Teacher language awareness c

Yesterday I went to the library, because we are discusing all that strike thing, and one of the purposes is that it should be more books of english at the library, that was my purpose. One day I went to the library long time ago and I found not many books where you can choice according what you are looking for, so I decided to get back again, indeed there is a lack of books, I needed to put in the list the books it should be there, and when I was looking for it, I found one special book, called TLA it is about teaching and it is really complex but also it is really interesting, I took it with me....
The book talks about the importance of subject matter in an english class, we as teachers need to have a lot of knowledge about the language to have  a good response to the student's questions and mistakes.... I am still reading the book, I hope to keep on learning new things and vocabulary.

Arctic monkeys

Once again, it is proved how the music is the main tool of learning english.
Today I was singing an Arctic Monkeys' song but I did not knew the lyrics of the song so well, there were a lot of things that I did not understand while listening the song and a friend of mine listened to me singing and he said, that band has a lot of good songs and you can learn a lot from them, so, I was thinking on that, ''actually, I do not understand some words'' so I went to the internet and there was.... just one song, there was a lot of knew words... like ''summer down'' ''pucker up''  ''cusp'' ''guts'' honestly there were not the big deal, but I did not know the meaning of these words.
another thing that I could notice is that these are not the common lyrics you found in a song, so that is even so much more..... I think I will keep on listenning Arctic Monkeys.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is an Island located near India, in this island there is  a lot of forests and wildlife but communities are rising, they are cutting down forests for firewood, so this conserservation area is getting down.

what Conservation International have planned in cooperation with Disney worlwide conservation fund, the Fund is going to give support to the CI in Indonesia, Cambodia and Sri Lanka that protect monkeys and other endangered  species, by seeing the Disney nature's film ''Monkey Kingdom''

the purpose is to create conservation areas and give the management to the local communities under the supervision of the department of wildlife Conservation, also aducating and engaging these communities..

I think it is really important to help with this cause...

#NatureIsSpeaking :) 

Learning how to teach

Today we had a long schedule, because of the teacher's strike and the support we are giving to them, but even when there is a strike we have to continue learning, and that is what I did.
I was reading something interesting about Albert Morlachetti and his input in the education, he was a good teacher... and he died today... I wanted to take in to account what he said about education, so I gave to my dear friend a lesson for an exam she has tomorrow and I learnt a lot about her as a student, taking in to account her questions and her way to see the stuff, actually  she asked a lot and  as teacher I will be, I need to know everything  to answer her questions.
At the end she understood everything and I hope she gets a good grade in her exam, tomorrow :)

Amazonia

Amazonia is one of the world's greatest rainforest, we have seen how the pollution in the world it is destroying it, there is one corporation that is called Conservation International CI a nonprofit environmental organization (I have just realized about what a nonprofit organization is) this is a cool organization I have found a lot of interest things through their web page and I feel very attracted by it.

Today I learnt some new vocabulary, and I read about what I like.

I was reading something about the Amazonia and the damage that it is receiving from different factors such as the deforastation, climate change and the growing energy demands the CI's solutions to this issues seem to be very good for protecting nature but we have a lot to do there and there is where they need owr help, you can protec an acre! go to : http://www.conservation.org/where/pages/amazonia.aspx?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=social

and there is a lot of information about it.

Louis' presentation- argumentative essays

Honestly I have not been very interested in the presentations during this semester, obviously I have been putting attention because it is important, I have learnt a lot about everyone and some presentation were good but today's presentation was really catchy (as the teacher says) I learnt a lot and I felt very comfortable doing the exercises our mate assigned us and I participated in every thing I could.
An argumentative essay consists in convince the reader about what you are defending, that your opinion is right and support the reasons with solid evidence (arguments). However you do not only give reasons to support your point of view, in argumentative essays you also rebut the ''other side's reasons'' proving they are not good reasons and also being shown how we are capable to consider all sides of the issue.
we did thesis statements with supporting reasons and I wanna share mine:
-local government should invert money in homeless animals such as dogs and cats.-
*Many of these animals have diseases that can be dangerous to other animals, even for humans are dangerous and someone needs to take care of it,  it is not only the willing of doing it but the money is, it has a lot to do too*
next monday it is my presentation, I hope to do it as well as Louis! congratulations Louis (actually his real name is Luis but I prefer to name him Louis :3 )

paraphrase

Today, I have learnt how to paraphrase in class and our partner showed us a whole presentation explaining how to be a good paraphraser, I have learnt that sometimes in writing academic you need to support your ideas and you can do it by paraphrasing or summaryzing.
In paraphrase you take information from another side and you rewrite it but in your own words, according to my partner the paraphrased text has to be as long as the original and also it is important how to use that information you took with out committing plagiarisim, the paraphrased text it has not to be too similar to the original in that case you would be committing plagiarism and when you don't paraphrase do not forget to cite..
Of course we have learnt too how to summarize and summarazing it is different from paraphrasing, because it is shorter than it, it includes only the main ponts and you leave out most details.
I think it is a good exercise and we are learning how to be good at academic writing, this semester has been more interesting because of that, even when I am not so good at writing but I have got better at it! thanks teachiii! :)