Blog Session 6: Options 1 or 2

For this post, you have two options to choose from, in my case I've decided to opt for number 2, an expert on my field who I admire.
When I was doing my Master's degree, my main focus was on MOTIVATION, especially how to motivate students in the English class and how teachers can be motivated by their students as well, and one expert on this area is Zoltán Dörnyei. He was born in Hungary in 1960, he started to study at the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in 1988, where he also finished his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics. Ten years later he moved to the United Kingdom where he specialized in second-language acquisition and motivation in second-language learning, and now he is a professor and author of psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the UK. In 2005, he postulated a new theory to study students' motivation in the second language learning classrooms, the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS), which I used when I wrote my thesis. He is a very intelligent man who has helped other authors in their studies and has been a teacher to many experts on the motivation area, he joined different theories in different areas of study such as psychology and language learning and he created his new theory, which has been an important step for all teachers studying motivation.
I really admire him and I hope I can meet him in the future, and who knows? maybe even work together... anyone can dream...


For this post, you have to choose only ONE of these  2 options:

Post 1 (Instructions). 
Write about a career-related website that you enjoy visiting.
You have to:

- provide the link
- describe the website (sections, features, etc)
- say how often you visit the site
- explain why you like the site.

>Add comments to 3 of your classmates’ blogs + a comment on your teacher's post
>Word Count: 170

Post 2 (Instructions)
Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?
Say:

-Who she/he is. (short biography)
-What she/he has done. (examples of their work)
-Why you like her/him.
-Include his/her image

> About 170 words
>Add comments to 3 of your classmates’ blogs + a comment on your teacher's post.

Blog Session 5: A photograph you like

My siblings and I like to appear in pictures together, we usually take similar pictures for birthdays and special occasions to compare them with older pictures from when we were little, and sometimes we like to get silly on them.

These pictures were taken by my mother with her cellphone, they aren't very professional, and my mother is not the best at taking pictures, but these are some of my favorites because my mother wanted "nice" pictures of us, and when she said: "look better", all of us acted silly for the pictures, without asking each other, it was our natural response for our mother telling us to "look better".

I don't remember if these pictures where taken in a special occasion, but I know they can't be older than three years (I didn't have that dress four years ago).

I love my brother and sister, we are very different, we look similar, but our personalities are very very different. My sister is the oldest and she is a mechanical engineer, and my brother, the youngest, is a drivers' instructor. However, the three of us teach: my sister teaches future engineers, I teach English and my brother teaches people how to drive.

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Write about a photograph you like.
Say:

Who took it
What it shows
When it was taken
Why you like it
Upload it too

Include any other information you'd like to mention.
Write at least 150 words.

Don't forget to leave a comment on my blog and 3 other comments on your classmates' blogs

BLog Session 4: My favorite movie

It’s very difficult for me to choose my favorite movie because I love movies. I like thrillers, dramas, comedies, action movies, I don’t like horror films very much though.

Because I couldn’t decide, I asked my husband what was my favorite movie and he said the first movie he thought of was Dirty Dancing. This movie is a romantic movie from 1987, which is set in 1963 where “Baby” and her family are vacationing in a resort in the United States, there she meets Johnny a dance instructor in the resort. The problem is that they come from different worlds, she is the girl with the rich dad who has all the opportunities to succeed in life and he has struggled all his life to get to where he is now.

The movie was directed by Emile Ardolino and stars Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. I have watched this movie many many times, and one thing that I love about this movie is the music, and how the music connects well with every part of the story. Also, it was supposed to be a low-budget film but due to its music, it became a box office hit. I’m not sure if it’s my favorite, but I do love it.

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Write about your favorite movie

Say:

What it is.
The genre.
The storyline.
Actors/directors.
Why you like it.


- 140 words minimum.
- Include a picture. 
- Comment on your teacher's post and 3 of your classmates’ blogs.