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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 as a comment below.
Due date: February 5th
Good afternoon, guys: This is my first task.
ResponderBorrarThe ten words related with video:
Reward (Noun): Something given in exchange for good behavior or good work.
Hoop (noun): a ring of wood, metal, or plastic.
Stuff (Noun): used to refer to more things of a similar kind to ones you have mentioned, when you do not say exactly what they are.
Profit (noun): Money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods and services:
Huge (adjetive): extremely large in size or amount.
Outstanding (Adjetive): clearly very much better than what is usual.
Willing (adjective): to be happy to do something if it is needed.
Straight (adjective, adverb): continuing in one direction without bending or curving.
Defy (verb): to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.
Gonna (verb): Informal for going to:
The answer these questions: What motivations do you have in your life?
This question have many answers, which depends the life’s age. When I was a teenager, I thought that the study was the straight way for my economic and social growth. Then, my daughter born, I was happy to be mother. From this moment, the most important has been my children. Now, in this mature age, one motivation in my life is enjoy the God’s blessings and the gifts of life.
What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
Well, through my life has had the purpose to be better as person, mother, student and coworker. This purpose obliges me to do a great effort. This mean that I have to do well stuff and I dedicate a lot of time for get up to goals. It is not easy because I must has sacrificed time of family, social life and money; but the end the rewards and the satisfaction are good. Feeling good is the most important of my life.
King regards, Tania
TASK # 1
ResponderBorrarEDUARDO ARCIA VILLALOBOS
KEYWORDS:
1. REWARD. (NOUN) a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property
2. Behaviour. (NOUN) manner of behaving or conducting oneself.
Punish. (Verb) • to undergo a penalty or sanction, such as imprisonment, fines, death, etc, for some crime or
3. Incentive (Noun) a motivating influence; stimulus.
4. Cognitive. (Adjetive) of or relating to cognition.
5. Issue: (Noun) • the act of sending or giving out something; supply; delivery
6. Socialist.(Noun) a supporter or advocate of socialism or any party promoting socialism.
7. Oustanding (Adjetive) • superior; excellent; distinguished
8. Autonomy (Noun) • the right or state of self-government, esp when limited.
9. Engagement (Noun) • a promise, obligation, or other condition that binds.
10. Anomalous (Adjetive) • a promise, obligation, or other condition that binds.
Eduardo Arcia.
What motivations do you have in your life?
ResponderBorrarWhat motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
My big motivation in my life is my 8 year old daughter.
To achieve my accomplishments , most motivating is my family.
Eduardo Arcia
My words are unbelievably (adj), whole (adj), punish (subject), reward (subject), challenges (subject), physical (adj), incentives(subject), rudimentary (adj) skill (subject) worse (adj) .
ResponderBorrarAnswer 1
My family is my biggest motivation, make shure that they are ok and happy is my first thought in the morning when I'm getting up.
Answer 2
Well, In my job, basically I don't like to be unresponsible, all the time I worked hard to going achive my goals with the motivation of look like a succesfull woman.
In my private life, I tend to be very obssesive, if I planned to do something, the most of time I do it. But, I can wait the correct time to achieve, my motivation depends of the kind of goal I set my mind.
1. Reward:
ResponderBorrarn.
1 money offered for the finding or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost property, etc [countable] Do you suppose we'll get a reward for turning in this wallet?
2 something given or received for services done, for doing something of merit, etc.: [countable] Seeing his children succeed was the most important reward in his life. [uncountable] There is not much financial reward in teaching.
v.
[~ + object]
1 to give a reward to (a person or animal) for service, merit, etc.:The dog's owner rewarded it with a biscuit.
2. Punish:
v.
[~ + object]
1 to cause (someone) to undergo or suffer pain, loss, jail, or death as a penalty for some offense or fault.
2 to inflict such a penalty for (an offense or fault):to punish theft. 3 to handle or treat harshly or roughly; hurt:The rocky road really punishes these tires.
3. Endlessly:
adj.
1 having or seeming to have no end; boundless:an endless highway through the open desert. 2 not stopping or ceasing; incessant:the endless noise of construction work.
end•less•ly,adv.
4. Unbelievably:
adj.
1 too unlikely to be believed:Your story is unbelievable. 2 extraordinary; impressive:unbelievable luck. un•be•liev•a•bly, adv.
5. led(lead):
For the verb: "to lead"
Simple Past: led
Past Participle: led
lead1 /lid/
v., led/lɛd/ lead•ing, n., adj.
v. to go through or pass (time, life, etc.)
6. Outstanding:
out•stand•ing /ˌaʊtˈstændɪŋ/
adj.
1 obvious; conspicuous; striking[before a noun] outstanding courage.
2 superior; excellent; distinguished:
out•stand•ing•ly,adv.:
an outstandingly fine restaurant.
7. Autonomy
au•ton•o•my /ɔˈtɑnəmi/ n. [uncountable]
(of a state or government) self-government; independence.
freedom of action:
The corporation gives their agents a fair amount of autonomy.
8. Mastery
mas•ter•y /ˈmæstəri/
n. [uncountable]
1 knowledge or skill:His mastery of Italian was complete. 2 superiority; control; dominance:mastery over their enemies. 3expert skill or knowledge.
9. Purpose
pur•pose /ˈpɝpəs/
n.
1 the reason for which something exists or is done, made, etc.[countable] For what purpose are we meeting today? 2 an intended or desired result; aim; goal[countable] His purpose in life was to get rich. 3 willingness to accomplish or achieve some goal or aim; resoluteness[uncountable] A good student has to have a sense of purpose.
10. engagement:
en•gage•ment /ɛnˈgeɪdʒmənt/
n.
[countable]
1 the act of engaging or the state of being engaged.
2 an appointment or arrangement to be somewhere or do something at a particular time:a dinner engagement. He was late for his business engagement. 3 an agreement to marry:They announced their engagement in the newspaper.
These meaning were taken of WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2016. http://www.wordreference.com/definition/engagement
About the questions
What motivations do you have in your life?
This is a difficult question, because in the live occurs something that we can’t explain ourselves. But in my case, there are something that motive my life like: the family, my past and the work. Also there are import aspect that motive my live, the thing that representation a challenger for me.
2. What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
I think that best important is my past. Knowing where I was born, the town where I grew up, the way where I walked, the small school where I studied. Remembering that we have lived in land floor, it is the best motivation for go on living.
Good afternoon mates!
ResponderBorrarKeywords: reward (verb), punish (verb), performance (noun), behaviour (noun), autonomy (noun), mastery (noun), purpose (noun), incentives (noun), ideology (noun), motivator (noun)
The most important motivation in my life is the promise of God, ‘if you believe and follow God’s commandments, you'll be better’. Everything that happened in your life has a purpose, and this one is nice and perfect.
Living in God is the best way for to find true peace and rest, moreover in His Word are all the advices that you need for deal with any troubles. Just you need know it!
In other hand, my family and my work commitment motivates me to achieve my goals. I love the challenges so I studied a really hard career and I work in the most prestigious technological university of Costa Rica. Now, I have the challenge to learn English!!!
Everyday when I come back at home and I can feel that my wife and son are waiting for me, I just can say ‘thanks God, here I can get new forces for tomorrow’.
Juan Pablo
1. Related Keywords to the article:
ResponderBorrar- Engaging
adj. winning; attractive; pleasing
- Challenges
n. a call to compete in a contest or in a fight. something that by its nature is a test or a difficult thing to accomplish. a demand, request, or question to explain or justify something.
v. to summon (someone) to a contest or fight. to test (someone) because of its difficulty. to demand or question whether (something or someone) is correct, proper, or qualified. to halt and demand identification from
- Reward
n. money offered for the finding or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost property, etc. Something given or received for services done, for doing something of merit, etc.
v. [~ + object] to give a reward to (a person or animal) for service, merit, etc.
- Mastery
n. [uncountable] knowledge or skill. Superiority. Control. Dominance.
- Punish
v. [~ + object] to cause (someone) to undergo or suffer pain, loss, jail, or death as a penalty for some offense or fault. to inflict such a penalty for (an offense or fault). to handle or treat harshly or roughly, hurt.
- Purpose
n. the reason for which something exists or is done, made, etc. an intended or desired result; aim; goal. willingness to accomplish or achieve some goal or aim; resoluteness
idiom. on purpose: intentionally
- Overwhelmingly
adv.
Overwhelming - adj. very large, such as in amount or size; very great; very powerful.
- Stuff
n. the material of which anything is made; material, objects, or items of some kind not specified; property, such as personal belongings; inward character, qualities, or capabilities; behavior or talk of a particular kind; a specialty or special skill; worthless things or matter; a drug, esp. an illegal one.
v. to push, thrust, or cram (something) into something else; to fill (a receptacle, etc.), esp. by packing the contents closely together; to fill or cram with food; to fill (poultry, vegetables, etc.) with a stuffing; to fill the preserved skin of (a dead animal) with material, retaining its natural form and appearance for display; to put false votes into (a ballot box); to pack (people) tightly in a (confined place); crowd together; to stop up; block or choke
- Lame
adj. crippled or physically disabled, esp. in the foot or leg so as to cause limping. being stiff and sore; weak; inadequate; out of touch; square
v. [~ + object] to make lame or defective
- Paramount
adj. chief in importance or effect or impact; above others in rank or authority; superior
2. Questions:
- What motivations do you have in your life?
- What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
I am answering both questions at once because I think that I have the same answer for both. My motivations are my parents and my personal and professional self-improvement. My inspiration is to be a better person and better professional...
CCalderón
First Part: Keywords
ResponderBorrarMy Keywords are: autonomy(noun), behaviour(noun), incentives(noun), mastery(noun), motivations(noun), porpuse(noun), punish(verb), reward(verb), satisfaction (noun) and skill(noun)
Second Part:Questions
What motivations do you have in your life? What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
Both question s are related:
My principal motivation in my life is God and his teaching. We are called to build the kingdom of God day to day because this is not an abstract concept or this is only in the "heaven", when I am dead. Our actions make a difference. If I believe in God, I will try to practice the commandment of love. This implies that I must be fair, honest, brave, understanding, patient, among others in every place where I am and everything I do; for example in my work, with my family, friends,etc. So, I can be a better person and achieve my goals.
This year is important for the Catholic Church because the Pope Francisco inaugurated the holy year about the mercy, which motto is "Merciful as the Father". The mercy's face is Jesus Christ.
My ten words are:
ResponderBorrar1. hoop (noun): The ring of the basketball net.
2. Bottom (noun): Lower place.
3. Performance (noun): Representation.
4. Research (verb): Investigate.
5. Cognitive (adjective): Intellectual.
6. Poorer (adjective): Lacking of money.
7. Economics (noun): Financial.
8. Weird (adjective): Not usual.
9. Defies (verb): Go against.
10. Emerge (verb): Come visible.
Answers:
1.My motivations in life are develop myself professionaly, to enjoy every single moment with my family and to be happy.
2. My family makes me encourage different goals I've planned. In my job, I like to be very responsable and perfeccionist to achive good results.