THE NEW JOURNAL

It’s our theme today:

Real difficulties can be over-

come, it is only the imaginary

ones that are unconquerable.

~ Theodore N. Vail

In this number

Learning Language

Hard drugs

And more

Executive man trying to use GPS

English Language Teaching 1st semester—2013

Doing our best… doing your best

Prove yourself how

addictive you are with the social net-

works and the instant messaging.

In this edition:

Mini - Test

What do you think about hard

drugs?

Do you think they’ are useful for

you?

Hard Drugs: Pro-

blems in the society

Have you ever watched the

new TV show “Catfish” from

MTV?

Interview with

New Shulman

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Editorial

Nowadays, it is important to establish a routine which can help

us to improve English language. So English readings are the best

way to increase our levels because of three fundamental aspects:

1. We can learn a lot of new vocabulary. These new words will be

part of our English learning language, and we can use them in

any time, in any way, depending on the context.

2. When reading, we are used to speak loudly. In a certain way,

this is useful, because we train our speech pathway and our parts

of articulations get a special habit when pronouncing words.

3. When speaking while reading, we can train our listening, (one

of the most important communicative skills). This is such a signifi-

cant manner to increase the listening skill.

We have these three and many other reasons why we should

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read frequently.

Other aspect to take into consideration is the advance of techno-

logy and all their benefits, but the prons and cons of social networ-

king and other topics related with technology should be analyzed.

It is like we are in a constant evolution where people are getting

more and more separated. The current communitcation is being

done through Instant Messaging. We do not realice the conse-

quences we have right now. We are focused to make this magazi-

ne attractive for all kind of people, even for those who do not like

to read. We promisethis magazine will be the best and the most

eye-catching one.

Do your best!!!

Oscar Quintana and Viviana Cuellar

Official Editors and Directors

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1. Learning languages……………

2. Health Benefits of Jogging…..

3. Interview: New Schulman

Catfish. The TV Show…………

4. Hard drugs

Problems in the society……….

5. How addictive you are

Minitest - Social Networks…….

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Learning LanguagesLearning Languages

In a global world like the actual, learning a second language re-

sults very important for us, because we can survive in a market

world as competitive as today. The companies of our country re-

quire people which have as minimum an English Intermediate

level.

So, to speak two languages, let us have a better communication

in order to travel abroad. Besides, to know a language we are

just not only involving but also learning vocabulary. Otherwise

we can know the culture and customs of the country that have

the language we learned.

We are living the 21st Century and every science

field is advancing at the point of thinking about

creating flying cars and all what we know

about the "technology of future". Now peo-

ple can appreciate the new inventions such

as smartphones, Laptops and Notebooks,

the new motorcycles and electric cars. The

more the time goes by, the more technology

and other science fields advance.

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Also, we cannot forget the role of business people. They are the

ones who take the most important decisions in enterprises. We

are talking about future because we consider that learning lan-

guages could take a fundamental part in the construction of that

future. Whether to learn a language or not, is a decision that only

you can take. Remember: Only you know the benefits of knowing

a language, the advantages of it, and what you can be losing right

now if you are an ignorant.

Now, learning languages is not only useful for business, but also

for studying all the characteristics of a language, the process of

language acquisition and all the varia-

tions there could exist. If we ana-

lyze a certain language (for ex-

ample: Colombian Spanish)

we can find a number of dif-

ferences in pronunciation,

writing and some others. We

conclude the last analysis let

us know the aspects related

to other languages, because

American English differs in those

variations and processes from British

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English.

The last variations we mentioned before can also make a reference

about informal English and formal English. You learn a language ac-

cording to your needs: if you only need to learn to enjoy and have a

good trip, you learn informal English, which allows you to get a good

interaction, but if you need and advanced English that you must use

in a meeting or a business issue you are going to solve, the best

thing you can do is to learn business English.

We have shown you all the main aspects about learning a language.

We invite you to learn not just English, also French, Portuguese, Ital-

ian, German, Japanese, and all the languages you want to. That’s

your decision.

Whether to learn a language or not is a difficult de-

cision for you or for somebody, try to think about

the pros and cons of being a multilingual person.

Viviana Cuellar

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Before starting to talk about this topic, we should know the

following aspects:

Jogging is considered one of the most complete exercises

that could exist. Every muscle is getting involved while

doing this activity.

To get exercise with jogging, can bring to you a lot of

benefits, and you obtain a good workout.

This sport can be realized by everybody, in everywhere, in

every time, whatever the reason is.

All kinds of exercise are good for your health. In this case,

jogging is. It provides a great cardiovascular workout and

prevents some illnesses such us angina, hypertension and

heart attacks. Nowadays, many people around the world die

because of heart diseases. For that reason the WHO (World

Health Organization) realizes campaigns in order to prevent

them. On the other hand, the WHO is facing another prob-

lem: Sedentary. In fact, there are some world statistical stud-

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ies which determine some levels between 60% and 85% of

people who don’t make any type of exercise. The recent

governments are concerned about this social problem and

they have adopted certain policies for promoting exercise.

You must take into account that making exercise is a need.

Currently, people prefer chatting or doing other activities

than jogging. When you go jogging, your body begins to

acquire muscles and your heart gets better. Therefore, we

ought to take care of our health and we have to take some

measures to face this problem. We should do it for our-

selves.

Viviana Cuellar

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Interview with New Schulman Most of you know the principal social networkings and which one is mo-

re used than another. For that reason, we have decided to discuss with

a protagonist of a phenomenon is happening currently on line: fake re-

lationships and unreal profiles and accounts. We have now the expert in

finding out these kinds of situations: Nev Schulman. He is the presenter of

a TV show called “Catfish” and he was the protagonist of its documen-

tary.

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1. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Nev: Right. I’m New Schulman. As most of you know, I was the prota-

gonist in the documentary I have created by Henry Joost and my bro-

ther Ariel. They decided to do the video because they knew how my

real situation then was.

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2. At the moment you meet Megan and you discover that her real

name is Angela, what did you feel in that moment?

New: I really get disappointed. I didn’t know what to do then and I

had no idea what Megan was like. In fact, I didn’t know what

were the reasons for meeting her and all my mind came into my

thoughts and reminiscences. It was the hardly moment ever in

my life.

3. Why did your brother wanted you to continue with your rela-

tionship online?

Nev: Because when I used to be with Megan; she sent me some

songs, and I realized each one of these audios were not belonged

to her. I identified the songs because they’re in YouTube. She

was lying to me and I was at point to break up with her but my

brother insisted me to continue. That’s why the video was crea-

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4. After the documentary, probably you have received a lot of e-mails about

your performance and the courage to face your situation. Why did you de-

cide to do this new show?

Nev: I just read these mails and I thought they’re having the same situation as

me. It is quite hard for me and for those people who are living the same ex-

perience. Most of them are suffering because I know the majority of times,

people like to cover the truth by a fake Facebook profile and all kind of in-

formation there could have to fake. Every single person in any way is taking

my role and I think I shoulda been done something for them.

5. What do you feel when accompanying the person in love of someone who it

is not what he is going to be?

Nev: I try as less as possible to get involved with each case. I see my own re-

flect in each one that makes the participation in my TV program. It happened

to me and I think I’ve overcome this circum- stance. The only thing

I am used to do is to suggest the per- son in believing

real things, not in facts that you think are true, and

this advice is for everybody, they’re not saved.

They can also be a victim of a love that does not

exist. So many people think that this phenomenon

is not serious enough.

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6. Do you think this show is useful for everybody? Why?

Nev: Of course. The technology world is giving huge steps and

the advances are highly amazing. With technology, there are

a lot of things to do, and people have more chances to lie and

give us false information. We must be careful with all we see.

Not everything we have met in a person could be true. Cer-

tainly, the teaching of this story could be to trust in oursel-

ves and not in other people that we don’t even know.

7. What is your methodology for researching those “catfish”

people?

Nev: Okay, the first thing I do when I am doing the research is

to type the full name of the catfish in Google searcher to see

the first results and analyze the kind of person he or she is.

If they are who they say they are, it is likely to find real in-

formation such as profiles, interviews, achievements, etc. and

that’s a good way to compare the information our lover has

given us.

Second, I check all of the information this catfish has uploaded

to Facebook: photos, friends, pages, comments, likes, posts,

states and so forth. I use the Google Image searcher to find

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another profile with the same pictures or the origin of the pho-

tos. Sometimes, I try to call some of their friends to confirm if

they are who they say they are and finally I confront the person

through calls, and I try to encourage them to meet their apparent

love.

8. Can you tell us what has been the most amazing case you have

worked with?

Nev: Ehmmm… Maybe the unbelievable case was one from the first

episodes we shot, where a woman fell in love of a man and they

had a relationship online, but we realized in the day of the mee-

ting that his man was a woman who wanted to take revenge and

the worst part was because she was her friend. We couldn’t belie-

ve that. It was entirely surprising for us. There are other cases

that would cause an impact to all the viewers of our show.

9. Finally, invite all the people to watch your TV program!

Nev: Well. This show is meant to be one of my best projects and our

aim is to create a conscious thinking about being in love of a person

that maybe doesn’t exist, so if you wanna learn more, just watch Cat-

fish, the TV show.

Interview done by: Oscar A. Quintana

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Hard Drugs: Problems in

the society

Hard drugs is a problem that has a social impact for

many years and today it continues occupying one of the

first points of discussion with government and society

in general, so we could say that the "war" against

illicit drugs is lost. We put the word warm in quotes,

because the issue of drugs use has gone from being

known as a public health problem to a crime. Cu-

rrently and particularly in Colombia talking about le-

galizing the consumption of illicit drugs such as: ma-

rijuana, cocaine, etc. and this subject is very well

regarded by some social class and by some government

officials, considering that one of the human rights

stipulated in the Political Constitution of Colombia,

is the right to "free development of personality."

So, each person has the autonomy

to choose what they want for

their life.

So, drugs are chemicals that al-

ter the behavior, mood, percep-

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tion and mental functions, to the point of endan-

gering his own li-

fe, because one of

the most harmful

effects of drugs

use is the creation

of dependence to

these elements, so

the person finds it

difficult to stop

using drugs.

We think, often family problems and social pres-

sures lead people to make the decision to use

drugs, believing that is the only way out of

their problems, falling into a dark and cruel

world.

Hard drugs do not care about people and their si-

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tuation: persons from different ages, from different

beliefs, from different races, from different socio-

economic situations, it does not matter who you are

and where you come from. This can affect anyone and

makes you completely dependent from it.

There are some countries like Ukraine and some ot-

hers that consuming hard drugs are legal and you ha-

ve no restrictions for taking them; in fact, in tho-

se countries you find specific places and sites whe-

re you can take substances such as cannabis, coke,

depressants, etc.

What governments have to face is the ethical issues

of forbidding or allowing the use of hard

drugs in the societies, the impact this

Chemical Drugs

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could cause and the different patterns that affect

the culture and traditions of those societies are

the dilemma we all have in our lives.

Some people conceive the hard drugs as a problem we

have to fight as much as we can, but there are ot-

hers that believe in taking them as a medicine, con-

sidering the use as a life

style, because they think

the increase of relaxing

and doping substances are

as normal as looking at men

who like men, women who li-

ke women, as the civil wars

in diverse countries, as

the corruption, etc.

The matter now is: What do you think about them? Do

you think they are useful for you or for those who

take them? Today we should be careful with these si-

tuations because we don’t know what we expect about

hard drugs, and what objective could take, which the

use could be; all these aspects will be known in a

future where you might be present.

Viviana Cuellar

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How addictive you are

Minitest - Social Networks

Social networks are a phenomenon we are li-

ving now, with the advance of technology and

the fact of being connected through

internet. We are in 2013 and we can

find a variety of smartphones, tablets, laptops and

all those machines which allow us to get commu-

nicated; we can find phones from all the brands,

from all the sizes and from all the functions we want to. The

matter now is the use we can get with all these

webpages and applications. Most of the people

like chatting and chatting and more chatting. We

cannot find any other use for that. Besides, the

photos, video clips, pictures and any other kind of

expression on line are not the majority of times improving ins-

tead of those that at least transmit a positive message.

That is why we have decided to make a kind of test, in order

to determine how addictive you are in social networks and

therefore in internet. The next chart you are going to find is a

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test you should fill, because you think you control what you

do on internet, but sometimes we are not right. The next

steps are the way you are going to fill that table:

You find the list of the most popular social networks, instant

messaging and apps.

On the next three columns, you mark one of the

three statuses from the mentioned social networks.

On “Terms”, you mark the one is indicated for

you: it is about the frequency you use that social

networking.

As soon as you do that, you are going to

assign the values to the next criteria:

To the first three columns,

you assign three, two and one

respectively.

To the last five columns, you assign five, four,

three, two and one respectively.

Then, you multiply the two numbers you get from each so-

cial network, and you put the number in the result.

Finally, you are going to add up the results and you write

the final result in its respective space.

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If the results are

higher than 96, it

means you are addic-

tive to social networks,

social messaging and

some apps.

Important!

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E-mail account

(Hotmail-Outlook,

Gmail, Yahoo,

etc.)

Skype

Facebook

Flickr

Twitter

Google Plus

Whatsapp

BBM

MySpace

YouTube

LinkedIn

SlideShare

Scribd

Blogger

Tumblr

Instagram

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Any other?

Mention them up

next:

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Final Results

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