NEWSPAPER'S ARTICLE

I tried to look for a positive piece of news but the only I found in this searching was killings, bombs, Obama vs McKain, world economics, etc.

So I finally chose a news from Spain. A bob car exploted in a university car park in Pamplona. The Police and the daily El Pais reported that the responsibles for this attack were the separatist grout Eta, that have been trying to get the independence from Spainfor a long time. The university of Navarra had to be evacuated after being the target of these attacks before.

Days later the police arrested some members of the Eta, and in the raid they seized guns, and large quantity of explosives. Despite the group resumed its campaign of violence in 2006, they keep atacking some point in Spain.

Article taken from the BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7699503.stm

New words:

Raid: it is a surprise attack to do harm or to make a robbery. But the police force use this action to arrest criminals and to seize llegal guns, drugs and explosives.

Blast: is a strong hot wave after a explotion.

Persona poem

Marcos
Sporty, creative, happy,faithful
Husband of Maria Jose
Who loves sports, traveling, movies
Who is afraid of dangerous people, being hurt, and failing to his loved ones
Who wants to see Jesus in heaven, my first child, the cure for cancer
Resident of this momentaneous world
Huerta.

ACROSTIC

E CHOS OF SINGULAR MINDS,
S YLLABLES AND THOUGHTS TOGETHER, ARE
S OMEBODY’S CREATION
A PPLYING KNOWGLEDGE ACQUIRED,
Y ET DEPENDING ON PROFFESSOR’S CORRECTION.

Second Agumentative Essay

I will chose the topic on video games. I used to play computer games, about four or five hours a day, and I think this is a matter of risk to other young people that do not control the time or the kind of game they chose to play, violence brings more violence. Also most of the time they spend all day playing with nobody to tell them to do other thing. Parents are often absent and they do not care about what their children are doing, they just want their children to be quiet and not bother them.

Fiction is mixed with the real world and young people do not make the difference when they turn in addicts to this way of entertaining. Terrible consecuences can occur in this matter. We all have heard about kids taking a weapon to the school and killing his classmates because they were his target to acomplished the mission.

Interview

Interviewee:
Prof. Rodrigo Ramos,
English Program Coordinator,
UNACH

I had the opportunity to interview our Program Coordinator and he told me about his life, his future plans and his motivations to keep on working on the coordinations activities. He is a very accesible person and he inmediately and gently allowed me to do this interview. I hope you get to know a little bit more about this person we see daily and who is the head of our program.



1. Professor, can you tell me about your life as a child?

"Well, I was born in La Reina, Santiago. It is a very nice place with lots of parks, and itis located near the mountain range. It is between Las Condes and Peñalolen. It is a very quiet place to live, simple people, not very rich people. I have very good memories about that place."

2. Did you have good grades in English when you were a student?

"Well, i have to be honest. I had good marks when I was in the elementary school. My father helped me a lot to get these marks. He likes English very much and because of thathe was able to help me.

3. Why did you decide to study to become an English teacher?

"I did not decide to be an English teacher. I have to be honest, I started to study theology first, despite I would have liked to study medicine or nursing, but when I realized that English was part of my abilities I decided to take advantages of that, so I went to the Bio-Bio University to apply for the English program and after 5 years I received my certificate."

4. How do you like the work you are doing in this university?

"I love my job. I love what I am doing right now. I know there is a lot to do. I think that the university has to improve in all the programs it has and I am part of that goal."

5. Have you ever had other chances to work in a different place/institution?

"Yes, I have been having some offerings. Recently I received and invitation to work in Eastern Island, in Concepcion and Santiago. But I am very committed with the work that I am doing here. I was invited to work here and I am trying to do my best, and it si a very hard work."

6. What are your plans for the future?

"I would like to travel abroad. I think it is a must for every English teacher to have an experience like that. I have had the opportunity to travel to other countries in South America but it is still not the same in significance."

7. What is your main motivation to keep on working?

"I believe that every student coming here is not coming by simple chance. I thinl that God is having a plan for all the students and I think that we are part of it. We have to share an important message with them, the salvation plan, and this is apart from making them good professionals."


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Argumentative essay

In first place, for an effective argumentative essay, you need to have two opposite ideas, obviously you have to be in one side and you have to try convince the other part through arguments. This is the main idea of this essay, to try to change the others way of thinking.

In choosing a topic, you don't have to use general ideas, nor questions, nor facts. You have to write objectively, logically and respectfully. So in general, argumentative essays are a useful tool to convince others about what you think, but you really have to know how to give the correct argument to get the goal of passing along your ideas, strongly.

Wellcome to myself...

Hello myself and everyone else, I am new in this world of blogging and I reached it because the writing class in the English Program of my university. My name is Marcos Huerta and I am in third year of the English Teaching Program at the Adventist University of Chile. Well I have to be honest, I don't like writing very much as well as reading, despite I know these are powerful tools to learn better. But since I got to this place I thought it would be a fun idea to create a blog, write comments, upload pictures, I think I will enjoy this and I hope so.
I say hello to my classmates and I will be waiting for their comments to share some thoughts.