Working line

I think it is a little hard imagine how will be my life in 10 or even 5 years. I hope that I will get a job related with my field, if nowadays it is difficult to find a work in some year I think it is going to be harder.

As an economist it is difficult or even impossible to work by you own, normally you have to work for someone, in some company, as a teacher, etc. You have to have a boss and maybe after some years you can promote to a better place in your work.

One of the companies that I would like to work is CFC (Comisión Federal de Competencia). It is a company that try to ensure that the companies work in a competitive way, if they work like that the prices are going to be competitive, that means that are going to be lower than if the companies make agreements for establish the prices. In this company also approve when two companies that play the same work or do the same products want to link each other and work as one. The companies present their plans to the CFC, obviously they do not express their real intensions, and the CFC have to research and analyze deeply to give an answer.  

I would like work there because is a way to control de power of different companies that want to increase their proceeds giving their products or services in a price that is by far bigger than the cost of produce them.

I believe that this is a really good job for me because you have to apply a big part of your knowledge; you have to research and analyze different information to take a decision that can affect not only at the company it also affects to the consumers. For me it is great because you can do something against the power of big companies and try to establish reasonable prices.

Maybe in some years I will be working there, doing something that I really like.  

But work is not all, it is part of life but also there is more. Get married and have kids are not in my plans, maybe in more than 10 years. Before do that I want to enjoy life with friends, family and by myself.

I want do the things that I like, if I do that I will be happy. Not always the things happen as you want but try to get the best of them can make you feel better. I want my life to be like this but I do not know what can happen, for now I happy with what I have, I enjoy it and in some years my life is going to be so much different but I hope I will be happy.

L'auberge espagnole

PLOT

Xavier is a boy who lives in France. He wants a job but he has to speak Spanish to get it, so he goes to Barcelona for the ERASMUS programme. In the flight he met a couple; they let him stay with them while he searches for a place.

He find an apartment, there he has to live with other people from other countries. Sometimes it’s difficult to them to understand each other because of the different idioms.

SETTING

The apartment where Xavier lives, it is a real mess.

The school where Xavier takes classes.   

CHARACTERS

Xavier is the principal character of the story.

Martine is his girlfriend

The neurologist

Anne-Sophie the neurologist’s wife

Isabelle is his friend.

Brave New World

• In the future the author depicts London as a really big city with huge buildings; it’s a very sophisticated city.
  
• The motto on the building represents the ideology of a community that has a singular identity; this is indispensable to keep the stability of the sociality.
  
• There is not a natural selection because the natural process of reproduction is made for Scientifics who modify the embryos as much as they want.
  
• If I had to decide who clone I would chose healthy people, creative people, between 20-50 years old, not lazy people and doesn’t matter how they look.    

Conditional

Your boyfriend/ girlfriend/ husband/ wife has just bought some new clothes which he/she thinks are wonderful. You think they look ridiculous. What would you do?

If my boyfriend bought some new clothes which he thinks are wonderful but I think they look ridiculous I would tell him the truth, obviously I would try not to say it in an offensive way. I would say to him: "I think that these new clothes don’t look so good, you should change them if you want I can go with you to change them or buy new ones." If he, even then, wanted to wear his clothes I would say that they are really ridiculous and he should wear something more serious. But if he accepted my help I would chose nicer clothes for him.

Vocabulary IV

Flaw: imperfection

Flea: small parasitic blood-sucking insect

Linger: to prolong departure

Delay: out off to a later time

Igloo: house made of snow.

Brand: A name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers.

Demean: lower in dignity

Blaze: strong flame.

Desire: to wish.

Scrap: A small piece of something larger; fragment

Blazon: describe in proper terms.

Lutein: a xanthophyll pigment, occurring in plants.

Flow: move as a liquid.

Yield:  The result, product

Lust: a strong desire or drive.

Core Product: The central benefit or purpose for which a consumer buys a product.

Worthy: having value or merit.

Attributable Costs: Fixed costs or variable costs incurred by and solely for a particular product, department, program, sales territory, or customer account.

Wren: any of various similar birds.

Cash Flow: The cash generated by after-tax earnings plus depreciation minus cash used within the business.

Departmentalizing: The process of classifying merchandise into sub-groups known as departments.

Blatant: offensively noisy.

Paddock: small enclosed field.

Choleric: bad- tempered.

Item: A thing or unit, it is included in a list or collection.

Bldg: abbreviation for building.

Chookie: informal for a hen or chicken.

Delivery Period: The normal time between the placing of an order and the receipt of the product, service, or stock.

Bony: have many bones.

Luster: radiance or brilliance of light

Overcome: get the better of in a conflict.

Overdo: to take carry to far.

Paean: any song of praise.

Sample:  A small part of anything, intended as representative of the whole.

Flexible Pricing: A practice of selling the same product at different prices to different customers.

Paddy: field planted with rice.

Booby: an ignorant or foolish person.

Datum: A single piece of information; fact.

Length: A specified distance between two positions or locations.

Slightly: A small measure or degree.

Feasible: able to be done.

Ecommerce: An internet-based business model that incorporates various elements of the marketing mix to drive users to a Web site for the purpose of purchasing a product or service.

Chore: small routine task.

Book: reserve a place.

Copyright: An exclusive right to the production or sale of literary, musical, or other artistic work, or to the use of a print or label.

Flicker: To shine with an unsteady or intermittent light.

Neat: Clean, tidy, and orderly.

Chord: straight line connecting two points on a curve or curved surface.

Chop up: cut into pieces.

Factory: A building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly for the manufacture of goods.

Vocabulary III

DEFEAT: win a victory over

DEFERENCE: submission to or compliance with the will, wishes, etc.

SPEW: to spit out of the mouth.

SPHERULE: very small sphere or globule

QUAKY: tremulous.

SURFACE: the exterior face of an object or one such face.

LEVERAGE: the action of a lever.

LEVER: rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum.

FULCRUM: the pivot about which a lever turns.

QUAINT: attractive unusual.

PILFER: steal minor items.

PILLAR: an upright structure that supports a superstructure.

GIRD: put a belt around.

SHEILA: an informal word for girl.

KERNEL: the edible central part of a seed, nut or fruit within the shell.

EDIBLE: fit to be eaten.

SHELL: hard outer layer of some fruits.

ROOST: a temporary place to rest.

THEOMANCY: divination or prophecy by an oracle or by people directly inspired by a god.

OS: technical name for bone.

ZESTER: a kitchen utensil used to scrape fine shreds of peel from citrus fruits.

MEDLAR: small Eurasian rosaceous tree. (Níspero)

ROOT: organ of a higher plant that anchors the rest of the plant in the ground.

VOLITION: the faculty or capability of conscious choice, decision and intention.

FAREWELL: an act of departure.

FARINA: flour made from any kind of cereal grain.

DEIFY: exalt to the position of a god or personify as a god.

ZEST: the skin of an orange or lemon.

HORN: either of a pair of permanent outgrowths on the heads of cattle.

HORNBAG: promiscuous woman.

DABBA: a round metal box used to transport hot food.

JUMBUCK: informal word for sheep.

SHED: large roofed structure.

NIMBLE: agile, quick and neat in movement.

DACE: any of various similar fishes.

FILTHY: very dirty or obscene.

FILTER: a porous substance that allows fluid to pass but retains suspended solid particles.

WEANER: pig that just been weaned.

VELVET: anything with a smooth soft surface.

WALTZ: ballroom dance in triple time in which couples spin around as they progress round the room.

BEANO: celebration, party or other enjoyable time.

ABED: in bed

IMBUE: to soak

ZENANA: part of a house reserved for the women and girls of a household.

SLANG: vocabulary that is not appropriate to the standard form of a language or to formal contexts.

CEASEFIRE: the order to stop firing.

JUT OUT: to stick out or overhang beyond the surface or main part.

LURCH: to sway

STAGER: a person of experience.

CELEB: a celebrity.