1. Where is the heart of the Argentine wine industry located? Mendoza
2. "A glass of wine is soon ____________." (followed by a bottle)
3. Argentina is the ___th largest exporter of wine to _____ countries. (7th, 130)
4. Name three types of Argentine wine grapes. cabernet, chardonnay, malbec
5. Which countries are the greatest consumers of Argentine wine? United States, United Kingdom
6. What is a current challenge to the progress of the Argentine wine industry? global economic downturn
7. How long does it take to bring wine to market? Why? 3 years - 1 to grow grapes, 2 before selling the wine
8. What makes Argentine wine "great" according to the video? glacier water from high Andes
9. Define these vocabulary terms.
vineyard - place where grapes are grown
harvest - a season for gathering agricultural crops
financing - gathering of money needed for a project or venture
cordillera - a system of mountain ranges often consisting of a number of more or less parallel chains
marketing plan - campaign to generate awareness of a product or service
glacier - a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface
grandee - "big wigs," important individuals in an industry
capital investment - money used by businesses to buy fixed assets (land, machinery)
poverty line - minimum income amount deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living in a given country
In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations (Es/Fr/Pt >En) via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation. Buy your English-language texts here!
Can you and your team tackle the communication challenges of international business in the future?
English in Buenos Aires is proud to offer the following English Services in addition to English classes.
Please contact Professor Winn via cellular in Buenos Aires @ 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101@gmail.com:
Our Services:
1. Translation - from Spanish/French/Portuguese to English in the following areas: business/commerce/finances, medical, legal, technology, and government/international relations.
2. Copywritingand Proofreading - If you need a letter, essay or other document written originally in English (not translated), please contact us immediately for your project. We promise to communicate your meaning precisely and succinctly directly to your attended audience. We also proofread your existing English documents. You only have one chance to make a first impression!
3. Perfecting Business English - Are you able to compete and win the business you want with your current level of Business English? From documents to negotiations, Professor Winn can transform your business products into a competitive advantage.
Professor Winn can assist you with the following (not exclusive):
E-mail Writing
Telephoning
Presentations
Efective Meetings
Accent Training
We are qualified and ready to design any kind of workshop. Our clients tell us their needs and we work to meet them with excellence and professionalism.
4. Executive Services - Business English Executive Coaching: face-to-face or via e-coaching - learn the cultural aspects of the English business world and learn professional and intercultural competencies.
Professor Winn understands today's world of global business from the inside out.
If you are in Buenos Aires and want English lessons personally designed to fit your needs, please call Professor Winn at 1160 461 342 or send an email to mrenglish101@gmail.com.
Anyone interested in English-language services or translations (Sp/Fr/Pt>En) may send an email to mrenglish101@gmail.com for a prompt evaluation.
In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations (Es/Fr/Pt >En) via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation. Buy your English-language texts here!
What is RSS? This questions comes to mind for many new readers. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) makes it easier for your to keep up with your favorite website. Get my feed!
You do want to keep up to date with the latest posts on English in Buenos Aires?
We have a number of ways that you can subscribe to this site and receive updates. The main one that our readers use is our RSS feed. But what is RSS?
What is RSS?
RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.
In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.
The problems with bookmarking
You as the web surfer had to do all the work
It can get complicated when you are trying to track many websites at once
You miss information when you forget to check your bookmarks
You end up seeing the same information over and over again on sites that don’t update very often
RSS Changes Everything
What if you could tell a website to let you know every time that they update? In a sense, this is what RSS does for you.
RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published.
It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.
The key is for you to understand why it’s good and how to use it.
I have found RSS to be almost an addiction and much easier to get the information you need from the sites you like.
How to Use RSS
Get an RSS Reader - The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to choose an RSS Feed Reader.
There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features - however a good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader and Bloglines. Either one will do if you’re starting out (I use Google’s Reader) - as I say there are many others to choose from but to get started either of these are fairly easy to use and will help you work out the basics of RSS.
You can receive your own news briefing in the reader and decide which stories you want to read more about or skip to the next item.
The best way to learn how to use either Google Reader or Bloglines is to simply subscribe to some feeds and give it a go. Both have helpful help sections to get you up and running.
Find Some Feeds to Subscribe to - there are two places to look for a site’s feed:
On the Site
In Your Browser
On Site Subscription Over the last few years you may have noticed a lot of little buttons and widgets appearing on your favorite sites and blogs. Little orange buttons, ‘counters’ with how many ‘readers a blog has, links called RSS, XML, ATOM and many more.
There are plenty more - but any time you see any of these buttons or anything like them it means that the site you are viewing almost certainly has a feed that you can subscribe to. In most cases it’s as simple as either copying and pasting the link associated with the button into your RSS Reader or clicking the button and following the instructions to subscribe using the feed reader of your choice.
Browser Subscription
Many internet browsers now have the ability to find and subscribe to RSS feeds built right into them.
When you surf to a site you can usually tell if it has an RSS feed by looking in the right hand side of address bar where you type in the site’s URL with the familiar orange RSS icon.
Using Safari Browser it is a blue RSS icon.
Other modern browsers will have similar icons.
To quickly and easily subscribe by clicking these icons you’ll want to set up your browser to do it with your feed reader of choice as by default they will probably subscribe you using the in-browser reader. You can do this by going to the ‘preferences’ to your browser and choosing ‘Google Reader’ or ‘Bloglines’ etc as your feed reader.
Once you’ve done this and have subscribed to a few feeds you’ll begin to see unread items in your Feed Reader and you can start reading.
Don’t want to Use an RSS Reader? Email is an Option
If the above explanation all just seems a little too complicated for you then please don’t worry. Many sites also enable you to subscribe to RSS feeds via a more familiar medium - Email.
Here at English in Buenos Aires we offer a handy email sign up in the top right sidebar where you can enter your email address and get a daily email with a summary of our latest posts. You can unsubscribe at any time and your email will be kept private and not used for any other purposes than to send these daily updates.
Subscribe to English in Buenos Aires feed! Thank you!
In Buenos Aires, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations (Es/Fr/Pt >En) via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation. Buy your English-language texts here!
I am an experienced professor of English as a Foreign Language and translator from Spanish, French, and Portuguese into English, my native language, currently residing in Buenos Aires. Students interested in learning English in the quickest time possible or those needing spot-on translation are asked to contact me directly: mrenglish101@gmail.com. Enjoy your blog!
, contact Professor Winn directly for your own English classes at: 1160 461 342 or mrenglish101 (at) gmail.com. Translations (Es/Fr/Pt >En) via email may also be sent to the gmail account for prompt evaluation. Buy your English-language texts here!
