English in Action!!

Hi Everyone, today I´m going to refer about my experience speaking English :)

Well, my experience learning English this year has been something out of the normal, but I agree with the teaching methodology taught at the University of Chile for teaching English, since I find it much more effective to have to write and post about different current issues that happen to us or have occurred in our lives, to practice writing in English and to have a better order of our ideas, to be able to express ourselves in front of English speakers.

As I said, it seemed a fantastic and very original idea to create our own blogs to post our ideas, because that is how we practice grammar and writing, as well as ordering our ideas in a good way.

I think the part that I need to improve intensely is to speak English, since I'm not used to thinking my ideas in English, and always when I speak, what I usually do is translate in Spanish my ideas in my head before saying it, and that takes a lot time to process the words and say them in a fluent way as the English speakers, however, I think that with the practice and persistence speaking English, not only in the period of classes, but also outside the university, it would be a good method to practice the language.

The truth is that, outside of class I don´t use much English, since I haven´t had the need to do it, because my whole life revolves around Spanish, in my house we spoke Spanish, my friends speak Spanish, so that I don´t have many opportunities to speak English in my daily life, but maybe I could consider a practice, the fact of working with design programs in English, that are not translated into Spanish and that you need to know some English to be able to use them J

Wellcome to the world of the Plastic Beaches

The problem of plastic is something that has been affecting us for many years, but even more in these last 10 years, the increase of plastic in the environment increased considerably, affecting our health, flora and fauna of our planet.

For example, the most obvious problem that has been mentioned globally in this last decade, has been marine pollution with plastic, which has seriously damaged the ecosystem and will continue to do this if we continue to use plastic in an uncontrolled manner.

Besides affecting the marine ecosystem, the plastic usually accumulates in the coasts, and this is because for the irresponsibility of the people, who for years have left the garbage on the beaches, often buried in the sand or directly in the sea, which has been accumulated over the years and has reached the terrible current consequences of environmental pollution in which we live.

One of the most serious cases that are caused by plastic pollution, is the death of sea turtles, because they feed on jellyfish and crustaceans that they often confuse by plastic bags with jellyfish and squibs or plastic tapes with crabs, causing severe damage to their intestines causing the death, just like birds too when they confuse small pieces of plastic for food.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45509822

That´s why in Chile some measures have been taken to reduce the use of plastics and this increase the pollution, such as the prohibition of plastic bags in stores by recyclable cloth bags.