Hope you are doing well! Welcome to our first activity. Please, post your comments before August 15th, 8 p.m!
1. Write a short self-presentation (name, interests, hobbies, etc).
2. Answer the following questions with your own ideas:
* Which are your strengths and weaknesses as foreign language learner?
* Which are your strengths and weaknesses when reading?
* Which are your strengths and weaknesses when writing?
* What strategies you do think you can use to foster your language learning, especially when talking about reading and writing skills?
3. Write a short and creative composition (120 words at least), using PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE in its affirmative and negative form.
3. Write a short and creative composition (120 words at least), using PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE in its affirmative and negative form.
4. Include linking words, such as: because of, in addition, on the other hand, to sum up. Use them in a coherent way in your text.
5. Language use / writing aspects:
- Present simple sentence structure.
- Useful vocabulary you need to express your ideas.
- Grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, etc.
All your writings will be welcome as comments... Thanks for participating!
- Grammar, spelling, punctuation rules, etc.
All your writings will be welcome as comments... Thanks for participating!
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ReplyDeleteOnce a beautiful couple had a little girl and her name is Sherly Triana. She doesn't like her name for this reason she always say: "Hello, my name is Johana!". She is 19 years old and even she was born in Sogamoso she lives in tunja right now. She is the youngest in the family and loves her family, her sisters' name are Andrea and Magaly and her brothers' name are Juan and Deybit. They care so much for their little sister. When She grew up she decided to study language modern and She identified her strengths and weakness in that. Currently She makes a list about different aspects in her learning. She says:
Delete- My strengths are pronunciation, perseverance, responsibility. When I write I try to use the correct words although I have some shortcomings with listening, speaking because I have a few vocabulary. Also the punctuation and the structures are so difficult for me. For that reason I need to propose me study more vocabulary, look for structures in english , then learn about rules of punctuation, work in the stress of words and finally practice at home with some exercises.
After all the little girl began to do everything that she proposed do.
1. I´m Johana Saavedra. I was born in villa de Leyva on December 5th 1992. Nowadays I live in Tunja in Gaitan neighborhood. I´m student of modern languages. My favorite color is blue. I like to pop and rock English music. In my free time, I like drawing, watching TV. My favorite singer is Rihanna, my favorite groups are Camila and sin Bandera. I like to play volleyball and basketball.my hobbies are going shopping, dancing and sleeping. I dislike lies and the people that smoke. I feel fear of snakes and darkness. My nickname is nanis.
ReplyDeleteMy father´s names is Heriberto Saavedra, he is forty-eight years old. My mother´s names is Maria Saenz, she is fifty-eight years old. I have three sisters and two brothers, their names are Lucia, Rocio, Sandra, Alejandro and Carlos.
2 - My strengths like a foreign language learner are pronunciation, I like work as a team, I am perseverance also I accept and corrected my mistakes but I have weaknesses in oral expression, listening and writing. I´m perfectionist.
- My strengths when I read are pronunciation, I have some problems in fluency and interpretation of punctuation signs.
- When I write I try to use new and unknown vocabulary, my weaknesses are use correctly the grammatical structures and manner questions.
- Moreover the class and tutorials my strategies are watch movies and programs in the foreign language, moreover I would like make writing activities, read books and listening to music.
3 - Passion of Ninny
Ninny lives in California .Ninny plays on her high school basketball team, and she loves basketball. She wants to play one day with the Yankees in New York. Ninny things about basketball all time.
Ninny´s parents have a little souvenir store on the beach. On the weekends, Ninny has a part-time job there. She sells souvenirs to tourist, and she talk them about the basketball. Ninny and her parents have a problem. Her parents want that Ninny to be a psychologist in a hospital but ninny doesn´t think about it because of her passion. She doesn´t read books, moreover she doesn´t like study. She is only interested in travel to New York to meet Yankees; however, she would study physical education.
Good day teacher:
ReplyDelete1 MY SHORT PRESENTATION
My name is Nury Alejandra Sánchez, I’m studying modern languages ( third semester), I’m 18 years old and I’m from Cundinamarca. i like to watch TV, i like to travel to the other towns and dancing to tropical music. i dislike rock and metal music i hate it, and i don't like to watch films of terror. My favorite hobby is to play with my little nephew and visit my family.
2 MY ANSWERS
• My strengths as foreign language learner are: the activities in class, writing is acceptable and a bit of pronunciation, but my weaknesses are: poor reading comprehension, low level in listen exercises and difficulty in oral discourse.
• My strengths and when reading are: know vocabulary if the text is easy but my
Weaknesses are many because I don’t have the habit of reading and there are many strange words in some texts.
• My strengths when writing are: the good composition and write using new words and logic but my Weaknesses are: express ideas incorrectly, do not use the connectors and difficulty with respect to the punctuation.
• The strategies that I can use to improve these weaknesses are: learn many unknown words, listen more listening exercises and start to read more books and texts about the modern and interesting things.
3 MY COMPOSITION
Colombia is a really beautiful country that is full of wonderful things for example biodiversity of birds and fish besides of the spectacular beaches that are on the pacific and Caribbean coast and also Colombia is rich in natural resources, and its main exports include mineral fuels, oils, coffee, meat, cereals and vegetable oils, cotton, etc. On the other hand “tejo” is a Colombia´s national sport it is a team sport and is very famous in Cundinamarca and Boyacá.
Colombian music with special relevance are the cumbia, vallenato, joropo, traditional salsa, salsa urbana, bambuco, regaetone, pop, champeta and the classical music consequently Shakira and Juanes are two of the most well-known Colombian musicians internationally. For these reasons our country is rich in culture, diversity and natural resources.
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ReplyDeletemy name is Dayan Avila, i was born in paipa, i live in paipa but some times i go to yopal Because my parents now live in thiy city, i love my brother, I is one years old, he is my support and my favorite partner, i like do sports in specialty extrems sports, volleyball and soccer, i like dance, i love salsa music, i hate the rats, i don like cook, but i think in ever smile to the treatment lifesiempre concentirlo and my mma says Lhaga not because it will be a child malcriado.algunas but sometimes I try imposibleel is very beautiful, but my other sister is very jealous she just wants to be your babysitter and I will not let him upload or talk.
ReplyDeletemy strengths are that I understand what is written, I can read it easily and I love languages so I try to strive to improve every day.
my weaknesses are that I can not fully understand when someone tells me my listening is not optimal and partial when I get nervous so I get confused.
improvement strategies are my practice and do creative activities to remember what I learn every day, also see yescuchar movies music, attend college club to learn from others and find some tutor who guide me and I assign additional activities apliar what you learn.
when reading I plan to implement strategies like repeat in a mirror and the fear to lose so go mejoando pronunciation.
concentirlo and always try my mma Lhaga says no because it will be a child malcriado.algunas but sometimes I try imposibleel is very beautiful, but my other sister is very jealous she just wants to be your babysitter and I will not let him load or talk.
My name is Vanesa Diaz i am eihgteen years old. i am from Duitama. My favorite Singer is Santiago cruz.My favorite song is Desde Lejos.In my free time i like read some magazines, listen to classical music and go shopping. my interests are finish my undergraduate program and visit otrer country for know new cultures. i hate the horror movies and liar people.
ReplyDeletemy strengths can be easily understand the general ideas either when I speak or when I read and this allows me to express myself. and my weaknesses are the correct grammatical structure because when i tryto do it some times i am felt confused. another weakness is my vocabulary is not extensive so I get confused a little while reading or trying to write.
otra debilidades que no tengo amplio conocimiento en fonetica asi que no tengo una buena pronunciacion y miacento es muy irregular. esdecir my pronunciacion no es adecuada.
I think that a strategy can be every day and keep a journal escribir the new words that i learning and read estos apuntesevery single dayfor do not forget it. also be practicing reading and escrituraen company of a person who can correct my mistakes.
MARIA ALEJANDRA RIVERA.
she is two years old, she lives in Duitama, she loves her family and me. also she likes play with her toys, she has a lot of its. she does not think in her little brother becouse she always wants to consent her. she eats ice cream and chocolate, but she does not like eat vegetable and coffe. she hates the clowns and the big dogs.she does not like sleep. she wants to be a pilot. she loves dance and sing kisd songs. She ikes that her mom reads stories for kisd to animals and princess and adventures os girls as beautifull as she.
ReplyDelete1. My name is Lorena Ruiz. I was born in soata. I am 20 years old. My birthday is on february 6th. I live in tunja one year ago. I studied at Normal school. I like to listen to music and I like to dance. Also I love babies and I like the nature and animals. On the other hand I hate cows and vaccines. I can not stand the lies, I frightened of highs too. My Mother`s name is Elena. She is 43 years old. She is from soata. She is a housewife. She likes the garden and she likes walking in the forest. My father`s name is Jairo. He is 48 years old. He is mechanical. He likes to talk a lot. I have got one Brother. He is 17 years old. He studies pure mathematics. He is a crazy guy.
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My strength as a learner of a foreign language is to learn the structure of time and part of gramar and my weakness is speaking fluently.
My strength when I Read is the pronunciation and my weakness are sometimes it is difficult for me to understand what I read and express my ideas clearly.
My strength when I write is the structure and my weakness is I do not know that words use depending on context.
First of all not learn much thematic not be very useful for our performance as a teacher, then be very disciplined and committed to our own learning. On the other hand correct my mistakes for myself with the orientation of teachers and develop enough exercises to help improve reading and writing skills like to listen to music, reading magazines, newspapers, articles and watch movies or documentaries in English.
3. I get up to go to work and artificial life marks the world and no walks, and no runs, few seek to preserve the custom of human; I see how young communicate through the internet and leave on one side face to face communication.
Everyone goes on their motorcycles, they travel to foreign countries in search of intelligent machines that provide them their jobs while they are locked in the world of fantasy; because of this they do not matter their thinking and growth as individuals but their physical appearance and money to help highlight their existence in that bubble which they are immersed. These people do not matter waste the money, not learning new things. To sum up the above we see a particular case like susy a beautiful girl who does not see sense to her life and she does not think a "normal" world, but she is carried away by artificial life in which it is located.
MY PERSONAL PRESENTATION IS:
ReplyDeleteMy name is Yina Elizabeth Avila. I am nineteen years old. I was born in Tunja; my birthday is on January 1st. I am from Còmbita but I am living in Tunja. My mother´s name Benilda Rivera and my sister´s name Lizeth Avila. I am studying Modern Languages. My favorite song is One in a Million Bosson. And my interests are: I learn the new things that are very important for me lifetime and I share with my friends news experiences. After I become in a great teacher that with my help the students got to learn English and Spanish very easy. So I change the mentality of many students about to be a teacher. Likewise I share all moments with my mother and my sister and I am a support for my mother in the future. Therefore I give an example for my descendents. My hobbies are: I listen to English music. I watch the romantic movies. I read the books. I call my friends. I visit my family and I study a little English.
MY STREGHT AND WEAKNESS
My strength is: when I started to write a story of love and listen to music of romantic. Because of that I imagine that I can write and my spelling is better. My strength is to write and to read. My weakness is: when I started to listen some conversation and I don`t understand so much.
My strength is: When I start to read some stories, reading and articles. I felt that I understand some sentences.
My strength is: when I start to write a story of love, I turn on the English romantic music, I felt that I imagined in this moment that the singer is singing.
I think that some strategies for advance in English language learning are:
I practice with more frequency the language and I talk with my friend in English. I watch the movies and other programs for learn more vocabulary and pronunciation. Finally I write and read to every day for advance with the learning and I listening many conversations for steed up the learning.
MY STORY: TO REACH A STAR
Arthur is a king. He marries with Mayerly. She is happy because of she is pregnant. After de three days, her daughter borns but the king is in the forest pick up many flowers for your wife. Arthur arrives to his kingdom. Then they decide that her daughter´s name Jacqueline.
When Jacqueline has fifteen years old, their parents organize to party. In that moment she knows a young man. He is Alex but when his father knows about this. He doesn´t want that her daughter will marry with him. Because his father thinks that her daughter only will marry with other princess and no with a singer.
When Jacqueline knows, she decided to escape for away, and she marries with him. Likewise she reaches a star “the love”.
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ReplyDeleteMy full name is Jairo Alberto Ruiz Ropero. I am 23 years old. I am from Arcabuco, a little town on the road towards Moniquira. Its wheather is cold the most days of the year. There live my parents, I visit them every weekend when I finish my classes in the university.
About the hobbies, I like to do a lot of things. For example, I like to read poetry and novel books, especially the Spanish Poetry, but nowadays I don’t do it, because to read don’t let me time for the studies and you know that the university is first!. Also I like to walk in free time for anywhere, to drink coffee(this is a of my favorites activities and I do it about 3 or 5 time per day), to listen to music, to meet new people and learning new things.
I have a lot of interests, all the things that the world has I would like to taste, the good things and the bad things, because I consider that I can do all if I really want , therefore I won’t write my interests(I will waste the English language).
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I think that my main weakness is the laziness, because it doesn’t let me to show the best I have. Also the speaking and listening, because of English has more sounds that Spanish and so difficult to acquire them in short time.
My fortitudes are several: I like the English, I have a good memory, a of the most difficult language to learn is the Spanish and you know it you could talk even to the rocks, all the time I am making connections between my mother tongue and the English, from my point of view the English grammar is easier than other grammars.
My weaknesses when I have to read are: I don’t like to read anything, I prefer literature than other kind of readings. If I don’t like the reading I don’t finish it.
On the other hand, I have a lot of fortitudes, I like to read and I can finish long readings.
I use the dictionary, I search information about the author of the work and it gives a context for understanding better what I read, and finally I try to read the reading at less twice if I can.
In the moment of writing my weaknesses are:
I don’t use very well the puntation.
I don’t have cohesion for writing.
It’s difficult to me express my ideas in a clear way.
I never write.
I have problems with the English syntax.
When I write in English I think of Spanish so I write “weird things”
In the moment of writing my fortitudes are:
I write each text at less 3 times.
I possess a strong imagination.
The strategies that I consider necessary to encourage my skills in reading and writing are going to be :
To study the English grammar for knowing better its use in the language.
To read different kinds text in English with intention of learning the syntax and increase my vocabulary.
To write short texts and show them to my teacher and English assistant with objective to get better this skill.
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ReplyDeleteSOMETHING ABOUT THE PLACE I LIVE by Jairo Alberto Ruiz
I live in San Rafael, a neighborhood located in the west of the Tunja City. In San Rafael live in a hospitable apartment in company of 3 friends. They are from Arcabuco and study in the university like me. Their names are: Esteban, Rhonald and David.
Our apartment has 4 bedrooms, a kitchen and a lounge where we talk sometimes at nights or listen to music.
Each bedroom has a name, the Esteban’s bedroom is called “Estebandria”; the bedroom whose owner is Rhonald is known like “Rhonaldlandia” ; the bedroom where David sleeps until the sun raises is called “Davidchiropolis” and, finally, my bedroom is merely the Jairo’s bedroom.
On Friday we usually clean the apartment, but not we all together carry out with our duty of keeping this place in perfect conditions. For example, Esteban always has to wash the bathroom or sweep the lounge, but he doesn’t do anything.
The house where we live, it has the floors, we live in the second floor and the owners in the first. Until last semester the third floor was empty, but in the first days of this month a family arrived. Family has a small dog called “Luckey”, but we call it “Chukey” because, this shaggy is completely a nightmare. It barks all the days and for anything, and even though it has tried to bite us.
“Chukey” really isn’t a bad being, but we are tired of it. Because of this Esteban says that he’s going to buy “Campeón” and gives to it or kicks it in the jaw and break its teeth. However, we expect “Chukey” changes its terrible behavior for what Esteban doesn’t hurt it.
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ReplyDeleteHey everybody!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Yaira Urrego, I was born in Monteria- Córdoba but I live in Duitama-Boyacá. I’m Christian. I’m seventeen years old and in this moment, I’m a modern languages student on the UPTC, I’m in third semester; I study this ungraduated program because I like to teach and really I like to travel around the world and know other cultures and specially, I want to be a teacher. On other hand, I like to listen music, share with my family and my friends, also, I like playing with my siblings and friends. Moreover, I like to watch comedy-romantic movies, read books; my favorite book is “The fault in our stars” by John Green.
On the other hand, my strengths as a foreign language learner are: my responsibility and dedication, because I like to improve my knowledge and also, I want to learn more every day; but my weaknesses is that I often have some problems with my ideas, because it isn’t clear; In addition, I sometimes don’t know some vocabulary; Also, I don’t take into account the punctuation marks; for these reasons sometimes, I don’t have an excellent writing. However I try to improve my weaknesses for getting excellent results.
To sum up, I believe that for fostering my language learning, I need listen music, watch TV and movies in English, search about the language grammar, also, search new vocabulary and practice.
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ReplyDelete1. Write a short self-presentation (name, interests, hobbies, etc.).
ReplyDeleteMy name is Karina, I’m 19 years old and I come from Garagoa. I like dancing, listening to music and going out with my friends, but I rarely go out in Tunja, I prefer to go out when I am in Garagoa because that is a town very welcoming.
On the other hand, my interests are to finish my studies and can be a great professional, so, my parents will be proud of me and I will be able to help them. Also, I would like to travel around the world because it’s good to learn new things and meet different people. Finally, I hope to achieve all my dreams and be better every day.
2. Answer the following questions with your own ideas:
* Which are your strengths and weaknesses as foreign language learner?
My strengths are:
I am good in grammar, it’s easy for me because I remember the structures and the tenses easily. Also, when I read, my mind memorizes more information such as words, their means and uses.
My weaknesses are:
Speaking and listening because many times, it’s hard for me to understand some words and other times, I can’t speak well because the nervous kills me and I am afraid of making mistakes.
* Which are your strengths and weaknesses when reading?
My strengths are:
When I am reading, it’s easy for me to understand the readings and obtain ideas.
My weaknesses are:
When I am reading in a loud voice, some times, I don’t know how to pronounce some words and other times, I forget the punctuation.
* Which are your strengths and weaknesses when writing?
My strengths are:
When I am writing, it’s easy for me to understand the tenses and use the structures.
My weaknesses are:
Many times, when I am writing, I don’t know where I must put the punctuation or what linking words I must use in the sentences.
* What strategies you do think you can use to foster your language learning, especially when talking about reading and writing skills?
I think it is good to start reading simple readings and after, selecting readings more complex. Also, I can select interesting readings or lyrics.
In according to writing skills, I think it will be good to make coherent sentences but those sentences are simple. Also, it will be good to use many synonymous in order to avoid to repeat the same words and so, I can make a list of new vocabulary in order to use when I need it.
My name is Monica Corredor, I am 24 years old. I was born on March 2 in 1990, in Sogamoso, Boyacá. I live in Paipa since I was a baby. I'm tall, thin, my eyes are brown and my hair is black. I like animals especially the hamster, but I hate snakes. Besides, I like cooking, watching television and listening to music. I hate irresponsible people. My family is composed for my son who I adore and love with all my heart; my father, two brothers and one sister. Unfortunately, my mother died four years ago. As for my skills, I am an intelligent, responsible person, I like to draw and learn languages.
ReplyDeleteToday, I study modern languages. I like my career because teaching makes us better people. My expectations are to be a good teacher and learn English very well, but I know I have too many weaknesses as speaking, because I need to work more on my self-confidence to have more fluidity. My strength is grammar and reading because I have good pronunciation. When I write texts in English I see some weaknesses such as: lack of vocabulary and use of connectors, is for this reason that I need to practice and read more.
Finally, to learn to write and express myself in a foreign language, I need to study and put into practice what I learned.
Hi! My name is Emmanuel Sepulveda. I’m nineteen years old, I’m from Tunja. I like watching horror movies, listening music. I want to become a teacher because I want to learn about a lot of cultures and teach mine at the same time. In the future I want to visit New Orleans, Louisiana especially “the French quarter” because it has a lot of interesting things that I want to find.
ReplyDeleteI think that my strengths as a foreign language learner are the pronunciation that I have most of the time. Also, I understand when someone is telling me something, when I’m reading or writing. In the other hand, my weaknesses are for instants when I’m talking with someone I do some grammatical mistakes like the rules of the tense that I’m talking or when I change the time unnecessarily and sometimes I can’t understand some accents.
My strengths when I’m reading are the identification of the topic in the text that I’m reading, the compression of the text and my weaknesses are that sometimes I don’t know some verbs and this difficult the total compression of the text.
Probably my strengths when I’m writing are the easily manage of the tenses, in contrast my weakness are the order that I write my ideas and the use of some vocabulary.
It’s always is necessary knowing a lot of vocabulary when you’re learning a foreign language, you can learn a lot of things reading stories and searching the unknown words. In the other hand you can start to write a diary in English and you’ll learn how to express your opinions and ideas in a different way.
Arthur is kidnapped:
This is the story of a boy called Arthur, he’s a normal student but one common day he is kidnapped by an unknown girl that want to know him, but she was pretty shy, for that reason she didn’t talk with him before but she really wanted meet him.
He’s very scared because he thinks that he will die but he doesn’t know that the abductor is the girl who Arthur always wanted to know but he was very shy to talk her. When the abductor puts her mask out Arthur looks up and he can see a black, beautiful, long hair and a pair of green eyes looking at him, he felt so happy to be kidnapped.
They both talked between them about their feeling and the girl explained him why she did that.
Moral of a fable: be honest everytime or probably you could be kidnapped
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ReplyDeleteI am Sergio Fonseca, I am nineteen and I am from Duitama.
Since I was fourteen I have been interested in the English language, for that reason I decided to study languages.
I want to learn English language, because I know languages open many doors around the world and I wish to travel abroad, due to I hope to learn about different cultures.
I love football soccer, therefore I like playing soccer, watching soccer on TV and playing videogames about soccer.
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Which are the strengths and weaknesses foreign language learner?
I think I am able to learn English very fast, but I need getting more vocabulary and practicing my speaking.
Which are the strengths and weaknesses when reading?
When I read English readings, I can get the main idea from the text easily, but sometimes I find unknown words and that makes me feel confused.
Which are the strengths and weaknesses when writing?
When I write, I understand the English language grammar, but I need to learn more about that, also I hope to learn more vocabulary than I know.
What strategies do you think you can use to foster your language learning, especially when talking about reading and writing skills?
I think reading is the best way to improve my English as I can learn a lot of unknown vocabulary and the correct use of the English words.
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In a world in white and black, there is a strange man, because he is the only person who has colors in his body, but though he is the most colorful man over the world, he is not happy due to he is in love for a beautiful white woman. He doesn’t know what to do to win her heart. He tries to call her attention doing poetry and writing songs to her, but nothing works. So he decides to paint a picture for her, but the only colors in the world are in his body. He takes the yellow color from his hair, the blue color from his eyes and the red color from his blood. He finishes the work of art for his lover. When he goes to carry the picture to the beautiful white woman, he realizes she kisses a black man. Therefore he starts to feel bad and he breaks the picture. Then, all of the colors start to spill around the world until the colorful man dies.
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ReplyDelete1. My full name is Maria Angelica Cely Duque, I'm 21 years old. I was born in Cali, but I have lived in Duitama for 10 years. I studied from 7th to 11th grade at La Presentacion School there. When I finished high school I worked for at least one year , I also studied dentistry at Universidad Nacional de Colombia during one year. I am currently on third semester of modern languages at Uptc Tunja.
ReplyDeleteI like to watch good films, tv series (TWD), to read novels, I really enjoy spending my time with my friends, singing at the shower (hahaha). I know how to cook but definetly I don't like it.
I really love study English Language and I hope to become an excellent teacher to help people to learn it too. I feel that I'm on the right track.
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2.1. I would say my strengths as a foreing language learner is my forward to learn and my liking for english language. Because since I was a kid a hahave been intersting for learn the language. I consider that one advantage that I have is my self-taugth learnig.on the other hand I think that I need to keep practicing even more my grammar and listenig.
2.2. When I read out loud I have good pronunciation, but most of the times I am more aware of how I speak instead of what I am reading.
2.3 When I write I’m able to express my ideas in order to make writing compositions and one of my weaknesses is the unknow vocabulary for my .
2.4. Personally I will ask for help from native english speaking countres when I don’t understand how to write something, because they know what is the correct use of english grammar
3.0. I’m jumping between dreams and reality. Short periods of time and other longers. I live in an infinity duality. between hello and good bye. Sometimes angel, many thers demon. These days I have been living in this duality, moving from one side to another easily.
I can cross the flimsy line between poles. However my strength is not enough to keep my wings in dreams.
How much our desicions can weigh?
Even more when you have to chosse one way between thousands os paths that life plotten infron of you.
After all, I want to know if someone can say that chosse one of them is easy.
Please, teach me! Help me to understand why we must give up what we want for what we should do.
Therefore, help me to swallow the lump in my throat, the rage an helplessness of know that I have to cut off a dream for standing in reality.
Hi, I’m johnatan alejandro, I’m twenty two I was born on 7 th of august in Duitama, I like to cook new dishes, like crepes with aguardiente and things like this, I like to play drum, to draw anime and specially to watch anime, my prefer anime is naruto, I like listening rock and indie music, my favorite indie bans is arctic monkeys, I like his song do I wanna love and my favorites bands to rock is my chemical romance and blink 182 also I like the electronic music. One of my most important interests is learn English and Japanese, I like to know about Japanese culture, one of my great dreams is travel to japan.
ReplyDeleteI have one sister, she is valentine, she and is six years old, I love so much because she is so little, also I have one brother, he is Crisitian and he is nineteen years old, he is finishing the school, my father is Carlos, he is a welder, and my mom is Marleny, she works in a restaurant
My strengths is when I´m reading, for me the most easy is the reading because I like to watch films and anime, and when I looked this I try to listen in english to improve my knowledge, in the other hand the most hard for me is try to understand, when I heard songs I try to identify the lyric but I can´t, it´s so hard for me.
I think that one of my strengths Is reading, because I have knowledge about the pronunciation of the sentences, I don’t know all the words, but I think that I know some of them.
When I a writing my strength is that I know some phrasal verbs and some verbs but the difficult when I try to write is found the adequate form to make the sentences, the syntax, also another weakness is found the correct form to express my ideas.
I think that the most important skill is try to use the English all time, when you speak with your friends, in the university and if you can in the street, in the other hand, if you can listen music in English you can grows up your vocabulary and understand more easily when a person speak with you. If you want to improve your writing I think that is important to read, because you can obtain more verbs and also look the correct way that we use.
This is a history about a man with a different think, this man likes read strange histories like lobo estepario, and damian, this histories are written by Herman hesse.one day when he was reading, put to think about his future, and he understood like he want to be in his future, he want to be a teacher , a great writer, he want to write about psychological histories because in his childhood he likes to watch anime about this histories. In the other hand he had other feelings about the art, this man like to play musician instruments and draw also listening classical and rock music, but one day this man supposed choose to be a teacher, but no let his love for the art, and he introduced this love in his work like a teacher, maked that the students have this love for the art and try that the students had a different live.
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Delete!!Hi everyone!!
ReplyDeleteMy name is David Medina,
Into that things that intererting me are:
The paint, draw, art in general, swim, listen the opinions of people that can teach me something more.
I think that, if you know that happen in the past you know that make for future,
My hobbies are to study about art, example spculture, paint, history,to wacht movies,I believe that it’s important to improve my skills in my own art,
THE ANSWERS
My weaknesses as foreing language learner are to learn about as use the correct structure in grammar and the words that I don’t know the meaning.
My strengths as foreing language learner are, tha I don’t have a problem whit try to speak whit native persons, I think that the most important is practice.
My weakness when I reading is the words that I don’t know it’s meaning.
My strengths when I reading are the speed to learn and remember the new words that I learn.and my skills to capture the ideas in the text.
My weakness when I writing is the grammar, all kinds of those concepts are little complex to me, I know that those conceps are necessaries ,but I’m a little lazy in this aspect.
My strengths when I writing, I think that the creative ideas and concepts that it’s the most important of course without excluding grammar.
I believe the better strategies to improve the knowledges are the interaction whit the situations that put pressure on the person and created the need to undestand the language to survive, on the other hand, to improve in the skliis about read and write it’s important to practice all time.
I believe that when one person begin the learning of a new language is importat that he knows his weaknesses and strengths, because this is the better way to improve his skills, example my weaknesses are the grammar and writting, I know that if I practice reading one text o chapter by day after that my skills will be better, on the other hand I think that I’m good to speak also listen, a very important aspect in people is to feel afraid of being rejected by others for that reason they don’t have much confidence when they talk. Therefore the most important in life is practice all time when you can do it and don’t be afraid when new things came to us.
Hello, my name is Yuri Yomali Nova Pita, I am 19 years old. I am from Malaga - Santander, but I live in Tunja. I am student of Modern Language in the UPTC, I like to play basketball, ride a horse, listen to music, watch TV, read and surf on internet. My interests in this subject are: read and can understand the different activities, learn new vocabulary, write more in English and speak English more.
ReplyDeleteMy strengths when I learn a language are: My responsibility, dedication, effort, and discipline in class and outside of class. My weaknesses when I learn a language are: understand when someone speaks in English, because of that speak very fast, my lack of grammar, my weaknesses when i read i don´t know many vocabulary. I often can't express my ideas To sump up, is important to know that each person can use different strategies to improve their learning ,And finally, I always think that, I must practice my pronunciation, the vocabulary that I have learned, with more often, to learn new vocabulary every day and practice this as how future professional.
hello
ReplyDeleteMy name is Angel Ponguta
I´m a student of Modern Languages at uptc, My interIts are to hear licensed in Moderrn Languages an speak a good English level and mintonation , to be and exellent taecher , so I can become an oustanding profesional.
On the o ther hand my like hobbies are:
I like walking in the montains , I also like cooking for my family because I love them, but what I do not like arrogant peoples and airheard ,too, I don´t like to get up early every day because , I am a bit lazy bisides this , I don’t like to have problems, because I’m very pacific
About my family
I have four brothers and three sister . I am the youngest son, I’m studying , but, my brothers work for their families and, in the university I have sisters friends ,their name are : Johana , Roos,Lorena and laura
About my carrer Modern Languages
I am a student of third semester of Modern Lenguages , my strength as foreing languages as foreing Languages learner are to be very strong and patient, also .I like to review.
I write in English because I don’t have enough
To sum up
I can be a good Language teacher that is my passion
Thank you
My name is Yamile Perez, I am twenty one years old, I was born on march twenty seventh, I am from Mongua , but I live in Tunja, I studied at Colegio Lisandro Cely in Mongua, right now I am studying modern languages at Uptc, my parents’ names are Manuel and Nelly, they are living in Mongua, I have four sisters and my young sisters are twins , they are fifteen years old, besides I have a daughter, she is tree years old, her name is Danna Fernanda; I like to listen to music, teach to my daughter English, and ride bicycle, I don’t like the envious and lying people.
ReplyDeleteMY ANSWERS
1 My weaknesses as foreign A language learned, are perhaps, don’t give the importance necessary to the practice furthermore in my free time, beside I still can’t have control the nerves when i have that make oral presentation; my strengths are the learning of new words look up in the dictionary and try to speak with my classmates in English because it help me to make correction of mistakes and learned the use in a correct way.
2 My weaknesses when I read are, don’t have complete concentration in the moment of making a reading then it cause that I have even so much times to can understand well ; my strengths are choose a new vocabulary and traduce it, after that try of memorize it.
3 My weaknesses when I write are, the lack of inspiration, it is because, sometimes I don’t have the state of mind, the few knowledge of vocabulary and the use the words in wrong way; my strength is the use of new vocabulary and prepositions.
4 A good strategy is listen to music but watch the lyric, because of in the moment of read we learn the pronunciation and new words and the another way is watch TV programs in English, besides, reading stories about our favorite topic it helps to listening an reading so much.
MY CONSTRUCTION
One of the main characteristics of a person, when it lives in a town likewise ,when study in publics schools, is the shyness, then it turns in a obstacle to develop some skills that have so much importance in any area of knowledge and it is more evident in people that are nervous, besides on that account, come up negative experiences that even can upset psychological as well as emotionally, then I think that it only can be overcome across the time, but it needs so much effort and initiative.
Hence the shyness and nervousness are psychology problems, that in the moment of making a presentation in front of audience, get cause mental Blok, therefore in that moment we get forget the main ideas , besides it produces feelings like sweating in the hands , tremble with fear and stutter , it is because of a reaction of nerve system.
In the another hand we can affirm that each person had had nervous in some moment in your life, it include teachers, singers ,even actors, the difference is the training and the preparation that they had received since little age, then, we only can try of have a good command of the shyness and improve it.
This is the story of Antonia. She is a girl with many dreams and aspirations. She is 20th. She loves play volleyball and sing. She is from Sogamoso.
ReplyDeleteOne morning in Antonia’s house, her mother and she are talking about the plans for the future and dreams of Antonia, because she was in high school and this year she would graduate. So, Antonia’s mother asks her what she would like to do in her future.
Antonia is very good student and she wants to learn a foreign language. She started to tell to her mother, her strengths and weakness for to try to convince her mother. She has a great ability like a foreign language learner. Her pronunciation is very good, besides she has a good level of listening. On the other hand she has some weakness like her speaking. She is very shy and is so difficult for her to talk in front of many people. She also has problems with his writing, because sometimes she confuses the order of the words in some sentences. Antonia started to think in some things for to decide study a foreign language. For example her skills and weakness for read and write. When she reads, her pronunciation is very good. But she needs more concentration when she reads. When she writes, her punctuation is fine. But she confuses the grammatical structures and the order of some words in different sentences. She thinks that a good strategies to improve her weakness are to read a lot and listening to music. In this way she can to learn vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Antonia explained all this to her mother and she could to study the carrier that she always wanted.
My name is Yamile Perez, I am twenty one years old, I was born on march twenty seventh, I am from Mongua , but I live in Tunja, I studied at Colegio Lisandro Cely in Mongua, right now I am studying modern languages at Uptc, my parents’ names are Manuel and Nelly, they are living in Mongua, I have four sisters and my young sisters are twins , they are fifteen years old, besides I have a daughter, she is tree years old, her name is Danna Fernanda; I like to listen to music, teach to my daughter English, and ride bicycle, I don’t like the envious and lying people.
ReplyDeleteMY ANSWERS
1 My weaknesses as foreign A language learned, are perhaps, don’t give the importance necessary to the practice furthermore in my free time, beside I still can’t have control the nerves when i have that make oral presentation; my strengths are the learning of new words look up in the dictionary and try to speak with my classmates in English because it help me to make correction of mistakes and learned the use in a correct way.
2 My weaknesses when I read are, don’t have complete concentration in the moment of making a reading then it cause that I have even so much times to can understand well ; my strengths are choose a new vocabulary and traduce it, after that try of memorize it.
3 My weaknesses when I write are, the lack of inspiration, it is because, sometimes I don’t have the state of mind, the few knowledge of vocabulary and the use the words in wrong way; my strength is the use of new vocabulary and prepositions.
4 A good strategy is listen to music but watch the lyric, because of in the moment of read we learn the pronunciation and new words and the another way is watch TV programs in English, besides, reading stories about our favorite topic it helps to listening an reading so much.
MY CONSTRUCTION
One of the main characteristics of a person, when it lives in a town likewise ,when study in publics schools, is the shyness, then it turns in a obstacle to develop some skills that have so much importance in any area of knowledge and it is more evident in people that are nervous, besides on that account, come up negative experiences that even can upset psychological as well as emotionally, then I think that it only can be overcome across the time, but it needs so much effort and initiative.
Hence the shyness and nervousness are psychology problems, that in the moment of making a presentation in front of audience, get cause mental Blok, therefore in that moment we get forget the main ideas , besides it produces feelings like sweating in the hands , tremble with fear and stutter , it is because of a reaction of nerve system.
In the another hand we can affirm that each person had had nervous in some moment in your life, it include teachers, singers ,even actors, the difference is the training and the preparation that they had received since little age, then, we only can try of have a good command of the shyness and improve it.
Little Black Ross-e
ReplyDeletemy name is Ross J. Rodríguez , I was born in Tunja ( Boyacá). I have got two sisters and one Brother, the great love of my life is my beautiful mother and my youngest sister Solanyi.
I love the mother nature and the animals, the forest, and I like to see the sundown
About my hobbies, I like to read philosophy, poetry and classic literature, I love Classic, Rock and Celtic music, my favorite hobby is writing poems, but I don´t have many times to spend in this, because I study all the day and work at night Therefore in my limited free time I make my homework.
I like the chocolate or coffee with chocolate cookies, To tell the truth, I enjoy eat so much candies, pies and cakes, in this situation I am like a child.
I am student of modern languages because I want to be an excellent teacher and travel around the world.
I don´t like bad people, rude, arrogant and I don´t like to see unhappy children. I hate the routine, watching t.v, regueton music, (this is uncultured music).
* My Strengths as foreign language learner were developed from my childhood, when I had great taste for the English music and American ballads, I always wanted to know the lyrics, in this way I learned vocabulary, besides this facilitate me to learn songs, but I think that to achieve any goal in life must be like and love what you do and what you learn.
* My Weaknesses as foreign language learner, I think is fault of my limited time available to spend in my study, and my self-learning.
* My strengths when I reading is the fluenty and my weaknesses is the punctuation.
* My strengths when I writing is to learn new vocabulary and my weaknesses is the punctuation, too, and grammar.
* The most important strategy is practice and practice and practice with dedication
Bare tree.
By Ross Madder
You here, I there,
Tree, Tragedy ...
¡sorry! I confused,
In fact you are there, I am here.
Your hands,
Your nails,
Anyway already trashed my back.
Nibbles, Language, Heart, I think this love is swallowed.
I have to sew my mouth, I have to sew your mouth, Sew your hands,
Sew my life, every future dawn of your life.
Your gloomy life and my crazy life, the color blends,
Surely two colors combined, Undoubtedly Seven colors do wonders.
Likewise I love the crazy beauty of your steps towards me in the middle of the fury.
You drink my fury and my passion,
Apparently you and me, alone,
Yours at sunset in the rubble of the old station,
I wish the life simply beautiful as hold our hands and walk down the lane,
In the same way Your hand in my hand, While I game to avoid falling.
Let's go down to the forest, to the summit of eternity.
therefore Tie your hand in one hand to my life.
Upon my death.
Stay close, I'm scared!
Do you also afraid of?
Let's take again my hand,
Walk this way,
Find us the wrinkles hang our face.
I love you just because you're the same man,
Like you loved me because as you say,
through the centuries these eyes
that you constantly watching keep the same sad look.
The look on your horizon
I always be the same name on your lip,
Always the same insane your eyes,
Always the same fruit, Although withered,
withered woman, But fruit ...
Prohibited fruit.
Always you and me.
Yours.
1. self- presentation
ReplyDeletehi, my name is Laura Beltran. I am from Puerto López but I live in Duitama Boyacá 12 years ago with my family. I study modern lenguages at UPTC in Tunja. I decided to study it because it fascinates me teaching also I want to travel to other places and learn about different cultures. I think it increased my knowledge to improve teaching method to my future students.
I like travelling. going out with my friends. all types of music. playing basketball. dogs, cats and I also like going to the cinema, of course!
2. my strengths and weaknesses as foreign language learner
Some of my most common weaknesses are that I get distracted easily. Sometimes is difficult for me to speak in public maybe because I have afraid of making mistakes and not consult my doubts.
I think one strength is that I really want to study and always I try to learn from my mistakes and I try not repeat it again.
3.my strengths and weaknesses when I reading
some weaknesses are:
I do not concentrate easily. I worry about pronunciation and lose speed in Reading.
Some strength are that I use punctuation marks correctly when I reading and
I think I have a good voice when I read and I enjoy reading.
My strengths and weaknesses when I writing
When I write my most common weakness is that I change the order of the words I also sometimes forget to put punctuation mark.
My strength when I write is that I have good ideas when writing a text and I try to write the appropriate words.
* my strategies are:
studying outside of class
more practice in reading and writing
be disciplined
To read fave books
practice with native speakers
to sum up each student is differents in terms of skills and motivation and all Have the Ability to work hard.
The more easy you get what you want will be less time you'll enjoy it. for that reason worth fighting and working hard to achieve our goals. learning something new every day and putting it into practice.
I am Felipe Mariño. Since twenty two years ago Tunja has seen me to grow up and also this city has given me its spaces for enjoying my passions that are to ride skateboarding, to hung out with friends and with its natural beauty has woken up my imagintaion to write usually short poems. In relation to my favorites books I suggest " Lo que no tiene nombre" written by: Piedad Bonnett, for those people who like the books that capture and seduce their senses.
ReplyDeleteOne of my biggest weaknesses as a foreign language learner is my limited vocabulary, due I do not study enough, and I do not parctise either. Regarding to the writing, being honest, my orthography is the same like a child from kindergarten. And about reading, I read the texts without punctuation marks.
My strengths on writing I consider that is to use the correct verb tenses, and try to write the right words according to the context. On the other hand, I think my fluency is good at reading. Respecting to the strategies to foster my learning language,worth pointing out some aspects such as: practise as much as possible with my classmates, English assistants, read books in English, listening to music too to watch movies and to write constantly.
ARE GERMAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES THE SAME COURSE...?
There is a man who studies Veterinary Medicine at the UPTC, he is in fourth semester. This University offers to any career four levels of German, French and English as a foreign language. Thus, he decides to choose the English course, although he unfortunately hates it.
The funniest of this, starts when he enters to his first English class, and in the lapse of it, while teacher is speaking in German language, (mentioning that this guy does not understand any word) he is thinking that English has changed a lot since he finished his studies at school. He keeps on being in the class. Later of ten minutes a girl student asks the teacher in Spanish : -Teacher, How should we introduce our selves?. The professor writes on the board the way that his students have to do it in German language. And after three minutes more... this boy who hates English, dares to ask: Teacher, Is this the first level of English course?. And while the teacher is staring at him in shocked, of course the rest of the students are dying laughing, the teacher reacts and says to him:- It is no English, it is German language. The distracted teen blushes and disspears as the wind. Storytelling written by: Felipe Mariño.