Tuesday, October 25, 2016
My First iMovie: A Presentation about Online Learning
Here is the link to my first iMovie for you to see. It won't win an Academy Award, but it is only my first film: My First iMovie
Monday, September 26, 2016
The Bad, the Dead, and the Ruined
"The evil that men do live after them...." (Mark Antony in his eulogy for Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar)
I often write blogs about my favorite television programs or movies. Today I finished watching the Netflix series Narcos, and I was reminded of the quote from Julius Caesar. The first two seasons of the series are about the Medellin Cartel and its founder, Pablo Escobar. The next season will be about the Cali Cartel. Escobar perpetrated an immense number of evil deeds in his 44 years. He is dead, his followers are dead, and many innocent people are dead. In addition to transporting his cocaine to the US that has ruined so many lives, he blew up an Avianca passenger jet to try to kill the future President of Colombia and many buildings around Colombia. And many people are still in jail because of their involvement in his business. "The evil that men do live after them" can be aptly be applied to him.
Vocabulary
Shakespeare (noun): William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright (a writer of plays). He is the most famous English writer of all time.
Narcos (noun, plural): drug traffickers (Narcos is a slang word in English derived from Spanish.)
perpetrate (verb): do, commit, carry out (usually associated with crime)
immense (adj): very large, great
ruin (verb): destroy, hurt very badly
involvement (noun): inclusion, being part of
evil (noun/adj): very bad
aptly (adverb): well
Vocabulary Exercise:
Across
Grammar Point; Some of the verbs in the passage are in the past tense, for example, finished, perpetrated, and ruined. The past ense of regular verbs is formed by adding -ed to the base form of the verb.
Grammar Assignment: Write five sentences using these three verbs and two other regular verbs in the past tense.
The brilliant Brazillian actor Wagner Moura who plays Pablo Escobar in Narcos, followed by a photo of the real Escobar
I often write blogs about my favorite television programs or movies. Today I finished watching the Netflix series Narcos, and I was reminded of the quote from Julius Caesar. The first two seasons of the series are about the Medellin Cartel and its founder, Pablo Escobar. The next season will be about the Cali Cartel. Escobar perpetrated an immense number of evil deeds in his 44 years. He is dead, his followers are dead, and many innocent people are dead. In addition to transporting his cocaine to the US that has ruined so many lives, he blew up an Avianca passenger jet to try to kill the future President of Colombia and many buildings around Colombia. And many people are still in jail because of their involvement in his business. "The evil that men do live after them" can be aptly be applied to him.
Vocabulary
Shakespeare (noun): William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright (a writer of plays). He is the most famous English writer of all time.
Narcos (noun, plural): drug traffickers (Narcos is a slang word in English derived from Spanish.)
perpetrate (verb): do, commit, carry out (usually associated with crime)
immense (adj): very large, great
ruin (verb): destroy, hurt very badly
involvement (noun): inclusion, being part of
evil (noun/adj): very bad
aptly (adverb): well
Vocabulary Exercise:
Across
3. drug traffickers 4. commit 5. an English poet
Down 1. inclusion 2. very large 6. well 7. very bad 8. hurt very badly
Grammar Point; Some of the verbs in the passage are in the past tense, for example, finished, perpetrated, and ruined. The past ense of regular verbs is formed by adding -ed to the base form of the verb.
Grammar Assignment: Write five sentences using these three verbs and two other regular verbs in the past tense.
The brilliant Brazillian actor Wagner Moura who plays Pablo Escobar in Narcos, followed by a photo of the real Escobar
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