bbc learning english

The page for learning english is very good, not only because it has a los of activities to practice english with, but also because on each section it gives the oportunity to listen the pronunciation and I think that helps a lot if someone is not familiar with the language or if there is a word that is difficult or sound weird.
One of the sections I liked was the flatmates. I think the apearance of the characters is very funny! An aspect that helps a lot, in my opinion, is that they represent dailylife scenes so the expressions they used are very common, so it's very useful to listen and read how people speak in their common life.
Other section that I liked was, I don't remember the exact name and I dind't find it when I look back to read the name, but it was a quiz. But the good thing it has was that as you were answering they not only tell the correct answer also add an explanation telling why that was the correct answer and what does it mean. I think this is reaaly great! Because if very common that you make a quiz and you know wich answer is correct r wrong, but you never really know WHY that is the correct answer and not the one you chose. I think is a good way to learn not only from mistakes, but also to learn something more of what we already knew.

my favourite movie

I really don't have a favorite movie, I haven't watch a movie in the cinema in years, but if I have to chose one, I think I would chose "Gladiator". Yes I know, is a very old movie and everyone have watched it more than once, but still, I like it.
I don't remember the first time I watched it, but now I have seen it like 10 times. I don't know exactly what is about this movie that I like it so much, but I enjoy every time I watched it. From all the scenes there is one that I like the most, the one when he took off his mask and showed who he really was to the emperor.
I think the setting they managed is amazing, the atmosphere they achieved is very real and together with the customes they created a scenary that comlpements the plot at all time.
Other Aspect of the movie that I really like is the music. I don't remember the name of the song, but the one of the last scene, where they moved the body from the coliseo and he "went" with his family, is very powerful and makes the scene very strong.
The movie was directed by Ridley Scott, part of the cast were: Russell Croew, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, as I don't know many famouse actor/actress, these names mean nothing to me, but I think some of you could recognize some of them from other movies.

The best commercial spot

I don't know if it is the best commercial spot but it was the first one that came to my mind when I read of what we have to write today, but I think that it's funny. The post I'm talking about is the one of Heineken, I think a lot of you must have seen it on tv, is the one where a woman was showing her new apartment / house to her girlfriends. The commercial started when the women were getting to the best part of the new place for them, the walking closet, in wich there was a lot of space for shoes, clothes, accesories etc, they get excited because of the greatness of the place for them, so they started shouting. Mean while her boyfriend was doing the same thing with his friends, so the screaming of the women mixed with the other one and suddenly they realized the one of the boys was stronger so they went to see what had happened. When the camera change of place, it showed the boys shouting was because there was an especial room only for beers, heineken.

I thin it's very funny and shows a caricature of the differences between the two genders. I don't know if after watching the commercial you are going to buy the beer, I really don't think so, but when you do, you laugh and then remember the mark. I can bet that more than one group of friends had talk about the spot in parties or when they are together, and now I'm writing about it in my english class.

February 27th

I wasn't in santiago that night, in fact I wasn't anywere near the V-VIII region. I had just arrived from Perú and was still travelling in the north of Chile. However, all my family was here so when I found out about the earthquake I called everyone to see how they were. I was sleeping as usuall, but an unusuall call at 6 o'clock in the morning woke me up. It was my cousin, thinking I was at home, was trying to reach me since the earthquake took place. She asked me how I was and if all my family was fine, I told her very confuse I was sleeping and that I think they're ok, then she told me about the earthquake as she realised I didn't have any idea of the recent events.
Then, obviously, I tried to reach my family to know how they were, fortunately, I could reached them almost inmediatelly, they were all together in my grandmother's house.

I didn't realized the devastation until the next day, the cable went wrong all morning so it was after lunch when I saw the first images of all the affected places. It was horrible, all the people crying and looking for their families that were on vacation on those places. I felt very lucky to know that all my family was fine.

Days past, although I wanted to continue on vacations I had to come back, but Lan wasn't changing all airplane tickets so quickly (I was supposed to arrived to Santiago that same day), but I was very lucky and when I went to see when I could travell they told me they had one ticket for that same day. I was very happy:D.