Asiggnament_#6_Types Sentences_Clauses

PART I. INDICATE INDEPENDENT CLAUSES AND FOR DEPENDENT CLAUSES

Dependent Clauses
Independent Clauses

The Beatles

The Beatles were one of the most influential music groups of the rock era, and many consider them the best musical group on Earth. Initially they affected the post-war baby boom generation of Britain and the U.S. during the 1960s, and later the rest of the world"; certainly they were the most successful group, with global sales exceeding 1.1 billion records.

While they were originally famous for light-weight pop music, their later works achieved a combination of popular and critical acclaim perhaps unequaled in the 20th century.

Eventually, they became more than recording artists, branching out into film and — particularly in the case of John Lennon — political activism. They achieved an iconic status beyond mere celebrity, with far reaching effects difficult to exaggerate.

The members of the group were John Lennon, (James) Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), all from Liverpool, Merseyside, England; original drummer Pete Best was asked to leave the group just before it started recording, stuart Sutcliffe was with them in Hamburg but also left.

Beatlemania began in the UK and exploded following the appearance of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in the United States, on February 9, 1964. The pop-music band became a worldwide phenomenon with worshipful fans, hysterical adulation, and denunciations by culture commentators and others such as Frank Sinatra.

Some of this was confusion over the sources of their music and some of it was simply an incredulous reaction to the length of their hair, at any rate, it was regarded by the band members with both awe and resentment.

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PART II. INFER THE MEANING AND GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF worshipful AND EXPLAIN WHY.

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Se refiere a un termino mundial, en este caso, la lectura infiere a la fanaticada mundial.

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PART III. IDENTIFY TYPE OF SENTENCES ACCORDING TO THEIR CLAUSES.

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Compound Sentence

• Some of this was confusion over the sources of their music and some of it was simply an incredulous reaction to the length of their hair, at any rate, it was regarded by the band members with both awe and resentment.

Complex Sentence

• The Beatles were one of the most influential music groups of the rock era, and many consider them the best musical group on Earth.
• Initially they affected the post-war baby boom generation of Britain and the U.S. during the 1960s, and later the rest of the world"; certainly they were the most successful group, with global sales exceeding 1.1 billion records.
• While they were originally famous for light-weight pop music, their later works achieved a combination of popular and critical acclaim perhaps unequaled in the 20th century.
• Eventually, they became more than recording artists, branching out into film and — particularly in the case of John Lennon — political activism.
• They achieved an iconic status beyond mere celebrity, with far reaching effects difficult to exaggerate.
• Beatlemania began in the UK and exploded following the appearance of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in the United States, on February 9, 1964.
• The pop-music band became a worldwide phenomenon with worshipful fans, hysterical adulation, and denunciations by culture commentators and others such as Frank Sinatra.

Compound-Complex Sentences

• The members of the group were John Lennon, (James) Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), all from Liverpool, Merseyside, England; original drummer Pete Best was asked to leave the group just before it started recording, stuart Sutcliffe was with them in Hamburg but also left.

PART IV. INDICATE COORDINATING CONJUNCTION AND SENTENCE CONNECTOR

Dependent Marker Word

• while.
• before.
• as

Independent Marker Word

• also.

Coordinating Conjunction

• and.
• but.

Assignment # 5

EXERCISE

Microsoft believes that video games can make science and mathematics attractive to middle school students, and yesterday it took a step toward developing the games that could make it happen. Chief research and strategy office Craig Mundie announced yesterday a $ 1.5 million grant from Microsoft to the games for learning institute, a figure that New York University and seven partner schools plan to match. The money will be used for research to investigate which elements of the video-game experience are grabbing and addictive in an effort to develop educational games that could copy those techniques. Ken Perlin is a professor of computer science at NYU and director of the NYU Media Research Laboratory. He and other NYU researchers hope to create game technologies that could be used to enhance science and math education at the middle school level, the time that many students lose interest in those subjects.

Jan Plass, an associate professor of educational communication and technology at NYU and one of the team members researching the subject, told PM that the question of whether games can help kids learn has been settled-they can. But he said no one has done rigorous studies to find out which aspects of gaming will work for learning. “whatever can make an environment engaging is what we want”, he said, but it will take a lot of research to find out how much of that engagement comes from visuals, challenges, or those great little hints games give that are “ just enough to get you curious.” Plass mentioned the immersion of games like World of Warcraft as an example of a game where players have to learn a lot about their environment in a very short time in order to succeed. But he also looks at relatively simpler games like Professor Layton and the Curious Village, a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS wherein the villagers ask the protagonist to solve puzzles. “I’m not a puzzle guy, but I played that to the end”, he said. Even first person shooters like Halo, Plass said, force players to solve puzzles and meet challenges, which could be cornerstones of an educational game. But, he said “we probably won’t implement that dying part” for students who get something wrong.

• Fill in the chart with 5 derived Word from the text.

• Place the following noun groups in the corresponding column and translate them.
  

1) Middle school students.

Estudiantes de la escuela media.

2) An associate professor of educational communication and technology.

Un profesor asociado a la comunicación y tecnología educacional.

3) Rigorous studies.

Estudiantes rigurosos.

4) An example of a game where players have o learn a lot.

Un ejemplo de un juego donde los jugadores aprenden mucho.

5) Cornerstones of an educational game.

La esquina educacional del juego.

• Describe the 7 underlined verb in terms of form and function.

• What is the text about?

El texto trata de que Microsoft cree que los video juego pueden hacer las ciencias y matemáticas mas interesantes para los estudiantes de escuela media y para comprobar esto están aportando una cantidad de dinero para realizar investigaciones que confirmen lo que creen. Para ello cuentan con una serie de profesionales que se basaran en ciertos argumentos para su investigación.

Assignment # 4

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology, and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy, while the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the Achaean leaders. Other parts of the war were told in a cycle of epic poems, which has only survived in fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets like Virgil and Ovid.

The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.

The Ancient Greeks thought the Trojan War was a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and believed that Troy was located in modern day Turkey near the Dardanelles. By modern times both the war and the city were widely believed to be non-historical. In 1870, however, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated a site in this area which he identified as Troy; this claim is now accepted by most scholars. Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War is an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War derive from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th centuries BC, often preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes, 1194–1184 BC, which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of Troy VIIa.

Assignment # 3

Mr. Bean

Mr. Bean is a British comedy television series, starring Rowan Atkinson. The programme was produced by Tiger Television, later renamed Tiger Aspect productions (a company in which Atkinson has a stake), for Thames Television and originally shown on ITV. It is written by Atkinson, Robin Driscoll and Richard Curtis. The first episode was broadcast on 1 January 1990, with the final episode, "Goodnight, Mr. Bean," on 31 October 1995.

In the show, Atkinson plays a selfish, sometimes ingenious buffoon who frequently gets into hilarious situations due to his various schemes and contrivances.

The show relies upon physical comedy, with very little dialogue. It features Mr. Bean trying to undertake what would normally be considered simple tasks, such as going swimming, redecorating or taking an exam. One of his acts, most beloved by fans, is stuffing a turkey and getting it stuck on his head. The humour largely comes from his original solutions to any problems, and a total disregard for others when solving them.

Mr. Bean is the only significant character in the programme (save for Teddy, his lovable stuffed teddy bear). Other characters exist simply as foils for his various antics, and besides the star, there are only two recurring supporting characters; his sometime "girlfriend" Irma Gobb (played by Matilda Ziegler) and a light blue Reliant Regal Supervan (if such can be called a 'character', given that its driver always remains anonymous). However, Angus Deayton often appears alongside Atkinson in sketches as various one-off supporting characters.

The show's title sequence (used from the second episode onward) depicts Mr. Bean falling from the sky in a beam of light. Theories on the meaning of this have ranged from Mr. Bean's being an alien to his being an angel sent to Earth. More humourously, perhaps, as a character who is always having odd things happen to him, it could represent his return after an abduction. However, the producers of the show claim that it is intended to show his status as an ordinary man cast into the spotlight. Regardless of meaning, this is clear: Mr. Bean is alone in the world, is frequently childlike, and often seems unaware of basic aspects of the way the world works.

Assignment # 2

A large volume of current English words were developed in the Modern English period

Without considering the immense number of words that we have constantly borrowed from every language with which English-speaking people have been in contact, we owe a large volume of our words to the period that we call "Modern English", beginning, roughly, with the sixteenth century.
Scholarship, previously limited largely to the clergy, was opened to just about every one, and the study of classical learning became the ultimate way to be educated.
Writers and thinkers sprang up from every walk of life, and did not hesitate to select, or to choose, their words from the Latin of Cicero, or Horace, or Ovid, or Seneca.
Many also went to the Greek of Aeschylus, or Plato, or Plutarch to derive their words. It is thus chiefly through these writers and their unceasing stream of successors that the great bulk of words derived directly from Latin and Greek ancestry and meanings have entered our language.
From this practice also has descended our present custom of looking to one or another of those languages for the formation of new words, especially those of scientific nature.

Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prefixes

First activity

1_Order from 1 to 7 the following aspects according to the importance your group assigns to each aspect:

• Gramatical information (2)
• Spelling (1)
• Pronunciation (5)
• Examples (6)
• Meaning (3)
• Traslation (4)
• Explanation (7)


2_Find on each page:

• First and the last word:

The first word: Matter.
The last word: Mechanic.


•The longest word found: Mealymouthed

• Adjetives (number): we found fifteen (15) adjectives

Matter
Maudlin
Mauve
Mawkish
Meager
Mealy
Mealymouthed
Mean
Meaningful
Meaningless
Measly
Measurable
Measured
Measureless
Meaty

• Adverbs: we found seven (7) adverbs

Maturely
Maybe
Meagerly
Meaningfully
Meantime
Meanwhile
Measurably

• How many word do you know?

We know nine words: mean (significar), meaning (significado), meat (carne), mechanic (mecanico), me (yo), Mayor (oficial, sargento), matter (asunto), maybe (quizas), mayonnaise (mayonesa).

• Idioms: we don’t found any idioms.

• Can you find compound word?

Meafly.
Maybe.
Meantime.
Meanwhile.


• Chose 2 word and share all the information that the entry has.

Matter: first explained to us is used and then us an example of the same. The dictionary has meaning, gramatical information and examples.

Meat: first tell us the use of the word and then use other terms of defining the word with examples. The dictionary has gramatical information, meaning, explanation and examples.