End of term activities

Dear all,

This are the instructions for the activities that are coming.

Last evaluations:

We are not having the socnd test and oral part. We are having oral presentation about recipes instead. These are the instructions:

- Prepare a report of the preparation of a menu, i.e., a beverage, a main course, and a desset. Print it and hand it in. This counts for the second written exam.
- Choose one of the meals and present it to your classmates. e

Example: Let's imagibe your are making a cake. Prepare the cake at home and make a short video of the preparation. It does not need to have audio. If you cannot make a video, you can even present a PPT with pictures of the stages of the preparation (ingredients, mixing, baking, etc.). In the class you will explain the steps of preparation. Finally, in the second hour, we are going to share a good time eating the diferent kinds of food you have prepared.


Some useful vocabulary for the recipes:

cooking vocabulary

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/INTERMEDIATE/unit5/page5.htm

Good luck

Exam 1 contents

Hi,

this post is to let you know about the contents for the exam.

1- General Vocabulary (handout)
2- Combination of sentences with, after and before.
3- Basic knowledge of tenses (from previous levels)
4- Writing a paragraph. (video summary, referencial link 1, referencial link 2)
5- Listening.

Good luck!

Some things to practice:

http://www.elllo.org/english/1051/1092-Gareth-Routine.htm
http://www.elllo.org/english/1051/1084-Steven-EcoTips.htm
http://www.elllo.org/english/1051/1052-Diego-CincoDeMayo.htm
http://www.elllo.org/english/1051/1051-Diego-200Years.htm

traditions and customs

Here they are:

- Bribes: http://www.elllo.org/english/1001/1037-Aiman-Bribes.htm
- Christmass: http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G017-Christmas.html
- Chinese New Year: http://www.elllo.org/english/0901/T936-Santi-Chinese.htm
- Arranged Marriages: http://www.elllo.org/english/0951/T953-Enam-Marriage.htm
- On touching other people: http://www.elllo.org/english/1001/1004-Touch.htm
- About the same: http://www.elllo.org/english/1001/1003-Moves.htm
- Ditto: http://www.elllo.org/english/1051/1070-Amir-Touch.htm
- Spain vs. japan: http://www.elllo.org/english/0151/198-Jessica-SpainJapan.htm
- Superstitions: http://www.elllo.org/ireland/spooky.htm




Common errors: http://www.elllo.org/english/0951/T972-Tom-Errors.htm

Hi, Happy Easter

Hi,

here you have today's links. Did you remember to bring your own headphones? Well, try to borrow a pair for my class if you don't have any. The idea is to practice your listening and increase your vocabulary.

So, here are the links:

http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G071-BoardGame.htm
http://www.elllo.org/yeartwo/april17th/easter_quiz.htm
http://www.elllo.org/yeartwo/april17th/holidays.htm
http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixers/T116-Plans.htm
http://www.elllo.org/english/MixSix/073C-Regret.html
http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer/68-Addiction.html

That's it.

Choose one to talk about in class.

NEW LEVEL 5 - NEW BLOG LINK SHARING

THESE ARE THE LINKS:

CHOOSE ONE OF THESE ARTICLES, READ THEM AND WRITE A SHORT REPORT ABOUT IT.


http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.before.after/index.html?hpt=T1
http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/Teaching-resources/Lesson-plans/Japan-tsunami
http://www.newsenglishlessons.com/1103/110312-japan_earthquake.html
http://www.newsenglishlessons.com/1003/100303-chile.html
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ecology/future.htm

thanks,

JCA

This is the end... my only friend, the end...

We are almost at the end of our course, level 5 and I hope everybody can make it and suceed. I'm soon finishing correcting all your texts for you to have a look at your writing.

Well, here's is the list of contents for this test.

Face the music: This is when we had our oral presentations and got to talk about music, bands, kinds of music, etc. Here we used adjectives ending with "ED" and "ING," and we expressed our opions by saying "I agree" or "I disagree," and used question tags.

Famous people: We talked about fame and success and listened to short biographies of Jackie Chan and Gloria Stephan. We also did an activity where we learned words like pen name, seudonim, etc.

The way things used to be: We read two texts "investing in memories" and "the selective memory" (with a lot of vocabulary, by the way). In this we talked and wrote about our childhood memories. We learned and practiced the use of "used to" and "would" to describe ideas in the past.

Cold, lost and hungry: Here we read the story in two people who had a scary fishing trip. We coverred the topic of joining ideas using "while," "as," "as soon as" and "when." This was particularlty difficult so I gave you a handout with explanations in the lab.

Can money buy happiness?: We mainly talked about some people with a lot of money and wrote about "What would you do if you won $200.000.000 in the lotery"

Fictional Heores never die: We talked about cartoon and TV heroes. We saw the present perfect continuos and present perfect. At the end of the class we played a game about the past tense, which I think was fun.

How we met: Here we made a revision of past continuous. We listened to two people saying how they had met.

We also included the use of passive voice and reported speech, but I'm going to evaluate passive voice only.

(printer friendly pdf version ;))
If you don't understand how to download it, click here.

I think that's it guys. I'm going to update if I find something useful for you.

cheers!

Fwd: Updating

Dear students,

I hope this week and the next can be venturous. As we talked in class we are about to finish. We have 8 hours to go, which means we are going to finish on Friday 15th of June with everything. Today I gave you a homework of writing 100 words where you answer this question "What would you do if you won the lottery" I hope you bring it tomorrow.

The final listening exam will be on the 15th of June. The second written test will be on Monday 11th, with oral part on Tuesday (Seba, Cris, Rod and Luis) and Wednesday (Claudia, Naty, Maca and Karina) If you haven't chosen your day, do it ASAP. On Thursday I'm planing to provide some practice for the final listening.

That's all for now guys. See you in class tomorro (or today.)

Your teacher
Q=^D