This a project taking place in Facebook. Students and professors from the world can participate uploading a photo of their avatar with a message for peace. This is the invitation in Facebook: "Announcing the Avatar for Peace Project.... Have you got an avatar?.. Well, show your face for peace.. Avatars of the world ...Unite and show your face for Pace!!!!
All avatars are invited.. please.... Make a little poster: Get a picture of your avatar, Write a message promoting peace and tag your picture to Doris Molero... It will be part of our school project..avies from the world... contributing to the learning of a second language.. you can include English and your own language in your message... Think peace!
Once you get there ... You will receive this message... The air around you says: welcome to Little Woods. Please feel free to explore all of our areas. Play, relax and make yourself at home here. Everyone is welcome provided they treat everyone else with respect.
Next click the teleport to Pionia's URBE EFL Center and get a menu.. then.. select your destination.. next click on teleport... Take pictures and share them .. comments are welcome and please..bring more people to join us in spreading messages of peace..
My face for peace is an independent peace initiative of the German/Iranian artist Saeeid Dastmalchian and his wife Cordula, launched in October 2012 in Hamburg/Germany for giving face to the wish for global peace. This campaign takes place on line through facebook. www.myfaceforpeace.org
In their invitation they say:
Please show your face for global peace on www.myfaceforpeace.org. I am Saeeid Dastmalchian, an artist from Germany. For the realization of a peace book I need 10.000 people who upload their photo for global peace on the website. We will hand over the book to governments, organizations and people with key features, to claim their commitment to world peace. ♥ Please share and join this movement. Thank you ♥
We joined the project to show our faces for peace. It's an excellent opportunity to learn and practice English. Students are talking to the world and their messages are important and meaningful. By using Facebook, the most popular social network, they are participating in a global campaign that allows then to connect with the world and really grasp the purpose of learning a new language. They are excited to see their faces and messages and that they are part of the world. They also are sharing their messages with their friends and family breaking the walls of the classroom, commenting and getting comments from people of the world and getting digitally literated. This opportunity for reflecting on Peace is something that's really important in our country right now. Telling the world our messages becomes both real and meaningful.
We are planning to set an exhibition with all the messages in Second Life by the end of this trimester to share with avatars of the world and experiment with a new environment that integrate communicative tools. Also, we'll be making a machinima of the event.
You can join this world Peace adventure... Hope to see your face... just let me know.. :)
Greeting everyone.. we are in exam week!!! well, hope you all have had fun during the 2nd term. Now, What are some of the task we will posting in our blogs... Well, here they are:
Unit 3 Personal Items - Modern electronics 1. Take a photo of your bag and what it is in it. Describe what you have in there. Here there's an example: Jessica's blog.
I have a notebook in my purse.
I have a pencil in my purse.
I have a pen in my purse.
I have a marker in my purse.
I have a calculator in my purse.
I have earphones in my purse.
I have a student card in my purse.
I have a pendrive in my purse.
I have an antibacterial in my purse.
I have a lipstick in my purse.
I have glasses in my purse.
I have a hoodie in my purse.
I have a cellphone in my purse.
A: What's on the desk? B: There's a pencil .There's an eraser. There are books.
2. What's the perfect gift for you? Write a paragraph. Explain what's the perfect gift and why. Describe it. (heavy, light, new, large)
A: What's the perfect gift for you?
B: The perfect gift for me is a new cellphone. I love talking on the phone with my friends. The cellphone is new and light.
3. Exercises to practice: write them down in your notebook...You must do them all.
1. This, that, these, those
4. What are these? what are those? what's this? what's that?. Write six conversations. Add the pictures. A: what are these? B: They are pens A: What is that? B: It's a book.
2. Look for a photo with lots of people doing different things. Write sentences describing what they are doing. Use positive and negative sentences. Look at the following example:
1. The birds are singing.
2. The cat is climbing the tree to catch the poor little birds.
3. Paul is watering the flowers..... Paul isn't reading a book.
4. The ducks are swimming. They're not flying.
3. Interview yourself and two friends about your school life. Record your conversation ormake a video. Use the following questions:
How are you doing? What's your name? Where are you from? what school do you go to? What trimester are you in? Are you a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior? What are your favorite subjects? what classes are you taking this trimester? How are you doing in your classes?
This is a model of the interview..
How are you doing? I'm fine. What's your name? My name is Roxanna Bracho. Where are you from? I'm from Maracaibo, Venezuela. What's school do you go to? I go to Law School. What trimester are you in? I'm in the 3rd trimester at URBE, then I'm a freshman. What are your favorite subjects? My favorite subjects are Fundamentals of Public Law and Family Law. What classes are you taking this trimester? I'm taking six classes... five Law classes and an English class. How are you doing in your classes? I'm doing great in all my classes.
1. Draw a floor map of your house or apartment. Use the model in your book and describe it.
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.
****************************************************************************** Level 3 Check the lesson here Unit 3 1. Complete the chart with 4 items in each category
2. Write a paragraph about your favorite supermarket. Use these questions to help you.
* what's the name of the supermarket?
* what are the different departments or areas in the supermarket?* what can you buy there?
* Where is it?
* Why do you like it?
3. Write a conversation about going shopping for groceries. You need to go shopping for groceries for a special ocasion. Make a list of the things you need to buy and the things you already have. Use some, any. 4. Write about your favorite place to shop for clothes, music, food, school supplies, a birtday present. Use these questions to guide you:
* what's the name of the place?
* what kind of store is it?
* what can you buy there?
* Where is it?
* Why do you like it?
Before you star working on your composition, draw a mind map with the help of those questions. Explain your mind map and write your composition.
Include a photo of your favorite shop and explain what you see you can buy there: Use some, any, many, much and a lot.
Don't forget to check with your tutor.
Post it to your blog. share your work with your friends in Facebook or Twitter.
Practice your pronunciation participting in the audio forum about shopping.
Have fun.
1. Post the mind map with your group story about a crime. Post the composition explaining the mindmap. 2. - Read a crime story on the news. - Write a summary of the story. Use the following questions: What happened, when? where? .. Add the link where you got the news. - Now speculate about it. Use these expressions to write your ideas: I's likely that..., I doubt that..., I bet that..., It doesn't seem possible that..., It's unlikely that... and there's a good chance that... 3. Work on the exercises with stative verbs: - Stative verbs 1 - Stative verbs 2 4. Write a short story about.. ghost, mystery, urban legend. Use adverbs of manner. Check the lesson here Unit 4
1. Write a paragraph to describe families in our country and your family. Use the vocabulary discussed in class. Use statistic terms and quantitatives. 2. Ask your friends about trends in your university. Conduct a survey. Write the questions of the survey. Write a report with photos, and statistics of what you found out. How many people did you talk to? what are URBE's trends in fashion, music, discos, movies, ...?
