::Modern Times::

“Modern Times” is a film which shows us how industrialization changed people’s life.
The thing is that we can see trough the movie how many people suffered because they couldn’t find a job. Almost everyone worked in these factories where they were not treated like real people. They were workers with no rights or even decent salary.

So, what it brings modernity was mass production. This one was known because of fewer expenses and many profits. After all small producers were affected in a huge way. As a result, they could not sell their products because those were too expensive. Thus, people who had factories made things in mass productions and they were the only ones who had the opportunity to have a decent life.

To sum up, we can clearly see that there was no class mobility during those times. Chaplin showed us how hard it was to live in those circumstances in a funny way but it wasn’t funny at all. We could see how people were almost slaves of factories just because they wanted to have some food to take it home.

::Elizabeth the golden age::

The reign of Elizabeth I is thought as a Golden Age. One of the contributions of Elizabeth’s reign was the literature because of the famous writers that we can find at those times, like Shakespeare for example. And explorers like Drake and Raleigh sought to expand England's territory overseas.

Elizabeth was well known because of her virginity, that’s why she got the name of “virgin queen”, and the fact that she never got married. She considered herself as the mother of England. So, she didn’t need a man to reign England. Elizabeth thought that to marry a man was to marry a country.

Another important thing from my point of view was religion. Elizabeth was a protestant queen, because she received protestant education. She was not a fan of Catholics. But anyway we could see the commitment that she had with her people because she was very stick to her believes. The most important thing was her people and she demonstrated that through her acts.

“Natives & Immigrants”

I am going to write you my reflection about the natives and immigrants in the formation of the United Kingdom. As we know United Kingdom is a very rich place in terms of culture. I mean, we could see trough the texts that we are reading how different people from different parts of the world got there causing changes . The thing is that these people had different abilities. So, the United Kingdom’s natives could learn new things about these new immigrants. Things like customs, art, skills and so on. Moreover, these people not just learn new things; they were creating a new culture too. So, United Kingdom’s culture nowadays is a completely new culture from the one which we could find thousands years ago.
I think that it was pretty important the role of immigrants in the United Kingdom. They change the story there. From my point of view wars and invasions had to happen to create what we have nowadays. And what we have nowadays is not quite bad at all.

::Questions::

My conclusion about the set of questions and asnwers that we have is that the holyday had a big influence on those asnwers. If we had interwied in another date we had had a completely different set of asnwers. So, all those answers that we have are related with Spetember 18.

In my opinion if we interview some people on January for example people will think on vacations and that kind of stuff. So, we cannot have these answers like the whole true. Anyway, it was a good excersise to know what people think of culture and another topics too.

::Critical Thinking::

We can say that critical thinking is a reflective judgment about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments. That is one of the definitions that we can find for critical thinking.

Now, if we think about criting thinking in the classroom we can find many people that don't have any idea about what critical thinkg is. Nowadays it is a pitty to say that many school don't let students to think on their own, they just have to repit the things that the teacher is saying. We know that students have their own point of view about diffetent topics and we as future teachers have to let him to express what they feel.
To teach English has a lot of advantages about "teaching critical thinking" beacuse English can take a lot of topics for discusion that another subject can't. So, we have to take advantage of that.
Critical thinking can be boost, and I do think taht we can do something about it.

::Expectations::

I really would like to learn a lot from this course, I mean, all about USA and Great Britain because I think that it would be very important for us as future teachers of English. I think that we have to know about the culture and the civilization of these two beautiful countries. It would be essential to us.

I think that we are going to learn a lot of thing in this course, but I think that we are going to learn other things related with education too. The thing is that when we meet a new teacher we meet a completely different method to teach, so, we can get thing that we believe are good and then we will be able to apply those knowledge when we are teachers.

And finally I would like to have help with texts because I’m not good at all reading texts of history or that kind of things.

And that’s it, I guess. I hope that everybody can enjoy the course including me =)