Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Teaching how to teach...

As everybody know there are some teachers who didn't learn well how to teach, even today the do not know how to deal with students. Fourtunately I had very good teachers in general, obviously not all were good teachers, but I think that finally i learnt from all of them.
The only thing that I can say, is that the worse teachers gave me the best examples about , how I do not have to do my job in the future.

About Inicia Test, I can say that this exam has showed the reality about a lot of teachers, that are already giving classes in our country. As the test proved, chilean teachers got the worst results between 16 other countries. What can we recongnize about this test? Obviously that we are not doing a great job preparing students to become in excelent teachers.

On my opinion the state needs to take care about how some private universities are preparing his students to become teachers. I mean, this is why this test gave this awful results, because there a lot universities which just give to their students knowledge and more knowledge about a specific subject, and they do no care about giving to their students the best tools to teach. The state needs to stay alarm about where are the resources, and what are the universities doing with it. We all know that there is a huge line which separate what is the education for rich people, and what is the education for poor people.


Wednesday, 5 May 2010

"Fred and Betty" - Grammar & Venezuelan soap opera.


Hi everybody!

If you are one of those who love Venezuelan's soap opera, and have terrible problems with phrasal verbs too, I found a solution.

"Fred and Betty" is a story about a phone conversation between this couple.
Inside this story you will find different sort of phrasal verbs, that you could see in a daily English context.
According to myself, I chose the most interesting and useful phrasal verb from this website, and here it is:
CHEAT ON e.g: Olga you are the best, I would never cheat on you, darling.
This example is very basic, but I recommend you go to the website and see the grammar, meaning, example sentence and synonyms in order to learn in a fruitful way this topic.
I hope you could enjoy learning english in this way, and having fun at the same time. Personally I had a lot of fan with this particular story, that showed me what can do a man in order to don't recongnize when he was unfaithful with his wife.