Friday 26 June 2009

Inversion


Hi everybody,

In this ocassion, I did the invertions homework. To be honest, it wasn't easy to do but I tried to do the best.

Exercises:

2 You very rarely come across anyone nowadays who hasn’t been abroad. (Very rarely)
Very rarely you come across anyone nowadays who hasn't been abroad.

3 You can only really learn a language by living in a country where it is spoken. (Only by)
Only by living in a country where a language is spoken, can you learn it.

4 Tourists should not be allowed to visit the Antarctic under any circumstances. (Under no circumstances)
Under no circumstances should tourists be allowed to visit the Antarctic.

5 You won’t truly know what good food is until you’ve tried French cuisine. (Not until)
Not until you have tried French cuisine will you truly know what good food is.

6 I hated visiting monuments as a child and I couldn’t stand going into museums. (Not only)
Not only did I hate visiting monuments as a child but also I couldn't stand going into museums.

7 I’ve only recently started going on holiday without my parents. (Only recently)
Only recently have I started going on holiday without my parents.

8 I’ll never go back to the place I went to last year on holiday! (Never again)
Never again will I go back to the place I went to last year on holiday!

Inversion 3

Imagine you have just spent a disappointing fortnight in a Caribbean ecotourism hotel. Write five sentences complaining about different aspects of your stay. Bering each sentences with one of the following:
At no time, Not once, Only when, Not until, Hardly, No sooner, Not Only, Nowhere, Never again.

1 Nowhere gave us The Caribbean ecotourism the great welcome.
2 At no time came the service on time to give us our breakfast.
3 Never again will I come back to this hotel for being cheaper than other.
4 Not once were their waiter impolite, it happened during all our demurrage in the hotel.
5 Not until we recieve a good answer about the dirty bedroom are not going we pay my hotel stay.


Monday 22 June 2009

Friday 19 June 2009

LANGUAGE 5 BLOGGING EXPERIENCE


It's kind of difficult to begin with this post because I have to express many things. First of all, when I heard we had to work in the computer, I did not like the idea because in the first year, we had to do the same but it was not interesting like this blog. But my point of view about using the internet has changed positively.
Plus, I learnt to use the computer and the internet more. Although I always have had problems with internet because I don't know how to use it, now I can say that I have learnt more about that. I can even upload pictures in my blog!
I don’t know if I am improving my writing but at least now, I am in the habit of writing more. Nevertheless, I can write about many topics that before I could not write about because I did not have much vocabulary. I always had to use the language translator.
The homeworks were interesting, not that easy sometimes but it does not mean that they were boring.
One of the things that I really liked was the wordle's homework. It was so interesting because if you don't want the other person to know what are you talking about, this instrument can help you because it is difficult for someone to understand what you are trying to say. Besides, you can choose your font, colour and types of wordle.
How can I forget the blogathon! I think that this idea was excellent. I could not do my blogathon everyday like I wanted; I try to do my best effort to be responsible for my homework.
Using this site was a great experience. I think that it is a good way to improve and practice another language like we are doing now. I believe that we might continue with this task. It is not a boring site, you can create and decorate your own blog as you like,etc. Plus,you have a site on the internet , something I never imagined having.









Sunday 7 June 2009

Reflective Essay

Hello classmate,
Well, to decide what theme to use for my essay,it was kind of difficult because both toke my attention. The final answer is Motivation, a good topic to talk especially in education where it needs more than anything. Thank of our own experience in our Elab, I can see this problems because teachers are not concerned to motive students. So, have read this article, makes me feel motivate to choose this topic.
In my essay, I'm going to talk about the lack of motivation in school.Why is necessary to motive, taking support of some writer and by own experiences about that. Finally, I'll try to give some advised.

What do I like to read?











Hi everybody!!
It's difficult to say just one type of book because I like many kind of book. For example, I enjoy reading real life cases such as drug addiction, relationship with parents, friends and boy girlfriend. there is a Mexican writer name Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez who writes about that. I recommend to read his book like "Juventud en éxtasis", "Volar sobre el Pantano", "Un grito Desesperado", "La fuerza de Sheccid",etc.
Other writer that I like to read is Isabel Allende. I have read "La casa de los espíritus", "De amor y de sombra".
How I am not going to tell about Harry Potter's book made by J.K Rowling !! I really like this kind of book, fantasy book. To be honest, when Harry Potter's book were famous, for my it was not important and relevant to read. But when I saw the movie, and found that it was interesting. So, I decided to read it (there are better than the movie) because you are able to imagine it. I like magic!
I don't have a specific place to read. If I like the book, the place is no important to me. Just it has to be comfortable.
I like to read when I have free time to read book that I like for example on vacation or in holidays thought, I don't have time to read now.

Learn

What would you like to learn?
Excellent question!
For my this question is so typical. I would like to study many thing but one of the most important is to study many language such as French, Italian, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese because I would like to be a language interpreter to travel to other places and to have contact with foreign .
I would like to learn how to play violin, charango and to dance "Break dance" because I like to dance a lot.
Uff, my list is very long. I'm a person who likes to learn many thing. For example, my mother taught me to knit and cook. So, I can do it know. Indeed,I made a bag, a wallet, snood, etc. It's fantastic right?

Pets


Hy everybody!
I really like pets and f course I have one. It’s a dog “Snoopy” ha-ha yeah as Snoopy of Charlie Brown. He is 9 years old.
He is very crazy!! When he was a puppy, he ran, ran and played with his ball all of time. I love him. Although, he has destroyed many things like my cloth, furniture, etc. He is continuing with as because he is part of our family.
Also, I would like to have other pets like a cat and a horse but, my house is small. If my parents had a house in the country, I would have it.

I’ll like to show you my dog but my computer was sick and my cousin last Wednesday fixed it.


Friday 5 June 2009

Do schools kill creativity?


Hi everyone,
In this occasion, I 'm going to talk about school and if there are killing creativity as said Ken Robinson.
In my opinion, I absolutely agree with him. Nowadays, school are not worry to open their main to create and to help children for developing their capacity to be creative like a dancer, singer, etc. Schools is like a company where they are interest just in money and that their students can study in the university.
Unfortunately, this situation is happening in all the world. They are not able to change education and they are continuing with the same system since centuries ago.


Well, our country, it's not the exception. I do not understand why in school we can not be creativity. I know that there are schools who are interest to let that their student can be as they want. But, they are the minimum. For example, my sister go to one of these schools. It is called "Liceo Experimental Artístico" where they plus to study Math, Language, History, etc. they can decide one of the creative subject like Music (play guitar, play violin, play piano, etc) ,Theater, Dance (Folklore, ballet or modern dance) , Paint and others.
In my experience,I had the same reality that nowadays we are having in our school. They have rules, you can not do they thing that you want, you can make MISTAKES (are we silly if we make mistakes?.


Well, this topics I found so interesting. I hope that schools could change their idea about study because we are not object, we are people.






Monday 1 June 2009

Dream vacation


Ohhh very good topic. I really like it.

Personally,I would spend my dream vacation in Europe. I love Europe, their culture, building and stuff like that. Also, I would like to travel around the world( hahaha), I'm not joking. But my priority is to have vacation in England and to visit Easter Island, a place so beautiful of our country where you can find many green areas, beaches and nice people. I would like to live there although, you don't have many opportunities to work. But the beauty of this place anything can change.

I am a person who likes to know about other culture and if I can to know it and visit it is better. That's my biggest dream. I hope that it could be reality.

What would I do?
The most important thing is to visit castle, take a lot of picture and of course to practice English. For that reason I'm studying English Pedagogy.


Who would go with me?
I would like to like with my family. That's my dream. I'm going to work hard to invite them because they deserve.

If you want to talk with me about that, I don't have any problems.


Naty