Second writing

I was nicely surprised to see all the creativity in your stories.
I hope you enjoyed writing them as much as we enjoyed listening to them in class.
This week assignment
The next type of story you need to write is " Eyewitness account"
Check in the writer´s model bank, (link given above)
Follow the strategies and structure and suggested there.
Please bring your story and copies for everyone.

To give you some ideas on how a simple event in your life can turn into an interesting account worth to be told , check the Reader's Digest section called "Life's like That" where readers can write about their own anecdotes.

Life's Like That (Reader's Digest)
(In categories, select Life's Like That. Then enjoy reading).

Now you can choose three stories and retell them.
To have more practise on tense sequence, click on the links below and do the activities. All of them are related to narrative tenses.

Activity 1 (Narrative Tenses)
Activity 1 KEY
Activity 2
Activity 3
Activity 4
Activity 5
Although or despite


Activities for our next session on Monday October 13th. W e will

• read another chapter from the novel ,
• begin listening to your stories and
  
• listen to some of the anecdotes you read n the Reader´s magazine site.

Important news

International Studies
The application for a very attractive program has just come out.
Check the link to see it , you might be interested.
http://www.mx.uwc.org/

Welcome advanced English group

I hope the activities in this course are fun, engaging and help you develop your language skills.
We will have 2 types of activities for this first part of the school year .
Writing and speaking
We will also create products to describe who we are and share this information with some other groups around the world.

For the writing tasks we will use the following web site
Model bank
http://go.hrw.com/eolang/modbank/

Read the model for
Autobiographical incident and prepare your own story for next class session.
You will take turns to read it outloud.
Type it in a word document (in a computer of course), print it and bring 10 copies so we can all follow your reading.

Take pictures of your school because we will describe it with images and audio using a tool called Voicethread.
Bring your pictures in a usb port.

The links to the sister classes project is:
http://esleflstudents.edublogs.org/

We will subscribe and publish our projects here. Check it out.
Well, that all for this week.

Discussing strategies for speaking

Hi
The games we have played in our class sessions seem to have been fun. But now we will concrentate on speaking discussing the strategies needed to improve our speaking skills.

For next Monday listen to episode 3 Better speaking.
1.Go to the webpage by clicking on the link below.
2. Look for episode 3
3. Download the audio file into your cell phone.
4. Listen to it as many times as you can. There is no script
5.Takes notes and be ready to retell and discuss the information in class.

Episode 3 Better speaking