Friday, July 17, 2020

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 5, 'Favourite Job'

Hi friends, here I am again and today Im going to talk about job. I have to say that im studying social work and and I really feel good when Im thinking in the future and I imagine myself working as a social worker. But, hey, if you ask me for a favourite job, well, there´s a few "jobs" that I definitely would do without a single  doubt. And I truly believe that my favourite job could be work as a filmmaker. 

I love watch movies for every place of the world, taking the films as a window to a lot of lives, places, lovers, storys, faces... so so many faces, Bergman once said that an actor always work, in ultimate term, with his face. I imagine it and I feel fascinated by all the moments that make a movie possible. Write the script, choice the right actors for the characters. searching for that song which can turn a scene into a perfect scene. 

Other thing that is cool about being a director is (in the case that you are lucky and famous) that you can travel around the world and know the people who lives there and  show that in the movie


Friday, July 10, 2020

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 4, 'Themed Free Post 2': A common issue

Hi there friends, Im here again doing this homework, you know, a common issue for a common guy. If they ask me to write about a free post, well, I could really talk about anything I love, like a tree or a book about fantasy, or watching a particular movie or maybe about a dim light throughout my window. I could even talk about my mom that right now is talking about the bread baking in the oven. Among all this stuff, I would like to write about the fire as a common thing for me in my daily life and how it connects me to my mom.

Since I was a child my parents used a stove. I also remember staying in the house of my grandmother and every morning she would to wake up very early and make fire. When she made a fire, the house begin to heat, exactly like in my house. In this moment, Im cooking rice with peas. Then, when this finally be ready, Im going to fry a black bean burger.

I also wanna say that the stave we occupied belonged to my grandparents and is very old and maked of iron. Is probably about 70 years old and I´d say in pretty good shape. I love think about all the little coincidences in life that link us to our family


Thursday, July 2, 2020

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 3, 'Themed Free Post': Zhang Jike

Hi everyone, its me again. Today Im gonna talk to you about my favourite table tennis player. He´s is already retired but on his moment, he become the best. His name is, like the post said, Zhang Jike, and obviously is from China, actually a kind of rockstar in that country. Here I leave to you a picture of him.


In this picture, Zhang Jike appears doing his famous reverse pendulum service, a truly  beautiful an amazing serve that takes a lot of effect. Zhang Jike is famous because of his remarkable agility and foot work, a concept that refers to a player´s hability to move quickly and intelligently around the table. He´very very known for his backhand that is highly technically and with a lot of touch. He´s forehand is also amazing, powerful and precise.

Here I leave you a fantastic match that shows what I just said. Im always impressed by the recovery that maked in the minute 2:36.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvOCc5LcBk

Zhang Jike achieved to win the grand slam in the table tennis, I mean, win the world championship a year, then win the olympic games and then win another world championship. Is funny and very sad, at the time, that Zhang Jike achieved that by beating in three consecutive finals to Wang Hao (2011, 2012, 2013), another amazing player and currently the coach of Fan Zhendong.


Thursday, June 25, 2020

Level 4, Pre-Intermediate A, Post 2, 'The Best Holidays/Concert ever'

Hi everyone, here I am again and today Im going to talk about the best holidays ever. This memories go back to the summer of 2017, when with my brother, johel, and two friends, Andrés y Gabriel, we decided to go to the southern highway,




After several days of backpacking, Andres decided to go back when we arrived to Hornopiren. It was sad but we had to continue. We took a shuttle that leave us in Caleta Gonzalo, 60 km away from Chaiten. We walk at night until we find a campsite and then we continue thanks to the people who took us and leave in Chaiten.




When arrived to Chaiten, we decided to spend the night in the old craft market which left the volcano eruption. We sleep utterly alone and the next day we move to Santa Lucia, a small town that was very known for being bad to hitchhiking. In that town we know a gang of fishermen who gave us work for carrying sacks of pompón, a very weird plant for toiletries. Finally, they leave us in Puyuhuapi. We move faster from that place, particully because it was too expensive the food and camping. We stay in places like puerto cisnes, puerto ingeniero ibañez, coyhaique, puerto rio tranquilo, Mañihuales, and others. My brother practically paid for the entire trip, like 200,000 clp. I gave him a little of moneyI was keeping and what I earned by working. By the end of the trip we get to the Marble cathedrals.






Friday, June 12, 2020

Level 4, Intermediate, Post 1, 'A Country I would like to visit' June 12, 2020

Hi everyone, my name is javier bravo and this is my first blog. Im studying social work and live close to Frutillar, in a rural area.

Today Im gonna talk about a country that I would like to visit. First of all, I believe there´s a lot of countries I´d like to get to know, like Russia, Greece and the Tibet, but today Im gonna talk about of the united states of america.

I think it would be America, because it as so many places that I learned to love throughout movies, books, songs, artists, etc. By example, the Grand Canyon is so so beautiful and contains millions of years of geological history. Also come to my mind places like the east cost, cities like Detroit, Miami, L.A, New York. Is kind of crazy how I love all this but I´ve never seen it in person. I guess it´s because of globalization. But the very firt place that I´d like to see in America is the Mount Denali: 6190 metros of stunning beauty.

Bye people, I hope you enjoyed my blog, it doesn´t matter anyway.