Tuesday, December 30, 2014
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Ekphrasis - What Is It?
Breughel painted his version of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, which is known as Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Much later, the poet William Carlos Williams interpreted Breughel's painting in his own words. Can you do something similar? Blog your own ekphrasis. Use lots of adjectives throughout, and be careful of the Order of Adjectives.
Monday, March 24, 2014
How Many Words?
Play the seven-letter word game at LearnEnglish. Unfortunately, the Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Get Blogging
ASSIGNMENT:
On your own blog, pose a question like one of the following [from ESL Partyland]:
Can you do anything creative? For example, can you sing, dance, play a musical instrument, paint, draw, or write poetry?
Name three things you may not do in your language class.
What could the opposite sex do to make your life easier?
Should gay/lesbian couples be allowed to adopt children? Why or why not?
Should marijuana be legalized? Why or why not?
In your country, what might happen to someone who loses their job?
What are some things you should have done last week, but didn't do?
What must you do in your country to obtain a driver's license?
What could you do to make your life more exciting? Why don't you do it?
Name two things that you couldn't do last year that you can do this year.
How would your parents punish you when you misbehaved as a child?
What could you be doing right now (instead of studying English)?
What more could you be doing to practice your English?
How would you recommend treating a cold?
Then, visit a classmate's blog and respond to their question in the comments space.
For a minimum grade (70), pose your question and answer at least three others by 10:30 am, Friday, 21 March.
To get more, do more (5 pts for each additional response you make to other classmates - up to 6 for 30 more pts).
| [ ] Humberto | [ ] Paula | [ ] Eddie | [ ] Fabián | [ ] Emilio |
| [ ] Brenda | [ ] Jesús | [ ] Paloma | [ ] Carlos | [ ] Amado |
| [ ] María José | [ ] María Inés | [ ] Juan Carlos | [ ] José Gabriel | [ ] Andres |
On your own blog, pose a question like one of the following [from ESL Partyland]:
Can you do anything creative? For example, can you sing, dance, play a musical instrument, paint, draw, or write poetry?
Name three things you may not do in your language class.
What could the opposite sex do to make your life easier?
Should gay/lesbian couples be allowed to adopt children? Why or why not?
Should marijuana be legalized? Why or why not?
In your country, what might happen to someone who loses their job?
What are some things you should have done last week, but didn't do?
What must you do in your country to obtain a driver's license?
What could you do to make your life more exciting? Why don't you do it?
Name two things that you couldn't do last year that you can do this year.
How would your parents punish you when you misbehaved as a child?
What could you be doing right now (instead of studying English)?
What more could you be doing to practice your English?
How would you recommend treating a cold?
Then, visit a classmate's blog and respond to their question in the comments space.
For a minimum grade (70), pose your question and answer at least three others by 10:30 am, Friday, 21 March.
To get more, do more (5 pts for each additional response you make to other classmates - up to 6 for 30 more pts).
Friday, March 14, 2014
Love in the Supermarket
Complete this story please:
_______ and _______ met in the ________ supermarket next to the laundry detergent, where he asked her if she needed any help. By the vegetables, he told her that he was falling in love with her...
Don't forget, when you report things that happened and what people have said, you must take care to move the verbs back one tense (unless they are already in the past perfect); mark time expressions correctly; switch pronouns to reflect the person speaking and the person(s) spoken to, and also be careful with the reporting verb you're using - check if it's like SAY or TELL. Remember reporting verbs like SAY require a preposition between the verb and the object if they have an object (examples: ...said to me..., ...discussed with me...) and verbs like TELL do not need a preposition but do require an object (examples: ...told me..., ...advised me...). Of course, SAY or TELL may be followed by a clause (...said that I was kind. / ...told me (that) I was kind.), but that's a topic for another lesson.
_______ and _______ met in the ________ supermarket next to the laundry detergent, where he asked her if she needed any help. By the vegetables, he told her that he was falling in love with her...
Don't forget, when you report things that happened and what people have said, you must take care to move the verbs back one tense (unless they are already in the past perfect); mark time expressions correctly; switch pronouns to reflect the person speaking and the person(s) spoken to, and also be careful with the reporting verb you're using - check if it's like SAY or TELL. Remember reporting verbs like SAY require a preposition between the verb and the object if they have an object (examples: ...said to me..., ...discussed with me...) and verbs like TELL do not need a preposition but do require an object (examples: ...told me..., ...advised me...). Of course, SAY or TELL may be followed by a clause (...said that I was kind. / ...told me (that) I was kind.), but that's a topic for another lesson.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Extra! Extra! Read all about...
from the Wikipedia article:
Arts & Letters Daily's layout, designed in July 1998 by Denis Dutton,...[has] three columns of links [which] dominate the site: Articles of Note, Book Reviews, and Essays/Opinions.
To the left of the main columns is a series of links to other online content providers [including most of the world's major newspapers and popular magazines], as well as a section titled “Nota Bene" (the Latin for “mark well"), which is the site's fourth and final collection of daily links to articles deemed to be of particular interest.
Included in PC Magazine's 2007 list of "Top 100 Classic Web Sites," this excellent site has proven a mainstay as a source of global news and ideas for over fifteen years.
Arts & Letters Daily's layout, designed in July 1998 by Denis Dutton,...[has] three columns of links [which] dominate the site: Articles of Note, Book Reviews, and Essays/Opinions.
To the left of the main columns is a series of links to other online content providers [including most of the world's major newspapers and popular magazines], as well as a section titled “Nota Bene" (the Latin for “mark well"), which is the site's fourth and final collection of daily links to articles deemed to be of particular interest.
Included in PC Magazine's 2007 list of "Top 100 Classic Web Sites," this excellent site has proven a mainstay as a source of global news and ideas for over fifteen years.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Relive the (animated) Middle Ages
Watch animated versions of Beowulf:
and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales:
and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales:
Monday, February 24, 2014
Listen to the classics
The World's Greatest Audio Books
30 audio/videos (so far) by Eric Masters
Including:
Homer: The Iliad
Homer: The Odyssey
Virgil: The Aeneid
Anonymous: Beowulf
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
Marco Polo: The Travels of Marco Polo
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
...and many others
This audio collection contains a treasury of classic books and includes info on the life and times of the author, the theme of the book, the characters, the story outline, a concise yet detailed abridgement of the story and a discussion of the values that make each book one of the great classical works of literature. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
30 audio/videos (so far) by Eric Masters
Including:
Homer: The Iliad
Homer: The Odyssey
Virgil: The Aeneid
Anonymous: Beowulf
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
Marco Polo: The Travels of Marco Polo
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
...and many others
This audio collection contains a treasury of classic books and includes info on the life and times of the author, the theme of the book, the characters, the story outline, a concise yet detailed abridgement of the story and a discussion of the values that make each book one of the great classical works of literature. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Practice Reading Daily
365 "Short Stories" - You could improve your reading day by day throughout the year.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
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