Task 5


Task 5

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 30th. 

7 comentarios:

  1. Isabel Guzmán Arias

    Motivations (n)
    Science (n)
    Incentives (n)
    Money (n)
    Cognitive (a)
    Autonomy (n)
    Managment (n)
    Mastery (n)
    Purpose (n)
    Ideology (n)
    What motivations do you have in your life?
    I have many motivations in my life: first my faith in God, then my family, my own personal and professional development and the interpersonal relationships.
    What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    Make maximum use of the life that God has given me and try to be better each day.

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  2. 1. Stuff: Noun
    2. Bunch: Noun
    3. Skeptically: Adverb
    4. Overwhelmingly: Adverb
    5. Unmoored: Verb
    6. Lame: adjetive
    7. Unhitched: verb
    8. Hoop: Noun
    9. Sheme: Noun
    10. Weird: Adjetive
    1. What motivations do you have in your life?
    R./My motivations are God, my husband, my family, my friends and work.
    2. What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    R./God, He is always taking me on Their hands, every day when I wake up I think " Thanks God because is another day for enjoy what you have for me", and immediately I think in my husband, my mom, my brothers and sisters, my nephews and nieces, my closer family, my friends, and my coworkers. I pray and after that I start my routine of the day.

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  3. KEYWORDS

    Motivations (noun)
    Freakily (adjective)
    Behavior (noun)
    To reward (verb)
    Defies (noun)
    Outstanding (adjective)
    Autonomy (noun)
    Mastery (noun)
    Purpose (noun)
    Transcendent (adjective)
    Maximizers (noun)

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    I have a very motivating life because I am very satisfied with what I do and what I have. I have a peaceful life, two wonderful children, a very close family (mine and my partner), I love my work and enjoy other activities such as literature, gardening and share with my friends. I feel very happy to have lived always faithful to my principles and convictions.

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

    My goals are to live at peace with myself, with others and with the planet. Life always goes on, never stops, so we have to live with much love, much hope and much compromise. It motivates me to continue to serve my country as a citizen and as an educator and especially to see my children happy flying with its own wings to reach their own motivations.

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  4. 10 keywords:

    1. If you reward something, you get more of the behavior you want.
    2. If you punish something, you get less of it.
    3. As long as the task involved only mechanical skill,
    4. If you don’t pay people enough, they won’t be motivated.
    5. With real good incentives, you’ll get a different result.
    6. If you want engagement self directed is better.
    7. If you like what you do, you’ll get better results.
    8. We like to get better at stuff.
    9. Volunteers spent more time doing something they like, than others don’t enjoy their jobs.
    10. They are working at jobs for pay and sometime they do it for free.

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    First, my own development like woman, mother and professional person. Then my family is the power make me go ahead.

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

    I pleasure to give my sons a good example of development and perseverance. And show then little by little they can reach all goals they want.

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  5. 10 keywords:

    1. If you reward something, you get more of the behavior you want.
    2. If you punish something, you get less of it.
    3. As long as the task involved only mechanical skill,
    4. If you don’t pay people enough, they won’t be motivated.
    5. With real good incentives, you’ll get a different result.
    6. If you want engagement self directed is better.
    7. If you like what you do, you’ll get better results.
    8. We like to get better at stuff.
    9. Volunteers spent more time doing something they like, than others don’t enjoy their jobs.
    10. They are working at jobs for pay and sometime they do it for free.

    What motivations do you have in your life?

    First, my own development like woman, mother and professional person. Then my family is the power make me go ahead.

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

    I pleasure to give my sons a good example of development and perseverance. And show then little by little they can reach all goals they want.

    Sonia Brenes

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  6. Motivations (n)
    Engaging (adj)
    Behaviour (n)
    Challenges (n)
    Performers (n)
    Folks (n)
    Skill N)
    Developers (n)
    Roughly (adv)
    Paradox (n)

    1) What motivations do you have in your life?
    I have a lot of motivations, my family and my boyfriend are the principal motivation in my life, the moments with them are the inspiration to continue with my activities and projects. Also I am very happy with my work, I love to work at the ITCR, and contribute with the society.
    2) What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    My motivations to keep going are to be a better person every day, that my family feel proud of me for the goals that I achieve. And to be a good example for my sister and my nieces.

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  7. reward (n)
    challenges (n)
    performance (n)
    motivation (n)
    satisfaction (n)
    autonomy (n)
    mastery (n)
    purpose (n)
    science (n)
    trascendent (adj)


    1) What motivations do you have in your life?
    I have many motivations in my lfe, first the feeling that I am alive and healthy when I get up in the morning every day, then my family and my girlfriend, besides this the achievements that I have reached thru my live.

    2) What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
    When I achieve something that was hard to get, that shows me: I did it! I can do more and I can do things better for me and others every thing with God's support.

    Marco Méndez


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