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Write about your blogging experience.

- Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not?

- Would you consider starting your own blog? What would it be about?

- Did it help you improve your English?

- Write about the good things and bad things about blogging in the English class.

- What would you change?

200 words. 

Final classes - plan

• June 12th - Webquest. 
• Homework - blog Chile
• June 17th - Listening 2
• Exam preparation
• June 19th - Final blog
• June 24th - Oral interaction
• June 26th - Written exam

Chile

You will need to complete this post for homework.

Write about Chile.
Include the following information.


How do you feel about Chile?
What do you like?
What don't you like?
What would you change and how would you change it?
Have you been to any other countries? How do they compare to Chile?
What do you think is the international perception of Chile?
Which part of Chile would you most like to live in? Why?
Any other thoughts.

180 words.

Free post

OK INAPsters.

You have a choice of three topics. Choose ONE!

1. The trip home
2. Travel experiences in Chile
3. Something you love

180 words

Website / Person

CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES

170 words

1.Write about a career-related website that you enjoy visiting.

You should:-

• provide a link
• describe the website (sections, features,etc)
• say how often you visit the site
• explain why you like the site.
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2.Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

Say:

• Who she/he is.(short biography)
• What she/he has done. (examples of their work)
• Why you like her/him.
• Include his/her image

Well. I suppose the career related website that I visit most is the Guardian newspaper.

It's the website of a famous broadsheet newspaper in the UK. Politically it has traditionally positioned itself a little left-of centre. My uncle says it's for poofs and teachers. I started reading it at University and I haven't stopped since.

I visit the site every day, it's one of the pages that opens automatically when I connect to the internet. It's the only site I use to check on British news. I like it because it's completely free, well made and well designed and I generally agree with the opinions the writers have.

It also has quite a lot of international news which can be uncommon for British newspapers and has great sports coverage. The sports writers regularly make me laugh out loud because they all write with an attitude that says, sport is a silly triviality, despite being experts in the area and despite clearly having dedicated their entire lives to it.

There are also forums to leave comments and argue with uninformed idiots you'll never meet, and there are podcasts, programs in an mp3 format to download and listen to.

Online newspapers are struggling to make their businesses work but I really hope this page continues. I think it's probably the only web page I would be willing to pay for. Maybe.

Homework post

Here are the details of the post you agreed to do for homework. Sorry for the delay.

Write about a photograph you like.

Say:
Who took it
What it shows
When it was taken
Why you like it
Upload it too
Include any other information you'd like to mention.Write at least 150 words.


At last. One of my favourite subjects. 

My father is a photographer so I have been surrounded by photos and cameras all my life. I nearly always carry a camera with me. At the moment I have a Canon G15 (a wonderful machine), my cell-phone (which is great for taking random photos of every-day life) and a GoPro. 

Right now I'm trying to improve my photography: Working with RAW images and trying to think about the image. This is one I took in Tierra Del Fuego in the summer.

I have lots of favourite photos. Some taken by my friends and family, some by myself. On this blog I'd like to talk about a photo called Migrant Mother by a photographer called Dorothea Lange.

Lange was taking photos during the great depression in the USA. This was a time when economic crises and poor management of the land forced hundreds of thousands of people to migrate west to California. They didn't have money or food and had to kill birds and scrounge vegetables to eat. Thousands died. 

The photo shows a mother, probably young but with a face hard with experience. Her two children bury their heads in her neck. It's an incredibly strong image and I think I like it because it looks a little like my mother, though she probably wouldn't appreciate me saying so. 

Oral presentation details

Oral presentation

• 3-3.30 minutes
• Power point
• Presentation relevant to your career
• DO NOT READ – notes ok, memory better. 
• 20% of final mark

Free post - Favourite movie

You have democratically chosen to write about your favourite movie.

Including the following details.

• The name of the movie
• The setting
• The plot
• The leading actors
• Why you like it

120 words + 3 comments. 

Technology

Write about your favourite piece of technology.

Say:

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.

- 130 words minimum.
- Include a picture. 
- Comment on at least 3 of your classmates’ blogs. 

I have a love/hate relationship with technology. I have a Canon G15 which I love and I've just bought a GoPro. On the other hand, I hate unnecessary technology such as plasma TVs and expensive phones (although I now have an expensive phone). 

My favourite piece of technology is, without doubt, my MP3 player. I had a cassette Walkman when I was a child and the digital MP3 player is the perfect succession (MiniDisc and Discman were rubbish). 

I got it three years ago. I use it every day, especially on my bike. I want to get a waterproof one for when I go swimming. I listen to music and podcasts I download from the internet.

I like it because it's so simple and so useful, just like all good inventions should be. Life without it would definitely be more boring. I might have to start listening to my brain which could be dangerous. 

Class blogs

Here are the blogs of your classmates.

Franco
Gabriel
Samuel
Felipe
Paulina
Barbara
Gabriela
Francisca
Camilo
Nacho
Miguel
Salomon
Daniela
Paloma
Valeria
Hugo
Gabriel Castro
Genesis
Catalina
Katherine

Expectations

Write about:

- the subjects you are doing this term
- extracurriculars you are taking
- other activities that you are part of  at university
- what you expect from this new academic period

wordcount: 110 (minimum)

> Make comments on three of your classmates posts
So. Post number two. Here we go.

Well, I'll write this from the perspective of a teacher, not a student.

I'm not really sure what to expect from this term, but it will certainly be interesting. First of all, I have quite a few classes in the University and in several different faculties, so it'll be fun meeting new colleagues and new students; it will also mean a lot more cycling but that's never a bad thing.

Apart from the classes I'll be teaching, I'll also be training for my mini-triathlon, studying (I want to learn French), and keeping up with my other hobbies; photography, writing, music.

I also organise trips out to the mountains near to Santiago so I hope I can stay motivated and keep doing that.

I think this is going to be a good 'academic' period for me. I feel like I am getting to a crossroads in my life and soon I will have to take a big decision, and I think this period will be key in helping me take that decision.

Auto Biography

So, welcome to my blog.

Over the next months we'll be using these blogs on a regular basis to get some real-life practice and interaction in English.

Each week we'll have a different topic to think/write/argue about beginning with AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES.

Your blog is your domain to express yourself as you wish (as long as it's all in English) but as a guide try to include the following in today's post.

1. Birth info.
2. Studies info (elementary/high school/ univ).
3. Family Info.
4. Hobbies.
5. Other.
   Two more rules.

1. Write a minimum of 120 words.
2. Make comments on three of your classmate's posts.

So. Here goes.

My full name is Henry Rufus Robert Loveless but I usually use my mother's maiden name (Buckle) instead of my father's name (Loveless). I think Loveless is too sad a name to live with.

I was born on the 26th May 1979 in beautiful Bristol, England. Then I had a fairly normal education. I went to the local primary school, then Ashton Park Secondary School then I studied at college for two years before going to University where I studied History with Journalism. After University I studied to be an English teacher and since then I have been studying at The University of Life.

My immediate family is made up of my father Adrian, my two sisters, Angie and Elsie, my brother, Jasper, and my nephew and nieces, Tom, Ella, Sophie and Harry. My mother Hilary died when I was 16. Everyone, apart from my brother and me, is in England. 

I'm a very active person. I love sport especially cycling, trekking and swimming. I was a fanatical mountain climber for ten years but now I prefer trekking which is more relaxed and I have more time to dedicate more time to other activities and interests. I also like reading, writing, cooking, socialising, playing music, teaching and watching football.

Finally, I'm a Gemini which means I am a Jack-of-all-trades. The most important things, perhaps, are that I have a dog called Marlene and a cat called Iggy Pop.