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Task Nº10: Evaluation of the Blog Experience

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I remember some time ago a friend told me ‘you should start a blog’ and I said ‘Ha! What would I blog about?’. Sharing personal experiences isn’t an easy task and that was my main concern. However, this year I had to do it as part of my job, to model the blog post activities to you all, my beloved students. The first lesson I learned was that it definitely takes some time to write each post. I didn’t realize how much it will be until post number 3 or 4. Additionally, besides writing the actual post you have to decide the photos or videos that will go along with your entry. It was hard work for all of us, but I think it was really interesting as well. I got the chance to get to know you better and to share experiences. In this sense, blogging can be very rewarding. And now that we’ve come to an end, I realized that it was one of the assessments with which I really had a good time writing and reading them. What about your experience? How was it? TASK Nº10 – Evaluation of the B...
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TASK Nº9 - My Favorite Food

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Pasta is my favorite food  and it’s also  the world’s favorite food. Before writing this post, I did some research and I found out that a survey taken in 17 countries confirmed that pasta is what people like to eat the most.  Pasta has become popular   for one thing :  because it is cheap and easy to prepare. Just cook noodles or other forms of pasta, make a sauce to go with it and you r lunch or dinner is ready . Many different types of meals can be  prepared  with pasta.  Also, i t tastes good and produces energy in the form of carbohydrates, which is why athletes eat pasta regularly.  As a product, it has some advantages as well. For example, it can  be kept  in the cabinet  for a longer  period of  time. You don’t have to  cook  it   at once.   However, and even though everyone knows that this dish is cheap, people still pay a large amount of money for it ...
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Task Nº8: A subject you enjoyed studying this semester

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Instagram and Coffee Houses Around the World Have you noticed how decoration in some places has become really familiar nowadays? Just to name an example, it has happened that in different places, for instance, a sushi house or a coffee shop, I have spotted similar decoration items, such as old bicycles and license plates, a combination of wood and brick walls, white walls and indoor plants, among others. Well, I started  wondering  about this and I decided to look into the web, and I found a phenomenon that some people call ‘first globe aesthetic’. These people claimed that thanks to  Instagram  and its design trends, today many people around the globe are replicating room designs and furniture arrangement they had  previously  seen on  Instagram . To see if this was true, they decided to take different examples of coffee shops ambiances and decoration. They not only proved that  cafes  are starting to look the same around the world but...
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Task Nº7: Career-related Website Review/An Expert on your Field

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If you've ever searched for language learning apps to use on your smartphone, you must know Duolingo. One of the great things about this app is that it has made language learning accessible to everyone. You don't even have to speak English to use it. But the question is: Is Duolingo good? Does it work? As an English language teacher, language learning is a big part of my life, and over the years, I’ve figured out what works and what doesn’t when it comes to learning a foreign language.  The best thing about Duolingo and the reason it has become so popular is that  it's free . You can install it on your smartphone and practice whenever and wherever you want. It has lots of different activities, most of them based on vocabulary and short sentences tasks, among many others. When it comes to the negative aspects, I have one major complaint:  there are no explanations of grammar rules . You are just supposed to understand the rules intuitively as you go through the lessons,...
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Post Nº6: My Favorite Writer

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My favorite writer of all times is Julio Cortázar. He was born in 1914 and died in 1984. He was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He was one of the best novel and innovative Argentina writers of the 20th century. His uniqueness lied in the fact that he combined existential questioning with experimental writing techniques in his work which was unusual and fresh. It was due to this that he majorly influenced the Spanish-speaking readers and writers settled in Europe and America. Cortázar was one of the founders of Latin America Boom and a modern master of the short story. During his lifetime, he came up with various works of poetry and drama in the category of both fiction and nonfiction. In the ’60s, he published one of my favorite books ever: ‘Rayuela’ (1963), which is an open-ended novel or ‘antinovel’ that invites the reader to rearrange the different parts of the novel according to a plan prescribed by the author. During his...
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Post Nº5: The Story Behind the Photograph

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Since I was a little girl, I used to dream about visiting one of the most valuable living treasures in the world (according to UNESCO),  The Galápagos Islands , in Ecuador. This is why when I had the chance to plan my first trip abroad, I decided to travel there. I started to plan the trip 6 months in advance, to avoid any last-minute issues. I arrived at Santa Cruz Island, which is the second bigger island in the Galápagos after Isabela Island , and I went on an excursion to Las Tintoreras in the same afternoon. Within minutes I started to see different types of lizards, birds, crabs, little penguins, and blue-footed boobies, wandering freely around people all the time. After walking a couple of kilometers, I got to Tortuga Beach and I was able to see hundreds of marine iguanas, swimming or walking on the sand. It was a really beautiful expedition, and this is one of the photographs that captured this amazing moment. TASK Nº5 – The Story Behind the Photograph Ins...
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Post Nº4: My Favorite TV Series

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My favorite TV series of all time is definitely Breaking Bad. It is available on Netflix and I have watched 3 times already and, every time I start watching it, I keep discovering new clues about the plot and new personality traits about the characters as well. Everything on this show is well executed, the acting, the direction of each episode and the dialogues. The usage of songs and background music is really interesting as well. Surely, it has a slow pace sometimes but, from the very first episode, you will get hooked. This TV series has the most emotionally charged, tragic and perfect finale and, if you watch it and you like it, it’s going to be hard to decide when to stop watching the episodes. It also shows how practical knowledge of Science is useful in ‘special’ ways, for instance, to become a millionaire or to escape from a tricky situation. Undoubtedly,  Heisenberg is one of my favorite fictional characters of all times. TASK Nº4 - My Favorite TV Series Instruc...
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