Here I add my work about media as a self-study I hope you like it.


Media’s negative influence

Nowadays the media, television, radio, newspaper and Internet, is impacting in our daily lives subconsciously to everyone, from children to adults. The most influential media channel is television, which is bombarding us with thousand of images of violence, advertising, sex and celebrities. A child is exposed to about 40.000 advertising a year (Rayuso 2007).
Children cannot see the real problem for a war, because when they play a game is all about to win or to lose, but in the real war everyone loses. Also happen the same with teenager that when they watch television they only see perfect bodies on television and they think that is the prototype to follow, bringing alimentary problems as anorexia or obese. Another question is that the people can watch whatever they like and the majority of times are a fiction characters instead a real life that they can find everywhere, every time.
What this essay will claim is that media images have a negative influence in our world, our everyday life and we have to be aware about the dangerous of the problem.


Outline.

A. The violence is coming to us from different ways, news, series and every programme we watch on television, making it as a normal thing.
B. The television show us a wrong image about the perfect bodies that make teenager think they should be same as them. Bringing problems as anorexia or obese.
C. The people watch what they want to watch and it is a non-real life because they can enjoy thinking they are the protagonist of the film.


That is my introduction and outline I would like to have a feed back about expression if it´s understanding or no just to double check that I´m going to the good way.
I spend my afternoon reading another essay about this aim and trying to order my ideas for the next step ( 1º paragraph).
I did almost everything today because i don´t have time to anything because of work but at least there I speak in English and every day I learn something new.

lectures

Hello!!
this weather is killing me, well at least with this could weather it´s not like to go out, then you stay at home studying, hehehe.
I´ve been listening a lecture online http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe61eFxhxVM&feature=related about blended learning, was difficult because it´s the first one I see without subtitle but it´s nice because is more similar to a real one.
It was interesting because the topic they treated is in relation with university and I can compare it with the studies I´m doing now, that have also some self-study on-line for example the lecture I´m listening. I took some notes and I would like to go to a real one to be ready for my degree next year.
Other side, because I know I´m not so good with preposition I did from the academic word list some exercises like thishttp://www.aal2.unibe.ch/englisch/eap/SleepPrepositions.htm where I found some difficulties on (pay attention to, exceed of, traced back to, divide into, typical of, during the night, but for example I didn´t know during is a preposition) that´s why I´d like to ask for a preposition list to help us with this problem I think too many people have, anyway my score was 57% I know I have to improve it but for me it´s not so bad this score.

Hello, long time I don't write but to be honest I have only 2 days off per week at work and these are the only ones that I have time to switch on my computer.
My self-study during this week was do my homework for the next day.Talk in English of course at work and no a lot more.
Today is the only day I could open Dilek's blog and check what she said on her links.
I've been working on the word list doing some exercises but I realise the level is getting harder and harder.I did a gap-fill about preposition (what is difficult for me) and my score was just 23% really bad. Then I do another exercise about collocation in a text "Coping with crowding" and my first score was 50% I match OK (public transport, population density, elevator effect, small-scale experiment, per capita) after that they gave me another opportunity to repeat it and I did good.
Also I've been browsing on the web about American series that describe the stereotype we talked this morning.
Now I will continue with some gap-fill and collocations exercises to practise my vocabulary as well I'm going to keep looking for on my dictionary the word list that Robin gave has the other day.
And today I can go early to the bed!!!!!!!hehehe

pronunciation

Today again like every Sundays I was working, but I was practising my pronunciation with my colleague that is English, I was asking her words that for me are difficult to pronunce and she was giving me some tricks. Now I feel more comfortable when I say management, pale or voucher.
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Anyway during the weekend I watched also a film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and I enjoyed a lot, it´s a film that I can watch and watch and is always funny.( I really like Audrey Hepburn)

lyrics

Hello!!!
today i finished work really late and I had to finish my research report for tomorrow.
because I was tired I needed to relax a bit I opened YouTube and me and my boyfriend we were listening some songs with lyrics to understand the meaning. Everything started with a reason, on my work I was listening a song that I though was really nice lyrics but I couldn't´t understand all (dear Mr. president _ pink)and after that....mmmmmm Have a look the rolling stones one mmmm..... what about queen..... and with queen we stay more than 30 minutes, well enough for today I have to sleep also and then we just shut everything I´m writing this and I go to sleep.
I add the links if you want to join these songs OK?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8bar2homQ&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8favHM0aI44
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9PSliDG4M
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z9d-adJYaSc&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fBOvOatPqnY
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mIy-cbbA54I

Here is not lyrics but.....
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JszN7h84TXs

Today is being a long journey for my.I am working hard on my research report and also to disconnected I'm doing some quiz on the BBC page that I found in link from Steve's blog

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/category/quizzes/grammar

At the beginning I started doing the elementary but after 2 I discovered that I was doing really good, hehehe then I did the intermediate where I fault just 1 answer about use of apart from and except for. On the next one that I add here I just have 1 correct answer. the number 5.
I know..... I have to prectise my grammar more often.


BBC British Council
www.teachingenglish.org.uk
VERB PATTERNS 1
For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer
1. Which is the correct use of suggest? "We’ve missed the bus,
________?"
a. what do you suggest us do
b. what do you suggest we do
c. what do you suggest us to do
d. what do you suggest we to do
2. I don’t remember ________ you at the party, were you there?
a. seeing
b. see
c. to see
d. saw
3. The grass is very long, it needs ________ .
a. cut
b. cutting
c. to cut
d. to be cutting
4. Which of the following verbs is not followed by -ing?
a. He stopped going to the cinema.
b. He enjoyed going to the cinema.
c. He wanted going to the cinema.
d. He suggested going to the cinema.
5. Let me ________ for the meal, you paid last time.
a. pay
b. paying
c. to pay
d. paid
6. He always dreamed _______ in the city.
a. of living
b. to live
c. in living
d. for living

I recomend to everyone do this kind of test because it's funny but helpfull.

I almost forgot, The film was really nice a bit long but a very good film.

my new curriculum vitae

Today I've been doing some homework for my research report but only some drafts about the findings and correcting the first part of it. Most of the time I spend it in the elaboration of my new CV because I would like to change my current job.(I'll send to Helen by mail and then she can have a look and help me with my mistakes)
Now i'm going home and for sure tonight i will watch a film that I took from the library "Once uppon a time in America" I let you know tomorrow how was the film.