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  Post 8: English Language Challenges 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? - Wordcount: 240 - Make comments on 3 of your partners' posts. Let’s talk about learning English. Learning this language has been a plus in my life. Many doors have opened in my professional life. I did not learn English in the university. I learned it in an institute in New York. So it is difficult to talk about an experience that I did not have. However, I believe that this opportunity that it is being given to students today of learning English as part of their curriculum is very good. I wish I had it.  I have to say that I learned to write by practicing and editing my papers at the university. If I had had a blog like this, it would have been much easy to
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  Post 6: Postgraduate Studies 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 - Word Count: 220 words       I believe the main reason to study a postgraduate degree is to further one’s skills and knowledge in a particular field. At the same time, someone becomes more employable in some fields as well as value and trust after has taken postgraduate studies. Postgraduate qualifications is the only way into certain stages of a career, especially so in academia. In the private sector, postgraduate qualifications are equally valuable. An MBA, for example, may advance your career in business in ways that nothing else can. Once one chose a career the prospect
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   Post 5: My Future Job - 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? - What major are you studying / are you thinking of taking?    Explain why - Add any other related ideas. - Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts - Word Count: 210 words   When I think of a job in the future, I think of a job that can give me a lot of time to spend with my family and friends. A job in which pays enough money to travel and allow me to go to different places around the world. Then I can learn about the different people and their culture as well as their history.  I think of a job that I can make my own schedule where I do not need to go everyday for eight or more hours. I imagine this job in an office where I also have a nice view and good lighting. I imagine an office with brilliant light that illuminates my entire space and makes chee
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  PET (Preliminary English Test) 2 Reading:   http://www.examenglish.com/ PET /pet_reading3.htm http://www.examenglish.com/ PET /pet_reading4.html http://www.examenglish.com/ PET /pet_reading_part5.htm     Listening:   http://www.examenglish.com/ PET /pet_listening_part3.htm http://www.examenglish.com/ PET /pet_listening_part3.htm Vocabulary:   http://www.examenglish.com/ vocabulary/B1_vocabulary_ topics.htm
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   Post 4: What's like to study______?   What you study Why did you choose this career? What's to study this career online like today?  Word count: 200 words  Make a comment on 3 classmate's posts  Upload a picture     I study sociology at Universidad de Chile in the Social Science Faculty. I choose this career because I’m interested in learning about social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. And becoming a s ociologist I would be able to investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies and how people interact within these contexts. Today and due to the pandemic, my classes are online. The online classes have been difficult especially in the interaction with my professors and classmates. Being hours in front of a screen is also very tiring as we have many subjects to take as part of the career program. My learning process gets harder because it is not easy to have class discussions and ask questions while the
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  Post 3: Let's talk about the pandemic   ·         Name at least 4 problems that people are living today ·         Name at least 3 changes that people had to do today ·         Describe how you see life after the pandemic ·         Word count: 180 words ·         Make comments on 3 of your classmate’s posts  
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    POSTING 2: The best holidays ever ·          When was it? ·          Where did you go? ·          How long was it? ·          Who did you go with? ·          What activities did you do? ·          Why was it the best so far? ·          Add any relevant information ·          Upload pictures Make comments on 3of your classmate’s posts Word count: 170 words       My best holiday, the one I remember very well, took place when I was a child. My family and I went to Frutillar to a ranch on the mountain. We spent about a week here. We took several short trips to different places around the Llanquihue Lake, Puerto Varas and even we went as far as Petrohue. Petrohue is a wonderful place, its colorful water is gorgeous, and it falls with such strength that its current moves at very high speed. The lake is also a beautiful place; it is lake an ocean in the middle of the mountain. All surroundings in this area are marvelous. The thing I remember the most is one the
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