lunes, 1 de junio de 2020

Introduction

Hello Everybody, welcome to my Blog!. My name is Nicolás Jachura, friends used to call me "Nico". I'm 21 years old and I'm in my first university year studying the English Teaching Program. This is my Portfolio that includes texts that I've made in class, every text will show you an improvement in my writing skills. Each text has passed by a process of writing and you'll find how was the process for some of them, Hope you Enjoy it and feel free to write any suggestion. 

Contents of my portfolio
  • Introduction
  • Narrative work: "Early Bird or Night Owl" [Draft and Reflection]
  • Essay: "Description of the House in Details to Sell It" [Essay and Reflection]
  • General Reflection.
  • Other writings. ("My favourite Place" & "Oktapodi". )

sábado, 1 de junio de 2019

Pre-Writing


 It was the prewriting that I made in a Team with 3 people more, is basically a Brainstorm that you will see below.



Brainstorm Example

Detached house.
It has a small lobby that u can see when u enter to the house yippy yo yippy yey.
it has a corridor where u can see the main rooms beside the entrance  (living/dining/kitchen etc). very big.
has 4 bedrooms.
it has 2 restrooms with a lot of light.
the living room is at the left side of the entrance.
5 frontal windows.
2 storeys?
surrounded by grass?
a hall and at the left side the living room, next to it it has a little dining room.
a lil boy bedroom called Zack, and maybe another child(a girl) maybe they are the same age, maybe twins, then there’s another bedroom, maybe for the big brother or sister, or for the friends when they stay at home, the big bedroom , maybe for the parents is the last one.
The Zack´s room is fully decorated with dinosaurs stuffs next to the bed there is a small night table with a lamp on it, in the wall behind the bed there are a kind of dinosaur painting and a next to it big letters spelling ZACK.
In the right side of the bed there's a window with a brown curtain.
The general colour of the house is cream that gives a certain touch of class to the house.
The house has a lot of decoration ( pictures, flowers, lamps,candles,mirrors, etc.)
If you see from the second floor to the outside, you will see a landscape of the neighbourhood
the laundry it’s located in the first floor and there are two grey washers.
In the bathroom, there are a bath, a bathtub and a slide door shower.
A kitchen with a lot of space and has a storage room inside.
Wooden stairs with a cream color carpet on it and handrails at the top.
Kitchen cabinets
it has a beautiful worktop, made of wood and marble in the middle of the kitchen there is a countertop, on the right side it has the sink, in front of the countertop is the stove , above it is the microwave oven, going left you may find the door where you store the food, then another piece of worktop and the refrigerator
There is a room in the second floor, at the end of the corridor where are kept the children toys.



Reflection

As a reflection, I can say it was easy to do, it was a description about a house to sell it, so making this type of prewriting should be easier than others, because you must look the thing you will describe and write visible things about the object, house, etc. The only hard part maybe is when you discover new words or looking for new vocabulary depending of what are you describing, it will help you to improve your redaction and the application of new words.

viernes, 21 de diciembre de 2018

Narrative Text and Reflection (Early Bird or Night Owl)

Draft: Early Bird or Night Owl.



Narrative Text
Early Bird or Night Owl

I consider myself as a Night owl, I feel really comfortable when I stay until late doing homeworks, playing video games, reading some documents or just chilling, I don’t really know why I work better at night but I spend this time and adapt it to my necessities, I mean if I have to do an assignment for next week I’ll always opt to do it at night, I guess it will be at least 40% percent better than doing it at any time of the day. I feel an improvement in my concentration and maybe one of the reasons is because you can relax with the silence of the night without anyone bothering you. I usually dedicate time to rest in the day more than night, but unfortunately the greatest part of the people that consider themselves as night owl, we often must carry the life of an early bird. And definitely my senses work better during the night, however I'm the Night Owl trying to be an Early bird.
Reflection 

It wasn't easy to do, because I made it later than the rest of the class, so it took me a little bit more to understand what I had to do, but basically the process of making a draft and correcting it helps a lot, really if you are about to write something you must make a draft, you can read it a lot of times and fix all the mistakes you could have in it. I used to write a lot of paragraph without making any prewriting process and drafts, so I learnt the importance that it has, the grammar and punctuation corrections will help to your text to make it more understandable and pleasant to read.

jueves, 21 de diciembre de 2017

Essay and Reflection (Description of the House in Details to Sell it)

Description of the House in Details to Sell It.

This is a very big house, surrounded by grass and gravel, it has two storeys and a lot of windows. Passing through the entrance you may find a big brown door, behind it there’s a stair that leads you to the second floor and a little lobby, to the left there’s a living room that has three sofas, in the middle of the living room there is a coffee table with some vases on it, then hanging on the wall there are two flower paintings above the sofa, in the same wall beside the paintings we have two small windows that bring light to the house. Above the windows there are two more coffee tables with lamps on it.


    
Then we will find the dining room with a big table in the center of it, the table has six chair around it and on the table there are two candles. Above the table, hanging on the ceiling there is a chandelier. At the end of the room there’s a cupboard  with some glasses and mirrors, this room also has a window on the left side wall, at the left of the window it has a painting hanging on the wall and another one hanging beside the cupboard, at the right side of it there is a big decorating plant and the entrance of the laundry room that has 2 cabinets, one of the cabinet is upper than the other ,and 2 washing machines are next to each other. If you exit to the right of the laundry, you will find a beautiful room that is divided in the kitchen room and in the living room. The part of the living room has 2 brown couch with cushions, and 1 white couch with one red flowered cushion, a thin LED tv in the middle of the living room, there are 2 vases and a piece of furniture with a plate under the tv, there are 3 lamps in the room, 2 of them are beside of the brown sofa that is next to the wall, and  on the same sofa are 2 paintings. And in front of the other couch at the center of the room there is  a coffee table that has two decorations cogwheels on it. The kitchen part  has a table with flowers on it, and 4 chairs in the 4 sides of the table. Beside the table there is a glass door that takes you to the patio, in the right side of the kitchen there is a sink to wash the dishes above that there is a long cabinet to store food, next to it there is a grey kitchen with a motorhome cooker hood above following the sequence of the cabinet to the right we can find a big, large and grey fridge. There is a small red bathroom in the first floor at the right of the stairs.


Then walking upwards by the stairs, there is two paintings that you’ll see above the landing they have birds painted on it. Reaching the second floor you going to see a small corridor protected by rails that are made of dark brown wood, On front of the stairs you will see two rooms, in the right side it’s the Bedroom number 4, It is a room decorated for a little boy, it has a window that shows you the front yard, so it receives a lot of illumination on sunny days, the floor is covered by a wall to wall carpet, to the right side of the bed, there is a night table where you can put objects inside and on it. On the wall it has a big painting of a dinosaur to give a interesting design to the bedroom. Walking back to the corridor, in the right side you’ll find a little spot, there is located a small Linen where you can store your clothes or whatever you want. On the other hand in the front of the Linen, there is the Bedroom 3 that is intended for a girl, because it is more spacious than the previous one, so she can keep all her things inside without disturbing somebody else. It has a less child design, but maintaining the essence of a Girl’s room, On the wall there is a painting and below this is the night table, similar to the decoration of the previous room, but there’s a change with the windows, It has two windows making it brighter than the boy’s room. The room includes a full decorated design including a desk and a chest of drawers.

Going out the girl´s room there is a small corridor with a handrail at the side there is the stairs that takes you to the first floor, following the corridor you can find a stance with two little red couches with a lamp next to it and a cabinet, the main room with a big bed at the center of it, at the left side to the bed there is a big decorating plant and a small night table with a lamp and some family pictures on it, next to it there is a window and a door that takes you to a big walk in closet.


Reflection

 As a reflection, it wasn’t an easy job to do, Why? because it was an intensive teamwork assignment where you had to take different roles to develop the activity, on the other hand, getting the ideas was very easy, we just looked and describe what we were seeing, so the problem became when we had to write, we did a Brainstorm as a prewriting, but it wasn’t enough, we started to write dividing the house in parts, the teacher helped us a lot, in terms of grammatical, vocabulary and punctuation aspects, we learnt how to organize our ideas in groups and respecting every idea of each member was giving. Doing these assignments in groups are really good to give feedback between us and at the same time we can learn and correct to ourselves.






miércoles, 21 de diciembre de 2016

Conclusion

Final Reflection. 


To conclude, this semester we learnt to read and analyze the main ideas separating them from the others, also we started to write many paragraphs based on the instruction that the Teacher gave to us, He taught us the importance of using connectors properly as well as the grammar use and punctuation rules, all of them for a better writing and to give the correct sense to our texts. On the other hand, we learnt about how to make a proper paragraph, by a process that consists in a making of a pre-writing where you put the ideas for the text as a guide to the next step, that is a Draft, it is where you can make all the mistakes possibles then correct them and make the final writing.

domingo, 21 de diciembre de 2014

Other Writings

My Favourite Place


My favourite place is located in La Serenea, it's called "Valle del Elqui", is a nice place, there are many trees and green places, because the rain falls during the year very often. It has many places where the pisco is made, you can go inside those places to take photos and ask for some details about history of the zone, also there are some little shops where you can buy souvenirs, many of them are hand made, so it takes more valor to me atleast. On the other hand, there are spiritual places where you can pray, it has a Church that many people visit it, it's a perfect place to relax and stay there, you can enjoy fruits and Ice Creams made of a cactus that raises there, it has an acid taste, so if you like lemons, oranges or something like that, you'll love it. When you're travelling to the place, you'll see many lakes and yards of pure green nature, I went there in 2011 and was one of the best memories that I'll never forget.

 Oktapodi

At the beginning, there were a couple of Octopuses in a fishbowl their names were Nami and AJ , they were hugging each other, Suddenly a strange man, apparently a worker from that store, took off  Nami from the fishbowl and weigh her, because he wanted to kill and sell her. The strange man called Billy put Nami into a cooler inside his car, then he started to drive the car far away the store. It all passed in front of AJ, he was very surprised and furious when it happened, he immediately thought about the things they could do to Nami, so he jumped off the fishbowl and started to run as fast as he could to reach the car. When he finally reached the car, he started a fight with Billy to save Nami, after a long and intense fight, AJ moved the handle while the car was moving very fast, they jumped through the window of the car to the floor, they were together again, but Billy was very mad, then he took his car and started a persecution below the Octopus couple, they were jumping house by house on the Sunshades until Billy caught both, they spitted on Billy’s face their Octopus Ink until he release them, when it happened they hanged their bodies on a cord and watched how Billy’s car was directly to the sea.

   At the end, they thought they were safe, but a wild Seagull appeared and took AJ from his back, Nami was very angry, so she stretched the cord and flew straight to the Seagull, reaching the wild bird and this time she saved her boyfriend and they lived happy under the Sea.