Reflexión final

Con la realización de este curso de ingles y gracias a la maravillosa profesora que tuve, aprendí como nuevas herramientas para el aprendizaje de este rico idioma, un ejemplo de ello, es este blog el cual me abrió las puertas a nuevas fronteras de la información, por otro lado, este curso me ayudo a refrescar, corregir, ampliar y capitalizar los conocimientos poseía y que no sabía que tenía acerca del ingles. A los viejos amigos que realizaron este viaje conmigo y los nuevos que encontré estaré eternamente agradecido por los momentos agradables que compartimos juntos. Esto no será un adiós sino un hasta luego. Hender J. Sarcos O.

Taller unidad 4. Patrones de Organización de un párrafo

Actividad A

Financial Accounting

The purpose of accounting is to provide the information that is needed for sound economic decision making. The main purpose of financial accounting is to prepare financial reports that provide information about a firm's performance to external parties such as investors, creditors, and tax authorities. Managerial accounting contrasts with financial accounting in that managerial accounting is for internal decision making and does not have to follow any rules issued by standard-setting bodies. Financial accounting, on the other hand, is performed according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) guidelines.

1.      Definiciones

Accounting: the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof

2.      Marcadores del discurso. Resaltadas en el texto.

Actividad B

Stan "The Man" Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry's censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.

1.       Marcadores de Tiempo. Resaltados en el texto.

2.       Tipo de texto: Narración.

        3.          Idea general del párrafo: la vida del más grande creador de comis de la historia.

Taller unidad 3. Scanning

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.

Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.

1. Cuando nació Walt Disney?
    Nació el 5 de Diciembre de 1901.

2. Que hacia Walt Disney?

   Él era productor, director, guionista, actor de voz, animador, empresario, artista, icono internacional, y filántropo

3. Cuál es el personaje más famoso creado por Disney?

     Su personaje más famoso es Mickey Mouse

4. De que murió Walt Disney?

Murió de cáncer de pulmón.

Taller unidad 3. Predicción, deducción, Skimming

How to Have a Successful Job Interview

Most people would buckle down under the pressure of an oncoming job interview. Some may lose their presence of mind that will cause them to flunk a series of job interviews. But as a saying proven true goes, practice makes perfect. In order to tackle it well, you have to follow a regimen for your job interview preparation. If you will do the following faithfully well, you might emerge victorious.

First, you must take a better and deeper look at yourself. One thing that you have to market around during the entire interview is yourself. In order to advertise yourself well, you have to know the merits that you have that will make you the best candidate to pick among all the applicants who interviewed for the position. You have to weave all your key abilities in a way that when you narrate them to your interviewer, he will clearly see that you are perfectly capable to do the vacated job.

Then, you should be able to support all your previous claims. You must bring along with you a portfolio containing everything that will prove your claims true. Upon relating your experiences, you must also give the interviewer insights as to what your duties and responsibilities were. Again, you must relate them in a connective way that will conclude the point that you will be the most appropriate person to do the job.

You should be careful in everything that you say so as they will not imply that all you are after of is the money that you will earn when you have the job. You would be seen badly by your interviewer. Instead, you have to emanate the aura that you are genuinely interested in the job and this may just be the decisive thread to get you accepted.

The requisites to do the job must be well researched. This will enable you to match what you have with what the company needs. They do interviews as match making efforts so you have to make it easier for them to see that you are the missing piece of the puzzle. Think of instances when you did exactly what they need you to do if ever you will get the job offered.

Even if you are already shaking inwards, with your knees seeming to have a mind of its own, voluntarily jerking due to anxiety, you have to show that you are perfectly calm. Try doing mock interviews before you will bring yourself to the real thing.

Put your best foot forward. You have to look the part when you come to your job interview. You have to dress up well. This will mark your presence more in the mind of your interviewer. This might increase your chances of getting the coveted position. If you look good, you will feel good and this will boost your confidence. Men should look neat. Women can sport a simple hairdo. Accessorize simply. Both can wear formal dresses to show a business-like appeal. The effort of dressing up will show and this will tell that you are serious and intent in getting the job and the interviewer will take you seriously too.

1.   La idea general del texto el que hacer para tener una entrevista de trabajo exitosa

2.   Palabras que se repiten: Job, Interview.

3.   Palabras que se parecen al español: perfect, victorious, candidate, portfolio, voluntarily.

4.   El texto trata del hacer y no hacer para lograr una entrevista de trabajo prefecta, el saber qué aspectos de nuestras habilidades se amoldan a los requerimientos del empleador, como debe ser nuestra presencias y nuestra manera de actuar frente al entrevistador

Taller unidad 2

Accounting is defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as "the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof."

Accounting is thousands of years old; the earliest accounting records, which date back more than 7,000 years, were found in the Middle East. The people of that time relied on primitive accounting methods to record the growth of crops and herds. Accounting evolved, improving over the years and advancing as business advanced.

Early accounts served mainly to assist the memory of the businessperson and the audience for the account was the proprietor or record keeper alone. Cruder forms of accounting were inadequate for the problems created by a business entity involving multiple investors, so double-entry bookkeeping first emerged in northern Italy in the 14th century, where trading ventures began to require more capital than a single individual was able to invest. The development of joint stock companies created wider audiences for accounts, as investors without firsthand knowledge of their operations relied on accounts to provide the requisite information. This development resulted in a split of accounting systems for internal (i.e. management accounting) and external (i.e. financial accounting) purposes, and subsequently also in accounting and disclosure regulations and a growing need for independent attestation of external accounts by auditors.

Today, accounting is called "the language of business" because it is the vehicle for reporting financial information about a business entity to many different groups of people. Accounting that concentrates on reporting to people inside the business entity is called management accounting and is used to provide information to employees, managers, owner-managers and auditors. Management accounting is concerned primarily with providing a basis for making management or operating decisions. Accounting that provides information to people outside the business entity is called financial accounting and provides information to present and potential shareholders, creditors such as banks or vendors, financial analysts, economists, and government agencies. Because these users have different needs, the presentation of financial accounts is very structured and subject to many more rules than management accounting. The body of rules that governs financial accounting is called Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP.

1- The people of that time relied on primitive accounting methods to record the growth of crops and herds.

Frase nominal: people of that time
Nucleo de la frase nominal: peoplePre modificadores: The
Post modificadores: of that time
Frase verbal: relied on primitive accounting methods to record the growth of crops and herds
Nucleo de la frase verbal: relied
Tiempo verbal: Presente simple

2- Today, accounting is called "the language of business" because it is the vehicle for reporting financial information about a business entity to many different groups of people.

Frase nominal: Today, accounting is

Nucleo de la frase nominal: accounting
Pre modificadores: Today
Post modificadores: is
Frase verbal: called "the language of business" because it is the vehicle for reporting financial information about a business entity to many different groups of people.
Nucleo de la frase verbal: called
Tiempo verbal: Pasado simple

Taller unidad 1

A Way to Share Music and Movies from Any Device

A new service called Libox aims to make it easier for people to access content, no matter what gadget they're using.

Nowadays most people own a multitude of devices capable of displaying photos and playing music and video. But these gadgets are often made by different manufacturers, run different operating systems, and don't communicate well with each other. A startup called Libox, which launched yesterday, hopes to solve this problem by offering a service that makes it easy for a user to access photos, video, and music from almost any Web-connected device.
Founder Erez Pilosof says he started Libox, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, after thinking about his biggest annoyances as a consumer. Managing media and sharing it "seemed very limited and tedious and problematic," he says. Pilosof wanted to build a service that provided a consistent experience no matter how a user wanted to access her media.
Libox allows users to sync and share media through its desktop applications and a Web application that can be accessed from a browser. The Web application uses HTML, a Web technology that can be accessed by Apple's iPhone and iPad, as well as Android smart phones and a variety of other mobile devices. Within a few months, Libox plans to launch native mobile applications optimized specifically for the iPhone, Android, and the iPad.
To use the basic service, which is free, a user has to install Libox's software on a desktop machine. This software finds and processes all media files on the machine and processes new ones when the user loads them. Unlike many other syncing services, Libox does not move users' data to its own servers. Instead, the company uses peer-to-peer sharing algorithms to distribute data across a user's devices. For example, when a user accesses a song from a smart phone, Libox might stream that song to the phone from the user's desktop machine.
Algorithms that attempt to predict what content a user wants to access help the architecture work smoothly, says Pilosof. Those algorithms might detect that a user has been listening to five songs a great deal then store those songs locally on the user's smart phone to make them easier to access.
Libox users can also share media with each other. The technology then functions in much the way it does when syncing between multiple devices owned by one user, and the company's algorithms again try to predict how best to distribute content. If a friend tends to access shared photos right away, Libox will prioritize transferring those files as soon as they're available.


Unknown words: annoyances (molestias)(sustantivo), instead (en cambio)(adv.), smoothly (suavemente)(adv).
Content words: divice, machine.
Function words: and, on.
Verbs: syncing, listening.
Adverb: well, yesterday.
Adjective: best, that.
Articles: a, the.
Prepositions: by, between. 
Conjunction: if, as.
True cognates: data, systems.
False cognates: can, media.
Suffix: managing, application.
Prefixes: multitude, unlike.