Javiera Ramos - English 4 - FACSO

Good afternoon, dear students. In today’s possible the most boring blog of my teaching history, I will teleport to several moments in the past since these periods could possibly answer many of my questions regarding how certain things were created. Babylon (4000 BC) I have been always curious about the thinking process of building bridges. It’s such a mind-blowing thing, if you ask me, to connect one point to another by means of sturdy, heavy materials such as rocks, metal beans, clay, etc. and to not die in the process. If you ask me, it would have never occurred to me that through blending, cutting, adapting certain materials by following mathematical calculations would lead me to resolve this problem. As a matter of fact, the first attempts of creating these paths were done in the Babylon civilization.    Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Age) In one of my favorite podcasts, one of the podcasters mentioned that “depending on the dose, everything can be poisonous”. It was r...

Hello, dear students. Hoping you are enjoying yourselves this weekend; in today’s blog I will talk about my dream job. Despite the fact that I already enjoy teaching here at the University of Chile, I had considered the idea of going to other countries where teachers are actually fairly paid and with better working conditions. As I said before, one of my main dreams was to go to China because teachers are better paid there and being a teacher is considered an honorable profession. Since China provides many opportunities for English teachers in terms of workplace (you can teach at kindergarten, school, university level if you have the appropriate certificates), I would like to work at a university or a language academia.   For this, I surely will need to develop my soft skills in terms of effective communication with my students, colleagues, and administrative personnel. Also, I consider open-mindedness an essential skill since I will have to adapt to a whole new culture ...