viernes, 7 de noviembre de 2014
LAST BLOG SESSION: Post 10 (week 13): English Language Challenges
> What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? What about the use of blogs?
> What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?
> Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for?
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- Make comments on 3 of your partners' posts.
CREATED BY ERNESTO SANHUEZA, AT http://englishposting.blogspot.com/2014/10/post-10-week-13-english-language.html
Video 3: Deadline: Next Friday 14th November
AN ACTIVITY YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR FREE TIME
Record a for 2 minutemobile phone video presentation* about an activity you like to do in your free time.
Say:
What the activity is,
How often you do it,
Where you do it,
What the activity involves,
Why you enjoy doing this activity.
Mention anything else you think is important.
A mobile phone video presentation is a video of the student talking directly to the camera. This activity is seen as part of the learning process. Videos are made in the students’ own time and they are free to practice and record as many versions as they see fit in order to complete the task. However, the final video must be in one take (i.e. they must not be edited). Moreover, you should be able to see the student clearly in the video (i.e. No sunglasses!). If you think that the text is being read you can arrange for the student to re-record it or repeat the talk in class. Please make students aware of this fact.
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YEAR 2014: GOOD AND BAD POINTS:
I have had many activities this year, I started off new professional challenges, I had to take up on more responsibilities and as a whole, this year has been very hectic in professional terms.
By January, I was wanting to go back to teaching at university; at the time I was teaching training courses for professionals and working for several big and important companies. I had the chance of meeting a lot of new people, I could learn many new things related to all the areas my students used to work in… but in my heart there was a crave for academic life, and so I went back to teaching (different from training).
Even though there have been very many situations I have to be thankful for, there have also been other negative issues, many of them cannot be told, but some others are widely spread gossips already! LOL
The hardest part of the year was when I finished an over-three-years relationship, it matched with my changing job period so, since I was so concentrated on teaching, I did not suffer the traumatizing mourning process, though still I felt it. I took up on more activities, I got to meet new people and I could eventually broaden the circle of friends, which helped me overcome my loss more easily.
Well, as you may see, this year has been intense and dynamic, I believe it is better this way because there is less time to complain about the bad situations and perhaps more motivations to go on and excel at one's passion, in my case: teaching.
viernes, 17 de octubre de 2014
Childhood Series
It was the late 80's and national
TV was the only option available, and consequently, the very limited
programming they offered.
The series that
you could see were quite classical, the typical Disney style, with Donald Duck,
Mickey Mouse and my favourite: Goofy.
I cannot tell you
that I really remember their adventures on screen, because I was less than 5
years old, but I do remember having felt very proud after receiving positive
appraisal from my parents when I was able to properly pronounce Goofy's spanish
name, which was hard for someone mastering language in his early years.
As years went by,
things changed in my life and in the country, and in the year 1995, there was a
new service arriving into the region, it was CABLE TV!!!!!
The first couple
of months, and since it was a real novelty, not many people seemed to have
hired the service, and the channels were not all yet given in Spanish. It was
then when I discovered Nickelodeon, and also Scooby Doo.
I remember I
really Really REALLY loved not understanding it all but I was happy when I
realized Scooby and his gang had solved a mystery, I was happy just by
understanding even only the gist of the episode.
Later in my life,
I changed my likes from cartoons to soap operas and series, series with human
beings and with more adult-like topics. My favourite has always been Friends
and Seinfeld, and still nowadays I prefer series rather than cartoon, although
to be honest, after letting my self be stimulated by my current students, I am
developing a crave for anime series and movies. viernes, 10 de octubre de 2014
PET Online Practice Session (Week 10)
Dear All:
Today....we PET!!
Today....we PET!!
Cambridge English: Preliminary (PET)
The Preliminary English Test is one of the Cambridge ESOL exams.
Cambridge English (also known as ESOL) is a department of Cambridge University. Their English exams CPE, CAE, FCE,PET and KET are recognised around the world by thousands of employers, universities and government ministries as proof of ability to use English.
Who is it for?
Do this test if you want to know that you have an intermediate level of English. With this level of English you will enjoy holidays in English speaking countries. You should probably continue studying once you have passed the PET exam.
What is the PET test like?The test has these sections:
- Reading and Writing are taken together - 90 minutes
- Listening - 30 minutes
- Speaking - an interview, 10 minutes
Score
‘pass’, ‘pass with merit’, ‘narrow fail’, or ‘fail’
‘pass’, ‘pass with merit’, ‘narrow fail’, or ‘fail’
LevelB1 / Alte 2 / low intermediate.
source: http://www.examenglish.com/PET
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PET (Preliminary English Test) Practice
Session 1 (week 10)
Reading:
Listening:
Vocabulary:
viernes, 3 de octubre de 2014
How Green Are You?
I am not an entirely ecologic person, well, maybe because I do not think too much over it. What I try to do, however not consciously, it’s recycling and re-using. I love creating things from rags, such as pieces of furniture, decoration items, etc.
As stated before, I do not think
too much over eco-friendly practices, and I think that consequently, people in
our country people also do not think about it and a reason is because they do
not have many chances (just as I did) to learn all the aspects related to being
environmentally friendly. I think that
people get only a tiny bit of this soft skills instruction at school, although
it’s restricted only to separating the rubbish and clearly the scope of recycling and “being green” goes
a lot further. Basically, I think there is a lot more than meets the eye.
I have little by little included recycling
habits into my life, as I mentioned before, I try to separate paper, plastic
and glass, but also, I try to find new uses to artefacts that otherwise would
be sent to garbage. The last thing I did was to transform and decorate a piece
of construction waste into a lovely night-table, imitating Jade-stone.
I also know that another part of being
eco-friendly is to reduce the carbon footprint, which is a concept I learned
years ago travelling, and it is still something not quite widespread in the
nation. As I am somewhat aware of it, I try to walk as much as I can, for
health, to reduce my carbon footprints and it also helps me saving money, another
thing I do is that I took up a no-driving policy, I do not have a car and
certainly, I won’t have one any time soon. I know it is a huge inconvenience,
especially considering the traffic and public transport system of the capital,
but it makes me feel good…somehow.
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