Please practice 2

Reading:

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading3.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading4.html

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading_part5.htm

Listening:

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_listening_part3.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_listening_part4.htm

Vocabulary:

do a minimum of 3 topics

http://www.examenglish.com/vocabulary/B1_vocabulary_topics.htm




Please write about your performance after you do this.
Refer to reading, listening and vocabulary and what you think of your speaking skills.

Regards,
Beatriz

Today's task is slightly more challenging.

 Obviously, you will need  www. word reference.com since you will find new words :)

Go to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/



> Select a piece of news connected to your area of studies / future career.(There is a search engine)
> Write a summary of it. Do not copy paste.
> Provide the link to your piece of news.
 Please mention the reason why you chose it.

> Leave a comment on 4 blogs

> 240 words
Here is my sample.

I chose an article from a section “ a moment that Changed me” It’s on how the death of a sister changed the life of a woman.

In this piece she describes how she would have never imagined or prepared herself for losing her 32 year old sister. She was diagnosed with Cancer and she lived for 3 months after that.

She goes on to tell how she has and is experiencing grief, and how the feelings that come and go are so much more intense and painful than they are normally described. Also how somehow you resent that the world continues as normal when this has happened to you and you are going through all this pain.

The piece follows with her experience of not phoning or seeing people after her sister died, only her family. And also how she explained to her 3 year old that her auntie was not there anymore.

The author describes her relationship with her sister during her illness and how she regrets not having done certain things or not having said some of them during that period.

There is also reference to the kindness of the brain and how this allows you to be Ok for certain times of the day.

After she refers to what haunts her today, which, apart from her sister not being here, is the though of the suffering and the fear of death that her sister must have experienced on her own. Every night while everyone else slept. She describes her anger toward little things that her daughter does, and also her fear of the upcoming holidays in December.

The last paragraph is on how life will go on without her.

I chose this piece because I can relate to many of the things she mentions, about grief in particular. My sister and friend passed away this year to a cruel and fast illness. I can’t begin to explain how my life changed as from that day, and how I miss her everyday.

 Here is the link :

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/03/moment-changed-me-sisters-death?CMP=share_btn_link

my advice

Read each paragraph and get the main points to be expressed with your words ;)

Look at this site

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/3/8/101/

Video 3

AN ACTIVITY YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR FREE TIME. Deadline Friday Dec 11
REMEMBER TO PRACTICE IN ADVANCE SINCE IT IS NOT A READING ACTIVITY. ALL IN ONE TAKE. THANKS

Record a for 2 minute mobile phone video presentation* about an activity you like to do in 

your free time.

Say:

What the activity is,

How often you do it,

Where you do it,

What the activity involves,

Why you enjoy doing this activity.

Mention anything else you think is important.

A book

Today we are going to write about something  interesting.

It has been hard to choose because I am often reading more than one thing at the time.  I read the newspaper, academic papers, stuff on meditation, essays, my students' blogs, etc. 

I started reading about the brain some years back when I studied language acquisition and education = learning processes.

However, later I decided to read beyond linguistics and education, and bought a really interesting book called “Mind map” The book I am devoting most time to at the moment is called “The emotional life of your brain” It is written by a neuroscientist (R. J. Davidson) and a health and science journalist (S. Begley).  I suppose I am reading it out of pleasure. The book is about different research done on the human brain and the different emotional styles, how genetics and environment influence them and how they develop. It also includes  the mind – body connection. Although I have onlt read about 80 pages, I'm really enjoying seeing how certain personality traits can be linked to certain hormones released in certain areas of the brain and some of these processes could be modified if there is will. It is  fascinating.. Chemical processes were never my thing at school but now it is fun. It also touches “abnormal “ conditions such as autism, which I find interesting.

I think I am enjoying it because there is no pressure involved. I just read a while before I go to sleep or during the day if I have the time.

Write about something you are reading at the moment.

Say

What it is called

Which genre it is ( novel, academic, manga, report, blog, etc)

Whether you are enjoying it

What it is about

Include anything else you find relevant.

Write a minimum of 220 words and 4 comments on different class blogs. Mine also counts :)

Please do the encuesta docente

Please do encuesta docente

www.plataforma.uchile.cl

programa inglés.

THANK YOU

A place in Santiago

A place in Santiago

I must say a place I really like to visit is “la Vega”.  I visited it in my childhood and never went back until 5 or 6 years ago. I was in "Tirso de Molina" and crossed the road and entered la vega from the west part, which is a bit seedy with a few run down shops. Suddenly, this world opened in its full, and the colours and smells filled me with joy.

What I love about this place is that you can find the biggest variety of veggies, fruit and food for a very decent price. I like to talk to the people in the stalls and barter for better prices. I go with my husband or my mom. I used to go with my sister and we enjoyed it so much, but she is not around anymore.

 I don’t go there as often as I did because I feel it has become too popular with wealthy people who go there to buy more cheaply. I still visit when I can. Sometimes I pop by on the way back from the cemetery. Maybe I do not like the fact that there are more cafes and places to eat there. This attracts more tourists and leaves less space for the sale of fruit and veggies.

I was there in May the last time.

I strongly recommend it because I feel it is the kind of place that not only opens your senses to flavours and smells, it also opens your eyes to different cultures from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Write about a place you like in Santiago

Say>

Why you like it

Who you go there with (if anyone(

How often you go there

When was the last time you were there

Anything else you find relevant.

Write 240 words. Write a comment on my blog and 3 comments on your classmates blogs.

Today we write about happiness

What makes you happy?
What it is
When  you discovered this?
Why/how it makes you happy

Anything else you find relevant.

write a minimum of 220 words and 4 comments on other blogs


There are so many the things that make me happy that I find it really difficult to choose. But I will  go for something simple that I really like: Nature
One thing that really makes me happy is camping and trekking, another is my plants. I live in an apartment and I really miss having a garden so I a few years back when we were threatened with the modification of Upov 91, I decided I wanted to grow stuff on my balcony.
I started with basil, tomatoes, oregano but later I decided I also wanted plants.
This has been a difficult year for me and my family and I think my plants have helped me, especially lately. Plants help me get more centered. I have also started growing new things like leaks and thyme. Moreover, I have some flowers and different plants.

There is something about gardening that I cannot explain but I love to feel the soil, I love to water my plants  and smell  the wet soil ,but especially, I love to eat my own lettuce, rocket, parsley ,and to know it is not GM.