Friday 11.11.11

Dear Class

Today we're going to do an activity connected to a TEDtalks talk called "How to Start a Movement".

Copy and paste this link:

http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html

First of all, watch the short clip. Once you've watched it I'll give you the worksheet to complete.

After we've completed this activity you will have time to woerk with your partner on your dialouges.

If you haven't already completed the encuesta docente please do. Here's the link:

http://lenguajevijudybaker.questionpro.com

Judy x

Surveys

Here is the link for the survey:

http://lenguajevijudybaker.questionpro.com

Thanks

Judy

Song, Activities & QPT

Hi class

It seems like an eternity since we were last in the lab. First of all we're going to do a song, then perhaps another activity from the book.

Then go to these websites and do these activities:

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/upp_intermediate/b_vocabulary/unit10/hwy_upp_unit10_4?cc=cl&selLanguage=en

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/idioms-body.htm?

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/modal_quiz.htm

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/upp_intermediate/a_grammar/unit10/hwy_upp_unit10_2?cc=cl&selLanguage=en

Finally, you have to complete a QPT test.

Judy x

JUST ACTIVITIES TODAY - NO WRITING!!!!

As it says above, we're going to take a break from writing this week and there are a variety of activities for you below. Hope you enjoy them!

www.41q.com

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/valentinesday/listening/listening.html

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/modals1.htm

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/modalws2.htm

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/rosh-hashanah/how-to-celebrate-rosh-hashanah.html

http://www.esoeonline.org/listening/c1.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=626

Judy x

A teacher I'll never forget

For today's writing you need to produce 250 words minimum about the topic "A teacher I'll never forget".

judy

Writing - My favourite part of town

Today your witing assignment is to write about 250 words about your favourite part of town (see page 119 of the book).

Here are some additional activities if you finish the writing:

ACTIVITY 1 - Listening: Rob on University

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening66.htm

ACTIVITY 2 - Vocab & Grammar

http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/advanced/relationship%20vocabulary.htm

http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/advanced/antisocialbehavior.htm

http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/advanced/culture%20questions.htm

Browse through the other activities on englishmedialab and choose others that interest you.

Judy

Guided Fantasy & other activities

We are going to do a guided fantasy activity. Copy and paste the 11 questions below to a word document. Then we will start the activity together.

OH MY GOD! Guided Fantasy

1. What type of water is it?

2. What was the smell?

3. What was the noise?

4. Where were you?

5. What were the voices like?

6. What did you do next?

7. What did they shout?

8. Where were they taking you?

9. Why were you captured?

10. What did you decide to do?

11. What do you see?

Now write a story using the notes that you made.

Judy

Welcome back

Dear Class

Welcome back! Today we're going to do a few different things...

First of all go to: http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/upp_intermediate/a_grammar/unit07/?cc=cl&selLanguage=en

and complete the two grammar parts.

Then I'd like you to write a minimum of 150 words (and post it you your blog - along with a picture if you wish) about what you think the government should do about the current protests about the state of the education system in Chile. What measures do you think the government can take to resolve the 'strike' by school and university students who have taken over the buildings where they are studying. Make sure to use modal verbs.

Whilst there have been a series of protests here in Chile involving confrontations with the police and damage to property, over in England there has been a series of riots that have involved violence and looting. We're going to look at a few of the newspaper reports about the riots.

The first report comes from an Australian newspaper (The Sydney Morning Herald) and gives some details about the reason why the first riot(s) started. Read the report, watch the video and browse the pictures.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/blazes-looting-in-london-riot-20110807-1ih6j.html

The second report comes from The Guardian newspaper in Britian and is about an interview with a young man, who predicted the riots were going to happen. Watch the interview with Chavez Campbell and read the article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/12/riot-predict-trouble-not-over

The last report is from the Daily Mail (another British newspaper) that gives details about some of the rioters, their crimes and the sentences handed to them by the courts. Please take down notes about the names, occupation, crimes and sentences that the people received.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025068/UK-riots-Middle-class-rioters-revealed-including-Laura-Johnson-Natasha-Reid-Stefan-Hoyle.html

Once you have read all the reports you are going to take part in group discussion, so feel free to note down any interestesting information.

Finally, today we're going to finish up with a song.

judy

FINAL EXAM

Dear All

Here is the content you need to revise for the exam:

• The first exercise you have to choose the correct word and this covers all the tenses studied throughout the semester and also quantifiers (Unit 6).
• Question forms: You will have to put mixed up words in the correct order to form questions
• Short questions: Asking for more information page 36 (Q3)
• Present Perfect Simple and Continuous: Unit 2
• Vocabulary: make & do Unit 2
• Compound Words: Unit 1
• Future Forms: Unit 5
• Numbers: Unit 6 page 61
• Vocabulary: put & take Unit 5
• Narrative tenses: Unit 3
• Reading comprehension

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries. I was wrong about the weighting for the exam. The speaking exam represents 50% of the final exam total and the written part 50%.

See you all on Friday.

Judy

Surveys

Please click on the following links to complete the suverys for this semester. The first link will take you to the survey for the classes and the second will take you to the survey for the lab sessions.

http://obsurvey.com/S.aspx?id=52e7a04f-ad50-4200-8270-d69cb87adaf8 http://obsurvey.com/S.aspx?id=323eddb4-08ee-495d-86f9-6f00ec5ba90c

Simply click on the link, complete the survey and write your name.

judy

Speaking Test

The speaking test which will take place Tuesday 14th will involve a two-way discussion between you and a partner. While this is talking place you will also have to complete the final writing for the semester.

The topics for discussion relate to Units 1 to 6 that we have studied this semester.

Here is a brief outline of the kinds of topics you will be discussing:

Unit 1: House and home
Unit 2: Life experiences and holidays
Unit 3: Books & Films
Unit 4: Truth & Lies, Conspiracy theories
Unit 5: Talking about the future
Unit 6: Advertising & Brands

Best of Luck
judy

Listening and Future Tense activities........

G'day!!!

First of all we are going to do a song activity. I'll give you the worksheet and you'll go to youtube and watch and listen to it.

Then we are going to do an activity from the book. You will be put into two groups to do a listening activity.

After that, you can get cracking on these exercises:

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/upp_intermediate/a_grammar/unit06/

http://www.world-english.org/grammarfuture.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs25.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs26.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs27.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs28.htm

If you manage to finish everything well done. Relax and read some of the trash on The Sun and Mirror websites.

judy x

Today's selection of activities

Howdy All

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/upp_intermediate/a_grammar/unit05/

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/upp_intermediate/b_vocabulary/unit05/

http://www.esoeonline.org/listening/t1.htm

http://www.esoeonline.org/listening/c1.htm

http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/uploads/ressources/academic/text_reconstruction_exercises/30a_marilyn.htm

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_futureforms.htm

http://www.isabelperez.com/dictionaries/word_f_1.htm

http://www.isabelperez.com/hotpot/phrasal_v_1.htm

http://www.isabelperez.com/dictionaries/phrasal_2.htm

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/fut.htm

judy x

Past Tense Practice and more FCE Practice

Hi all

Like the title says today you'll be focusing on using the past tenses and there are a couple activities not related to this too. The last three activities are an FCE Exam Reading Test.

http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=874

http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=913

http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=887

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/preanto1.htm

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/gerund2.htm

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/upp_intermediate/a_grammar/unit03/

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/upp_intermediate/a_grammar/unit04/

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/3part2.htm

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/part3.htm

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/1part3.htm

judy x

The McGurk Effect

Hi Everyone

Today we're going to do a video lesson about the McGurk Effect.

After that please complete the online exercises below:

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/strategy/mcclze/colloc1.htm

The first part is connected with synonyms. Once you have completed this, click on next exercise and it will take you to another page which has a list. Under Collocations click on Online Exercise and then complete. Once you have done these you will go back to the other page and click again on online exercise for Phrasal Verbs etc.

Hope you enjoy the lesson

judy

Narrative Writing

Here are the instructions for your next writing assignment which I'd like you to send me before Monday 2nd May 2011. You need to write a story about a dangerous situation that you've been in. Those of you who managed to drag yourselves out of bed to attend the first class did a speaking/shouting dictation activity in class talking about a dangerous situation. You need to write a minimum of 250 words and give your story a title.

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Please refer to page 113 (particularly question 6) in the book for more information.

judy x

Writing an informal letter correction & Individual Presentation Preparation

Hi Everyone Firstly, you must give me the letter before the end of this lesson. I'm going to use the correction key and give you back the letter to correct (you must also look at the correction key on page 112). Please do your corrections and email me the letter back (or print it off and give it to me). The corrected letter must be submitted this week and Friday is your deadline. Secondly, you can use this time to start preparing your individual presentation. The topic is your favoutite book or film. You will give the presentation on Friday 29th April. Remember the presentation must be between 4 to 6 minutes. If you want to show a clip about the book or film, the clip time is not included in the 4 minimum time. Please come and speak to me if you have any queries. Have a good week. Judy x

FRIDAY'S TEST

Here are details of what will be included in the test on Friday and the corresponding pages you need to review:

UNIT 1

Grammar: Tense revision and Identifying the tenses pages 6-8

Spoken English - Missing words out page 8

Vocabulary: Language work page 11 (look at the boxes with Ian in Chile and Thomas in Korea)

Formal and informal language: page 111

House and home page 13

Compound nouns page 13 (question 5)

UNIT 2

Grammar: Present Perfect (simple and continuous) and past perfect pages 16-18

Vocabulary: make & do page 23

Exclamations page 25

There is also a reading part to the test that you cannot revise for.

See you all Friday.

judy

Evaluation

Here is the breakdown of coursework we will complete in class for evaluation during the semester: 20% LAB Classes - This will be made up of 4 writing assignments. We will complete a total of 6 and your 4 best scores will make up the 20%. WARNING! You must complete all 6 pieces of writing. For every piece of writing not submitted 1 point wil be deducted from the overall total. e.g. Your overall average for the 4 writing assignments is 6.5 but you only submitted 4 pieces, your average will be 4.5 because of the one point deducted. 30% Quizzes - 3 quizzes, one for every two units in the book. 20% Presentation - Individual work, relating to a topic connected with Unit 3. Details to follow. 30% Presentation - Group work, relating to a topic connected with Unit 4.

Quick Placement Tests and Writing Assignment II

Good morning class Today we'll be doing the above mentioned activities. Please email me your informal letter or (save me some ink!) print it off and hand it to me no later than Monday 18th April 2011. READ THE INSTRUCTION FOR THE INFORMAL LETTER CAREFULLY ON PAGE 112 QUESTION 4. judy

Re-cut trailer & language practice

Hello Class

Today we're going to do something a bit different...

These are the links for the re-cut trailer:

Re-cut:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA

Original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6qDqdYY6-Y

Hope you enjoy the class.

judy x

CV & Covering Letter

Hi Everyone

Today during the class you are going to create your CV in English and a covering letter for a job you are applying for. You have one week to complete this assignment. Once you have finished, please email me both documents. The job you are applying for is:

The Chilean Government needs English Teaching students to work in summer schools in January and February 2012. The positions are for 8 weeks and involve giving classes to children between the ages of 5 to 12 in English summer camps. These camps are all over the country and your accommodation is provided as well as a salary of $100.000 per week.

Write a job application letter explaining why you would be suitable and what previous experience you have. You can choose the location where you would like to teach from Punta Arenas to Arica, so please state where you would like to teach. You must also specify what age group you prefer to teach.

Write between 120 – 150 words.

Start with: Dear Sir/Madam

Judy x

March 21st 2011

Hello everyone

First of all make sure that your blog is functioning properly and you have followed all your classmates (see last weeks post for the url addresses). I haven't been able to view some of your blogs.

Then go to:

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/headway/upp_intermediate/

and complete the grammar and vocabulary exercises for unit 01. Click on grammar and select unit 01 and then once you've finished do the same for vocabulary.

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After that are some exercises to practice prepositions. Click on this page:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepositions

read through the rules and then do the exercises right at the bottom, starting with George Washington. These four exercises with 4 yellow circles are all Upper Intermediate level. If you feel you need some more practice do the Intermediate (3yellow circles) activities too.

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Next are some listening exercises on this website:

http://www.usq.edu.au/users/sonjb/projects/wbll/pre-created/listening.htm#Friday_night_mishaps

You don't have a printed copy of the worksheet, so don't worry about completing your scores on the main page. Simply click on the activities 1 - 7, then click on the web link and complete the listenings.

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Finally there is an FCE style reading text to do. Read the text and choose from the four words given below.

http://www.usingenglish.com/comprehension/39.html

If you complete all this well done!!

URL addresses for classmates

vaaleinwonderland.blogspot.com

cristianhuerta7.blogspot.com

danieladoren.blogspot.com

dieego-commonsense.blogspot.com

andygn.blogspot.com

integrity-dittus.blogspot.com

ferchiitaa.blogspot.com

sweetiepau.blogspot.com

adamiranda.blogspot.com

josefacastroamenabar.blogspot.com

nicolefranjola.blogspot.com

leticia-preciosa.blogspot.com

beatrizcabrera89.blogspot.com

natalia-rivera-herrera.blogspot.com

pailaolivares-paula.blogspot.com

claudia-risso88.blogspot.com

gonzavalenzuela.blogspot.com

St Patrick's Day

A very warm welcome to everybody in Language & Communication in English V.

Top of the morning to you! (a supposedly Irish expression).

Every time we have a lab session please open your blogs and go to my blog for instructions/activities/links.

For today's session we are going to learn about St. Patrick's Day. Cut and paste the link below in a new window. You have a paper copy of the worksheet. You need to read the information on pages 2 & 3 to complete the worksheet.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/st-patricks-day-worksheets.pdf

Now write an article about Chile's National Day and the history, traditions and customs that surround it. Your article must be between 150 - 200 words. Write your article using Word then copy and paste your article onto your blog. Remember to publish your post!

May the luck of the Irish be with you.

judy x