Dear Minister Monica Jimenez:
I am going to introduce myself, my name is Lorena Galvez, and I am an English pedagogy's student of Universidad Alberto Hurtado. This year, I had my first Laboral Experience, in Liceo Alberto Hurtado. When I arrived to the school, it was just like I imagined it… without English materials. The library had only two dictionaries for more than one thousand students. I do not think that two dictionaries are enough. If you want to reform the program of English, and does it better, you have to reform the libraries too. Give to the students the chance to experiment with the language. If they do not have materials to practice what they learned in classes, how you pretend that they can be bilinguals! I hope you can understand my doubts about English’s program that you have recently reformed and propone us some solutions to resolve it.
Yours faithfully
Lorena Galvez R.
Student of English Pedagogy
Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Monday, April 6, 2009
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Lorena:
I totally understand your point of view, and actually I think that this is a good point to have in mind. As we know, many schools have to deal with that kind of situation, but what is worst is that schools and obviously teachers in general do not even care about it, and they contribute to continue with this dilemma. Perhaps they are not interesting in changing the world… I suppose… but I can notice that you are interesting about it… well, this is a great beginning…
Let’s do something… but REALLY!!!
Dear Classmate:
I can figure out how you feel about this situation, basically because I had to see the same one inside the school where I'm going to. It's really frustrating the lack of resources to develop a good class; so that's why I found your letter interesting to make authorities think about it.
Take care!
Alejandra.
Hi Lore:
I totally agree with your letter. As you know, I did my first working experience in the same school : Alberto Hurtado School, and for me was shocking too the lack of english material fot those students. That should change now!, and the government mst be worried about this problem, if they still want to have a bilingual country.
See you on Monday :)
Yes! You exemplify how to start and end a formal letter. Good job!
hi lore,
I am doing my homework about mistakes in writing, I am not who but I have to.
I think, you usual write properly but sometimes you forget the use of some prepositions such as to, in, or on, it happens to me too. maybe a good exercise to improve it is studing the use of them and practice.
see you later
kisses
Hi Lore!!…
Well, I have read your post and I would recommend checking it before upload it to your blog, perhaps you did well, but I believe you could do it better. Why? When I was reading it I felt you just write your post and you did not review it, I mean, the writing could be kind of poor in terms of using the correct tenses; maybe they are not incorrect grammatically, but actually I would have changed some of them to make them sound in a better way. I also felt that you did not check at least this one in particular, because I could realise that there is a word that does not exist in English, maybe it sounds familiar to you because it is similar in Spanish. Well, the word that I am telling you is “propound”, instead of that you had written “propone”. In general, I think you did well… for now just take in mind what I have told you.
I hope this could be useful for you... don’t give up!!
“Marcela”
Hi Lore:
I'm going to be your teacher for this entry (haha, a joke).
Well, I think you should look your punctuation. I think it's ok, but in the first line of your letter, your write a lot, and I couldn't breathe!. Remember that is one idea per sentence. I think it should be like this:
"I am going to introduce myself(.) My name is Lorena Galvez, and I am an English pedagogy's student of Universidad Alberto Hurtado."
In this sentence, you have the same problem . . .too much information for one sentence!
"I hope you can understand my doubts about English’s program that you have recently reformed(,) and propone us some solutions to resolve it."
Also, I don't think the tense is ok in this sentence:
"This year, I (had) my first Laboral Experience, in Liceo Alberto Hurtado."
Because you haven't finish it! You should look at that.
finally, I eould like to say that you have a very good vocabulary, and the use of formal language was very good, because if a person read this letter, can identify that is for an important person. also, the content of this letter is very important, and the way you write this problem to the person is very clear. Congratulations! :)
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