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About Writing and Chat with an Online Robot

READING:

As blog master and ICT manager, I spend most of my time surfing the net and social networking. While I was checking Twitter, I came across this interesting article published in the Guardian newspaper about writing.

Source

The author is Neil Gaiman who has become very popular and  is often considered the “rock star” of the literary world. He offers 8 Good Writing Practices or tips to optimize your writing.

WRITING:

1. Click on the link above, read the article and write in comments what information you have found useful and which of these tips you are going to put into practice to improve your writing in English. Deadline: May 20th
2. Do you want to chat ? If you click on this link, you will have the opportunity to chat with an online robot. You must be clever to make the dialogue fluent !

  Have fun! 

Welcome

Get a Voki now!

The aim of this virtual space is to practise and enjoy the English language in a relaxed atmosphere. 

Remember to use online dictionaries whenever you write . You will find a suggested online dictionary in the LINK section on the right, but you are free to use the most suitable for you.

FIRST ACTIVITY : To break the ice and start getting familiar with this tool, please, write in "comments" ( See below this) what experience you have using Internet: Do you use Internet? How often? What for? ( checking mail, chatting, read the newspaper, etc.)

Deadline: April 15th

Please, sign your comments with your name and the course you belong to.

For example: Juan Sánchez  Adults 5 C

The feedback to your comments will be in the blog, so visit the blog again for this purpose. I would like to remind you that the work in this blog will be different from the blog in Adults 4. 


If you have any problem with this blog, please let me know at the following address: escuelaunlp@yahoo.com.ar  

and write "Blog adults 5" in the subject of the mail. 

I am looking forward to your comments!!!

Module 12

Hello, everybody:

We are going to practise the following topics in this post:

Conditional Sentences

Let's revise conditional sentences watching videos and listening to music ;) 

• Type II

1. Revise its use and form by clicking HERE
2. Exercise 1: Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Form a Conditional sentence - type II. Click HERE
3. Exercise 2: Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Form a Conditional sentence - type II. Mind the negations in the sentences. Click HERE

•  Type III

1. Revise its use and form by clicking HERE
2. Exercise: Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Form a Conditional sentence - type III. Mind the position of the if-clause. Click HERE 
3. Listening activity ( Put on your headphones or turn on the speakers)
   
   Watch this video, listen and type the missing words in the dialogue. Click on "Check" when you are finished. Click HERE to start.

Then do this conditional Quizz to check how much you know about conditionals

Using online Distionaries:

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary  finds the meanings of words and the associations of those words with other words and concepts. It also produces diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. If you look up words in Visuwords, you will learn how words associate.

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

• It is reliable because Visuwords uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers.
• It's a dictionary and a thesaurus!
• This online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
• No membership required.

See what I got when I typed "think"

http://www.visuwords.com/?word=think

Then I have found an  interesting website where you type a verb and get its conjugation in affirmative, interrogative and negative form and all tenses. Besides it gives you the explanation, examples and possible translation in different languages!!! Do you want more? YES , you get the most common expressions. Click HERE to explore this marvel : conjugation.com

Module 11

Hello, everybody:

We are going to practise the following topics in this post:

• Obligation and permission

Activity one:  "can, could, to be able to" Click HERE

Activity two: talking about what is necessary / not necessary. Click HERE

Activity three: " might     must     should" Click HERE

Miscellaneous. Rearrange the lines. Click HERE 

• Linking words:

1-This quiz will help you practice using contrasting conjunctions, HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH, WHEREAS, ALSO, DESPITE, IN SPITE OF. Click HERE

•  Wordspot: 

1.  Improve your vocabulary by studying the most common uses of the verb "do" .Click HERE
2.  Learn how words associate with the verb "do". Click HERE
3.  Online game to revise the use of the verbs "make" and "do"

Let's play a game to check what you remember about  the common uses of do and make. Read the instructions carefully. Click HERE to start.

• In a previous post (Module9) , I asked you to write predictions in an online tool called "Wallwisher". Here is the result:

• Video: John Lennon Tribute. 

9th Oct, 2010 would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday.