IMPROVING YOUR ENGLISH!

INTERM 4 MY WISH LIST

2010-11-03T09:11:00.000-05:00

There are so many things that I would like to include in my wish list for the next year that I don't know where to start. First of all, I wish I could be healthier next year, I have been sick many times this year. Second of all, I wish there weren't so much traffic in my city. This year I have been late to work many times because of that. Then I wish there were better school and services for poor people in my country. I wish people were attentive to the global warming problem. Every body could contribute to fight this terrible problem, for example:don't litter!
And what about you? What is your wish list?

BASIC 5 WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?

2010-10-10T12:47:00.006-05:00

That is a good question. There are many things that make me happy;for example when I spend time with my family or when I travel to Moyobamba, my home town, on my vacations. There are sad moments too. I feel sad when somebody in my family is sick or has an accident.When I am nervous, I usually blush or smile a lot. And I am angry when people lie to me. And what about you?

at last!!

2010-10-07T18:14:00.006-05:00

Go Mario, Go! I remember my literature teacher in high school, she was so passionated when she talked about Mario. At first it was shocking for me, but then when she started reading extracts from his books. I will never forget those nice literature classes. Then after some years i had the chance of buying my first books and of course i bought Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter,it is my favorite,and then the others. He is such a great writer that he can write about almost everything and his writing styles are the best for me. Congratulations Mario. And what is your opinion about this success.Out of the countless works Mr. Llosa has published here we have some: (Which is your favorite?)
Fiction
1959 – Los jefes (The Cubs and Other Stories, 1979)
1963 – La ciudad y los perros (The Time of the Hero, 1966)
1966 – La casa verde (The Green House, 1968)
1969 – Conversación en la catedral (Conversation in the Cathedral, 1975)
1973 – Pantaleón y las visitadoras (Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, 1978)
1977 – La tía Julia y el escribidor (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, 1982)
1981 – La guerra del fin del mundo (The War of the End of the World, 1984)
1984 – Historia de Mayta (The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, 1985)
1986 – ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero? (Who Killed Palomino Molero?, 1987)
1987 – El hablador (The Storyteller, 1989)
1988 – Elogio de la madrastra (In Praise of the Stepmother, 1990)
1993 – Lituma en los Andes (Death in the Andes, 1996)
1997 – Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto (Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, 1998)
2000 – La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat, 2002)
2003 – El paraíso en la otra esquina (The Way to Paradise, 2003)
2006 – Travesuras de la niña mala (The Bad Girl, 2007)
2010 – El sueño del celta.
Non-fiction
1971 – García Márquez: historia de un deicidio (García Márquez: Story of a Deicide)
1975 – La orgía perpetua: Flaubert y "Madame Bovary" (The Perpetual Orgy)
1990 – La verdad de las mentiras: ensayos sobre la novela moderna (A Writer's Reality)
1993 – El pez en el agua. Memorias (A Fish in the Water)
1996 – La utopía arcaica: José María Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo (Archaic utopia: José María Arguedas and the fictions of indigenismo)
1997 – Cartas a un joven novelista (Letters to a Young Novelist)
2001 – El lenguaje de la pasión (The Language of Passion)
2004 – La tentación de lo imposible (The Temptation of the Impossible)
2007 – El Pregón de Sevilla (as Introduction for LOS TOROS)
2009 – El Viaje a la Ficcion
Drama
1952 – La huida del inca
1981 – La señorita de Tacna
1983 - "Kathie y el hipopótamo"

INTERM 1 THE SADDEST MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF A PERSON

2010-09-11T16:17:00.006-05:00

It was saturday afternoon, they just had lunch together and out of a sudden Darwing, my cousin, asked for permission to go to the new soccer field behind the hill with his friends. Who are you going with? , my uncle Rene asked. The father of my friend Agusto is going to drive us in his truck! That's not a truck, it is a lorry my aunt Amalia said, smiling. Darwing rushed to the corner, my uncle and aunt entered to their house and after 10 minutes somebody knocked the door desperately, there was and accident, the truck crashed and unluckily Darwing died. He was just 12 years old... after that my uncle and aunt never got over that terrible event in their lives.
Do you think that losing a son or a daughter can be the saddest event in the life of a person?

BASIC 3 THE PERFECT DATE!!

2010-06-21T23:54:00.003-05:00

There are always different personal experiences about dating. We sometimes have great dates but in others we don't really enjoy them. Some people plan everything, they get tickets for a concert or they study a mini speech, others memorize a poem. What about your experiences? What is the PERFECT date for you?

BASIC 4 WHAT ARE YOU LIKE?

2010-05-22T23:15:00.005-05:00

Difficult question. Sometimes we just do not consider this topic as important as it really is. I think I am an extrovert person because I have a lot of friends and I like to meet new people. I am very sociable and outgoing. As a teacher I am very patient but exigent too. But every time I have to clean, I just run away. What about you?

When you go on a date: Who pays?

2010-04-22T23:29:00.004-05:00

Not so difficult to answer: Men usually pay on dates in Peru. It is an old custom. This usually happends among youngsters but adults sometimes split the bill. What a bout you? what happens on your first dates? Where do you go? What do you do? and do you split the bill? write your comments.

ROBOTICS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY Basic 12

2010-03-13T19:59:00.005-05:00

Interesting topics of our times. Can you imagine a nanobot entering to your blood torrent, going to a specific ill organ, localize a cancerigious cell or tissue and eliminate it? Would it be possible some day? Can you imagine a robomaid, doing ALL of your housechores? Take a look at the links about this topics here in the blog and post your comment or opinion about one of them.

DATING, DATING, DATING!!! Interm. 2

2010-03-08T12:07:00.005-05:00

So many rules and pieces of advise had been said or given about this topic. Why is it so difficult to understand women? Why are men so careless about details and romance? I remember one of my dates, she was the perfect woman, so neat and beautiful, but she was scratching her hair the whole night!How embarrasing but she didnt even notice that detail. What about your dates? What about internet dating? Have you tried it already? Do you remember one date that went just terrible wrong? or the one that went so well that you always remember!

MEN vs. WOMEN - Int. 2

2010-03-05T12:11:00.007-05:00

Many things had been said about these touchy topic. Men are better than women, but in what aspects? Men are stronger but they cannot give birth a baby. Women are more sensitive than men but can they accept criticism well?. What do you think? Who's best?And why? WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES AMONG THEM?

PHOTOS!! WE LOVE THEM

2008-08-09T00:22:00.000-05:00

HI GUYS!
I know I've promised to upload your photos... okis, here there are some of them .

PROJECTS, PROJECTS, PROJECTS

2008-01-26T22:13:00.000-05:00

Everytime I have think about the projects that I have to assign to my students i got reallly emotioned but a little bit afraid too because these projects have to be really useful and practical for them. I am really proud to say that almost all of my students have enjoyed and learned a lot from their projects.

When they get together in groups (sometimes they do it individually though) to start coordinating and brainstorming the ideas, then the elaboration and finally the practice itself are truly significant for them. At this time they realize that they are really able to use the language they learn an practice in classes with the textbook and the e-tasks.
After some years of experience, (12 so far) I have tried many and diffrent strategies and techniques to get my students to feel confident and comfortable when producing, i mean, when using all the grammar structures, vocabulary, pronunciation, writing strategies, speaking strategies, etc, in real commuicative situations.

Here I share with you some of the "evidences" that "accuse" my students of being communicatively competent.

CIUSMP

The Mark of Zorro and talking about the family...

ICPNA
Practicing before performing and presenting Peruvian Typical food and recipes...

Going shopping, Algarrobina and, Upps! It was just some quality testing....

Very good guys!