English Pre-Intermediate Section 3

Hi everyone! Hope all is well. Today we are talking about music! My favorite singer of all time is Ariana Grande. She is a 26 year-old Pop/R&B singer and has a four-octave vocal range (similar to Mariah Carey who has a five octave-range!). She has four albums,  Yours Truly (2013), My Everything (2014), Dangerous Woman (2016), Sweetner (2018), and Thank U, Next (2019).  I can't decide which is my favorite album, but sometimes I would say it's a tie between Yours Truly and Sweetner, Yours Truly because of it's throwback of 90's Pop/R&B and Sweetner for it's lyrical depth. To be honest, Dangerous Woman I love, but it is my least favorite album because the lyrics are not as deep compared to the others. Beside her music, I really like her as a person, she is a feminist and very progressive. She always speaks out about issues in the United States such as racism, homophobia, sexism, and gun violence.  Something that is really amazing about her is that she has w...

Hi everyone :) I hope you are doing well. Today we are going to talk about a postgraduate course that you would consider taking in the future. Well, in my case, I already have done a postgraduate studies. I studied Latin American Literature and finished in from 2010 to 2014 at Eckerd College in the State of Florida. In 2015, I took a postgraduate course called CELTA - (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) so I could become an English Teacher. I studied in the British-Chilean Institute of Culture in Santa Lucía. I studied part-time: I worked in the University of Diego Portales during the day and studied at night. I'm happy that I did the course and I learned a lot in such a short period since the course was an intensive course that lasted from March to June. Sometimes I consider taking a Master's course, something in Caribbean Literature since I really love that type of literature. I'm sure many of you realized since I use a lot of Caribbea...

H i everybody :) I hope you had a great weekend! Today we are going to talk about your future job. Well, in my case I will talk about what I like about working in the University of Chile. I started working here in March 2016 and I really like it for various reasons. I really like the focus of the English Program. I also really like working in the Campus Juan Gomez Millas because I studied here in 2012-2013 and have many good memories, but also because it is familiar to me.  Another reason that I like working in the University of Chile is the English Program. Although I have some criticisms of the program I really like how they encourage us to focus on communicational skills and not focus on grammar, which I honestly believe is the best way to learn a language: using it with or without errors because practice makes perfect. We also try to make the classes student-centered, which means that the student is the protagonist. Regarding the classes, as I mentioned in the ...

Hi everyone, So today, the class decided to talk about pets! I love my pet cat, Idania. I named her after Idania Fernández, a Sandinista revolutionary from Nicaragua. I adopted her when she was just 2 months old because a friend's cat had her second litter so she told me to adopt one of the kittens. Idania is the best and she's like having a baby, a cat, and a dog all at the same time! She cries for me to pick her up in my arms (like a baby), she always licks me (like a dog), and well, she does other cat things. She has lived with more for 15 months and it has been amazing :) When I went to my friend's house to choose which cat to bring home with me, I chose Idania because she was the one that played with me most! She is a very playful cat! My friends say that she think I'm a big cat and not a human at all. I love how much she loves me <3 She also brings me flies as a present LOL. Here are two pics of her:  Now it's your turn! If you have a pet...

Hi everyone :) Today the class decided to talk about favorite series or movie. Well, for me it's very difficult to decide because I have a lot of favorite series and movies. But I will talk about a series that I like whose second season comes out July 31st! It's called The Umbrella Academy! I really like this series because I love superhero comics and this series is precisely about that haha. The series is about a billionaire named Sir Reginald Hargreeves who adopts 7 children and gives them numbers from 1-7 instead of numbers. However, their robot-mother ends up naming all of them <3 The billionaire is very abusive towards them and trains them to fight crime because they all have different powers. The series stars Ellen Page and also one of my favorite singers, Mary J. Blige, plays one of the villains. I like most of the characters, so I can't decide who is my favorite. I won't give any spoilers, but the series is very entertaining, dark, and mysterious. If you ha...

Hi everyone! Today I am going to talk about the best vacation ever. In March 2014, I went to Puerto Rico with my mom and brother. We were there for about a week and it was so much fun. Although, We had travelled to Puerto Rico before, this time it was particularly fun and special. We visited our friend, Oriana, who is Chilean and has a gift shop in old San Juan city. She went to Puerto Rico after Pinochet's coup in 1973. We met her in a trip we did in 2007 when I got my first ear-pierced! We went into her store and my mom saw that she was selling alpargartas and started talking and then she realized that she was Chilean! Oriana gave me two little rings and one said Chile on them. We didn't keep in contact, but when we came back in this trip, we went to her store and there she was and she remembered me! We exchanged Facebook information and are still in contact today :) Some of the fun things we did were going to the movies, swimming in the ocean, and exploring San Juan city...