Visual Dictionary

Sashi is a visual dictionary. It not only gives you different definitions of a word , but also pictures illustrating them. I picked the following pictures from it . 


Activity: Revise the vocabulary you learned in section 6.3 in Total English and write in comments the words that discribe the pictures:

Describing Nature

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Module 5 Total English

Hello, everybody:

It is a cloudy afternoon and here I am in front of the screen, surfing the net, looking for activities to offer you.

BOOKS 

I love reading because when I read my imagination flies  entering a virtual world. You have read three stories so far, haven´t you? You are supposed to read "Telling Stories" by Maeve Binchy.

I have never heard of her before :(  Here is a link to her home page where you can read about this author (LINK).

Activity ONE: surf the Mave's website and answer  in comments: Is she confident with technology. How can you contact her? 

LISTENING 

Tired of reading? Do you want to practise listening? 

Here are Maeve's Audio books

Activity TWO : Write in comments which audio book you  chose, give a reason and tell us if you found it easy or difficult to understand.

Optional Activity:let's create a community-powered encyclopedia for our friends, classmates and book lovers. Which online tool shall we use? 

How? it is very simple : Go to http://www.shelfari.com/  and take a tour. Then get registered and upload the books you have read, are reading and/or are planning to read. If you open an account in Shelfari, let me know and I will add you to my contact list and we will share books.

My Shelfari looks like this:

GRAMMAR 

Revise your knowledge about Present Perfect Continuous by clicking on this website 

Activity FOUR: Now let's do an intereactive activity: Match the two parts of the sentences and then click on the "check" icon to get feedback . Click HERE to start.

DEADLINE for the activities in this post: June 20th

Reminder: There is a new page "Feedback" where you can read my comments to your writings and some recommended material to read and study.

That's all for now. See you soon.
Nelba :)

Let`s play basketball

Hello, everybody: 

Have you read my comments on your mistakes in the "feedback" page?  I uploaded a lot of material to revise prepositions.

If you want to play basketball and score points, check that material !

If you feel confident, click HERE to play 

Do you speak English? No , I don´t :(

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!