May 12 2014

ANALYZING FILMS

LOOK AT THESE WEBSITES ABOUT VOCABULARY RELATED TO FILMS AND TV…

https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/movies.htm

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/277003

http://www.michellehenry.fr/tvvoc.htm

http://quizlet.com/18963620/tv-vocabulary-flash-cards/

http://www.cram.com/flashcards/movies-and-films-vocabulary-2982010

LOOK AT THESE VIDEOS TO STUDY THE VOCABULARY…

Jul 12 2012

Welcome English Students!!!

Welcome!!!!!

This is a blog for students of Licenciatura en Lenguas Modernas at UPC.

I hope you enjoy all the activities, learn a lot and have some fun.

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Mar 2 2023

MINI SAGAS

How to write a mini saga?

This is an activity that could be enjoyable for any age and English level. Telling stories is a way to use words in a creative way, imagine situations and use structures like narrative tenses…. You must write practice writing concisely.

What is a Mini Saga?

Firstly, it’s a good idea to clarify what a mini saga is. A mini saga is a short story compiling of exactly 50 words (not including the title). The 50 words must create a complete story. Mini sagas can have up to more words, until 70. A mini saga has to tell a complete story. They have a beginning, a middle and end. Mosto f the times, they have surprising ending. It can not be just the description of events.

The first mini sagas appeared in 1982 in the Sunday Telegraph that is an English newspaper. They announced the idea of mini sagas with a competion for the best ones.

Why do teachers use mini sagas?

They provide a good way to write short stories and use narrative tenses, because:

Mini sagas are easy to read
It is an easy task for students to practice telling stories and using narrative tenses
For a students writing fifty to seventy words stories does not appear like a difficult task
Mini sagas focus on accuracy because students have to edit them
They are very motivating for students because they can use their imagination and creativity to fulfill the task

Why are they good for students?

Mini-sagas are especially useful when working with reluctant writers, who are happy to attempt a story of 50 words but would be daunted by writing a longer narrative. You could build up the word count slowly, asking for 100 words the next time and so on. (Or you can make the task harder and reduce the word limit to 10 or even 6 words, e.g. ‘No problem about Dallas, Mr President’.) Mini-sagas are a great stepping stone to writing short stories.

Mini-sagas lend themselves to paired, individual, group and whole class tasks, and include reading, speaking and listening as well as writing. This is an activity which can be attempted successfully by second as well as first language students, and one in which differentiation can be applied.

Go to these websitea and read some examples of mini sagas on different topics …..

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/writing-practice/writing-a-story/discourse-markers/50-word-mini-sagas/95311

Mini Sagas – A Creative Writing Project of 3c

Mini-Sagas: A Dozen Examples

Look at these videos…

Video 1: Introduction to mini sagas

Video 2: Mini saga story

Video 3: Tips for teaching mini sagas

LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MINI SAGAS AND THE BEST WAY TO WRITE THEM. PROVIDE IDEAS TO THE CLASS ABOUT IT.

Oct 14 2022

PAST PERFECT TENSE

Go to this link to know about how to use past perfect tense. There is some explanation that can help you a lot…

https://www.britishcouncil.org.mx/blog/past-perfect

Go to these videos to introduce a story using past tense and past perfect…. This is a love story…

THE LOVE STORY OF JAMES AND JESSICA

https://youtu.be/CWq7CcqDQkA

Now… there is a video with explanation and examples about the uses and forms of past perfect tense… Enjoy it….

Then, go to this link and do exercises….

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past_perfect-exercises.html

PAST TENSE & PAST CONTINUOUS

Simple Past tense and past continous are narrative tense that conmonly go together. You can look what are the similarities and difference in the use of both of them.

First of all, look at these videos…. There are some stories told using past and past continuous…

Now, look at the differences between these tenses…

LET’S GO TO DO SOME EXERCISES…

It’s time to practice, go to these links and do some exercises…

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past_progressive-exercises.html

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past-continuous-exercises.html

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past-continuous-past-simple-exercises.html

Sep 17 2022

PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

If you want to describe someone according to his/her personality aspects… first of all go to these videos and know about the way to describe some people’s personality…

Video 1:

Video 2:

Here, go to study more and practice using adjectives to describe people…

List of adjectives:

http://www.cytss.edu.hk/cytss97pyl/car/testimonial%20reference.pdf

https://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/personality/words-for-describing-personality.html

DO NEXT EXERCISES:

https://es.liveworksheets.com/oc548298ff

https://es.liveworksheets.com/sq1551154gx

GO TO THIS PAGE AND DO MORE ON LINE EXERCISES…

Explore the site and do as many exercises as possible…

https://agendaweb.org/vocabulary/describing-people-personality-worksheets

Jun 12 2022

PASSIVE VOICE

Passive voice produces a sentence in which the subject receives an action. In contrast, active voice produces a sentence in which the subject performs an action. Passive voice often creates unclear, less direct, wordy sentences, whereas active voice creates clearer, more concise sentences.

In the active voice the focus is in the subject, In contrast, in the passive voice the focus is in the object. Because of that is used to talk about processes.

If you want to change a sentence from passive to active voice, you have to determine who or what performs the action, and use that person or thing as the subject of the sentence.

Look at this chart if you want to know how to change a sentence from active to passive voice:

Taken from: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/545568942361739577/

Go to these sites if you want to know more:

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference/active-and-passive-voice

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive.html

LET’S PRACTICE…

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-voice-exercises.html

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-exercises.html

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/passive-present-past-exercises.html

VIDEOS

There are a lot of videos, but I select these one for you….

May 4 2022

PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

First of all, go to watch these videos…

https://youtu.be/R3KeD06ti6chttps://youtu.be/R3KeD06ti6c

GO TO THESE WEBSITES AND PRACTICE THE CORRESPONDANT VOCABULARY

Haz clic para acceder a 1.1.Adjectives%20of%20personality.pdf

https://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/personality/words-for-describing-personality.html

http://adecco.eswp-content/plugins/acfpro551/admin/creative-writing-description-of-a-person.php

https://www.speakconfidentenglish.com/describe-your-personality-english

https://sciaga.pl/tekst/42111-43-a_description_of_a_person_i_admire_most

THEN GO TO THIS WEBSITE :

http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

TAKE THE PERSONALITY TEST
ANALYZE YOUR RESULTS, READ IT CAREFULLY AND
PREPARE A PRESENTATION ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY RESULTS…
TOPICS FOR PRESENTATION:Explore YOUR Type1. Introduction 2. Strengths & Weaknesses 3. Emotions 4. Romantic Relationships 5. Friendships 6. Parenthood 7. Career Paths 8. Workplace Habits 9. Conclusion ( come to your own conclusions too…)

Take into account: summarize ideas, use key words, do mind-mapping, prepare your slides or any tool that coud help you to do your presentation. Be careful about your fluency, use of vocabulary and structures (accuracy), the lenght of the presentation must be three or more minutes…

PORTFOLIO TASK: DESCRIBE TWO PEOPLE: FRIENDS, RELATIVES, PARTNERS, ETC. USE THE WEBSITES AS A GUIDE. ONE OR MORE PAGES EACH DESCRIPTION. YOU CAN USE DIAGRAMS, MINDMAPS TO DESCRIBE TOO.