Task 4


Task 4


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 on September 22nd.





15 comentarios:

  1. 1- Endlessly (adverb): She loved him endlessly, he liked her as a friend.
    2- Unbelievably (adverb): Unbelievably, she arrived without a single bag.
    3- Reward (noun/verb): He was rewarded for his work.
    4- Behaviour (noun): The behavior of a child is different from an adult.
    5- Outstanding (adjective): He has done an outstanding job.
    6- Issue (noun/verb): The issue of protecting water.
    7- Bunch (noun/verb): He brought with him a bunch of flowers for her.
    8- Rather (adverb): He is rather nervous about her arrival.
    9- Flourishing (adjective): He has a flourishing career.
    10- Anomalous (adjective): It was an anomalous situation, she was very punctual.


    What motivations do you have in your life?
    -My family, my couple and my pets are my main motivation, I want to give them a better life.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    -My desire to be recognized, have a stable life and to travel to different countries.

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  2. endlessly (abverb)
    behaviour (noun)
    incentivise (verb)
    scheme (noun)
    reward (noun
    autonomy (adjective)
    mastery(verb/noun)
    purpose(verb/noun)
    desire(verb/noun)
    management(verb/noun)
    What motivations do you have in your life?
    My family support me and motivates me to build my own life.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    My own desire to be a better person every day, to become someone who is not afraid to live life as it it and reach all goals I have in mind.

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  3. Motivations (noun)
    reward (verb/noun)
    task (verb/noun)
    skill (noun)
    Performance (noun)
    Outstanding (adjetive)
    Fact (noun
    Pay (verb/noun)
    Autonomy (noun)
    Willing (Adjetive/Verb)

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    Be better person, get more acknowledge for create interesting things, improve my sport performance..

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    Believe that the thing that I am doing its important for me or for someone else, see good results when I am doing something.

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  4. Behavior (noun)
    Reward (noun,verb)
    Punish (verb)
    Incentive (noun)
    Performance (noun)
    Forward (noun,verb,adverb,adjective)
    Motivator (noun)
    Autonomy (noun)
    Purpose (noun,verb)
    Engagement (noun)

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    Some people of my family and friends, and be better in all the things that really interest me.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    My desire of enjoy the life and improve myself

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  5. Behaviour (noun)
    Endlessly (abverb)
    Punish (verb)
    Unbelievably (adverb)
    Outstanding (adjective)
    Fact (noun)
    Autonomy (noun)
    Pay (verb - noun)
    Reward (verb - noun)
    Performance (noun)

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    My family and friends, I wanna be a better person for them

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    I wanna contribute the world with my skills, to be remembered for help the people.

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  6. Profit (verb/noun).
    Autonomy(noun)
    Compliance(noun)
    Unhitched(verb)
    Herald(noun/verb)
    Cognitive(adjective)
    Incentives(noun)
    Performance (noun)
    Transcended(verb)
    Purpose (noun,verb)

    1. What motivations do you have in your life?
    My family that always have been supporting me. And the willing of be a better person

    2.What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    Trying to overcome my skills, the results that I get, and the satisfaction that i get when i achieve something proposed before.

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  7. 1. Motivations: (noun) enthusiasm to do something. It necessary have a big motivation to go up the Everest.
    2. Endlessly: (adjective) never finishing, or seeming never to finish. A couple of decades ago, people used to teach at schools that water is an endlessly resource.
    3. Reward: (noun) something given in exchange for good behavior or good work. When my dog does what I want, he receives a little reward, a hug and a cookie.
    4. Punish: (verb) to cause to suffer for a crime or fault. He kills a man, and was punished with 50 year at jail.
    5. Challenges: (noun) difficult job that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore test a person ability. To solve a Rubik cube is a really hard mental challenge.
    6. Incentives: (noun) something that encourages a person to do something. Think how is going to be my future is a great incentive. Doing the things the best that I can makes me feel good.
    7. Outstanding: (adjective) excellent, very good. In this life there are people with an outstanding life attitude.
    8. Autonomy: (noun) the ability to make your own decisions without being controlled by anyone else. I think that a girl with autonomy would be perfect in a relationship
    9. Purpose: (noun) the reason for doing something. Do things with a good purpose represent the 50% of the successful
    10. Profit: (noun) money which is gained in a business from selling something for more than one paid for it. Once I bought a jacket in ¢30.000 and a selled to a friend in ¢50.000. I won ¢20.000 profit.
    • What motivations do you have in your life?
    My family and God are my motivation in all what I do. My potential comes from them
    • What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    I want to develop a device, or make a discover that helps to contribute to the science. And by this contribution that my name never be forget.

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  8. 1. Unbelievably = adverb
    2. Endlessly = adverb
    3- Reward = noun/verb
    4- Behaviour = noun
    6- Issue = noun/verb
    7- Bunch = noun/verb
    8- Rather = adverb
    9- Flourishing = adjective
    10. Outstanding = adjective

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    I think my motivation day a day is to make a change or to put a mark in this planet, if i do that i will be realized

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    i think all of this is about catching a goal is for the reward feeling; is always a good positive feeling.

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  9. Karla Johanna Quesada Solano22 de septiembre de 2014 a las 2:09 p.m.

    1.motivation =noun
    2. incentivise = verb
    3. rewarded= verb
    4. mastery =noun
    5. behaviour= noun
    6. skills= noun
    7. autonomy= noun
    8. purpose= noun
    9. goal= noun
    10. work= noun
    What motivations do you have in your life?

    My motivations are my family and health. Having this things are more important than all the money, for me. And I could say my happiness is based on family, health and enough money.

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

    In my case I study engineer in Biotechnology, my immediate goal is to finish my career, so that I can have my own company someday. This way I can possibly have the autonomy to take care of my family.

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  10. Punish (verb)
    Spatial (adjective)
    Vaguely (adverb)
    Mainstream (noun)
    Defy (verb)
    Slightly (adverb)
    Mastery (noun)
    Discretionary (adjective)
    Overwhelmingly (adverb)
    Unmoored (verb)

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    God is my motivation. He's always with me even my friends and family are gone. And I know he's going to help me to make my dreams true. Actually, he's doing it.

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

    The fact that nothing is impossible. If you want to do something, you can do it. Nobody can tell you that something is impossible, because that's a lie. And I believe I can do it, because God is next to me.

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  11. Flourishing- (adjective)
    Spatial -(adjective)
    Endlessly-(adverb)
    Vaguely -(adverb)
    Bunch-(noun/ verb)
    Mainstream -(noun)
    Overwhelmingly-(adverb)
    Defy- (verb)
    Unmoored-(verb)
    Slightly -(adverb)

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    For me, the best motivator i could have is myself, beacause inspite of all the people around me, that try to motivates me, the decision is mine. I can see the bad in the good or the good in the bad, it is optional to me, the time is going to pass anyway, so i decide how i want to live and who i want to become in life. Life is about decisions.

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    What motivates me is God, knowing that nothing is impossible for me because he is with me. That i could be the best or the worst, that is my choice.

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  12. 10 keywords:

    1-Unbelievably: adverb
    2-Reward: noun/verb
    3-Incentive: noun
    4-Performance: noun
    5-Skill: noun
    6-Task: noun/verb
    7-Money: noun
    8-Autonomy: noun
    9-Purpose: noun/verb
    10-Mastery: noun

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    God, my family and my friends. They are the most important things that I have in my life. They always supporting me in good and bad situations. All the things that I do and I have achieved is thanks to them.

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

    The fact that I'm young and that I have a life ahead, I have health and all the support of God, my family and friends. Also, that I have to conclude my career and achieve all the projects that I want to develop during my life. I know that things with effort can be achieved.



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  13. freaky (adjective)
    insane(adjective)
    bunch(noun-verb)
    defies(verb)
    goal (noun)
    spatial(adjective)
    scheme (noun)
    compliance (noun)
    willing (adjective-verb)
    anomalous (adjective)

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    I have a lot of motivations but just for mention many of them, I have the motivation of give back and be thankful with my mon and all of what she has done for my brothers and me-

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    What motivates me to keep going to achieve my goals is the satisfaction and happiness of all de effort I have done and celebrate it with my owns.

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  14. 1. FREAKY: ADJECTIVE
    2. REWARD: VERB
    3. PUNISH: VERB
    4. COGNITIVE: ADJECTIVE
    5. OUTSTANDING: ADJECTIVE
    6. FACT: NOUN
    7. AUTONOMY: NOUN
    8. MASTERY: NOUN
    9. PURPOSE: NOUN
    10. ENGAGEMENT: NOUN
    11. INSANE: ADJECTIVE
    What motivations do you have in your life?
    IN FIRST PLACE, GOD BECAUSE HE GIVE THE STRENGHT TO KEEP GOING, AND THEM MY MOM, ALL MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS BECAUSE THEY GIVE THE THINGS THAT I NEED TO BE HAPPY, EVEN THOUGH THE PROBLEMS THAT I HAVE.
    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    TO BE A GOOD PERSON THAT CONTRIBUTES IN POSITIVE WAY IN THE SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, BY PUTTING ALL MY KNOWLEDGE IN THE ENVIRONMENT THAT I WILL PERFORM.

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  15. Endlessly (adverb)
    incentivise (verb)
    Autonomy (noun)
    Punish (verb)
    Anomalous (adjective)
    desire(verb/noun)
    reward (verb/noun)
    Outstanding (adjective)
    Unbelievably (adverb)
    freaky (adjective)

    What motivations do you have in your life?
    In my life as a motivations I have God, my family and my friends, they are my support

    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    My personal and biggest motivation is my family

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