My good friend Paula talked about work & travel abroad, focusing on working in the United States. She named two agencies, Work and Travel and WEUSA Chile.
She explained what the requirements are in order to apply for a job in U.S.A. and the areas that students could work in the States. I know what she chose this topic, she did it because she has participated in this exchange program and she has gone to work in the States, so she knows what the benefits are if students participate in this adventure.
I think this is an excellent opportunity for young people who do not have children and can live abroad for 4 months. Without a doubt, this is a great opportunity to improve our language and learn to do everything on our own.

TeeN PReGNaNCY

MY PReSeNTaTiON!!

I was nervous after presenting and I did not want to do it haha… but it did it anyways.
It was so hard to find out an interesting topic to talk about and at the same time, a topic that catch my classmates’ attention. So I decided to talk about “teen pregnancy” but focusing it on young people who are still attending high school. According to what I found out, Health Ministry statistics show that babies born to mother between 15 and 19 years old accounted for over 15 percent of live birth in Chile.
Chile’s Health and Education Ministries hope to significantly reduce the number of unwanted teen pregnancies in the country before Chile’s 2010 bicentennial celebrations. Through educational programs and changes in public health clinics.

I did not want to talk about this topic saying this is something we have to reject or. I wanted to show that we as future teachers, it’s possible that we have to live and see this situation inside our classroom and we have to be aware of it right now and know what to react. I hope it had helped!

A SiLENT WAY...

Our last class it was only presentations. There were 8 individuals and including mine. The first person who did it was Marlene Rivera. She talked about “a Silent way”. When I heard the name, I had no idea what it meant. According to what I found in Wikipedia, “The Silent Way is an approach to language teaching designed to enable students to become independent, autonomous and responsible learners. It is part of a more general pedagogical approach to teaching and learning created by Caleb Gattegno. It is constructivist in nature, leading students to develop their own conceptual models of all the aspects of the language. The best way of achieving this is to help students to be experimental learners. The Silent Way allows this” (Wikipedia, Nov 2008). But even after reading this, it’s not completely clear what it is, I mean, if I hadn’t seen Marlene’s presentation, I couldn’t figure it out. Marlene was very clear explaining about this topic and she told us how it works. This works through colors and sounds, every sound is represented by a color and in this way when people see a color immediately associated this color to a particular sound.
According to what Marlene explained us, this method works on teaching any language.
Marlene was very clear with all the info that she said, and also I could see that she had researched about this topic because she understood very well what she was talking about.
I think I am going to search for info about it, and maybe someday try to teach using this way, who knows…

A LiTTLE ABOUT ME!

100.WHAT'S YOUR PROFILE SONG?

UFF i DON'T KNOW, IT DEPENDS ON THE PLAYLIST HAHA...

99.DO YOU HAVE A JOB?

YES

98.LAST CALL ON YOUR CELLPHONE?

MMM i THiNK iT WAS....WEUSA :S

97.DO YOU LIKE SOMEONE?

YEAH!!

96.LIE IN THE LAST 24 HRS?

NOPE

95.DO YOU PLAY GAMES?

YEP, PET SOCiETY
!
94. WHERE WAS THE LAST PLACE YOU SAW YOUR LOVED ONES?

NO ANSWER

93.WHAT ARE YOU EATING?

NOTHiNG RiGHT NOW

92.WHO/WHAT MAKES YOU MAD?

PPL WHO DONT LiSTEN...


91.WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

THE PERSON WHO i AM

90.WHAT'S YOUR NAME?

MARLENE TORO

89.WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR HAIR?
DARK BROWN

88.DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND OF THEOPPOSITE SEX YOU ALWAYS HANG WITH?

NOPE

87.DO YOU HAVE ANY SIBLINGS?

YEP, TWO SiSTERS

86.WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

iN MY DiNiNG ROOM

85.WHAT FUN THING DID YOU DO LAST WEEKEND?

NOTHiNG i GUESS

84.DID YOU DO ANYTHING TODAY?

YES, i WORKED

83.ARE YOU HAPPY?

YEAH! MOST OF THE TiME

82.WHO IS SITTING TO YOUR LEFT, RIGHT?

NO ONE

81.WHERE IS YOUR DAD RIGHT NOW?

WORKiNG i GUESS JAJAJA

80.DO YOU HAVE ANY BAND CD?

HELL YEAH.

79.WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON ON YOUR INBOX?

ViViANA

78.CLOSEST BLACK OBJECT?

MY SUNGLASSES

77.DO YOU WEAR GLASSES?

SUNGLASSES ONLY

76.DO YOU HAVE A NECKLACE?

YEAH, BUT i DONT WEAR iT.... MY HORSESHOE.. i GUESS iT'S THE SAME :(

75.DO YOU SING IN THE SHOWER?

NOPE

73.DO YOU OWN ANY PETS?

YES MY GASPAR

64.LAST PERSON TO COMMENT YOU?

DANiELA

63.DO YOU SING?

NAH, i THiNK i SUCK AT iT JAJAJAJ

62.PAST OR PRESENT LOVE?

PRESENT

61.ROCK OR RAP?

MMMM BOTH

59.WHO DID YOU LAST CALL?

MY SiSTER

58.WHO LAST TEXTED YOU?

PAULA, i GUESS

57.WHAT'S INSIDE YOUR RIGHT POCKET IN YOUR SHORT?

i DONT HAVE ANY POCKETS

54.WOULD YOU DIE FOR SOMEONE?

COULD BE

53.LATEST THING YOU'VE RECENTLY CRIED ABOUT?

HAPPINESS

52.ARE YOU JEALOUS NOW?

NOPE

51.WHAT DO YOU SMELL?

BREAD...

50.IS ANYTHING BOTHERING YOU RIGHTNOW?

YEAH

48.WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TOMORROW?

GOiNG TO WORK TiLL 630 THEN HANGiNG OUT WiTH FRAN & DANi AND THEN GOiNG TO MY BROTHER iN LAW BDAY.

47.WHAT DID YOU EAT FOR BREAKFAST?

A BON O BON LOL

46.LUNCH?

SPAGHETTI AND LETTUCE LOL

45.Dinner?

NO DiNNER YET

42.CAN YOU CLIMB A TREE?

COULD BE

37.FAVORITE NUMBERS?WHY?

ONE, JUST BECAUSE

35.DO YOU AGREE THAT 1ST LOVE NEVER DIES?

NOPE, i DONT AGREE

32. JEANS OR SWEATPANTS?

JEANS

31.WHAT SHOULD YOU BE DOING?

STUDYiNG MAYBE LMAO

30.ARE YOU GONNA DO IT?

iDK

29.DO YOU HAVE SOCKS ON?

YEP

27.HAVE YOU EVER CRIED IN FRONT OF YOUR LOVED ONES?

YEAH, BUT iT HAS NOT BEEN A GOOD iDEA...

26.WHERE DO YOU GO EVERY MORNING?

iT DEPENDS ON THE DAY... NOW GOiNG TO WORK

23.WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NAME?

NO FAVS ONES

19.TV SHOW?

MMMM ... iDK

18.DO YOU LIKE 80'S MUSIC?

NOT AT ALL

16.DO YOU DANCE TO IT?

NOPE

11.CAN YOU LICK YOUR TOE?

i CANT HAHA

10. HAVE BEEN IN AN OPPOSITE SEX RELATIONSHIP?

NOPE

9.BEEN TO COLLEGE?

YEAH

5FAVORITE COLORS?

GREEN, BLUE, THATS iT

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DAY?

FRiDAY XD

3. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO?

SOMEONE WHO LOVES ME NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS... & LA TARJETA VERDE JAJAJA

2. ARE YOU IN YOUR LOVED ONES' HEART?

NO REALLY!

1. WHO IS YOUR LOVE?

.........................

THiNGS WiLL CHANGE

Last Tuesday, Barack Obama was elected 44th President of United States of America and the first Afro-American ever to become President. He represents a lot of feelings for American people because the last eight years, their country has been target of several changes that people would not had wanted to be involved, such as 9/11 in New York City, Iraq War and recently this economic crisis that every corner of the world has started to suffer.
Lots of people wonder why the color of the new President of United States is an issue or something really important, and this is because in the 50’s and 60’s black people in the states had to fight against who discriminated them. In those years, blacks had to use different things in order not to get involved with whites, for example whites created places like restrooms, busses, schools among others, and black people were not free to do what they wanted to do. But nowadays, things seem have changed in America, and all the citizens have elected to the first Afro-American as their president.
Obama has a big job to do, his country is going through the worst crisis in the last hundred years, and it is even worse than the great depression. Besides he promised to take away all the army in Iraq as soon as he can, and finishing with this 5 years war that has no reason today. And I consider that this endless war was one of the most important reason why Obama is President today, it is because American people are tired of watching how their relatives and friends have to leave the country to go to Iraq and do not know if they are going to come back alive.
On January 20th, Obama will take over right and go to the White House, and it will happen the Martin Luther King’s day. Luther King fought for black people rights during 60’s in America, is it just a coincidence?

FEMiCiDE iS NOT FASHiONABLE

Unfortunately, every week we are witnessed how a woman is killed by her couple. Katherinne talked about this issue and she focused this topic on how a jeans brand gains money showing this abuse like something normal.
Katherinne’s performance was good. We can notice that she had investigated what she was going to talk about.
We have to know about this important topic because we are going to deal with a lot of people, who have different realities at their home, and probably one of them is living a situation of violence at home and we have no idea about it. It is important to say that Femicide starts as simple violence, it can be just verbally and then turning into physical and killing someone.

Please, be aware what is happening next to you!!!

STReSS

When the year is ending, people start suffering stress. Especially students because testes are coming soon! Nicole talked about this topic in her presentation. She focused on what teachers should do for deal with it inside the classroom, and also what we as teachers should do as well.
Nicole was very nervous, and I think she forgot to say some things because she tended to read what she had done in her slides.
I really liked her presentation because she was very clear on what she wanted to show, and as I said before she gave us some tips related to this matter.

Here we have some tips::

- Do not try to accomplish too many tasks in one day.
- Get plenty of sleep.
- Find things to laugh at; watch a funny movie, tell a joke.

GENDER BiAS

"Sitting in the same classroom, reading the same textbook, listening to the same teacher, boys and girls receive very different educations." (Sadker, 1994) In fact, upon entering school, girls perform equal to or better than boys on nearly every measure of achievement, but by the time they graduate high school or college, they have fallen behind. (Sadker, 1994)

This is an interesting topic that Fernanda talked about in her presentation.
Actually I did not know anything about it, but after Fernanda’s performance I realized that this is very common in schools.
For example where I did my professional training, students were divided into women and men at physical education class.
At the beginning, Fernanda was really nervous; she even had to stop for awhile. I think this is okay, everyone gets nervous in an oral presentation, and the most important thing is she was able to overcome it.

The words you see below are some words that Fernanda mentioned during her presentation:

mankind; humanity, humankind, human civilization.
man-made: synthetic, manufactured, artificial,imitation.
businessman: executive, wholesaler, business person.
cameraman: camera operator, technician
congressman: member of Congress, representative.
craftsman: carpenter, artisan, skilled craftworker
landlord: land owner, property manager.

iNFORMATiON TECHNOLOGY

This week was the Daniela’s turn for her individual presentation..
She talked about what she learned in a seminary that she attended the previous week. This seminary was in Finis Terrae University and it was about IT’s in Chile.
She showed us several old pictures while she was telling us about all the changes that society has lived during the last 20 years. These changes are focused on technology.
She attended this seminary because she is working on this topic for her thesis; I am in her group of thesis work by the way.
Daniela did a great presentation. She was able to talk all the time without any helper and explaining every picture that she was showing. It is important to mention that she was prepared a video for her presentation but this did not work, so she did a PTT in 5 minutes and did her presentation anyways.

DRuGS

Diego talked about this topic in his individual performance. He focused especially on what happens to the body and brain when people consume drugs. In Chile one in four adolescents between 15 and 19 years old, say that they have consumed marihuana at least once. Hence, according to this statistics, these adolescents are inside our classroom and our task is show them how bad keeping this habit could be, and all the consequences that it could bring for their lives and family as well