We got to the end of the road this trimester.... but there are many good memories that will accompany us for a very long time.. I want to thank all of my students for all the great things and fun we shared together. You all are really special to me and I end up this trimester with a smile on my face, because I know you guys are wonderful and that you'll do all you should do to be the best in your career and your life. Thanks for sharing and the patience and the love. Here I'll post some of the Final Project slides... Way to go! a warm hug to you all.
Level 5 K502
K502.... Amarilis Martinez and Iraida Abreu
Level 3 .. S332.. Giovanni Sarmiento
H312 .... Oscar Vazquez and Belgilbel Lobo
Keep on shining Love and Peace!
Friday, December 3, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Chicos 20. Sep-Dec 2010
Introducing the Chicos 20 Sep-Dec 2010
Daniel Salazar from S531. This is Dani's intro to our class, you can visit his blog and leave a comment..
This is Orlando Ortega.
He's a student in level 3 S332. His blog's name is Orlando's Land. make sure to com eby and say hello.
Andreina Quinto... Level 2 R221
Ricardo Villalobos, D201
Lamia Abdel Salam, D201.
Marian Portillo, N311
Jafet Garcia, N 311
Claudia Portillo, D291
Keep on shining Love and Peace!
Doris3m
Daniel Salazar from S531. This is Dani's intro to our class, you can visit his blog and leave a comment..I'm currently taking the Advertising and PR course at URBE. I'm only 18 years old, though I'm turning 19 pretty soon!I love music, even though I do NOT play any musical instrument. Particularly, I prefer listening to English/German/French music because I enjoy not only the music and rhythm but the language itself. I love listening to alternative rock bands such as Oasis, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Kasabian, Crowded House and the list goes on and on... As i said before, I'm studying at URBE and this blog is made because of my new lovely english teacher (english 5- Class: S-531). Hi professor!, that's the way she prefers to be called. I love traveling. I still dream about going to Europe asap (as soon as possible). That's my next travel spot as i hope to stay in Paris for a whole week and another one in London. I also love (watching) Tennis! i can spend 5 hours watching a tennis match without zapping on the TV! , isn't it such a great talent? I hate onions and hypocrite people who show you a nice side of 'em but behind you they'll go talking bad things about you! I hope to post another enter as soon as i can handle this blog thing! I'm pretty old-fashioned since I don't know how to use it!
He's a student in level 3 S332. His blog's name is Orlando's Land. make sure to com eby and say hello.
I have a Curious name, I'm known as Orlando Orlando Ortega Urdaneta. I was born Nineteen years ago and I am from the wonderful Venezuelan Republic, specifically of the beautiful city of Maracaibo in The Zulia State.
Now a days I'm studying Third quarter of Social Communication, Mention: Audiovitual, in the excellent University , Rafael Belloso Chacín and also I'm in the Seventh semester of Integral Education in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela University.
I'm a Passionate guy. I like to read and be creative. Also, I really want to learn new things about life; One of my hobbies is chatting with my friends of facebook and of course the internet in general.
In a Future I would like to work As a Universitary Professor in the area of Social communication, Have my on Educational Institution and write books about interesting histories: About love, pation and action, Knowledge about daily life and an autobiography of myself. I would like to leave my mark in the Venezuelan media and the rest of the world through programs based on creating conscience in the People in a Fun And interesting way!
Hello everybody! My name’s Andreina Quinto but you can call me Andre!. I’m from Cabimas, originally. I live in Maracaibo, in Villa Delicias. I’m 20 years old and I study Public Accounting.
I love my family, my country and the voz veis band.
I like to eat pizza and sushi, go to the movies, dance, listen to music, go to travel and visit my friends on the weekend.
I hate beer, smoking, violence, war, injustice.
My dream is to know different cultures and the Hobby band. I want to be an accountant in a short time. I would like to speak several languages.
About English, in my opinion is an interesting language and so important in the actual world. I hope I can improve my english skill's in this class and be an excellent student. This is a little of me.. and remember, an eye for an eye, makes the world blind.. peace. MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR.!
My name is Ricardo Villalobos but you can call me Ricky. I`m from Maracaibo, originally. I live in La Floresta. I`m 40 years old and I study Law at URBE. My favorite subjects is English and Sociology. I love my family and friends, my favorite sport is soccer . I like watch tv . I like horror movies. I like the Gaita Zuliana, I love pizza and Chinese food. My favorite actors are Morgan freeman and Bruce Willis.
I hate egocentrism, vanity, envy, crime and treason.
My dream is to be the best father in the world and manage my own TV show, produce films, create a foundation and defend the innocent.
Also I can say that one of my activities is to be the director of Alitasia, a group of gaitas. Alitasia - Con las Manos en el Pecho excelente Gaita... enjoy it!!!
PREPARE TO SUCCEED!
Hi, my name is Lamia and my last name is Abdel Salam. My nickname is Lulu, I was born in Valencia but I came to Maracaibo (Venezuela) because I got married in last January. I live in Bellas Artes. I`m 21 years old and I study Law at URBE.
Venezuela is very big! ten million people live here. My parents and all my family are in Valencia. My birthday is on June eleven.
I have two sisters and one of them live is San Antonio (The Teques - Venezuela) is the biggest one she has two children's, I have two nieces I love them and the younger one live in Valencia (Carabobo) and I have one brother he's twenty four years old.
My mother and my father were born in Lebanon but they are working here in Venezuela, they have a Furniture Store.
My husband is a business man. He is twenty seven years old. I love him is the best man in the world. I want to live with my husband always and forever. His name is Osmat and his last name is Makarem.
My mother in law and my father in law are amazing. I want to have 4 children in the future. I want to live with my family in Lebanon because it is beautiful, quiet, interesting and clean but it is very small and expensive.
My name is Marian Portillo. I'm 19 years old. I live in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
In this blog, I'm going to post my school work. I'm in third level of the english program. I study industrial engineering at URBE.
I love Shakira, her songs and the way She dances..
Jafet Garcia, N 311 This is me, Jafet García, I’m 17 years old, I’m from Maracaibo, Venezuela, I like to go out with my friend to enjoy the life. I’m a Sophomore of industrial engineering.
Hi, there! My name’s Claudia Portillo but you can call me CLAU!. I’m from Maracaibo , originally. I live in Maracaibo, in El Milagro. I’m 18 years old and I study law-lawyer at I love music, studying English and law-lawyer, talking on the phone with my friends, pizza , chocolate, my family . dolphins.Well, congratulations and welcome to the club!
I hate sushi , smoking, listening to rock, getting up early on the weekend, violence, war, in justice,
My dream is to travel around the world, visit the Pyramids in Egypt and The Eiffel Tower in Paris. Of course, I want to graduate and be a good accountant. I also want to learn to speak English, and Italian. I’d love to work in an important company and buy a house, get married and start a family.
About English, I love to learn new languages. I think English is very important. I listen to music and watch TV in English. It’s a good exercise. I also chat on the Internet and have very friends in many countries. I can write so so, but I need to practice more. The most difficult for me is speaking. I need to practice very more. I hope I can make a lot of friends and practice speaking in this class.
Keep on shining Love and Peace!
Doris3m
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Level 2. Unit 11. Clothing
Unit 11. clothes
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
level 4 Unit 12. Movies (workshop)
Hi, there! Level 4 students.... will be working on their unit 12 lesson. The topic is Movies. For this lesson they are supposed to work in groups and have fun researching and putting together an oral presentation. What do they have to do? well, here we have the checklist: (make sure you include all of these in your presentations))
- Get in groups of 4, 3, 2 or just 1 student.
- Go to http://www.imdb.com/ and select a movie that your gruop like.
- Get the poster of the movie and the trailer.
- Get the facts fact of the movie:
- Director,
- Release Date,
- Genre (key words),
- Tag line
- Plot,
- Cast (the main actors and actresses, short description of the character in the movie)
- Fun stuff
- trivia: some interesting fact about the movie
- quotes: Select a scene of the movie and write the dialog of the scene... be ready to perform the scene in class.
- soundtrack. Get the lyrics and the song of the movie. Point out what part of the song do you like the most and how the song relates to the movie.
- Review of the movie: read several reviews of the movie.. quote some of them and add your group's review...
- What's the message in the movie?
- Post your powerpoint ppt in your blog.. remember to record your voice explaining the slides...
- Share your work in Twitter or Facebook..
- Use the following format for your presentation...
Have fun!
Keep on shining love and peace!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Final Project!!!!! Sep-Dec 2010
Hello, there! Well, we have got to the end of the trimester and it's time for us to find out how much we have achieved during our time together. Our final project is an interesting assessment exercise... Where we will working different skills like writing, speaking, listening and reading. We'll practice:
Visit these links to see some examples of students work...:
- How to work in groups to collaborate, cooperate, share, teach and learn together.
- How to integrate different technological tools: creating and designing a power point presentation, audio recording, power point uploading, posting to a blog, sharing in social networks, like facebook, and twitter.
- Transferring the knowledge got during our classes and using it to talk about different topics from the ones discussed in class.
- Reflecting on what we have achieved.
- Leave your mark on this class.
Visit these links to see some examples of students work...:
- Carlos Duarte http://carlitozduarte.blogspot.com/2010/04/final-proyect.html
- Dessire Rincon http://dessire-actividadesdeingles.blogspot.com/
Monday, November 1, 2010
Level 4. Unit 10. The Body, health and Stress
Body parts
What part of your body do you like the most?
What part of the body do you look at first in a boy / girl?
Talking about health problems
A: What’s wrong? / what’s the matter?
B: I don’t feel well
I’m sick.
I have a headache.
Heath Poster
Say No to smoking!
What is RSI and what can you do to prevent it? - Explania
Thing you do when your are stressed:
I take breaks and relax.
The imperative
Used for giving advice
Don’t eat a lot of junk food
Wash your hands often
When – clauses
When (ever) I drink a lot of coffee, I can’t sleep
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Level 3. Unit 5. Vacation!!
Homework
Write about three places you want to visit someday. Use the following question write a short composition..
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Level 3. Unit 4
In the neighborhood
Voabulary: Places
What things can you do at this places? Bank, laundromat, post office, movie theater
You can save money in a bank.
You can do your laundry at the laundromat.
You can buy stamps at the post office.
You can see a movie and eat pop corn at the movies.
Do you know where I can __________?
get a cup of coffee
get some hiking boots
get some cat food
buy some milk
work out
buy some pants
grab a hamburger
get some aspirin
see a movie
buy a book
mail a letter
buy some CDs
get a bite to eat
Asking and Giving Directions
Ask about an specific place:
A: Excuse me, Where's the Bridge theater?
B: It's on Albany Avenue
It's on the corner of Bloor Street
Vocabulary and exercises:
1. Giving Directions
2. Directions to the post office
3. Directions to the cinema
4. A game on giving directions: Hangman
5. How to give directions (complete exercise by BBC)
6. Giving Directions
7. practice phrases
8. Listening exercise
Prepositions of Location
1. Vocabulary
2. Excellent guide to prepositions
2. Exercise
How much . How many
1. Practice
There is - There are
1. exercise
Homework
1. make a collage of places in your city. Write sentences telling what you can do there.
2. Get a map of your city and select an area to describe. Tell what places are there and write 4 conversations asking for and giving directions.
Level 2. Unit 10. Home Sweet Home!
Parts of the House
Housing: Where do you live?
A: Do you live in a house or in an apartment?Housing: Where do you live?
B: I live in a house / I live in an apartment
Describing my house.
Consider the following questions:
Where do you live? House or apartment
Where is it?
What's your house like?
What's the neihborhood where you live is like?
How many rooms are there in your home?
Things to say to describe your house:Small/big
dark/ bright
old/new
Comfortable
Roomy
spacious
Conveniently located
Near public transportation
Carlos says:
I live in an apartment. I live on the second floor. Apartment 2A. In my apartment, there are seven rooms- a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, two bathrooms and two bedrooms.
Mary says:
I live in a house. I live in a quiet neighborhood. In my house, there are seven rooms- a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, two bathrooms and two bedrooms. There's also a yard.
Pronunciation: Rising intonation to show surprise
Asking about where you live
A. Hey Stuart. B. Hi, Justin. Come in!
A: Hey, this is a nice apartment.
B: Yeah, and it’s only $400 a moth.
A: Really? That’s not bad! How many rooms are there?
B: There are five. There’s a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and my bedroom.
A: Is there a garage?
B: No, but there’s a small yard.
A: That’s great!
Describe your favorite room
My favorite room is my bedroom. It’s big, fresh, bright and comfortable. There’s a desk next to my window. The computer is on the desk…
•There is/there are; How many
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•Prepositions of place: in. on, under, between, behind, in front of, next to, in the middle of, on the right, on the left
•Verb + preposition
–Verb + preposition + noun
–Jason listens to music
–Verb + preposition + noun phrase
–I listen to the radio
Homework
2. Tell about four rooms in your house or apartment. Describe what furniture is in them.
3. Describe your favorite room in your house. Use prepositions of place to describe where things are.
* You can record your voice and add images.
* Visit your classmates blogs, read their compositions and leave a comment.
* Don't forget to Make the internet exercises from the on line workbook.
* Check your homework with a tutor. Use the check-speller. Make sure there are not grammar or typing mistakes.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Level 5. Unit 3 Unsolved Mysteries
World Link Unit 3
Lesson A: Unsolved Mysteries Lesson B: Mysteries of the world
See the lesson in our class blog: http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2010/10/level-5-unit-3-unsolved-mysteries.html
Downdload the lesson here: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/doris3m-570721-level-5-unit-3/
Summary of the lesson
Contents: Topic: Unsolved mysteries and mysteries of the world
Vocabulary: Cops and robbers, puzzled
Grammar: Stative Verbs and Adverbs of Manner
Functions: talking about possibilities
In this lesson we'll be discussing Collocations to talk about cops and robbers
What is a collocation?
A collocation is two or more words that often go together. These combinations just sound "right" to native English speakers, who use them all the time.
Collocations to talk about cops and robbers
Cops
Arrest a criminal
Catch a criminal
Question a Criminal
Solve a crime
Criminals
Break a law
Commit a crime
Have an alibi
Make a confession
Exercises:
1. Look at the picture on page 2. Exercise c. Write two sentences explaining what happened in the pictures. Use past tense.
2. Answer this exercise on crime collocations. http://www.englishgateway.com/ArticleVm.aspx?SectionID=1eb00d1a-dedd-4dd3-a0f8-88b826f29452&ArticleID=a1c96f5f4d434f229416947bb6991cbe
Talking about possibilities
More than 50% possible
It's likely (that)....
I bet (that)....
There's a good chance (that)....
Less than 50% possible
I doubt (that)....
It doesn't seem possible (that)....
It's unlikely (that)....
Exercise.
1. Find an unsolved mystery.. an unsolved crime.. an unusual event.. You can google a story on the internet.
2. Write a short summary of the event. (what happened, where, when, who)
3. Write 6 sentences using the expressions to talk about possibilities.
Stative verbs
Some English verbs, which we call state, non-continuous or stative verbs, aren't used in continuous tenses (like the present continuous, or the future continuous). These verbs often describe states that last for some time. Dynamic Verbs on the other hand use present continuous tenses.
We say....I have a car.
We don't say..... I´m having a car.
Thinking verbs: believe, know, think, understand
Having verbs: belong, have, own
Feeling verbs: appreciate, love, hate, like
Sensing verbs: See, taste, hear, smell
Other verbs: seem, look, mean, cost, need
Some verbs can be both stative and dynamic:
- you are stupid = it's part of your personality
- you are being stupid = only now, not usually
- think (stative) = have an opinion
I think that coffee is great - think (dynamic) = consider, have in my head
what are you thinking about? I'm thinking about my next holiday
Common Stative Verbs
There are many more action verbs than stative verbs. Here is a list of some the most common stative verbs:
be, hate, like, love, need, belong, believe, cost, get, impress, know, reach, recognize, taste, think, understand
There are many more action verbs than stative verbs. Here is a list of some the most common stative verbs:
be, hate, like, love, need, belong, believe, cost, get, impress, know, reach, recognize, taste, think, understand
Check this http://www.edu.xunta.es/centros/iesblancoamorculleredo/system/files/stative+verbs.pdfto know more about stative verbs
Exercises
1. Work on the exercises in your book and workbook.
Adverbs of Manner
Adverbs of manner tell us how something happens. They are usually placed after the main verb or after the object. They often end with -ly.
Calmly, happily, neatly, quickly, slowly, clearly, heavily, nervously, quietly, strangely
- He swims well, (after the main verb)
- He ran... rapidly, slowly, quickly..
- She spoke... softly, loudly, aggressively..
- James coughed loudly to attract her attention.
- He plays the flute beautifully. (after the object)
- He ate the chocolate cake greedily.
Remember: Stative verbs (be, look, hear, etc are followed by adjectives only)
Exercises
1. Work on the exercise on your book. (a, b, c
2. Write short story of a strange event.. use adverbs of manner. (what, when, where, who, how)
3. Check this and work on the exercise http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/adverbials/adverbs-manner
well, this is a summary of the most important in the lesson. I recommend you also work on the reading and listening part of the lesson. If you have any questions.. Contact me through private message or ask your partners in our group.
Keep on shining love and peace, everyone!
Doris
Level 4. Unit 9. How’s your memory? and Dreams
Reunions and Old Classmates
Exercise 1. Answer these questions in a short paragraph
Do you have a good memory or a bad memory?
Do you usually remember things or forget things?
Do you easily memorize information?
Do you have good memory for names/faces/numbers?
What do you usually forget?
Expressing degrees of certainty
A: Is your teacher from North America?B: Maybe, I am not sure
A: Are your books in your desk?
B: Yes, they are
A: Is your math teacher a vegetarian
B: I have no idea.
Agreeing and Disagreeing
A: I think the matrix is a good movie.B: Yeah, I agree.
C: Sorry, but I disagree. In my opinion…
Early Memories
A: As a child I lived with my family in a small town.B: When I was a child I used to play with my sisters in the yard.
USED TO
Sweet dreams:: Expressions with dream
In your dreamsLevel 3. Unit 3. What do you need? Shopping
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