sábado, 30 de julio de 2011

The Name Game

These are some important sentences selected from the article about The Name Game. I hope you can read and learn something new from them.

1- A name is the first point of contact that a company has with the world, and it can be an effective marketing tool.

2- When a company is sold, there is often a fee for transferring the company name to the new owners.

3- Some names are totally invented. One advantage for a corporation in making up a name is that this name is then the unambiguous property of the company.

4- To trademark a name is to register it with a government patent office so that it cannot be used by an other company.

The Name Game

These are some new words that I learned from unit 3 with their meanings (The Name Game).

1. Catchy = esay to remember
2. Went bankrupt = went out of business
3. Fusing = joining
4. Unambiguous = closest in meaning to clear
5. Brick = Rapid

Examples:

A. I can't think of a catchy name for my facebook.
B. The company where i worked in 3 years ago went bankrupt.
C. The islands of Central American will be fusing by bridges in 2030.
D. The students of the summer class gave a clear, unambiguous answer to all the questions that our teacher asked.
E. She carefully guided the boat through the brick water.

!!BASEBALL PLAYER 'BRIAN KOWNACKI' FLIPS OVER CATCHER, SAFE AT HOME PLATE!!

J-Ball

Baseball is one of the most widely played and watched sports all around the world. Although born in the United States it has become internationalized. Dominican Republic has strong baseball traditions and contributed many players to the mejor leagues in the United States.

In my opinion baseball is a wonderful entertainment that we can watch on our tv with our family and friends. It is great when we can see many players practicing that kind of sport.

Yo-yo God

Everybody watches this video.

The modern story of the yo-yo starts with a young gentleman from the Philippines, named Pedro Flores. In the 1920s, he moved to the USA, and worked as a bellhop at a Santa Monica hotel. Carving and playing with wooden yo-yos was a traditional pastime in the Philippines, but Pedro found that his lunch break yo-yo playing drew a crowd was the first appearance of the name "yo-yo," which means "come-come" in the at the hotel. He started a company to make the toys, calling it the Flores Yo-Yo Company.

China Discovered America in 1421

Did the chinese discovered america.