Pre Intermediate A, Autumn 2021

  Write freely about a movie or book you like,  Word count: 200 words. You have 48 hours as of Thursday 20th, May. Comments on 3 classmates' blogs and on the teacher's blog as well. Movie Review: Inside Job Some time ago now, I finally watched the film: Inside Job, by Charles Ferguson. It was an excellent documentary for people who don’t want to understand the financial crisis but for those of us who enjoy the "Michael Moore"-type of films. I say this because the movie has an angry tone towards the American Financial System and its consequent meltdown in 2007. It depicts the late-twentieth-century American economic policy in an effort to reveal and unfold the roots of the recent crisis – which is attributed to alliance between politics, academics and big business. The film received an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and is both a careful exposition of the causes and effects of the crisis that shook the world in September 2008, when 20 trillion dollars were lost. T...

  Childhood Series. You have to structure a text telling us about the programmes you used to watch, as a child.   - Comment on your teacher's post and also make a comment on 3 of your classmates' posts - Word Count for this post : 170 words   Example: Childhood Series Believe it or not, when I was a child there weren't many series on TV, besides, I used to live in the 8th region, in a lost town in the middle of nowhere and we did not receive much technology nor state of the art cinema, theatre, cultural venues, etc. It was the late 80's and national TV was the only option available, and consequently, the very limited programmatic grid they offered and the series that you could see were quite classical, the typical Disney style, with Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and my favourite: Goofy. I cannot tell you that I really remember their adventures on screen, because I was less than 5 years old, but I do remember having felt very proud after receiving positive appraisal from ...

Blog post 2 Students can choose one of the topics below. Topic: The best holidays ever Instructions: ·      When was it? ·      Where did you go? ·      How long was it? ·      Who did you go with? ·      What activities did you do? ·      Why was it the best so far ·      Add any other relevant info Upload pictures Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post Word Count: 170 words Topic: The best concert ever Instructions: ·      When / where was it? ·      Which artist or music group? ·      Add info about the artist ·      Describe the atmosphere during the event ·      Describe how they felt and why they enjoyed it ·    ...

  Blog post 1 Topic: A country you would like to visit Instructions: ·      Which country would you like to go to? Why? ·      What do you know about it? ·      What would you like to do there? ·      Would you like to study/work/live there? Explain. Upload pictures Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post Word Count: 160 words Deadline: April 30th _________________________________________________________________________________ RUSSIA: Although money can be an issue, and going to distant places can be a broken dream before you start dreaming, I would anyway love to visit Russia. Because of many reasons, but mostly, because it is such a varied and colourful country. Russia has an incredible population,  they are 142.5 million people according to the statistics given by the UN in 2007. The number might seem scary, but I don't worry over it! D...

  Estimadas y estimados estudiantes del Curso de Inglés Pre-Intermediate A, Semestre Otoño 2021: En este blog se estarán dando las indicaciones para la escritura del Blog de este semestre. Semanalmente se estarán subiendo las instrucciones y un ejemplo de lo que se debe escribir. Recordar que la corrección se realiza hacia el final de semestre y que durante el transcurso del mismo se estarán entregando una serie de cápsulas conteniendo consejos de cómo mejorar en base a los errores más comunes que se vayan detectando durante el proceso escritural. Desde ya pueden comenzar a crear sus blogs en la plataforma blogger.com siguiendo las instrucciones que pueden encontrar en este video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdA3Kp15RCA Una vez que tengan creado su blog, se les solicita informar del link en el hilo del foro que se habilitará en U-Cursos para dichos efectos en cada una de las secciones que tengo a mi cargo este Semestre Otoño 2021. Allí deberán escribir su Nombre y Apellido y co...