Cesar Figueroa ENS

Hi everyone, I’ll be free for conversation on friday and sunday this week, so, if you are able to talk, call me, I’ll be able from 18 hours o’clock GMT time, ‘till night, so feel free and call me.

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Hello everyone, I hope all of you are doing well.

On saturday I presented uni’s admission exam, and also TOEFL itp (this one is only for institutions), so I’ll tell you the little story of that day.

The night before (friday’s night) I couldn’t sleep because of being thinking about the exam, later I fell asleep but  I got a cramp in my left leg and I don’t remember how many time I did hold it before falling asleep again.

I woke up at four thirty in the morning, prepared my breakfast, took a shower and waited for my dad to be ready to take me to UNI; when I arrived I met two people of my age on my way to the faculty, who were about to present for the same career as me, so we were talking about the exam and how nervous we were, when we arrived I said goodbye to them and I did head to the classroom in which I was going to take the exam; The time arrived and I held the exam in my hands, looking at it, when I opened it, I thought it was easy, and mostly it was, afterwards the first exam was done, everything ok.

I had one hour of recess before taking TOEFL, once again I got in the classroom and took the exam on my hands, this time the TOEFLitp, the teacher talked to us in English and I thought “well, this is going to be easier than the first one”. The exam was divided in three sections: 1.-Listening, 2.-Grammar and 3.-Reading

First section, Listening, when I listen to the first ten questions I thought “this is easy, everything will be ok” but then I listened to a lecture where I had to remember all and then answer like 8 questions, so I was like :O what the hell is this I can barely remember part of it, and you ask me about an entire lecture, God of mine; but the second section was easier and I didn’t have problems answering it, the third one was a bit tough, but I think I will pass.

I want to be in the bilingual stream of the faculty, but if not, I’ve two more chances to get in (second and third semester) and I’ll have to get a higher progress in English.

Pray for me friends.

Hello ENS community, about two months I presented an exam called EXCI (Exam of English Competence by its initials in Spanish), and also all the school presented it.

Well the outcomes arrived this week and it resulted that I had the best score of the entire school, so that could say that, mayhaps, I’ve the highest level of english of the school, anyway, I was very happy not for being the first place but for having a level which I taught was the correct for me.

While watching one of my favourites movies (A knight’s tale) that has Heath Ledger as protagonist in it, I listen to a very heart touching sentence, actually a question, CAN A MAN CHANGE  HIS STARS? 

If you have watched the movie before you’ll understand my point, if not, well I shall introduce you a little to the film and I will say what I want to say.

So this movie concerns William Tacher, a poor man’s son who had always dreamt to be a Knight, but you know, technically that was impossible in the medieval ages, but his father effort makes him a squire, and when the knight he served dies, he take the chance and lies about his birth, becoming “a Knight”, I’m not going to spoil you the final if you haven’t seen it, so I’ll proceed with my point.

Our parents make lots of effort to give us tools that we have to take to make our path, now in this globalized  era we can even find the tools by our own, and make our path better, and we end up saying what we all say, work is the base of success, and we must work hard to achieve what we want, so yes, we can change our stars, working, focusing on a goal and reaching it.

Now, I challenge you to work hard, well and change your stars.

Back in this semester I had a class of english, and we touched the topic about accents and pronunciation, so I recall that my teacher stated that we have to be proud of our accent, and she said that we seem bad when we try to imitate another’s accent, I dared not to reply to that statement, but as a language learner, I think that’s a conformist view; So here it’s what I think:

1.-As language learners we have to make our accent as understandable as possible, so whether our accent is very marked or not, the thing is that if people can not understand you, you’re doing something wrong.

2.-Phonetics is very important: more in english which I’ve thought has some tough words, though its simplicity in verbal times. Mayhaps I’m saying a word which I didn’t mean to say and I don’t know. (This thing is worse in French)

3.-If people understands you, you can make a social relation with them easier, and so they know they wouldn’t be trying to catch each word you try to say. (This is not at the beggining, when you’re first starting to learn mistakes are part of our daily life, so don’t be ashamed)