Juan Pablo´s Presentation

My classmate JP presented an interesting topic, that topic is related to our society, the changes that we are living nowadays....

JP Started his presentation showing us his PPT, I have to mention that his PPT was Clear, concise, precise, and pertinent, I have to say that JP presented a good presentation, the colors that Juan Pablo choose in his PPT were good.

Juan Pablo Showed us the music of the subcultures listen, was a good instance to understand them, Juan Pablo moves around the classroom , his voice was good, was a good presentation.

Adolescent Pregnacy

My classmate Daniela Presented an important and interesting theme, was related to the adolescent pregnancy.....

My classmate showed us a nice presentation, was clear, sometimes her presentation showed a lot of information, sometimes was too much, because Daniela read a lot.

Daniela showed herself secure meanwhile she was explaining her topic, she was not moved around the classroom, but was good, the ideas were good explained, sometimes Daniela presented pronunciation problems, despite of that, her presentation was clear, she used in a correct way the English.

The budget was approve

Today, returning to Stgo, after long day by the approval of the budget in the Senate, with 20 votes to favor 14 against. The education budget was approved.

Some of the senators were:

• Carlos Ominami against the Budget.
• Alvear and Matthei approve the Budget.
• Orpis, Espina and Ominami, all candidates of re-election, have given the 3 votes against the budget.


I am so happy to know that the budget was approve and many people in my country will study in a normal way, without economical problems.

November 11th

Mr Litman, today at classes gave us a new website: www.twitter.com/tefl. This website is concerning to teachers that teach English, in this page you can find different tips to use when you are teaching English, some of their comments are related to dictations, how to make spelling fun, find easy to read txt for lower students level.

In my opinion, I think that is a good way to tech English using different resources as some followers of this page mentioned in the web site, some of the followers mentioned for example; if have you ever asked your students if they dream in English?

I think that it is a good question to make our students at school.

Maria Teresa´s Presentation: Friendship

My classmate talked about Friendship into the classroom, she started her presentation asking us the meaning of Friendship, Maria Teresa continued her presentation explained us the meaning of her presentation according to Longman Dictionary.

My classmate used a song as a background meanwhile she was talking about Friendship, Maria Teresa moves around the classroom doing eye contact with her classmates, then my Classmate gave us a cards with some adjectives in relation to her topic: lovely, honest, etc, she explained us her activity and what was the idea of that cards..... the activity was enjoyable.

Maria Teresa finished her presentation showing us a video related to the friendship, she used a beautiful song where the friendship was express in the lyrics.

In my opinion he presentation was good, she used in a perfect manner the body language, she moves around the classroom, she asked many times about her topic, was a good instance to put in practice the speaking related to her topic.

Francisca´s Presentation: Music @ School

Francisca started her presentation doing students (US) listened a song of beach boys, while we listened to the song, francisca gave us the instructions to form a semicircle to be able to Francisca begin her presentation formally.

First of all Francisca gave us a clarification about the idea of music in the classroom, my classmate showed us 4 stages of music:

• MUSIC BEFORE CLASS.
• MUSIC DURING MOVEMENT.
• MUSIC BEHIND SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION.
• MUSIC AFTER CLASS.

When Francisca explained us the clarification I could see that Francisca was static in front of the class, without movements, she did not use the space in the classroom, despite of, I think was a good presentation , was clear, Francisca tried to explained us in a good way the idea to use music in our classes with our student, Francisca showed us a web page regarding to the music when you are teaching.

Gallipoli

Gallipoli

Director: Peter Weir

Characters: Mark lee and Mel Gibson

Gender: Belic

Gallipoli is a movie that was taken place at 1 world war in 1915. Archy Hamilton is a young guy and promising athlete who emphasizes by his speed like runner. Nevertheless, Archy rejects a future of glory and it gets ready in the Australian cavalry where a group of Australian young soldiers that were sent to the front during I World War ,there Archy meet Frank. The destiny is Gallípoli, where they will have to fight with the powerful Turkish army. It is a movie where the friendship and adventure are stronger than the war.

In my opinion Gallipoli is a good example that I have never seen, that the war is a strategic game, where the friendship and adventure are stronger than the war. During the movie I could see the relationship between Frank and Archy where the friendship it is marked with their names written in the pyramids, at the end of the movie I could feel the same feeling, the friendship, the respect each other, the film permanently speaks about war and its effects on the generation of young boys.

If you want to see an introduction ......

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8e7ECdG69U

Jorge Pierola´s Presentation: Slang

My classmate Jorge, presented a good topic in his presentation was about the "Slang".

Jorge started his presentation asked us what we know about slang, what is the meaning, what is the use, what is/are in general the slang term, after that, Jorge gave us a definition about the Slang term, he uses information from pedagogical resources, writers, etc.

Jorge made a good activity, he presented some slangs ans we had to gave the correct use in a good way with a correct definition.

In my opinion Jorge made a good presentation, it was not a microlesson, just was a presentation, without presentation of the theme, body and conclusion, was poor, honestly speaking was not a good presentation, some times was not clear, despite of was enjoyable.

Nadia´s Presentation

Behind a social network service!!!!

My classmate Nadia gave us a definition of Facebook, Nadia asked us if we have an account or not and why, Nadia asked us also about our account, she explained us that Facebook can get our personal information and share with another web pages, was not cool to heard that.

My classmate explained us that our photos are public, because we signed a kind of contract at first, when we created our account. Nadia showed us a video concerning to a guy that was in trouble by fault of Facebook.

Nadia asked us our opinion about Facebook: "how will you teach to use correctly?

she gave us advices like:

• Read the policies.
• Don not publish phone number, home address.
• Put your profile as private.
• Accept people that i really know.

she gave us recommendations to use with our students like:

• Explain the policies
• They should choose their friends.
• Eliminate people who are being problematic.

Was a good presentation, she gave us tips to use with our students this technological resource, Nadia moves around the classroom trying to demonstrate capacity to explain ideas, was good for everyone to listened Nadia´s tips, her presentation was clear, good, original and pertinent.

Teachers strike from public schools

Nowadays, Public School system in Chile is not working properly, because some of our future colleagues are in strike, why?

Because they are fighting the SAE Bond: “Strike follows until the government pay the Teachers”, Only the commitment of the payment, of the totality of the debt of the bond of Subvención Adicional Especial (SAE) to the teachers, will be the measurement that will finishes with the mobilizations that have been having without classes the students of all the country.

In my opinion I think that teachers are good, just they are trying to be made respect by the government who promised to pay the historical debt and the SAE bond and that not yet takes shape, I think that it is a good way to brake the abuses on the part of the government. Ethically speaking I think that is not a good idea to stop the classes, but I think that humanly speaking we cannot continue that this happens.

In my opinion if the strike will continue just the student will have to pay the consequences they will have to continue studying on vacations, is not fair for them to pay by adult errors or not?

Juan´s Presentation: Sport in education

Juan started his debate asking us some questions regarding to his theme, My classmate formed two big groups, he divided our class into 2 groups, Juan gave us advices how to participate in a debate.

In my opinion Juan´s presentation was not a Microlesson, the real idea of our teacher was create a Microlesson not a debate or something like that, Juan´s debate was clear, it was good but sometimes it was boring, just questions, answers, opinions, was not more than that.

Yhincy´s Presentation

My classmate Yhincy presented a pertinent theme, was about stress....

Before Yhincy started her presentation, she stuck some cartoons in the walls of our classroom, she asked us many times if we knew or not words that appears in the cartoons, Yhincy defined every word that we supposed did not know.

My classmate showed us the most important characteristics of stressful in the students, what were the symptom, what were the signs of stress (physical-conductual-sicological).

Yhincy also asked a pertinent question..... how can teachers support their students?

some of us answered her question gave her typical answers like: emotional support, informative support, evaluative support.

In my opinion Yhincy´s presentation was good, I think that was a pertinent theme, was clear, she used in a good way the classroom space, she moves around, she uses her Body Language in a good way, also Yhincy used clearly the PPT Presentation, she asked us many times during her presentation, was a good instance to talk and give opinions related to her presentation.