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

fame or success? and effective oral presentations

Hello people,

This is what we are doing in the lab today:

Write a text of 300 words at least about "effective oral presentations" or "fame and success." You can include examples and citations from websites.

If you write something textual, be sure to cite it properly. For example "La disciplina es la parte más importante del éxito"(1) and at the end (at the botom of the page) you can cite the name of the author and year, if you know it. You can also cite the name of the person in the text, e.g.: for Truman Capote discipline was the most important part of success, (in this case you don't need quotation marks).

If your topic is "effective oral presentations," you can mention other kinds of oral presentations (appart form the class work) if you wish.

If your topic is "fame and success" you can explain if the words mean the same and why. You can give examples of people and your opinion about them.

You can call me and ask me questions. The idea is to elaborate.
Good luck!

Thank you and namaste.

Let's talk about music

Okay guys,



This is what we have to do for next Tuesday.
Prepare an oral presentation about music (in English)

Consider an introduction, a body and conclusion. In these stages you can include anything you want but it has to be logical. For instance, in the introduction you can talk about the song and the band or singer. You can mention anecdites o popularity of the song, etc. You can present the song in the body of the presentation. You can play the song in the radio on a casstte, CD, mp3 (or any other format) or play it alive with an instrument and your classmates singing along. The conclusion can be some words or expresions in the song, or anything you decide. Be ready to answer questions.

Time: Your presentation should last 10 minutes and it must be rady for Tuesday 15th. For time reasons (obviously) not everyone will be able to present on that day, but everybody must be ready.

You have to send me a short report about it at the end of the week. In in mention the song you're going to present, the audiovisual facilities you need (radio, OHP, laptop, etc )

Questions welcomed

Q=^D