Introduction to Christian

We're going to listen to something. First, please discuss these questions, which have some vocabulary from the story.

1. Have you ever worked in a factory? (yes, I have. No, I haven't). Please explain.

2. Have you ever been in the military? (Yes, I have. No, I haven't). Please explain.

3. What is your dream for the future?

4. Have  you ever worked as a laborer (hard work by hand)? Yes..... No.... Explain

5. Some people work as "day laborers." Every day they go to the street and look for a job for only one day. Have you seen day laborers in New York?

6. Some buildings in New York are made of concrete. Some are made of bricks. What is your building made of?

7. Some laborers break concrete eight hours a day. How tired are they at night? A little? Very?

8. Do you want to be a U.S. citizen? Why or why not?

10. Some immigrants come to the U.S. when they are children. They know only English. Should they get citizenship?

11. If a military recruiter asked you to join the military, what would you say?

Christian's Story from

1.    How old is Christian and where is he from?

Christian is 15-years-old, and he is from Mexico.

2.    What is his main problem? 

The main problem is that Christian is undocumented.

3.    Where does he live now?

Port Richmond in Staten Island, N.Y.

4.    Where did he work last summer?

He worked in a clothing factory last summer.

5.    What has he been searching for?

He's been searching for a way to get legal papers and a future with more options

6.    What did he think might be the key to
citizenship?

He thought joining the military might be the key to citizenship.

7.    What does he see every morning when he takes
the bus to school?

He sees men lining up on Ports Richmond Avenue.

8.             
  Does Christian know any of the men waiting outside
for work?

Yes, he does. His step dad is one of them.

9.             
  What  doesn't he want to spend his life doing?

He doesn't want to spend him whole life breaking concrete for $100/day.

10.             
  What does he Christian want to do in the future?

He wants to start school and someday he wants to become an engineer or maybe an archaeologist.


11.             
  When and how did Christian come to the United
States?

His mother carried him across the border.

12.             
  Does he remember Spanish perfectly?

No, he doesn't remember speak Spanish

13.             
  Four years from now what will Christian’s friends
be doing?

At the same time, what two choices will Christian
have? his friends will be getting ready to go to college. They could become firemen, astronauts,mechanics...

14. Christian's two choices: He will either have to go back to Mexico and start all over or hide for the rest of him life, living underground.

15.       Why was Christian’s
cousin Mikey thinking about joining the military?

Mikey thinks that it looks scary and everything, that it looks really dangerous. but he wants to do it.

16.             
  What is the “dream act”?

This is a law the U.S. congress that has been debating for a long time.

17.             
  Do you know Christian’s last name? Why or why
not? No, because he doesn't want people to know it.

Second corrected story:

Two college friends were gossiping about classmates. One friend told the other that a
student in his Spanish class had a new girlfriend. The other friend said that a student in
his history class had a new boyfriend. They told the names of the two lovers and found
out that the woman in the Spanish class was the girlfriend of the boy in the history class.
They told this gossip to many other classmates. Soon it was in the gossip section of
the school newspaper.

Corrected stories

There were three birds in the living room of a small apartment. The man and wife
who lived in the apartment didn't know where the birds came from or how they had
gotten in the apartment. They were flying in circles. One was blue with a white crest
and the other was dark brown with a light brown stomach. The husband and wife wanted
to eat the birds, but they couldn't catch the two birds flying in the living room. They
wanted the birds to go out, but the couldn't catch them. The wife suggested to the husband
that he call 911. He said that wasn't necessary. He was very hungry and suggested they eat
the birds.

Finish the questions by speaking. (X) = 1 missing word. (XX)= 2 missing words


What's his X her name? (1 missing word- OR)

Tell me about his life before he X here. (1 missing word= CAME)

Where X is from? (1 missing word=?

How long X he or she been in New York?  (1 missing word=?)

How long X X take him to get to New York from your country? (2 missing words= DID IT)

At the beginning, was X easy for him to live in New York? (1 missing word=?)

How old X he when X arrived here?

What X he do for a living in the past?

What X he done for a living in the United States?

X he have a job now?

X he speak English when he arrived in the U.S.

X studied English since he came to New York?

X he speak English well now?

X he like New York?

What X he miss in his hometown?

Who X he come to the United States with?

X he rich, poor or middle class?

X he have a successful life? Explain.

Steve Jobs ,

Name of the university Jobs was speaking:  he was speaking at  Reed college.

CORRECT
The event: commencement.

CORRECT

College where Steve Jobs studied: Reed college

CORRECT

 for how long 6 months.

CORRECT
his biological mother: She was a young , unwed college graduate student.

CORRECT
His adopted mother and father: Adopted mother never graduated from college and father had never
Graduated from high school.

CORRECT
Reason he dropped out of college: no idea what he wanted to do with his life and no idea how college was going to help him.

CORRECT
Where Steve Jobs slept after dropping out : He slept on the floor in friend's room.

CORRECT
Class he like at Reed College: Calligraphy.

CORRECT
Operating system that just copied Macintosh: Windows

CORRECT
Place that he started Apple: In parent garage. (PARENTS')

CORRECT
Value and number of employees now: $ 2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

CORRECT
Steve Jobs' age when he got fried (FIRED)from Apple: 30 year. (30 or 30 YEARS OLD)

CORRECT
Two companies he started after he left Apple:NeXT and Pixar.

CORRECT
World's first computer animated film: Toy story.

CORRECT
Steve jobs' illness : He got cancel . (CANCER)

CORRECT
Why the doctor cried: (IT WAS) a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.

CORRECT
Title of publication Steve jobs liked when he was young: The whole Earth Catalog  .

CORRECT ("Whole" should have a capital W because it is part of the title)

The 3 topics of the stories told about his life: 1 about connecting the dots.
2 about love and loss.
3 about death

CORRECT- EXCELLENT COMPREHENSION

Pannarai kansangsi 

Writing and correction

You should look at the "NEW VERSION" of your writing (below on the blog).

Some of your writing was lost, not published or saved, but you should look at the corrections of your writing (if it was saved) and the writing of your classmates. Learn from errors.

Pay attention to "mechanics." Most of your grammar is correct. There are small problems in the following areas which you should pay attention to:


Punctuation: end every sentence with a period. (a period is a full stop: (.)

Don't use commas at the end of sentences. (a comma is not a full stop (,)

Use capital letters to start every sentence and for names, but not for pronouns ("he, she, it, they, we and you" do not have capital letters, but of course "I" does).

If you use "Mr." or "Mrs." or "Miss" or "Ms." the name that follows must include the family name.

Correct: Mr. Alfredo Hinojosa

Correct: Mr. Hinojosa

Incorrect: Mr. Afredo


When you read the NEW VERSION, carefully compare it to the original. Pay attention to suffixes (ed, ing, s and es) and prepositions (in, on, as, for, with etc.) and articles (a, the, an or no article).

Writing and speaking are different. When you speak, you can make errors and sometimes people do not  hear them, but when you write every error is clearly visible. For that reason, writing is good practice for improving your speaking.

Keep up the good work, perseverance.  

leonor , andres


Alfredo Quinonez  is a neurosurgeon and professor at johmns hopkins university, and researcher fot a treatment for brain cancer.
He came from Mexico to United states 20 years ago. Alfredo Quinonez studied in a public school in Mexico. When he turned 18 years , He became a teacher but in 1970 the Mexican economy collapsed and he decided to cross the border line. He worked like a farmer picking up cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes.
He bought a broken-down camper. He bought it for 300 dollars because he need a place to live , that was close to his job.


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NEW VERSION:

Alfredo Quinonez  is a neurosurgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a researcher for a treatment for brain cancer.

He came from Mexico to the United States 20 years ago. Alfredo Quinonez studied in a public school in Mexico. When he turned 18, he became a teacher, but in the 1970s the Mexican economy collapsed and he decided to cross the border line. He worked as a farmer picking cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes.

He bought a broken-down camper. He bought it for 300 dollars because he needed a place to live that was close to his job.

January 31 2015. Diana and Soren.

about Alfredo's story.

He was born in Mexico, and small town. His family was really poor.
In 1970 was a economic collapse,and he encouraged for go out to Mexico for getting money.
Alfredo decided to go to United states when he was 18 years.
He crossed the border, but the first time he had to come back to Mexico.
Like latin people, he was perseverance and he did again and he crossed.
He fisrt job like elegaly was in a farm, picking cotton, tomates and something else.
Alfredo bought a camper for live, and he said that was expensive and he learnt that some people can take advantage on other. 
He moved the other place and he got the papers like citizen and he start about his life, and his cousin encourage to do something different to pick cotton and tomates.
He got a new job in a fishes market, washing and clean it, this job let him to take English class at nights.
He finish his college, and he started to study on a scholarship,and his teachers encourage him to study medicine in Harvard and he did it.

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NEW VERSION:

Alfredo was born in Mexico in a small town. His family was really poor. In the 1970s, there was an economic collapse, and he was encouraged to go out of Mexico to get money.

Alfredo decided to go to the United states when he was 18 years old. He crossed the border, but the first time he had to come back to Mexico. Like Latin people, he had perseverance, and he did it again and crossed successfully.

He first job was illegal, as a worker on a farm, picking cotton, tomates and some other things. Alfredo bought a camper to live in, and he said that was expensive and he learnt that some people can take advantage of others.

He moved to another place and he got citizenship papers,  and he started his life. His cousin encouraged him to do something different than picking cotton and tomatoes.

He got a new job in a fish market, washing and cleaning them. This job let him take English class at nights.

He finished his college and started to study on a scholarship. His teachers encouraged him to study medicine at Harvard, and he did it.

Lisa and Jose

                        
                    Alfredo was born in a small town in Mexico sixty miles south of the U.S. border. By age 5, he was working at his father's gas station. His grandmother was a village healer and a midwife. In the mid-1970s, Mexico's economy collapsed, and his father couldn't handle to take care of the family anymore like before. However Alfredo continued his school and he became a teacher at age 18, but he couldn't enough to provide for his family. So, he decided to move up US.


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NEW VERSION:

                   

 Alfredo was born in a small town in Mexico, sixty miles south of the U.S. border. By age 5, he was working at his father's gas station. His grandmother was a village healer and a midwife. In the mid-1970s, Mexico's economy collapsed, and his father couldn't handle taking care of the family anymore like before. However, Alfredo continued his school and became a teacher at age 18, but he couldn't earn enough to provide for his family, so he decided to move up to the U.S.

Mr.Alredo was bron mexico. he is came twenty years ago usa  from mexico . when he came then he join farm worker. but he is doing three job 1.neurosurgeon. 2. professor . 3.brain cancer researcher .

Mr.Alredo was five then he worked his father  gas station . his family is so poor family .  mexico when economy collapsed his father could not arrange food for family.


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NEW VERSION:

Mr. Hinajosa was born in Mexico. He came to the U.S. twenty years ago from Mexico . When he came, he contributed to the local economy as a farm worker, but now he is doing three jobs: neurosurgeon,  professor and brain cancer researcher .

When Alfredo was five, he worked at his father's  gas station. His family was so poor. In Mexico when the economy collapsed his father could not arrange food for family.

twenty years ago Alfredo Hinojosa  came to United State for better life. He lived in California where he worked as a farmworker picking cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes. When His cousin told him he would be a farmworker for the rest of his life he realized it was time to move on. Alfredo started taking English classes at community college in California.


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NEW VERSION:

Twenty years ago Alfredo Hinojosa  came to the United States for a better life. He lived in California where he worked as a farmworker picking cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes. When his cousin told him he would be a farmworker for the rest of his life, he realized it was time to move on. Alfredo started taking English classes at  a community college in California.

Jantima and Edwin
 We think about Mr.Alfredo Hinojosa , He is smart guy because the first time he came to the United States He didn't know English and He came from poor family, he managed to persevere with successful, therefore he is a great example for the people who have different goals but we need to learn English as Second Language .

Alfredo inspire us about to learn English maybe is difficult but not impossible, only we need optimism, discipline and positive attitude when we have problem about study English. It is very important find  many people can help us ,but this is possible if we have disposition to work in group to accept  contributions

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NEW VERSION:

We think Mr.Alfredo Hinojosa is a smart guy because the first time he came to the United States he didn't know English, and he came from a poor family, but he managed to persevere with success. Therefore, he is a great example for people who have different goals but need to learn English as a Second Language .

Alfredo inspires us  to learn English. Maybe it is difficult, but it is not impossible. We only need optimism, discipline and a positive attitude when we have problem about studying English. It is very important to find  many people  who can help us,b ut this is possible if we have the disposition to work in groups to accept  contributions.

Mr Alfredo came from Mexico city Twenty year ago ,he was emigrant
His first job was in the farm he picked cotton ,tomato and cantaloupes but Mr Alfredo now he is 
neurosurgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins university he is looking for breakthrough in the treatment of
the brain cancer.

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NEW VERSION:

Alfredo came from Mexico city twenty year ago. He was an immigrant.  His first job was on a farm, where he picked cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes, but  now he is a neurosurgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer.

Name : Novita and Anna

Alfredo Hinojosa was born in Mexico and when He was 5 years old, He worked in his father gas station. He became a teacher in age 18. In 1970s the economy collapsed and He decided to go to America to help his family.
Alfredo's first job was a farmworker. He picked tomatoes, cotton and cantaloupes. He lived in camper in very bad condition that he bought for about $ 300.


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NEW VERSION:

Alfredo Hinojosa was born in Mexico, and when He was 5 years old he worked at his father's gas station. He became a teacher at age 18. In the 1970s the Mexican economy collapsed, and he decided to go to America to help his family.

Alfredo's first job was as a farmworker. He picked tomatoes, cotton and cantaloupes. He lived in a camper in very bad condition that he bought for about $ 300.

Ammine and Tomota

story about Mr. Alfredo Hinojosa

Mr. Alfredo was born in Mexico. When he was 5 years old he started working at gas station, which his father is owner. in 1970's Mexico's economy got worth. his father couldn't keep his business.
After then, they made the decision to across the border illegally for working as a farmer. He lived in bad condition camper he bought for $300, but he didn't discourage, because his cousin told him to stay all his life such a farmer. 
 He had opportunity to study English at community collage and his professor brought him to University of California 


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NEW VERSION:

Mr. Alfredo was born in Mexico. When he was 5 years old he started working at a gas station, of which his father was the owner. In the 1970's Mexico's economy got worse. His father couldn't keep his business.

After that, he made the decision to cross the border illegally for work as a farmer. He lived in a bad condition camper he bought for $300, but he wasn't discouraged because his cousin told him he wouild stay all his life as a farmer. 

He had an opportunity to study English at a community collage and his professor brought him to the University of California. 

Mr. Alfredo came from Mexico city twenty years ago, he was emigrant
his first job was in the farm he picked cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes but Mr Alfredo now he is neurosurgeon and professor at johns Hopkins University, he is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer.
The first job in his life was fathers 

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NEW VERSION:

Mr. Alfredo came from Mexico city twenty years ago. He was an immigrant. His first job was on a farm where he picked cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes, but Mr Alfredo now is a neurosurgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer.

The first job in his life was at his father's gas station. 

Mr Alfredo came from Mexico city twenty years ago, he was a emigrant,
his first job was in the farm he picked cotton,tomatoes and cantaloupes but Mr Alfred now he is neurosurgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins university he is looking for breakthrough in the treatment of the brain cancer.
The first job in his life was in the gas station


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NEW VERSION:

Mr Alfredo came from Mexico City twenty years ago. He was an immigrant. His first job was on a farm, where he picked cotton, tomatoes and cantaloupes, but now he is a neurosurgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins university. He is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of  brain cancer.

The first job in his life was at a gas station.

Twenty years ago, Mr. Alfredo Hinojosa hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farmworker.

Today, he is a neurosurgeon and professor at johns Hopkins University, and a researcher who is looking
for a breakthrough in the treatement of brai cancer.

His remarkable journey began in a tiny farming community, 60 miles south of the U.S. border. MrHinojosa was born there, and by age 5, he was 


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NEW VERSION:

Twenty years ago, Mr. Alfredo Hinojosa hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farmworker.

Today, he is a neurosurgeon and professor at johns Hopkins University and a researcher who is looking for a breakthrough in the treatment of brain cancer.

His remarkable journey began in a tiny farming community 60 miles south of the U.S. border. Mr. Hinojosa was born there, and by age 5 he was working at his father's gas station.