PRACTICES

NARROWING TOPICS EXERCISE


       TRAVELLING:  Best places to visit > purpose of travelling> studying abroad > travelling for work
   
       TECHNOLOGY: Technology in the past > advantages of technology > technology enterprises > Future of the technology
   
       FEMINISM: Woman history > The long fight > Feminismo achievements nowadays > Great women of the present

       ANIME: Manga > evolution to animation > first anime concept > changes on present anime
   
       GREAT AUTHORS: Writing > genres > most famous genres > inmortal authors
   
       VAMPIRES: Monsters > bats > Transilvania legends > the first scary Dracula > vampire concept nowadays (Twilight, vampire diaries...)
   
       CHINESE FOOD: Chinese tradition > food on the royal family and on the poor one > best chinese recipes > restaurants on the present day

       FASHION: Importance of clothing in history > Fashion hits in history (bell pants) > Greatest designers > Influence of the past, now

       SPORTS: First competitions > Olimpic Games > creation of new games > sports importance on the present day

       EXOTIC PETS: Taming animals > wild animals as pets > best wild pets > can they be friends?

     SOCIAL JUSTICE: Revolutions > most shocking social movements > greatest social justice leaders > legacy of social justice

   PSYCHOLOGY: Studying peoples thoughts > psychology origins > different psychological problems > psychology results

    DANCING: First dances footprints > dancing as an expression > dancing as an art > greatness of dancing

  SHORT STORIES:  who reads them > genres  > most famous authors > known short stories

   NOVELS: First novels > evolution of style > different genres appear >  novels and genres now

   CINEMA:  Cinema machine > mute movies > black and white famous movies > discovery of colours on cinema > special effects > future of cinema

   TV SERIES : american lifestyle on series> changes of lifestyle for a role model



DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH
           

             I remember that day on the beach that I might never forget, as I went with my Friends laughs sorrounding me when I saw that marvelous rock form.

          We were on a trip, some Friends and I, and spent the whole day doing tourism and having fun. They decided to got me blind for giving me a birthday surprise , I could never imagine opening my eyes and standing in front of that breathtaking scenary.

           It didn´t seem polluted, nor crowded that day, its shape that seemed to be hanmade was tuly natural. I knew it was popular although I never stopped to give it a closer look up til now. Was my heart beating?

           It rose in front of my eyes with a mix of sunset Orange and gold ; the sea blue, green and White and the Brown rock towered-shaped. This wild work of art that had me on shock, the untamed sea like a lions which roars with each wave that bumped onto the rocks.

         And just like that scenary, wild, colorful, breathtaking, overwhelming…I decided to change my whole life and make each day just like that natural work of art.





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TED TALK: IS EDUCATION KILLING CREATIVITY?

               What´s the topic of the ted talk?  Is education killing creativity?
           
               What´s the main idea? The lack of creativity its hierarchy and what it produces       
              When does the speaker introduce his idea? how?  He express this idea after telling a few memories of how he arrived there
         
             What are the means of suppory used by the peaker to convince us that his opinion is right? Exanples of the scheme they use in every school to evaluate something, based in the system used in the past to get a job (maths first,then science, language...) and supporting it with facts
         
             What´s the speaker conclusion? how does he conclude? 
   He concludes talking about a friend of his whose teachers said she had a sickness because she didn´t folow the school scheme but then they find out it is her own dancing nature; he conclodes that all children aren´t the same and they need to follow their own path, otherwise they´ll be unhappy. In short with an example.