Forums are now closed.
Thanks to all the participants for their great contribution to
the important discussion about the significance and use of
the English language in your future careers.
Well done!
Monday, December 1, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
Congrats on your Slideshows!
... to all groups for your great work in your oral presentations slideshows!!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Vocabulary Forum
Post here your questions about the vocabulary you need for your participation on the ESP Forum.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Forum 3 - Electric Technology
Give your opinion about the need/importance of the English language on your field of work, area of interest and/or future career development. State which skill (listening, reading, writing, speaking) you think you will use more and why.
Give a specific example and a description of a situation that could arise in your day to day work where you would need to use English. Elaborate.
Forum 2 - Electronic Technology
Give your opinion about the need/importance of the English language on your field of work, area of interest and/or future career development.
State which skill (listening, reading, writing, speaking) you think you will use more and why.
Give a specific example and a description of a situation that could arise in your day to day work where you would need to use English. Elaborate.
Forum 1 - International Trade & Business
Give your opinion about the need/importance of the English language on your field of work, area of interest and/or future career development.
State which skill (listening, reading, writing, speaking) you think you will use more and why.
Give a specific example and a description of a situation that could arise in your day to day work where you would need to use English. Elaborate.
W3 - Writing Activity 3 - Forum
Following are the instructions for our last writing activity which is a forum on this blog.
- Go to the forum that corresponds to the major you are pursuing.
- There are three forums:
-Forum 1 - International trade & Business
-Forum 2 - Electronic Technology
-Forum 3 - Electric Technology
- Participate and give your personal opinion on the topic.
- Make sure you address the forum question directly. Elaborate, but be specific.
- Entries should contain at least 10 sentences. (±120 words).
- Prepare your entry in Word and then copy/paste it onto the forum posting.
- Check your spelling and grammar before you post it.
- Don’t forget to identify your post like this Sec_FullName.
- Forum closes on Sunday, November 30.
- Value points 5.
Prepare a Tree Diagram and a draft of your participation and bring it to class on Thursday 20. (This will account for 1 point of the total value of this activity.)
BONUS: Students who participate twice and comment (agree/disagree) on their classmates opinions will get 1 extra point. (Providing their comments contribute to the forum discussion.)
Next Week
Tuesday, Nov 18:
- Listening Quiz 2 (LQ2)
- Unit 9, Lesson B. pp 95-99
- Review Lessons 8 & 9
- Exercises Simple Past
Thursday, Nov 13:
- Drafting of W3. Individual work.
- Revision of W3 Tree diagram
- Revision of Oral Presentation preparation (PPT & scripts)
See you in class!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
R3 - Reading Activity 3 - Timelines
This is a teamwork activity consisting of reading a given text* and extracting the most relevant information.
Then, you will need to draft and organize the information in chronological order and draw a timeline.
* Texts will be handed out in class.
* Texts will be handed out in class.
This activity’s point value is 5.
Timelines
A timeline is the presentation of a chronological sequence of events along a drawn line that enables a viewer to understand temporal relationships quickly.
Timelines can be Linear or Comparative:
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=timelines+&btnG=Search+Images
Timelines can be Linear or Comparative:
- A linear timeline shows a picture of events as they occurred in a certain period of time. Use a linear timeline for one subject and time frame. A linear timeline can be written horizontally or vertically.
- A comparative timeline shows two or more subject areas which occurred at the same time; it shows readers the "big picture." A comparative timeline might compare historical events in two or more countries or compare two or more subjects.
For ideas on charts and lines, follow this link:
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=timelines+&btnG=Search+Images
Next Week
Tuesday, Nov 11.
Thursday, Nov 13.
- Unit 9, Lesson A. pp 91-94
Thursday, Nov 13.
- In-class group activity.
- Read a selected text.
- Draw a Timeline.
- Turn in R3.
See you in class!
GOs Sec 2
To all the students of Section 2:
Congratulations on your excellent work in our
Congratulations on your excellent work in our
Graphic Organizers Workshop!
Great designs and even better organization of the information in the readings.
Keep up the hard work!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Graphic Organizers
Click image to enlarge.
For more info on GOs, follow these links:
http://exploratree.org.uk/explore/templates.php
http://metamexico.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=849670%3ATopic%3A3267
http://images.google.co.ve/images?hl=es&q=graphic%20organizers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Next Class
Tomorrow Thursday, Nov 6, we are going to:
- Review information on Graphic Organizers (GO).
- Read a selected text.
- Create a GO.
- Turn in R2 group activity.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Oral Presentation Guidelines
For week 11, you have to prepare a brief team oral presentation related to the contents of the units studied in class. This activity’s value point is 10.
Following are some guidelines for the presentation and the evaluation criteria.
- Each team will have 15-18 minutes for their presentation.
- Teams must prepare a PPT slide show or a handout for the rest of the class.
- Topics are: Dreams and Plans (Unit 7), A national/international hero (Unit 8), The meaning of dreams (Unit 9, Early memories (Unit 9).
- Each team must send me their visual aids and general organization plan before the presentation.
- Evaluation Criteria:
Team work: Organization, time frame, visual aids and content (4 pts.).
Individual work: Facial expression, posture, enthusiasm, pauses,
clarity of speech, fluency (6 pts.).
- Detailed guidelines were sent to you by email. Please print them out and bring to class on Tuesday 4.
LQ - Listening Quizes 1 & 2
Please note this info about our Listening Quizes:
- LQ1: Tue Nov 4 - Lab - 5 pts
- LQ2: Tue Nov 18 - Lab - 5 pts
Next Class
On Tuesday, Nov 4, we are going to:
- Have LQ1
- Cover Unit 8, Lesson B. pp 85-89 (Key Points: Simple Past / Communication: Hero of the Year.)
- Review Oral Presentation Guidelines
See you in class!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
W2 - Writing Activity 2 - Unit 8 - Heores
- This is a group activity / collaborative process consisting of writing a paragraph about a famous person.
- Detailed instructions will be given in class.
- You will work on the draft in class and turn in the finished paragraph by email.
- This activity’s point value is 5
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Midterm Exam Grades
Click image to enlarge.- Exams will not be reviewed in class.
- Students who want to review their exams can go to my office at consultation hours.
Congrats to those who did well on the exam...
Keep up the good work!!
Next Class
On Thursday, Oct 30, we are going to:
- Review the basics of paragraph structure and examples of topic sentences.
- Work on the first draft of Writing Assignment 2.
- Bring your bilingual/monolingual dictionary.
- Please print out the materials sent to you by email and bring them to class. (Outline, Tree diagram & Connectors.)
See you in class!
Monday, October 27, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Basic Reading Strategies
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
R1 - Reading Activity 1
- This is a group activity / collaborative process consisting of reading two short extracts.
- Each reading is followed by a number of questions to be answered based upon what is stated or implied in the texts. (There are two types of questions: vocabulary & reading comprehension.)
- After silent reading, the teams will choose the best answer to each question from the answer choices listed and fill out the answer sheet.
- This activity’s point value is 5
Midterm Exam - Oct 28
- The midterm exam will be on Tuesday 28 (week 7) in the Big Lab. at your usual class time.
- This exam has five sections: Listening Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading and Writing.
- The exam covers:
Unit 7 – Lessons A & B
Unit 8 – Lesson A
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Grading Criteria W1
Remember to bring the cluster diagram and the outline to class
on Tuesday to get your total grade.
Friday, October 17, 2008
W1 – Writing Assignment 1 - Unit 7 – Dreams
Following the Writing Process, finish writing the paragraph that you drafted in class.
These are the guidelines given in class:
These are the guidelines given in class:
- Pay careful attention to syntax, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- Format your Word docs using font Arial 12 and double space.
- Send your assignment (Word doc attached) to aprendoingles@gmail.com
- Name your docs like this Sec#_Act#_LastName
- Make sure you use the topic you chose as the title of your paragraph.
- Bring the cluster diagram & the outline done on Thursday to our next class.
Topics :
-Short-term changes you want to make in your life
-Long-term changes you want to make in your life
-Plans you have for your future professional life
-Dreams you have about your personal life
-My dream job
-The ideal job
-Advice you would give to a friend who has a problem
-Dreams for life after college
Make questions or comments about this activity here in this post.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
About Homework & Assignments...
When submitting your activities please note the following:
- Follow instructions step by step.
- Pay careful attention to syntax, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- Format your Word docs using font Arial 12 and double space (for easier correction).
- Send your assignment (Word doc attached) to aprendoingles@gmail.com
- Name your docs like this Secc#_Act#_LastName
- Make questions or comments about any activity in the posting of that specific activity.
- Clear and neat presentation is a must.
About posting comments...
Click image to enlarge.- Make your comment on the appropriate section (activity Unit 7-8-9 or general questions).
- Identify your coments with your FullName_Section#.
- Tip: write your entry in a Word doc. and when you think is ready, copy/paste it on the leave your comment window. Don't worry if you send it twice or more times by mistake, only your best entry will be posted. The rest will be deleted.
Coffee Break
Share with us any links, tips, ideas or suggestions you may have about the content matter of our course!!
Contact Me...
If you need to talk to me outside the classroom you can contact me at:
- Cell phone: 0412 090 9682
- Email: aprendoingles@gmail.com
- Office: EGE 209-D on Thursdays from 12.30 to 1.30 pm (by appointment).
Methodology
The dynamics of the class require that you come to class prepared, that is:
- Pre-check the book's units before class.
- Look up new vocabulary in your dictionary.
- When possible, complete the exercises and answer the questions.
- Listening comprehension practices will be done in the Lab on Tuesdays (unless advised otherwise).
- Oral practice exercises, dialogues & rol plays will be done in every class.
- Writing & reading activities will be done in class (individually or in groups) and will include:
- New vocabulary discussion (meaning & interpretation).
- Exercise and answer revision.
- Questions and discussions on detailed understanding of the texts.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Textbook
On this course we will be covering Units 7, 8 & 9 of your textbook World Link Book 1B from Thomson.
Here is the link for these series:
This book can be purchased at LIMESAMA next to the library.
For additional practice of Units 7 to 9, go to the link on the back of your book and enter the code number.
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