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Prevention Efforts May Not Reduce Health Care Costs

by Julie Rovner

VOCABULARY:

-disease: illness

-preventive:which stop something happening.

-strategy: planning of war, planning of an action.

QUESTIONS:

-Do you think that is better to pay a lot to prevent an illness or pay when this illness is happening?

-Do you think that the costs of a life can to be valued in $50,000? Then, what can we do with ppeople who is conecting to a machine in a hospital? Are they very expensive for the society?

On Friday, I was in a barbecue with Rachel, an American native girl and we were speaking about her experience in Bolivia. She was working like a teacher there for one year in the elementary school. Her house was located in the upland, it is a high flat area of land. This land isn´t very high, but at the beginning, she felt dizzy due to the decrease of quantity of Oxygen that there was there. I know that is different to adapt to it, you need to take some pills that increasing the activity of your body. But she decided doesn´t take them because they aren´t very healthy. So, for this reason, she spent more time in getting better.

She was sharing the house with a lot of children to whom she must take care of. She liked it very much. She tried to be more time in Bolivia, because she was enjoying a lot, but she couldn´t prolong her grant for more time.

This conversation was very interesting for me. I want to go to Bolivia too!

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Gum: A Stick A Day May Keep The Dentist Away

Questions:

- Do you think is a good idea to substitute the fact of brushing your teeth for chewing gum?

-Which age do you think is appropiate for chewing gum? When did you take your first gum?

-Apart from to wash teeth do you know more methods to prevent cavities?

Vocabulary:

-claim: statement/ assertion

-sweetener: thing or material wich sweetens.

-cavities: hole (for example in your teeth)

rosebian:

Hi, I went to science museum of Vigirnia on last weeken. That is very exciting place of Richmond. You can see and study to get more knowlegde about space, bioscape, and science unplugged… Science museum of Vigirnia is also very near VCU. You can go there just 5 mins by bus…hope everybody have fun when you guys go there..

 Hi Bao:

I think that your interview and your speech is very interesting, maybe I can listen  alot of pauses, but is normal. At the beginning I can’t listen very clear the speech, but after it gets improve. I think that you need more connectors for join the paragraphs. Anyway  it is a good job.

I went to Zumba class, I liked it a lot. I decided to do an interview to Lizza. She accepted my proposition very kindly. Zumba class is done in the Gym of Broad street and in other partse of Richmond, is very fun and I recommend that everybody go to do it. 

On Sunday morning, I was speaking with Julia, American tutor of a group from Saudi Arabia, about american cars. We were on the road and we could see the majority of cars were enormous. The most of them are four by four. She told me that Americans need cars so big, because they transport a lot of things; sometimes, things so big like boats. Then, the potency for them is very important.ipotesis: But also, They are worried about their car´s image. If you observe the road, almost alll cars are clean; so clean, that their are shining with the sun. We were thinking about the reasons of it; we found two posible hipotesis: 1) because you can find in every gas station a cleaning system cheap,  fast and very easy to use it. 2) Because the day before it was raining a lot,then, all of them were clean. We were speaking about cars, roads, speed limits.. It was very interesting. 

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Anti-Smoking Drugs May Have Psychological Effects

Questions:

-Do you think is easy to quit smoking?

-What do you think about taking anti-smoking for quittong smoking? Do you need to visit the doctor for quiting smoking?

Vocabulary:

- To prescribe: to order something to be done (for example the doctor to the pacient).

-To quit smoking: to stop smoking.

-medications: medicines.

-inhaler: device which makes a vapour which has to be inhaled.

Today, July 12, I went to Williamsburg with spanish and american people. Firstly, we went to shopping, after that, we went to this colonial city. It was fantastic. By the way, I had the chance of spaeaking with Joseph, an american friend. He told me he had traveled a lot in his life, but now he is living in Richmond. We were speaking about his future, he wants to study Bussiness Degree. We were very close to William and Mary University. Also, we were speaking about how difficult is to belong to this University. You need a good curriculum. His sister could have entered, but at the end she decided to take another way, sharing her life with anither kind of people.Generally, people that is going to this University is a little special, but anyway is an excellent University, and it is public! It was for me an interesting conversation.

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In Pamplona, Bulls Run And Tourism Soars

Vocabulary:

Soars: to rise rapidly.

martyrdom: death for your believes.

sangria: a kind of spanish alcoholic drink made of red wine mixed with fruit, and sometimes with water and lemonade.

Questions:

Do you agree with this kind of celebration?

Is there this kind of celebration in your country?