Past tense- Activities

Dear students,
Congratulations. I was very happy to see how well you completed the task based on the first story of the book "The Diamod as big as the Ritz".




Here is the assignment for this week :
1. Please read the second story "The long way out" for next Monday January 21th (group 509) Tuesday January 22nd (group 501).
2. Practice and learn more verbs in past tense using the following links. There are 2 or 3 interesting exercises in each page.
Past tense (regular)
Past tense (irregular verbs)
Past tense (negatives and questions)


3. Listen to 2 stories of your choice in the webpage called 'Interactive listening stories'.
Click on the button "Solution" to access the written version of the story.
Print the text and underline the verbs in past tense that you can find.
Bring to class the printed story with the underlined verbs.

Interactive listening stories

Deadline January 21rst group 509
January 22nd group 501

4. Listen and read about the life of Benjamin Franklin
Takes notes and be ready to participate in class with the information you have.

Have fun and enjoy the weekend.

New project

Welcome back

Yes, we are about to begin classes again. I hope you had a great holiday and are ready to continue working and learning . In January we will have three major activities.

1. A project where you describe your Christmas holiday and your major achievements in 2007.
2. An session in the LACE lab. using internet to learn about giving suggestions
3. And an exam using your cards.

For this first week you need to create a podcast ( a recording of about 1 or 2 minutes)with a short text describing your Christmas holidays and your achievements in 2007.
You can make your podcast using evoca or podomatic
Embed your podcast in your blog.

If you would like to try out your web cam you can make 1 or 2 minute video clip where you talk to me about your Christmas holidays.
You can use Springdoo
or You tube

Click to listen to my message
or go to the following URL

http://www.springdoo.com/M1F9AA1D5BFEFC6F52

The deadline is January 12th.

To get some ideas listen to the following segments from Fred in Canada. Click begin and activate the view text (on) to listen and read.
Fred´s routine
Fred's Gifts

Thanksgiving

Learn about this important celebration in the USA.
Read and listen to the information in the following web site.
The First Thanksgiving
Next November 22nd there will be a special event in the English language floor (building D)

Thanksgiving Questionnaire.

• Copy and print the following questions.
• Answer them
• Take your questionnaire to class next Wednesday 21rst.

Voyage on the Mayflower
1. The trip form England to North America took place in this year ______
2. The voyage took this many days ______

Tour the ship
3.Mayflower was the name of a ship built in the s____ century
4.It was not for battle. It was used to transport __________
5.The Mayflower did not have motors, it used 6 ____________
6.The master use the position of the s______ to direct the ship.
7.The cook prepared food for example _______ and _______________
8.What time of the year was it when the Pilgrims arrived to North America ?
_____________

9. Who helped them to survive? _________________
10.The Indian tribesmen and the Pilgrim celebrated for a week . This celebration is called ______________

"Dia de Muertos" project

Dear students,
I hope you had a chance to take lots of wonderful pictures and videoclips for the "Día de muertos"project.

We will use Springdoo for the videoclip and evoca for the audio.

If you have pictures you can use Bubbleshare
Once you have created your projects share them in your blogs.

Please have them ready for next November 12th an 13th as we will meet in the LACE room to upload the files.

You too, can Springdoo

Congratulations!!!

Most of you have finished your project with Voicethread.


So, this week for those of you who have finished you can continue with the fun part.

1. In the same way we can find the top 10 (favorite songs)in MTV . I want you to select your
TOP 3 songs in SMS tunes karaoke. Please write the names of the songs in the comments section of this post


2. Play with the Halloween activities selected by Mr. Maufroid . His collection of games and activities are wonderful. ACTIVITIES and GAMES

A halloween song

BBC kids Halloween

Listen to your text

Dear students,
This week we will work on describing a place in Mexico using images , audio and an online tool called Voice Thread.

Before you record your audio please practise and make sure you know how to pronounce your text.

You can use the following TEXT TO SPEECH software .

All you need to do is write your text ( or copy and paste it ) in the text box and click the button SPEAK to listen to the correct pronunciation.

Just for Fun

Dear students

Check this karaoke site.and write a comment in this blog telling me if you like it or not.

SMS Tunes Karaoke

Thanks and see you on Monday