E L I S A: June 2008

Friday, June 27, 2008

WILL;GOING TO..

WILL AND GOING TO

Simple Future has two different forms in English: "will" and "be going to." Although the two forms can sometimes be used interchangeably, they often express two very different meanings.

WILL

afirmative --- negative --- Interrogative

She will go.. She won't go ..will she go.. ?

Form: subject + will + verb (indicative)

Uses: Promises, plans and intentions (not sure), ask politely or offer.

examples:

You will help him later.
Will you help him later?
You will not help him later.

GOING TO

afirmative ------ negative ------- Interrogative

She is going to.. She isn't going to.. Is she going to..?

Form: subject + verb to be + going to + verb (indicative)

Uses: (segurity) intencions and plans, preditions with evidences, future events.

examples:

You are going to meet Jane tonight.
Are you going to meet Jane tonight?
You are not going to meet Jane tonight.

the information are from:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplefuture.html
http://boards4.melodysoft.com/app?ID=omforum&msg=1006&DOC=201
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/intermediate/a_grammar/unit05/hwy_int_unit05_2/

Monday, June 02, 2008

VIDEOGAMES

A VIDEO GAME
A video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device.

However, with the popular use of the term "video game", it now implies any type of display device. The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms; examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles (play station, nintendo etc.. )

TYPES

Video games are primarily meant for entertainment. However, some video games are made (at least in part) for other reasons. These include advergames, educational games, propaganda games. Many of these fall under the category of serious games.

SOCIAL ASPECTS

Demographics

multiplayer-Video gaming has traditionally been a social experience. From its early beginnings, video games have commonly been playable by more than a single player.

Benefits- It has been shown that action video game players have better visuomotor skills, such as their resistance to distraction, their sensitivity to information in peripheral vision, and their ability to count briefly presented objects than nonplayers.

Controversy- Like related forms of media, computer and video games have been the subject of frequent controversy and censorship, due to the depiction of graphic violence, sexual themes, advergaming (a form of advertising in games), consumption of drugs, consumption of alcohol or tobacco, propaganda, or profanity in some games. Among others, critics of video games sometimes include parents' groups, politicians, organized religious groups, and other special interest groups, even though all of these can be found in all forms of entertainment and media.

the information are from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game

videogame theater:

WITTMUND

On 14 of May, we went to Germany/Wittmund, to house families who had volunteered for host children for three days.

we went by plane to dusseldorf, and after we took three trains until Wittmund, where our families were waiting for us.

The first day we didn't speak with our families but in the second day, we did speak and we made a lot of friend of valencia and of another countries. We were workshops, football, coock, fashion or dance.We spend so well

On Thursday night, were the best, the disco

We dance a lot!

COMMITTEES

A committee is a type of small deliberative assembly that is usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly. Committees often serve several different functions:

-Governance

-Coordination

-Research and recommendations

-Project management

CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE

The Cathedral is the heart of the City of Cologne. It forms the centre and provides the measure for everything else. 144 metres long, 86 metres wide and with 157-metre-tall spires. It stands on a flat-topped hill that has been a place of worship since the beginning of the city's history.
Excavations on the site have uncovered remains of a Roman heathen temple, but also traces of an early Christian church, which was probably extended in the 6th century and replaced by a Carolingian Cathedral in the 9th century.