TASK IV

Legends, ghosts, calacas and mystery have been part of Mexican culture.


Colonial cities have enchantment and mistery with a special envirinmrnt and each city has particular legends or common myths.



"La llorona" is the most famous Mexican legend. There are many versions about this legend. Maybe this legend has it origin in the conquer . Maybe the mysterious woman was a Mexican goddess that announced terrible events. Another version says that "La llorona" is "La Malinche" soul, regretful to betray Mexican people during Mexican conquer. Maybe this ghost is the soul of a murdered woman or the soul of a woman who killed her sons.




There is another legend about a woman. She was called "la Mulata de Cordoba". Many people though that she was a witch or that she had a pact with the devil. She was jailed by the "Santa Inquisicion", but she escaped. The legend says that she drew a boat in the wall with a coal. The jailer saw when she jumped to the paint in the wall and escaped sailing in the boat.



A particular of Mexican culture is the "Catrina". She is an elegant "calaca" that symbolizes the privileged class of the last century. Now the Catrina is an elegant symbol of death and a nice costume for a party.

TASK II

Darely likes sports. She often does exercise maybe twice a week. She always goes to the school so she never cooks. She likes to be with her friends. She sometimes goes out with them and every week she goes to the park with her family.

Orlando watches TV one hour a day. He always studies and does homework. He never cooks because he always goes out for dinner and he eats in his school. He usually walks to school. He sometimes goes to the cinema.

Levi watches TV two hours a day. He rarely does exercise, but he likes to watch sports on TV He occasionally goes to the cinema. He sometimes cooks. He often goes holiday.

TASK I

My name is Adriana Cortazar Martinez I am a teacher of Biology and Chemistry. The reasons that led me to take this course were that I want to be better in english. I think that English is very important in my career. I expect from this course to learn more vocabulary, practice my listening and speaking.

I repeat my VARK questionnaire and this is my new score:


Visual: 6
Aural: 9
Read/Write: 8
Kinesthetic: 6

I have a multimodal style preference. I think that is important to know our learning styles. I can use many strategies to learn. If some theme is dificult I will try to apply the tools according my learning style. I took a course about learning and teaching styles. It was very interesting but it was too short.. With this questionnarie I could reinforce the knowledge learned in the other course