Padaung

From: teresa navarro

 

Padaung

As you can see,  this photo shows us two Padaung (-women giraffe +woman). There are several  tribes of this minoritary ethnic group and these women precisely belong to the Karen tribe, whose origin is Tibeto-Burmese. However, in the early 90s many tribe members fled -to -northern +[north of] the Thai border, due to a -conflicto +conflict with the military -régimen +regime in Burma, now called Myanmar.

At the age of five, girls start to wear rings, brass coils that are placed around the neck. Over the years, the coil is replaced by a longer one, -[by adding new rings] +[and new rings are added]. These rings are slowly pushing the clavicle down, making them appear to have longer necks.

According to anthropologycal studies there are different theories to explain the origin of this tradition. The main theory says that this trinket was placed in order to prevent a bite from tigers in the neck, but their detractors say that tigers -[can not] +cannot differentiate between men and women -and +but men have never +[had this trinket placed] -[placed this trinket]. Another theory says that this practise was used to make women look ugly so as not to be enslaved by other tribes. On the other hand +, there is +yet another one that says that this trinket is to -makes +make them look more beautiful.

The Burmese government attempted to get rid of this ancient tradition, to give a modern and developed apparence to the country. Nevertheless, the government +, seeing that these tribes attracted a great deal of -touist +tourism, has +ultimately not allowed this tradition to be lost.

Tattoos like esthetic treatments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meW-XgmYcvc

Hi guys! Today I have my say and I want to talk about a video I saw last week.

What I like of this video -it´s +is how a person can face a bad situation -of +in -his +[his or her / their] life. In the video we can see a person, in this case Basma Hameed, who learns +how to solve a problem that she has and at the same time she helps -to other people. Basma Hameed is an example of overcoming and I can't imagine how I'd have acted in this situation.

Although tattoos are frowned +at  in some cases, I reckon it's a good idea to use them for esthetic and at the same time psychological problems, because this isn't a caprice -[, this] +[. This] is so usual and any of us -can +could be burn because of an accident.

Moreover, I think this tattoos treatment is not -much +very famous and I don't know why +,  because +it is a very good idea to help people with this type of problems and -cicatrizes +scars. It's also true that nowadays -[are increasing] the treatments for different illnesses  +[are increasing]  like cancer for example. These treatments are based on tattooing the nipple of women who were operated of breast cancer.

Then, these types of treatments are developing and all of us are entitled to be glad of our body and an accident, bulling or -an illness -will +should not be a barrier to happiness.

Lorena García (NA1B)

IKEA's the other letter

From: Rocío Vega Vilrriales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5egLxg_7mg0

I watched this video before Christmas and I think -It´s +it's really nice.

A group of children -make +makes two letters, one for the three wise men and one for their parents. In the first one they request things like dolls, cars or videogames. But in the second one, they ask for time, time [2] -[for playing] +[to play] with -his +their parents and time -[for being] +[to be] with them.

This video show us that children need something more than toys. They -spent +spend a lot of time in the school or in -[after class] +[after-class] activities because parents want a very good -formation +education for them. But,sometimes, they don´t realize that -spend +spending [1] time with them is as important as -have +having a good -formation +[education/upbringing], don't you think?

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/bring-sb-up?q=bring+up
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/upbringing
[1] ¡es sujeto!
[2] "time" seguido de infinitivo con "to"

Verbs followed by infinitive or -ing

Hi guys,

Some extra practice on this issue, which certainly requires some drilling!

Infinitive or ing - intro and forms

Infinitive or ing - common verbs

Infinitive or ing - both possible

A more systematic list of verbs taking both patterns with sample sentences.

And a very basic review of other usages of infinive or ing aside from these verb patterns.

Enjoy!

Infinitive and -ing in perception verbs

He saw me eating my fruit and said 'Enjoy!'
His mother saw him eat his meal and said, 'Now you can go play'

Acción en progreso: él me vió comiendo la fruta y dijo "¡qué aproveche!"
Acción completa: su madre le vió tomarse la comida y le dijo, "Ahora puedes ir a jugar"

Verbs of preception ing vs. infinitive

Extra practice on verbs with which both infinitive and ing are possible

Some usages of the progressive (continuous) aspect

Hi guys,

Detailed review of the progressive aspect, with sample sentences and a list of verbs we don't normally use in the progressive (and the meanings in which we do!)

Progressive aspect review


Some notes on how we can sometimes sound more polite by using the continuous:

Being polite - progressive usage

Past and perfect tenses

Hi guys,

You can use the first 6 pages to review and practice this. Page 6 has a nice summary. The rest of the package is for some of the more advanced usages, take those in slowly.

Adv - past and perfect tenses

You may also want to do some intermediate-level practice and here.