Post seven

Series you like.

For this post, you'll be able to develop your ideas about your favorites series. The idea is to write about what you like watching in general, but of course you can mention anything you like, for example: cartoons, anime, soap operas, tv series, docummentaries or movies!

"You met me at a very strange time in my life." Fight club, 1999.

This is probably one of my favorite movies of all time, at least one I'd re watch and would still be enjoyable. I won't tell you what it is about because... well, because of the first rule of the fight club!
If you saw this, you know what I mean. This is probably an intense and deep movie for some people, but that's not the only type of styles I like. I've also enjoyed many movies of Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan and Tarantino.

I'll tell you about some of my top series! Number one is called The office and it was the US version of a show with the same name produced earlier in the UK. It's a mockumentary (it's filmed as if it was a real documentary) and it narrates the story of a group of common office workers. It even had a Chilean version, La Ofis, in Canal 13, which only lasted one season but was very well done. It had one of my favorite Chilean actors as protagonist: Luis Gnecco.
 


There are many many other shows I've watched and liked! some recommendations I'd give you are: Shingeki No Kyojin, True Detective, Game of Thrones, Lost, The OA, Friends, Daredevil, Weeds, Breaking bad, and one I've really enjoyed watching on Netflix, its original series Orange is the new black.


Now it's your time!
Tell me about your favorite series, or movies, or basically anything you like watching in at least 230 words.!!

- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on my post.

Post 6

Postgraduate studies.

Write about a postgraduate course that you would consider taking in the future.
Include:

- Reasons to do the course
- Subject(s) you would like to study
- Where you would like to study (Chile or abroad)
- How you would like to study (distance learning, blended system, part-time course, etc)
- Any other relevant ideas

Here's my sample post for this topic:

I have to start by saying that for me to study a new career or to deepen my knowledge in English teaching, a lot of changes would have to occur, as I'm not willing to get a ton of debt to specialize again. I studied my career with CAE and I really didn't know what it was when I was 18. So now, over ten years later, I'd consider it twice before signing a contract with a bank that will profit from student loans.

Now, if the conditions were right, I'd probably study something related to Linguistics. Linguistics is the science that studies language, not only knowing how to speak, but also how languages are learnt and how different contexts affect different languages. In other words, it could be said like this:

"Each human language is a complex of knowledge and abilities enabling speakers of the language to communicate with each other, to express ideas, hypotheses, emotions, desires, and all the other things that need expressing. Linguistics is the study of these knowledge systems in all their aspects: how is such a knowledge system structured, how is it acquired, how is it used in the production and comprehension of messages, how does it change over time?"

Understanding these factors can really help a teacher become able to teach a wide varierty of students and also, in my opinion, knowing about how languages work, can reveal some patterns that can be found in human behavior.

The aspects of Linguistics in which I'm more interested in are Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics.

Now it's your turn:

- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on my post.
- Minimum Word Count: 220 words
- Remember: NO TRANSLATOR! web dictionaries are allowed, and of course you can call me and I'll go to your seat.

Post 5

Today's post will be about our second chosen topic, that is: Places to kill time.

When you guys decide, you put me to the task of creating sample posts for you to read before start writing, and it's usually fine, because I love writing. This time it hasn't been as easy as before, the topic seems vague but I'll do my best to write something readworthy.

The expression <matar el tiempo> has a certain connotation that I do not completely understand, since time itself is such a complex concept. I believe time can't be killed, it's almost as if it was only possible to live time... but I guess that's not the point of the topic you chose.

To kill time is to spend free time in which you "don't have" anything to do, so I guess the time I usually have to kill, is the time I have in between classes in Santiago. This semester I'm teaching five courses. They all belong to faculties around downtown Santiago so every morning I move all over any of these faculties: 'Odonto', FAU, EGGP, and Artes Centro.

My main activities during my transit in between these faculties are usually to run different errands, to send and receive parcels, and to have breakfast/lunch so I find it best to talk about the latter.
My favorite place to kill time would be the food court near EGGP, specifically next to Entel tower.

 

There I can not only choose from a variety of options, but also I get to be very close to a shop named Arte Vegetal, which is one block away there, they sell a huge assortment of vegan/vegetarian products :)

- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on my post.

- Minimum Word Count: 210 words

- Remember: NO TRANSLATOR! web dictionaries are allowed, and of course you can call me and I'll go to your seat.

Post 4

Hello everyone!

The theme of today's post is: My future job.

As a 30 year old teacher, working at the university of Chile, it would be easy for me to say that I am working in my ideal job. But I don't want to be an employee all my life, so i'll be really honest with you guys, I'll tell you all about my dream future job.

Grower

I'll start my own company, actually my own nursery for cactus, and I'll auction some of them to earn money. My idea is to retire from being a teacher when I'm more or less 33. That means I have only 3 years to move forward with my plans.
I've been working for this project for a long time now, I actually started it without knowing it. First at a very small scale, I still lived with my parents and I was already studying to be an english teacher, that's when I first got interested in cacti, and there I started growing them from seeds and learning different cultivation techniques.

This season of spring - summer is when most of the cactus I grow start flowering, that opens officially the 'bee work season' for me. That's right! that's the time when I cross pollinate my plants to obtain hybrid seeds for propagation.

I feel happy thinking that I could live with a sense of independance by working with my own hands, and in a line of work that I love, so it feels like a passtime activity So I encourage you to follow whatever you feel your dreams are :).

That's me!

Now it's your turn!

These questions could help you develop your writing: 

- What kind of job would you like to have? How do you imagine it?

- Outdoors /indoors?

- Would you like to travel a lot in your job?

- What about the salary?

- Add any other related ideas.

- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on my post.

- Minimum Word Count: 200 words

- Remember: NO TRANSLATOR! web dictionaries are allowed, and of course you can call me and I'll go to your seat.