Making a dinner reservation summary

When you want to make a plan to go to a restaurant you have to call them before to make sure if there is a space or room available. Bistro is kind of small restaurant, comes from France and it has a lot of wine and candles. But usually found it more expensive in US. Generally, if you want to go to a popular place, you need to make a reservation and put your name under. Some restaurants don't accept reservation. That means you have to go there and wait in a line for table.

Happy New Years summary

Many countries celebrate New Year's Eve. Most people make a New Years resolution, it means something promise yourself to do in the new year. In United States, people usually celebrate in town square and watch the big round ball goes down until drop it as the count down began to mid night in town square. Then they kiss each other for good luck in New Years. That is something tradition in US and most of people must kiss someone even they don't know the person. In Italy, they have a special food to supposed to eat to bring wealth in New Years.

Going to the bakery (summary )

Bakery is the shop where they sell bread and different types of bread. First kind is comes from France it's croissants, many people like to eat it in breakfast in France. And we can find it every where at cafe and bakeries. Also, there is a muffins. Which has many flavor like blue berry and strawberry. Muffins is kind of like sweet baked good. Third, There is a sour dough, its very unique because the flavor is a little bit sour its strong. Also, there is a whole wheat bread, the healthy choice. It is brown bread.

Mexican food (summary)

Mexican food comes from Mexico but also it is part in the United States like Texas called Tex-Mex. it has a base of flour tortilla is like a wrap and very thin bread. Most of Mexican cuisine have a guacamole as aside dish. It comes from the avocado fruit. It's often use as a dip, so we can dip a potato chips or tortilla chips in it or we can use as a sauce. The most popular dishes in the Mexican cuisine world are a beef burrito and nachos. The nachos is a classic Tex-Mex dish. Mexican food usually is little bit spicy but its very good taste.

ISP Mexico customs

Many countries in the world have different customs and traditions. The customs and traditions differ from country to another whereas in the past it used to be different between continents. In my view, the customs and traditions are describe the culture of people. In Mexico there are many special customs for table and meeting.


There are many etiquette for table in Mexico. For example, they do not sit down until the invited tell them where to sit. Second, usually they start eating after the invited start. Also, it is not polite if they finish all their meal, and when they finish eating, they put the knife and fork across their plate. In short, anyone want to visit Mexico it should know about table etiquette to respect their customs.


In Mexico there are a lot of etiquette for meeting and when people meet someone for the first time. First, the women pat each other on shoulder, but they do not shake hands. Second, men shake hands until they introduced themselves, but if they are friends they give a traditional hug .


In conclusion, there are many interesting customs and traditions in mexico . In my opinion, customs and traditions are very important for the country because other countries will respect them if they keep on their traditions and I hope visit Mexico one day.

Text me (summary)

Marco and Katherine are discussing couple of language matters that relate to technology. They are observing couple of discussions between people whereas they find that language is changing and new terms are entering into use such as the use of the word message me, or text me or SMS me when people are sending short message service messages. Other new terms were the word plan or credit which refers the type of subscription the user have on their mobile phones. We notice that technology usage differs between age groups where elder people seem not prefer texting over calling. Technology have certainly affected our lives and talk.

Abudhabi or Dubai

which city is better - AbuDhabi or Dubai?why?

There are many fantastic cities around the world. Some cities are famous for history. While other cities are famous for shopping and entertainment. In the UAE there are two important cities, AbuDhabi and Dubai. Both of these cities have some advantages and some disadvantages. In my view, AbuDhabi is a better city because it's smaller, and it has many opportunities.

AbuDhabi is better than Dubai because it is smaller. First, there is less traffic in small cities. For example, its only tack about 20 minutes to travel from downtown AbuDhabi to the other side. On the other hand, it can tack one and a half hour to travel across Dubai second, small cities like AbuDhabi are often more organized. For instance, in AbuDhabi the roads are planned, so it is easy to find shopping malls such as Marina Mall.
However, in Dubai you can easily get lost on the road because they are always changing due to construction work. In short AbuDhabi is better than Dubai because it is smaller.

There are more opportunities in AbuDhabi than Dubai. First, there are more entertainment opportunities in Abu Dhabi. For example, AbuDhabi has much nicer free beaches than Dubai. Unlike Dubai, the beach road near 30th street have many nice activities such as renting bicycles and numerous cafes like cold stone ice- cream and restaurant. Moreover AbuDhabi actually has more nice hotels with nice restaurants such us Sent Regis in Saadyat island and the Viceroy on Yas Island. Second, AbuDhabi, has more job opportunities because it wasn't affected by economic crises of 2008 the same way as Dubai. For instance, AbuDhabi helped Dubai by giving money. In sum Dubai has fewer opportunities than AbuDhabi.

To conclude, AbuDhabi is a better place to live than Dubai because it is not as big, and it has more entertainment and work opportunity. There are simply more jobs and nice places to go in Abudhabi. In my opinion, anyone living in Dubai should conceder moving to Abudhabi.

Essay about iPad and textbooks

These days technology has become very important in our life. And with the emergence of two biggest and famous companies such as Apple and Samsung, the people can not live without their products such as iPhones, iPads and iPods because it has many good education programs. In my view, iPad is better because it is easier to use than text books and worksheets and more evolved.

iPad is better than text books because it is easier. First, it is more lighter than books, so we don't need to carry many things such as books, pens and eraser. For example, in Zayed University we work on the iPad most of the time, we read stories and do some practices on it. Second, iPad is not complicated to use because all people from different ages,even kids, know how to use it easily. In short, iPad is better than textbooks because it is easier.

There are many companies and schools now using iPad because it is popular, evolved and has many features. First, we can do many things on the iPad. For example, playing entertainment games, reading books, newspapers, stories, and we can become in touch with the breaking news from the world. Second, iPad has more options than textbooks. For example, we can download some applications to learn different things, and we can surfing the Internet, check emails and social networks at the same time.

To conclude, iPad is better than textbooks because it is easier, lighter and it has many entertainment and educations applications. In my opinion, in the future it will be no computers, no laptops. All people will use iPad and iPhones only.

Average age at first marriage

There are two graphs. Graph A shows the average age at first marriage between eleven countries. Sweden has the highest number of people who get marriage whereas men get married at around 33 years old while women get married at 30 years old. Both UAE and Chile has similar marry ages. Senegal has the largest difference between the age of men and women marrying. Graph B is about the percentage of marriages between 15-19 years old. Sweden has no marriages under 19 years old while Kuwait has the highest number of women marry between 15 and 19 years. In the UAE about 2 to 3% of men marry between 15 to 19. In conclusion we find Africa and Middle East countries have majority of marriages between 15 to 19 years old where most of them are females.

Cultural differences in counting (summary)

Many people assume that numbers and math are the same all over the world. But scientist have discovered that this is not true. People in different parts of the world use different methods to count on their fingers. In the United States, people begin counting with their first, or index, finger. In China, people count by using a variety of finger positions. Some languages have only a few words for numbers and others don't have any words for numbers. A group of scientists worked with aboriginal children in Australia. The scientists studied people who have a very small vocabulary for numbers. In tests, aboriginal children listened to taps from a stick and then put out markers to match the number of taps they heard. The children put out the correct number of markers. In a similar study the Piraha tribe don't have words that means some and more. Although all humans have the ability to understand quantities not all languages have numbers and not all people use counting.

Graph reported crimes

This bar graph shows the reported crimes from 1998 to 2000 in six country. The highest amount of total reported crimes in UK. The lowest amount in Saudi Arabia. The reported of burglaries in UK about a third more than South Africa. The reported of car thefts in Malaysia about the same in South Africa. But there was a slight increase in USA and UK. Also, the reported of robberies in UK and USA about the same, but it rises in South Africa, And it went down in Malaysia and Hong Kong. In conclusion, we can see from the bar chart the UK and South Africa are the highest amount of total reported crimes.

The knife Markets of Sanaa

In this book I read about the most beautiful city of Yemen is Sanaa. Sanaa is capital city of Yemen and is high area in Yemen. Around this city many mountains and hills and is so beautiful. Everybody in the morning in ancient city of Sanaa the people hears the call prayer and weak up early to go to the mosque to pray. Also, they talk about how they make their tradition knives called Jambiya. There are tradition houses covered with whit plaster. There are many tradition shops in the Sanaa like, spices , jewelry and other products. The people save these traditions for thousands years and one of these shops is Jambiya's shop. Jambiya is basic in the tradition cloths for Yemen men. There is compete who wear the wonderful knives between them. They make it from animal called rhinoceros . They killed this animal and make Jambiya. They take this mores from their grandparents or their traditional . However , the Yemeni government try to stop these mores to save animals but the Yemeni men love to use this material .

My plane for this weekend

This weekend after university I will go home and I will take a nap then I will go to my sister's house in Abudhabi. We will gather together with the family and we will eat dinner. it will be a nice day. After that I will back home. On Friday, in the afternoon I will go out with my husband and daughter to Dubai. We will have lunch in Dubai mall then we will go to JBR. On Saturday, I will stay at home to relax and I will do my homework, if I have any. I think my plans will make an amazing weekend.

Summary of paragraph ( throwaway society )

The term throwaway society is used as a way of saying that we are too materialistic. We don't repair things as much as we used to. Because we don't have to and don't want to. And being able to replace instead of repair shows that people are wealthy. Most people would rather have something with a newer design. There are three reason first, lower price. Second, increased wealth. Third, increased features. The benefit of increased features is another reason to buy something new. So throw something out. The throwaway society shows us how good things are.

Summary of story book "Peruvian Weavers"

Their is small village in Andes. Their people start weaving process with one sheep.Also their are a few people prepare the knife ,and they tie up the sheep to can't move than they cut the sheep's winter coat Also that is important industries in Chinchero begins. That is traditional method in this village also that is new business in the village, and there 46 woman and lady work together and cut the wool from the sheep than they use the yarn to make cloth. In that village one woman leader of the centre Taxtiles .her name is Nilda .she help people of her age in her town how they can weave. Also she is sad because that was disappearing also she is say the weave is her dream from along time.Also she think the Andean country is the best because they have great producer like potatoes and quinoa. Also she sailed that weave can't help them , and they don't gave them enough monytosupport all family in that village also she said the economic was bad because they have more group work in that weave. That weaves more important today. It is important to culture of Chinchero, and she learn how to weave when she was in third grade but now she made ponchos also she was said she made weave in her house.

Summary of paragraph "The great pacific garbage patch"

In the Pacific Ocean there's an area called the Northern Pacific Gyre. Here ocean currents come together and move in a large circle. The currents collect garbage. People call it the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Eighty percent of it comes from land. Garbage floats down rivers and streams and into the ocean. Plastic bags are carried out to sea with the wind. Then ocean currents carry all of this garbage to the great garbage patch. A sailor discovers the patches in 1997, when sailing near Hawaii. He suddenly found himself traveling through waters filled with garbage. He calculated that there were more than 3 million tons of plastic floating in the water. All of this garbage is hurting the environment. Plastic attract poisons and most of them is not biodegradable.

Summary of paragraph "summarize"

Chloe heard about something called "zero waste". It's a new idea with all garbage in the world. It sounds a little crazy, but that's the goal. Some cities like San Francisco already recycle 68 precent of their trash. Her friend read about a company that's recycling food wast. They put it all together and turn it into compost. Then they sell the compost to farmers. From UK Chris and her husband tried to live for one month without plastic. Before they started they counted all the plastic items they used in a month. The total was 603. They not entirely succeed but they bring the number of items down to 106, about 80 percent less than the month before. Recycling is a great thing, but its not really the answer to our problems. She thinks the solution is city should charge customers by the weight of their garbage. In other words, produce less garbage-pay less money! We can all do so much to reduce waste. It just takes a little time, though and planning.

Summary of paragraph ( the Hodja Nasreddin and his friends )

One day during a cold winter. Nasreddin Hodja and his friends sat discussing the weather. They were bragging about things they could do. They decided to challenge him. They suppose him could stay out all night long in the cold without anything to warm himself. And they made a bargain with him. If he can stay outside tonight he will be their guest at a dinner. But if he use any special item to warm himself he will have to make dinner for all his friends. Then the Hodja agreed. That evening the Hodja's friends watched through the windows as he strolled. It was freezing outside. Just as he was about to give up, he saw a candle in a window about a hundred meters away. So he was able to stay out all night in the cold. The next morning his friends were amazed to find him calm and smiling. He seemed fine. He told to his friends about the candle. They exclaimed to him and they said he must be our host at dinner. The Hodja protested that he was unable to convince them. Reluctantly he invited them to dinner at his house that evening. His friends arrived in good time and waiting for their meal. The Hodja was preparing a fine meal. It took more than tow hours and there was no food. Then he led them into the kitchen they amazed to see a large cooking pot. A single candle was burning one meter below the pot. And he said to them the dinner will never be cooked with a candle. So how could he stayed all night with a candle in about a hundred meters away to warm himself.

Describe the morning at the school

I have a busy morning day. First, I wake up early at 6 o'clock. I prepare my daughter and my self to go to school. Second, I get dressed, and I drive my car to zayed university. I arrive at 7:50AM. Sometimes I get lost inside the university because it has a huge building and very long corridors, so that takes me a long time to arrive the class. I have two classes a day one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The class starts at 8 o'clock, after one hour and half we have a break for 2 hours. Then we finish at 2 o'clock. Two days a week my class starts at 10 o'clock and finishes at 3:45 PM. We have a lot of exercises to do at class such as writing, speaking and grammar tests then after I finish I go to pick up my daughter from her school and go home. Lastly, my days are too long and busy.

Summary of listening "Sustainable Dave"

Ari and Jen are friends. One day Ari tell Jen throw the soda can in the recycling bin. Then Ari told her about Sustainable Dave. He read about him online. He's saving all of his trash for a year as an experiment.he wants to find out how much trash he's really producing. He's saving everything, bottles, newspaper, plastic bags, banana peels, used tea bag,except meat and milk. He's putting it down in the basement under his house.also he has something called an warm farm. He puts all his paper and food waste in it and the warms eat it. Then after one year he will weigh it all and calculate he will write a report about how much he really threw in one year.when that's done he will take most of it to the restyling center.

Summary of story "The Ring"

The writer is a doctor. He tries to find out what happened to Rafael.when he saw Rafeal for the first time, he was twelve years old. His family lived in a big town. But his uncle Miguel and his family lived in a little village on the coast. His uncle had a cafe and a small farm there, and sometimes the writer's family visited him. There in that village the writer met poor, mad Rafael. He didn't know then he was. He didn't know why he was mad. He knew nothing of his strange and terrible story. The people in the village told him what they knew. At the end of the beach were high black rocks. Near them was an old wooden boat-house. It had no doors. The roof was broken at one end, and open to the sky. He and his brother saw a dirty young man with long hair and a beard. His eyes were open but empty. He put one hand to his neck. The writer saw something shining under the dark beard. Rafael pulled it out to show them. It was a small gold ring in the shape of a fish. After that, they went back to their uncle's house. They asked their uncle about that crazy man on the beach. Their uncle said to them 'he is only a poor, mad young man he isn't dangerous. He went mad about a year ago' then the writer's family went back to the town. After he left school, he went to university in the capital. He studied to be a doctor. He found work in a big, new city hospital there. But then one of his uncle's son got married and all his family went there for a few days. He went down to the beach in the village. He couldn't believe it. The old boat-house and the boat were still there. He saw Rafael. He was twelve years older. His hair and beard were beginning to go grey. He coughed a deep, dry cough. He had an idea in his head. He was a doctor now. He wanted to give him the best help that modern medicine. He told his uncle what he wanted to do. There are special hospitals now in the capital for people like Rafael. He will have a bed, good food, nurses all the time. Then his uncle told the writer Rafael's story. Rafael's father was a fisherman. Rafael was a fine boy, never ill, good-looking, healthy and strong. When he was about eight years old, his father was killed. He was there and saw his father die. A sharks attacked him and bit off one of Rafael's father legs. After that Rafael and his mother lived alone in their house. In a few years Rafael was older and started to work. He became a fisherman too. He always hated sharks, because of what happened to his father. He fell in love with Anita, the shopkeeper's daughter. Anita was a beautiful child and very good at reading and telling story. Her father, Rodrigo, the shopkeeper, loved her most. He had big plans for Anita. He wanted her to marry someone rich and important. He didn't want Anita to marry anyone from the village. Rafael loved her much, and Anita loved him too. Rafael suddenly left the village and went ton the port. He met an old goldsmith in the town. Rafael helped the goldsmith when he could.soon he became a good friend. One day Rafael told him ' I want a gold ring for a girl in my village' it must be in the shape of a fish, a long fish with its tail on its mouth. The goldsmith made the ring for him. After Rafael come back to the village, he gave the gold ring to Rodrigo as present for Anita. Of course Rodrigo didn't agree and he gave the ring back to Rafael. Then the soldier came to the village. He was a strange man. He told us about his life, He had a thousand stories. He was very handsome, he was a soldier, a sailor, a fisherman. He had a small boat with an engine. He came to my cafe and there he saw Anita, sitting by the corner. The children were all round her and she was telling them story. After that he came twice a week. He often brought little presents for people. The soldier was becoming very friends with Rodrigo. Then early one Monday morning, we heard a terrible noise from Rodrigo's house. He was shouting, his wife was screaming. It seems Anita wasn't in the house. And we never saw the soldier again. Most people in the village believe that she ran away with the soldier. Rafael was very surprised. He sailed round the rocks. Some of the fishermen found Rafael. He was wet and dirty. He was looking up at the sky and laughing. And he was completely mad. Then Anita's younger sister called Marta wanted to talk to the writer about Anita and Rafael. Marta said: Anita was beautiful and clever. But sorry to say she wasn't a very good child. Our parents gave her everything she wanted. She became proud and lazy. One night I saw Anita going quietly out of the room. She was wearing a dress and shoes. About half an hour later, she came quietly back into the room. I asked her where she went. She laughed and said 'I go to meet my prince' after a few days she came back from one of these meetings with a ring on her finger. She showed it to me. It was the gold ring in the shape of a fish. Then the writer went back to his hospital to do his work. One day, a fisherman brought a note to the hospital. It said: Rafael is very ill. Pleas come immediately. He took a small ambulance and went to the village. Rafael was very thin and yellow. He coughed weakly. Blood ran from his mouth. He took Rafael back to the hospital in the city. They washed him and cut his hair and beard. They put him in a clean bed and gave him medicines. His body temperature was very high. He could speak very little. He told me everything . He planed to kill the soldier by the sharks. and Anita was with the soldier that night and she dead too.He lived for six days in the hospital. Then on the sixth day his heart stopped and he was dead. He did a terrible thing, a terrible crime.

Traditional Emirati food (Luqaimat)

Luqaimat is a well known dessert in the Middle East. The way is completely different between them, but they all look the same. In UAE Luqaimat, is usually made in the month of Ramdan and enjoined after Iftar. Also, it is served at special occasions. They are crunchy on the outside and soft on inside. They are so easy o make, but you should to know how to fry them the right way in deep oil. To make Luqaimat we will need the following ingredients:
-2 cups all purpose flour
-1 teaspoon dry yeast
-1 1/2 teaspoon sugar
-Pinch of salt
-1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
-1/2 teaspoon saffron
-1 1/4 cup warm water
-Oil for deep frying
Add saffron and cardamom to 1/4 cup warm water. Keep aside.
Add flour with salt and keep aside.
In 3/4 cup warm water, add sugar and yeast. Keep aside for 5 minutes.
Leave the batter to double in size. It may take 30 to 40 minutes. The batter now should have bubbles. Heat oil,take spoon from the batter and carefully drop it in the oil. When the Luqaimat is light brown, remove it from the oil. Pour your favorite syrup on top. Some people like dates syrup and others like honey or normal syrup. You should serve these Luqaimat the same day you make them.

Think before you toss (summary)

The writer talks to his grand father about getting shoes repaired. The people nowadays don't get things repaired. When something wears out they throw it away and buy a new one. The people love disposable products to save time and make their lives easier. The problem of the disposable products are contributing to our trash problem. Most of consumers addicted to buying new things and the latest products. The result is that they throw away useful possessions to make a new one. They will see consequences of this throwaway lifestyle later on. The dumpsites will be full of garbage which, will effect the environment. Many governments are requiring people to recycle materials such as paper, plastic and glass. There is another solution, we need to repair our possessions instead of throwing them. The consumers should think about how to fix something to make it last. Furthermore,we need to rethink our attitudes about spending.

Last weekend

Last weekend was a little boring for me. After class on Thursday I stayed at home and watched a movie and played with my daughter. The next day I went to my mother's relative with my sisters-in-law, who she has a new baby girl. On Saturday, I only stayed at home else with my family. I did my home work, I spent a long time to finish it. After that my husband brought dinner from a restaurant to the home and watched some tv programs on OSN. then, I prepared my daughter to go to sleep early because she has school on the next day. Then I felt tired and I went to sleep.

Little women

The story talks about the four mart sister Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. These four girls have many problems at home. Their father is away in a war and four girls do no have enough money to spend. They live with their mother in the house. In the evening there is a small party in a huge hall. One of the girls was doing her sister's hair and she was talking to other sisters and she forget the straightener on her sister's hair and it burned. Her sister was ashamed to go to the party. But her small sister told her to put a ribbon on her hair to hide the burned hair. At last she went to the party and she met a stranger and chat with him.

UAE

United Arab Emirates is a country within the Arabian- peninsula and its borders meet with Saudi Arabia and Oman and the Arabian Gulf from the north. It has seven emirates which have united on the 2nd of December 1971. The emirates are Abudhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman and Fujarah, Ras al Khaima and Um alQuwain. The emirate of Abudhabi is the biggest, and it has three main regions; Abudhabi, Al Ain and western region. The country is known for its oil production and tourism and its main tow languages are Arabic and English. Every year on 2nd December the people celebrate about union day and the government makes big fireworks, and most of people from different nationalities do the biggest parade on that day. Dubai is the tourist city in UAE. It has the tallest building in the world called Khalifa tower and the biggest amazing fountain too. It dances to the songs.

My Weekend

Last weekend we gathered with our family in grand parents house and we spent a great time together.
Then next day we went along with my husbands cousins, we went to fun city. After that we collected rewards. We played many games and collected points. Then we went to Fridays to have our lunch and prepared a surprise birthday cake for Aysha who is 7 years now. After that we went back home and watched movies.

About Me

My name is Ruqa. I am 24 years old. I'm from UAE. I'm married and I have one daughter her name is Dana she is four years old. I lived and studied in Saudi Arabia . My high school was in UAE . I am currently studying at Zayed universaty. I like to go to the gym, cook , traveling, playing with my daughter, shopping and surfing the Internet.

About Me

 My name is Ruqa. I am 24 years old. I'm from UAE. I'm married and I have one daughter her name is Dana she is  four years old. I lived and studied in Saudi Arabia . My high school was in UAE . I am currently studying at Zayed universaty. I like to go to the gym, cook , traveling, playing with my daughter, shopping and surfing the Internet.