What is the best way to teach writing to children?to teenagers?

The best way to teach writing is leaving them to write their own stories, letters for example: show them a picture and they think a situation and create a little storie, they development their thought, teachers could help them with some words in relation with the picture and I think it could be easier and funny for children.

For teenagers I think creating a blog is a perfect idea because they enjoy with technology.

We as teachers must to be very creative fot them in each class.

*create stories

*writing letters for classmates (secret friend for christmas)

Why is writing important for an EFL teacher?

Is very important because if you write in a good way, you have a good structure about of grammar, you speak is perfect too. and as future teachers we must to be able to teach in a good way for our future students.

Opinion

1. What is your opinion about using blogs to teach "writing" in EFL classrooms?

Students can contribute a lot of knowledge and imagination through blogs, writing fun stories, doing homeworks every week, showing their skills in a different form, writing and sharing differents opinions between classmates and every time they write a comment or publish a new post then they check the language.

2. Do you like working using blogs?

Yes, is a wonderful idea working with blogs because I enjoy with the technology and I can share ideas, thoughts and give differents opinions in the other blogs of my classmates. I use my imagination and creativity in each activity.

3. What are some of the advantages of using blogs ?

I think that some advantages are: students can practice the English language through writing and between classmates can correct their spelling, grammar, etc. On the other hand students can development their imagination and creativity writing and inventing differents stories and share it in the web site.

4. What are some of the disadvantages?

A disvantage is the plagiarism because everyone found on the internet complete works of other authors and any person can take it copy and paste, in the same situation is it because many students go to the internet and search about their requirements with respect homeworks and they are doing it is because is more easy and quick but they lie for themselves.

5. Do you plan to use blogs in the future?

Is a great idea use blogs in my English class in the future, because students enjoy a lot with the technology and using the internet of it form, because I found that is a different form to teach English language and to capture the attention of the students. I want to have the necessaries resources in my work to use blogs in my future English class.

"The Gadget Girl"

1. What does she like to do on Saturdays?

She likes to invent differents things with many tools of her father.

2. What is the secret she doesn't want anyone to know?

She is afraid of electricity.

3. What does she think she does well?

Her invents very helpful to her mother in the house, she invented a sweeper machine, it works alone.

4. What is she NOT very good at doing?

Copying other invents of other people.

5. What is her favorite memory?

When your sweeper machine worked alone because it was her first invent.

6. What does this invention do?

Help her mother in the house, while she is cooking the sweeper machine it working in other place of her house making the cleanliness.

7. Who is her best friend?

Her brother Mike.

8. What does she want most in the whole world?

A machine of the happiness.

Full storie:

The girl likes invent differents things, she is long hours in the toolshed looking the differnts tools that her father have in the toolbox, but nobody know that she is afraid of electricity for this reason she ask her brother Mike who is her best friend to help her, when she want use some electric tool. One day she tried to copy an invent of her friend but it doesn´t operate.

When she invented the sweeper machine it was the great success of her because she created it to help her mother in the cleanliness and it is always in her memory.

Now she wants to invent a machine of the happiness because she think that the world need happiness.

" My imagination"

This is Karen, she is a lonely student in the American university of Chicago, Nobody knew what happened with her, why she was a lonely girl in theuniversity, she was fearful, shy and sometimes her classmates found her in the bathroom crying alone, classmates were worried for this situation and they decided talk in group to plan something for help to Karen.

One day they decided go to Karen`s house all classmates and give a great surprise, when they arrived to her house, her mother opened the door and when she saw all classmates of her daughter, she cried of emotion because she believed that her daughter never could found classmates worried for Karen, and she said:" oh!, come in, come in, sit down please!, I`m going to look for Karen´s bedroom and she went rapidly and sudenly Karen come into the living room and she began to cry, why are you crying? asked Romina, we are worried for you because you are always very lonely in the university and we wanted be your friends but you are always avoiding and we doesn´t know why, and she said: I have had never friends in my life, I am a lonely girl my only friend is my mother and she always told me about "friendship"but this is very difficult for me to make a group of friends and Romina said don´t worry because since today we are your friends, really? yeeees!! oh! this is a great day for me and never forgot it.

Now Karen and your friends are very happy over all Karen´s mother, Karen nowadays is a sociable, optimistic and very happy girl with her new friends.

An interesting article of "Times online"

Do five simple things a day to stay sane, say scientists.

I consider this article interesting because we live in a wonderful world and is very important to begin the day in a good way, positively, optimistically. For this reason I show this article for you, simple things to start the day.
If we are living with God in our hearts and minds all is better because a personal relationship with God is the only way to have true happiness.
“Waking up is always a good way to star the day”

A brief summary

Simple activities such as gardening or mending a bicycle can protect mental health and help people to lead more fulfilled and productive lives, a panel of scientists has found. People should try to connect with others, to be active, some suggestions such as “catch sight of the beautiful” and “savour the moment” are great words because we must use the maximum time in each activity.Critics of the recommendation said that the Government and health professionals ought not to be prescribing individual behaviour in this way. “The implication is that if you don’t do these banal things, you could get seriously mentally ill, and that trivialises serious mental illness.
Felicia Huppert, Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge said: “We found there are five categories of things that can make a profound difference to people’s wellbeing.
Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at the University of Lancaster, a co ordinator of the report, said: “People who choose to work flexibly are more job-satisfied, healthier and more productive.”

Steps to happiness:
Connect: Developing relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbours will enrich your life and bring you support.
Be active: Sports, hobbies such as gardening or dancing, or just a daily stroll will make you feel good and maintain mobility and fitness.
Be curious: Noting the beauty of everyday moments as well as the unusual and reflecting on them helps you to appreciate what matters to you.
Learn: Fixing a bike, learning an instrument, cooking , the challenge and satisfaction brings fun and confidence.
Give: Helping friends and strangers links your happiness to a wider community and is very rewarding.

2 new words or expressions:

Catch sight of : to see something briefly.
Well being: the state of being well, happy, healthy.

Persona poem...

Francisca

Friendly, honest, happy and funny

Who loves traveling with her friends, music and movies

Who is afraid of mice, darkness and earthquakes

Who wants to see peace in the world, Rome and England

Resident of love

...Keller

Acrostic...

Express many feelings

Sometimes can be happiness or sadness

Somebody can fall in love with these words

And never stop writing

You are discovering the wonderful world of writing.

Tv and our children, where is the limit?

Nowadays, parents do not have control what their children are doing at home, our society is involved with television, children and parents do not have communication when they are in the dining room, why?because the Tv is turn on.

The Tv is giving programs of a high level sexual and it is has not control because children have free access to see Tv in any time.

The best interview was...

I think that the best interview was of Milca because was very interesting for me, it caught my attention because I did an interview about of a teacher too.
Luis said in the interview of Milca : "I can’t imagine my life without my children", it is has vocation.

"Cell phones should be banned in schools"

This is my topic, it is very interesting and controversial in our days, I think it will very interesting....
:-)

"Interview"

Roque del Tránsito González Correa, was born on August 15th, 1957 in San Fabian de Alico. His parents were Ignacio González and Gorja Correa. He was the 4th child of his family. H e studied in San Carlos. In this place he studied primary and secondary education. Later the studied in Talca and he obtained the title of "Teacher of Music". His life was very hard because he traveled from San Carlos to Talca by train every day. His mother worked very hard to buy him materials. His father worked very hard for his other children too.

Nowadays he works in Portezuelo"Liceo Nuestra Señora del Carmen".

1. What do you think about our "roots" in our country. Are they important?

I think that young people do not have conscience about their own roots, about their ancestors. They are worried about fashion, clothes, boyfriends, girlfriends, parties, etc. Many people are embarrased to have indigenous roots. This happens because they donot have information.

2. What is your experience as a teacher of music through your life?

My experience at the beginning was very strong. When I worked in Santiago I had a bad experience, one day. When I was teaching in a school I put my briefcase on the table and inside I had my salary. My own students stole me. It was a horrible situation. Later I came back to my region and I found a job there. I have had great satisfactions as a teacher. I had a recognition for my years of service. On the other hand, I went to Germany in 2000 for a Pasantia with other teachers of the country. It was a great experience for my work and myself.

3. When you went to Germany, What new experiences did you learn?

Wow, I could see a new culture. I was in class with children of that country. We shared with teachers of Germany and Chile too. We exchanged experiences, methods for teaching, we worked as a team. I learnt to make different instruments and later I was able to teach that. It is an excellent and interesting method to teach my students and they have more interest for music. We visited some countries too as France, Spain, Austria, Eslovaquia and Denmark. This trip was a great experience for me and my curriculum too, it was a gift that I will never forget.

4. How is your relationship between you and your students?

My relationship with my students is very good. My students respect me and I respect them too. Inside and outside of the class room have good comunication. I have a workshop of music in a different. There are many children and young people in my class, they have interest in learning. Every year we have a presentation in Portezuelo with students and other guests of other places. We have payadores, Folk groups, "cantoras", all about folk music. It is called "Encuentro de Payadores".

5. Tell me more about "Encuentro de Payadores"

Every year the "Encuentro de Payadores"is dedicated to an important representative of folk. This year was Victor Jara. This event started in 1991. There are 2 days when people show their faith to the virgin and they give thanks for the harvest. At the beginning they sing to the divine in the temple. The most important figure is the virgin. The "cantores" sing during the night in a vigil that is followed by many people.

The second day the "cantores" sing to the human where the payadores show their popular talents.

6. If you could make some changes in your class or improve something, what changes would you make and why?

I would like that every student could have their own instrument and the class could be more personal because when you have a lot of students in a class, you must have all the students busy working. However, this is not my problem because I know how manage to a class. I would like to have more instruments not only guitars and flutes. I would like to organize an orchestra with violins, violas, double basses, etc. but it´s still a project.

"Argumentative Essay"

* I learnt that argumentative essay is a very good way to that the students have the capacities to think logically for themselves.

* People have differents thoughts and opinions but can offer strong reasons in base to their arguments.

* Argumentative essay try to convince to the reader of change his point of view and share it with the writer

"Myself"

Hi my name is Francisca Keller, I´m 25 years old and I´m an english student. my family live in Santiago, I love them.

This blog have been created to demonstrate my abilities in writing, I could express my differents thoughts, learn of other blogs, manage internet like other form to learn english in a excellent form and demonstrate a good composition in english with my commentary and presentations.

Francisca