Can money buy happiness?

Hello people,

1) This is a description of our last activity: Pick one of the following charities and discuss why do you think people should (or not) donate to them. If you were in charge of raising funds for any of them what would you do? Explain your plan.
a. a charity that helps elderly (old) people with food and housing
b. a hospice for people who are dying of an incurable disease
c. an organization that provides emergency supplies and medicine for disaster victims
d. a charity that helps homeless people
e. cancer research
f. a charity that helps people with AIDS
g. animal shelters

2) Study the vocabulary and key words for our next test.

3) Please do and bring the toefl practice below, it is avaiable for download.

Lesson Plan 10
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbbCmn08YwmYZGZ0anI3cWNfMTU5Z2g1eHRzZnY&hl=en

Toefl Exercises L.P. 10
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbbCmn08YwmYZGZ0anI3cWNfMTc1enA5ZjY4ZGs&hl=en

Hooked on the Net

Hooked on the Net





Your homework is...

1) To join our St. Patrick's Day Celebration! Please, dress in green and bring a meal for 3-4 servings, don't be a party pooper!

2) To research the plot of a popular movie or play for our Open House.

3) To make a 1 1/2 essay about one of the following topics:

Option A: Smallville: A call to civil disobedience.

There's no meaningful difference since the water privatization deal lead by Cardenas government. Nowadays, with so many unsolved issues, post-election chaos has become a nightmare for you, the new head of the town.

The People's Liberation Movement (PLM) is calling for civil disobedience. Your intelligence and security services have detained prominent critics of the state who use the Internet to spread the opposition and a cover operation for a coup d'etat. But the parliament fears that without enough enforcement, your government will be toppled by a popular uprising.

In an attempt to set order back, your assembly suggest to diminish the people's freedom of speech and ban the right to publicly voice their disagreement in public gatherings such as rallies and protests. The new policy includes a strong content filtering and blocking social networking such as Facebook and Twitter.

Is Internet censorship a fair measure for authorities to ensure peace and stability in their countries? In what extent should content regulation be possible to prevent harm to societies? Think, besides the benefits of consumer freedom, about the possible threats and consequences from a free Internet.

Whether you like it or not, explain your steps to handle the situation. Remember that the opposition wants your removal and detention. The aftermath from a handful of awkward decisions continues...


Option B: What would you do with a million dollars?

Material

Hooked on the Net
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7bCmn08YwmYMTVmYmRlY2QtMGNlMC00NTNiLWFmZDQtNTYyMzM0NDdiNDNk&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7bCmn08YwmYM2I3NGM4OGQtNDlkNC00ZGYxLTlhODctNjc3MzhlMTAwMTk5&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7bCmn08YwmYYjJmZDBhMTQtYTA4OS00NjA0LTlkNmMtNzQxZTdhMjM1OTRj&hl=en

Today's News!

Today's News!

1) Your homework is to make a 1 1/2 page of any of the following topics:

a) If you could set the ethics and standards for a "fair journalism", what would you consider to regulate the media?

b) If you were a journalist and had to make a choice between reporting a story or lending a helping hand, what would you decide? What's ethically what you're supposed to do? Should journalists be involved in events or refuse to help because it's not their job?

c) Suppose you were a reporter in Haiti and you decide to "cross the line" thus involving in the story to help the injured and the sick. You'll be including the fact that you're trying to help to treat a patient in your story. But people will argue that you are exploiting the sick and injured. Are these critics well-founded or they ignore the common sense of kindness? What's fair and what's not? Explain your reasoning.

2) Quiz #5. Please study the vocabulary from this lesson. It is avaiable in the worksheet:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbbCmn08YwmYZGZ0anI3cWNfMTQ4YzdzbWdiZnM&hl=en

3) EVERYONE: To plan an activity for our OPEN HOUSE, for a 15m presentation. Otherwise I will decide for you... BRING YOUR IDEA WITH YOUR HW.

4) The video from Old School Journalism explains the writing jobs on newspapers.

Additional information.

Auxiliary Verbs: This is a self-study guide about the main auxiliary verbs: "To be", "To do", and "To have".
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbbCmn08YwmYZGZ0anI3cWNfMTUyZzY1ODViY2c&hl=en

How visual media affects people

How visual media affects people

Goal: For students to encourage critical thinking in relation to the positive and negative effects of visual media.

Objective:- Students will express their opinions about this theme.- Students will acquire new vocabulary related to the theme and learn to apply it.



Vocabulary:
household, media, TV "the small screen", trial, nevertheless, trendy, encountered, dissatisfied, furthermore, channel surf, advertising, grieving, sought (seek), trash tv


Homework.

1) To draft a 1 1/2 page essay about any of the following topics:

a. Impact or content? Ratings vs quality in program broadcasting.
If you were a public broadcaster from Multimedios, would you pay more attention to ratings (even if this will inevitabily entail a lowering of quality) or would you focus on the core business of quality programming (even if this means that you audience is likely to become smaller in the years ahead)? Explain your reasoning.

b. Do you think of visual media as a mean to enrich people's mind (the transmission of knowledge) or significant risk of attention problems and other disorders? Explain.

c. How could visual media affect unconsciously the mind of people? Explain your reasoning.

2) To make the visual media exercises from the worksheets. This will help you in your next test.


Material:

L.P. #7 Visual Media
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbbCmn08YwmYZGZ0anI3cWNfMTE2OWp2ZGI0Zzg&hl=en

L.P. #7 Visual Media Passage
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7bCmn08YwmYNTM0MzZmM2QtYzU0Yy00OTM3LWEzNmQtNDYzZGZlZThlOWQw&hl=en

L.P. #7 Visual Media Exercises
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbbCmn08YwmYZGZ0anI3cWNfMTQ0amdiYjZ3d2c&hl=en

Additional references

How we perceive ourselves