BlogFAU2019

Hi everyone! Welcome to the English blog! In our first blog session, you have to write a short autobiography. Here is an example of my autobiography: I was born in Santiago, Chile, and I'm the oldest of three sisters. My father was born in Santiago, but my mother is from a small town in Belgium.  Since I was a very young child, I wanted to be an artist. I learned how to draw by myself. I graduated from the Santiago College school, and studied Visual Arts in Universidad Finis Terrae, where I learned how to paint, draw, make sculptures and printing techniques. Then, in 2006 I obtained my Teaching Degree in Universidad Católica.  After I graduated, I worked in different jobs. I did English-Spanish translations for a long time and taught Art and English lessons in two schools, Nuestra Señora de Andacollo and Nuestra Señora del Pilar. In 2007, I started teaching English to adults in an institute in Santiago, called BridgeEnglish.  Today, I continue to...

Hi everyone! Today we are going to do some exercises divided into 2 parts: Unit 1: "Personal Information" and Unit 2: "Expressing Your Opinions". Remember: if you need help with definitions, you can use  http://www.wordreference.com/  or  https://www.linguee.com/ Unit 1: "Personal Information" 1. Vocabulary. Match the words with their definitions. A Loan 1 To give something that is yours to someone else after being pressured B Steal 2 To collect large quantities of information, especially automatically C Tax 3 To persuade someone to do something by offering them something exciting D To target 4 An amount of money that is borrowed from the bank and must be returned with interest E Lure 5 An illegal plan for making money, especially by tricking people F Skimming 6 money paid to the government th...