Invertion task.

M... here is my invertion task. I got a terrible headache doing this.
Only recently have I started to learning it =)


2. Nowadays, very rarely do you come across anyone who hasn’t been abroad.
3. Only by living in a country where a language is spoken can you really learn it.
4. Under no circumstances should tourists be allowed to visit the Antarctic.
5. Not until you have tried French cuisine Will you truly know what good food is.
6. Not Only did I hate visiting monuments as a child but I couldn’t stand going into museums
7. Only recently have I started going on holiday without my parents.
8. Never again will I go back to that place I went to last year on holiday

My blogging experience

Hi everyone! Today I am going to write about my blogging experience. You know what? At the beginning I was so confused because I did not know how a blog worked. But now all the confusion is in the past, because, in spite of the fact that now I am not an expert on it, I can do many things like upload photos and videos, play games and things like that. I think that this experience has been excellent for me, because I have learnt a lot from my own mistakes when my classmates gave me feedback from my posts.

I think that the blog has been a social skill this semester. It has helped me in order to know a bit more of the persons that I spend my time in the university. At the beginning of this semester, I did not know most of classmates. Then of having visited their blogs during this semester, I can say that I know more about their interests and points of view. Also they could know a bit more of me. The Blog has been the opportunity to know my classmates.

On the other hand, I think that the blog, is an interesting way to learn, because in it we have written things that really involve us, like things about our life and education topics. In that way we have felt motivated to write because as we read in the littlejohn’s article; student learn more when they feel motivated in the learning process. In this case, I have felt motivated because there is a link between my tasks in the university and my life; in this process my background has been taken into account.

To end, I would like to highlight that the blog has been a brilliant idea to improve my writing skills. I know that there are a lot of mistakes in my posts, but I also know that make mistakes and learn from it is the only way to do the things well in the future.

Motivation Essay

Hy everyone! You know what? I have to do an essay for my Language lesson at the university. It is going to try about something that is really important in education "motivation".

Motivation for me is not to give a star to children or a good mark to teenagers. It has to do with other things. Really, I disagree with extrinsic motivation. This semester for my “taller de experiencia laboral” lesson I have been reading a lot of interesting chapters about topics like that and others related to it. After reading that, I have concluded that extrinsic motivation is not a “real” motivation because, it is something that make to students act but it does not mean that are acting because they are motivated. For example, when the “motivation” is a mark, the students are able to do everything to get a good mark, as copy to a classmate and that is not good, because they are not learning.

I think the clue about this important topic in education is to find the way to motivate the class, but when I say motivate I talking about find the way to students get interested about the topics that they are going to learn. For example, in the case of Language lesson it is really interesting to us- students of English, it is really interesting to talk what we did on vacation in the language that we are learning- English because, in that way we feel motivated and it happens because we are linking our lifes- a topic that is important to us with what we are learning. In that sense, I think that we- Future English Teachers have many ways to motivate our future students, but not in a extrinsic way, I mean that we have the possibility of motivating them in a real way, that means that they want to learn, and that must be the most important thing, not get good marks.

To end, I would like to mention that I expect to include as many things related to it as I can and also examples. I think that it is a very good topic to discus and above all to us- Future teachers.

Dreams

Dreams? Really I don’t remember what is to dream. hahaha. Since the classes started I do not have time to sleep, I can sleep only few hours at night. I think that my brain does not allow me dream, because maybe I would get more tired than I am. Hahaha.
On the other hand, I think that dreams are the reflection of our wishes and when we dream we can satisfy them.

What am I going to be doing in the 2012??

Many people say that the world is going to end in the 2012. Really I prefer be more optimistic and think about what I am going to be doing by that time. If all worked well maybe by that time I'll be a professional who is going to be working to save money to make true one of my dreams "live abroad". By that time I would like to be working in something related to my career, maybe as a teacher at school or I don’t know, if I had a good level of English I could work in a university or so on. That would be wonderful. But I really would prefer have been in a country which speaks English in order to have an excellent level of English. Because I think that it is to “English teachers” to have been at least six month abroad practicing your English all the day with native speakers.

Paranormal Events

Really, this is a very interesting topic. In my case I have experienced paranormal events many times in my life. In my house always happen rare things and that really scared me. For example, this year, in may I think I had to stay alone at home because my parents had to travell. That night I sleept in my parent's room, because my room is in the second floor and I don't like to be there when there is nobody else at home. The thing is that night I had to go to my room to get somenthing and it was very scary to realize that there were many things in the center of my room. The strange thing is that I had not let them there! How could have happened that if I were alone at home? That night I also listen to strange sounds in the kitchen. I was trembling with fear...

This weekend I'll be alone at home. Do someone want to be with me?? hahaha

Are schools killing creativity?

Today I watched a really interesting video at the university. In that video we can see a creativity expert talking about the lack of creativity at schools. This topic is something that involves all of us- students of pedagogy, because that's the painful reality that children and teenagers live at schools. There, they are being educated to be excellent workers in the future instead of being creative persons in their life.

I think that in the video we can see reflected what is going on at school. Nowadays, Schools are not making think to the students, at school children are only doing what their teachers say they have to do which is horrible. Our society is not going to be different if at school- where children and teenagers are most of their time their teachers do not let to student be creative and have critical thinking.

I strongly agree with Ken Robinson. I think that schools are killing creativity. I think that the Education system emphasize in the theoretical subjects as literature, math, biology and so on and doesn’t give the importance that creativity subjects have as music, arts, etc. That situation is something that is being like that in most of the countries, and our country is not the exception.

When I was at school, the situation was not different. I was in a “cientifico humanista” school and it was focused in that their students get good marks in the SIMCE and PSU. So the teachers there never take care about creativity aspect that students have to develop.

Do you think that our city in the future would be different? Do you think that those changes are going to be for a better or worst city?
You know what? I was looking for a very interesting webpage that shows "the city of the future". This city is called Victory City, and the idea is very interesting but really I think that it is an utopia. It is very difficult to have a city like that, we would have to go back the time and that is imposible.

My opinion about this city is that it would be very interesting to living in a place like that. Without polution, crime and over-crowding. Interesting, no? But, as I said before, it is imposible to living in a place like that because men is going to continue creating technological things and while our world go around those things, anything is going to be different.

I think that an innovative creation of that city would be the transportation means. The elevator and electric cars really impressed me. It would be fantastic to have electric cars able to be driven even by babies, it shows that they are going to be really safe.

In spite of the fact that I think that it is a wonderfull proyect, I think it is too idealistic and imposible to be real.

When I saw this webpage, somenthing that I thought inmediatly was about my city and I asked me. Could Santiago be different in the future? , Could be as Victoria City?. My answer to it was that maybe Santiago is goint to be very different, we would be full of building and there are going to be few "green spaces". I think that each year that passed we are worst, we, humans beings, are transforming this beatuful world in an uninhabitable one and that is horrible.

If you wanted to inform you about this proyect, you can do it vitising its webpage.
http://www.victorycities.com/

A movie I really like... ????

Really, I haven't seen so much movies in my life.

On ly when I was a child I spent my days in front of a tv watching Disney's movies and I used to go to the cinema .

Nowadays, actually, I get bored if I were doing the same more than an hour. So I can't watch movies. I get very impatient. Because of that this a tough question for.

A movie that I really like is named "El diario de un skin". It is an spanish movie that was opened in 2005 by the production company DeAPlaneta. Its director is Jacobo Rispa and its main character is the guy who is in the picture- Tristán Ulloa.

It is a movie based in a real history. The main character is a journalist- Antonio Salas who infiltrate in a neonazis' gruop to find out the guilty or guilties of his workmate, who is also his girlfriend's brother. When he is infiltrated in that group, he realize that neonazis are not only skinheads. He realize that are neonazis work in important jobs in our society, even they are policemen and in that way control the society.

I really recomend this movie. It is very interesting because try about an ideology that is lookin down in our society but maybe the ideology is ot so bad, people who participate in those groups make a wrong steriotype of it.

If you want to watch it. You can say me and I lend it to you =)

It was very difficult to say which is "my favorite song" at the moment

Really, I hate that kind of questions. Talking about music, I don't have a favourite singer or musical group, so it is more difficult to me decide which song i like most.

In order to choose a song, I decided to listen to the music that I listen to everyday from my pendrive and the winner was...



"Thinking of you" by Katy Perry.



Comparisons are easily done

Once you've had a taste of perfection

Like an apple hanging from a tree

I picked the ripest one

I still got the seed



You said move on

Where do I go

I guess second best

Is all I will know



Cause when I'm with him

I am thinking of you

Thinking of you What you would do if

You were the one

Who was spending the night

Oh I wish that I

Was looking into your eyes



You're like an Indian summer

In the middle of winter

Like a hard candy With a surprise center

How do I get better

Once I've had the bestYou said there's

Tons of fish in the water

So the waters I will test



He kissed my lips

I taste your mouth

He pulled me in I was disgusted with myself



Cause when I'm with him

I am thinking of you

Thinking of you What you would do if

You were the one Who was spending the night

Oh I wish that IWas looking into...



You're the best

And yes I do regret

How I could let myself

Let you goNow the lesson's learned

I touched it I was burned

Oh I think you should know



Cause when I'm with him

I am thinking of you

Thinking of you What you would do if

You were the one Who was spending the night

Oh I wish that I

Was looking into your eyes

Looking into your eyes Looking into your eyes

Oh won't you walk through And bust in the door And take me away

Oh no more mistakes

Cause in your eyes I'd like to stay...

Really. I don't remember when I heard it first. I like this song, because it talks about a mistake that all us- human beings do. We value the things or persons when we have lost it instead of think before of act.

On the other hand, its video it's very sad. If you wanted watch it, you could find it on youtube.

Brainstorming!!!!

Crime
* police
* shoplifting / shoplifter
* attack
* law
* Mugging / mug
* Burglary / burglar
* kidnapping / kidnapper
* To rape / rapist
* victim
* defedant
* lawer/ solicitor/ barrister/ public prosecutor
* backmail
* robbery / robber
* homicide
* child abuse
* vandalism / vandal

Education
* Private / state education
* punishment
* tradional/ progresive methds
* inefective/ efecctive methods
* rigid/ relaxed / poor/ non existan dicipline
* classroom
* headmaster
* easy-going / unapproachable / strict lenient teacher
* well behaved / disruptive / keen / unenthusiastic puplis

Friendship
* close friend
* best friend
* enemy
* on the rocks
* utility friendship
* love


Rudeness
* Hoolitgans
* Bad table manners
* Get into serious problems
* Use foul language
* Rowdy parties
* his/her best behaviour
* Negative influences
* Cause offence

Personality
* Ambitious
* Easy-going
* Introverted / Extroverted
* Organized / Disorganized
* outgoing
* Shyness
* Sociable
* Meticulous

Hi everyone!

Well, today I’m going to write some comments about a classmate’s blog and it is Andres’ (Who is in the pictutre hahahaha). My first impression about his blog was that it is too dark which made think that he is a negative person. Then when I read his posts, I realized that my fist impression is very contradictory with his comments. He is always joking and trying to say something funny in them.

I think that Andres is a very creative person that is reflected in his posts- For example, when he said that his interview had an Oscar and Two Cannes nominations. That was very original and funny. On the other hand, something that I dislike of his blog is that He doesn’t upload photos neither videos. I think that He could be more creative in that sense.

To finish, I would like to mention that Andres’ blog is very interesting, because in it we can see that he has a critical thinking about what happens in our society. I really like it of his comments.

If you have time, you could visit his blog and. His posts are really interesting!

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BBC site
Hello, I would like to talk about of the web site of BBC that I visited in my class of English Language. Well, you know that internet is a very interesting place where you can find a lot of information and learning things. BBC site is the case. It is an amazing place for students and people that want to learn english and another things. I'm an english student and for this reason I found the web site very useful.
In my case, I liked too much because I could find links about listening and pronunciation. Also I found quizzes, dialogues, videos, exercises of vocabulary and grammar and things like that. Also you can find information about news, recipe of cook, sports, weather and alot of interesting things that you will enjoy in this web site.
I recommended this web site, and if you have time, I hope that you can visit this site and learning things about english.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/


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BBC site
Hello, I would like to talk about (of) the web site of BBC that I visited in my class of English Language. Well, you know that internet is a very interesting place where you can find a lot of information and learning things. BBC site is the case (X). It is an amazing place for students and people that want to learn English Sp and another things ww. I'm an english Sp student and for this ww reason I found the web site very useful.
In my case, I liked (X) too much because I could find links about listening and pronunciation. Also I found quizzes, dialogues, videos, exercises of vocabulary and grammar P and things like that. Also you can find information about news, recipe of cook, sports, weather and alot Sp of interesting things that you will enjoy in this web site.
I recommended this web site, and if you have time, I hope that you can visit this site and ww learning things about english Sp.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

Letter about law for animals.

Dear President:

I am writing to you because of the fact that many animals in our country are mistreated and it should not be possible anymore. Many times, we (Chilean people) can watch on the television terrible cases of animal mistreatment that really aware many people even authorities but nobody do anything about this situation.

The objective of my letter is that you consider the need to legislate about the animal protection. They help to human being a lot, for example the beautiful job that Labrador dogs do with blind people but talking about a very simply thing we can see that they make us live our life in a happier way. Animals give lots of things to us, but what are we doing for them? Is the question that we have to make to us.

I trust this matter will be resolved as soon as possible. Animals do a lot for us, and we are npt doing aninthing for them. I hope you will take mis comments into considerarion.

Yours faithfully,

Fernanda Inostroza

Easter... What do I do?

M.. really easter is not a special day for me. I know that it's a religious holiday, but in spite of that I believe in god I don't give the importance that in general people give to this day.

I think that people like this day, because they relax themselves and try to be in peace with themselves and with people- their relatives, friends, enemies and so on. They also forgot their problems in this day, but what about the rest of the year? Why they forgot to live the life in a nice way? Why they have to be good persons only in Easter and then they behave bad with anothers?. I think that you can show the best of you doing little and simple things, but people after Easter forget that.

In my case, I think that all days must be like that, trying to be peaceful and nice with anothers and we don't have to wait the entire year for a "special day" to be like that.
I think that we have to behave well with anothers all days, and try to be a nice person each moment of our lifes, not only in the religious holidays as Easter!

Interview with Andrés!

Hy everyone!!!!!

Well, In this post you could watch an interview that I had with our classmate Andrés.

The interview trys about chilean education and its law, which is a very interesting topic nowadays. It is somenthing that I dissaprove of our culture and you would realize that Andres too.

Well, I won't write anything else. Just watch the interiew and tell me what do you think about it. I'll be waiting your coments.

See you around!!!!

BBC SITE!!

I think that internet sites are very interesting and these are more interesting if you could learn something about them. This is the case of BBC site, that in my opinion it is not like the typical sites to learn English in which you don't really learn anything.

The first thing that I did when I visited BBC website I was to look at things about pronunciation, because this semester I have "Phonetic" in the univeristy and I'm really scared about that, so each time that I look at something related to it I have a look at that. I really liked it, because it is very useful to people like me- I have an awful pronunciation and talk is not my strength. Really I was a lot of time looking at it. It has a many videos and quizes to practice what you learn there.

Also I looked at a lot of material to help teachers to prepare their lessons.
On the other hand, I looked at a recipe "lemon potatoes" because I like to cook, but really woudn't like prepare that because I don't think it is a tasty dish. I prefer barbecues!!!

In general, I think that BBC website is a good page to learn English because you can find there a lot of topics which include explanation, listening and quizez. Also I think it is a good option to complement the lessons that you have in the university...


Well, time's up
I have to go... See you then!!!!!

AbOut Me!!!

Hy everyone!!!!


I don't really understand so much about blogger,but I'm trying to do my best for you to know me better =)


Well, I'm still a tennager, I'm nineteen and in spite of be young I thing that I have gone through a lot of things in my life. I like to break the daily routine. I dislike doing the same things everyday. So I always try to visit new places and do new things generally with my boyfriend- who is the person that makes me live the life in a different and funny way.


On the other hand, I'm very shy- when there are people that I don't know. I'm an introverted person and when I feel bad about something people don't really know what happen to me. I always try to hide my feelings to don't involve to people in my problems.

That's all for now!!
Then I'll write more

See you around!!!!