STRATEGIES IN READING

• Prereading: Brainstorming and Visual Aids.
• While reading: Take notes and predicting text content.
• After reading: summarize the key ideas. explain and describe new ideas and information in own words.

To improve my listening aspects, I'm watching British programs like "My home your home" in People and Arts or movies like "Pirates of the Caribbean" in which most of the actors are British.

The lexical English has been changed...

The next Links will give you information of how, some of the English words has been transformed by the use of Castilian or Spanish language.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/spanishwords1.html
http://spanish.about.com/cs/historyofspanish/a/spanishloanword.htm

Note:

These new words in the American language are going to be, through the years, more abundant and common between the English people, because the Spanish language is having more and more influence in most of the countries.

MONEY IN TODAY’S SOCIETY

Previously, we noted that money played an important and effective role in a community, as well as values, education, family, etc. But today, we see it in a different way, because money has been becoming a conflictive and negative factor regarded as the biggest issue in the society.

"With money I have the world in my hands", that’s one of the worst ideas in most people around the world. This issue, much of the times twist the objective in peoples life’s, like for example, people focus and concentrate in get lots of money, no matter how they get it, just to have more material things than others, like luxury cars and properties. In other words, they are only interested in material things leaving behind the aspects that really means such as values, knowledge, family love, and more.

The priority of people for seeking the richness makes them greedy and miserliness, breaking their relationship with their families and friends, because they mostly concerned about themselves and what they have. Here, the consequences are (in most of the cases) internal or external conflicts or divisions that could affect many people.

Finally, is important to understand that if we don’t know how to manage the money, we are affecting unconsciously not only people that surround us but also our self’s, being ambitious and shallows since we get more and more winnings.

NOTE:

The links of how to write a thesis statement, helped me a lot in the realization and construction of the previous argumentative text about "Money in today`s society", because it gave me instructions of how to deloped a good thesis stament with strong arguments.

GLOBALIZATION ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

Globalization helps poor countries because it provides them with different resources, in order to generate equal opportunities and skills to become a developed country. In addition, it is important to know that nowadays, we see globalization as a way to know the world, through technology and culture developments.

These new interactive mechanism between countries, brings them a lot of advantages, such as the access of new technology. In this case, the poor countries are really "lucky", because not only they get the last computers, cell phones, digital cameras, but also, computerize industrial machines, that helps private and public companies to become more competitive increasing the levels of productivity, efficiency and profitability. Here is important to know, that this commercial interaction among countries is called the FTA (Free Trade Agreement), which makes possible the different exchanges of products and services between nations, extending cultural and economic aspects.

Another benefit of globalization is the reduction of cultural barriers, which strengthen the union among states . For that reason, the possibility of war between the countries decreases, and the poor nations can grow in economic, political, cultural and social systems, due to the influential and big relationship they have with the powerful or develop countries that guarantied a huge evolution.

In conclusion, I can say that this trading process, benefits developing countries around the world, improving people profiles and skills, better access to products and services, with an outstanding quality of life.