English experience

The English language is an important tool to develop in today’s world. Most people have some knowledge about this language around the world because of the influence that the United States has exercised in western culture and society. Because of that, a professional person has to speak and understand English language, and in the University of Chile is not the exception. We have to reach to the level 4 in English to have a good English knowledge.

In my experience, there are – elements that allow learning in the best possible way this language and that we have develop in the English course:

Talk: in every class we use the English language to communicate and express ourselves. The teacher use it too and explain us when we don´t understand but it would be more useful, I think, if we talk more and about simple and daily things because it’s really boring when we just answer questions. It would be better if we can talk freely about the topics that the teacher said.

Read: In the English courses that I’ve taken in the university, this is probably the most deficient part because the activities are centered in the conversation (in the classes) or the writing (in the blogs) but there are not a lot of activities focuses in the reading part, and I think that it`s the most important part because when we became sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist of teachers we will have to read a lot of investigations and books in English.

Write: In the courses, we express ourselves writing the blog’s post every week. This is a really good way to learn this language because we write in our own words what we think about the topic that the teacher propose us. The bad think, according to me, is there is no feedback between the teacher and the student in this part, because even when the teacher make us check the general mistakes, doesn’t correct our personals mistakes, and without that feedback we can’t improve our writing experience.

To finish, I would like to say that I´ve enjoy English class even when sometimes is boring. But I think that with the resources that the university has, we could learn more and reach the important knowledge that we need to develop in the world.

Houses and home

I have live in 3 different places in my life. The first one was a really big house in the country that my paternal family owns in their glory moments and when my mom and dad get married, they went to live there. They say that that house was beautiful (I don’t remember it because I live there until I was 3 years old) but it was full of rats, and my mom has panic to them so we have to leave the house.
Later, when my sister was born, we moved to a little apartment. I liked that apartment because it was near to my grandmother house and because I have a lot of friends there. But it was very small for our family, so we moved again to the apartment where we live since then.
This is a big and nice apartment and it have an excellent location because it is near to the subway, near to the supermarket, near to the Barros Luco hospital and near to the Great Avenue. This is important because we don’t have to travel a lot in car to get what we need, we can walk and that is important to our health and the environment.
I have live there for 12 years, with my sister, my mom and my dad. But if I have to choose where to live, I’ll choose a house not an apartment… that because 3 reasons; the first one is because of the front and backyard, I will love to have a garden with trees and flowers; the second one is for my cat can run in the grass and have another cat friends. The last one is for my sister has her orchard in our house and so we can enjoy the fruits that she harvests.