He was a genius ...

Without a doubt  Charlie Chaplin is my all-time favourite actor. He didn't  need to say anything to communicate thousand of emotions. In fact, he was the pioneer of cinematography, so he had an extraordinary control of  his  body language. In this sense, he stands out, because he combined  the humour with complex plots like  war,  poverty, hunger, fear, love, happiness, sadness and so on. This list could be endless.

Well, but what did he look like?...He brought a peculiar character to life. This character was a vagabond who had perfect manners. In fact, although he was a short and thin man,  he  always wore a tailcoat combined with a tie and a waistcoat. Also he wore a bowler hat and  a walking stick. Paradoxically, he decided  to combine his elegant appearance with oversized trousers,  as well as old shoes. Probably, this contradictory style was what  made of him an icon in the cinematic world.

Regarding his appeareance, he has short black wavy hair. Almost in all his films, we can see him with  a  peculiar short black moustache, also he had a fair-skinned, bushy eyebrows and expressive eyes, so he used to make up as a mime artist to emphasize his gesticulations. In fact, his face was his best asset as an actor,  in such a way that, everybody even children can understand  his different role plays.

Although this character was apparently a plain, weird or even a naive man,  he was really  charming, sensible, affectionate, determinate, sociable, easy-going, creative, dreamy, generous, intelligent, gifted but above everything  he was an optimistic man.

Finally, I must confess  that I can't help laughing with  all  of Chaplin's films, but especially with this one:

What happen in our minds when we come up with a question?

When you become a parent, your world changes totally.  This sentence seems to be a cliché but, at least in my case, that is true! ..

The most special thing that I've  re-discovered as  a mother  is 'the question'. The question as a source of  knowledge. Matthew Lipman  developed an interesting programme called: Philosophy for children. Through stories, drawings, games and so on, he tries to arouse  their innate capacity to know about the world, but how does he do it? Simply, through  the construction in community of a special kind of dialogue. At the beginning, he makes questions to provoke a dialogue, then his questions become increasily more complex, so that these questions stimulate different capacities like: reasoning, deduction, induction, transference and so on.  Then when children have internalized  that dynamic (it happens almost immediately), they would be the ones who generate the dialogue into  the comunity of investigation.  The result is  significant learning.

I would like to share with you an interesting map. That is only an example of how  a teacher or whatever person could develop a gripping dialogue. Also, I've though that if you want, you could put in some questions in each dimension.

Questioning & beaming ....

As time goes by,  I'm  more convinced  that the  essence of the human being is his capacity to make question and laugh at himself....

How do best learn English and patterns? .... Part 1

I consider that the first and most important quality to learn whatever thing is how someone comes to grips with it. It can become a great experience or it can become an unpleasant experiencie. Therefore, if I choose to enjoy it, I must have a positive attitude and  the predisposition for learning especially about my mistakes without giving up my goals. In fact, my motivational motto is based on the next sentence:

Always find a reason to laugh and smile. 

It may not add years to your life

 but will surely add life to your years.

How do you best learn English and patterns? ... Part 2

Defenitely, I can learn more things  when I connect it  with  others previous knowledges. It's as the cause-effect theory. For example, with this song I can not only learn new vocabulary, as well as, I can enjoy  the rhythm or melody, but also I can consider some current problems around the world.  For me, this song is a real wake-up call for all us, so we are  part of a consumer society. Wisely, Mahatma Gandhi said ... " There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everyone's greed".

All babies together, everyone a seed
Half of us are satisfied, half of us in need
Love's beautiful in us, tarnished by our greed
Oh, when will there be a harvest for the world, yeah

Harvest for the world

A nation planted, so concerned with gain
As the seasons come and go, greater grows the pain
And far too many, feelin' the strain
Oh, when will there be a harvest for the world, yeah

Harvest for the world

Gather every man, gather every woman
Celebrate your lives, ah, give thanks for your children (oh!)
Gather everyone (gather everyone), gather all together (gather all together)
Overlooking none (overlooking none), hopin' life gets better (better)

Dress me up for battle, when all I want is peace
Those of us who pay the price, come home with the least
And nation after nation, turning into beast
Oh, when will there be a harvest for the world

Yeah, yeah
When will there be
I wanna know now now
When will there be (harvest for the world)
I wanna know now now (harvest for the world)
When will there be (harvest for the world)
I wanna know now (harvest for the world)

Get up with a great motto!!!

Yestarday, when my classmates said their mottos, I can't avoid remembering to Pep Guardiola and his motivational song used in  Barça's team ...It was simply fantastic how a song, a rhythm could change negative thounghts, low performance and so on. Of course, some psycologists tell us that  the word has power to change into our mind in a positive or negative sense, we can programme our minds to improve our efficiency or simply to be happier. Why not tell ourselves a special motto every week, it could be so interesting or all in all it could help us to practise our fluency in English ... I've chosen some good mottos, I hope that you can write your own motto.

Welcome to my world !

 

Hi there,  

Well,  I'm convinced that every day we can learn many things, even if we don't want to do it. For this reason,  I've decided to take up a big challenge ....I try to write in English a log book.  

Probably, you will find many mistakes in it, please try to be lenient with me !!! However, I'm open to criticisms, so I'll be grateful if you comment it, because your words will be encouranging and helpful for me.

See you soon!