Vlog Baby & Fran

This it is our video.
A funny dialogue, recorded in a rainy day.
Enjoy it.

Places

I would like to live in this house in Orlando, Florida because it looks in perfect condition. Also it is very important to me have a beautiful view and in this case the appartment is overlooking a lake.
The appartment has wood laminate floors which are easy to clean. Moreover have enough space to be well-decoreted and furnished.
The condominium is perfectly located in a quiet palce where I can realx looking the beautiful view resting in the swimming pool.

http://orlando.craigslist.org/apa/1232770150.html

On the other hand I wouldn´t like to live in this house or room in Alaska first of all, because I don´t like the winter. Moreover this room has not enough space and it is full of antique furnitures.
I would like to live in a place where I can develop mi own style, design the distribution of my furnitures, also I don´t like the color of the carpet and neither the wooden walls.

http://anchorage.craigslist.org/roo/1232517736.html

Low-risk activities

Teachers sometimes can not imagine how important the activities are for our learning. In classes students are unmotivated and wanting to be in somewhere else or waiting for the end of the class.
These happen because most of the time teachers are guided by guidelines and do activities that aren´t close to our lives. So students don´t feel a conexion with the class and they prefer to talk with their friends, sleep, be outside or do something not related with the activities, because for them English or any subject don´t have any sense.

I believe that games can help to motivate students, because teachers need to try new ways of teaching. We need that students participate in activities, and for this schools and teachers must stop using old methods that don´t help us in anything to improve the education.

If this situation doesn´t change the education could never improve. Students in the future will be working in something not related with what they want, because never someone or something shows or says him/her that they were good and intelligent.
It is very important being always there for the students and constantly motivating them.

Education

It is exciting to listen to Dave Eggers, who proposes clear, attainable ideas to improve education.
He says that we must go to a public school and offer our help because students need a personalized help. Education will be better if each student could have one tutor or teacher, with whom they could report it and ask for help when they need it. I say this because most of the time parents don´t have enough time to help them or don´t know how to support them with their homeworks.

It is important how Dave takes the personalized education as a priority because every child has different concerns and worries. Moreover they need a suitable space to study and to concentrate, because at home they are watching tv or doing their homework without giving them importance.

It would be excellent if in the schools the number of students in each classroom decrease , because children need attention, and in their classroom these days they don´t have it. Besides if we want motivated and active students, the best alternative is that the teachers have to communicate with their students and let them know that they are important and intelligent.

Finally, here in Chile, we must incorporate these practices, because those are for the benefit of the school community and of the students.

Regards.

Eggers, Dave. "Dave Eggers Wish: Once Upon a School". TED. March 2008.

News: criminal gangs in Latin America

This news show us how criminal gangs are out of control.
In Venezuela kidnapping is a popular way to earn money these days, because gangs force their families to sell homes and properties for their rasmon. It is horrible see the statistics, because now more than one person a day is kidnapped, also the real figure could be four times higher, because more of the kidnappings go unreported.

I don´t know how they can act like that, because for them it doesn´t matter if you are a child, a woman, an elder, a baby, or if you are poor, or rich. They know that everybody even poor people can drum up thousands of dollars just for pay the rasmon.
These types of gangs exist in almost all Latin America, like Honduras and Colombia. This last one, is very popular for the guerrillas and paramilitary groups.

I think that the goverment is very flexible with the law, and that´s why kidnappings are increasing these days. The criminals know that their attitude willn´t be punished, because exsist corrupt policemen.

The courts have to be strict and need to create new laws, also need to supervise the fulfillment of the laws and every policemen. I understand that this could be difficult,
but if we want that this stops, and the people pay for their crimines, we must cooperate. The goverment needs to increase the security in the streets

I hope that this horrible big problem that concerns us as society, could change soon and not more kidappings, because all of us deserve to live with our families and friends and decide our future.

Take care.


Rory, Carroll. "Fear Grips Venezuela as even The Poor are Seized by Kidnap Gangs". The Observer. May 2009

Common mistakes

I do think after double check my blogg, and some of my classmates bloggs, that we made mistakes because we are always without time. We write faster, and sometimes we don’t read what we wrote. Most of the time, we have a lot of spelling mistakes in our writing. Also we weren’t use or we forgot to use capital letters when we have to.

I realized that we have some problems with words. We don’t know how to use it, or we write always the same words. That is a vocabulary problem, because we need to look in our dictionaries for new words, and not use all the time the same expressions.

Finally, I talked with some friends, and for us is difficult to write, because sometimes we mix ideas and we cannot develop them well.
Also we don’t know how to write one word, so that’s why we use the same expressions, verbs and words.
Now our punctuation is better we have improved in that area, I believe.
We have to still practising our writing, which is the only way to improve our skills.


See you! Bye.

Teachers TV.

I watched a video that got my attention. When we talk about racism, most believe that isn’t a topic anymore, because we are living in a new generation, with not racism discrimination. That would be great, if we think in that way, but we most be realistic. In some schools from all over the world, teachers and students have to deal with these issues “racial bullying”. How I listen in the video, schools doesn’t have a policy to deal with these problems, and teachers are really worry about it, because they doesn’t know how to react, or what to do in those situations. Racial intolerance come´s from their families. In their childhood kids tries to imitate some attitudes from their parents. So its difficult to make them change from one night to another. But in one place where they have to live with different people, from different colors and social stratum, teachers and the school may have to find one way to solve it. Because is hard to listen that one 68,3% said that their schools hasn´t strategys to combat racial intolerance, or worst sometimes teachers live from discrimination, one 10,2% have been bullying by students.

If we compare this situation with our country, we will find similatiries. We know here of several cases of discrimination in their classrooms, and isn´t just racial discrimination. Sometimes this happens, because some kids like to study, read , know a lot about one subject in the school, they look different, or don´t have enogh money.
Also here in Chile schools hasn´t a policy or rules to deal with this.
In this video the propose is to stimulate to the schools to fighting with these important facts and looking for solutions. A good way to star could be with debates, where all the students could expose their points of view. Also train to the teachers, or make a policy where teachers and students now how to react in front of these situations.

Here is the page where you can watch the interview.
http://www.teachers.tv/news/33255 (24-april-2009)


take care! bye.

Urgent suggestion for the government

Mrs. Bachelet, I am Francisca Rivas.
This communique is directed for the whole society, but has a purpose of being read for you Mrs. President and the government and find a solution.

In our country, we do not have just one relevant problem. But we understand, that we must begin to stop those who are appearing.
I am going to speak about steal in few quantities called ant steal. This type of ant steal, we can see it in supermarkets, small shops, and shops that are in the roads. If we cannot stop this situation, how can we expect to stop big crimes?. In these cases, people who usually steal there, can do it because nobody tries to stop them, or do not want to deal with thieves, because they don not feel save enoght. So thieves can steal with freedom, because no one is watching them. Or they check and the place has not security cameras, so the police could never find them.
We they check all these steps, they start to steal. They leave the shop with small amounts, when that person return to the car someone else enter to the store to steal again small amounts.
If we beging to think all those small thefts can become in something big.
So the govenmet should be concerned and establish more security cameras, security guards and police cars near. Because this type of theft could be the beginning of many new thieves in our country.

I hope that this letter could be of help, and also to inform to or society and the goverment what is happening now in our cities. We expect changes and new methods to deal with this new fashion.

Regards.

Rude Behaviour

When I`m in the subway tired of being at the university all day, I would like to get a sit to rest a moment. Also I uderstand that I am not the only one who is tired, but sometimes poeple don´t think like that and look at you, like triying to push you or sometime ask you to given the sit in a bad way.

I don`t like when people think, that they are tired and we don`t, because we just study. Practically say that we don`t deserve a sit more than them.

A good way to change this, is maybe creating some posters with rules on it and stick them in buses, just like in the subway. Also people always should ask for the sit. In this way people have some respect to others.

If we are tired and stressed, we cannot be rude with others, they don´t have the fault of our weariness

Bullying acts.

Sometimes, people think that die is the best way to resolve their problems. Their are tired of being humiliated in front of all the school, and believe that they cannot stop it. What happed with kids? Why they are acting like that with their classmates?.
It is a complicated situation, because most of the time the affected people don´t speak wiht their families or friends, so people don´t understand how they feel or what is happing with their lifes. Also how we can understand to those, who likes to see suffer.

I hope that the goberment could interfere more in their countries, taking severe punishments or creating programs for the problematic children. We have to find a way to resolve and stop this psychological and physical mistreatment, that every day it is happening with more frequency in the classrooms and works.

We cannot allow that this could continue advancing. Not more deaths for attitudes of others.







Hogg, Chris. "School bullying in Japan" BBC news (2006). Online 23 march 2009.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2006/11/061115_bullying.shtml

:D things about me

Hi! everyone, sometimes I don´t know very well how to start all this, but i´m going to try it so here I go.

I´m 20 years old, and I consider myself an honest person, that´s why it is very important for me to be surrounded by a few but honest people.
At this time, I don´t like to write many things about me on the internet, I already have one fotolog but I´m not using it right now. I prefer to call my friends or spend time with them and talk. Also, I love to go to the cinema with my boyfriend, always when I can of course. It is very important for me to share with those who I care about.

In my free time I participate in a dance team, where we train to compete in many championships during the year. Also I work helping my boyfriend at all I can. Sometimes I like to keep busy :D.


I think that´s all for now
kises :)