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Fond of courtesy and passion I love historical romance movies because it intertwines culture and courtesy of old love stories. I have this personal taste on romance in its honorable way because it portraits courtship based on respect and courtesy. Historical romance shows the pure and sincere romance. It shows historical facts and culture intertwined with a fictional romance story. It shows good manners towards a lady which people had on those days. Plus, honor, respect and courtesy are central themes of their plots.  Historical Romance is a wide category of fictional plots taken placed in the past -specially in British regency. It develops a plot based on the relationship between a hero and heroine as the key thread and overriding element of the story. Historical novels capture the details including social norms, manners, customs, and traditions. Many novels in this genre tell fictional stories that involve actual historical figures or historical events. It satisfies both one's ed...

1. Clear and concise: simple language with no ambiguity a.      Techniques:                                           i.     Simple words 1.     write assume instead of presuppose, or because instead of as a consequence. 2.     Action verbs vs normalization because they engage. Example: The researchers completed the implementation of this new method. (Wrong) The researcher implemented this new method. (Better) 3.     Avoid hedging verbs: appear, seem, believe, indicate. Use concrete verbs. 4.     Avoid vague qualifiers: perhaps, very, quite, several, basically, always. Be more specific.                ...

Establishing a good relationship in class is the key to keep enthusiasm because students feel more motivated and thus develop better academic performance. According to Davis (2003) the relationship between teachers and students, which is called rapport, intrinsically impacts students and their academic success. Since, thanks to the development of rapport, students feel comfortable in classes, they tend to be participatory even in the teaching process through webinars. As Frisby and Martin (2010) point out, students who have a good relationship with their teachers generally perform better academically than students who have not established a good relationship with their educators. Those students who do not feel empathy or comfort with the class and with their teachers, they will not develop their skills in a productive way that allows them to obtain a high achievement in class. For example, if students do not have motivation or enough confidence to speak, they will not answer a...

What is web 2.0? Web 2.0 is the current state of the internet. It has more user-generated usage and content. Generally speaking it refers to the internet applications nowadays that is characterized by greater users interactivity and collaboration. What is web 1.0? Web 1.0 is the term used to describe the first stage of development on the World Wide Web, that is, the earliest version of the Internet. These web pages didn't have visuals or controls, they were rather static. How do you think Web 2.0 is changing language teaching? Web 2.0 is a great opportunity that offers tools of different kinds to make teaching and learning environments more interactive. It will depend on the teacher's enthusiasm in integrating these tools that technology has into their lessons. It has broaden language input and output activities with online collaboration and learning communities.  What about Web 3.0? Web 3.0 is said to be the new paradigm around the internet. It runs based on algorithms that le...

SYNTAX VS. GRAMMAR Grammar is a set of principles and rules which govern how language is structured. It prescribe how language should be used.  Meanwhile, syntax is a set of principles and rules that states how sentences should be structured and ordered. It describes how the words should be ordered. Grammar is a wider term used in everyday language consumption, while syntax is branch of linguistics. SYNTAX VS. MORPHOLOGY The purpose of morphology is based on the phonological awareness. Student will know better what they hear in the language when they know words and vocabulary previously. It will also help students to comprehend reading better, as they know to identify words and their meanings. The purpose of syntax in language teaching it will help students to read and write with awareness of correct sentences. For those who are going to become writers, it will help them to use rhetorical or literary effects.

 In times when the US was a colony of Britain it depended on the monopolized market of tea the British stablished due to its deal with the East India Comany, assuring there was no other competitor as provider of this plant. However its price was exorbitant for the North American colonies, thus they decided to turn to Dutch smugglers who sneaked in tea and sold it much less expensive. Rather than change the price for better reception, they imposed a series of acts. Those series of acts caused resentment in the colonies as they had to paid overpriced things due to taxes. They outraged thinking it was unfair plus felt unable to be represented in those kind of decisions of the government. Though the British Parlamiament allowed the tea to be cheaper, taxes were still in effect so they acted out of principle considering it unfair. They emptied the Dartmouth and two other ships full of tea. Two years later the US signed the Declaration of Independence. This event was the path to revoluti...

MORNING💥 I woke up at 6am in the morning. I was so tired that it took me 15 minutes to get up. I realized that I had a severe stomachache so I spent other 15 minutes while trying to get better. Then, I took a shower, got dressed. Though I was already late to work, so I decided to write my boss to explain the situation which I didn't mean to have: I was a little sick.  I took the bus at 7 and a half in the morning because the buses were taking too much time to arrive. I arrived at work at 8:30 with one 3yo-old boy asking me where I was. I work for a tutoring center which gives classes to different groups. Mine is preschoolers. So, my day went as always. I recieved the kids in the classroom, we sang some songs, we made an art craft related to the theme in the week, we went to luch time in a grass court, we came back and I needed to wash those untidy rascals afterwards. We continued with a lesson where we played, read and did some stuff to learn. We ate lunch again to finally have a ...