Thursday, April 29, 2010

Chile Education


When I heard speak about Chile Education, I think immediately in the unequal education and in the differences between education acquired in a private school, a municipal school and the subsidized private schools (a kind of school is a private school that receives aid from the government). Were the major difference is the quality of education.
Well, however I think that if in our country the education is compulsory, good education must be a right, not an option that only few children can receive.
I believe that the mains problems we need to solve are connected with the formation of the professionals of the education, and here is our role like a futures teacher. Also I think that is very important the education acquired in the first grades principally at kindergarten or playgroup, where children learn the basic, for example learn how to communicate.
In my own experience, I studied in subsidized private schools during thirteen years, and always in Catholics schools for girls. The education was good, but not excellent because these kinds of establishment prefer to educate in values and spends a lot of time in religion activities.
I don`t know specifically about any projects to considerably improve the Chilean education, however I think that is very pressing to improve the quality of education and offer equal opportunities for who would like access to good superior education.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

My Favourite film: "Legally Blonde"


Hi! Today I am going to speak about my favourite film. This is “Legally Blonde” an American comedy directed by Robert Luketic. I saw this film for the first time when I was twelve years old on 2003, two years after of his premiere.
I remember this film was very exciting for me since beginning until the end because the history of her main character, a bubbly sorority girl, “Elle Woods” was funny in all moment.
I love the complot of this film, Elle, a blonde woman that live in California, is very beautiful, very popular and one of the best in her specialty “fashion design” but her live changes when her boyfriend left her because she is not very seriously for her. In this moment Elle decides to apply for Harvard to become a law student where her boyfriend will be studying the same.
In the University Elle is humiliated for her teacher and for her classmates principally for her aspect. However she never changes her personality and this is that I like. Then Elle demonstrates that is able to resolve a case and her boyfriend admits he underestimated Elle, and wants her back, but Elle rejects him, having come to prefer her new career and don’t like be with a stupid.
Finally the film shows Elle graduates from Harvard and I love this part because she says the importance of believe in yourself.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

"BBC LEARNING ENGLISH"

Today I visited the page www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ . This page offers us many categories to developing diferents activities to learning English.
I chose Quizzes category and the game that I play was Wordmaster. This game is very funny because you can practise your vocabulary; you only have to put the words to fill the blank spaces and finally you will can read the complete sentence.
This game has three levels: easy, medium and difficult and in each one you have to game against the clock because you have to try to achieve the maximize point score. Also you can see the definition about the word and finally you will listen the complete sentence to practise your pronunciation.
This activity was very useful for me because let me learn English practicing vocabulary, expressions in a diversity of sentences, and practice listening that is very difficult for me. I recommend this website for all who like learn English even from the house.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Earthquake in Chile: my own experience


On February 27th 2010 Chile was devastated by a big earth tremor causing commotion and worry in all country. The first reports tell us about the epicenter in Eighth Region (Bio Bio) with 8.8 grades. However the damages caused by this movement left people in street and without houses from Center Zone until country`s South.
I my own experience I considered me very fortunate because my house not suffered damages, only came down a wall.
In the movement moment I was sleeping but I awaked immediately when my mother started to shout. While I came down the stairs I sew like the things was falling: books, pictures, my guitar, glass, plates, and very things more. Since this day until all March I was sleeping down on first floor with my mother.
Then of earthquake I was without water and light by a complete week. And in the commune where I live, Quilicura, many people was sacking because many neighbors cannot sleep looking after ours houses doing bonfires while we was without light.
This was clearly the greater shock of my life, and even though has happened several days. Too I´m very afraid and I now live thinking what can happen tomorrow?

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Hello teacher! My name is Pamela Ramirez I`m 19 years old and I`m studyng playgroup assistant and elementary teaching , second year in the Social Sciences Faculty.
This career interesting me because I like work whit children and I would like show at the society the importance of kindergarten for children because this grade prepares they for the followig school years, here they meet new friends and lear how to comunicate.
Also this career let me develop the creative and investigative area.
My expectations for this class are be able to keep a conversation and learn gramatical expression.