Thursday 26 July 2018

Green

Being green

Well, I think you can learn about being more environmentally friendly in many places. However, for me the best is to learn with others. I have learnt about recycling, composting with friends mostly. However, I used to be a lot more radical and concerned about the environment, until, in my view, I realized I could not save the world on my own. I was in Germany in 1998 and then, people separated rubbish, would not litter, etc. 1998!!!!! And here, it still doesn’t happen much! In Chile if there is no money, there is  no interest from our government….
I still take all bottles and jars to the bottle bank, take all milk cartons, paper, cardboard and tins to the recycling center all the time but that is more or less it. Another thing I do is I decided not to buy plastic anymore and use only glass if possible.  I use the car to come here sometimes because I am exhausted or in a rush. However, this is the only campus where I do this because I can park. Normally I go places  on the bus.  In the past I made my own detergent, shampoo, bar soap and used to come on my bike. I used to have my compost on the balcony. Now I don´t do any of those things.  What a disaster!

My carbon footprint must be high. Terrible thing!
I think our society needs to be educated so we can all be aware of the importance of recycling & reusing and all the benefits it could have.

Write about the environment answering the following questions:


What things do you do that are environmental friendly?


Do you think the Chilean government does enough to promote recycling?

What are the most common items that people recycle?

What things can average people do to protect the environment?

Write at least 250 words. Leave comments on my blog and the blogs of 3 classmates.

Thursday 19 July 2018

practice

Reading:

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading1.htm
http://www.examenglish.com/PET/reading1.htm
http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_reading2.htm

Listening:

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_listening_part1.htm
http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_listening_part2.htm

Vocabulary:

http://www.examenglish.com/PET/pet_vocab.htm

https://flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/vocabulary/computers-internet-vocabulary.htm

https://flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/vocabulary/education-collocations.htm

Thursday 12 July 2018

Optional topics

Today we have chosen to write about ONE of these three topics


Drugs
What is considered a drug?

What is your opinion about them?

Do you think it is a serious problem in Chile?

Add anything else you find relevant.



Music/ TV serious

Why you like it

How you discovered it

How often you watch it/listen?

Add anything else you find relevant.


Discrimination


What forms of discrimination do you know?

Which are worse?

Is racial discrimination a recent issue in Chile?


200 WORDS and 3 comments 


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Wednesday 11 July 2018

Blog evaluation (first published April 24th)

The blog mark  (20%  of your level mark) consists of two different marks:

Mark 1   = Continuous assessment. Every class you get:

2 points for writing your post and comments "in class"
1 point for post and comments until Friday 21:00
O points after 48 hours or no post

Mark 2

Evaluation of 3 texts over the semester

Instruction, grammar, language, structure

mark 1 + mark 2= final blog mark

Wednesday 4 July 2018

Dear all,
Here is our second evaluation due on July 19th.

Please remember this is not a READING test.  All in one take


A JOB YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THE FUTURE
Record a for 2 minute mobile phone video presentation* about a job you would like to do in the future.
Say:
What the job is,
Why you would like to do this job,,
What qualities or skills you would need to do this job,
What type of reward or job satisfaction you would get from doing this job.
Mention anything else you think is important.

Write a minimum of 200 words and wirte 2 comments to your classmates



Thank you

WOULD Conditional

I would like   Me gustaría
She would go  Ella iría
Would you work as a bar bar tender? trabajarías de dependiente del bar?
I wouldn't like a job   No me gustaría un trabajo
I would work in a place  Trabajaría en un lugar
The satisfaction for me would be  la satisfacción para mí sería