English Pre-Intermediate A FACSO 2020-1

Warm Salutations Prospective Social Scientists from FACSO, This week, I am bringing to you the sixth out of ten blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class  assignment: Write about a postgraduate course that you would consider taking in the future. Include: - Reasons to do the course - Subject(s) you would like to study - Where you would like to study (Chile or abroad) - How you would like to study (distance learning, blended system, part-time course, etc) - Any other relevant ideas - Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post. - Word Count: 220 words As usual, I leave you a sample, "I   would   like to further my studies. If they are going to be formal, I would like to think that I will be taking a postgraduate course. Three, actually. Well, maybe four will do. The first one will consist of a Masters Degree (MA) in English Linguistics , the sec...

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: ‘...