English3ART-2022-1

  Blog Post 6: Choice of Two Topics (Choose one of the two) Topic A: Tell us about a career-oriented website you enjoy visiting. Include this information: Describe the website and provide the link. How often do you visit it? Explain why you like the site. Who would you recommend it to? Upload pictures Topic B: Tell us about an expert/person in your field that you admire. Include this information: Why do you admire this person? What has this person done/contributed? Provide a short biography of this person Upload pictures Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post Word Count: 150 words   My choice:                                     Words don't mean, people mean Topic B Stephen Krashen is a lingu...

  Blog Post 5: How Can Your Major Make the World a Better Place Tell us why and how what you study (your major) can make the world a better place. Include this information: How can your major affect the world? How can you see yourself in this process? What makes your major something that contributes to the world’s benefit? Upload pictures Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post Word Count: 150 words   How can teaching make world a better place to live? As I see it, teaching does not necessarly makes a better place to live. There are teaching and teaching. If teaching is oriented for students to become interested in the pursuit of the the true, the good, and the beautiful, then teaching can make our world a better place to live. This is not the case when teaching is oriented to the pursuit of the false, the bad and the ugly. I think that this form o...

    Blog Post 4: Choice of Two Topics (choose one of two) Topic A:  Tell us about a meal or food you really like. Include this information: What is it? (describe it) How is it made? Why do you like it so much? How does it impact your health? Upload pictures Topic B:  Tell us about a photo (or image) that is meaningful to you. Include this information: What does it mean to you? Why does it interest you? What is the story behind the photo? Upload the photo Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post Word Count: 150 words   A photograph. Its story . This photograph is full of symbolism. There you can see my son with his kinesiology doctor. She is Argentinian and when she received my son he was only crawling with no hope of walking. Everybody told us that he would never walk due to a ...

  Blog 3 My favourite piece of technology    What it is When you got it How you use it How often you use it Why you like it What life would be like without it. - 140 words minimum. - Include a picture.  - Comment on your teacher's post and 3 of your classmates’ blogs. My favourite piece of technology Technology is everywhere. I have different pieces of technology in my house. The one that I like the most is my Ipad. I bought it five years ago when I needed to attend a conference and I wanted to record as much as possible. I use it for saving documents and information in general, I can check and send emails, I can also take good pictures of what I need. I use it mainly when I have to go away from my working place. I can be connected and I don't need a laptop for that. It is lighter and more comfortable and I can use it to play when I have some free time. Without it, I would be alive anyway but my life got less stressed when the Ipad appeared in my hands. I know that n...

  Level 3 - Post 2 (week 4) Why did you choose this career/study programme? Write about: - your dream jobs when you were a child - other career options that you had at the moment of applying to university - what made you decide in the end - your experience at university until now - the kind of job you would like to have  > word count: 130 words  > don't forget to leave comments on 3 of your classmates posts and on your teacher's post as well.     EXAMPLE When I was a child, I used to dream of being a truck driver.  Obviously, my parents recommended me to study something with 'more future'. I never understood that. After finishing my secondary education, I had to choose a career. I had a lot of possibilities: dentistry, lawyer, painter, etc. However, something  that I wrote in a copybook when I was in primary school was definite: I wanted to be a teacher of English. Coincidence?, destiny? I don't know. The only thing I am clear about is that I ha...

  Blog Post 1: Who Am I? Introduce yourself to the class in this blog post. Write a short autobiography. Include this information: Who are you? Where are you from? Tell us a little about yourself Tell us a little about your family, and hometown Upload pictures Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post Word Count: 120 words   José Muñoz León was born in San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Chile. At elementary school, he studied  at Centro de Educación General Básica in San Miguel, Santiago Later, he completed his high school studies at Liceo N.6 Andrés Bello  located in San Miguel as well.   José studied English Teaching at USACH. He finished his university studies in 1984 and then he started to work as a teacher in different places. He had his first job at  an institute called Instituto Comercial Libertador Bernardo O’higgin...