Opinion...

1. What is your opinion about using blogs to teach "writing" in EFL classrooms?

• I like it very much all this. I have practiced with my writing skills, the class is interactive, and funny

2. Do you like working using blogs?

• I enjoy working in blogs. This is a very original way of learning. =)

3. What are some of the advantages of using blogs ?

• We learn how to manage a blog and also we can share thoughts, stories and everything with other people if we want. We can express feelings through this page

4. What are some of the disadvantages?

• I don't see disadventages becase miss Sandra is always worried of waht we are doing in class

5. Do you plan to use blogs in the future?Do you have any suggestions to improve these "lab sessions"? or was everything all right?

• Everything is all right I had good times in the laboratory I hope to continue with my blog. The suggestion is that we should work with gramma rules too i nthe same way.

The Redheaded Kid

Make this picture into a character by answering these questions.

1. What does he like to do on Saturdays?

• He likes to play with his frieds. To play football

2. What is the secret he doesn't want anyone to know?

• That he broke a window

3. What does he think he does well?

• He is a good student

4. What is he NOT very good at doing?

• To play an instrument. It is very difficult for him to play guitar

5. What is his favorite memory?

• When he traveled to participate playing football in an important championship.

6. What is his best subject in school?

• math

7. Who is his best friend?

• Jhon Smith

8. What does he want most in the whole world?

• To be the best playing football, And to study what he wants enggeniering

STORY:

Robert is a very good student he has many friends in the school and home. All of them are very different but they share something... they love football. His best friend was called John Milton

One day the teacher gave him his exam, he got a good grade, so he shew it his mother, and she was so happy, and because of the grades his mother always leave him playing football.

That afternoon they play until night, they played against other team. They felt motivated to win the match, and they did, but before it ended there was something bad. Robert had broken a window however he blamed his best friend called John Milton, because he didn 't want to tell his mom because she wouldn't leave him to continou playing or that she was going to punish him. But it wouldn't happen if he had been honest with his mom.

He made a mistake because the person that was owner of the house' s window broken was very angry with an inocent boy.

Finally Robert apologized with his friend, with the woman, and his mom. And he though that the most important in life is to be honest.

They continue playing and they were champion from an important team, but this time they were very carefull when they were practicing... ;)

She is Elizabeth Smith and, she is 17 years old. She is studying at Lion School in Kansas.
She has some friends there, Mary, Lucy, Steave, and Jhon. They spend almost all the time together.
Last week on Friday the techear told them that they had to join in groups. this time they had to make a presentation for Spanish. It was a very difficult subject for them. Elizabeth and her friends were very worried because they didn’t know how to do it. When they tried to agree on some points about the presentation, there were some probems, because Elizabeth desagreed with the decision that they had taken from that work.
Elizabeth wanted to mix some different points that weren’t contemplated in the presentation, finally she understood that the idea of her friends was better.
When they had to show their presentation they did it very well, and they got a 100%. They were so happy.
Now they are planing to travel to another place because they must make a movie for the same subject. But this time the story is going to be done by Elizabeth because she is the best inventing good stories… So we have to wait how it will be.

Beth Israel Hospital, Some Patients Are Saying ‘Om,’ Not ‘Ah’

There is a foundation run by Donna Karan and they use methods combining Eastern and Western healing methods at Beth Israel Medical Center. They say that yoga, meditation and aromatherapy can enhance regimens of chemotherapy and radiation, and also they remark alternative treatments.
Fifteen yoga teachers are teaching at Beth Israel’s ninth-floor cancer to work with nonterminal patients, and nurses train in relaxation techniques with those people.
Their salaries, are being paid by Ms. Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation, and that fundation was created after her husband Stephan Weiss, 62, died of lung cancer in 2001.
the Urban Zen regime can reduce classic symptoms of cancer and its treatment, like pain, nausea and anxiety.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/nyregion/30yoga.html

PerSonA PoeM

Yarella
positive, honest, Happy, talkative and friedly
who loves Rodrigo, her family, her dogs, books, music
who is afraid of darkness, loneliness and death
who wants to see this world in peace, nature reserves and balance natural
resident of a small part in the world

... Garrido =)

Acrostic poem...=)

Essay means"to try" and "to attempt".

Since first essays were writing

Students use them to improve their writing skills

After some years they become more interesting

Yet essays are very important in formal education

THE SECOND ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

"TV and our children, where is the limit?" , That is going to be my second topic.

I think that the enviroment and distractions such as tv transforms the mint of our children and it creates some changes in their behavior everyday.

=)

MY FIRST ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

Hi!! Miss Sandra told us we had to write an essay, she gave us some themes. I want to choose "Should men be alowed to have more than one wife?"
I think that it is an excellent topic "The polygamy" I think that it is ussual for people with an specific culture and religious. It is not ussual but it exists in some parts of the world. It would be interesting search information about that topic.

Have a good day... Bye
=))

Which interview you consider to be the best and why? What did you learn from interviewing interesting people?

Good morning every one...
Well, I read some of my classmates's interview, and they are very good all of them, so congratulations for the excellent work.
I think that one of the best interview is the one of Andres Esteban Gûenante Garrido because he did a complete questionnaire, and wrote about many aspects of his mom's life.
I think that the questions were very interesting and I could realized that questions were well formulated... I enjoyed it very much.
What did I learn from interviewing intereessting people?
I learned about her life and the difficult things that she lived in the past. the most important in an interview is that you know a little bit more about the person, the professional... about her personal life.

I think there are three interesting things about writing an Argumentative Essay:

1. It has to have compositions such as advantages and disadvantages.
2. The argumentative essays have to express opinions and solutions to problems.
3. The argumentave essays have to have a purpose and a defined problem.

Interview

Helping people, trying to solve problems that are present in the society, is part of the work of the social worker Sybel Garrido Höger
Sybel Garrido Höger was born on September 20, 1976 in a small town called Gorbea near Temuco. She lived there for three years, that time she was an only daughter. She didn’t have sisters. After three years, her parents moved to Contulmo, a small town well known because of Lanalhue Lake. Sybel was there three years, and as soon as her sister Alejandra was born they moved again but, this time to Chillan. A few years later her last sister Yarella was born. Nowadays Sybel is still living in Chillan with her family.

She studied at Concepcion School. When she graduated from high school she studied Social work at Autonoma university. Then she studied a postdegree in family and mediation.

When she finished, she got married. Today she has two children, the oldest is called Lucas Andres and he is eight years old, and Rocio De Los Angeles, she is two years and eight months.
Nowadays she is working in Pemuco where she is well known as an excellent professional.


1. Good afternoon. I would like to know, why did you choose to study Social Work?
Ø “Mmm… well because I always liked the social area, the relationship with people and try to solve their problems and conflicts”.


2. What is the best part of your job?
Ø “…. Helping people, the contact with people”


3. Do you consider your career as your priority?
Ø “Noo!! My career is part of my life and it’s important but my first priority is my family, my children”

4. What moments have been the happiest moments in your life?
Ø “Oh! (She smiles) when my kids were born, and I think when I got married.



5. What do you think your biggest achievement is?
Ø “I can see achievements in my job everyday there are things that sometimes look impossible of concreting. But you know… I can see them in my children too”.


6. Have you felt that you didn’t choose the correct career?
Ø “No… well when I started to study maybe I thought about that, but then I felt that I had chosen the correct one I think I was very mature for taking that decision although I was younger”.


7. What are your qualities? And your defects?
Ø “You should ask this to my mom, my father or my husband….Well I think I’m honest and an easy going person”.
Ø “My defects?? I’m

8. Do you feel that you have done everything that you wanted to do as you planned things to do?
Ø “Well… we shouldn’t think that everything is perfect because life is not perfect but if we wanted it might be very nice. And now, I don’t really think that everything has been as I have planned, but I have learned of some mistakes, and at the same time I feel proud about what I have now. Everything is a process”.

9. What things would you like to do now and in the future that you didn’t do in
the past?
Ø “Maybe travel, and know other countries and places that I have never visited”.

10. What do you like to do in your free time?
Ø “I like reading”


11. …What kind of books?
Ø “Romantic books”


12. Do you have any special book in your mind that you remember?
Ø “Romeo and Juliet” of William Shakespeare”

WelCoMe HeRe!!

Welcome there... My name is Yarella Garrido Hoger

My first blog... I think this is a very good way to express my feelins, my thoughts and also it is a way of interchanging some opinions, comments about what I write or what I like.

Comments about books, music, articles I am going to add to my blogg.... :=)