September 06, 2016

Unit 2

What makes food taste good?

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A) Questions

1. I usually eat everyday bread, eggs and juice at breakfast; meat, chicken and rice
at lunch and at dinner time, I usually eat sandwich or arepa.

2. On special occasions like Christmas or New Years Eve, I eat turkey with
coconut rice and salad; on a relatives birthday I eat pasta or fish, in my birthdate
too.

3. I think foods presentation is really nice because it have the correct sushis cut
and the sticks are cool too, I think it affects its taste in a good way because it looks
great.
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E) Questions

1. Looking my answers about the quiz, it seems that I prefer a mix between salty
and sweet food.

2. My partners answers and mines were not too different, it seem that we have a
common preferences with the food taste.

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C) Vocabulary

Balanced

I like to eat balanced food, like vegetables and fruits because I always want to
have a good shape and stay healthy.

Identify

I always try to identify if there is a problem and if it is, I try to looking forward for the
solution.

System

I think my digestive system is not working well because I have a pain in my

stomach and nauseas too.

Recognize

I always recognize my dad by his perfume, is very strong.

Sensitive

She is a sensitive person. She loves to talk about feelings with her friends and
family.

Typically

Typically in my house, the food is on the table always at noon.

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C) Vocabulary

Cuisine

I love Spanish cuisine, it has delicious plates and the gastronomy is wonderful.

Consume

Nowadays, people consume a lot of healthy food like salads and fruits, because
they want to avoid diseases.

Influence

He influences her to go to the party, even when she has not permission.

Method

She used the right method to resolve the problem and get the answers.

Portion

I ate the last portion of pizza that was in the fridge.

September 13, 2016

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E) Statements

2: is false because there are fast food places in France.

3: is false because they are between 3 to 7 courses.

7: is false because they increase body temperature. 12

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A) Questions and discussion

1. I prefer to eat more variety but smaller portions of food because I love to taste all
food I can and also because I like food, I always love to eat it.

2. I enjoy eating Chinese food because its taste really good. I like its sweet and
spicy food; my favorite is its rice and teriyaki chicken.

B) Questions

1. In Colombia we have achiote, aji, cilantro, curry, ajo, clavo and estragon as
popular species.

2. I think that spicy foods are becoming more popular in the United States because
this country has a huge influence of China and a big part of its population is from
Asia.

News analysis
The Way People Look at Us Has Changed: Muslim Women on Life in Europe

We are a world in where each culture is view of different ways, each person has
the capacity of judge what sees and this is something that is happening in a
negative form in Europe; since many women are suffering by its condition of
foreign, its form of dress, its religion, its form of see them things, is making that
many them discriminate and them do feel as garbage. Many of these women fear
for being battered, fear for their safety as they do not know if a garment in
particular, could get to cause an unpleasant moment. For this reason, they are
implemented security techniques that allow that nobody suffers any kind of
segregation for no reason.

How U.S. Immigration Policy Has Changed Since 9/11

Since de attack of 9/11 the politics of immigration in U.S. has changed in terms of
security; right now there are a lot of laws that forbidden the entrance to the country
to people who have a bad record. They want to keep America safe; they are trying
also to keep way persons with bad intentions in terms of search a pacific way of life
for the Americans.

In remote Colombia, a guerrilla festival to signal wars end

The agreement of peace between the guerrilla and Colombia is a made; the
guerrilla has been the need to gather all his troops to explain how it is that this
agreement will work, what are their duties and rights, and how will have to act from
the firm. This meeting of guerrillas brought get an acceptance to the treated, also a
hope for all the Colombian people, which has suffered much with this internal war,
that finally came to its end.

'It was cold, confusing and foreign': your stories of moving to a new city

Change city is something that can be tricky, customs, dress, food, climate,
everything is different, all of this can make us feel a little insecure, nostalgic, the
first days and months are quite hard, and we can be seen in the testimonies of all
the people interviewed in the article. It ideal for this class of situations is not
lowering the mood, but treat of make friends in the new cities, exit to know them
and adapt is to them. Also in the testimonies, we can see that after a while these
people feel welcome by the local people, making them feel at home.