Advantages and disadvantages of using blogs in the English classroom

When it comes to learn English (and more general, "languages") all the people involved has to think how to make it fun and also assure that you'll really learn and so on, be satisfied with the achievements. A very good example is made by the modern idea of using blogs. That is an idea that link the fact that young people and moreover, all the people, has to face up that using technology is one of the most important skills you need to develop and the requirements that all learning has. However someone could say that speaking is the real way of learning languages. So then, in facing with methods as blogs to learn languages, what’re we gaining and what are we losing?

Blogs might be considered has the new and modern way of exercising languages in general (we will focus on English this time). You write and express ideas, emotion, feelings, likes, dislikes, etc so you have to deal with grammar, meaning that you have to know how to but word in a sentence, the right order, the meaning and deal with vocabulary (and then the words you use constantly you keep them in you mind). For expressing your self you have to know the exactly words for others to understand that do you want to say.

But (we cannot have it all), on the process of writing, although it’s a very important one, you have the time for thinking what you want to say and to find the words (www.wordreference.com and others) for doing it. In comparison to speaking or listening, when you need a good pronunciation for being understood and for understand too (you have to know how to pronounce the words), or you don’t have time to looking up on the dictionary or thing if what you’re saying is or not correct and a quickly mind that could process the other’s speeches. When you speak you need to have all the structures and vocabulary in your mind. So, if you go on a tour to England, despite of having the most interesting posts or the better written one’s you won’t necessarily be prepared to talk or would have really learn English.

So, to summarize: using blogs for learning English is very useful and a very good way of learning grammar and vocabulary, however it has to be think has a complementary method not the only one. That way, the process of learning it better and has complete all the dimensions (speaking, writing, listening) that you need for really learn English.

About cinema: Rear Window

Two weeks ago, my father, my sisters and I saw the 'Rear Window' on the TV. This is an excellent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock on 1954 and written by John Michael Hayes. Started in by James Stewart and Grace Kelly, the film is about a man that had and accident and has to be like for three weeks with a cast on his leg, on a wheelchair. So, he has nothing to do but look at his neighbours. All seems to be very boring but suddenly he sees something very unusual. A man, one who lives with his seek wife almost on front of the window of our hero, goes out and come in during the daybreak. And in the next days he (the main character) doesn’t see the man’s wife anymore. What happened? Convincing also his girlfriend, they start looking for answers (he calls a friend who works as detective). And just looking at the man’s apartment and relating one fact with another, they realised that he killed is wife because he wanted to leave with his lover.
The film keep’s your attention all the time. You cannot stop seen it, because you feel like you need to know if the main character is just dreaming and imaging things because he is too bored or he (and all the characters that believe on him) is right. Also the images, the photography is incredible well done. The distribution of the element is very carefully, and it denotes a meticulous work. For me it is a piece of art that everybody should see. Actually, I would rate it as a must see movie.