Final Project January-April 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:

• 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,  
• 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.

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Visit these links to see some examples of students work...:

• Carlos  http://efluniversity.ning.com/xn/detail/2266407:BlogPost:13381
• Dayana http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/final-project-student-dayana
• Ana Rivas http://efluniversity.ning.com/xn/detail/2266407:BlogPost:12750
• Rossani http://efluniversity.ning.com/xn/detail/2266407:BlogPost:13128
• Saul http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/final-project-3
• Stephano http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-final-project
• Eliel http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-final-project-1

For the oral part of the final project:

Traditional Irish Blessing - Happy Easter!

Traditional Irish Blessing - E-Water

April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day

April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day is a day celebrated in various countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on a fool's errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. Traditionally, in some countries, such as the UK, Australia, and South Africa the jokes only last until noon, and someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool".^[1] Elsewhere, such as in France, Ireland, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Russia, The Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, and the U.S., the jokes last all day.

Iranians play jokes on each other on the 13th day of the Persian new year (Norouz), which falls on April 1 or April 2. This day, celebrated as far back as 536 BC, is called Sizdah Bedar and is the oldest prank-tradition in the world still alive today; this fact has led many to believe that April Fools' Day has its origins in this tradition.[4]

The April 1 tradition in France and French-speaking Canada includes poisson d'avril (literally "April's fish"), attempting to attach a paper fish to the victim's back without being noticed. This is also widespread in other nations, such as Italy (where the term Pesce d'aprile (literally "April's fish") is also used to refer to any jokes done during the day). In Spanish-speaking countries, similar pranks are practiced on December 28, día de los Santos Inocentes, the "Day of the Holy Innocents". This custom also exists in certain areas of Belgium, including the province of Antwerp. The Flemish tradition is for children to lock out their parents or teachers, only letting them in if they promise to bring treats the same evening or the next day.



Taken from: wikipedia

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 ad 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))

1. Get in groups of 4, 3, 2 or just 1 student.
2. Go to www.imdb.com and select a movie that your gruop like.
3. Get the poster of the movie and the trailer.
4. 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) 
5.  Fun stuff
6. • 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...