Friday, November 28, 2008

Congrats on your Slideshows!

... to all groups for your great work in your
oral presentations slideshows!!

Slideshow Oral Presentations

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

Timelines - Section 2






To all the students of Section 2:




Congratulations on your excellent work in our
Timelines Workshop!

Great designs and even better chronological organization

of the information in the readings.


Keep up the excellent work!

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.

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:



  • 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.
  • 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!

Reading & Writing Assignment Plan Updated


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GOs Sec 2

To all the students of Section 2:

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

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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.
See you in class!

Grades Section 4

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Grades Section 2

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