Corrections!

Correction of Felipe’s Blog

Correction - The Last Semester

I remember that I always like (T) The Beatles, in special the songs of Lennon and Harrison. Well, they have died. Lennon in 1980 was murdered (wo) for a fanatic (p) on the other hand Harrison died of cancer.

Harrison was less known for his music, but had many good songs. Between they (sm= famous songs are??) “While my guitar gently weeps”, “Golden slumbers” and “I Me Mine” this songs I like (wo).

However, Lennon was always an influential (ww= influence) in the Group. His songs were very good.

I would like it (nn) if, they were still alive, because I would like (sm=to) sing some song (f= some songS) with them and compose a theme. (Confused sentence= I would like, if they were still alive, to sing some songs with them and compose a theme).

I would like to ask Lennon, Why you went out of the band? To Harrison I would like to ask him, How was lived (f= was to live) a famous life in the past with the band?

I wish they were still alive (f), because the music in this time can (t=could) be very different and very good.

Speaking (ww) of other members of The Beatles such as Paul and Ringo, in the actuality (wws= nowadays) they are singers. Paul sings in (nn) around the world the songs of The Beatles and his songs (wo). Two year (f=yearS) ago he sang in the Grammy for first time. He sang the song “Let it be” (p) I like (t) (sm) see singing a (NN=so Spanish) Paul in the Grammy, because I remember the successful past of The Beatles.

I like this photography

Hello

Well in this occasion, I (sm) speaking about of (nn) the photography that I like most.

This photography was taken in winter, in the (nn) Quintay town. In this time, I (ww) and my classmates were in this town for studies (f) the characteristic physical (wo) of the territory. The photograph shows me with Frodo, Jesus and Chilombiano. Well, we are doing a performance, (p) in this moment Frodo take (t) this tool that uses the fishermen (wo), and allegedly he us hit (wo=he hits us), and we were on the defensive. Well, this photo was taken for (f) the Napo that traveled with us.

I remember that this moment was very entertainment, because in the same afternoon to (nn) we chased a dog, (p) in addition, we traveled for a lot time on the coast.

The photograph I like for it is very nice (confused= I like the phot because it’s very nice), the landscape is beautiful, the sea and beach are wonderful, (p= period (punto seguido) in addition, we were very happy, and in resume this photo I like to mush (wo/?= I like too much this photo)

I would like travel to the this Country

Hello!

In this occasion I (sm= am) talking about the (nn) somewhere (?) country that I would like (sm=to) visit in the future.

Well this country is Nepal. This country I like for her traditions (wo) and the architecture of buildings. In addition, in the north of (sm) country is located the Tibet. The Tibet is a city of the Republic Popular China, but the people of this place (in the most Tibetan monks) think in the autonomy of the country.

In other context in this place is located the mountain most big (wo= biggest mountain) of the world, The Everest.

In addition, in Nepal her (f) (f= there are religions like) religions are Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, but in (nn) the tradition tell (f) that the Buda Shakyamuni was born in Lumbini, in the South of Nepal, for this reason Nepal is a place sacred (wo) for the Buddhism.

I would like (sm) travel to this country with friends, girlfriend or my family, (p) however I think that nothing I would accompany, but I would travel alone (?).

Well, if I travel to Nepal, (sm= I would) visit a lot places, such as the mountainS, the Buddhist temples in special the Bouddhanath. Also (sm) visit the Lumbini town, typical place of the Buddhism. The Bhaktapur City or the Devout City, this is a medieval city that (sm= is) located in at (just one prep) an altitude of 1.401 (it’s located at 1.401 mts of altitude).

Correction of Andrea’s Blog

My favourite country

Which country I like visited??? (?= which country I’d like to visit?) Mmmm...very complicate (t)...I would like to visit all (sm) world!!! But I think that is not possible because I don´t have money. The only possibility that I (sm) was (t) win the "Kino" but (sm) is not very probable bacuse (s) I don´t play the "Kino". Than (ww=then) I will (f) have to choose one country and that county is India. I love India and I don´t care if that is a very poor country because I think that is wealth is in their (f) culture. I like everything off their culture, their religion´s (f), their food...
I would like (sm) go with all my family because their (f=they) are loverS of other cultures in spetial (sp= especially) the culture that was very strange for occidental people, spetialy (sp) my father.
When I was (t) there I would like to visit all the religius (sp) temples and (sm) visit the Indo and Ganges river´s and dress myserlf (sp) whit tipical (sp) Indian (c) clothers (sp).
I don´t now why attract to me so much this country (wo), but I realy (sp) thing (sp= think) I was Indian in my pass (sp= past) life because I feel myself very close to this country, and I always like exotic things and exotic people much more than my own culture. Actually I thing (sp=think) that nowing (sp= knowing) other cultures is enriching and it fills your spirit.

mooooore corrections!

Field trip

My last field trip was in San Pedro, one month behind (ww), whit my “conservation of environment in degraded area” class and the teaches (sp) of this class (sm = is) Rodrigo Vargas.
We were (ww= went) to this place because we must know the reasons of degradation of areas and to learn how (ww =what) we can do to improve degraded areas.
We learn (t) many technologies and (p) instruments and measures of conservation of the degraded soils. We learned to do “ditches of infiltration” and “channels of desviation (sp)”, and it was something very educational because it (sm) something practical that can be useful always.
In this “terreno” I spend a very good time because I love to climb hills and be in contact with Nature.
In the night when we returned of (wp) the area of study, my classmates preparing (t) a barbecue (p) but I don’t like meat so I did not eat.
I really passed a very good time but I was a bit worried because we returned on Sunday (cl) and I was very tired and (p) on Monday I had a test of other (ww) class and I could not study.
In (wp) the beginning I don’t (t) wont (sp) to go because I don (sp) want to leave my little baby and I was very sad, but my mom call me and say (t) to me that my daughter was very good. In two weeks we have a other (sp) “terreno” and I hope (sm) learn many things and (sm) spend a very good time again.

My favourite photography

Why you like it
Who took it
What it shows
When it was taken

I never liked (ww) photography´s, especially photography´s by myself because I am not very photogenic, (p) too long sentence but I have a few pictures by my family or my pets that I like. I also like pictures of landscapes or place that I have visited because (sm) bring to me many good memories. I think the pictures is (ww = plural) important because (sp) (sm) help us to remember happy moments and (p) too long sentence the life is so ephemeral that sometimes (sm = it) is good to return and rememeber (sp) good times.
Since my daughter was born I have (sm= been)a fanatic of pictures of her (wo) because I want to have all her stages of growth (sp) because baby´s (?) (Babies?) grow very fast.
Of all her photegraphy´s (sp) that more I like is

Field Trip!!! to the Huasco...

Hello!

Well, in this occasion (sm) speaking about the some Field trip. I’ve traveled (sp) a lot, because (sm= of) the different subjects of the university, for example “San Pedro de Melipilla, Cachagua, Salamanca, Putaendo, Tiltil, Valpo, Laguna Verde, Quintay, Cartagena, La Parva, Pudahuel, Pirque, Andean Piedemont, La Estrella, Rapel, and other places.

The last week with my classmates and teachers we travelled (sp) to the Huasco city and Freirina Town. (p) For the subject of Problematic of Chile 2. In this occasion we travel (t) with Enrique Aliste Teacher (wo).

We travelled (sp) to this place for studying a lot (sm) the socials problematic (?), such as the pollution by industrial activities and mining. In addition, the environments problematic (ww = problems?), the contamination in the Huasco Wetland.

Well, my work’s group was (sm = conformed by) Jaime, Frodo, Chilombiano, Jean and Peter, (p) we (sm= were) working (sm) the environments problematic (ww =problems?) in Huasco and Freirina. With Peter and Chilombiano we did a survey of the uses of land cover.

In addition we traveled (sp) with two drivers, one was Pelao (pelao’S) uncle and other uncle (sm = who) was Joke face.

In conclusion this field trip was very entertainment; we were partying and (sm =we) did a lot of roast.

Ah (p) I remember that we carry (t) bicycles for travel (f) in the city, for this reason the dolor (???????? = pain) in the ass was a pile.

error correction... last semester posts!

Technology = a better world???

I'm not (sm= a) really fan of technology, but I can't deny that a lot of technological devices are important pieces in my daily life. My mother's laptop and wi-fi at home have become super necessary, handy and useful for me. I can't even imagine me in the "metro" or in a bus without my mp4 music. . . just because I hate every noise around me (people's comments indifferent for me, bus noise, etc)

I always ask myself what about our lives without those gadgets... (sm= it) will be complicated, horrible, awkward or just (ww = maybe) will be better in all terms. I don't know... I just know that if we could have knew that some people were going to do or create stupid things through Internet (p) our world would be better... may be.

Let me give you an interesting poem that I found on the web...may be it sounds funny... but it's true.

"Here global warming is a reality, not a prediction."

Since I discovered Internet as (ww = is) part of my daily life, I’ve been in contact with many web sites. Those are since Google and the news to “Fotolog” and “Facebook”. The last two web sites are the most visited for me, (p) but the one which I really enjoy and never stops surprising me is Facebook. I found this site because a friend invited me to take a look at it, (p) but(nn) at the beginning I didn’t pay attention (sm). Once, in my free and boring time, I decide (t) to go into “the (nn) facebook (cl) world” and try to discover it, but you can’t imagine what I found there! There were many childhood friends, all my school classmates, friends around the world, interesting ways to communicate, nice people who want to meet you, music, books, and many things!!!

The impact of this site on my life is relevant in terms of communication with people interesting for me, because I can know what they are doing or what happens with their lives. But sometimes I don’t mind if I didn’t update my profile or my likes or whatever. I just enjoy it in my free time and when I don’t have anything else to do.
Internet is just an easy way of entertainment, and facebook (cl) is just a hobby for me.

Do you have a Facebook profile??? if not... you might try it here

more corrections

Andrea's post correction

viernes 24 de octubre de 2008

For Javiera

Hi Javiera!
How are you doing (sm = ?)
Do you remember me? We met when I had to do a post about “Something about me”. In that blog (ww = post) I present (t = presented) and (ww = introduced) myself and I could talk about my family, my career ,my projects for the future, , (p) in brief I present (t = presented) and (ww = introduced) my life.
But now I want to know something about you.
I now that your name is Javiera and I now (nn) that you study English Pedagogy (p) but (nn) now I want to know about your life, your hobbies, your family, your projects for the future end (sp) why (sm= do) you study English.
Besides it (ww = that), I (sm) like to say (ww =know) to me (?) (I would like to know) what do you think about my English, because I think your corrections can (t) help me very much to learn English better, and for me (sm = it) is very important (sm = to) learn English very well.
So I hope you are very well and I will be waiting (sm = for) your post.
By (ww = bye)

Felipe's post correction

domingo 26 de octubre de 2008

A letter for to the Trainee Teacher

Hello Javiera, how are you?
Well, I think that the correction about my work in (wp = at) Laboratory in English (wo = English laboratory) is very good, (p) your help in my learning is very important. I have learned a lot for (wp=from) the corrections.
In another context you know a lot of me, because you read all my posts in my blog, (p) on the other hand I don’t know nothing about you. Well, tell me about you (ww = your) hobbies, activities and others things. Tell me about your experience in the role of teacher, your corrections in my posts and the posts by Andrea? (nn)
Also, I want to thank you, (p) for your correctionS, that has (t) helped me a lot,(p) I hope (sm) have learned about, the tenses and order of word (wo = word order).
In conclusion at this time, (p) I am learning a lot and (sm = I) hope that this job can be important to (wp= for) you. Well I hope in the future, your answers about for (?) you.

Kes, Kes, Kes continues!

Well, after Billy buried Kes his life totally changed. Billy was really sad because he had lost something important for him, almost a best friend. Billy would never forgive Jud for killing Kes and their relationship went worse and worse. Once Billy was able to try to give Jud a chance and make up with him, waiting an apology from Jud for being so cruel, but Jud was not able to do such an effort.

After Kes died, Billy discovered that his interest on animals goes beyond a simple hobby of trainee a bird. He decided to work hard and save money to buy a big cage to put in there the ill birds he found and try to help them to recuperate. When they recuperated at all, Billy released them. Billy thought that was great idea, and he decided to do the same not only with birds, but whit all kind of animals like dogs, cats, etc.

On years, Billy became very famous doing this charity for animals, and he started to gain financial backing from many private companies. He was not rich, but he lived in a beautiful house with his family. When Jud and his mother realized that he was in good conditions of life, they went to Billy’s house to try to have any help from him. Even though Billy was really deeply hurt by what they have done with him, he decided to help them without resentment. Then, they all worked together helping animals.

Opinion

I really think that this idea of creating a blog and post every week encourage us to be aware of our writing mistakes and our classmates ones. I think I have improved my writing and the skill of correcting my own mistakes and realizing about others’.

When we started this second semester with the idea of correcting posts of others students from U. de Chile I thought that we will be frequently correcting their post and being helpful for them, but is had been really different. May be we could have more activities correcting their posts and make them realize about that, but I think that when we do something with their posts, they do not know about our corrections.

Correction Post: "Math is not for me!!"

During my whole school time, I always felt that Math wasn’t for me. This subject is compulsory for everybody and everywhere, and even if (sm) go abroad to China I will find it. I couldn’t escape from it. I studied Math for about 12 years at school, and when I entered at the university I find it there too. That was awful for me, and I couldn’t believe it. Then I had to resign myself and (nn) to accept it anyway.

I didn’t like Math because I’m not very good with numbers and solving math problems, (p) and (nn) I always had bad marks in this subject, and my teachers didn’t help me a lot to understand it because they were really bad. I just don’t like it.

I know that math is something which is (nn) present in our daily life, and even if I don’t like it I have to face it anyway.

Original Post

During my whole school time, I always felt that Math wasn’t for me. This subject is compulsory for everybody and everywhere, and even if go abroad to China I will find it. I couldn’t escape from it. I studied it for about 12 years at school, and when I entered at the university I find it here too. That was awful for me, I couldn’t believe it. Then I had to resign myself and to accept it anyway.

I didn’t like Math because I’m not very good with numbers and solving math problems, and I always had bad marks in this subject, I just don’t like it and my teachers didn’t help me a lot to understand because they were really bad.

I know that math is something which is present in our daily life, and even if I don’t like it I have to face it anyway.

Corrections of Andrea's blog.

My favourite moovie (sp)

My favourite movie is "Brave Hart".
I see (wt) this film many many times, but I see (wt) it for the first time almost ten years behind (ww), when premiered it (wo) and (mw).
This story speacks(sp) and (ww) about a historical personage(wwch), sir William Wallace, (p) he was the one who drove Scotland to the freedom.
Brave Hart is a movie based on (mw) true story.
The story is set in (wp) Scotland in (mw) fourteen century wen (sp) Scotland was oppressed (sp) for England and his King, Eduard (sp) I of England. This King was very evil and his (ww) treeting (sp) very bad the people of Scotland. (sm)
The figth (sp) between william (c)Wallece started wen (sp) some soldiers of england (c) kill (wt) his beloved wife, so he kill (wt) all the soldiers and the battle between Scotland and England begins (wf).
In the first time the anger for the murder of his love was the cause of this war, but then he figth (sp) for his countryman.
At the end he was murdered for the King Eduard (sp) I (?) because he was betrayed for some Scotland nobles.
But even so the Scotland warriers (sp) could win the battle and win thir (sp) freedom.
Even much of movie es (?) envented (sp) (?), I like the movie very much.

Corrections of Felipe's blog

Stonehenge

The monument of Stonehenge is a spotted dolomite which when newly quarried is a dark blue speckled whit brilliant (wwch) white stars of quartz (wo). Stonehenge it (sm) is believed that (wo) it (nn) was done into the(nn) Lourdes of(wp) prehistoric Europe.

that (c) the earliest… (sm) has been dated to 7.000 BC and (mw)most recent …(sm) in medieval times suggesting (wf) that the site was already (ww) important 4.000 years before the oldest stone circle (p)

Stonehenge is a place very mythical (wo) (p) an example is in the times of Roman Empire,(p) they believed that Stonehenge was created to(nn) for a ritual important.(wo)

The last excavation at (wp) Stonehenge was in 1964 and the(ww) scientific found more evidence of (sm) ritual practice.

Ww: wrong word
We: wrong expression
Wt: wrong tense
Sp:Spelling
C: Capital letters
P: punctuation
(wo): word order
Wf: wrong form
Nn: not needed
?: not clear
Sm: something missing
Wp: wrong preposition
Wwch: wrong word choice

Writing Improvement

Only Felipe wrote the last post on his blog and I tried to make some corrections on it. After reading his post I could realize that his writing problems have to do with the wrong word order and the spelling mistakes. On his two posts before he made the same kind of mistakes.

For example, in his word order mistakes he says: “the effect greenhouse” instead of the greenhouse effect, or “My personality I will assume that change in the future”, instead of saying “I assume that my personality will change in the future”.

Also he tends to confuse some words which could change the whole meaning of the sentence. For example, he says “warning” instead of warming when he talks about global warming.

I really think that he should read once again his writings before choosing the last he will publish. Sometimes, you can realize about your mistakes when you carefully read what you wrote. In this way while you read you realize about your mistakes.

I believe that when you are recently starting to learn a new language, those kinds of mistakes are made by different kind of students. Some of them realize about their mistakes before others, but while they are practicing they start to be concerned about what are their weaknesses and strengths.

The most difficult things to correct are the tenses, because you may not know the writer’s intension and if he is talking abut the future of the past. By this I mean that some students tend to confuse tenses because they forget about with tense they started to write and they do not make a difference among the past, present and future.

Correcting some mistakes

While I was reading Andrea’s blog I could realize that she has a lot of interesting things to share. Her writing is attractive, but there are many mistakes that she definitely could improve after realizing about them. Her posts are characterized by spelling mistakes which are constantly repeated such as profetional instead of professional, or carrers instead of careers. There are a lot of punctuation mistakes and many long sentences. But the reader can understand almost everything she wants to say. Capital letters, wrong tense and word order are some others mistakes also.

Felipe’s posts are really good, but he definitely could improve them if he chooses the correct tense and change the word order. He use to write as he writes in Spanish, for example when he says: “Well, I find the English is very difficult for me”. Here he wants to say that he thinks that English is difficult for him. I think it is a current mistake on Chilean English learners. There are some sentences that I really couldn’t understand, such as “The big most classmate speaking to English good, my sister study English”. Finally the current mistakes that we can find in his writing are missing words, wrong tense and word order.

Being helpful...

I really think that the idea of giving some feedback to other students is very challenging for us, especially for me. I like the idea of being helpful for somebody else... it makes me feel good.
We need to have this oportunity to find and correct other's mistakes, because we as future teachers will do it all the time with our own students.
I would like that at the end of this semester, the students from U. de chile could say that they improved a lot their writing in English and that we were very helpful for them.

Blogs encourage us to write better

Nowadays blogs have become an important way of express ourselves in the internet. Here everybody can read your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., and give you a comment expressing agreement or disagreement. That idea of writing what you want and people reading it, is very challenging for students at school, because they can improve the way they write and the way they express their own ideas in their own words. But on the other hand I can say that sometimes blogs allow students to write in inappropriate way when they are not supervised by the teacher or parents.

Some students are not really confident when they have to express their thoughts and ideas orally, but they have the gift of communicate them in written words. Here blogs are the special tool which allows them to communicate what they want whenever they want. For example from my own experience I can say that I prefer to express myself by writing what I think, because there is not the pressure of being watched by other people or the feeling of saying something and not to be understood because you are nervous. When I write I feel more confident because I have the enough time to think and to organize my ideas. What we have beet doing in this course with blogs make me feel that I had improve my writing in English because we have the opportunity to write about interesting topics and to express what are our feelings or ideas of them focusing on our grammar mistakes or in our general mistakes.

One disadvantage of using blogs in the classroom is when students don’t follow the correct way of writing even though the have really good ideas. Some people use to write in the same way they speak, which is not very good in terms of communication in blogs. When you write in the same way you speak you let the reader understand what he/she wants because you are not clear with your writing and the words you use may be are not the correct ones. So, here the teacher is very important because he is the person in charged of the student’s writing, and he has to correct their mistakes as well as making sure that he understood and he is going to write correctly in the future.

In conclusion I can say that blogs are very useful to improve students writing. Blogs allow students to be confident while they are writing and make them feel that they can express their ideas clearly. We as future teachers will be responsible about our students’ writings, that is why now we have to improve more and more our way of write, and if blogs help us a lot now to do it, blogs will help our students a lot to improve themselves.

Oral Fixation

When I saw the album cover “Oral Fixation” of Shakira I immediately thought that it is really attractive. The first time I saw it was when I was looking for a gift for my mother’s birthday in “La Feria del Disco”, and then I decided that it will be the present for her. I like it because the main image let us think about many things, like Shakira as Eva from the Bible and the baby, an important subject in the image, as the new life. I really can’t say what it wants to mean, but I really like it. The colors and the position of the characters are very attractive for me. It really attracts you to look inside and may be to buy it.

Math is not for me!!

During my whole school time, I always felt that Math wasn’t for me. This subject is compulsory for everybody and everywhere, and even if go abroad to China I will find it. I couldn’t escape from it. I studied it for about 12 years at school, and when I entered at the university I find it here too. That was awful for me, I couldn’t believe it. Then I had to resign myself and to accept it anyway.

I didn’t like Math because I’m not very good with numbers and solving math problems, and I always had bad marks in this subject, I just don’t like it and my teachers didn’t help me a lot to understand because they were really bad.

I know that math is something which is present in our daily life, and even if I don’t like it I have to face it anyway.

Post Corrected

Austria cellar case

A 73 year- old men imprisoned and abussed to his daughter, called Elisabeth Fritzl. She was repeatedly raped by her father during 24 years. But the most shocking situation is, that he is the father of her 6 children.

Austrian police is investigating if Josef Fritzl, girl`s father, is responsible for a murder of a girl called Martina Posch.

For that reason, this an impacting and horrible piece of news, that it is more incredible and unbelievable than a movie, isn´t it?

The same news but with some corrections

A 73 year- old men imprisoned and abused to his daughter Elisabeth Fritzl. She was repeatedly raped by her father during 24 years. But the most shocking situation is, that he is the father of her 6 children.


Austrian police is investigating if Josef Fritzl, Elizabeth's father, is responsible for a murder of a girl called Martina Posch.


For all those events this is an impacting and horrible piece of news, which is more incredible and unbelievable than a movie, isn´t it?

You are what you read... Jorge's blog!

Jorge’s blog is an interesting website to visit if you want to read good stories and descriptions. Jorge has an attractive way of writing which allows you to imagine what’s he trying to say or what are his real purposes of his posts.

The background colour of the blog seems to me like a “Luis Vuitton” purse, but in general it is according to Jorge’s personality. It is not too much.

But I have to say that this blog at the first view didn’t catch my attention, but after a rapid reading of the topics I prefer not to be carried away by first impressions and keeping on reading.

The post that I like the most of this blog is the one which talks about Chiloé, because I chose the same place to talk about in my blog. When I read it I realize that it could complete my post. It has more descriptions and a good narration. I like it.

A piece of advice to Jorge is to try to decorate a little bit more his blog, maybe showing some pictures of himself or images to put in the empty spaces (in the left side of the blog) because it is centred in only one side.

In general terms I recommend you to visit Jorge’s blog, read his posts and give him your comments. http://simplereaders.blogspot.com/

Queen Elizabeth... Why not???

It was so difficult for me to think about a person I would like to meet, but I thought about my university needs. During our Civilization & Culture II course we have been studding about Queen Elizabeth I. I really don’t know too much about her, and actually I need to know more in order to carry out with my assessments.

A good moment to talk to her would be drinking tea in her castle. We will talk about her life, which was the most important events during her reign, why she decides to become the virgin queen, her life, her everything; all those things in her own words. May be I could give her some advices, in order to create a connection between England and Chile … why not? Maybe it would help us to be a developed country and to live in better conditions, and what is more interesting it would help us to speak English since birth… Well in those conditions we should think about studding another language like Portuguese or Nigerian.

Our Rights as women.

News that I’m very interested on in the last few days is the one about the fight for the sale of contraceptive pills. I can’t accept that people who have nothing to do with our decisions want to prohibit us our rights. My uncle was in the last protest against this prohibition, and she was one of the persons who spoke in every media defending our rights. Now she is in the newspapers and in TV news files.

Chiloé... a fascinating place.

I can say that I’ve been in many beautiful places in Chile, in the South and in the North. My family and I use to visit new places on holidays, and one of the places I liked the most is Chiloé. The first time we visited it was when I had 13 years old. Actually we visit it as many times as possible during holidays.
Chiloé is a beautiful place in the south of Chile, which characteristics captivate you all the time. When we visited it the first time we didn’t know much about it, we tried to visit every known place, all churches, buy in every craft market we found, we tried all kind of food, and we got in every motorboat even if we didn’t know where we were going to. Sometimes the best thing of the trip is when you don’t know what is going to happen after.

I have to admit that I gain weight in every trip to Chiloé. I can’t resist to Curanto, roast lamb, churrascos (they’re not meat, they’re big sopaipillas) and seafood… mmm delicious!!
If you have not visited this amazing place, you should. And if you decided to go next holidays, please invite me!

I could write many things about Chiloé and my experiences there. Next time I'll dedicate my blog to my trips...

The Commitments . . .

The Commitments itself as story is very attractive, enjoyable and good developed. When I read the entire book, I felt very involved with the story. At the beginning I had a different point of view of it. I thought it was placed in other times of history, in the 60’s may be, because of the guy who appears in the cover looks to me as a person of those years because of his hair style. Besides, I was a little lost with the story at the beginning because I couldn’t place the story and know where the characters were or what they were doing. Another important thing is the vocabulary used there, because I was confused with words like yis which then I realized that means you, or the word fella which means man. After those confusing characteristics of the book, I decided star reading again. Finally I could enjoy it and understand almost every word and the most important idea of The Commitments.

Then, I watched the movie, which impressed me more. With the book I drew in my mind an image of the characters, but the movie totally change it. I imaged the characters a little bit different, for example; I imaged Joey the lips as a fat men, like Deco in the movie, and Deco an attractive guy (because he was the vocals and the principal image of the band) not a overweight guy.

The chapter’s order in the story was different in both, for example in the book the interview that they had with a news men was after they first gig, but in the movie it was after another gig and in other circumstances. But it really doesn’t change the main idea.

Read the book and then watch the movie was very good for me because I could acknowledge if what I read was okay or similar to what the movie showed. I can say that the movie doesn’t distort what the book wants to mean and present us.

I was thinking about a topic related to education, learning, teachers and students... but i couldn't find one now.
Now I'm listening a song of the cardigans, erase and rewind... this song is very old and the first time i listened it was in the movie "never been kissed" in 2003, i remembered it because it was about a looser girl who wanted to restore herself as a popular student 6 years after she left school...a great movie i think. we could have the same opportunity that she had to come back and do things differently.
well, as you know we learn a lot from songs, and this song says a lot... or it lets me think a lot of my own life. erase and rewind are significant words for me because I'd like to go back to the past and change or erase many things that i would like never had happened. we always can change our minds in the present time, but we can't go back and fix what we did.
erase and rewind only can be possible in that song... or in our minds.
difficult topic... but sometimes is necessary to think about it.

and if you want to connect this topic with education... we can teach more than vocabulary with songs, we can let students think and reflect about themselves.

here it's the song if you want to listen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2E4vyGem0

BBC Learning English... a great site!

I have to admit that I have never visited this web site, and even imagine that I could think that it is good. Sometimes I’m so lazy when I surf the Net, I just go to the well known web sites. Now I realize it’s very useful for all English learners, especially for us as future teachers.

The idea of this site is great, because it gives a lot of very useful and interesting information that we can use by interacting with the English world. The first thing I tried was “Quizzes and Exams” because of my persistent idea of testing my own English. I liked the way how the site let you possibilities to learn by interactive and fun questions, by giving you advices to succeed in exams and by listening entertainment stories, etc.

I think the best part of the site is where teachers can go and download activities and lessons for their classes; they can plan a lesson and suggest some ideas to improve English classes. Sometimes it’s so difficult for teachers be innovative in their classes, because when in a classroom are 45 students, and all of them want something different the teacher need to find a neutral way to call their attention… and that’s so difficult!! Then this site can be “The Site” for teachers… well it’s just for a while, until all ideas have been used.

Teachers always need to improve their way of teaching, and this site is a very good way to improve it.

I enjoy visiting....

Since I discovered Internet as part of my daily life, I’ve been in contact with many web sites. Those are since Google and the news to “Fotolog” and “Facebook”. The last two web sites are the most visited for me, but the one which I really enjoy and never stops surprising me is Facebook. I found this site because a friend invited me to take a look at it, but at the beginning I didn’t pay attention. Once, in my free and boring time, I decide to go into “the facebook world” and try to discover it, but you can’t imagine what I found there! There were many childhood friends, all my school classmates, friends around the world, interesting ways to communicate, nice people who want to meet you, music, books, and many things!!!

The impact of this site on my life is relevant in terms of communication with people interesting for me, because I can know what they are doing or what happens with their lives. But sometimes I don’t mind if I didn’t update my profile or my likes or whatever. I just enjoy it in my free time and when I don’t have anything else to do.
Internet is just an easy way of entertainment, and facebook is just a hobby for me.

Do you have a Facebook profile??? if not... you might try it here www.facebook.com