Task 1


Watch the video below:

http://ed.ted.com/on/LT8oQQTo#watch


Then 

Write 10 keywords related to the article. Look the words up in the dictionary if you do not know their meanings fully. Next to each word, write the part of speech (adjective, verb, noun, adverb, preposition, etc). 

And answer these questions:  

What motivations do you have in your life?
What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?


Post the words you find as well as the answers of the questions.

Due date: February 6th 

13 comentarios:

  1. Keywords: as endlessly, you reward,you punish, of challenges, bottom performers,task called, it is a wierd, straight Forward, outstanding, engagement..

    1)What motivations do you have in your life?
    I have a lot motivations but the main are my family, grow personally, and the study.
    2)What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    I think that my main motivate is the attitude of my mom, because she is very positive ,brave, and in all bad moment she always say you can do it .

    Nancy Venegas Díaz #Homework 1 Conare level 8

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  2. Words:
    • Poor: adjective, poorer, poorest.
    poorness, noun
    nonpoor, noun
    quasi-poor, adjective
    quasi-poorly, adverb

    • Defies: defiable,undefied adjectives/ verb defy (used with object), defied, defying
    noun, plural defies: a challenge; a defiance.
    defyingly adverb, undefiably adverb
    predefy, verb (used with object), predefied, predefying.
    redefy, verb (used with object), redefied, redefying.

    • Wierd
    Adjective: weirder, weirdest.
    weirdly, adverb
    weirdness, noun

    • Freaky:
    adjective, freakier, freakiest.
    freakily, adverb
    freakiness, noun



    • Reward:
    rewardable, adjective
    rewardableness, noun
    rewardably, adverb
    rewarder, noun
    rewardless, adjective
    misreward, verb (used with object)

    • Punish: punisher, noun
    overpunish, verb
    prepunish, verb (used with object)
    quasi-punished, adjective
    repunish, verb

    • Performance:
    misperformance, noun
    reperformance, noun
    • Scheme plan, proyecto.
    schemeless, adjective
    schemer, noun
    outscheme, verb (used with object), outschemed, outscheming.
    subscheme, noun
    underscheme, noun
    unschemed, adjective
    • Outstanding
    outstandingly, adverb
    outstandingness, noun


    • Autonomy
    noun, plural autonomies.
    • profit
    Profit profiter, noun
    profitless, adjective
    profitlessly, adverb
    profitlessness, no
    What motivations do you have in your life?

    • My son is my main motivation, of course also my family they support me in all my projects.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    • My big motivation is my son, he gives me the strength to go on and achieve my goals.
    I'm very positive I manage to achieve my goals, I always tell myself that I can do everything I propose.

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  3. Keyword:
    Motivation: noun
    Rudimentary: adjective
    Higher: adjective
    Purpose: noun
    Poor: adjective
    Manipulable: adjective
    Behavior: noun, verb
    Reward: verb
    Insentivice: verb
    Larger: adjective

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    I love to study, maybe, one of my biggest motivation is the happiness that I have, when I think that probably my future family will exist and life as part as my past as a student, besides, my family, my older brothers, I always think I myself having a family and going visiting my parents.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    the feeling of been better every day, the idea in my mind of been traveling, having a family, and thinking that my parents always wanted to study, but they couldn't, so, when i'm agains a goal, i always think in how i'm changing the world since that moment, to the future

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  4. Keyword:
    unbelievably: adjective-increíblemente
    engaging: adjective-atractivo
    to punish: verb-castigar, sancionar
    strings: noun-cadenas
    hoop: noun-aro
    folks: noun-personas, gente
    defy: verb-desafiar
    outstanding: adjective-excepcional
    engagement: noun-compromiso
    bunch: grupo de cosas

    Questions.
    What motivations do you have in your life?
    I have a lot of motivations in my life, I have been working very hard during all my life for achieve success, I would like with my whole heart to have a beautiful family with my boyfriend and help my parents. Also I would like to have my own business for help the world, I want a foundation or a social business.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    The desire to achieve, I am very dreamy and usually want very complicated and difficult things to achieve but to me these are more interesting and motivating.

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  5. Amazingly: Adverb
    Engaging: Adjective; pleasing, charming, or winning
    Endlessly: Adverb
    Folks: Noun, people in general
    Poorer: Adjective, deficient in amount
    Vaguely: Adverb
    Weird: Adjective, strange or bizarre
    Straightforward: Adjective, honest
    Otherwise: adverb, under other circumstances
    Punish: Verb, to force (someone) to undergo a penalty or sanction, such as imprisonment, fines, death, etc, for some crime or misdemeanor
    What motivations do you have in your life?

    The biggest motivation I have is my son, and my family because they always helped me and taught me to do things well, my results at the university also motivate me.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?

    What motivates me to keep going over everything and do things the best way is my son Steven, he is the sunshine of my life.

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  6. Part 1: Keywords
    1. Engaging
    Meaning: pleasant, attractive or charming.
    Part of speech: adjective.
    2. Endlessly
    Meaning: continuous, infinite.
    Part of speech: adverb.
    3. Folks
    Meaning: people of a specified class or group.
    Part of speech: noun.
    4. Vaguely
    Meaning: In a vague manner.
    Part of speech: adverb.
    5. Defy
    Meaning: To challenge a person to do something deemed impossible.
    Part of speech: verb.
    6. Compliance
    Meaning: the tendency of conforming or acquiescing.
    Part of speech: noun.
    7. Undiluted
    Meaning: to make a liquid thinner or weaker by the addition of water.
    Part of speech: verb.
    8. Overwhelmingly
    Meaning: very great (abrumadoramente)
    Part of speech: adjective.
    9. Unmoored
    The meaning is the opposite of moor: to secure or be secured in a place, as by cables and anchors (moor).
    Part of speech: verb.
    10. Unhitched
    The meaning is the opposite of hitched: any of various knots or loops made to unattached a rope to something. (hitched)
    Part of speech: verb.

    Part 2. Questions
    1. What motivations do you have in your life?
    I have four basics motives in my life. The first one is to be a better person every day, the second one is to become a Production Engineer, the third one is to have children and get married and the last one is to travel around the most countries that I can. But my major motivation in my life is to become a person, son, sister, wife that my mother feels proud.
    2. What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    My major motivation is to one day be independent from my parents, get a better future and give them back all the support that they gave me.

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  7. Freaky / adjetive
    behavior / noun
    hoop / noun
    reward / verb
    higher / adjetive
    folks / noun
    weirdly / adverb
    motiivatiion / noun
    strange / adjective
    punish / verb

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    My motivation are my parents and all my family because they always support me.
    Also motivates me the desires of overcoming

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    Motivates me a better professional future.
    The idea of having a family, my house.

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  8. Keywords:

    1- Performance (noun)
    2- Reward (verb/noun)
    3- Autonomy (noun)
    4- Work (verb/noun)
    5- Purpose (noun/verb)
    6- Engaging (adjective)
    7- Challenge (noun/verb)
    8- Money (noun)
    9- Incentivise (verb)
    10- Better (noun/verb/adjective)

    Questions:

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    The principal motivation is my mom because she's a really nice person and she has been done the best to give me the best, so i hope to return a little bit of all that she gave me. God is other motivation because he give me all i need to be a great professional and a great person.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?

    The idea to have a family and have all that always i dreamed. The people who don't have anything to eat or a place to live because i hope one day help the people who most need. The idea to have a work and help in the development of the technology.

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  9. Motivations: noun
    Unbelievably: adverb
    Challenges: noun
    Economy: noun
    Socialism: noun
    Motivation: noun
    Autonomy: noun
    Business: noun

    My principal motivation in my life is God, He is my everything. He knows my heart, and then gives me all that I need. If I don´t have God, my life don't have sense.

    My motivation to keep going is the mercy of God with my life, his love. My family and my boyfriend are a reflection of his mercy; they are a big motivation to achieve my goals.

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  10. 10 Keywords
    verbs:
    punish
    adjectives:
    predictable
    cognitive
    nouns:
    reward
    performance
    autonomy
    mastery
    purpose
    engagement
    science

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    Many things really, learn as much as I can, visit another places, another people, another cultures, master another languages, start a technology company, start the next one, make my contribution in all those areas that matters according with my thinking(social impact, science,open technologies!!,...). And maybe someday have a family(but not in many years).

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?

    The support of people I feel identified with. Family, friends, people I respect. People I think needs more support also(social awareness). I just think that there is a lot of work to do in every way possible, so I just keep going as long as I have someone that keeps my following my dreams. Also my personal beliefs.

    PD: The video was really good!!

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  11. 10 keywords:

    · punish > verb
    · reward > noun/verb
    · engaging > adjective
    · weird > adjective/noun/verb
    · roughly > adverb
    · profit > noun/verb
    · performance > noun
    · economy > noun/adjective
    · challenge > noun/verb
    · endlessly > adverb

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    My biggest motivation is my family, because they are the people who have supported me during my studies and have been with me in the most difficult moments. Always I find a way to get ahead through them and is deserved for them to receive from me everything they have given me.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?

    To achieve my goals I have the motivation to know that I can become a professional if things thoroughly and responsibly made, also the fact of wanting to build a family with my girlfriend and give it my best. It motivates me to help my family in the future and seeing them succeed with stability. It motivates me to develop as a person.

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  12. Keywords related to the article

    1. Engaging: Adjective
    2. Science: Noun
    3. Reward: Verb/Noun
    4. Behavior: Noun
    5. Performance: Noun
    6. Motivation: Noun
    7. Money: Noun
    8. Autonomy: Noun
    9. Mastery: Noun
    10. Purpose: Noun

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    In my life, my principal motivation is my family because they always be there for me. My parents always try to give me the best and all that I need to become the person I am today, for that reason I Iove them and I want to give them a better life. Other motivation that I have is the study because I like to study and learn new things, also other motivation is the desire to succeed to be a better person and a good professional to help others and make something good for the world.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?

    Something that motivates me is think about my future, think that all the efforts that I am doing now, are going to have a reward. Also the idea to be a mechatronics engineer and use that knowledge to help people and make good things for the environment. Other motivation is share good things with my family and friends, and continue believe in my dreams and be a better professional and a better person.

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