Intermediate (Level 4), FAU, 2020-2

  - What   kind of job  would you like to have? How do you imagine it? - Outdoors /indoors? - Would you like to  travel a lot  in your job? - What about the  salary ? - Add any  other related ideas . - Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post. - Word Count:  210 words I leave you a sample, as usual,  "First of all, as a manner of a beginning, I would like to say that it is difficult to choose a favourite activity that you perform, in my case, I do not have any. And what is most difficult to say is that you like your job and to choose a form of making money that makes you happy. It is not a matter of choosing, it is a very opposite relationship that one, as a worker, build through time with a paid endeavour. This relationship is only of a monetary nature, and since it is of this character, one cannot decide if that form of personal and intimate bond that one holds with money is healthy at all. I think it is probably not. So, in short words

- Comments: Ask students to leave a comment on your post + 3 of their classmates' posts. - Word Count for post 4: 200 words I will leave you  the beginning of a Critical Review that a classmate and me wrote some years ago, as a manner of example, The Scarlet Letter as a biformous narrative: Characterization. Hawthorne’s novel, ‘The Scarlet Letter’ can be said, inhabits ‘biformity’, a term which has been coined by Michael Kammen in his essay ‘Biformity: A Frame of Reference’. More particularly, the novel’s ‘biformity’ can be found in the construction of one of its main characters, Hester Prynne. As a starting point, ‘Biformity’ can be shaped as an ambivalent state of two opposing philosophical and moral forces that, “Subject people to more extreme contrasts and abrupt changes during a lifetime or a generation than is normally the case with other great nations” (Kammen, 101) Moreover, ‘biformity’, is said to develop “a tension between newer and older human ways of acting

  -  Comments: Ask students to leave a comment on your post + 3 of their classmates' posts. - Word Count for post 4: 200 words I will leave you  the beginning of a Critical Review that I wrote two years ago, as a manner of example, Mobilizing the object of study, Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises” The following work attempts to look for an intertextual dialogue to occur between T S Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”. For this to be achieved, several passages from both the poem and the novels have been selected in order to find a point of convergence concerning one paramount topic, the one of the ‘solitude in the quotidian’. As a mode of beginning, the topic that may follow up: ‘the solitude in the quotidian’, portrayed in Fitzgerald’s and Eliot’s passages it is now reversed to the coming across of ‘company in the quotidian’. It is in the following lines of Hemingway’s novel that one may find such developm

  Warm Salutations , Prospective Industrial Designers, Geographers, Architects from   FAU, This week, I am bringing to you the second out of ten blog sessions. In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment: This time you will write about  the best holidays  or  concert you've been to .  Please choose  ONLY 1 theme .  Holidays: When  it was Where  they went How long  it was People  you went with Things/activities  they did Why  it has been  the best  so far Any other relevant info or, Concert: When / where  it was The  artist  you saw A bit of info  about the artist Describe  the atmosphere  during the event Describe  how you felt  and why they enjoyed it Any other memories  about it Worcount: 170 . Leave comments on  3 of your   classmates’   posts  + comments on  your teacher's post. This task is meant to be handed on August 28th 2019,  during the blog session ,  not after.  If in doubt, if any queries or questions pop up; do not hesitate t

  Warm Salutations Earthlings from FAU, In this very special moment, I am bringing to you the first out of many blog sessions we will be working on. In this particular session, you will be asked to  do the following classwork : -  Which country would you like to go to? Why? -  What do you know about it? -  What would you like to do there? -  Would you like to study/work/live there? Explain. -  Upload pictures -  Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your  teacher’s  post - Word Count:  160 words - This task is meant to be handed on June 19th 2020 .  If in doubt, if any queries or questions pop up; do not  hesitate  to contact me. Down below, I am leaving you a written sample for you to have an idea.  "Hi everybody, To go straight to the point, I will say that I would like to visit Japan in the near future. Since it is the birthplace of all anime and video games, Japan makes its way as one of the most interesting places to visit in the globe. J apan is a very