Daniela Campos

Hi! I'm Daniela, I'm studying managment, this is my fourth semester and I want to make a specialization in marketing and I also want to retake the language french or start with portuguese. One of my favorite things in life is playing tennis, last semester I enter to the interfaculty tournament, I won second place and I really hope to win the first place in the next tournament. I like going to the movies and eat popcorn, the last movie I watched was The Wolf of Wall Street and I really liked it, except for for the fact that it last too much (3 hours).
 For this course I expect to learn how to make an adequate essay, so it would be more easy for me to start with my thesis. I also want to expand my vocabulary and improve my english in every way.

 

Amelia Sánchez

Hi guys, I'm Amelia, I studied the bachelor in Economics and now I'm finishing my professional thesis, it is about manufacturing prices in Mexico, how these help to create profits and generate growth in the country. I really like topics about economy that are in touch with sociology, history and maths.  What about my hobbies? I love watching movies and reading books with different phylosophies, I like to learn from the history, how other people did their knowledge. In the past I used to play tennis, this is my favorite sport and Rafa Nadal is my favorite tennis player, :P

I took this course because I want be better in the English language,  I would like to study a master in abroad. I really am enjoying this course and I hope to improve my writing in English, and the other abilities: speaking, listening, and of course, reading. Now I understand how difficult is to be concise, jeje, thanks for reading me! :)

Week 2

Hello everybody! I´m still waiting for some people to write their introduction in the blog and to write a comment for at least one classmate. Don´t forget to do this. Deadline: Friday, February 7, 2014. 

Here is the work for week 2 (starting Saturday, February 8, 2014): 

Write a short paragraph about the book you plan to read during the semester. You may include the following information: 

• The title of the book
• Some information about the author
• Information about the book
• Why you chose it
• What you expect to find in it

Deadline: Friday, February 21st, 2014. 

Lilia Paz

Hello everyone! My name is Lilia Paz. I finished my major in Economics. Some years ago I watched on TV a Korean drama and I liked it very much, and I liked how  the music sounded and the voice of singer so I became interested in a Korean music, drama and culture, now I´m learning the Korean language, I hope at the end of this year take the exam for certification of Korean level for foreigners so I need to study hard.

I hope at the end of semester write English more easily, without many grammar mistakes, to organize ideas and choose the better words to express my ideas correctly,  and I think it will help in Spanish too. With the course I am motivated  to write and learn more.

David Angeles

Hi guys, I am David Angeles, I accomplished all the subjects from Mechatronics Engineering last year and  nowadays I'm writing my thesis which is about aerial vehicles, particularly Quadcopters. I have several likes as technology, music, reading, sports, and my favorite hobby is cycling.

From the course I'm expecting, in general, to upgrade my English level and more specific to improve the formal way I write, because of both, professional and academic applications.

Beatriz Cruz

Hi. My name is Beatriz Cruz López and I’m an ethnohistorian. I studied my bachelor's degree at ENAH and then I studied a master's degree in Mesoamerican Studies at UNAM. I'm focused in Zapotec culture and history because my family and I are Zapotecs (Unfortunately, I'm not a Zapotec speaker. But they are!). I’m currently doing my M.A. thesis, working in a research project and attending my English classes. I don´t have many hobbies, but I like cooking, skate-rolling (I’m a beginner), listening to music and watching TV. But, except cooking, I don't have enough time to do these activities now.

I hope to learn in this course how to write more and better. I like to write properly in Spanish, and I would like to be able to do the same in English... one day. I think one of my challenges this semester is to increase my vocabulary both, in general and specific topics (history, linguistics, anthropology and archaeology). The other is to strengthen my grammar knowledge by writing a lot, trying with different ways to express my ideas. I would like very much to be able to write a brief paper that can be submitted to an academic journal.

Thank you.