Holiday greetings

Happy Holidays to all my dear students

Enjoy this holiday break

see you next year

Listening Quiz 3 and Roleplay Activity

Listening Quiz 3 Monday, December 5

A:
http://www.4shared.com/audio/4U3YJkyA/Virus.html

B:
http://www.4shared.com/video/zxcdnV6K/Quiz_3_b.html



Roleplay Activity

1. Make two groups of equal number of students (14 and 14, or 13 and 13).
2. Download material and distrubute roles among group members (one each, you have to memorize only one role)
3. Activity will take place on Wednesday, November 30

roleplay cards

http://www.4shared.com/document/xP_1E4i5/JuicyBake_-_Roleplay_cards.html

Activities

Pronunciation Quiz 2 Friday, December 2

http://www.4shared.com/document/psswCjLi/Pronunciation_Quiz_2.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/Dl9RpJAL/practice_1.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/BCvpnzZe/practice_2.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/i8_2UtnT/practice_3.html

Pronunciation Quiz

This is the material for the Pronunciation Quiz

1. Memorize each speech
2. The day of the quiz, you will pick out at random two of the speeches
3. You have say the speech exactly how the speaker pronounces it
4. The day of the quiz will be next week (exact day pending)

http://www.4shared.com/document/K-DrPEHC/Scripts_for_Pronunciation_Quiz.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/xLUoCYqz/Speech_1.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/HqScOXDm/Speech_2.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/-X0FLhLR/Speech_3.html

Task 6 Universities Around the World

***warning = related to the food festival, the dish you prepare as sample has to be cooked by the group, no ready-made dishes are allowed (no exotic drinks, chocolate, pizza Hut, KFC, Mcdonalds, Buger King, Subway and the like)

Universities Around the World

1. teacher makes groups
2. group picks a continent (done by the teacher)
3. each group has to research everything about the univesity as if someone were interested in applying there.
4. make a powerpoint presentation
5. each group has 20 minites to present as if they were the representatives of that university coming down to E.S. to recruit students.

Activities October 24 to 27

Please read this article and share your opinion: http://www.antimoon.com/other/englishclass.htm

Monday 24

Presentations - Student´s Affairs (available services for students on campus)

Tuesday 25

Quiz on "The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery"

Quiz "Expressions from All Clear, Unit 2"

Competence VI "Hypothesizing"

http://www.4shared.com/document/-FQrf4H0/Guessing_and_making_hypothesis.html


Wednesday 26

Analize "Bill Gates 11 Rules You will never learn in school"
and write a Paragraph about it (paragraph will be handed in on this day).

Grammar Quiz

Listening Quiz

http://www.4shared.com/audio/zOo5thsO/Parents.html

Quiz on "The Life of Certain Pacific Islanders"


Thursday 27

Presentations - "Festivals Around the Globe"

A food tasting can be fun opportunity to get together with friends and sample a variety of different delicacies.


Probable date: October 31

Public Enemy - Fight the power
http://www.4shared.com/audio/cRnnEghB/Public_Enemy_-_Fight_the_power.html

Sugar Hill Band - Rapper´s Delight
http://www.4shared.com/audio/Iyn5eaI0/Rappers_Delight_kar.html

News

I have not heard anything from our authorities yet, but the president and the minister said no class until further notice.

News

I have not heard anything from our authorities yet, but the president and the minister said no class until further notice.

From Ministerio de Educacion

I´ve just heard on the news that MINED has declared suspension of all activities until next week.

Activities will resume on Monday. Please pass this information to the rest of the class.

Task 5 Festivals around the Globe

Please buy the material on Conditionals and Reading Assignment "The Life of Certain Pacific Islanders"

The next task is about Festivals around the Globe.

1. Make groups of 5 members each.
2. teacher will assign continent
3. choose one country (from the continent you were assigned), select a department or province of that country, a specific town or county.
4. choose a specific festival celebrated in that town or county.
5. find out everything related to that festival such as the history, reasons, or any other important imformation.
6. prepare a presentation in which you will be the embassador to that festival.
7. cook a dish (food: any kind of dish particular to that festival) and prepare portions as sample for five people.
8. bring the dish you prepared on the day of your presentation.
9. presentations will take place on Thursday, October 20, 2011.


Task 4 On-campus Student Services

This task will present the different services available to student inside the campus

1. The UES Library
2. UES Office of Admissions - - New Enrollment
3. The New Computer Room at the Language Department
4. Student Affairs
5. UES Radio
6. Community Outreach Office at the Language Department.

Presentations will take place on Thursday, Octuber 13, 2011.

Activities October 3 to 7

Monday 3

Salvadoran Heroes

Tuesday 4

Narrative Paragraph Assignment

a. write a narrative paragraph
b. hand in in folder (handwritten)

Wednesday 5

Competence V Giving Presentations

Food, Glorious Food
a. read
b. complete exercises

Thursday

The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery

a. read the story
b. complete exercises

Listening Quiz

song "Longer" performed by Dan Fogelbert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btbc2U9_M-k

Pronunciation Material

The Different sounds of S

http://www.4shared.com/document/-GtG-mId/The_different_s.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/3b0_Gek8/sound_S_3.html


62 words with er sound

http://www.4shared.com/document/f4CrhF-L/62_Words_with_R_r___Part_2__ES.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/8-Z11NxX/62_Words_with_R_r___Part_2__ES.html

Salvadoran Heroes --CNN Heroes - Task 3

This is tribute to people who make a difference in our country, in our commmunities. You have to write a story about your Heroe and here is the link to one of the stories:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/02/03/cnnheroes.canales.spinal.cord.injuries/index.html

1. make groups (6 groups of 5 members each)
2. write the story behind the heroe
3. choose two representatives
a. one who will be the spokeperson (present the story)
b. one who will convince the class to vote for their heroes (persuade)
c. students who were a spokeperson for task 2 can not be representatives again!
4. present a written report

Monday, October 3

1. presentation of the stories by the spokeperson 1
2. presuasion round (spokeperson 2 tries to persuade audience to vote for their heroe)
3. voting round

Activities September 19 to 22

Monday 19

Communicative Competence IV "Narrating"

Tuesday 20

1. Presentation of "Children´s Tale" (all groups)

2. Buy material "Writing Narrative Paragraphs"

Wednesday 21

1. Listening Quiz

2. Good-by, Good-by

3. Go over meaning and exercises of All Clear, Unit 2


Task 2 "Presidential Debate"

1. make groups
2. assign each group a political party
3. each group has to designate a representative (a politician in real life)
4. members of the group help prepare the representative in the topics assigned by the teacher
5. present a report that includes teh collected information about each topic


Topics:
1. economy
2. education
3. health
4. crime
5. family
6. housing
7. jobs
8. international affairs (e.g. the U.S. Presidential Election)

News

My apologies about today. My daughter was ill and I had to take care of her for the entire day. We will resume activities on Monday, September 19.

Enjoy your extended weekend!

Activities September 12 to 17

Monday 12, Speaking Quiz 1

Expressing your Opinion "the death penalty)


Tuesday 13, Reading Quiz 1 (ativities will be suspended at 8:30AM)

a. The Cat and the Pain-killer
b. Reading Specialized Texts

Wednesday 14, class,

Monday 17, Listening Quiz 1 "Murder: Beyond the Blood and Gore"

Link to audio: (link has been checked and it works, you can listen without downloading, too)
http://www.4shared.com/audio/g-dW_dt0/Murder_Beyond_the_Blood_and_Go.html


Grammar Quiz 2 "Dr. Martin Luther King: used to" and "A Future in Film: The Future"

Reading Material: Good-by, Good-by: "Gerunds and Infinitives" (pages 19-26)

Representation of a Children´s Tale

(representation defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary: a dramatic production or performance)

a. join a group (5 members in each group)
b. choose a tale
c. adapt the script
d. perform in class
e. turn in the script before the play

News Week September 5 to 8

Quiz will take place when transportation goes back to normal. We will have regular class. Finish Reading assignment "Mark Twain´s"

Homework for Monday, August 29

Homework

1. Read and complete exercises "A Future in Film"
2. Complete all exercises in "The Story of Cholmondely"
3. Record your voice. Read a one minute excerpt from "Animal Communications" or "Biography-Martin Luther King"

Lexis Notebook Guidelines

http://www.4shared.com/document/-yrOnKB4/Guidelines_for_the_Lexis_Noteb.html

Program Advanded English I, Semester I, 2011

Program, please read

http://www.4shared.com/document/ySHy5OFd/Syllabus_for_Advanced_English_.html

Activities August 22 to 25

Activities

Monday 22
1. Reading specialized texts: Applied Linguistics
2. short quiz on idioms and expression (Tue. 16, Wed. 17) , Science and Society

Tuesday 23
2. Reading Specialized texts: Anatomy

Thursday 25
1. The Story of Cholmondely (read and complete all exercises, available at Moy´s)
2. short quiz on specialized texts "Applied Linguistics and Anatomy"

++ bring a dictionary to class everyday
++ punctually is a must

book is available at Moy´s

Reading Specialized Texts on Acquisition and Anatomy

This is the material for reading specialized texts in English.

Read and process Acquisition for Monday, Anatomy for Tuesday

copy link and paste, download from 4Shared.com

http://www.4shared.com/document/SaOgmMny/specialized_texts_acquistion_-.html

Free Natural Reader Program (for reading texsts)

http://www.4shared.com/get/_KUKOwpH/standardsetup.html


The audios for the book are correct (thank you Cynthia)

Please remember that on Monday, we will start bringing a dictionary to class everyday, and coming class at 7:00AM (attandance will be taken daily for the bonus program).

Welcome Students