ABOUT THE CLASS

First, I want to thank professor for sharing your knowledge in class, I think that each course is independent and each student must have the skills to develop it.

I think if we are studying any career, each must be responsible with their homework and I think the teacher should not ask the student: when will he/she do homework? I do not know if all who are studying this race want to be a teacher but at least I do have my clear goals and if I want to be, is the only thing that interests me.

I recommend the teacher in the classroom continue to deliver all their knowledge, but you do not forget to be humble, simple and respectful for students to do the same. (This is a tip). Again I thank you for all the learning that I made in class and I consider it as a good teacher with flaws (like everyone) but he has a great knowledge regarding the area of ​​English.

Obviously, it is difficult to make a class when there is no seriousness, maturity and discipline on the part of students, but it is a challenge for everyone because we are training to be teachers and the university is what you want to achieve, I hope that everyone we achieve it.

Questions
1. Of all the classes of communicative competence. What was the class that you like most? and why?
2. How was to work with blogs?
3. Did you like competence 3? and why?

Thanks for all your comments in my blog.. ♥

FEEDBACK

INTRODUCTION

Feedback is an essential part of education and training programmes. It helps learners to maximise their potential at different stages of training, raise their awareness of strengths and areas for improvement, and identify actions to be taken to improve performance.

Feedback can be seen as informal (for example in day-to-day encounters between teachers and students or trainees, between peers or between colleagues) or formal (for example as part of written or clinical assessment). However, "there is no sharp dividing line between assessment and teaching in the area of giving feedback on learning" (Ramsden, 1992, p. 193). Feedback is part of the overall dialogue or interaction between teacher and learner, not a one-way communication.

STORY

When I was in the high school I had a great teacher called Maria Inés Segura, she was an incredible woman because she inspired me for to study english. I remember very wonderfully the classes because I was the unique student that understand to teacher and I was the traductor of the class and this was a great experience that had with the english. For this, in the others class that I had, I only studied english and I feel good.

Then, when I finished my high school, I began to study in the Marco Fidel Suárez Polytechnic and my teacher was Mauricio, personally, he is the best teacher that I had and all my few process of learning english is thanks to him, It amazing all the things that he could teach me, like phonetics and in his classes I began to have a speech fluider

All this remembrances are pleasing for me, because I love english and  I really like thanks to  mentioned teachers because they express me their confidence,their wisdom and their respect. And the principal qualities that must to be the teachers are: patience, humilty and modest. This is the most important to be a teacher.

CHANGING WORDS

HISTORY 

In my neighborhood there is a girl very beautiful named Alice. She lived with her family until she finished the high school. Her home was very beautiful and every day she cleans the window with her grandmother. When she was in her home she lived very grateful and happy, until one day she wanted to going on vacation, she takes the metro and she pays with one hundred dollars. In the travel she met a man very attractive and handsome. She thinks that he could be her husband and it would have many children whit him and she could kiss to him. She was smiling and she was very happy. Then, she went to her Hotel for to call by telephone to her mom and she tells her mom everything that she had been living. However, it began to rain with much thunder, she was looking the door, she washes with her toothbrush and her tongue and she goes to sleep. The next day when she got up, she saw that everything was a dream, so she grabbed her pencil and she began to write this history.

In class, the teacher wrote a few words on the board and in the front of these words wrote other different words. The notion was not to use the word original, if not it changes this word  by other different word that he wrote in the front of it. 

Here I give my 5 words :

Flowers: pig

Cellphone: banana

To cry: to eat boogers

Saxophone: buttocks

hat: feather

you going to make sentences with the previous words.

Questions.

1. How do you think about this activity?

2. How was  your experience with your history?

3. Which was the sentence more difficult to make? Why?

EXPERIENCES WITH HISTORY

Personally, I do not consider a good writer but when I am writing if I know the issue is easier for me to write because I organize the ideas in my mind and then I shape on the sheet, but if I I do not know the subject I have to investigate to know that I will write. Honestly I wish I could develop the writing and I hope  in the University I can achieving it, so I admire many classmates who have that ability and I want to highlight and of course mention: Lorena, to Pipe Pabón, Felipe, to David and of course Cesar. (If I miss any, I apologize and so included)

With regard to classroom activity, in other courses I had done this same activity, this is a good activity of reading, reading comprehension and writing; normally, the story is inconsistent, incomplete or meaningless, in my case they left my  topic, they name a "giant" I do not know where it came from but I know whom wrote it but it was not much that  I had to organize, I think it was easy to make the conclusions and organize the ideas and thanks to the good question I asked at the beginning, Do they remember? So my story was chosen in my group for to write it on the sheet as a final written in the paper.

Questions.

1. Do you consider a good writter? Why?

2. What would you do to improve your writing?

3. Did you like my history? why?

COLOMBIA VERY WELL

The levels of  bilingualism in Colombian students and teachers continue to preoccupy the national authorities: according to figures presented by  Test Saber 11 in what concerns the level of English of students, 89% of the institutions of Antioquia got an average below 50% of what it consider acceptable and Medellin meanwhile scored 71%. Efforts to reverse this situation were at the time the implementation of the National Bilingual Program 2004 to 2019 and currently, "Colombia very well', which will run until 2025, which seems to be the most important to be submitted reverse this situation. As a response to the challenge posed by competiveness and globalization in today´s world and order to improve the quality of education through the development of English language skills of children and youth of the country, the president of the republic and the Minister of education presented the National English Program 2015-2025 "Colombia very well". The comprehensive long term intersectoral and looking for students to use English as a tool to communicate with the world and improve their career opportunity According to the Minister of Education, Maria Fernanda Campo, the objective of this program presented is to strengthen communication skills in English for Colombians since the domain of this language "empowers citizens and allows the country inserted in global cultural dynamics and the knowledge economy."

Questions
1. Do you think that they can realize  the program "Colombia very well" in that time? Why?
2. Do you consider that B2 is sufficient  for all Colombians ? Why?
3. Do you think that at this University we are preparing to meet that goal? Why?

GRAMMAR

The grammar is important because it allows human beings can speak, to think and understand language, We use some of articulated sounds that are capable of transmitting a level of complexity and abstraction sounds. Therefore enables us to communicate, for express us ourselves to others through good writing, good pronunciation, achieving hear a deeper way our language.

This capacity is expressed through speech, in this proper use of language there are rules that are common to all languages; some rules are genetically determined and some others depend on each particular language, bringing regard to the variation there of. Further more, we observed that it has been left aside human language and reflect that we all use every day, which is the distinguishing feature of humanity. 

But today it has lost the importance of learning; right now, it exist the correct spelling, online dictionaries and programs grammatical revisions that makes our grammarly life more simple and they do not know what really is when you learn a new knowledge or when in truth is used the thought with our brains for we can think. The most important thing when learning grammar is that we have a fluidity and clarity in communication, with a good selection of words to be used (by processing the brain), choosing the right words for a good message and it do not a bad interpretation, eliminating ambiguity and increasing the clarity generating contexts for communication.

   

Questions.
1. What do you think are the grammatical errors most commonly used in humans?
2. Do you remember any grammatical mistake you've made? You can tell us these experiences?
3. How do you teach others the importance of grammar and not be completely lost in the midst of so much technology?

IDIOMS

It is a word or statement by which a thing is said or idea that gracefully  is expressed.  "This" or "the phrase" is a set of words that are given to express something that does not match the literal sense of them. The sayings (also called "sayings") express a concept similar to the idiom, sometimes difficult to distinguish between these expressions. In the Spanish language, there are a collection of those that enrich the language and it  has been appraising throughout the centuries reaching at present no less than 1500 words or idioms

An idiom  is a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. An idiom's figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms, and they occur frequently in all languages. It is estimated that there are at least twenty five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.

Examples:

* A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

This expression means you better have something that nothing, it is better to have something safe than anything something. " A bird in the hand ". It is something that one has for sure, so it is better to have a bird that none. In essence, it is good that we are not greedy and to stay with the good we have done, instead of going after something that will probably never come.

* All that glitters is not gold.

It means that not everything seem so good in fact, in other words, those things that we think are wonderful in many cases it is not so and inside involve some evil, deception or flaw.

*Blood is thicker than water.

When we say that blood is thicker than water, we claim the importance of family, able to help although there have been disagreements in the past, but mostly able to get ahead of friends or acquaintances.

*Bottoms up.

Content drinking one drink. It is used especially when it comes to alcohol. Literally to tilt the bottom of the glass of one up until empty.

* A chip off the old block.Means you are exactly like your parents or older sibling or guardian.

INTEVIEW A CLASSMATES

CLASSMATES: Juan Carvajal  and Paloma Abondano

I had the opportunity to interview two classmates and these was their interview:

Question to Juan Carvajal: Which is the reason why chose to be a teacher?    

Answer: "Well, I think that the principal reason to form as an educator is the passion for learn languages and how apply it to teaching processes and other people that love languages; with languages we can do a lot of things, principally the intercommunication between my culture with foreing cultures, it is a way of get out my world and to discover what have other places in common or different to me. Through languages teaching we give an opportunity to join students to other realities and contexts leaving them to experience with new people and new knowledge to teach students is not only give simple concepts repeating models and paradigms. It to teach is of responsability of the future and lead a group of persons able of change the world."

Question to Paloma Abondano: Which is the reason why chose to be a teacher?    

Answer: "Firstly, I never though that I was going to be  a teacher, but the life was showing me that this was for me, I think that it is in my veins like for my vitality, the  most of my family have been professors. I began studying literature in the UdeA, only for testing and thanks for this while I was there I could understand  that vocation is not something one is born, every day slowly builds. So, I can say today that I want to be a teacher because it is a work that not only trains students but who is really important and what I find valuable, we are not so much who seek out a product and as it is a profession very committed to the development of people not only in the academic subject.

Moreover, as a text I read long ago said, we are the responsible in the world. We are the makers of the world because we are who we educate other, so it depends on us whether the others do not construct, if they do not destroy or they do not  transformed his surroundings. I want to be a teacher also because it is a profession of dialogue all the time and  to talk is essential to learn. Being in touch with the other to learn form each other. As Freire says, students are not the only ones learning in the classroom, teachers also learn from our students, their arguments, their questions, etc."

Questions:

1. When you realized that your vocation was to be a teacher?

2. If you had not choosen to be a teacher, which profession would you have liked to study? Why?

3.Of all ours classmates. Who  will be a great teacher? Why?

ACTIVITY ABOUT THE MOVIE: POPE JOAN

POPE JOAN BY DONNA WOOLFOLK

Profile: For centuries, the mystery of pope Joan was lingered. The author Donna Woolfolk Cross spent seven years researching the femenine pontiff mystery and the related time period for her historical novel Pope Joan (1996). She told  a ABC primetime live that she believed that Pope Joan was a real person based on the material available, It having found over 500 chronicle accounts of its existence. Mentions of Pope Joan can be found in a book by poet Giovanni Boccaccio and many other sources and images of a female pontiff can be seen in numerous artworks, including sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini at the Basilica in St. Peters Square.

Personally, I like these films because we can see how education has evolved from our ancestors to date. Initially because education was forbidden for a woman  and they had to be a make housewife. All these thoughts is like the older people had, I think that was a wrong idea about what they thought especially for men who thought or feared that a woman the will command them.

Questions:
1. Why do you think was the reason why women could not previously studied?
2. If you lived in that time you support that thought?
3. For men: Did you consider yourself a macho man? why?
    For women: Did you consider yourself a feminist? why?

INTERVIEW

TEACHER: CARLOS GUTIERREZ PELAEZ

Question: Good afternoon teacher. How do you considered that is your labor as a teaching?

Answer: "Good afternoon, I consider that my labor as a teacher specifically like spanish language teacher of the linguistics specific of the area of linguistic, we must to  be conscious of the valor that have itself about the use of the language. The language is much more of the we think. The language for us must be considered the language more that an element and not  a tool that we use, yes?, because we took the language like a tool that we use and we cast away, we use, we  cast away  and we change and we move and we alter and we do nothing, yes? and I believe since my area, that the language is so complex and dense that this requiered of a conscious enough wide for to recognize the valor that in this exist."

ACTIVITY ABOUT THE SONG

The song that I chose is about education and the control they have children in the school and all that entails. Its name is: another brick in the wall by Pink Floyd.

I think that there are people who have a very low opinion of us; for this reason, I want to change that because we will to transform  the minds of children and we must show that we are great teachers. If feelings are about the song. I personally think that in my school I had teachers where I really did not learn in class or maybe your methodology was not good. I feel as the boys of the song.

I chose the song because I identified and I want to see a different side about education. I think and all what we like depends of the teacher and I am agree with the singer since teachers have a very bad concept; therefore, people have a context about education and there are things that we could change. I believe that there are so many activities that we can do but if I have that choose one activity, I say one that includes a video on teachers as examples of life for to be all the changes we could make in the education.


Questions about the song.
1. In your opinion as a future teacher. What was the worst song in all the exposure? Why?
2. What would do you to change the concept that  people have the bad teacher?
3. What would do you in a class for do  the same activity with the songs in a Catholic School?

PERSONAL INFORMATION

My name is Eliana López López, I am 26 years old, I live in Bello since 1990 with my parents and my siblings, before we lived in Manrique. My family is from a small town called Abriaquí that is not far from Medellín, I studied the primary School in Rosalia Suárez in Bello, I remember in fifth grade my Spanish teacher taught us the alphabet of English language. I going to be honest; at that moment, I really did not like Language English because I did not see the logic of the English alphabet. The use that has the alphabet in English is only to spell. However, when I studied in seventh grade in my English class, I could understand everything my English teacher in fifth grade told me, this was the reason to learn this language and I really love. Obviously, when I finished my high school I prepared the test of the University of Antioquia, but I did not pass that examination. Meanwhile,  I began to study an English course in different universities such as the Polytechnic Marco Fidel Suárez and Uniminuto; at the same time, I began to study music at the Music School of Bello and then in 2011, I joined  to the Network of Music School in Medellín (Red de Escuela de Música de Medellín). For this reason I am saxophonist; later, I studied a technology in International Business in the University Salazar y Herrera. Then, I had the opportunity to work and to collect money to begin studying Spanish and English at the Pontificia Bolivariana University; right now, I work in customer service, this is not easy because I have to have patience but I can pay for my University that makes me feel good.

ABRIAQUÍ

BELLO

Questions:  

1. What do they think about Abriaquí after all that I have spoken in class?

2. and 3. With all the respects that we have  and we know we are not perfect. Could they tell me a quality and a weakness that I have? Thanks