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English 4, Post 8 [FINAL], 'English Language challenges'

  Warm Salutations, Prospective Biochemists, Chemists and Food Engineers and Pharmaceutical Chemists from   FCQF, This week, I am bringing to you the eighth out of eight blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment:   > What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? What about the use of blogs? > What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this? > Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for? Make a comment on your teacher’s blog entry - Word Count: 240 "A goodbye for these written experiences" "I made my way through the English language according to two programs: the one at UMCE (English Pedagogy) and U de Chile (English Linguistics and Literature). Ten years of fun and entertainment have already passed, and we encounter ourselves in this final post. The English language is not difficult to learn, but difficult

English 4, Post 7, 'Changes to my study programme'

  Warm Salutations, Prospective Biochemists, Chemists and Food Engineers and Pharmaceutical Chemists from   FCQF, This week, I am bringing to you the seventh out of eight blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment: Write about some changes that could be made to your study programme Among others, think about: > The curriculum (the subjects you have to study) > Workload and length of studies > Faculty facilities (buildings and infrastructure) > Use of technology > Teaching Methods - Word Count: 230 - Leave comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts and your teacher's blog entry  As I always do, I leave you with a sample post, "I think I would not change any of the subjects from the undergraduate programme I studied. They are OK and I have no complaints whatsoever. The curriculum was probably meant to cover every single aspect of English Linguistics and Literature. What it did not cover was Spanish Linguistics, a

English 4, Post 6, 'Time Travel to the future'

  Warm Salutations, Prospective Biochemists, Chemists and Food Engineers and Pharmaceutical Chemists from   FCQF, This week, I am bringing to you the sixth out of eight blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment: Write about an imaginary time travel to the future: Where would you like to go? Why? What time in the future? Would you like to stay there? Why/Why not? Upload pictures (optional) Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ post s + a comment on your teacher’s entry Word count: 220 words     As usual, as you’re used to, I leave you an entry that you can take as a point of reference to write one of your own: Future? Why? I do not know If I want to travel to the future, to be honest. What for? To acquire a ton of information that might be helpful for mankind, I suppose. Well, if I have to be honest, I wouldn’t mind if a take a short trip and find out what will become of humanity in a few decades, or even centuries.  First of all,

English 4, Post 5, 'My future job'

  Warm Salutations, Prospective Biochemists, Chemists and Food Engineers and Pharmaceutical Chemists from   FCQF, This week, I am bringing to you the fifth out of eight blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment:       - What  kind of job  would you like to have? How do you imagine it? - Outdoors /indoors? - Would you like to  travel a lot  in your job? - What about the  salary ? - Add any  other related ideas . - Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post. - Word Count:   210 words     I leave you a sample, as usual,    "First of all, as a manner of a beginning, I would like to say that it is difficult to choose a favourite activity that you perform, in my case, I probably have too many to choose from. If I was paid for an activity I enjoy performing, I would say it could be heaven on Earth, literally. However, I must return to reality and talk about what paid endeavour I enjoy the mos

English 4, Post 4, 'Themed Free Post [II]'

  Warm Salutations, Prospective Biochemists, Chemists and Food Engineers and Pharmaceutical Chemists from   FCQF, This week, I am bringing to you the fourth out of eight blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment: -  Comments : Leave a comment on your teacher’s entry + 3 of your classmates' posts -  Word Count : 200 words -  You are free to write any topic you want to, in any manner.  As usual, I leave you a critical review I wrote some time ago for you to read and comment on, Mobilizing the object of study, Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises” The following work attempts to look for an intertextual dialogue to occur between T S Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”. For this to be achieved, several passages from both the poem and the novels have been selected in order to find a point of convergence concerning one paramount topic, the one of the ‘solitude

English 4, Post 3, 'Themed Free Post - Carrer Related [hopefully]'

  Warm Salutations, Prospective Biochemists, Chemists and Food Engineers and Pharmaceutical Chemists from   FCQF, This week, I am bringing to you the third out of eight blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment: -  Comments : Leave a comment on your teacher’s entry + 3 of your classmates' posts -  Word Count : 180 words -  You are free to write any topic [related to your study program] you want to, in any manner.  As usual, I will leave you a sample. This time an extract from a literature essay that I and a classmate wrote a few years ago, "The Scarlet Letter as a biformous narrative: Characterization. Hawthorne’s novel, ‘The Scarlet Letter’ can be said, inhabits ‘biformity’, a term which has been coined by Michael Kammen in his essay ‘Biformity: A Frame of Reference’. More particularly, the novel’s ‘biformity’ can be found in the construction of one of its main characters, Hester Prynne. As a starting point, ‘Biformity’

English 4, Post 2, 'Choosing between: (a) The best holidays or (b) The best concert'

  Warm Salutations, Prospective Biochemists, Chemists and Food Engineers and Pharmaceutical Chemists from   FCQF, This week, I am bringing to you the second out of eight blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment: This time you will write about  the best holidays  or  concerts you've been to .  Please choose  ONLY 1 topic .  Holidays: When  it was Where  they went How long  it was People  you went with Things/activities  they did Why  it has been  the best  so far Any other relevant info or, Concert: When / where  it was The  artist  you saw A bit of info  about the artist Describe  the atmosphere  during the event Describe  how you felt  and why they enjoyed it Any other memories  about it Word Count: 170 . Leave comments on  3 of your   classmates’   posts  + comments on  your teacher's post. "Dear Fellow Concert Goers, This time I was given the great opportunity to write about a memorable concert I had the privilege