A year of growth: March 2015

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Hi!
My name is Beatriz and I am an English teacher and a translator. MA in Education and applied linguistics. I define myself as an eternal student. At the moment I am doing online courses on reflexology, meditation, photography and tai chi.
I really enjoy music and most types of art. I really hate injustice and the individualism so present in our society today.
One of the things I like best is sharing with people and travelling.
I hope we all enjoy sharing our experiences in this class and I trully hope you benefit from it ;)

Welcome Bloggers!!!

Your first task is to create a blog and to link all your classmates. Please ask if there is something you don't understand.

To begin with you need to create a gmail account.

1. If you have a google account: sign in first, if you don’t have a google account: create a google account

2. Go to: http://www.blogger.com/

3. Click: create your blog now

4. Please remember to change the language during set up so that your blog is in English. To do this, go to dashboard, settings and language and formatting on the left hand side.

5. Name your blog. My name is writing is fu (different to the URL)

6. Choose any template you like

7. If you haven’t yet, go o to dashboard, scroll down to the bottom of the page & change the language to English.

This is a very important part of today’s task. Write your name and URL on the board, then

8 Go to design, add a gadget, layout, LINK LIST, and add names & links and when you have the last name linked, save. Ask the teacher if you are not sure.

9. Start posting (dashboard) Write a short introduction of yourself :) You can use www.wordreference .com NO TRANSLATORS ARE ALLOWED!!!

Welcome to English 3!

My name is Beatriz and I hope we have a good time.

Remember you can find all details for our class on:

www.plataforma.uchile.cl (programa inglés)

Do not forget this class has a 75% attendance requirement. The way to pass is basically to be in class on time and participate :)

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

A small revision

Dear students,

We will use today’s class to revise some basic areas of English

Remember you can use www.wordreference.com dictionary to look for vocabulary when needed (check tabs above for meaning =significado).

1. Visit the site, read the explanations and then scroll down to exercises on simple past and check your understanding by clicking on a minimum of 4 different links

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

2. Do the following quiz:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/simple_past2.htm

3. Let’s listen

We will start with more basic and then a bit more ones.

Visit the following website. Listen to the conversation. Then click on the vocabulary quiz and the comprehension quiz on the right hand side.

http://www.elllo.org/english/0051/085-Kentaro-Apples.htm

http://www.elllo.org/english/1201/1219-Vella-MaleTears.htm

http://www.elllo.org/video/1151/V1194BradHabits.htm

Some more work.

http://www.lapetus.uchile.cl/lapetus/2009/1/ingles/themes/intermediate/theme01_act01.htm

If you can’t accesses the link above, visit www.plataforma.uchile.cl and go to Pre – intermediate, and then go to the activities 1,2,4,5 on unit 1 (you will need your password)

Part II

4. Let’s check how much you remember in terms of frequency:

http://www2.cambridge.org/interchangearcade/launch.do?activityID=591&level=1&unit=6&type=Cup_multiple_choice&stage=1

5. Let’s check your pronunciation. Do you remember where to stress words?

Go to the easy level units 1& 2. Read instructions and then play

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/preint/e_games/hwy_pre_stressmonster?cc=cl&selLanguage=en

6. Select the correct alternative

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/preint/a_grammar/unit01/hwy_preint_unit01_2?cc=cl&selLanguage=en

7. Do you remember the difference between these two tenses?

I am studying philosophy

I study philosophy

Let’s see