxtla is one of the better places to live, the report of the justice minister of the first four-month of the 2008, point that Tuxtla Gutierrez has fall of 14 percent compared with the same period of the last year in the commission of crime that considered of high impact.

In the crime with arms, the study point a fall of 50 percent, the vehicles steal have a fall of 46 percent and the violation a fall of 31 percent less compared with the 2007.

The statistics are favourable, but the government still has a long road to cover to make the live in Tuxtla better.

Final Project.

After giving your presentation in class, I want you too find more information about the topic you have chosen. This will be interesting because it's open for your creativiy and interest to give more information. You can visit different websites and use photos, video, etc. The ONLY think you CAN'T do is to copy and paste any information as plagarism. you can use " " if you are referring to someone elses job but NOT copy everything.
Some of the topics that are interesting for our community are these ones:

1. Company downsizing
2. ethnic conflict
3. graffiti
4. gun violence.
5. illiteracy
6. inadeacuate health care.
7. lack of affordable child care.
8. noise pollution
9. stray animals.
10. street crime.
etc.

The final day to upload your projects is Monday July 7th. If you still have more questions send me an email to alvarous@gmail.com, and I'll be glad to unswer your questions.

Influential Women

Eva Perón

Born: 7 of march in 1919, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Major Contributions: Promote the recognozice of the rights of women workers.

Clara Campoamor
Born: 12 of feubrary of 1888 in Madrid
Died: 30 of april of 1972 in Switzerland
Major Contributions: She defended the wimen rights in Spain and the female vote.

Gabriela Mistral

Born: 7 of april in 1889

Died: 10 of january in 1957

Major contributions: The first latin-american women who won the literature female vote.

influential women

Emma Godoy
Born: march 1918
Major contributions: one of her passions is the poetry, was collaborator in many publications, she participated in radio programmes like “Charlas Diarias”, “Nuestro Hogar” and “El mundo de la Mujer” and was advises the philosophy of Mexican society.

Valentina Vladimírovna Tereshkova
Born: march 1937Major Contributions: in 1963, on the Vostok 6, she became the firts woman and firts civil to traveled to space.

Helen Keller
Born: 1880
Major Contributions: deafblind the first person in obtaining a university degree; She not only collected money, it also campaigns to improve the quality of life and conditions of blind people who were wrongly rejected and educated in asylums.

three women

Born: Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria in 1951.

Major contributions: is the president of chile and is a woman that cut have whit a dictator organism she joined at different movements in the political of Chile and in the present is a successful in the country.

Born: Magdalena del Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón 1907
Died: 13 July of 1954
Mejor contributivos: is a famous painter in México is a very important personage for the big word that she performed. She put the name of mexico at the top whit her job in different place. She was a big women.

Born: Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez 1768
Died: march 2 of 1829
Mejor contributivos: is a women very important for the country because she participated is a revolution of Mexico , is a the first woman that involucrate in a movement very important.

Women

Sor Juana (November 12, 1651 – April 17, 1695), also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, was a self-taught Novohispana scholar, nun, poet, and a writer of the baroque school.
She was the first woman writer in the History...

Marilyn Monroe was a Golden Globe-winning, critically-acclaimed, American actress, singer, model, Hollywood icon, cultural icon, fashion icon, pop icon, film executive and sex symbol.
Born: Norma Jeane Mortenson June 1, 1926 (1926-06-01)Los Angeles, California.
Died: August 5, 1962 (aged 36)Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc in French, also known as "the Maid of Orleans", was a 15th century virgin saint and national heroine of France. A peasant girl born in Eastern France, Joan led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of King Charles VII. She was captured by the English and tried by an ecclesiastical court led by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, an English partisan; the court convicted her of heresy and she was burned at the stake by the English when she was nineteen years old. Twenty-four years later, the Holy See reviewed the decision of the ecclesiastical court, found her innocent, and declared her a martyr. She was beatified in 1909 and later canonized in 1920.
Born:c. 1412, Domrémy, France .
Died: May 30, 1431, Rouen, France.

MY OWN STORY

3. Tell some anecdotes about parents and grandparents and how they met. “Imagine” a family history, either inspired by actual events or made up of fictional people and how they met. The stories must begin with an ending such as the one in The Danish Poet: "If it hadn't been for a Danish poet and Sigrid Undset and a rainy summer in Norway and a slippery barn plank and a careless mailman and a hungry goat and broken thumb and a crowded train, my parents might never have met."
There are many ways to trace one's ancestors, either by researching genealogy or through DNA tracing, but if we want to know the human stories, we have to ask family members and hope for the best.

The Danish Poet

Let's begin the last part of our summer course with something very interesting. The Danish Poet is an awarded short animated film in 2006, it even won the Oscar in that category, so, it´s really good, you'll see.

Here's what you are going to do:

1. Watch the film (it takes aproximately 15 minutes)

2. Answer these questions on the blog:
A. Discuss the subtle techniques used in the film. Which elements had an emotional impact? (The
delicate music and the lilting accent of the narrator, for example, give the film a kind of Sweetness and sense of pending romance.)
How did the filmmaker, Torill Kove, prevent the story from being too sweet? (She adds regular dashes of wickedly funny detail, e.g., the perilously sliding bovine, the madly growing hair, the dog that gets kicked regularly, the eventual love affair between that dog and the neighbor dog, etc.)
B. Talk about the elements of truth in the film: summers in Norway are notoriously rainy; many
Danes, Swedes and Norwegians are somewhat confused about their national beginnings; Sigrid
Undset was a writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Do you believe that Undset was really a distant relative of the filmmaker? Or is this a device
to tell a wonderful story? Does it matter? This should lead to a discussion about poetic license
and fact vs. fiction, when writers and filmmakers create an entertaining story based on real events and people.
C. Did you like it? why?

3. Write your own story. (in the another entry)

Three Women who made a difference.

Writea bout threee women that you consider made or are making a difference?
see example on page 106

TOPICS FOR PRESENTATION

1. Company Downsizing

2. Ethnic Conflict

3. Graffiti

4. Gun Violence

5. Illiteracy

6. Inadequate Health Care

7. Lack of affordable Child Care

8. Noise pullution

9. Stray Animals

10. Street Crime.

GRAMMAR REFERENCE UNIT 15-B

TAG QUESTIONS

With affirmative statements use the verb in negative form and vice-versa.

go to this link to practice.
http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb006-bp.html

GRAMMAR REFERENCE UNIT 15

GIVING RECOMMENDATIONS AND OPINIONS

1. When you think somethins is a good idea use SHOULD/SHOULDN'T or OUGHT TO/ OUGHT NOT TO

Cyclists should be quired to wear a helmet
Pet owners shouldn'tbe allowed to walk dogs without a leash
People ought no to be required to finish parties at midnight.

2. When you think something is absolutely necessary use MUST/MUSTN'T or HAVE-HAS/ HAVEN'T/HASN'T

Laws must be passed to control the noise from car alarms.
People mustn't be permitted to park motorcycles on the sidewalks.
A rule has to be made to require cycling lanes on city streets.
Something has got to be done to stop littering.

3rd Partial Activity#1 A letter to the School Principal

Write a letter to your School Principal about one of the topics you consider important (cleanning, security, internet access, computer facilities, sports, cafeteria, teachers, etc) and that you feel strongly about.

Use these questions to help you.
1.What is your opinion about the topic of issue?

2.What are two or three reasons that support your opinion?

3.What do you think should be done?

Remember to give recomendations or opinions using the grammar we reviewed in class.

should (ought to) be+ particile

----- or-------

must/have,has to+be+ participle.

See the example:

Dear Director:

Iam a student at Morris High School, and I think students ought to be requiered to wear school uniforms. Students shouldn't be permitted to wear the latest fashions, because this promotes jealousy and competition. Also, students would be able to concentrate on their studies better if . . .

3rd Partial Activity#1 Describing a process

Write about one of the topics from Exercie 5 pag. 94 or use your own idea. Describe different steps in the process using the PASSIVE.

1. A theater performance: actor, costumes, play, sets, build, design, rehearse, perform.
2. The making of a newspaper: articles, reporters, reserach, interviews, print, distribute.

Read example:

Planning a musical is complicated. Before anything else happens, a story must be written. Once the story is written, the rest of the preparations take place. First, music and lyrics need to be composed to accompany the story, Then, a producer must be found. After that, . . .

Unit 14 presentation

To get access to Unit 14 click on here:
http://www.4shared.com/file/52609897/64614efd/_2__Unit14_English_6.html

Unit 13 Presentation.

Go to this link to check the unit. 13
http://www.4shared.com/file/51585275/d4a11bc3/Unit13_English_6.html


And this is the review of from 11 to 13, check this for studying.

http://www.4shared.com/file/51585883/b7cd27ef/Review-U11-13.html

Levi's Blue Jeans

Vocabulary

• emigrate- (v) to move permanently from one's country to another.


• dry goods- (n) clothing, fabric, and other items to sell


• miner- (n) a person who searches for gold, diamonds, etc.


• durable- (adj) last a long time


• fabric- (n) material for clothing, curtains, etc.


• tailor- (n) a person who sews clothing


• rivet- (n) (v) a metal piece that holds 2 thing together. (You can see the metal on Levi's jeans)


• patent- (n) (v) an inventor's right to be the only one making or selling a product
  think it over- (v) think about it, decide

Levi's Blue Jeans
Vocabulary
emigrate- (v) to move permanently from one's country to another.
dry goods- (n) clothing, fabric, and other items to sell
miner- (n) a person who searches for gold, diamonds, etc.
durable- (adj) last a long time
fabric- (n) material for clothing, curtains, etc.
tailor- (n) a person who sews clothing
rivet- (n) (v) a metal piece that holds 2 thing together. (You can see the metal on Levi's jeans)
patent- (n) (v) an inventor's right to be the only one making or selling a product
think it over- (v) think about it, decide

READING.

Do you enjoy wearing Levi's blue jeans? Blue jeans have become popular all over the world, but do you know how they got started? Read on to find out...
Levi Strauss was born in Germany in the mid 1800's and emigrated to the United States as a young man. He lived in New York City and learned the dry-goods business for several years. In 1853 he took his knowledge and his dreams to San Francisco (California., USA.) His dream to succeed came true over the next 20 years as he became a very successful businessman.
Many of Levi Strauss' customers were cowboys and miners. They needed clothing that was strong and durable. Strauss found a special fabric from France that was comfortable and lasted a long time. It was called "serge de Nimes," which was later shortened to the word denim.
Another man named Jacob Davis bought large amounts of the denim fabric from Levi Strauss. He was a tailor who made pants for hard-working men. One of his customers was continually tearing the pockets off his pants. So Jacob Davis decided to put rivets on certain parts of the pants to make them stronger. The customer loved the new pants so much that he told all his friends, and soon Jacob Davis was busy making lots of pants with rivets.
Jacob Davis soon realized that using rivets was a great business idea, and he didn't want anybody to steal that idea. He decided that he would need to get a patent. But being a poor tailor, he didn't have enough money to pay for the patent. After thinking it over, he went to the businessman Levi Strauss and told him his idea. He said, "If you agree to pay for the patent, we will share the profits from the riveted pants." Levi Strauss did agree, and the new riveted pant business was called Levi Strauss and Company. Today Levi's jeans are more popular than ever, and Levi's name continues to live on.

QUESTIONS.

True or False. Check your answers below.
1. Levi Strauss was born in 1853. True False
2. Levi Strauss wanted to become a great businessman. True False
3. Levi Strauss sewed pants in his business. True False
4. Jacob Davis sewed pants in his business. True False
5. Jacob David used denim to make pants. True False
6. Jacob Davis put rivets in pants because they looked good. True False
7. Levi Strauss didn't want to pay for Jacob Davis' patent. True False
8. Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis became business partners. True False