English Pre-Intermediate A FACSO 2020-1

Warm Salutations Prospective Social Scientists from FACSO, This week, I am bringing to you the fifth out of ten 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 do not have any. And what is most difficult to say is that you like your job and to choose a form of making money that makes you happy. It is not a matter of choosing, it is a very opposite relationship that one, as a worker, build through time with a paid endeavour. ...

Warm Salutations Prospective Social Scientists from FACSO, This week, I am bringing to you the fourth out of ten blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment: -  Comments : Leave a comment on your post + 3 of your classmates’ posts. -  Word Count  for post 4:  200 words 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 in the quotidian’. As a mode of beginning, the topic that may follow up: ‘...

Warm Salutations Prospective Social Scientists from   FACSO, This week, I am bringing to you the third out of ten blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment: -  Comments : Leave a comment on your post + 3 of your classmates' posts -  Word Count : 180 words -  You are free to write any topic you want to, in any manner.  As usual, I will leave you a sample. This time an extract from a literature essay that me 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’ can be shaped as an ambivalent state of two o...

Warm Salutations Prospective Social Scientists from   FACSO, This week, I am bringing to you the second out of ten 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 concert you've been to.  Please choose ONLY 1 theme.  Holidays: - when it was - where they went - how long it was - people they 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 they saw - a bit of info about the artist - describe the atmosphere during the    event - describe how they felt and why they  enjoyed it - any other memories about it >>Worcount: 170 >>Leave comments on 3 of your   classmates   posts + comments on your teacher's post. A sample for you comes attached,  "Dear Fellow Concert Goers, This time I was given the ...

Warm Salutations Earthlings from FACSO, In this very special moment, I am bringing to you the first out of many blog sessions we will be working on. In this particular session, you will be asked to  do the following classwork : -  Which country would you like to go to? Why? -  What do you know about it? -  What would you like to do there? -  Would you like to study/work/live there? Explain. -  Upload pictures -  Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your  teacher’s  post - Word Count:  160 words - This task is meant to be handed on June 19th 2020 .  If in doubt, if any queries or questions pop up; do not  hesitate  to contact me. Down below, I am leaving you a written sample for you to have an idea.  "Hi everybody, To go straight to the point, I will say that I would like to visit Japan in the near future. Since it is the birthplace o...