Activity One:  Revise vocabulary and expressions related to this topic by clicking HERE Activity Two: Writing (deadline October 30th) Imagine you can only choose a job from the list in the website you have visited, which one would you choose? Write your answer in comments (see below this post) and support your choice. Remember to sign your comment with your name (do not include your surname), course code and teacher's name. Pay attention to spelling and the use of capital letters! Activity Three: Time to play! Let's play hangman game to check how well you remember vocabulary related to this topic. Click HERE Activity Four: Competition  Let's see who finds all the words in this wordsearch.Click HERE The first student or group who finds them all first is the Homework: Reading comprehension test Click here to check your reading skills.

Test your English and collaborate with the World Food Programme

FreeRice is a non-profit website launched in October 2007. It is run by the United Nations World Food Programme. Its two goals are:

• Provide education to everyone for free.
• Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

This is made possible by the generosity of the sponsors who advertise on the site. As a Freerice player, you can collaborate. If we all do a little we can achieve a lot!

How does the Freerice program work?How does playing the vocabulary game at Freerice help me? Click HERE to know.

Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. 

Are you ready to play? Click HERE to start.

Reading Comprehension

Did you know that the honeybee is disappearing? 

You will read about the disappearing honeybee due to environmental problems. 

Read the article and do the quizzes to check your reading skills.Click HERE

Suggestion for teachers: This activity may be done as homework

Puzzle Environment Part 1 (Jov5me)

This online word search puzzle will help you learn and practise spelling English vocabulary for recycling:

First, see if you understand the meaning of the words in the following list by using an online dictionary .

 Are you ready for the puzzle?

HERE to start

To study
further vocabulary connected to the Environment

Present Perfect Continuous (Jov 4MA)

Hello, everybody: 

You have studied Present Perfect Continuous (also called Present PerfectProgresive). 

Revise your knowledge about Present Perfect Continuous by clicking on the website called "English with Cartoons". Click HERE

Now let´s do some interactive online exercises where you can check your answers. If you do not pass the exercise, study your notes and then do the exercise again to test your memory . If you do not understand the reason why you do not get the correct option, ask your teacher.

Exercise One : Write positive sentences in present perfect continuous  .Click HERE to start

ExerciseTwo : Write negativesentences in present perfect continuous Click HERE to start

ExerciseThree :Mix and Match Exercise: Mix and match. Click HERE to start

Karaoke Party by Meri

hi Nelba, how are you? I'm sending to you the result of my karaoke test...  it's terrible!  LOL .. I enjoyed the activitie very much! It was very fun. C U soon.

Thank you, Meri for your picture. I am very happy to know you liked the activity. Keep singing, specially today. Happy spring day :)
Nelba

Karaoke Party by Santiago

I chose that song because I know it and I like it. It's  also easy to sing. I have already used this page, I use it to play with friends online.

 Dear Santiago: I do not know this song . I will look for it in Karaoke Party and listen to it . Do you use it with friends? I hope you do in English  ;-) 
Best, Nelba

Karaoke Part by Eugenia

Hello. Here is my result (not so good).
I've chosen "I don't want to miss a thing", by Aerosmith because I like  this song very much.
I think the activity is good to improve the pronunciation about some words that we don't pronounce every day.
Bye Nelba. !!
Eugenia.

Dear Eugenia: I also like Aerosmith. My favourite songs are : Crazy and Amazing :) 
I am very happy you liked the activity and I hope you keep on practising pronounciation with it.
Best, Nelba

Pilar singing in Karaoke party

Hi Nelba!! Here's my karaoke homework. It was fun!

Goodbye, Pilar , J5BMenores Clara's group

 

 

Blas at Karoke Party

Karen at Karaoke Party

Hi! Nelba... I'm Karen:

 

I chose the song "My heart will go on" because it is the song of my favorite film, Titanic, because I love the lyrics and I enjoy listening to  Celine Dion... I like the activity of the karaoke party a lot to improve my pronounciation. I love singing so, I like this activity. I think it was a great idea to work on that website, I' ll continue using that page for practicing my English pronounciation. 

See you!! 

 Thank you , Karen  for  your comment! I am very happy to know you liked the activity . Hugs, Nelba

Let's sing !

Dear all:

I have visited María Clara Bouvier’s course (See comment below about their response to the previous post), Jóvenes 5B, and they told me that they do not like Lady Gaga. Their favourite singers and groups are: Maroon 5, Oasis, Eminem, among others. What about you? Leave your responses in "comments" , please.

Surfing the net, I came across this website  Karoke Party  and loved it. Isn´t it cool for practising your English pronounciation ?

How does it work?You only need a microphone.  You choose the song you want to sing, wait till it is buffered and the lyrics appear to be sung at the pace of the music.

You get a mark after singing. I am afraid my mark on intonation - not pronounciation- was not very good  when I tried it :(  Look at the results in the image below:

Activity to do at home: 

• Visit Karaoke party website - it will be cool if you invite a classmate ;)
• choose a song of your favourite group and/or singer,
• sing it and take a shot of the screen showing your result (like the one above), then open PAINT and paste the image.
• Save it as *.JPG file and send it to me (escuelaunlp@yahoo.com.ar) + some lines saying why you chose that song + your opinion of this tool to improve your pronounciation. Remeber to include: Name + course

DEALINE: September 15th


Congratulations to the students of  Jóvenes 5B, because they did a great job in the previous post. There were a few typing mistakes. Keep working like this!

Music: Lady Gaga

Either you like her or not,  you cannot ignore her popularity and success in the music industry. 

Let´s practise English language surfing the net, watching videos, talking and writing : )

Task 1: Reading 

Read this very short article and explain why the author calls Lady Gaga "The Queen of Social Media" (write your explanation in comments or discuss it orally in class)

British/American English posters

Hi, Nelba, here we send you the activity 5 of the blog. We loved work with this exercise today. 


It was funny jaja and interesting, because we didn't know anything about the difference between british english and american english. Well, yes the difference in the pronunciation of course, and between holiday which is British and vacation which is American. 


Now we know that we have to choose one of them because we can't mix them. We know that it's difficult because the films and the songs, most of them, are in american english and if we choose british it's complicated.


Have a nice weekend!
 
Maria y Karen J5 me Clara's group.




Hi Nelba!!!!
It was a good activity and I find it fun.
Goodbye!!! Pilar j5bmenores Clara's group

British and American English

Pink Floyd

Hello, everybody:

Last week I visited Jóvenes6 course because they are developing a wiki which will become an online magazine by the end of the school year. They are supposed to choose a topic and write a short article illustrating it with videos and or photos.

One of the groups will write about Pink Floyd. Have you ever heard of them?  Well, they were very famous in the late '70s for their rock opera called "The Wall". 

I would like to inlude a video here where you can listen and read the lyrics - you can sing along , if you want to ;) 

Now Play and Learn with the Words of the lyrics:

Game 1: Scramble

You are supposed to guess the word from scrambled letters. You may listen and read a hint. Click HERE to play

Game 2:   Drag and drop

Drag and drop the definitions on the right words. Click HERE to play

More Games? 

If you want to practise vocabulary a little more, click HERE and have fun :)

If you like singing, try this Karaoke tool

Module 5 English In Mind 2

Hello, everybody:

I hope this post find you well. Are you ready to revise your English on the net? I am taking English in Mind 2 as a guide to present online activities. The topics this time are:

Question Tags

Activity ONE : Find the correct questions tags to the sentences on the left. Click HERE

Activity TWO: Now you type the questions tags :) Click HERE

British /American English 

What are the differences between British English and American English? There are many British words which are different from American ones. You have studied that "elevator" is a "lift" in British English. Lisa and Sofia Efthymiou, an American mum and daughter, have listed the differences between British and American words in this website. They  have arranged the words in categories to make viewing easier for school work.

Source

Activity THREE : The following website will show two drop-down lists to find the American English equivalent of British expressions  and vice versa. Click here and study the expressions to expand your vocabulary.

Activity FOUR : Click HERE to see how good you are at distinguishing Brit. from Am. English

Activity FIVE : Make posters using Paint contrasting some of the British English words given here with their American English counterparts. Send me the posters via mail to escuelaunlp@yahoo.com.ar Deadline: June 20th

Do you want to chat?

Hello everybody:

Some teachers complain about the bad influence of chat language. They say chat language is a bad influence because teens use abbreviations, smileys or acronyms instead of writing full words  :(

Using chat language in text messages and chat sessions is OK, but it is not when you are writing for school, university or a formal e-mail.

Let's check how familiar you are with English chat language. 

Activity one: Type a message and then select English to lingo and then click on "transl8it"  Click HERE and have fun!

Activity two : Your teacher will dictate you a message. Type it  and then select English to lingo and then click on "transl8it"

Activity three: Take a pen and a sheet of paper. Watch the following slide show (It may take some seconds to download). Read the instructions below carefully.

Stop at slide 3, read it carefully and try to turn the "chat language" lyrics into a normal version on a sheet of paper. Then you can check your version with the lyrics in slide for. (Idem slide 5 and 6; 7 and 8, 9 and 10 , etc.)

transl8it Guess the song

More PowerPoint presentations from David Deubelbeiss

Activity four: Write in comments your opinion about chat language

DEAD LINE  May 20th

IMPORTANT: Gisela is a student in Jóvenes4BMayores and a blogger ! She likes Twilight saga and opened a blog to share photos, info, videos and more. Do you want to have a look at her work? Click on the image below.

Susurros en la Oscuridad

Welcome to 2011 blog !

What can you do in the blog? Have fun and learn the English language!

You are expected to visit the blog once a week. I will send a monthly report to your teacher about your participation and it will be considered in your final marks as any other activity in the class.


FIRST ACTIVITY: To break the ice and start getting familiar with this tool, please, click on "comments" at the bottom of the first article and write about what experience you have using the Internet: Do you use Internet? How often? What for? (checking mail, chatting, reading the newspaper, etc.)

Sign your comments with your name and the course you belong to.
For example: Juan Sánchez- Jóvenes4ma C

Deadline:          April 15th     2011

If you have any problem with this blog, please let me know at the following address:
escuelaunlp@yahoo.com.ar  and write "Blog jovenes4ma" in the Subject of the mail.

See you, Nelba