Final blog post: The advantages and disadvantages of blogs in the English classroom

I knew blogs since two or three years ago, but I never felt interest about they. The computer isn't my friend, so I use it just the necessary. Althoug I like to write, I prefer a pen and the privacy from my notebook.

This year I reconciled me with this communication way. In our english class we must open a blog account and post weekly. Ksenia post in her blog the topic for the class and we redacted that we wanted.

I had never write a long text in English before, so first it was difficult to me. I needed to visit wordreference.com many times each day, and I felt tired after the class.

When the semester advanced, I noted that my write ability was better than before. I had not many troubles to say the thing that I wanted, I used less time to write long paragraphs and I had better time!

One of the advantages of the Blog is that you have the possibility to write in every place, at every hour. Internet is accessible, and you only need time to work.

In your Blog there aren’t censorship. You can write that you want, and that’s great. The problem is, and this is a disadvantage, that you have any privacy if you publish your text on Internet. Other people even can post his opinions about your text! I think this is a double-edged sword, because it’s funny to comment and rewiew the comments that your friends do, but I dislike that everybody can acces to the information of mi life. Therefor I’m agree with the blog in our english classes. The topics that Ksenia published was about our life, but never about our private life. I never feel intimidate.

The Blog help you to practise your way to write in english, but I think that this can be better if the teacher make corrections every weeks. I think that today I write more than before, but I don’t know if now I write better.

So, I recommend this way to practise, but it is necessary somebody that say what’s right and what’s wrong.

Assignment 5: Art

I have an artist cousin. He has 25 years and he paint since he had 12.
In 2000 he went to Catholic University to study Art, but he leave the classes two years ago because he thought that there there was nothing else new to learn.

The style of his painting has many colors, and he always shows scenes where there are many different little scenes. He paints young, adult and old people in a restaurant or in a bar. Almost ever you can find a bottle of wine and cigaretts in this pictures.
They always make happy the place where they are. If you are in the room where there are one of them, you can't be indifferent about it, because it suggest many things.

The picture that I choose today calls "Irene". I don't know who is she in the real life, but I think that she can be a strong women, a little serious, intelligent and bohemian. She has a deep look, and she attracts the interest of all that stay in the bar.

My cousin calls Rodrigo Labra, but his friends call him Julio. That's why in his paintings he sign as "WHOLEO" (that in spanish sounds like "Ju-lio").

If you want see more of his pictures and other paintings from different chilean artist, visit MOVART

Enjoy it!

Assignment 4: A Website You Enjoy Visiting

My dad is amazing: He has a cakes factory, he build a four-storey house in the mountain, and three weeks ago he launched his first book: "My barbecue's memories"
This is a book to include all the events that happened around the barbecue, when the family or friends are togheter.

He created an editorial, and a webpage to promote the book. It calls Mis Memorias, and I enjoy to visit it, because here I see photographs about the launch, I read the comments from people that went that day, and I see how are the sales.

If you enter to this website, you can't do everything that I do, because I have a password to see the comments and the sales, for example. In spite of this, I recommend you that enter to Mis Memorias and enjoy the photos and rewiev the book.

Assignment 3: Write a Film Review of a Scary Movie

I never had seen a scary movie. The aren't interesting for me. In spite of this, I saw the thriller "The Grudge" last year.

The director is the japanese Takashi Shimizu, and he remake his film Ju-On: The Grudge, to 2003.
The cast is composed by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Ka Dee Strickland, Clea Du Vall, Bill Pullman, Grace Zabriskie, Rosa Blasi, William Mapother, Ted Raimi and Ryo Ishibashi.

The plot is simple: Karen (S. M. Gellar) is an american women studying Social Work in Japan. One day she accept to replace a nurse in her job, to caring for an old sick women. In the house she feel strange noises, and discover a terrorific power that she must stop.

I dislike this film because is possible to predict the next scene, so you never feel scare.

Who should see this film? People that saw Ju-On: The Grudge and people that like japanese movies