PG INTERMEDIATE AB

Blog 7 Families and the concept of 'family' have changed over the years, some will say for the better and some for the worse. Reflect on the following: Have you seen changes in your family values' over the years? Do older people in your family have different values from yours? what's your concept of family? what's the impact if any, of foreign culture in the way people interact with their family members? what kind of family would you like to have in the future? Minimum word count: 260

First of all, I have to begin by saying that I am an optimist but I am a critical one. What I mean to say is that I am not one of those people that thinks that their country is rubbish and that everything is just hopeless. In general terms, I like my country, but I don't have an exacerbated, irrational patriotic sentiment either. Chile is OK but it could be much better. I could talk about drastic changes to education, working conditions, housing; just to name a few, but I really want to focus on concrete things today that could make my life, and that of others, a little more pleasant. The first thing that I would like to see happen is for people to be fined if they let their dogs defecate on the streets without cleaning it up. If you have a dog, it’s not right to let it out for a ‘walk’ so it can defecate all over the place. That’s just plain irresponsible and nasty! If you want your dog to use the streets and parks as a toilet, then pick it up! The second thing that I’d lik...

For today's blog I would like you to think about three things that you would like to change about your country. Think about different aspects of everyday life. Do you think that a smaller change might have a greater impact? do you think that the change needs to come from people or is it about people's living conditions? do you think it is better to improve practical aspects of everyday life such as transport? Visualize the things that could either make your life better or that could make life in general better. Work out what needs to be transformed in order for this to happen. Word count: 230 words

It’s not easy to think about where I see myself professionally in the future, but I know that I definitely want to get a PhD sometime in the near future. I would like to do more research on immigrant language identity and therefore, the kind of work I do would be related to that. Ideally, I’d like to work in the Ministry of education because I believe we need to define policies to better integrate our immigrant learners. I also think that Chileans could better benefit from coming into contact with people from different countries and cultures if we find ways to make immigrants more active participants in education aspects as well as diverse social-cultural activities. Another area that interests me is developing assessment material for young learners and adult learners. In public schools, much of the process of assessment has to do with just memorizing information and not really using the new knowledge in a critical way. It’s fundamental to teach young learners critical thinking ...

 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? - How does it relate to what you're currently studying?  - Add any other related ideas. - Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post. - Word Count: 210 words

Politics I personally think that politics runs through the fiber of our daily life and it is behind many of the decisions we take whether we are aware of it or not. Sometimes for instance, we might not buy a certain product or go to a certain shop because the political view of the manufacturers or the owners goes against our beliefs or sometimes our politics. Given how politics permeates different aspects of life, it is essential that people vote if they want to their concerns to be properly voiced and channel. If people just complain but don’t take an active role in shaping their country, then all their complaining is useless. Unfortunately, there’s a very small percentage of people who vote at the moment and lots of the people that whine and complain, they can’t be bothered to leave their houses on Sunday to vote. In every democratic country, we see similar promises being made by candidates: more employment opportunities, strengthening of the economy, more public housing, fr...

Blog 4 - Today you will choose from three different topics that you have mentioned or that we have discussed in class. From class: migration sexual harassment  education  Topics students have mentioned: 1. sports 2. food 3. politics How important are politics in every day life? Do you vote? Do you believe people must vote ? How informed are people before voting? What kind of change do you think could bring the most positive results to a country? -Word count 220

Cacciolina Today I'm going to delight you with the life and times of Cacciolina, the little crocodile dog. Cacciolina is almost two years old but she's absolutely convinced that she's a puppy or better yet, that she's a baby! Cacciolina came to our house shortly after my friend (dog) Kenzo passed away. His passing away was very difficult for me and for my grandma who had been showing signs that her time, was also reaching an end. Kenzito died in March 2016 and Cacciolina came to our home in May, in the few months that Cacciolina spent with my grandma, she managed to spark some life back into my granny and made her happy until the very end...My grandma passed away on August 15th of that same year and even when she was at the hospital she asked about Cacciolina. Cacciolina is a very special dog not only because she's been able to bring comfort and love to my mom and me after our losses, but also because she's got a very endearing personality. When I arrive ...

Dear all, Today you can write about whatever you choose, the requirement is that you do so in a minimum of 180 words. Everyone here has got different academic backgrounds so it might be better for everyone, if neither one of you refers to very specific things in your field of study because it might make it hard for all of us to understand, and honestly, it might even be a bit boring... Try to keep it interesting or controversial, that's always fun! Happy writing

The best concert ever: as told by Mr Z In 1994 or 1995, I crossed the Pennines from my home in Sheffield to Manchester, to see Tricky supporting P J Harvey. Both had released career-defining albums that year - Tricky's Maxinquaye, and Harvey's To Bring You My Love. As my two favourite artists, I was thrilled to discover them on the same bill. Tricky went on first. Maxinquaye is already a darker and more experimental album than the Trip Hop he'd pioneered with Massive Attack, and on stage he pushed further, creating a menacing, almost oppressive atmosphere. Excellent, atmospheric, kinda scary stuff. ... and then Polly came on and blew him out of the water. She was mesmerising, performing the material as though demonically possessed, and following every song with a soft, shy, child-like "thank you". She played almost everything off the new album, and her backing band easily did justice to songs as disparate as Meet Ze Monsta and The Dancer. The high...

Holidays: - when was it? - where did you go? - how long was it? - who did you go with? - what things/activities did you do? - why has it been the best so far? or The best concert I've attended -who was it? -what kind of music is it? -when was it? -where was it? -what made it so special? minimum word count: 170

Hey there, Today I'd like to tell you about a country I'd like to visit and hopefully I will visit it some time soon. First of all, I have to say that there are many countries that I'd like to visit, but a country that I want to visit for different reasons is the UK. I want to go to the UK because there are lots of aspects of their culture that I like. I'd really like to do a PhD there because they have some of the best and oldest universities in the world. They have a strong academic tradition and frankly, some of the old universities are just gorgeous. The UK also has amazing sights in terms of landscape as well as constructions. I would obviously like to visit London because there are incredible monuments and buildings, for instance, Buckingham palace. I also want to go to the south to see Stonehenge and to the North of England to see the beautiful scenery and because a person I really love is from the North of the UK. I really hope I'll be able to make ...

Post 1- A country I'd like to visit     -Which country would you like to go to? Why? - What do you know about it? - What would you like to do there? - Would you like to study/work/live there? Explain. - Upload pictures - Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your        teacher's post - Word Count: 160 words