This session you are supposed to discuss the situation in your faculty with regards to facilities.In order to write your post try and answer these questions:
1. WHAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN YOUR FACULTY?
2. WHAT THINGS NEED IMPROVEMENT?
3 WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST STEPS TO DEALING WITH THIS SITUATION?
4. HOW WOULD YOU RESOLVE THIS SITUATION?
5. WHAT COULD BE THE REAL BENEFITS/IMPACT OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS?
6. NEXT STEPS >> FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
>>Number of Words: 250 - 300
>>Don’t forget to make comments on 2 of your classmates’ posts.
viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2009
THE WORLD OF FILMS
Hi everybody.
Once again you have chosen the topic for your post and you have decided to write about films.
In order to get started try answering some of these questions.
Introduction:
-How often do you go to the cinema or rent DVDs?
-What kind of films do you like?
-Who's your favourite film director?
-What's the last movie that you saw?
-What's the best/worst movie you have seen this year?
Main body:
-What is your all-time favourite film?
-What is it about?
-Who stars in it?
-Why do you like it?
-How many times have you seen it?
-Would you reccomend it?
Closing paragraph:
-Which film would you like to see again? Why?
Remember to write comments on two of your classmates'`posts.
Word count: 300 words.
Once again you have chosen the topic for your post and you have decided to write about films.
In order to get started try answering some of these questions.
Introduction:
-How often do you go to the cinema or rent DVDs?
-What kind of films do you like?
-Who's your favourite film director?
-What's the last movie that you saw?
-What's the best/worst movie you have seen this year?
Main body:
-What is your all-time favourite film?
-What is it about?
-Who stars in it?
-Why do you like it?
-How many times have you seen it?
-Would you reccomend it?
Closing paragraph:
-Which film would you like to see again? Why?
Remember to write comments on two of your classmates'`posts.
Word count: 300 words.
SUMMARY FROM A CAREER-RELATED ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN
In order to write today's post you have to access the following web site:http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Once you are there...
> Select a news item connected to your area of studies / future career.
> Write a summary of it.
> Provide the link to your piece of news.
> Make sure you write between 200 and 250 words
Remember to leave a comment on 2 of your partners' posts.
Once you are there...
> Select a news item connected to your area of studies / future career.
> Write a summary of it.
> Provide the link to your piece of news.
> Make sure you write between 200 and 250 words
Remember to leave a comment on 2 of your partners' posts.
viernes, 16 de octubre de 2009
Sports
Hi everybody!
This week you are supposed to choose the topic of your post and you have agreed on writing about "Sports and Exercise", so, here you are some questions that will help you organize your writing.
-What is your favourite sport?
-Do you play any sport or do any kind of exercise? If so, where, when and who with?
-Do you consider yourself a fitness freak, a sports fanatic or a couch potato?
-Which sportsperson do you admire? Why?
-In your opinion which sports should be banned?
-What would life be like without sports?
Remember to write between 250 to 300 and don't forget to comment on two of your classmates' posts.
This week you are supposed to choose the topic of your post and you have agreed on writing about "Sports and Exercise", so, here you are some questions that will help you organize your writing.
-What is your favourite sport?
-Do you play any sport or do any kind of exercise? If so, where, when and who with?
-Do you consider yourself a fitness freak, a sports fanatic or a couch potato?
-Which sportsperson do you admire? Why?
-In your opinion which sports should be banned?
-What would life be like without sports?
Remember to write between 250 to 300 and don't forget to comment on two of your classmates' posts.
viernes, 2 de octubre de 2009
Santiago!
I have lived always in Santiago, if well I was born at hospital from Quinta Normal (I don’t remember specifically what) I never lived in that commune. First I lived in La Granja in my grandmother’s house until we moved to Puente Alto when I was six years old where we live at present.
I have to admit than don’t know many places of Santiago, because before than know a new one I prefer my favorites places as: Forestall park (in the picture), Bellas Artes Museum, Quinta Normal park, Santa Lucia hill, San Cristobal hill. Also I like not specifics places with this I mean I like so much just walking freely on Alameda and Providencia Avenue.
These places are my favorites because I feel so relax when I stay in some of them, I just contemplating the people pass, talking, buying, etc. I like that movement, that life in Santiago center (around Alameda Avenue). Whereas in Providence Av. I enjoy the beauty of this builds and why don’t say it, for its cleanliness.
If a tourist ask me What can I do in Santiago? or What place do you recommend to visit? I answer, It depends from your likes, You should know that Santiago It’s so diversity. My battery of places than I recommend you for knowing are:
1. Matucana 100, always there are arts exhibitions or plays of theatre. And it is near from the next place.
2. Quinta Normal park, it is an enormous and beauty park. You tourist could see a lot of Chileans families share there. And visit our National Museum of Natural History and Balmaceda 1215 a culture and artistic center where the activities and exhibitions are did by youngs.
3. If you want hear new chilean music you can go to SCD (I suggest than you prefer which is in Bellavista, thus after the concert you could pass a good time in some pub of the neighborhood). Or also you can go to Sala Master La Batuta, or my favorite pub: Clandestino.
4. If you (my dear tourist) prefer to dance, you can’t miss Papagallo the best place for dancing salsa. It is in Alameda Av.
5. If you are interest in the history of Chile, you must to visit La Moneda and the Museum of the Memory. In the first place you see the where the democracy was brutally attacked (even the marks of pulls is those walls) and in the Museum of the Memory you can know what happened before, duering and after that sad episode our history.
Finally for lunching you must to go to Mercado Central (as the tourist in the picture), there exist a lot of dishes with a incredible variety of marine Chilean products.
I have to admit than don’t know many places of Santiago, because before than know a new one I prefer my favorites places as: Forestall park (in the picture), Bellas Artes Museum, Quinta Normal park, Santa Lucia hill, San Cristobal hill. Also I like not specifics places with this I mean I like so much just walking freely on Alameda and Providencia Avenue.
These places are my favorites because I feel so relax when I stay in some of them, I just contemplating the people pass, talking, buying, etc. I like that movement, that life in Santiago center (around Alameda Avenue). Whereas in Providence Av. I enjoy the beauty of this builds and why don’t say it, for its cleanliness.
If a tourist ask me What can I do in Santiago? or What place do you recommend to visit? I answer, It depends from your likes, You should know that Santiago It’s so diversity. My battery of places than I recommend you for knowing are:
1. Matucana 100, always there are arts exhibitions or plays of theatre. And it is near from the next place.
2. Quinta Normal park, it is an enormous and beauty park. You tourist could see a lot of Chileans families share there. And visit our National Museum of Natural History and Balmaceda 1215 a culture and artistic center where the activities and exhibitions are did by youngs.
3. If you want hear new chilean music you can go to SCD (I suggest than you prefer which is in Bellavista, thus after the concert you could pass a good time in some pub of the neighborhood). Or also you can go to Sala Master La Batuta, or my favorite pub: Clandestino.
4. If you (my dear tourist) prefer to dance, you can’t miss Papagallo the best place for dancing salsa. It is in Alameda Av.
5. If you are interest in the history of Chile, you must to visit La Moneda and the Museum of the Memory. In the first place you see the where the democracy was brutally attacked (even the marks of pulls is those walls) and in the Museum of the Memory you can know what happened before, duering and after that sad episode our history.
Finally for lunching you must to go to Mercado Central (as the tourist in the picture), there exist a lot of dishes with a incredible variety of marine Chilean products.
viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009
Music
Since one year ago my Mp3 player breakdown and I don’t have buy a new one so I don’t listen much music how I want, because it is obvious than you couldn’t bring with you a radio on the bus or subway (My cell phone hasn’t a music player) that would be uncomfortable an expensive you know charge a lot of batteries one and other time again.
But when I at home making some housework I put any disc of music for changing that moment of work in time of relax. Can be any disc of music don’t necessarily mine. Because I like the all kinds of music in general (less reaggueton or electronic music, I dance without problem this styles but only in the context of a party). At the last time I prefer listen music in other languages like English or Portuguese (Cazuza), for development my skills in English and begin approximate to the language of Brazil (and its music so taste).
Other influence have been my friends Thomas and Tomás than have motivated me with their commentaries about the classics rock songs and specifics bands (The animals, The Beatles, Pink Floyd) than I have never listened before because my likes were delimit to the next styles: Andean folklore, latin rock as: Andrés Calamaro, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, La Bersuit, Sordromo, Habana abierta; and mainly Chilean rock as: Joe Vasconcellos, Fother Muckers, Leo Quinteros, Los Tres, Los Bunkers, Mecánica Popular, Gepe (pop-fusion-reggae you know there are groups that fused different styles and it more than interesting for me at same the emergent bands).
Parallel I feel a strong attraction for soundtracks from films like Once and Magnolia and in the last month I just want to see musical films I think that it is great how they get to give more rhythm to the dialogues the last musical films I saw are Tenacious D, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
I couldn’t imagine my life without music among all the lyrics that have accompanied me at special moments.
But when I at home making some housework I put any disc of music for changing that moment of work in time of relax. Can be any disc of music don’t necessarily mine. Because I like the all kinds of music in general (less reaggueton or electronic music, I dance without problem this styles but only in the context of a party). At the last time I prefer listen music in other languages like English or Portuguese (Cazuza), for development my skills in English and begin approximate to the language of Brazil (and its music so taste).
Other influence have been my friends Thomas and Tomás than have motivated me with their commentaries about the classics rock songs and specifics bands (The animals, The Beatles, Pink Floyd) than I have never listened before because my likes were delimit to the next styles: Andean folklore, latin rock as: Andrés Calamaro, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, La Bersuit, Sordromo, Habana abierta; and mainly Chilean rock as: Joe Vasconcellos, Fother Muckers, Leo Quinteros, Los Tres, Los Bunkers, Mecánica Popular, Gepe (pop-fusion-reggae you know there are groups that fused different styles and it more than interesting for me at same the emergent bands).
Parallel I feel a strong attraction for soundtracks from films like Once and Magnolia and in the last month I just want to see musical films I think that it is great how they get to give more rhythm to the dialogues the last musical films I saw are Tenacious D, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
I couldn’t imagine my life without music among all the lyrics that have accompanied me at special moments.
sábado, 29 de agosto de 2009
Transantiago
About our public system of transport “Transantiago, the new face of Santiago” I think that is better at least two aspects than its predecessor (the system of traditional yellow buses). The first aspect is about environment contamination: Transantiago is less noisy and pollutant and the second aspect is about the pleasure that produce see it maybe this sounds some exaggerated but I believe that Transantiago yes give to Santiago a new face with more variability of color and less messy (those buses looked if it sold separately with seats in bad conditions, without lights inside or with a string instead of a bell).
But Transantiago also has worse aspects than the previous system for example now you must combine different routes or means of transport as the underground and bus for arriving at your destination. If well maybe someone considerate this aspect it isn’t a radical problem but rather a problem of custom. I think it is a problem in the most of cases because before Transantiago the routes or trips in general were more direct than nowdays. Addition have decreased the number of routes and machines by routes and if this be little exists a big frequency problem at some opportunities two, three or four buses of the same route pass one after other, late doesn’t pass anyone to until half hour or fourty five minutes more. And Its seats are so uncomfortable especially those that are on wheels.
Before Transantiago you knew that busses would pass but now you can’t be sure also you had a lot of different chances of travel for example if I had start study when yet existed the pre-transantiago system I had can toke four different routes for arriving to university. But now I depend completely of underground and the approach buses. Uf! And is better don’t speak about the underground (always it is crowed and people push and push you).
Transantiago has changed from its begin to actual status, now is better because have increase the quantity of buses (but it isn’t enough yet) and have been amplied. For improving Transantiago I think that is necessary increase the number of buses by routes, improve the indications in the bus stop and check the wait time. The last thing before finishing this post, I don’t understand why doesn’t open the first door that has the advertisement only for crippled persons or of third age.
But Transantiago also has worse aspects than the previous system for example now you must combine different routes or means of transport as the underground and bus for arriving at your destination. If well maybe someone considerate this aspect it isn’t a radical problem but rather a problem of custom. I think it is a problem in the most of cases because before Transantiago the routes or trips in general were more direct than nowdays. Addition have decreased the number of routes and machines by routes and if this be little exists a big frequency problem at some opportunities two, three or four buses of the same route pass one after other, late doesn’t pass anyone to until half hour or fourty five minutes more. And Its seats are so uncomfortable especially those that are on wheels.
Before Transantiago you knew that busses would pass but now you can’t be sure also you had a lot of different chances of travel for example if I had start study when yet existed the pre-transantiago system I had can toke four different routes for arriving to university. But now I depend completely of underground and the approach buses. Uf! And is better don’t speak about the underground (always it is crowed and people push and push you).
Transantiago has changed from its begin to actual status, now is better because have increase the quantity of buses (but it isn’t enough yet) and have been amplied. For improving Transantiago I think that is necessary increase the number of buses by routes, improve the indications in the bus stop and check the wait time. The last thing before finishing this post, I don’t understand why doesn’t open the first door that has the advertisement only for crippled persons or of third age.
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