How I can forget it?

I had intended to write about the Shadow of the Wind, & I had prepared a video about the book.
 but .........

Today I have awoken thinking about poems, a great passion inside me. & the first one that i did was, write all that came in my mind, while I was writing, I began to think in my first love, I fell in love with her by writing love poems to her when we were kids, I can't express with words how was it. but I'll only say. it was amazing. I wrote her several love poems, because I could not talk to her personally. I was very shy & I saw her like a angel a person from another world totally different. at that time she was the most beautiful woman that my eyes could see , she is still a beautiful woman, and I remember her as the most beautiful woman in the world.
video link.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3IuQg9DffhcRkNoMGJLZlQ0S2M/view?usp=sharing

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co-writer

It is something very important, which must be present throughout the life of people, especially in school, colleges and even in university.
This time, for me to think: The teacher was very creative, he said, well, everyone will draft a question, at first I thought, that will do it he? he is going to answer the questions of each? To my surprise he made THE FOLLOWING. Now that everyone has a question what we will do is move your copybook to the teammate who is on our right for everyone, to answer the question, but we have a condition that meets the following should be consistent with what you said the above. as a result gave a history in which we had so much fun in the writing process. some had craziest answers than others but all were good stories.
Strategies like these,  teachers should have, to awaken in their students the Interest and love of writing. obviously, not strategies same to this, but if can do it in a fun, enjoyable way for their students.

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Two things, a pleasant and another not so much for me

Hello dear readers, today I will talk you ,an own story from real life, but in this case I will change some words by others that textually mean something completely different to i want to say. The idea is. first read the text as it is written, of course I know that sounds a little crazy,and it seem meaningless but that's the interesting thing about the exercise.

I remember as a kid one of the most difficult things for me was wash my teeth with knife, because what I did, was eat the cream tooth that my mother threw the knife, why always scolded me and she told me I was already very old and could wash my teeth, instead of eating the cream tooth. and the more enjoyable for my  was, sit down myself  to fall in love poems. I remember that I had a coffe maker that was magical for me, if was not with it, I could not inspire me. For me that coffe maker, made sprout words alone, without the slightest effort on my mind. once time we scratching the nose  with my peers to Cove Utría, I found myself in a beautiful place which led to my desire to fall in love a poem about that place, but, guess what? I could not fall in love anything despite being in a place you inspired many things. the reason for that was that I had not with me my magic coffe maker.

words that I changed:
toothbrush-- knife
pencil-- Coffe maker
goin on vacation---- scratching the nose.
write----fall in love

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Colombia Very well

led initiative by the M.E.M with other government agencies and the private sector it has committed to developing to English competence in Colombia, starting from basic and secondary education.
it's a comprehensive and long-term strategy, It try that the students use English to communicate with the world and improve their employment opportunities.
through of this initiative Colombia will increase from 9000-186000 of high school graduates with intermediate English's level.

this  government betting is based to on three components over the next ten years.
The first one:  is to promote strategies for teacher training throughout the country.
the second one component is.  put  practical strategies for securing and promoting quality.
The third component is to train the workforce, i.e,  not only the learning of those who are studying, it will be promoted, but also of those already working and want an opportunity to learn English.

Why do you think that is important learn inglish?

think you that learning English online is a good strategy?

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Importance of grammar

Hello dear partners, today I'll talk about the importance of the grammar

Some people question themselves if really the grammar is still important. With the coming of spell check, online dictionaries and grammatical reviewers in word processing programs, devices correcting grammatical errors, so we don't need to know all the rules of grammar, unlike your father & some teachers. However, there are several general reasons indicating that grammar is important for everyday use.

The grammar helps to improve the use you make of Your Language, mainly with writing (spelling), knowledge of sentence structure (syntax), the components of words and sentences (morphology), the sounds (phonics).

But all that, you learn when you listen carefully to others and when you pay attention when you read, so that you acquiring the correct structure of the language.

So it makes for you easier mastery of grammar and not find it so difficult for you.

Tips:

* You need be reading everyday to improve you writing process. When you are reading u can see the use of grammatical signs and unwittingly you going getting a domain using them, (accents, points, commas and others.)

* You need choose the words that you use to communicate with others. To effectively communicate, you must have a good choice of words; otherwise it, communication will be poor and it will have misunderstandings in the oral and written communication process. Besides the Choose the word or the right words to communicate a message can make the difference between a boring message and an interesting message.

* remove the ambiguity in our writings. Ambiguity is a big problem, because we can confuse our receivers, both in writing and orally processes. I don't know how expres my idea in English for this reason I'll write in Spanish the example.

Ella no se casó con él porque lo amaba____ She did not marry him because she loved him

1. with all the tools that are today that they can correct the spelling, you think it's necessary to know how to use the  grammar from correctly way?

2. In the sentence. - She did not marry him because she loved him. in Spanish how much meanings you can find in the sentence?

3. How can you have the receiver get the idea that you want to pose in the sentence: - Ella no se casó con él porque lo amaba.

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5 Common Emglish idioms

Hello dear classmates today I have the pleasure to present to you,  my new post, about 5 common english idioms.

In this work I'll talk about how use it, , the meaning & it's  origin.

Idioms exist in every language. An idiom is a word or phrase that is not taken literally, Idiom also refers to a dialect or jargon of a group of people, either in a certain region or a group with common interests, like in science, music, art, or business. In other words an idiom is a phrase that has a meaning which is different from the meanings of each individual word in it. For example, if someone says to you “I’m pulling your leg”, you might think it is strange because you would definitely be able to feel if someone was holding your leg and pulling it! This idiom actually means that they are playing a joke on you.

1. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The meaning: Our feeling for those we love increases when we are apart from them.

Origin: In 1604, Shakespeare echoed this sentiment in "Othello" (Act 1, scene ii), when Desdemona confessed, "I dote upon his very absence." James Howell, in "Familiar Letters" (1650) says that, "Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it."

There are other references to this proverb in literature, but it was originally the first line of an anonymous poem which appeared in Davison's "Poetical Rhapsody" in 1602.

Example of how the phrase would be used.

- "Cheer up Dude, everybody knows that absence makes the heart grow fonder."

2. Between a rock and a hard place

Meaning: To be in a very difficult situation and to have to make a hard decision between two things that are equally unpleasant.

Origin: This phrase originated in America and was first printed in 1921. In Arizona at that time, there was a big problem with the mining companies. The miners went on strike and asked for better pay and working conditions but their demands were refused and instead, most of the miners were sent to other places in America.

The miners had a very difficult decision to make – they could either stay in Arizona and continue to work in the mines in bad conditions with low pay (the mines they worked in were the ‘rock’) or move to a new city where they would need to find a new home and a new job (this was the ‘hard place’). So they really were between a rock and a hard place!

Example of how the phrase would be used.

“I don’t know what to do – if I go to the party I won’t be able to do my homework and my teacher will be really angry tomorrow but if I stay at home and do my homework I’m going to miss a great party! I hate being between a rock and a hard place!”

3. A leopard can’t change its spots

Meaning: A person cannot change who they are (their character), no matter how hard they try.

Origin: This idiom comes from the Old Testament (Jer. 13:23). The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah tries to persuade an evil shepherdess to become good but when he realises that it is impossible to convince her, he says: “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?”

Example of how the phrase would be used.

- The waiter tried to be friendly to his customers but a leopard can’t change its spots and he was still very rude.

4. Crossing the Rubicon

Meaning: When a decisive and irrevocable step has been taken. To commit to a given course of action that permits no return is to cross the Rubicon.

Origin: The actual Rubicon is a river in Northern Italy that flows into the Adriatic Sea. It is 15 miles (24 kilometers) long. The river is renowned because Julius Caesar prompted a three year civil war when he crossed this river in 49 B.C. to march against Pompey. Julius knew that "crossing the Rubicon" with his army in tact would be considered an act of aggression.

Using the word Rubicon as a figurative boundary, limiting action was first seen in the 1600s.

Example of how the phrase would be used.

- Andrea knew he had passed the Rubicon when he wrote the deposit check for the hall for the wedding reception.

5. Let the cat out of the bag

Meaning: To reveal a secret or a surprise, usually by accident

Origin: Many years ago, merchants often sold live piglets to customers. After putting a piglet in a bag so the customer could transport it easily, dishonest merchants sometimes swapped the piglet for a cat when the customer looked away. The buyer often didn’t discover the trick until they got home and really let the cat out of the bag, revealing the merchant’s secret!

Example of how the phrase would be used.

- “We were going to have a surprise birthday for dad, but my silly brother let the cat out of the bag the day before.”

- “I was really looking forward to seeing the film, until Jack let the cat out of the bag and told me the ending!”

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My friend Marcela Palacios

hello dear partners.

today i´ll do my interview about my friend.

Her name is Marcela Palacio. she is graduate from this university, We met at the E.N.S.A ( Escuela Normal Superior Antioqueña) when we were doing the C.C: (complementary training program) she said and also I could observe: she loved to teach and share with children is a wonderful person, the end of the complementary training program, she started her degree in languages because besides to teach. why not teach something that you love? Right now she is working as a teacher in E.N.S.A primary school. For her being a teacher is the best that could happen in her life and that her dream is to someday be like her mom Nora Liliana, Teachers also, which is a masterpiece to which I admire and respect very much.

Working with children is a difficult task, but at the end of the day and see how my students progress, makes me feel accomplished.

Tin Tin, you know,  this is my being reason. I was born for this.

being a teacher is a difficult task? why?

actually,  feel you comfortable studying this degree? why?

why you chose degree in languages and not another?

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Movie Review about Dangerous Minds

hello dears class mate this time, i´m writing about a movie that I think that is a beautiful story with a great teaching.

 "Dangerous Minds" It´s about another one of those parables in which the dedicated teacher takes on a schoolroom full of rebellious with a high degree of aggressivity, and wins them over with an unorthodox approach. this movie is based on a real story.

 An ex-Marine who applies for a teaching job and is hired on the spot, to teach in a school when the student are divided on two group, she is assigned to work with young  "made up of special kids, passionately challenging." or how said a fellow teacher:  "These are bright kids, with little or no educational skills, and what we politely refer to as social problems, they are Rebels from hell.
 When She enters the classroom and is immediately hooted down by a scornful class of African-American and Hispanic students who call her "white bread."   One day after a terrible reception from the students, she tries unconventional methods of teaching (using karate, Bob Dylan lyrics etc) to gain the trust of the students.

She  involves them in the words of that important poet, Bob Dylan  saying (the Tambourine Man might have been a drug dealer!). Soon they're in the school library, finding connections between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas. (First prize: dinner with the teacher in the nicest restaurant in Palo Alto.)

Omg, i'm so sorry, I forgot do the questionary.
Today reading the comements and other blogs i saw that I did not the questionary, but ofcurse i have some question for you.

1° Think you that a teacher can change the his students life? yes or not? explain you answer.
2° If you have the oportunity to work with a group of rebelous students, but you don´t know that they are rebelds, to realize that students are virtually indomitable ¿what would you do?
3° ¿ how  you expect to be your firts teacher job, and you believe tha it is possible?

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about my English teacher in high school

talking whit my secundary teacher about what made he dicede become a teacher, he said me:

HENRRY BLANDÓN

For me, it was because it was something I was good at and knew I would enjoy.  I have the ability to understand a lot of material and explain it to others, and I have always enjoyed interacting with young people.

I started out to be a college professor, but I found out that what I really enjoyed was being in a classroom interacting with students.  In Bogota, at least, college professors have to write articles for scholarly journals and/or books.  I found that I did not enjoy that but that I did enjoy trying to help young people understand subjects that I enjoyed.

That is why I switched over and became a high school teacher after I got my doctorate.  One of the joys of being a teacher is getting to interact with young people.  If you are lucky, you get to become part of the lives of some pretty special people and that is a privilege that teachers enjoy much more than people in most other walks of life.

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About the song

1.  what´s the song about?

In Your Hands

2. what's your reflective point of view according to the lyrics?

I think that everyone have had a great teachers that they have inspired us to be every day better than past day. the teacher have. we as teachers have the great gift of transforming the lives of our students, whether for good or ill.

I don't know who write it but one day I heard from my mom this word:

" mediocre teacher only tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates but if u wanna be a great teacher, u have inspire to your students"

3. When have you had these kind of feeling?

ever, because always i have had great teachers, of course too bad teachers but u forget this experiences.

4. how close are u to the song? why?

The why to this question I gave on the second point, but i'll stick

Because, I think that everyone have had a great teachers that they have inspired us to be every day better than past day. the teacher have. we as teachers have the great gift of transforming the lives of our students, whether for good or ill.

5. ¿how close are you to the song? why?

completely fills me to listen up this song, the first time that I heard this song  I remembered my school time, although I am not the kind of sentimental person, almost i weep

6. What's the influence of music in school?

The music has great power. Provides a pleasant learning experience, stimulates the imagination and creativity in children. It also creates bonds between parents and children according to the rhythms and sounds that are generated in the environment.

7. What's the influence of school in music?

really I do not know what the impact of this in school, but perhaps the taste rhythms help you form groups of friends who share your musical tastes

8. whose song did you enjoy more? why?

I don't remember its name, but was shown by David, it was very funny, see these teacher shaking her booty and teaching the anaconda.

I do not know, but I think that contained a deep subliminal message

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About me

My name is Martin Pinilla, I was born in Valle Chocó, 

I am 27 years old, I teach  Basic Prymary, my first teaching job was in 2007 with the program Buen Comienzo (It is a program, which is addressed to the early childhood attention, especially in populations with some degree of vulnerability or limited economic resources). , It was a wonderful experience for me.

After these I was working in the Madre María Massarello School as spanish teacher. I too worked in Yopal Casanare, in the Panamerican School for six month, was nice but a left these job becouse the temperature was too high for me. but the school atmosphere is wonderful

my biggest holdings are being a teacher, travel and experience different places from Colombia, and being teachers I think it's going very well because I can travel to different places and if I like that place I put on resumes to work and live for a while there. I am a relaxed person, I have a younger sister, I love my mom, She is the best mom in the world.

I postponed the job  to dedicate more time to the study, every year I travel to my town to enjoy the festivities and the family atmosphere that exists in all people, I'm a little messy, I love the foods that are fried I love sharing knowledge with other persons, I enjoy talking to older people, I think that they are a trunk of knowledge, they have studied whether or not, their experiences are valuable and many of those stories told by elders have served me in different situations.

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