There are 4 skills in English that are meant to be developed when learning the language: writing, speaking, reading and listening; even though most people would say that "speaking” is the most difficult one to be acquired the truth is that "writing" gets the first place in terms of complexity and accuracy. Writing Blogs is a good opportunity to put in practice our knowledge, to exercise it and to improve it and therefore to increase it. We are living in a globalized world where the common language for doing business and exchanging information such as advances in medicine and science is English. All relevant research results when having them published are in English since international magazines are in the so called “Universal Language”. It is a known fact that when doing business with China enterprises there’s no need to know Mandarin but English; first approaches via email and the following contracts are written in this foreign language. Covenants among universities from different countries are agreed in English too.

Level 3 >> Post 10 Evaluation of your Blogging Experience

Write about your experience using blogs in the English class.
Say:
> What you think about the experience in general
> How much you feel your writing skills have developed
> What you would like to include in the future
> What else you would like to write about

Wordcount: 200
Make comments on 3 of your classmates' posts and also on mine.

Dear students, this is our last blog session!!!

There are 4 skills in English that are meant to be developed when learning the language: writing, speaking, reading and listening; even though most people would say that "speaking” is the most difficult one to be acquired the truth is that "writing" gets the first place in terms of complexity and accuracy.

Writing Blogs is a good opportunity to put in practice our knowledge, to exercise it and to improve it and therefore to increase it.

We are living in a globalized world where the common language for doing business and exchanging information such as advances in medicine and science is English.

All relevant research results when having them published are in English since international magazines are in the so called “Universal Language”.

It is a known fact that when doing business with China enterprises there’s no need to know Mandarin but English; first approaches via email and the following contracts are written in this foreign language.

Covenants among universities from different countries are agreed in English too.

Summarizing: in current world the way of communicating is through e-mails and texting; relations among friends, employer-employee, teacher-student, companies, universities, governments and so forth are importantly carried on in a written manner.

Nowadays our mobile phones are used more for writing rather than speaking.

Therefore WRITING is and has been a skill of great significance, in any language, and its communication value and usefulness go hand by hand with the everyday development of a modern society

One last piece of advice: speak as you write, especially when formality is a must and you’ll prove yourself worthy of using the language of William Shakespeare.

Post 9: my favorite place

·         Now you have the chance to write about your favourite place for having fun or being relaxed it could be in Santiago or in another region.

·         Tell us how often and why do you like this place.

·         Write about the first time you went there  and say why you ended up liking this place.

·       Demonstrate that you have fun and enjoy being in this place.

·       Add any other piece of information you considered relevant

·         Remember:

ü  organize your ideas well

ü  express your opinions or experiences in a coherent way

ü  your writing must have a guiding thread

ü  divide your composition into paragraphs

·         Comments: leave a comment on my post and on 3 of your classmates posts

·         Word Count: 190 words

If I had to choose a place where I enjoy being in it I would have to say that it is my house. I have lived there pretty much my entire life. I got there when I was 6 months old, when my granny inherited the house, it was one of my great-grandfather properties so it is a very old house, I think it is 100 hundred years old!!!
I have my fondest childhood memories like being taken care by my granny, sharing with my numerous cousins, playing with friends, etc.
Also, I have lived and experienced many things such as the 1985 and 2010 earthquakes, me taking care of my granny during her sickness until her last days and the legal struggle to keep living in this place against the greedy will of some relatives of mine. My granny left a testament favouring me.
I love my house, it is my shelter, there I can recover myself and gain strength to carry on, I also love the fact that is big, I have a large back yard which is great for barbecues, my bedroom is  spacious enough for a queen size bed and my pets have plenty of square meters to wander. 

home sweet home

Post 8

Today you have to talk about which has been your favorite subject at university so far/the one that has caught your attention the most or lastly the one you have disliked the least!!!

The idea is you:

• say what subject is
• explain or give reasons why you enjoy it
• share any other relevant ideas you deem worth mentioning.
• write no less than 180 words 
• remember to leave comments on 3 of your clasmates' and on mine.

Thinking about my last studies, the master’s degree that I studied at Universidad Central, I remember that one of mi favorite subjects was one that I had during the fourth semester called “Gramatica y Fonología Española versus Inglesa”.

I liked it for many reasons, the professor was awesome and even though she was very young she knew a lot of on this matter, her classes were very amusing, in spite of the complexity of the contents; analizing sentences until their last particle and study words until their minimum sound could be like being in labour! 
Even though the tests were very difficult and challenging most of times I got good grades, so I was considered by my colleagues one the best students of that class, maybe that’s why it ended up being one the subjects I remember the most.

To be fair, the real reason is that something I’m really keen about is English Phonetics because as I see it this is the hardest-won part of this foreign language therefore its relevance and importance when the achievement of a good level of pronunciation is someone’s goal.

Finally, I strongly believe one of the main problems of Chilean students of English is the lack of accuracy in terms of their voicing when speaking this language.

Post 7: a carreer-related website / an expert on your field

Dear Students

This week you have to write about a career-related website that you enjoy visiting: 

1. Provide the link 

2. Describe the website (sections, features, etc) 

3. Say how often you visit the site 

4. Explain why you like the site

BUT if you don't have or know a website related with your future career you can write about an expert/a person on your field that you admire

You have to mention:

1. Who this person is (short biography)

2. What this person has done (examples of his/her work)

3. Include his/her image

WORDCOUNT: 170 WORDS
Make comments on 3 of your classmates' post + your teacher

Thinking of a specific career related website is difficult for me because I visit many nowadays; but I remember when I just started to work as a teacher I had one it was my favorite: www.mes-english.com. Even though it is neither an appealing nor a relatable name for an English teacher’s website for me it was like a first time teacher’s paradise. 

This website has flashcards, PPTs, worksheets, games, etc. and the thing that I liked the most; the site allows you to use its images and formats to create your own brand new material!!! I modified a lot of PPTs and create tons of wordrsearches, crosswords, spelling readings and vocabulary handouts; all of them including visual aid, of course!!!

I was so happy because I was able to put in practice all the ideas that I had in mind on attractive teaching material. I have admit that not all the material created by me worked 100% well but that wasn’t an issue because I had the chance of improving it for the next course.

Currently, a website that I use quite often is www.wordreference.com, which is one the best online dictionaries, it is also available as an APP so you can carry it with you 24/7. Apart from getting a word translation you can know and understand its meaning in context and most of the times also listen to its pronunciation with several accents, for me that is simply awesome!!!