ENGLISH EXPERIENCE

ENGLISH EXPERIENCE

It has been such an interesting experience because not always students develop this kind of method in order to learn the contents of the subject we study at the university. It could work for students that have jobs or study two career and don´t have time to come to class everyday.
In addition to this it is very important to state clear that this is an electronic method, this mean that is a tool that can helps in the development of the student skills but, in any case it could substitute the attendance teacher and oral classes. Also because it is on the web, and is a program, what means that in the least expected moment it could fail even without us notice it.
Beyond that, I think it is an excellent way to improve skill levels of reading and comprehension, writing and self-learning process. It adapts very well to the busy life of nowadays. I appreciate have been part of this learning program and I hope in the future it can helps other students to get better on their ways of learning and progress.

100 mts. Butterfly. Melbourne World Swimming Championship 2007. Podium official photo. Left: Silver, Ian Croker USA Actual World Record holder. Center: Gold, Michael Phelps USA Actual Olimpyc Record Holder and 14 times Olimpyc Gold Medalist. Right: Bronze, Albert Subirats VEN Actual third best swimmer in the world.

Since I was a child my parents introduced me in the world of sports. I practiced several sports during all my childhood. But the ones in which I remained with were Swimming and Karate. Over the time I specialized more in swimming. Then I noticed that if I wanted to improve my performance I had to quit one of them. Since then, I was 11 years old, I took swimming very serious and I started to train hard.
Swimming has given me gorgeous times and experiences in my life, and of course, It has changed my mind completely. To be part of a sport and practice it as a discipline give people an extra personal grow that differs from others who don´t do it. Particularly, swimming has taught me to think and to have always a target in mind. Not only to have it but to break it, to be better than that; and after you reach it, look further for a bigger one.
The competition has been part of my life all my life, It has become my way of thinking things when I want to be better, or maybe the best in anything. This kind of though show you that in the world you will always find competitive people, people willing to be better than you and to any that stand in front of them, people really good or with good capability to do things you would also like to do. So, if you want to be good, first, you got to beat them, you got to look for them, learn from them and finally, do it better than them in order to achieve big goals.
It is a hard thinking, I know, but it’s the only way for people to internalize that they can make what they believe. If things are really inside your mind and your heart, then you can really make it.
This video is the best proof of what things that seem impossible can be made with a dedicated work, passion and all you heart and mind directed to only one vision. The Venezuelan Albert Subirats Spent more than six years of continuous training in Arizona USA, in order to improve his performance and achieve great records times in swimming.
In July of 2007 in Melbourne, Australia, Subirats, born in Valencia, Carabobo State, participated in his first World 50 mts. Swimming pool competition. Being 20 years old this Venezuelan boy could classified to the final of the best 8 swimmers in the event of 100 mts. Butterfly. To his right was Ian Croker, actual world record of the distance, to his left was Michael Phelps, the only human being in the history to win 14 gold medals in just two Olympic Games. His great spirit, big wills, warrior soul, and totally focused mind made him to achieve the third place and bronze medal, becoming the first Venezuelan in history to stand up on the podium in a world 50 mts. swimming pool championship

Albert Subirats Altes, Lane 5 from botton to top, Representing Venezuela. Enjoy it…

NARRATIVE TEXT

NARRATIVE TEXT

The Second World War was the largest armed and bloody conflict of the world history, which faced the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, between 1939 and 1945. Armed forces from over seventy countries took part in fighting air, naval and land. Due to this war around two percent of the world total population amount died (about 60 millions of people, three times the Venezuela´s populations) mostly of them were civilians. It started in Europe de first of September of 1939, but for some historians it began in Asia the seventh of July of 1937, and ended officially around the second of September of 1945.
The most immediate causes to the outbreak of the conflict are: the 1939 invasion of Poland by the Germans, Japanese attacks against China, the United States, British and Dutch colonies in Asia. The World War 2 broke out after these aggressive actions were responded with a war declaration or an armed resistance by the affected countries. As the war progressed, the countries that were entering the conflict (as volunteer or being attacked) lined up in one of the two sides, depending on their own situation.
On September 1 of 1939, Germany invaded Poland, using the pretext of a simulated attack on a Polish German border. The Plains Polish offered an advantage for the movement of armored Germans, but the forests and poorly constructed roads implied problems that made the Nazi progress difficult. Germany advanced by using the blitzkrieg (Thunder War). The UK and France gave Germans two days to withdraw and leave Poland. Once the deadline passed on September 3, the UK, Australia and New Zealand declared war to Germany, quickly followed by France, South Africa and Canada.
After the conquest of Poland, in the winter of 1939 – 1940, Germany took a pause to regroup its troops, while British and French remained on the defensive. Journalists called this period the war joke, because there was almost no fighting. During this period, the Soviet Union attacked Finland on November 30 of 1939, this action started the Winter War. Despite to overpass the Finnish troops in numbers of 4 to 1 the Red Army found that the attack became very difficult and embarrassing, the strong Finnish defense could avoid a complete invasion in its territory.
On August 6 of 1945, a B-29 Superfortress, launched an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy on Hiroshima, destroying the city. On August 9, three days later, a B-29 called Bockscar launched the second atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man on the port city of Nagasaki, both Japanese cities.
On august 14 Japan was signing the surrender pact, after has received what is consider the biggest and most mortal attack in the human history. In the other part of the world, in Europe, Hitler and his Nazi Army were being exterminated by a group of countries leathered by Russia and United States. Germans surrendered on April 1945, by then, Hitler, all his family and closest officer had already suicide.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY TEXT

AUTOBIOGRAPHY TEXT

Hi, my name is José Felix Tovar D. I was born on the first of July of 1982 in Caracas, the Venezuela´s capital. I studied in this city till the second grade of preliminary school, after that my family and I moved to Anaco, a small city in Anzoátegui state, I was 9 years old then. I continued my studies there until graduate from high school.
I have always had an adventurous spirit, so in my last year of high school, I decided to participate in a intercultural exchange program contest that was being held in my city in order to achieve an opportunity to an exchange student experience in another country. This contest lasted for one year and I took a lot of all kind tests. Finally I made it: on August 18th of 2000 I was leaving my country toward to Iceland to a 1 year exchange student experience.
Swimming has been part of my live since I was three years old, since then I have been practicing it and in Iceland it was not an exception. There I had the opportunity to be part of the Icelandic National Swimming Team and I traveled to Denmark to an European Youth Swimming competition representing Iceland.
I came back to Venezuela the same day of my birthday in 2001 and I started my University Studies. First, I began studies of Informatic Engineering in the University of Houston in Texas, USA. After three semesters I returned to my country due to politics and economics problems in the country regarding to the terrorist attacks in New York in September of 2001.
It took me only two semesters at the Andres Bello Catholic University to realize that I didn´t want to continue studying engineering, then I did one of the biggest changes in my life, of course, behind 6 months of vocational and psychological tests. I started a new life in the world of the communications mass media.
This career has given me the chance to experience new world concepts, others ways of thoughts, several kind of social problems understandings, etc. I have also had time to keep on my swimming trainings and reach some personal goals in this sport like to be part of the Miranda State Swimming Team.
In other areas of my live, I have had possibility to work in some TV stations and companies, as well as offices located inside the university campus. This last job I obtained it through a scholarship in which I work for the university and I receive a payment release of the semester total fees.
I´m currently studying 9th semester of mass communication in the area of Broadcasting Journalism. It last only 1 semester for me to get graduated from University and start a new phase of my life after July of this year.

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

After thinking and thinking I found out that I could describe myself, that would be easy I think.
Well, let´s start. My name is José Felix Tovar Duin, I´m a 26 years old guy. My hair is black and my eyes color is also dark. My height is 1 meter 70 centimeters, it´s like 5 feet 30 inches in North-American measurement system.
My skin color is dark brown. Well you can realize that I look pretty much like a guy that comes from a tropical weather, I was born in Venezuela and my nationality is proudly Venezuelan, Currently my weight is 68 Kg, or 138 LB. aprox. in the American way.
About my personality is not easy to describe that, I think it is a litter bit strong or taught, but also funny and relaxed in many ways. I also like thinks to be correct and as perfect as I can, sometimes no matter the work they represent. I like much to think in the future and further decision, I also reflect about my mistakes and the best ways to fix them, I´m pretty sure I got hundreds of them.
Hobbies, well I enjoy outdoors sports, actually I´m professional swimmers, I started in this sport when I was 3 years old, my mom brought me for the first time to a litter swimming pool near to my home and, since then, I have been practicing it. Of course, there are thousands of stories and experiences to share with you but it may bored you a litter bit, the best thing I can say is that 23 years dedicated to a such hard, disciplined, complex and very tough competitive sport have given me a well prepared and independent personality to face all targets in my life, a good capability to understand others people´s feeling and aspirations, and the most important thought to myself: improve every day in all aspect of my life.
I love having good friends, I Love talking with everybody, I think talking to others is essential in order to build your own personality and understanding of the surrounding world, it opens your mind to novel thinking, to different people you never thought they could even exist.
This is one of the several competitions I have participated in. In this time I was swimming 25 mts. Breaststroke, it is my best style, I finished first. The best performance I have reached in my life has been 10th place in Venezuela and 14th in Europe, both in 50 mts distance.

Venezuela faces dangerous inflations problems in Latin America

The text about Creatures that clone themselves in face of danger is: Expositive Text


Argumentative Text

Venezuela faces dangerous inflations problems in Latin America

Venezuela is currently considered the Latin-American country with the highest inflation rate reaching 35,4% estimated for 2009, almost 4 points higher than the 31,8% that is finishing with in 2008. While Argentina will goes down to 8.7% for the next year.

The information was offered by Consensus Forecast International Consulter during an interview to the newspaper La Tercera, it is also shown that other countries like Bolivia and Chile will tend to decline in their rates.

The inform that considered Investment Banks, economist and Stock Markets anticipated that Chile will finish the year 2008 with an inflation rate that touch the 8,1%, but it will goes down for the next year to 4% due to the reduction in the prices of Oil and food.

Besides that, Bolivia will have a low inflation rates along 2009 located in 3,9%, passing from 14,3% registered in this year to 10,4% projected for the next twelve months.

In addition to this, Peru will record the best inflation rate in the region with an improvement of 3,9% in comparison to 6,5% that is finishing with in this year.

This inform also concludes that In Latin America the inflation rates will slow down 1,3 average percentage points. Crossing from 8,4% of this year to 7,1% to the next.

It is pretty important that Venezuela assume smart and well-prepared measures in order to maintain the slow but important economic prosperity that has been shown in some sector in the last years. The international falling of oil prices could represent an imminent danger to the social stability and in consequence, to the government itself.

As an Intro...

Hi. My name is José Felix. I´m student of the Andrés Bello Catholic University. This blog is totally and exlusively created for this subject, cause I don´t like to have any for my own use. Well I hope this novel and electronic way help my classmates and me to improve our english levels. Thanks for spending your time reading this hehe