Final blog

Write about your blogging experience.

I enjoy writing in my blog, it was an entertainment experience because I published interesting things and I think I improve on my writing skills, sometimes I wrote badly in english for example: I used to write: "entresting" instead of "enteresting" or "writting", I think sometimes you practise only speaking and forgot how spelling some words and when you're going to write you write exactly how pronunce the word and It happened to me and sometimes I do some mistakes when I'm writing, I must reinforce my writing skills because I know how say a word but I write exactly how I pronunce, when I have some mistakes I think that mistake is stupid..

In my opinion the principal advantages of blogging in English is you write in English and you must think in English, I try to think in English as much as possible and when I write in spanish a word that we write in both languages for example once I wrote "Brazil" to a friend and she said: "you're crazy Brazil is with an S", I think this is a disadvantage for all Spanish learning when they are studying English. But another advantages we find is you memorize the word when you are witing and you don't know that word, is very interesting process of assimilation because you have to find a word to get used to the context.

Listening review 3

The secret of happiness

 

They talk about how mind affects our happiness and how we can make ourselves happier and also what things made people unhappy. They discuss if material things, money, wise, goals affects their 'satisfaction with life'.

The World Happiness Database has ranked countries in order of how happy their people are – or to be more precise - their 'satisfaction with life'. Do you know which country came top of the list? Was it:

a) Finland

b) Canada

c) Costa Rica


Then, they talk about all over the world is always discussing about the results of studies about happiness and it produce and interesting results...and after that, they discuss if happiness is a state of mind that it's means different things make you happy (depending on your mood or the situation) and then they talk about a research has found some factors that we all share when we are searching for happines: the study found having an active life is most important for a happy life (you feel satisfaction and pleasure).

 

Professor Rudd Veenhoven, Director of World Happiness Database talk about a study has shown that we can make ourselves happier, it does it mean people change and these changes are not material things or be rich but also old people tend to be wise and happier

 

Some words are difficult for me:

 

hectic: busy, lots of things going on

content: feel happy or pleased with the situation

happy-go-lucky: describes someone who doesn't worry about the future

In my opinion, people tend to waste all life trying to find satisfaction with their lifes...but some insignificants things could make you happy and you never note: Small gestures from friends and family can also work wonders when you're feeling a bit down in the dumps for example or having a picnic in the sun, getting flowers or chocolates from a loved one, etc. I mean... some things that makes you happy you can find it everyday

 

Food

1.- Do you have a healthy diet? Is there anything you would like to change?

For my problems with my colon and my stomach I must eat in a healthy way, I suppose because when my problem  started (one year ago) I only ate steamed food, and also I ate some fruits like steamed strawberry, apple, etc.  but now, I eat more "normal" food but I still can't eat some kinds of food, for example I can't eat fried food. But sometimes I go out and eat Chinese food but I only eat meat or chicken without spices. I think I would like to eat more things but my colon and my stomach don't admit coffee for example or spicy food and I would like to eat like a normal person.

2.- Are there any things you used to eat that you don't eat now?

Before my problem I used to eat all things and I ate junk food, I went to McDonald's every week, I used to eat french fries or pizzas with my boyfriend or with my friends, and obviously I used to be fat, I was very fat and I always had  headaches, backaches and I used to wear loosen t-shirts and it was a torture to find pants. Now, I'm not slim, I don't have the best body in the world but I'm not fat as I was. I feel more confortable, I don't have headaches (sometimes when I have a stressful day or someting like that) I put on dresses for example... It's better to feel healthy and thin!

3.- what is a typical dish from Chile? How do you make it?

Everyone cooks typical Chilean food in September 18th, and a very typical dish is cazuela: a soup with a piece of pumpkin, corncob, chicken and potatoes, it's very delicious and empanadas

I would like to make helthier empanadas because I have to prepare a special empanada: I put on the dough chopped chicken, olive, mushrooms  and oregano to give more taste, It's very delicious because it's healthy and satisfying, you only eat 2 and you don't need more!

4.- Do you think a vegetarian diet is better than a diet that includes meat? Why or why not?

I think in a diet it is very important to eat vegetables because they give you all natural energy and make you feel good, but meat is important too, It's not very important to eat meat every dayt, but you need to eat meat two days a week!, but vegetables are more important but you need a very balanced diet.

5.- What is junk food? Why do you think it's popular?

Junk food is the food that contributes lots of calories for example: potato chips, soft drinks, hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, ice cream, etc

I think it's very popular because it is cheaper, easy to cook, faster, you only go to buy it and you pay for  it and it has a "good taste".

  

Book review 3

Brown Eyes by Paul Stewart

 

It's the story about a couple (Peter and Susan Reed), they arrive to their summer hotel: The hotel Vista. The couple enters the house and they say “hello” to the receptionist: Mrs Brown, she says "hello Mr. Reed". Then Mrs Brown goes to the kitchen and Susan looks at him. She gets close to him and starts to talk. Then they walk across "The Coffe House" and they realize the owner meet Peter the last night, so Peter and Susan start to be confused. They go to the hotel and they see a photo on the bed. But the doors open and a man with a gun enters. The man looks like Peter but he has got brown eyes (Peter's eyes are blue). The man says his real name: Stephen Griggs and he is in love with Susan since he worked with her fiften years ago, but she doesn't love him. So Stephen shoots the gun and Susan died, he hits Peter and Stephen puts his gun in Peter's mouth. They hear Mrs Brown and Stephen answers in Peter’s name. Then the police enter and catch Peter with the gun in his hand.

The story takes place in Lea-on-Sea in probably in the 80's o 90's because the story doesn't tell you when is the exactly the year it is.

Main characters:
Peter Reed: is the principal character, his eyes are blue, he has got a big nose and black hair. He was very confused because wherever he went with Susan, people said "hello again"

Susan Reed: she was Peter's wife, but her last name is Barker. She was Stephen's coworker and he is in love with her. Stephen kills her.

Stephen Griggs: He looks like Peter, but his eyes are brown, he is in love with Susan fifteen years ago.

In my opinion this book is interesting, strange and very short but it’s entertaining, I'm sorry for susan she died! It's a painfully story for me! and also the language is too easy and It's easy to read. The writer makes you focus in the story all the time and that is why I found it very short.

I recommend this book even more if you'are at the first year studying english.

A few questions

Write about the following

• Something you're very bad at doing

I'm quite bad at mathematics, I hate thinking in numbers, I can't remember numbers and I hate doing maths problems, for myself is like a torture.

• Something you're thinking of doing the next weekend

I'm thinking of I'm going to dress up like a vampire for halloween, because in my job is going to give us a present for the best costume and the best make up, so with my coworkers we are going to dress up like zombies, vampires o something like that.

• something you need to do tomorrow

I need to do a homework for phonetics because this weekend I hardly did some homework for the university because I had to work  until late.

•  something you love doing when you're on holiday

I love sleeping until late, geting up late, taking a long bath to relax myself, cooking, going out, staying with my boyfriend, going to the beach (if I can pay it, because sometimes is very expensive) and rest all day!

• A job you don't mind doing in the house

I hate cleaning the dishes, but also I hate doing housework, for me is like a torture but sometimes you have to do it but my mother almost every weekend do the housework while I cook for everyone in my house (including to my boyfirend), cleaning my room and do my homework or go to work

• Something you must remember to do this week

I must do a long work in the university for seminary of language and society, we have to go to interview people, and write about some a group of people who have an special lifestyle

• A foreing language you'd like to learn to speak well. Why?

first of all I'm going to finish studing english, and then I'd like study germany because I like English and Germany music and I would like to travel to Germany and Australia or Canada.

Listening evaluation 2

Living in a tiny space

It's about the growing number of people living in a very small places because this is a big problem in UK: homes are small for living and the prices are becoming very expensive to buy their home. This is the most common cause of unsatisfactory relation to their homes and it can be frustrating.

Which European country's homes are almost 80% bigger than those in the UK?

a) Ireland

b) The Netherlands

c) Denmark

After the question Jennifer and Neil talk about how is expensive buy a house and people can't afford it and to resolve this situation new houses available to buy or for sale are small and the people are building houses with two or three bedrooms but those are much smaller than the rest of Europe. Houses are sold according to the number of bedrooms they have.

This is the principal reason because people are unsatisfied with their houses: lack of space. 

In the clip speak Jennifer Park and she talk about Mr. Chang has changed his tiny house using sliding walls: He can modified the closet into a bathroom and he had a kitchen behind the television set. Then she said how a gadget using a halogen lamp to make food.  This pot can grill, bake, fry and steam.

It was difficult some word like:

room to swing a cat: a big space 

minimalist: having no more than is necessary

de-clutter: get rid of things you don't want or need

to get a foot on the property ladder: to buy your first house

This program is not only show us the problem in UK, In Chile we have the same problem but in Chile if you don't have money you can't buy a place to live, In UK you can buy a small house or flat, but in Chile you can't afford it because is very expensive, if you want a house you get into debt in the bank. 

Ghost or supernatural story

I don't know if is a gift but sometimes I see some things that another person can't see that is why I believe in paranormal activities, but the follow story I was with someone.

It was 2 years ago, between december and february I can't remember very well but it was a warm evening. My mother asked me if I bought something to eat at dinner. So my boyfriend went with me because he was in my house. We walked a lot because everything was closed. We decided to buy bread and we came back we were talking and then between two lamp post appeared a white and shiny light, we were surprise, the light was ten seconds and disapeared mysteriously. We continue walking and in the sky we saw a lot of red lights, it was eight or nine very close, It wasn't an airplane but they crossed the sky very quickly and it moved in a cycles. When we got home finally we talked to my mother the things that we saw and my father looked at the window and he saw it.